Rough night on the strip.

[kewlJ]

I wasn't even going to play last night, but then was talked into it at the last minute. It was hot. Felt unpleasant walking, even after the sun was down. When I play the strip, I am dropped off at one location and picked up later at another with a lot of walking and even occasional travel on the packed deuce, which is always pleasant in the heat. So that was yucky.

I placed 3 sessions at 3 casinos and lost them all. Not that unusual. Not huge losses, but it drops my table game blackjack results to 4 figures almost halfway through the year. Those figures are skewed because I have played much less blackjack than normal while we chased the blackjack machine play around the country for several months. So probably about a quarter of my regular amount of play, and below expectation with that.

And finally, others plying their "trade" were out. Dude attempted to pick pocket me. I immediately knew when he bumped into me because it wasn't even that crowded in that area I was walking, so there was no need to bump into me. I immediately grabbed his arm. His hand was half way down my pocket, which I didn't really feel. When I grabbed his arm, be popped me in the face pretty good and ran. He got nothing. I am not going to post how I handle walking around with money, but he wasn't going to get much anyway.

A nearby dude grabbed him and he and his friend held the guy down until the cops came. I debated whether to stick around, but figures since the bystander had gone to the trouble to grab this guy, I would.

And this morning I have a pretty good shiner and lump on one eye. Life in Vegas.

[MisterV]

Hey KJ...looks like a bad year: I guess "Shit happens."

Is this perhaps turning your thoughts to getting a job in the casinos?

Not sure how it works but you know enough to be a suit.

Maybe work in The Eye?

You could still gamble on other properties.

[kewlJ]

Hey KJ...looks like a bad year: I guess "Shit happens."

Is this perhaps turning your thoughts to getting a job in the casinos?

Not sure how it works but you know enough to be a suit.

Maybe work in The Eye?

You could still gamble on other properties.

It is actually NOT a bad year MrV. I have good earnings from the BJ machine play, sports betting, and a little bit of the video poker mailer play an addition to my regular table game blackjack. All in all over 80 grand just about halfway through the year. So no complaints. It is only my traditional card counting blackjack that is not going great and really more than anything it is just less play. Expectation or accumulated EV from that is only about 20k. And actual win is about half that.

MrV, I will NEVER work for or consult with the casino industry. Never EVER! I despise the industry and it's predatory practices. And I lose all respect for anyone who starts on the AP side that does so. I was particularly hard on Eliot for many years, but I don't like it even with some people that I otherwise like, like Shackleford, Wong, ect. If you are an AP, you are an AP. You don't go work for and take money from other side.

[The Boz]

I wasn't even going to play last night, but then was talked into it at the last minute. It was hot. Felt unpleasant walking, even after the sun was down. When I play the strip, I am dropped off at one location and picked up later at another with a lot of walking and even occasional travel on the packed deuce, which is always pleasant in the heat. So that was yucky.

I placed 3 sessions at 3 casinos and lost them all. Not that unusual. Not huge losses, but it drops my table game blackjack results to 4 figures almost halfway through the year. Those figures are skewed because I have played much less blackjack than normal while we chased the blackjack machine play around the country for several months. So probably about a quarter of my regular amount of play, and below expectation with that.

And finally, others plying their "trade" were out. Dude attempted to pick pocket me. I immediately knew when he bumped into me because it wasn't even that crowded in that area I was walking, so there was no need to bump into me. I immediately grabbed his arm. His hand was half way down my pocket, which I didn't really feel. When I grabbed his arm, be popped me in the face pretty good and ran. He got nothing. I am not going to post how I handle walking around with money, but he wasn't going to get much anyway.

A nearby dude grabbed him and he and his friend held the guy down until the cops came. I debated whether to stick around, but figures since the bystander had gone to the trouble to grab this guy, I would.

And this morning I have a pretty good shiner and lump on one eye. Life in Vegas.

So what was the resolution? Are they getting him for attempted robbery or just assault? Will you have to testify at his hearing?

[kewlJ]

I wasn't even going to play last night, but then was talked into it at the last minute. It was hot. Felt unpleasant walking, even after the sun was down. When I play the strip, I am dropped off at one location and picked up later at another with a lot of walking and even occasional travel on the packed deuce, which is always pleasant in the heat. So that was yucky.

I placed 3 sessions at 3 casinos and lost them all. Not that unusual. Not huge losses, but it drops my table game blackjack results to 4 figures almost halfway through the year. Those figures are skewed because I have played much less blackjack than normal while we chased the blackjack machine play around the country for several months. So probably about a quarter of my regular amount of play, and below expectation with that.

And finally, others plying their "trade" were out. Dude attempted to pick pocket me. I immediately knew when he bumped into me because it wasn't even that crowded in that area I was walking, so there was no need to bump into me. I immediately grabbed his arm. His hand was half way down my pocket, which I didn't really feel. When I grabbed his arm, be popped me in the face pretty good and ran. He got nothing. I am not going to post how I handle walking around with money, but he wasn't going to get much anyway.

A nearby dude grabbed him and he and his friend held the guy down until the cops came. I debated whether to stick around, but figures since the bystander had gone to the trouble to grab this guy, I would.

And this morning I have a pretty good shiner and lump on one eye. Life in Vegas.

So what was the resolution? Are they getting him for attempted robbery or just assault? Will you have to testify at his hearing?

I don't really know at this point. I gave a statement of what occurred and answered a couple questions, right there on the strip, off to the side as did the guy that grabbed the dude and another woman who said she witnessed the incident. The female officer wrote it all down and took my name and info including phone number. She did not ask for ID. I don't know if I will be called to go to the station or something for something more formal or if that is it. Nor do I know if I will be called to testify or anything like that. I hope not.

