New Year's Eve at Caesars Palace

[Rob.Singer]

That's it Alan. You choose to say a lot of things about your play and whether you win or lose. On a forum, those posts beg for comments. And when the postings don't make sense, they beg for even more.

If I'm somehow mistaken, I can handle it. If someone says something wrong about me, life goes on without a hitch because these are opinions and not life-changing events. If I choose to mock someone like that idiot vegaslover foreigner here in my spare time, I can hug my grandchildren immediately afterwards and not miss a beat.

For instance, your lady friend chimp. We saw a number of big hits from her a while back. We also saw she couldn't stop playing those slots. Is she an addict who got lucky? Of course. Is she now kicking herself for losing so much of it because of a false sense of confidence? Very likely.

Am I in some sort of competition with Bob Dancer? I hope not! Look at the facts: he's a divorcee who treats women badly, he has no children due to a life of extreme selfishness, he needs to "put his creep on" and very awkwardly talk about sex in just about everything he gets involved with for some twisted reason, and he won't ever be able to stop working because of his gambling habit.

I'll take Manhattan.

[redietz]

Rob, you may be right about a good many things, but you may be wrong about a few things, too.

Calling out individuals you do not know, like chimp, about being an addict is an overreach. You said you think that most Seven Stars players are addicts of a sort. I actually agree with that statement, but here's the thing. Virtually everybody in American culture is addicted to something. What makes you the judge of which addictions are acceptable and which are not? What makes you the judge of what expenditures are acceptable and logical and correct and which are not?

For example, is anything more wasteful than buying a motor home? It's like wearing a bunch of gold chains that burn gas -- a lot of gas. But you chose to buy the thing and drive it, a very questionable use of resources from any practical perspective. Are you addicted to the ostentation of the thing?

Now, your buying the motor home, a decision, and your driving it, a behavior, were your choice. Both are blatant consumerism, which is an addiction. Why is your consumerism a better choice in your mind than Seven Stars' gambling? People devote resources to what they are driven to consume. Spending resources on the experience of gambling is no more objectively wasteful than spending it on giant depreciating motor homes, or petrol, or an array of solid gold chains.

It's all nuts.

Now do not get me wrong. I despise casinos for what they are, and I prefer people blow their cash on motor homes and gold chains than in casinos, but my personal tastes have no objective weight. To a poverty stricken person from Ethiopia, or someone from a thousand years ago, and maybe to someone from a thousand years hence, it's all a very odd use of resources.

[Chimp]

Wow. Rob, I understand that you are using me as an example to Alan, but wow. As Red said, you don't even know me, and here you are calling me an addict. A lot of you here are much more thick-skinned than I am and are constantly jabbing back and forth at each other. But I take your comment personally and it hurt.

I initially started reading this forum to gain, and hopefully give, some knowledge about CET, Vegas, gambling, etc. and to enjoy stories that members share. But it has become mostly a vehicle for bashing each other. I don't want to be a part of that.

[Alan Mendelson]

Wow. Rob, I understand that you are using me as an example to Alan, but wow. As Red said, you don't even know me, and here you are calling me an addict. A lot of you here are much more thick-skinned than I am and are constantly jabbing back and forth at each other. But I take your comment personally and it hurt.

I initially started reading this forum to gain, and hopefully give, some knowledge about CET, Vegas, gambling, etc. and to enjoy stories that members share. But it has become mostly a vehicle for bashing each other. I don't want to be a part of that.

Chimp no one wants any part of the bashing that goes on. Rob has a problem -- he knows it and I've told him that for years. I told him in phone calls and to his face SEVERAL TIMES that he is his own worst enemy.

[Alan Mendelson]

On a more important note: today, Caesars Palace started sending out confirmations to anyone who already booked New Year's Weekend, and along with the correct confirmation emails were old confirmations from earlier in 2015. I received two other emails in addition to the confirmation for New Year's. In addition, the confirmation for New Year's Weekend was incorrect and I had to verify it with my host.

take note.

[RS__]

Chimp no one wants any part of the bashing that goes on. Rob has a problem -- he knows it and I've told him that for years. I told him in phone calls and to his face SEVERAL TIMES that he is his own worst enemy.

How many times has he been banned and unbanned here?

[Alan Mendelson]

How many times has he been banned and unbanned here?

I believe it's been twice.

[Rob.Singer]

Rob, you may be right about a good many things, but you may be wrong about a few things, too.

