Originally Posted by Mission
Oh great, another convert to the "Sure,anybody can have more than fifty successful baccarat sessions in a row" club.
*Bronx cheer*
Mission, the guy is clearly a troll given his claims are ridiculous.
Originally Posted by Mission
Oh great, another convert to the "Sure,anybody can have more than fifty successful baccarat sessions in a row" club.
*Bronx cheer*
Mission, the guy is clearly a troll given his claims are ridiculous.
What, Me Worry?
My scenario was that I was actually able to talk to the guy I needed to talk to. The casino in question would not show me as losing, so don't even try that line. They wouldn't show me as a big anything. Small-time player, wins somewhat. I was definitely winning there, just more than my card would look like because I didn't do any vulturing on my card, just worked the free play. The way their free play was set up is that you could maintain your offers with not very much play, so it was slight profitable and I was going to be vulturing there anyway. I also liked all of the free alcoholic beverage vouchers that I got because my fiancee (then girlfriend) and I would stay in a nearby hotel and the casino had a free shuttle to and from.
Anyway, I'd go in and vulture with no card (which is where the vast majority of the profits were) and would maintain pickups that I think were $60 per pick up that could sometimes be combined with supplemental small offers and kiosk pick a prize things at an expected loss on the action to maintain those pick ups of about $30. IOW, whatever I made vulturing plus an expected +$58 (roughly, not counting supplemental offers) in exchange for an expected loss of about $30 and I was driving right past there twice a week anyway.
Purely small-time stuff. I made about $200/week there, but I was managing a hotel full-time at the time, so that was a nice little weekly add for somewhere I'm driving right by anyway.
So, why was I unbanned?
1.) The Security Director (who I was able to talk to a few times) was perfectly fine with me being unbanned, but said I had to talk to the Marketing Director because it was his department that was impacted by what was going on. She said that there wasn't anything illegal about what I had been doing there, but it was a marketing department decision.
2.) Covid-19 happened, prior to that, the guy hadn't responded to my E-Mails or occasional phone messages at all. Then, Covid, and the casino itself was closed. He answered his phone on the second ring, didn't know who it was, of course. I am a friendly and polite person. He said that I could come back, but I'd better never have cards that are in any name but mine on me ever again.
Anyway, there you go. It had also been four or five years...I can't remember if this was in 2015 or 2016. I think 2016.
Last edited by Mission146; 04-12-2021 at 04:21 PM.
I'll agree to a meet up but it has to be in your neck of the woods.
Some ideal places to meet up and they are my old stomping grounds.
Ohiopyle
Mammoth Park
Twin Lakes
Confluence
Monongahela River
Yough River... yes it is the Youghiogheny River but people in the know call it the Yough... don't have to tell you, I'm sure.
Monessen
Ligonier... the river on the way to Idlewild... beside the bridge with the whirlpools where they don't let you drive across anymore.
You know... on the way up to Linn Run.
Where that bar/hotel burned down a couple a times and they rebuilt it.
Used to be called Sleepy Hollow... probably still is or Ichabods.
or... Smithton Beach.
Requirements are at least a full weekend of fishing and camping.
Last edited by monet; 04-12-2021 at 04:19 PM.
Back in the 80s my father, uncles and I fished this River more times than I can remember.
You turn left and go down the hill at the entrance and you used to be able to cross the bridge with whirlpools.
I'd have to say that I'd have a small preference for either Ligonier or OhioPyle/Yough area.
Ligonier just because we can always drive along 30 through the mountains if the fish aren't biting one day, that's a really nice drive. The wind farm is also kind of neat to look at driving as it just kind of pops up out of nowhere and seems to stretch for miles.
OhioPyle just because I'm already familiar with it. We could hit up Lady Luck, but I promise there's barely a point of even walking in that one. The Meadows isn't ridiculously far away, but the only thing there, really is Ultimate X and Must-Hits. The Island would be about an hour and a half from there, so not worth the drive and there's one guy that tends to be there in the evenings that Joe taught all the plays to, so the only good vulturing time is when we'd be fishing.
Although, screw the casinos anyway unless we get really bored. Around dusk? I'll take staring at a fire and bullshitting over stupid vulturing anytime!
Route 30... I know it like the back of my hand and I haven't been on it since the early 90s.
Great Area really.
I'm getting all nostalic.
Wish I had something like that near Vegas.
So many spots in PA just to go for the day and enjoy the scenery, water and air.
