He has repeatedly written that he, and other players at his table, are touching the cards.
He plays midi-baccarat, on the big table, where players open the hand.
Have you seen that game played live in a casino?
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No I am not assuming that. I have absolutely considered that. But there are several major differencs.
First, in Eliot's story there is no mention of amount of play other than over 3 years period. That could be anything from one weekend a year every year to something significantly more. At that level of play it is doubtful it is too frequenly. I would guess 3-4 trips a year, but only a guess. But we do know Mdawgs volume of play, He plays every day for 50, 60 days in a row. His current trip is well over 2 month. So Mdawgs volume of play that he has posted over over the past few years, dwarfs the volume of play in the kind of story Eliot is referencing. At Mdawgs volume of play, just getting lucky for this long, isn't a possiblibly. AND they are going to find out what is going on.
The other difference, is we now know the player in Eliot's story wasn't playing with an advantage. So there was nothing to discover. In recent weeks Mdawgs story has been all over the place, with several things said, implying he is playing with an advantage. And if he is they will figure it out! They couldn't figure out the guy in Eliot's story because he wasn't playing with an advantage....nothing to figure out.
Both of these claims are complete conjecture on your part,
your own fictitious fairytale.
Your false narrative also includes a claim that high-end casinos don't comp big winners.
The big player in Jacobson's story had won 10s of millions of dollars,
are you insisting that the casino stopped comping his stays,
and had him pay his own way to come lose it all back?
Is that how "high end las vegas casinos work"?
I did not say, "high-end casinos don't comp big winners" or if I did, I mispoke, didn't get across what I meant to say or you just flat misunderstood my point.
Of course high end players get comped. But if they are winning, winning, winning, for months at a time, every trip, multiple trips a year, for many years, no, the casino is just not going to kkeep giving them comps on top of all the winning without figuring out what is going on.
Do you understand the casino business?
Boz has sunk to the depths of Communist Redietz.
He doesn't have a leg to stand on in this Letter Bullshit.
With his actions and logic he should be typing out letters against his Best Pal AxelWolf.
AxelWolf has constantly claimed how he destroys Casinos hurting Boz's Stock Price.
No different than MDawgs Claims as AxelWolf claims to never had a losing year in how long???
Casinos throw him out all the time so he has to recruit people to work for him.
Not only that but he should be telling the Casinos about ZenKing because ZenKing is a constant winner... month/year in and out.
Next he needs to type all of his Casino Pals and Shareholders a letter about MaxPen because MaxPen makes over 100k a year killing the Casinos.
MaxPen even left a High Paying Gig to go Full Time AP.
So get to Typing out all your Fucking Letters Boz... You have a whole Forum to Tattle-Tale on.
Might as well send them some letters about JBJB and his Hole Carding Ways.
Personally I have made it known, on these forums, of 3 of the vehicles that I drive around town.
And shown some pictures.
So I have to close my eyes every time I start the ignition after Redeitz threatened all of us about blowing up our vehicles.
Now I have to sweat that Boz and others are typing out letters to my Hosts.
No biggy for me as I can always do something else but Boz's Ideology is shot all to hell.
Not a complete Pinko Faggot just yet but he is getting very close.
Just stop Porkchop. Everyone knows this isn't about any concern as a shareholder. Maybe he is a shareholder, but that isn't what this is about. Boz doesn't like Mdawg, as many of us don't, his storytelling, his lying, leaving things out and then when people challenge his incomplete stories and claims, that don't make sense, he gets nasty. That rubs people the wrong way and this is the kind of retaliation you get. Mdawg has no one to blame but himself for that.
Now speaking of Porkchops (or speaking to Porkchop) let me segway into the meatloaf I just made. OMG, I am good. Bacon mixed into the groundbeef and wrapped around the outside. I would say the best effort of my life. What a catch I am. I can't believe guys aren't lining up. :D I can't wait until tommorrow to have some more.
I'm not stopping Shit.
Boz has opened the floodgates for us all to start outing each other.
It's about time to take the DarkOz Approach and release more AP Plays.
Watch all you Faggots run and hide when all your information is publicly posted and sent to every Casino Office in the Country.
That is what it has now come down to.