Calling out individuals you do not know, like chimp, about being an addict is an overreach. You said you think that most Seven Stars players are addicts of a sort. I actually agree with that statement, but here's the thing. Virtually everybody in American culture is addicted to something. What makes you the judge of which addictions are acceptable and which are not? What makes you the judge of what expenditures are acceptable and logical and correct and which are not?

For example, is anything more wasteful than buying a motor home? It's like wearing a bunch of gold chains that burn gas -- a lot of gas. But you chose to buy the thing and drive it, a very questionable use of resources from any practical perspective. Are you addicted to the ostentation of the thing?

Now, your buying the motor home, a decision, and your driving it, a behavior, were your choice. Both are blatant consumerism, which is an addiction. Why is your consumerism a better choice in your mind than Seven Stars' gambling? People devote resources to what they are driven to consume. Spending resources on the experience of gambling is no more objectively wasteful than spending it on giant depreciating motor homes, or petrol, or an array of solid gold chains.

It's all nuts.

Now do not get me wrong. I despise casinos for what they are, and I prefer people blow their cash on motor homes and gold chains than in casinos, but my personal tastes have no objective weight. To a poverty stricken person from Ethiopia, or someone from a thousand years ago, and maybe to someone from a thousand years hence, it's all a very odd use of resources.

I can't say you're totally wrong red, except the extreme point about the RV. While they are overall a great big loss once they're driven off the lot and they require significant resources just to drive around let alone maintain properly, they have nothing to do with addiction. It's a one off purchase, similar to a home.

Gambling OTOH actually is a vice that keeps on eating away--and a bad one for those who choose to overdo it. Seven Stars is a club of addicts and as we'vs all scene so many times right here, these folks are so roped in to that system that they just can't help themselves. The result? Obviously, a club defined by losing, griping over perceived entitlements, and then whining & cursing when called out for making inconsistent, feel-good proclamations.

I should be getting paid for making suggestions like people use a vp approach similar to mine or that Alan lock in his first profitable year ever by STAYING AWAY FROM CASINOS THE REST OF THE YEAR INSTEAD OF CONSTANTLY MAKING UP THOSE WEAK EXCUSES OF WHY HE JUST HAS TO KEEP GOING TO LV. Instead, the 7-Stars crowd doesn't care and just cheers him on the path he's always been on. I see something that makes no sense and I post about it.

Chimp, tough love. You know what you're doing and now so doesn't everyone else. When someone gleefully posts several unusually high winners then explains going back several times to the hi limit slots while suddenly no more big hits, only a loving mother would look the other way on that. And then we have Alan, who not only tried to tell us how acceptable it was to blow ten grand after winning big--his justification story did not bode well for holding onto that profit by year's end.

This is a place for opinions, comments and questions. You let it get to you then go for a swim instead.

[Alan Mendelson]

Roll Call: who has filed bankruptcy because of big gaming losses?

I haven't.

[Chimp]

Chimp, tough love. You know what you're doing and now so doesn't everyone else. When someone gleefully posts several unusually high winners then explains going back several times to the hi limit slots while suddenly no more big hits, only a loving mother would look the other way on that.

This is a place for opinions, comments and questions. You let it get to you then go for a swim instead.

I know what I am doing. You do not. And everyone else here does not. And just because I have not posted more jackpots does not mean that I have not had any.

[Alan Mendelson]

Chimp Rob is an angry man who hates casinos and anyone who enjoys them.

[JustaDiamind]

it needs to be a third and final time..

I believe it's been twice.

[jbjb]

He'd be great on the mic in WWE.

[dillpic834]

The BEST place to be NYE in Vegas is... the 10 pm dinner seating on the patio at (Paris) Mon Ami and watching the fireworks from your table at midnight.
Best Seat in the house!!!!

[Alan Mendelson]

Dillpic834 thanks for joining and posting. The last few NYEs in Vegas the temperature was about 30 degrees. Dinner outdoors??

[Dan Druff]

Dillpic834 thanks for joining and posting. The last few NYEs in Vegas the temperature was about 30 degrees. Dinner outdoors??

Probably under heaters.

Still, I prefer to watch it from the Augustus Tower in Caesars.

Nice and warm, no crowds, and great view.

[Alan Mendelson]

After staying in Bellagio a few times, I would suggest that a great in-room view would be a fountain (strip) view room at Bellagio where you can get a full view of center strip. The August view only gets you looking one way on the strip.