Great Place to live but Fuck the Property Taxes are impossible to deal with.
If and when I do go back to PA I certainly have no interest in going to the Casinos of any sort.
It's been so long and too many memories for me.
We are talking about where I grew up till about 16/17 years old.
I just wouldn't have any time for anything related to Casinos.
Damn You!
Western Pennsylvania has to be one of the greatest places on Earth.
I've been all over the States and only Oregon can really compete.
I've also been all through New England but something special about PA.
Probably because I grew up there.
Meh. Glad to rent. I did home ownership once, never again.
That said, I think I'll move to Vermont after my kids are adults. Probably Montpelier, or something. Hard to say what the traffic on the sites will look like by then, (my daughter turns ten this year, for reference) so I don't know if I'll still be writing or not. Even then, it's not like it's hard to get rooms, so I can be away for about a week every month just to keep up with the different machines and other stuff needed to be able to know what I'm talking about in my articles.
If something happens to the writing, then that's probably it for me and gambling, if the kids are adults by then. Vermont is a beautiful state and I LOVE walking in Winter. I'll literally spend ten hours just walking around town. I'll sometimes shovel driveways without even being asked just because I love being out in the cold. I'm perfectly content to live a dirt cheap existence, so going back into, "Traditional," work isn't something that concerns me. I'll get a, "Normal," job again. Hopefully something physical. I think that's why two million would last me forever.
The really nice thing about growing up poor is, in the rare event I have a good bit of money, I have no idea what to do with it. There's nothing that I want. The downside is that means I get lazy and do very close to nothing until my money runs out!
Last edited by Mission146; 04-12-2021 at 04:53 PM.
My Family on my Mothers side all lived in or near Concord, NH.
My Great Grandfather, Grandfather and Great Uncle all built their own houses by hand.
Seriously... just the three of them, a saw and some tools.
They wanted to turn me into an Electrician back in the mid 90s.
Should of listened to them.
My Grandfather was a master plumber and ended up running a company in the last 25 years of his profession.
Great Grandfather was a master carpenter and a master at butchery.
They got two Moose Permits in the early/mid 90s and shot one on each hunt.
Really beat the odds getting Two Permits... my Great Grandfather hit both of the lotteries at that time.
I wasn't on the hunts but they say my Great Grandfather sliced up those animals with perfection and lightning fast.
I know that moose tasted really good... and we had over 100 pounds of it.
They had to divide it amongst 4 to 8 of them.
I'm not sure what my Great Uncle was because I didn't spend time with him.
Forget.
Master at some sort of Trade Profession though.
Those guys were Real Men and did Real Jobs meant for Men.
Anyways... the point of my story was that when I was 18 I drove a beat up old 79 Bonneville over the mountains of Vermont in a Snow Storm with bald tires lol.
No Fear but life was different back in that era and growing up in the East or PA in the 70s/80s.
You just learned how to do shit like that.
You bastard... I got to go... miss that shit... nostalgia!
No problem sir - very interesting topic. So the way I would run it would be similar to the way a lot of guys run Blackjack: You have a big player come in to make the bets - the signaler/counter is flat betting. Analogously, the dice controller minimum bets against the dice controlled outcome (so minimum bet the Don't if you can and do make less sevens than expected and have the BP bet the pass line and/or place bet all the points - keeping them ON/working throughout the dice-controlled session).
You bastard Mission146.
I watch this video from time to time.
Wish the guy would make volume 2 or more of them.
I grew up in this town till the end of 6th grade.
You can see how poor I grew up as we lived in the Youngwood Hotel till the start of the 3rd grade.
Shown at 28 seconds of the video and still standing from what I understand.
Guess they got rid off all those cockroaches lol.
At 32 seconds in I used to go to that church for a few years till they had a Halloween Party in the lower level.
They couldn't convince me at 7/8 years old that dressing up like the Devil was a good thing or what God wanted in his house.
They literally tried to tell me that its ok to dress up like Demons or the Devil to scare the Devil???
Fuck that Noise!
I don't hide the fact that I came from nothing and am no good.
Boring Video for most of you but not for me.
I know all those places well.
My baseball team used to get ice cream after games at the Dairy Queen.
I remember when it first re-opened.
etc etc.
Good Times.
Park and Pool was the spot in the Summer for us rugrats.
Last edited by monet; 04-12-2021 at 05:41 PM.
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