Us doing Private Eye Work, like Redietz and sending all that information to every Casino Executive Email in hopes that someone will listen.
Now I have to dig up all the phone numbers I have on all these Forum APs.
And they do respond to Emails.
I have taken their surveys a few times in the past and griped about things like Drink Tickets in the Sports Book and I got immediate, personal responses within 24 hours every time I filed a gripe.
Time to start hawking all the Black Jack tables for the infamous player who dines and dashes every day and inform the Pit on who this player really is who has destroyed the Casino for over a Million Dollars which hurt my stock price investments.
Everyone knows your games by now. You are trying to set up for some gottch ya moment.
Look here is the thing about the Eliot story. What we know or have been told is the guy played $125,000 and was up 10 million. So that is what 80 bets. We don't know the timeframe, other than 3 years, meaning just how much play and how often.
So up 80 bets? That is really just varaince. I have been down over 100 max bets 5 or 6 different times in my career and that is playing with an advantage. So that happens. That is why card counters need a BR of 100 max bets or more, and it is really the "or more" these days.
So the 10 million is distortoring. Numbers I don't deal with, so you talk about that and it seems huge, until you break it down to 80 max bets, which again is on the edge of normal variance.
Now let's compare that to Mdawg. The times Mdawg has mentioned he asked pit for an average bet, it has been $1500, $1800 because he has mentioned how he feels this is low. So lets say $2000. Well he was up well over $220k a week or 10 days ago when I added it all up. Since then he has posted about a $66k losing day and mentioned a big $80k winning day and a number of 6, 8, 10k winning days. So he has got to be up over $250k from a $2000 average bet. That is 125 bets already, proportionally more than my biggest swing ever and 50% more than the guy in Eliots story. AND THAT IS JUST THIS TRIP! There are other not equally, but big winning trips, every day or almost everyday last fall, last spring and several years back, I beleive a total of 12 trips?
I mean do you see the magnitude of these claims?
You seem to want to go on and on about the Eliot story. They didn't find anything, BUT they looked and called in experts. They didn't find anything because turns out there was nothing to find. But if Mdawg is playing with an advantage as he now hints, there is something to find and they will find it.
You make a good point.
I am usually two steps behind in anything and everything I do or have done in life.
I'm gonna get that tableplay though, if it is the last thing on Earth that I do.
He will be outed!
"The streets will flow with the blood of the Non-Believers!" - Beavis -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_CTDmlDB-Q
You are dishonestly misrepresenting what Eliot wrote.
His big player won 10s of millions of dollars, not 10 million,
and $125K was his maximum bet, not his average bet.
Here's another of your fictitious fairytales regarding MDawg...Quote:
Originally Posted by Eliot Jacobson
I went back and checked MDawg's adventures thread at WOV,
I couldn't find any mention of an $80K winning day since he lost $68K,
which was on Day 43.
You are entirely full of shit, nothing you write should be believed.
I don't really feel like searching for it because searching is too hard with this character as he posts just too damn much. You are going to have to make it worth my while. If I can find mention of the 80k winning day what do I get? Will you self suspend for 3 days....from both forums, which would give everyone a break. :)
Took a quick look, couldn't find it. But I can tell you it wasn't part of his DAY XXX description. It went something like this. I was thinking about the 80k win the other day and....
So anyway, I am getting sleepy and going to take a short nap before the Knights game. I might look later, but only if you are going to make it worth my while, by agreeing to self suspend. Otherwise, screw you. I am getting real tired of dealing with you.
BUT....in this quick search I did find 2 interesting things.
1.) He made some sort of reference about expecting to have a 100k or more win sometime soon, so we can look for that. :D
2.) he mentioned a previous trip where he won 500k in 10 days.
Like I said, the guy is clearly escalating, in search of new attention. So we have that to look forward to. :rolleyes:
Funny thing, in Singer's tale, it was about this point, that Rob introduced the Newell. Mdawg appears to be headed for a luxury penthouse condo overlooking the strip. :D You just can't make this stuff up.
