A Trip to Bizarro World!

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

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There you go, or more precisely, went. I know the feeling. It’s an odd phenomenon. But possibly method to the madness. That rubber room may as well be Nightmare Alley. It’s as if they are primed to take every dollar that happens to innocently stray in. Slots maven advises to hold off play until you see people winning, fwiw. I certainly prefer to play at popular times. I get knocked off too often on off hours.

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FAA wrote:
Sun Apr 10, 2022 5:38 pm
It’s an odd phenomenon. But possibly method to the madness. That rubber room may as well be Nightmare Alley.
You're the Franz Kafka of video poker. :up:

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I was kind of do for a hit Mohegan no pun intended. No medium or large hands of any consequence. I had a marathon session but shut the game down before I totally busted bank roll. Still lost a nice chunk of change. Here is the picture of the guy they sent to put the hit on me. Oh wait this is me a few Halloween‘s ago. My neighbor a couple of doors down the street is a local detective and we have a few other policeman living on the street. They all went trick-or-treating with their little ones and this is how I answered the door. Of course they all cracked up and they weren’t sure it was me at first.
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Due for a hit Mohegan no pun intended. No medium or large hands of any consequence. I had a marathon session but shut game down before I totally busted bank roll. Still lost nice chunk of change.
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Sorry to hear. If you can keep losses to 25% BR, it's probably a decent trip. 5-7% coin in loss is a fair marker. Bad, but not tragically bad. It would be an interesting exercise to track BR +/- at two hour intervals. You're really the only guinea pig on site that can execute this exercise. It's only four data points, so not overly onerous. Obviously a wise decision to shut down the operation before the trending bust.
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Post by TripleTriple »

dinghy wrote:
Sun Apr 10, 2022 1:15 pm


Last month I walked through a small casino in Henderson. Off the main entrance path, they had set up a smaller room as the non-smoking section. Maybe 20 machines total, and I was the only one there.

I literally did not win a hand.
Did you play? Did you get a push or two? (If they were all pushes then not so bad!) Not TMI. NEI. In the same vein- I have not lost a hand all year long!

Not trying to give you a hard time, but inspired by other responses....

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TripleTriple wrote:
Mon Apr 11, 2022 3:31 pm
Did you play?
You caught me!

No, I didn't play. They had pay schedules only a casino executive could love.

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Post by FAA »

Wait, now you're telling us you didn't play? What was the point of posting a non event? I'm confused.

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FAA wrote:
Mon Apr 11, 2022 3:42 pm
What was the point of posting a non event? I'm confused.
You made a whimsical remark about results correlating to the quantity of other players nearby. I followed up in the spirit of bonhomie. There had to be a "catch" if I implied losing every hand.

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Post by Tedlark »

dinghy wrote:
Mon Apr 11, 2022 3:59 pm
FAA wrote:
Mon Apr 11, 2022 3:42 pm
What was the point of posting a non event? I'm confused.
You made a whimsical remark about results correlating to the quantity of other players nearby. I followed up in the spirit of bonhomie. There had to be a "catch" if I implied losing every hand.

"Catch" - Hook meet line and sinker.....

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Post by FAA »

Watch YouTube if you’re this bored. At least you’ll get professional entertainment back for your time instead of wasting mine.

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