It only took us a month. My oldest daughter will be 19 this summer! Two more followed a few years later. Couldn't be happier.Originally Posted by Dan Druff
It only took us a month. My oldest daughter will be 19 this summer! Two more followed a few years later. Couldn't be happier.Originally Posted by Dan Druff
I moved the Rob Singer fighting over here: http://vegascasinotalk.com/forum/sho...er-vs.-james40
Please argue in that thread instead. Thanks.
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For any normal person.....it's head-shaking time....
Alan, Congratulations! Beautiful picture of the two of you.
I wish you both much happiness together!
It'll be interesting to see how moving to Vegas affects your gambling habits.....
Will you go more often because the casinos are right there?
Or will you go less often because the casinos are right there and you can go anytime?
I'd think more hours and less losses, as he'll be able to pick and choose table limits and will have access to locals' video poker, with better returns.
Hey, Alan, let me know what you think of Red Rock if you get out there. The steakhouse has a good reputation and the video poker is quite good. You'll be able to fully explore Red Rock, Green Valley, the M, and other places now that you're a resident.
I think there will be less play and more wins.
Less play because Janet is not a gambler and we will be doing other stuff like shows. She sees a show every day with her "club."
More daily wins because unlike when I go to Vegas for a weekend, it will be easy for me to cash out and bolt when I am ahead.
I would hope that Alan will finally eliminate CET from his list and goes to those 3 casinos (RR, M, and ESPECIALLY GVR) when he chooses to play. I was at T-Bones (RR's Steakhouse) for Christmas dinner and it was it's usual fantastic. I'm sure he'll try Hank's at GVR, which is a sister restaurant to T-Bones but IMO just a bit classier.
This move opens up a whole new opportunity for him, and as he said, I would expect to see better overall yearly gambling results because of the new ability to just get up and leave with smaller locked-in profits that can be done as often as he feels like doing it.
Of course, he can follow RS__ down the tubes and into being an uneducated local, "team-playing AP who only plays with other people's money" and hits the cheapo buffets as often as possible. Won't his new wife just LOVE that! And he isn't gonna find any better pay tables at the level he plays at than what he sees at CET. Unless, of course, he wants to slug it out with the LV lowlifes who've been brainwashed into thinking 25c or 50c or even dollar 10/7DB, 10/6DDB, and 25c FPDW will do anything for them other than turn them into bigger, dissapointed and failed poker machine addicts.
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When you go to Vegas for a weekend it's very difficult to quit with a moderate or even a small win. What else are you going to do, watch movies?Originally Posted by Rob.Singer
When you live nearby it's very easy to say "I just won $200, I'm going home."
I used to do that when I played poker at Hollywood Park which was about 20 minutes from when I lived in West LA. I played a cash game and each night I was ahead by $200, I walked out. I played a $100 buy-in game. It was actually pretty easy.
I stopped doing that when a dealer said to me, "is this your part time job?" About the same time when I sat down at the table, others at the table asked for a table change.
(By the way, while I don't do well at tournaments, I'm a very good cash game player. The difference is blinds and antes don't increase in cash games.)
Ive been to RedRock many times. I think it's a beautiful resort. Jason loves the rooms there, but I never stayed there.Originally Posted by redietz
I love the video poker there, and played craps there. It was the second casino where I played the Small, Tall, All --- the first was Sam's Town.
What I don't like about Red Rock is the high percentage of smokers. At least at Caesars there are more people who don't smoke.
Alan, I'm really looking forward to your reports regarding all manner of shows. You are perfectly positioned to give us the lowdown on all of them. Does Janet and her crew take in many of the afternoon shows?
redietz I don't know about the afternoon shows. They work at various jobs. And it depends what freebies they get thru this ticket club that they all belong to.
They literally go to two or three shows a week.
I might as well get this out here on this forum, because it has fully been discussed by me on Facebook.
If anyone had a three week over/under on the duration of my marriage to Janet, the under won.
About two weeks after we were married, Janet filed for an annulment. It should become "final" any day now. It wasn't pretty either. Here's what happened:
The morning before Janet went to defend her dissertation for her PhD I asked her if she wanted me to attend. She said no, it would make her nervous. So I sat home waiting to hear the results. She posted on Facebook that she passed and she was now a Doctor. I got ready to celebrate -- and got ready to take her for lunch and made dinner reservations.
Shortly after 12 noon she arrived home and called me from the front of the house to say she left her keys in the house and I needed to open the door. I walked to the front door, ready to greet her and as I opened the door she burst in with three rather large men and one of the men said "these are annulment papers. You are served."
Janet at the same time directed the other two men up the staircase to our bedroom and had them haul out all of my possessions and load them on the sidewalk next to my car. At the same time the process server was standing over me and said "sign here." Janet came over and said "I am paying all the costs. Sign and get out."
I am in total shock. I had no idea what was going on. In fact, I couldn't even remember what the date was to sign where I was supposed to sign. Also at this point I am scared for my life. I didn't know if I was going to get beat up or roughed up or arrested.
All I could say was "I'm not giving you any trouble. I will leave."
After all of my stuff was piled up on the sidewalk Janet and the process server allowed me to walk back into her house to be sure nothing was left behind. I found a couple of shoe boxes and took them down to my car. At this point I unlocked my car and the two men who carried my belongings out of the house helped me pack my car.
I said to Janet "what is going on?"
She had little to say to me except she said "I am not going to lose my house to someone who does business with loansharks."
What?