This did not take place at a US casino, it was in Asia. As I recall, the player got in total about an additional 125M in cash comps (paid in non-negotiable chips). The comps were never taken away. Also, the player had his own private parking spot, his own private high limit lounge that was permanently reserved for him 24/7 with a live dealer and staff, should he show up. And to answer KJ's query, this player played several times per month over his winning streak, trips often lasting days. He must have played well over 1000 shoes. And, when you figured it all out, he was only 2.8 SD above expectation, not at all unreasonable. The chances of that result or better are 0.0026 or about 1-in-385. If a $100 player did the same, no one would have thought twice. Casinos have thousands of players each day, so they should expect dozens of 2.8SD (or better) players. His max bet, I believe, was about $125,000, but it may have been more. This same player had a similar result at a neighboring casino, though not quite as extreme (I think up about $100M). But, fortunately, both casinos let him play and even a player who is lucky enough to be 2.8 SD ahead will eventually be a loser.
So yes, this winning loser became a losing loser.
People on both sides, AP's and non-AP's, are getting a lot of stuff wrong in these threads.
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Ok, so the guy played more than I was guessing, but still like I said, falls into not so unreasonable variance. Just seems massive because the high limits we are talking about. Pretty hard for most of us to wrap our heads around those kind of numbers.
Eliot, feel free to correct anything you like. I won't go after you, you little traitor! :D (kidding)
By the way Eliot, I know you haven't had the benefit of watching Mdawg play as Michael did, but based on the numbers and stories/claims you are reading, do you care to offer an opinion as to how likely this claim in it's entirty is?
Actually, I just saw an ad for a Newell for rent on the roof of the Cosmo. Some Israeli bought it in Arizona, but then realized he couldn't drive it back to Israel, so he made a deal with the Cosmo.
It's supposed to be a real nice set-up. Two girls in bikinis wash it down every day for you so you can see the lights of the strip, and you get to keep the extra squeegees.
The video posted above summarizes my opinion. There are far too many of these folks to get involved in any one case. One disappears, 10 more show up. I have been repeatedly asked by many people to refute the claims made by online personalities with a much bigger reach that these boards. I refuse to engage any case directly. Life is too short to waste a precious moment on them. But, providing tools for others to make an assessment of claims, that I will do. Give a guy a fishing pole vs. giving him a fish.
What makes MDawg different from, say, the half a dozen committed baccarat whack-a-doodles on Gambling Forums, is that MDawg has managed to become the flagship poster at what was alleged to be the most math-oriented general readership American gambling forum, WoV.
And he's backed up by various cheerleader posters at WoV, who don't post here for completely explicable reasons. So the Dawg has made a real commitment across multiple forums to push this tale.
He needs his own podcast. Maybe, since he's been doxed, he can find some peace writing and broadcasting his own stuff under his own name. God bless the dude. He works hard to push really banal narratives. At some point, we need escalation (already in progress) and maybe zombies or aliens to spice things up. I vote for robot hookers. Then he could still be a good dude for technically not cheating on his wife, and the photos would be more interesting.
The key word in this lament is "was". I have more of an issue with the infomercials for affiliate casinos posing as audits than I do this poster. I ran an I-net casino auditing company for 6 years, one Mike sold to me. I understand audits, these guys do not. For me, the posting of those videos is the real shame on that site.
Think about the sheer number of talented mathematicians, game developers and AP's who no longer post on WoV and you will realize that any particular gripe against an individual posting there is a waste of time. WoV is not coming back. But good for Michael, he made and continues to make $$$ from the sale -- it is our own failure for wanting something that was good in the past to still exist. Death is tough. For example, I really enjoyed bj21.com back when it was thriving 20 years ago. Now it sucks. Just think of WoV the same way.
So did Boz write a letter mentioning MDawg real name is Calvin Broadus?
I knew Boz quit the VCT forum for awhile because his wife and he got doxxed. I wondered who did the doxxing. I wasn't paying close enough attention to know it was MDawg. If MDawg would have PM'd me telling me he went out of his way to find out who my wife and I were, and found out who we were, I would take it as a threat whether he verbally made a threat or not. Just saying it implies he's telling Box to watch his step or else.
MDawg telling Boz he knows who he and his wife are is an implied threat. MDawg tried to push around the wrong dude so now he is paying a price.
