Vegas Memories.....

[royal flush]

the thing I miss about lv is the 3% promotion 125 coin payoff for missing a royal by 1 card on a 9/6 job game making a 3% edge, lots of dollar fpdw, even after 2000 the gold coast having 25c fpdw and comps. now I play more live poker like Omaha 8 or better. my first venture in lv was card counting playing 21 and getting asked to leave

[DaBurglar]

One of my most stark and traumatic Vegas memories came in early 2004, one cold January Morning, when I witnessed the infamous "raid" on Binion's Horseshoe by State Gaming agents and Sheriff's deputies, whereby at 6 am about 45 shotgun toting men swooped in and shut down the casino.....this was due to some irregularities that the Binion family, in their feud, were allowing to take place in the casino's cage and elsewhere.....this precipitated the Binion's selling the casino to Harrahs later in 2004, and ultimately what led to the World Series of Poker being under the auspices of Caesars to this very day!    Of course, at the time, as I was watching the raid from across the street at the Four Queens, I thought something more sinister was at play, like in the Movie CASINO when they raided and taped up the cage!  Actually you don't need my help in portraying yourself as the obnoxious jerk; you're doing just fine on your own.
 
  As for me offering something meaningful to you regarding video poker in Atlantic City, I have offered something meaningful to you many times and others have too: If you are losing there DON'T PLAY THERE!!!
 Yeah that's real meaningful......and of course, everywhere you play YOU always win right?   Always.....you never lose.....right?   Of course you dont....and just like everyone else, even Bob Dancer, you've no doubt had stretches where you did not make a profit on several sessions/trips in a row, yet you did not just up and stop going.    I've already explained many times why I choose to go to AC and how I have adjusted my play and habits in lieu of what I have learned, and what not ......all the while STILL offering my experience and insight to anyone interested.    Just leave me and my posts alone, and dont take potshots like no one is looking or we are all too stupid to see what you mean...e .and dont pretend now like you are trying "to help me or save me from losing money" by posting what you have in the past.....unreal.   

[Tedlark]

  There a several places that I don't go to anymore because I've had no luck in them. When I was a youngster, and I'm only about 4 years older than DaBurglar, my mom told me once not to touch the stove because it was hot but I touched it once anyway. I didn't touch the stove again after that one time.
 
  I merely respond to your posts because it being an open forum, allows me the opportunity to do so. DaBurglar I really do have your best interests at heart even though you have insulted me personally and that is really rich coming from you. I have never and I mean NEVER criticized you or your personal handicaps because it would be too easy for me to do so and I'm above taking shots like that. Obviously you cannot be stupid because you did go to Harvard so I doubt that I could ever think that you are stupid. There is a long list of other descriptive adjectives that I would associate with you instead of stupid.

[katipug]

We didn't start going to Vegas until the late 90's and usually stayed at the San Remo (Hooters now I think) We aren't high rollers, but we were always treated as such when we stayed there. Loved their $4.99 prime rib and $3.99 steak and eggs. I liked their slots as well as vp, had a favorite Red,White and Blue machine that I could sit there with a whole tray full of quarters, and have credits on the machine. Would usually get at least one royal per trip and the players club was a hoot, where you could actually get stuff and didn't have to beg to get comps. We had a host named Steve that was always courteous and was more than eager to see that our trip was enjoyable. The good ole days, lol. Now on a personal note- Boys, boys, tis the season of good will towards men and such, you two better lighten up or Santa is going to bring you guys big lumps of coal instead of royals and 4oak's!! To both of you, a very Merry Christmas and to all my friends here at VP.Com. Yes, even you Webman, lol. Give you Pugs a belly-rub from me DaBurglar. Take care Ted!     kati

[DaBurglar]

anyone remember the day (either late 1991 or early 1992) when the security personel at the Mirage, Golden Nugget (and then later in 1993 Treasure Island) began wearing blazers with 9mm berrettas packing underneath?    Steve wynn essentially equipped, trained and deployed his own private "army" in and around his properties after the infamous kidnapping and ransom drop involving his daughter....anyone remember this?  Wynn, instead of going to the Las Vegas PD or FBI when his daughter was first snatched and the ransom demand was made, complied with the kidnappers demands and had several of his own security force march into the cage at the Mirage, withdrew the money right from the casino till and delivered it as requested and soon after, his daughter was recovered, alive and unharmed.   THEN, and only then, did the cops and feds get involved. Remember how the actual kidnappers, after getting the loot, essentially blew their own cover when one of the gang, using some of the fresh money from the Mirage, went down to Newport Beach california and tried to buy a brand new corvette (or was it a porsche?....either way it was some luxury car dealership in Newport, and in April 1992 right after I moved to Newport Beach I was standing with my roommate on the car lot where it happened!!)    He was picked up and questioned and it wasnt long before he was singing like Pavarotti and gave up the rest of the gang....... Some people say those kidnappers did more to advance las vegas casino security in one month than anything during the 1980s