She also said, "I am not going to live with someone who bounces the payment for my health insurance."
What?
Fortunately for me, at this point, her neighbors who I had previously met, were outside watching and they saw there was no yelling or violence and I got in my car and drove away peacefully.
The next morning I was back in LA at my apartment. Luckily I was able to retain my apartment and my furniture was still here. I was able to reach Janet on the phone.
She said to me she overhead my conversation with loansharks. She said she read the text messages on my phone saying I was bouncing the check for health insurance. Unfortunately, Janet jumped to the wrong conclusions. I was talking to my son and to my clients.
When I said "I need $4,000 for Tony on Friday" it was during a conversation with Jason. Tony is my media buyer. $4,000 is what was due at KCOP to pay for one of my Infomercials.
When I texted "health insurance checks will bounce" it was when I was talking about how bills need to be paid or else "health insurance checks will bounce." In reality NOTHING bounced and her health insurance was paid for in full. (Remember, Janet has cancer and is undergoing cancer treatments.)
Janet even wrote in the annulment papers (the complaint) that I was involved with loansharks, that loansharks were calling her and threatening her, and that I bounced the check for her health insurance. All statements were not true and all she had to do was check on the health insurance by calling the company.
Ironically, she obtained a restraining order that prevented me from canceling the health insurance that she claimed I hadn't paid for.
Despite a week of back and forth emails and text messages where I explained that I was talking to clients and Jason about the TV business and Tony was my media buyer -- and even though she now knows that her health insurance is in full effect and always has been in full effect since the day we married AND I PAID HER PREMIUM ONLINE AND NOT WITH A CHECK THAT SHE SAW AND GOT A CONFIRMATION ABOUT, she refuses to acknowledge that she jumped to false conclusions.
I retained an attorney in Nevada and we decided not to file a counter claim -- just let it go and let the marriage be annulled. She didn't ask for anything post marriage and she's not getting anything.
For me, this was a two week disaster. Fortunately I didn't lose my apartment. I did spend a few thousand dollars paying for a trip to the University of Colorado so she could see a cancer specialist there (who confirmed that her lung cancer returned).
She refuses to talk to me, but she has sent me emails about forwarding my mail back to me in LA.
What amazes me and hurts so much is that she never asked me about what she heard or read on my phone. I hid nothing from her. You would think that your wife would say "what was that all about?" when she heard me saying "I need $4,000 for Tony on Friday." You would think that she would ask me if her insurance was in effect. But she didn't.
What she did do is behind my back go to a legal self-help office and file annulment papers, hire thugs to carry my stuff out of her house and load it up on the sidewalk, and then throw me out like trash.
I asked her if perhaps this was caused by her cancer and the drugs she is on? She didn't reply. I don't think she ever will.
Sorry you had to go through that. IME, women who are overly paranoid/suspicious about people doing scummy things to them are just projecting their own scumminess. I.E. You dodged a bullet. At least you emerged relatively unscathed.
She was paranoid. I should have noticed this earlier: she kept all of her window drapes shut -- no direct sunlight into her home. She had a video surveillance system with cameras outside and INSIDE her house that she watched as she sat at her desk working on her dissertation.
She also had a solid wood fence surrounding her property -- which is not unusual since all of the homes in her neighborhood had these solid fences -- except her fence was higher than all of the others.
Jeeezus, Alan. Sorry dude, wow! What a depressing bummer of a story that was. It was shocking for me just to read that.
I've known about this for awhile, and was wondering when Alan would come out here and reveal it.
Anyway, Alan, she did you a favor.
This woman is not all there. Severe emotional problems from what I can tell. Perhaps she has borderline personality disorder.
You emerged from this relatively unscathed, compared to what could have happened.
Her excuses about the "loan shark" crap are BS.
She was looking for a reason for the annulment, and she manufactured one. That's why she won't listen to your explanation. She knows you're telling the truth, but doesn't want to hear it.
Why did she marry you in the first place? No idea, but she definitely manufactured reasons to get out of it. That's why she made up completely fabricated tales about being threatened by loan sharks.
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It's all over now. A few minutes ago I found out the judge issued the annulment decree.
I'm so sorry that you had to go through all of that.
I agree with GuyIncognito - you dodged a bullet.
It's a pattern I see too often among my female acquaintances. Quick to assume the worst and take it to the nth degree about any perceived flaw in an otherwise nice and worthy person, yet quick to make excuses and assume the best about the bad guys, only to have to accept otherwise once they've shown their bad side and taken or wrecked their car, house, finances, stuff, etc..
But this is so beyond that. I know you lost some money but this could have been so much more worse. At least you were able to get out with your things and had a place to go, and I think maybe didn't have too much of your business related stuff moved over?
I was real lucky. On the car drive back to LA my first phone call was to my son, and my second was to my daughter. My next call was to my apartment building office here in LA. I asked "did you rent my apartment out yet?" I had given 30 days notice to the building about ten days before but LUCKILY the person I spoke to neglected to enter my "notice" in the computer. So the apartment was still mine.
I had not yet gotten rid of my furniture. However, two things did happen: I sold off my sports memorabilia including my autographed balls because she had no room for it, and I gave my art to an auction house. It was too late to get my sports stuff back, but I called the auction house and I retrieved my art and it's back on my walls. Some of these pieces I've had for more than 30 years.
Sorry to hear about that, Alan. Bright side is that it happened sooner rather than later.
I take it you've moved back to LA and doing whatever you were doing months ago?
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