Best time , funniest thing and the worst time

[faygo]

Yo Faygo, Congrats - on win and border crossing! Mark Pilarski has interesting Q & A column re gambling, weekly in PLAY section, same page, adjacent to "What's Happening at the Casinos", meaning the four in the Detroit-Windsor area. PLAY is a section that arrives in FREEP (The Detroit Free Press, WWW.FREEP.COM) Recent story elsewhere re Windsor Casino mentioned 80% of their players are American. Business down due to border waits, exchange rate on par and recent renovations to Detroit casinos making them more attractive than previously. We are still going to get a free room, buffet on comps, and pick up $30 mailed offer at kiosk on my b'day and use their great pool.
 
I get the business page e-mail from the Freep. I read that account you speak of. Miss my times there.

[Benford's Law]

1994 was the second worst year of my life for me.  Not only did I go on a bad $50,000 + losing streak at blackjack, but I had my mother's wedding ring with a white gold band lost in a hotel room.  It was a 1.25 carat, grade F diamond (very minor imperfections) with my own gold man's ring attached to the diamond earlier in the year because my mom couldn't wear it anymore (she died in an auto collision).  I left the ring in a drawer in my nightstand and forgot about it and never saw it again.EDIT- And just in case anyone thinks I was really stupid for doing this, there were three mitigating factors:1)  I was a 24 year-old kid at the time and already distracted by my gambling losses.2)  I only took the ring off before going to sleep right next to it while it was in the bedside table.3)  I had only been wearing the ring for a few months, I was not used to wearing jewelry, and I totally forgot about opening the drawer the next morning when I woke up to check out of the hotel.  The desperate search for the ring was unsuccessful.~Benford's Law

[cddenver]

I had my mother's wedding ring with a white gold band lost in a hotel room.  It was a 1.25 carat, grade F diamond (very minor imperfections) with my own gold man's ring attached to the diamond earlier in the year because my mom couldn't wear it anymore (she died in an auto collision).  I left the ring in a drawer in my nightstand and forgot about it and never saw it again.

 
I'm sorry to hear you lost something with both intrinsic and sentimental value.
 
I left a shaving kit in a Vegas hotel room once and never saw it again, though I called the hotel from the airport only an hour or so after I checked out.  Unlike your ring it had little monetary value, but it was a gift I received from my father before he passed away.  That kit and I had done a lot of travelling together and it irked me that it happened on a short Vegas trip.  I'd left it behind a few times on trips elsewhere but was always able to get it back, once from overseas.
 

[faygo]

I read a lenthy article some months back in Casino Player on Lost & Found. Based on that article and what you folks are decribing here. i am starting to suspect that the people you were talking to
were lass then honest. The article was full of valuable stuff that was left behind and never claimed. They said in a lot of instances these items are auctioned to employees and proceed given to charities. Seems there is a built in incentive in this system for employees to be less than honest. It is a simple thing to know who was next in a room after you left and , like in cds case shake them down for the shaving kit, or if turned in mark it with the date and room number. I think that because the only incentive is a nefarious one, this is not done. I feel better now.

[JDanno]

my partner and his wife were cleaning out the apartment that they had just moved into. In the back bedroom was a real pile of crap, left from the previous tennant, including a couple of wooden roofing shingles that had been rubber banded together. That seemed an odd thing to be INSIDE a house so they proceeded to open it where they found a $1000 bill sandwiched between the leaves. (this was in 1973 when you could still get $1000 bills, not that we ever saw any as we were  poor students at the time). About two weeks later the previous owner who had just graduated from the same school that we were going to, called up and hinted around wanting to know whether my friends had found "anything a little unusual" in the house. It was obvious that they were missing the $1000 bill. What it had been doing in a packet of shingles is still an odd mystery.  That was a LOT of money in those days!!

[EDC1977]

 Did they give it back? Did they play finders keepers? Did they splurge it on a weekend at the Sands? Enquiring minds want to know! 

[JDanno]

 Did they give it back? Did they play finders keepers? Did they splurge it on a weekend at the Sands? Enquiring minds want to know! 
 
 
Sorry, I forgot to say that they did give it back.
Warren did admit to being tempted to say "What $1000 bill between the shingles" as the folks hadn't come out and admitted that they were stupid enough to put that much money between shingles and then forget to take it with them. We still shake our heads about that one.

[EDC1977]

  JDanno, back in 73, 1k would have been a healthy down payment on a house!

[Benford's Law]

EDC1977,       Heh.....such an irony....$1,000 was my mom's monthly income as a financial analyst at Piper Jaffray back in 1973 (the year she passed away).                                         ~Benford's Law

[rfonlymama]

I did want to get back to everyone to report on last weekend's trip to Vegas.  A flight delay on Friday night got us there at midnight instead of 8:00...bummer and the vp wasn't much better that night at Bally's.  The next day though, I did get dealt four deuces on deuces wild triple play (quarters) and four deuces single play on fifty cents....that certainly kept me in the game.  I did not have any luck on DDB but did see a dollar royal at the bar on Saturday night and a triple play quarter  royal on JOB in the afternoon...so a few people were hitting 'em.  That's always fun to see. 
 
Sunday flights were delayed again so we sat in the airport from 11:30 am - 10:00 pm....awful short night once we got back home.
 
It was definitely too short  of a trip...especially with the delays.  I need to plan better next time!   I liked Bally's but was very surprised how small the casino area was.
 
The only super times play I found with any kind of payback was at Ceasar's and it just killed me...nothing!!!