[BillyJoe]

anyone remember the day (either late 1991 or early 1992) when the security personel at the Mirage, Golden Nugget (and then later in 1993 Treasure Island) began wearing blazers with 9mm berrettas packing underneath?  
It was a Ferrari ..
In the days after the kidnaping, Cuddy bought a $20,000 Rolex watch and a $3,000 pair of ostrich-skin boots. Cuddy was arrested in Newport Beach a few days later as he tried to complete a cash deal for a $200,000 Ferrari.
 
Being an old Mirage guy when Steve had it, I remember it well. Safest place around. Hookers couldn't get to the elevators.
 
I had the greatest host back then. She was one of Steve's favorites. When he sold out, and planned to open Wynn, she quit Mirage, and he paid her for two years until her non-compete clause lapsed. He then brought her to Wynn. She is still there today.
 
I remember when you could not play Shadow Creek unless Steve PERSONALLY approved it, whether you stayed at Mirage or not.
 
I also remember that there was a seafood restaurant, I think in Flamingo, that had a woman playing a harp on a floating platform.

[DaBurglar]

I remember all of Wynn's Mirage-Treasure Island days from 1993 thru 1998, when Bellagio finally came online.....during that 5 year span, my modus operandi was to leave my L.A. office at 4 pm Friday, get to LAX before 5pm, hop on the southwest flight out of gate 1 that departed at 6pm, land in Vegas at 6:57pm, get the 7:15 pm shuttle to the Golden Nugget Downtown (Wynn's first Vegas property from which he built his empire and still owned by him until he sold Mirage/Treasure Isle/Bellagio and Golden Nugget to MGM in 1999), and bw checked in, showered and changed, and playing Blackjack by 8:30 pm!   I did that once or twice a month for those 4-1/2 years, and then starting in 1998 I found myself working one week a month in Vegas on top of playing there.....Golden Nugget was my base but I always had a host book dinner on Saturday at the Mirage.....Kokomo;s was the favorite! After Wynn sold out to MGM and started working on his next batch of temples to the god of excess, I shifted loyalty to other casinos.....from 1999 onward if I stayed downtown It was at either Fitzgeralds, lady luck, four queens or even Binions Horseshoe (if I didnt mind being in rooms no bigger than two closets with a toilet lol).    Sometimes I stayed at the Orleans, and many times during football season from 1999 thru 2004 I drove down the I-15 to primm and stayed Saturday-Sunday-Monday at one of the three casinos there, thus saving 35-40 minutes of driving time to Vegas....  Anyone ever try the Golden Gate Hotel Casino downtown, one of their old rooms from the 1920s???  I did a couple of times, and it was a blast!   You actually travel back in time and feel the nostalgia.....I had a room looking out to Main and Fremont on the top fourth floor which was cool.

[BillyJoe]

I always had a host book dinner on Saturday at the Mirage.....Kokomo;s was the favorite! ..  [DIV
Kokomos was one of my favorite Vegas eateries. I was sorry to see it close.

[DaBurglar]

 
  I merely respond to your posts because it being an open forum, allows me the opportunity to do so. DaBurglar I really do have your best interests at heart even though you have insulted me personally and that is really rich coming from you. I have never and I mean NEVER criticized you or your personal handicaps because it would be too easy for me to do so and I'm above taking shots like that. Obviously you cannot be stupid because you did go to Harvard so I doubt that I could ever think that you are stupid. There is a long list of other descriptive adjectives that I would associate with you instead of stupid.
 I missed this first time around.......are you kidding me???    you do realize you are saying that because you dont "make fun of my personal handicaps, even though you could and it would be EASY to do so", that you are in effect TAKING A SHOT anyway?   AND what on earth does this mean, that because you are not going to make fun of my disability that this makes you a fair and upright and morally decent person?!?    wtf You do not get points in life for NOT doing the wrong thing, and NOT doing wrong or bad things does not make you a good person. This statement is so ridiculous and clueless it defies belief, so I am going to assume you must have misspoke and/or perhaps had too much to drink or ate the wrong thing or something because even you cannot be this mean and nasty......

[Tedlark]

DaBurglar, as you normally do when citing the NJ Gaming Regulations, you are taking what I wrote out of context. Look at the sentence prior where I said that you have made personal attacks on me but yet I don't follow suit and make personal back at you.
 
  As for my personal character I am so far above you that you would need aid of a telescope to see me. You shouldn't assume either, especially when you have no idea of the facts.