[The Boz]

That’s what I was wondering, seems it will take you or someone that witnessed it to testify if he contests it. Unless they just give him a citation and he pays it or ignores it. Just another street bum who will just disappear and never show up for court anyways if he was resorting to that.

Anyways glad you are ok, other than the shiner. Could have been much worse with some of these lunatics carrying knives or worse.

[kewlJ]

That’s what I was wondering, seems it will take you or someone that witnessed it to testify if he contests it. Unless they just give him a citation and he pays it or ignores it. Just another street bum who will just disappear and never show up for court anyways if he was resorting to that.

Anyways glad you are ok, other than the shiner. Could have been much worse with some of these lunatics carrying knives or worse.

Yeah, I really don't know. Maybe one of the attorneys can answer Boz.

Sadly I have heard or read that with this stuff they plead and get a fine and are released. I don't know. If I were a betting man, I would bet this guy and most of these kind of people have a rap sheet with similar charges. You would hope that after a few times they stop slapping their wrist and releasing them. But I have no confidence that is the case.

[kewlJ]

Just another street bum

The guy actually didn't look that Thuggish. he was dressed fairly respectable, did have tattoos on the back of his hands, but most people have tattoos these days. Just my opinion, but I just felt like he was trying to look more respectable (maybe touristy) than he actually was.

If nothing else, hopefully he spent the night, maybe the whole weekend in CCDC and got butt fucked a few times with no lube. Not that I am vengeful.

[smurgerburger]

Never a dull moment.

[kewlJ]

I am thinking about the case about 2 years ago where a supposed prostitute drugged a 'John" in his room, and stole his Rolex (up her coochie). A case that someone on this forum might be more familiar with than others. There were a couple different similar cases, so I may have it mixed up, but in one of the cases the Girl had been previously charged for the same damn thing, was released and was only back in Vegas (she was from Miami) because the court case was coming up. And she ended up doing the same damn thing again.

One of the problems with this shit here in Vegas is any crime against a tourist, if they need to tourist to return sometime later for a court case, is that probably rarely happens. But there has to be something more than just returning these repeaters to the streets to do whatever again.

And in cases involving "Johns", the guys that hire prostitutes, the Johns almost surely will not show up to court if needed. Right Mdawg?

[MDawg]

Let me tell you what REALLY happened.

UNKewlJ tried to play fast and loose with one of the sugar daddies / clients he's latched onto, and the John wasn't having any of it.

you are a very good fictional storyteller lol KJ is a fictional Author masquerading on gambling boards as a sophisticated multi table blackjack savant. :

You don’t make a living playing blackjack tho. That the problem I have with you. Instead of just coming clean and saying you have sugar daddies some that like you others you have extorted you keep up the charade.

[kewlJ]

Mdawg gets particularly annoyed at mention of the "coochie Rolex" case.

He is a little sensitive as to the great "Pope of Las Vegas" having been played. Just doesn't fit with the story he wants to write on gambling forums as well as that forum for...... Wait for it....writers writing stories.

[MisterV]

Yes, the Hound seems to be a legend in his own mind.

Bad dawg!

Quit gnawing and Pissing on KJ's leg.

[kewlJ]

Yes, the Hound seems to be a legend in his own mind.

Bad dawg!

Quit gnawing and Pissing on KJ's leg.

Not just my leg MrV. Hasn't your pooch friend been pissing on everyone's leg for about 5 years while telling us all it is raining?

[MisterV]

Not just my leg MrV. Hasn't your pooch friend been pissing on everyone's leg for about 5 years while telling us all it is raining?

That mutt ain't MY pooch, KJ: I'm sort of a cat fancier.

But I digress.

Have you heard the term "Think like a lawyer?"

The problem is we attorneys are never really taught what the term means, so we form our own conclusion.

The Hound seems to think it means that he can fabricate evidence to back up his claims; nice try there, Sparky, but at the end of the day that dawg just won't hunt.

No, when one "thinks like a lawyer" they should be dispassionate in considering and weighing the evidence before forming a conclusion, a thing he never does; if facts don't fit his narrative he disregards them and continues to hammer home his "bullet points": as if anyone really believes him or gives a flying fuck what he says (other than the lightweights who like to pile on: they follow their pie-eyed piper down the rat hole).

[MDawg]

At this point anyone who thinks FraudJ represents anything truthfully or factually correct is a fool.....RIP

[smurgerburger]

I'm just gonna go with folie a deux here.

[MisterV]

At this point anyone who thinks FraudJ represents anything truthfully or factually correct is a fool.....RIP

*bristles; rolls up shirt sleeves*

[Rob.Singer]

Who'd have guessed it--another stupid fake tale by the local "Man About Town" just because attention was fading after his last phony bj machine whopper. He just can't stand being known as a proven serial liar, on a forum where he's tried FOR YEARS to convince everybody what a successful "bj pro" he is.

And get ready for it--he'll suddenly discover the "pick-pocket" is the wayward but loved son of a LV big shot, and a 6-figure lawsuit via his on-call attorney, Nersesian, is in the makings.

[kewlJ]

For years Rob has called Redeitz "weird". You can certainly see how Rob thinks and how his brain works with the above post and frankly it is weird.

I don't think anyone else would read an account of an attempted pick pocketing and think that is an attempt to impress anyone or whatever. It is just something that happens. And in a location like Vegas, on the strip, probably multiple times each night.

Weird Rob, just weird.