Yeah, that's pretty much the way I see it. MDawg never grasped the cultural disconnect between himself and some folks, me included. He never really got the "for every action, there's an equal, opposite, and usually badass reaction." He showed up out of the blue, with no gambling cred but with nonsensical tales and figured he was golden. What could go wrong?
I'm not sure where Boz grew up, but his wife grew up down the road from my hometown. We're talking hard coal region, miners and truckers and towns falling into the earth due to massive mine fires (Centralia). We're talking home of the Molly Maguires, who were hung about eight miles away in Pottsville. If somebody does you wrong, the law is not your default option.
Even if everything you typed in this post is true, your pal Boz, didn't handle his personal business like a man.
He handled it like a little Bitch Ass Punk Pussy.
Showing and Proving that he is no different than his Forum Enemies: the Wizard of Odds, ZenKing and MDawg.
It's the same thing as what QueerJ does when he calls the Interweb Police.
Fuckers can't handle their problems they need Mommy, Daddy and Big Government to scare the Boogey Men away.
He showed up out of the blue, with no gambling cred but with nonsensical tales and figured he was golden. What could go wrong? --->
Clash of Tears! Hot-blooded teacher and student showdown (Naruto episode).
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Yeah, but I even like fish. Smells like women. :( Now if you could teach me to catch or grow some ice cream, hell yeah!:D
Can't argue with this. As much as some of us want it, WoV is gone.
But I disagree with you in that I do think there is an important role for people like you and Wizard, math guys, in debunking these guys. In the absense of that you just have what looks like a lot of back and forth by different members. Guy that are respected as math and gambling math experts are the ones that make a difference. But I respect your right to not get down and dirty each time.
Ok, so is mickey correct. Is Mdawg the one that doxxed Boz and his wife? I didn't even know that. Since Boz isn't at Wov and hasn't been for a long time, that has to mean this stems from far back, pre-Mdawg days meaning Mdawg is someone else (previous member). And if that is the case, Wizard HAS to know that and that makes him even more complicit! The plot keeps thickening and getting nastier and nastier.
And I will give a example of this. In the first drama or calling out of a player making claims that couldn't be, back on Norm's blackjack forum, it was a handful of players, professional players, myself and two others leading the charge saying these claims just can't be. They defied math. It went the usual route, sinking to name calling and attacks and suspensions. Norm the math guy refused to get involve, so it just went on that way, what seemed like a handful of players challenging one guy and a couple supporters. Of course, I was banned and others left, which just left the guy to continue his claims for several years.
Finally, it was Don Schlesinger, a highly respected blackjack math expert who steped in and made the very same arguements some of us had made 2 years prior and finally ended the whole thing. Totally debunked the guy disappeared. So that is what it takes, you highly respected math guys to step in and say, "no that is not the way the math works". People like me, even as a proffessional player, carry no weight.
tableplay... you may enjoy this one.
Surprised youtube hasn't taken it down.
It certainly is on point with this thread and the conversation about all the Dirty Rats involved with this Forum.
Tipsters Hotline Rant begins at 5:52 (Rats and Squealers Hotline)
When did this Country turn into a Nation of Rats and Squealers?? - George Carlin -
1. Boston Rant 1957
2. Rats and Squealers
3. Cocaine
4. The Fecal Differential
5. Tired of Songs
6. The First Enema
7. Uncle Dave
8. Jerry Hamza Interview [bonus]
9. Rocco Urbisci Interview [bonus]
10. I Kinda Like It When A Lotta People Die (06/23/2001)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YHXrvc6Mjds&t=325s
For the record, and BOZ knows this, and has even said as much, I had nothing to do with his being doxxed. I noticed that he was gone, and then he came back and stated that he had been doxxed and this was news to me.
I did mention that I knew who he is after Boz came on here threatening to doxx me about a month ago (and even then I mentioned that I knew who Boz is, I said nothing about his wife), which incidentally Boz's threats that "MDawg is going to get doxxed" go back a good year.
In fact, after Boz returned from his absence I got the impression that he had had some health problems, and I actually inquired into his health and commented that I was glad to hear that he was okay. In other words, I haven't ever to my recollection said anything much untoward to Boz. Why, he suddenly decided to claim that he was about to doxx me, or what he has against me based on the interactions he and I have had, is bizarre to me.
