Yesterday the end chip count was
This was before I went back downstairs to pay off the markers and take a trip to VIP to pick up some Pellegrinos, tip the VIP staff, and make a sumptuous dining reservation (was feeling VERY celebratory).
Of this $28,000. only $1000. was my win for 3/1/2020, but still a win is a win. The winner's envelope is now bursting at the seams
and the totes ahead for the trip is about $31K.
All markers from yesterday paid of course.
A few interesting things happened yesterday. I was actually ahead over $5K and trying to get to $6K when things started going awry and before you knew it I was betting five grand a hand with mixed results after I dipped to as low as -13K at one point. At that moment while I was heavy hitting the cigar/cigarette girl came by, and I grabbed two tubed cigars from her.
I don't even smoke, and I hate all smoking, but I was feeling ornery and wanted to flex my comp muscles. I had a trip a while back at this same casino where I asked for a cigar for a friend and they made a big deal out of having to get it approved. When I grabbed the two cigars the girl asked the pit boss if I could have two.
"I can have ten!" I answered for him, and then of course the pit boss nodded his consent.
While I was playing, this Asian guy with a half million line (I figured this out later by myself even before the pit boss mentioned it after he left, because he bet one hand at $30,000. which is allowed only for a special limits high credit line player) came up and noticed my watch.
"Is that the platinum?"
"Yes."
He rolled up his sleeve. He was wearing the Rolex Daytona platinum with the chocolate bezel, this watch:
and of course I recognized it instantly. It is called, the "Platina."
Mine is the latest 40mm Rolex Day Date platinum.
We took off watches and let each of us hold them, comparing weights. Both extremely heavy - we decided that mine must be a tad heavier. The pit boss got in on it too.
"Let me hold those too." And then, after holding them, "Wow!"
That's the thing about wearing a platinum versus a white gold Rolex. It is low key and no one knows what it is - except your peer group. In fact one dipshit WOV member (the former, possibly still current, drunk, I banned from my view at this VCT forum) thought my platinum Rolex watch was a fake when he first saw a pic of it at WOV.
The third thing that happened of interest was that I won one hand just $300. with a bank 6 on a commissionless table (at this casino a bank 6 win at the commissionless table gets paid half). Dealer paid me full. Nearly a half hour later a pit boss came out of nowhere had me cough up the $150. So they are definitely on me, watching closely. It is also a testament to how good surveillance is these days versus about twenty years ago when I was paid $3750. for a $2500. BJ bet when I threw down a king and queen with exultation and the dealer hit to 21. Back then, no one ever came up later to tell me that I had actually LOST -$2500. versus getting paid 3:2 for a BJ I didn't even have.
Last night we were out late dining and had too much fun afterwards back in the suite.
Today is the last day of gaming. Leave tomorrow. Sad, but even good things must come to an end.
Good for me anyway. The fat guy lost pretty much everything. He was playing with only purple chips today. He told me that his friend had lost everything last night too. Now this fat guy, when he loses (which is frequently), forgettaboutit. He starts crumpling cards, throwing them at the dealer, and cursing in a foreign language. But afterwards, as he walks away from the table, he does come around and apologize to the dealer.
I don't believe in getting upset when losing.
In fact, afterwards, after this fat guy had lost everything and left, the pit boss pointed out, talking to me, that "I don't believe I've ever seen you mad."
How does getting steamed help anything? Must play cooly, analytically. And anyway what is there to get mad about? Even when I get down I come back to win in the end.
This always winning in the end goes for both gambling, and the stock market, which incidentally although there will be ups and downs along the way is on its inevitable course back to record highs.
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