Update on the KJ AP experience

[redietz]

What do you think a professor at East Tennessee State was paid in 1998?

This is public information.

https://www.etsu.edu/human-resources...05.22.2024.pdf

Bob Dietz paid $20 for a room at Gold Spike in the late 1980's, the lowest grade hotel casino I ever saw..

Harrah's had full-pay 3:2 blackjack machines in the 1990's where you could play tens of thousands of dollars in action per hour for comps. They had machines where you could print up to $200 of daily comp tickets without a host. I already posted about the free Vegas World rooms if you posted up $400. There were many other opportunities in blackjack, video poker, and miscellaneous. Some AP's survived on coupon runs. There were so many specials, like South Point sports book's $.75 hot dogs, Golden Gates $1 shrimp cocktail, and plenty of $1 bottled beers. Aladdin guaranteed a free room if you played a $25 average for a few hours per day. Jean Scott wrote a book Frugal Vegas about all the freebies and bargains. But at the height of his monitored handicapping prowess, Bob paid $20 for a Gold Spike room, while selling picks. That tells me all I need to know about Bob's success.

LOL. I have read The Las Vegas Advisor since its inception. I am well aware of AC's coupon runs. I did the Vegas World schtick, which I reported here to Boz, who also did it. Golden Gate $1 shrimp cocktails at the piano bar were classic downtown take-a-break-at-the-Gate.

Basically, everything you just reported could be found in a 1985 Las Vegas Advisor.

I liked the Gold Spike, where (in my 20's) I occasionally stayed on weekends. They had a 2-for-1 snack bar where you could get meatloaf meals to go. The Spike also provided me with its infamous "single male" corner rooms, which featured a canopied bed and where an enterprising pimp would sometimes drop by at 1 AM to see if the single males needed any companionship.

I'm glad my staying in the Gold Spike on weekends in my 20's was an indicator of my success. I always considered myself a Hunter Thompson kind of guy, so the compliment is appreciated.

Of course, Kim Lee is also invited to my new digs in the shadow of Bristol Motor Speedway. My superior other is, however, a real Asian, so she may have issues with white idjits hijacking Asian names in an attempt to appear brainy. Or maybe an attempt at an, if you'll forgive the racist phrase, Oriental mystique.

Come on down to Bristol, baby! We have a casino where you can show off your expertise. Well, not really, we do know the management a little, and if you've seen the card counter scene in Casino, well....

For civilians reading this, I'll add the shiv to "Kim Lee's" grand observation. Everything I did in LV was pretty much also done by "Anthony Curtis" at the same time. So if my routines and eating habits are indicative of a gambling failure, well, "Mr. Curtis" is in the same proverbial boat. Now "Mr. Curtis" may not have had the adventurous spirit (AKA balls) to park his butt in the Spike on the occasional weekend, but the rest of the time we were staying in the same places, doing much of the same-priced stuff, and eating the same food.

I'm happy to be as much a failure as Mr. Flowers, oh, excuse me, "AC." We paved the way.

P.S. I really don't get the criticism. I self-report having stayed on weekends n The Spike, and Kim Lee et al. think I am somehow unaware of the perspective I'm giving to readers and its implications. I mean, c'mon, do you really think you have caught me in some info giveaway that reveals my personal narrative as overblown? You do realize I can read my own writing, right? LOL. You guys are genuinely pathetic. Bizarre on top of it, but mainly pathetic. You think nobody else CAN think. You just fail at the whole interpretation. Jesus, have some brains once in awhile.