In any case, the screenshot / info of his doxxing was handed off to me by someone who didn't think that it was right that Boz was threatening to doxx me, and it was handed off well after the doxxing of Boz was disclosed online. It was sent to me without my asking for it, and I don’t believe the person sending it was even the one who had anything to do with the Boz doxxing either.
As I think back I don’t recall any particularly unkind words exchanged between Boz and me, so I am at loss to understand why he decided to undertake or claims to have undertaken some plot against me.
If Boz is so certain that he knows who I am, why not contact me directly and let’s settle whatever the alleged bad blood is between us with conversation. And if he’s not so certain that he knows who I am and is fearful of getting his ass sued by the wrong guy who he is claiming is MDawg, why not send MDawg a PM at this forum.
I mean if it has come to the point where “so and so is acting like an a-hole” is all it takes to get doxxed or outed to the Gaming Control Board (of all places), then there really is no point in posting any further at a forum like this. Which, let’s face it, Blackhole and AndrewG are right. Best to ignore this sinking VCT ship.
BOZ you seem very creepy and obsessed with mDawg. Also, he only mentioned that he knows who you are (he never said anything about your wife), AFTER you threatened to Doxx him, multiple times. You have been talking about trying to doxx or hurt MDawg for over a year now and finally you did something or claim that you did something. You are trying to justify what you did and there is NO justification.
MDawg NEVER doxxed you. You doxxed him!
The bottom line is this makes YOU look bad, not mDawg. And it makes KewlJ, reDietz and MisterV who speak in favor of this, look bad too.
Very creepy, very obsessive.
deleted... I got this username confused with another.
My damn gook wife got a new job and keeps waking me up around 5am so I'm very sleepy.
Coronavius is over in Vegas as the Casinos are packed and everyone is hiring.
Mask Mandates are somewhat finished and the next Knights game is supposed to be close to 100% capacity.
What the fuck is going on? :confused:
So somebody doxxed Boz and his wife just after Boz challenged Mdawgs claims? Boz has reason to beleive it is Mdawg and sent a letter to casinos informing them of Mdawg's claims (not really a doxxing, just informing them of public claims)?
So Mdawg says it wasn't him that doxxed Boz, but somebody else who has now shared that information with Mdawg. That makes no sense.
The reason Boz beleives it was Mdawg is because of nasty attack and smear PMs that Boz has recieved from Mdawg. As somone who has also received nasty attack and smear PM's and others have even shared those PM's, I can only conclude Boz is correct on this.
Mdawg, when you came here and started lying about me and my results and repeated that lie even after I had corrected you two dozen times, I told you you were destroying any credibility you had. So your story makes no sense and actually falls in line exactly to the kind of retaliation you seek whenever someone doesn't beleive this great fairytale. There is something seriously wrong with you! This is not the way any successful player would act, going to "war" with anyone who doesn't beleive your claims that defy math and don't make sense.
Meanwhile, looks as though Tasha is mixed up in all this. Surprise! Surprise!. If not involved at the very least injecting her/him/it self. Tasha just shut the fuck up!
I don't know all that has occured. Don't really want to, but I guess we are all sort of finding out. But based on the PMs this Mdawg person has sent me and behind the scenes smear campaign he has engaged in, you certainly can't beleive anything he says. Again, THAT is what credibility is.
Only thing I can conclude is Mdawg is going off the deep end because people don't beleive his ever-changing, math defying story. This damn "story" is so important to this guy, looks like no ends he will go to. Again, something very wrong with this. No real player winning the money he claims would be this obsessed with what anyone thinks.
Did I miss anything?
There is, as AndrewG said, nothing to be gained from this forum. Try to explain something to sawdust for brains individuals like UNKewlJ, and all you get is a rant (with alternating bold faced sections no less) representative of mental illness. A checkerboard of schizophrenia is what I see when I skim through an UNKewlJ post. God help you if you take the time to read closely any of what that one posts, very disturbing.
I had nothing to do with the doxxing of Boz, Boz knows it and even said so. I never even knew Boz had been doxxed until months after it happened.
