Has anyone received a email mailer from the WYN lately ?
WYN email mailer
Most local video poker players have been labeled as "advantage players" in their computer system and ineligable to receive free play mailers.
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--- In vpFREE@yahoogroups.com, "alan" <al55442@...> wrote:
Has anyone received a email mailer from the WYN lately ?
I have been backed off and reinstated three times. Although currently eligible to receive offers, I don't bother with them anymore. It's not as good a play as it used to be, and they're just not going to tolerate any winning whatsoever.
Not only virtually all of the sharpies, but a couple of ploppies who I'd deal to have been restricted as well.
It's very shortsighted, but Wynn and many others have put in place the "loosers only" policy. Even street hustlers and numbers runners and professional live poker players know you have to let the customer win sometimes, otherwise they soon learn the grift and just don't come back. There has to be some winners, just like in the lottery, to convince marks to bite.
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--- In vpFREE@yahoogroups.com, "Wire P" <paladingamingllc@...> wrote:
they're just not going to tolerate any winning whatsoever.
"Wire P" <paladingamingllc@...> wrote:
they're just not going to tolerate any winning whatsoever.
I was amazed at this dynamic, even decades ago when I was a blackjack dealer in Vegas.
The management didn't include any mathematicians. The ones I had contact with (at the pit/shift boss level) often had no understanding of probability. Since I count cards myself, I could always tell when I was dealing to an advantage player.
Skilled card-counters accounted for a tiny percentage of the gambling at the tables, a couple percent or less. The ones that I dealt to were few in number (I could easily go several shifts without dealing to a single super-skilled player), and the ones that did occasionally appear scratched out a tiny advantage.
I realize there are a handful of big-bet big-advantage players, whom the management might be legitimately concerned about. But I didn't encounter any in my year-long "career." Lacking the means to identify who the real card-counters were, the bosses operated from paranoia about anyone who was winning.
They used counter-productive measures, such as harrassing anyone who was winning (or harrassing the dealer in such cases), or calling for deck changes or more frequent shuffling against poor players who were on a lucky streak.
It was as if the bosses, not being able to identify the very rare skilled players, instead treated any winning player as a threat to their manhood.
I believe the upper management contributed to this effect by not offering any incentive to the pit bosses to act in the best long-term interest of the house... and instead judging them only on the short-term win/loss on their tables for a particular shift.
Stuart (RandomStu)
http://stuart-randomthoughts.blogspot.com/