A Trip to Bizarro World!

The lighter side... playing for entertainment, less concerned about "the math."
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Tedlark
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Re: A Trip to Bizarro World!

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FAA wrote:
Mon Apr 18, 2022 4:30 pm
Okay, I'll look for the bump in May. IDK why the OP felt stiffed. Here's the fine print; all looks fine to me:
"Participants will have their earned Tier Credits multiplied by 4 (4X). The original Tier Credit amount that the Participant earned (1X) will be added to the 4X multiplied Tier Credit amount, resulting in the full 5X Tier Credit Multiplier"
I seem to remember that credits awarded are also capped at 25,000.

FAA, did you recite the "fine print" in its entirety or were you short coining this too?

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Post by dinghy »

I'm not much of a CET regular, but they're not outright dishonest afaik. Screw-ups are possible, but unlike others they respond to email and will resolve complaints. You do have to keep track of your totals so you can notify them if a problem occurs.

The most controversial thing I've seen from them lately was their mass-downgrade of status-matched Diamond players. People were exploiting a loophole that allowed reciprocal matching with one of the hotel (maybe Wyndam?) rewards programs. They were able to maintain CET Diamond status for years without giving any play.

CET cut them off without any warning.

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Post by olds442jetaway »

Can’t always make Saturdays and never get rooms. I have been in all of the drawings never hit anything, but I always dump in the entries at some point. I think I made it up there on Sat twice. This time had a nice Earth elite King corner room kinda like a mini suite. Sky was booked. They are still having a big staffing problem. Bars, food court places pretty much everywhere. Servers are scarce too. Covid and call outs both

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Post by olds442jetaway »

Heading up to Bizarro World tonite with the Mrs. plan to play the same as last trip except this time leave the JOB game for the birds. I can’t seem to catch a break on it. Probably 70 percent airport juices and 30% joker kings. Haven’t decided yet about bonus deuces wild. I love the game but the cold streaks can be very hard on the bankroll even with Martingale Clone.

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Post by olds442jetaway »

Tuesday night’s session was pretty much damage control and ended up being a 200 lost session. The Mrs. did fine winning on nickels about what I lost by hitting Aces on DDB. Reluctantly I played JOB for 3 hours first and went quad-less again and scarce on full houses as well. That is the equivalent to a blow by Thor’s hammer to a Martingale clone method. Down 400, I played Airport Deuces the rest of the evening staying alive by hitting Wild Royals. I had two shots at a real Royal but struck out on that and 3 shots with 3 on quad deuces failed to connect as well.
Just before packing it in by early morning, I switched to Joker kings and hit a nice Straight Flush halving my 400 buck JOB disaster. Hit the hay for a few hours then headed home with the Mrs around noon. Could have been worse! Stayed with quarters to avoid what could have been an 800-1,000 buck disaster. I’m glad when the empty JOB bets reached 25 quarters and whiffed, I resisted temptation to switch to halves or dollars.

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Post by dinghy »

Edit: wrong thread. :cry:

Stand by.

Back on topic, is there an option to self-exclude specifically from the JOB machines? :ouch:

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Post by FAA »

So much for my elaborate intro. I was wondering why the report was missing. So were two Benjamins from your bankroll. Yes, it could have been worse. Some trips quickly devolve into damage control. For me, it’s frantic bailout work since marathons are out. MS JOB seems to be their main VP revenue stream. This is definition of insanity Groundhog Day.

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Post by olds442jetaway »

One reason I call it Bizarro World. As a matter of fact, we had an explosion inside the room fridge as well. Housekeeping must have forgot to clean out the fridge from the prior guest and the cranked up fridge caused a green bottle probably of sparkling water to explode. luckily we were’t in the room at the time and hadn’t used the fridge. I don’t even want to think about what could have happened if one of us had opened the fridge to put something in it at the same time of the explosion. There were literally hundreds of pieces of glass everywhere inside the fridge. Of course I reported it. They offered to change the room which we really didn’t need to do but nothing else. We were just about on our way out anyway. Stuff happens I guess. Just like my play Tuesday night it could have been much worse.

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Post by dinghy »

Full disclosure, if I visited Mohegan I would likely play the $1 Pickem.

Second choice would be quarter JOB. Because olds has expressed some concerns about fairness, I would bet only 19 coins instead of 20.

Second alternate would be anything slightly short-pay but with good earn rates.

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