All I was saying a couple weeks ago, was, Look Ye, I know who you are - and I only said this AFTER Boz threatened to doxx me a month or so ago.
If I were to doxx every person that said he didn't believe my casino claims, I'd have no time for anything else. In fact, Boz has always been supportive of me and stated that he gives kudos to my stock picks and that I must have worked hard in my life to get to where I am. I have never had any problem I can think of with Boz, and I am again at a loss to understand why he did whatever he did or claims to have done.
Anyway, this matter is closed in my mind, and sawdust brains UNKewlJ and those of you who are as equally unbalanced as the UNKewl one may go back to talking about it as long as you like.
Fortunately, there are at least some balanced members here who see this for what it is, and their posts on this subject are proof that there are some decent members on even this forum.
How would you know, do gay men eat pussy?Quote:
Originally Posted by kewlJ
So the guy who is the biggest narcissist (and that is saying some), I have ever encountered on these forums, showing pictures of everything from, high end watches, stacks of chips, piles of cash and the guy creating sock puppets, which is making up people, imaginary friends and supporters, is going to lecture us all about mental illness. I suspect he knows all about it.
Look, I don't know exactly what has occured. But there are some peices we do know, mass emails trying to smear a group of people he beleives he is at war with because they don't believe his claims. This is actually part of a larger group of 27 such people he has named....literally named.
So we are suppoosed to beleive that someone doxxed Boz, and you Mdawg had nothing to do with it. Boz retailiates by picking you out of the blue to send a letter about to the casinos. Meanwheile the person that did dox Boz, just happened to give all Boz's personal information to you. None of that shit makes any sense. Of course nothing with you makes sense.
As I have been saying for weeks, you are clearly escalating, escalating your claims, because no one beleives them. That is what you people do, bigger and more wild claims to try to get the attention you seek. Escalating by going off the deep end that no one is beleiving you any more. You're a sick dude. And no one telling the truth or anywhere near the truth about your claims would behave like this.
I think I watched it years ago, but I am a big fan of his and will watch it again. I've watched quite a bit of his stuff. I could go on and on about his truthtelling jokes but here are a couple of my favorites in no particular order:
1. “It's called 'the American Dream' 'cause you have to be asleep to believe it.”
2. "It's a big club and you ain't in it"
RIP George, you're really missed by a lot of us.
thanks for the reco Monet.
Understood.
If you haven't listened to these clips yet I can save you a bit of trouble.
1 and 2 are great so that's about the first ten minutes.
After that not so much.
You can skip 3 thru 6.
7 Uncle Dave is pretty good as it seems that is the polished version (toned down) of "I kinda like it when a lot of people die."
8 and 9 are ok as they are real life accounts of what happened to the HBO special that they filmed on September 9 and 10th of 2001.
Ironically, they had to scrap the material because of what happened on September 11th.
His bit about Disasters is either loved or hated.
It's a bit with Irony but you know... too soon.
For me I found it decent enough of a 20 minute rant/monologue.
Funny enough and on point with Carlin's Style.
It is supposed to offend... that's the humor of it.
You have to admit it is pretty damn funny that they filmed this show on the 9th and 10th about Carlin Loving lots of death through Disasters lol lol lol and the very next day one of the biggest ones in US History occurred!
And they say God doesn't have a sense of humor!
Okay, I read this whole thread.
What a mess.
Here are my conclusions:
First off, I don't like the idea of people being ratted out to casinos, unless they are scammers and harming innocent people. If these are just people beating the casino (or falsely claiming to do so), I feel snitching on them to the casino is bad form. As someone pointed out, it's a slippery slope. The next time someone else is a jerk on this forum, are they going to be reported, too? There should be a code in the AP community that we simply don't do this, unless innocent people are actually being hurt (which doesn't seem to be the case with MDawg).
With that said, there's no question that MDawg has been an obnoxious braggart, and has rubbed a ton of people the wrong way. There's something missing from his stories. Either they're fabcricated, grossly exaggerated, or largely incomplete. In any case, coming onto a gambling forum full of APs and acting in such a way is also bad form, and it angers people. This is especially true because the internet is so highly saturated with gambling phonies, everyone's bullshit detector is set off the minute anyone brags about any winning beyond the norm. You know what they say... extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. MDawg has never provided this evidence. The frustration with him is justified.
Regarding the letter itself, it's unlikely to do much. We understand it well, because we're all gambling forum people, and we also know Shackleford well. The average casino executive isn't familiar with forum culture (even if they browse them occasionally), and while they might know Shackleford's name, they are unlikely to be interested in Mike's validation or semi-validation of a user claiming to be winning at an alarming rate. Again, to us this seems significant. To the average employee at a casino receiving that letter, it's going to look like confusing drama.
They also likely get crackpot letters all the time about things. Your best friend Bill sleeps with your wife, you find out about it, and you're furious. So you vow to get Bill back, and you think, "Hey, I know Bill loves the casinos! What if I write to them and say Bill is cheating their games!" They get vindictive letters all the time, but short of actual proof, they're throwing these letters into the round file.
The funny thing is that MDawg could have been mildly interesting if he just stuck to "I'm a high roller, here's my trip reports" sort of posts, and just kept quiet about his results. Not all of us get to see the high end suites or other spoils of being a casino whale. That stuff is interesting, even if it's an overall loser posting it. Or maybe he's pulling a Don Johnson and somehow winning via loss rebates, as has been discussed out here already. Obviously that wouldn't explain his claims about winning "55 out of 57 times", or whatever, but it's theoretically possible that he has an edge and wants to tell someone about his success.
Do I think MDawg is winning? No. I think he probably has some money (maybe not as much as he claims), likes to gamble, likes the high roller treatment, and wants to present himself as a guy who gets all this AND wins, rather than just a chump who is getting lavish treatment because he's dumping money.
Let's say I was claiming to be banging several new chicks each week in their mid-20s, all of whom are at leats a 9/10 in looks. You probably would say I'm full of shit, and say that if this is happening, I must be paying them. If I continue to insist that I'm not paying them, nor is any kind of money or opportunity involved in any way, you'll especially call me a liar, saying that it's impossible that a gaggle of super hot young chicks would be routinely having sex with a 49-year-old guy like me, without getting anything out of it. Even if I post pictures of me hanging out with hot young chicks, that wouldn't answer much. Are any of them actually dating me? What is my appeal to all of them? Why don't they mind the age difference, if money isn't involved? Do I even know them, or did I just show up to a club and ask pretty girls to pose with me?
If I just ignored those questions and kept telling stories about the wild threesomes I'm having with these girls, you'd get annoyed really fast, and in fact some of you would develop a desire to prove me a liar.
That's basically what's happening here with MDawg, and I get it. At the same time, he's not harming anyone, and while he deserves a lot of the insults he gets out here, he doesn't deserve any "off the forum" consequences.
I will not allow any doxxing of him or anyone else, by the way. Nobody is allowed to post his name, links to web pages giving hints to his identity (unless these were public postings by him), pictures of him (unless he posted them himself, to be seen on gambling forums), workplace info, address info, relatives info, or anything else like that.
BTW, the doxxing of Boz had absolutely nothing to do with MDawg. It was by some idiot who hated certain WoV posters, and was angry that some of them were coming over here once banned at WoV. I told him clearly that I don't care what happens at WoV, and I will not ban users here for actions over there. Anyway, that was awhile ago, and I took care of the matter. It was unrelated to MDawg.
Good post dan Druff. I want to comment on 2 specific parts. I couldn't agree more about the high roller stuff. As a lower limit player and AP, it is a glimpse into a world or part of that world I don't get to see and experience. I enjoyed that, until he polluted it with ALL the winning that can't be. If he had just left it that he is a high roller that wins some loses some (loses more than wins), but gets comped accordingly, and enjoys that aspect, I would have been a big fan. But he is up to like 106 winning sessions out of 108 over last two trips and the only way that can happen is a steep progression and a steep progression is going to result in an occasional loss the wipes away ALL those wins. So he is either leaving that part out or just making the whole thing up.
As per Boz, I probably shouldn't comment further because I obviously don't know all the details. I know Boz and his wife got doxxed and he is/was pissed about it and rightfully so. So when he targeted that anger towards Mdawg claiming Mdawg had something to do with it, I assume he knows that. Otherwise why would Boz be so mad at Mdawg. They weren't on WoV together were they? Boz has been gone for a while. And minor interaction here. So I don't know what is going on. I still feel like for Boz to respond as he did, there must be more to the story. Maybe more than Dan Druff knows? Keep in mind MaryDawg almost assuredly posted as someone else before this handle, so maybe it dates back to that.
Doxxing is generally wrong. But damn, this MaryDawg really pushes people. That is what ends up happening.
So he can dish it out but shouldn't have to take it?
Is that right and just?
Keep in mind we're pretty much all strangers to one another with no favors owed nor quarter due.
Sort of like an unchaperoned elementary school playground: our "true nature" is on display.
The strong take down the weak and the troublesome.
It takes a really special thread for the most reasonable sounding poster on the thread to be coachbelly. But congrats, as this one managed to do it. Wow.
My take on this early on was that MDawg had regained the gambling bug with either a promotion or an inheritance or stepping up in marriage/family class, and he was looking for some credence to convince friends and family that his eons of time in Las Vegas were profitable. So he generated a kind of "I'm telling the truth" gambling log to verify that things were copacetic.
I told him privately and publicly that I thought that's what he was trying to do, and I was cool with it, but he was getting a little out there in his claims. Well, as the weeks and months passed, he went completely off the rails with the story-telling. Not sure why, but it may likely be the old problem that once some people get rolling with the high level gambling, they can't disengage. So the time involved gets worse, the losses get worse, and the stories need to amp up the winning to justify the increased casino time. The comps, however, would get better, of course.
I saw it as a kind of proof log he started online that family and friends could access if they doubted his stories.
Unfortunately, he went right from Walter Cronkite to Walter Mitty in the span of a couple months.
It went right over my head at first that MDawg and belly were suggesting that a notation on a check was somehow proof of winnings. That was so stupid, it didn't deserve a response, but being equally stupid, I responded. I'm always surprised at how people think "policies" are laws. They have no idea how fluid and flexible Las Vegas can be. Things are not ever set in stone, even if law. For something called "policies," pretty much anything goes depending on the situation.
The old partial quote trickeration. Keep swingin', coach.
The person AndrewG spoke with went on to say that, of course, your mileage may vary depending on who you are. LOL. That means it's a "policy," not a law, not a regulation, and not even a hard-and-fast policy. So depending on who you are, what terms you are on with the casino, and what you've done for them lately, your results may vary.
Coach also fails to mention that whatever casino spoke with AndrewG may or may not be one of the casinos in question, which means the "policy" may not even be applicable. See, since it's not a law or a regulation, what you have is a preferred policy that will vary by casino. Hell, it can vary by who's working what shift.
This reminds me of a survey I did regarding limits and rules and regs for sports betting about 15 years ago in Las Vegas. I actually handed out survey forms and conducted interviews. Guess how that turned out? The "policies" varied by casino, even by casino under the same aegis, and "policies" in the same casino sometimes varied by what level of card holder you were (if you were tracked). So how much you could bet was determined, in part, by your gambling profile. I did an article about it that was published in Playbook, which was then a nationally distributed newsstand publication. "Policies" vary by who you are.
Again, I'm an idiot for even addressing this. Coach is consistently clueless.
Typical wayback machine resume fodder from the ditz.
This is representative of the newer, stricter guidelines in place today:
https://www.americangaming.org/sites...ice%202017.pdf
And I read those suggested rules for casinos,
which have been adopted by nearly all Nevada casinos these days:
https://i.imgur.com/zVtiv9F.jpg
that last section...
"Issuing casino checks and wires to a patron only for the amount of his/her winnings,
in the absence of legitimate circumstances for such actions (e.g. the remaining funds
from a cashier’s check which already has been negotiated)." is probably what the casino
cage to which AndrewG phoned was referring, as far as concessions for known players.
All they meant was that if front money paid in by cashier's check
was part of what was left to return to the player, they would include it in the check.
It does NOT mean under ANY circumstances that cash would be converted to check for ANYONE.
The problem is, that certain swine don't understand any of the topic matter.
It's not even pearls before swine because they can't even get to the point of
comprehending the difference between pearls or anything else.