AcctinQ, can I ask what time period your 6 months living in Vegas was? Just asking out of curiosity....not trying to spring some coach belly type attack.
Those weeklys really aren't cheap today. $300, $359, $379 last time I looked and I really don't have a reason to look often other than curiosity. $300 to $350 is $1400 a month and for that money you can get a decent regular type apartment in Vegas and not necessarily in a bad area. Besides being furnished, which I guess is a big deal to the transient folks that live in these places, the biggest draw is no credit check and no criminal checks. You pay the money and you can move in for the week or month. They can do this because these places aren't technically apartments. They are motel, (you even pay tax). So they don't have to go through any eviction process. When your time is up, if you don't pay, they just call the cops and have you removed.
I am not speaking from any kind of personal experience. I did have a roommate, a poker player that I took in shortly after moving to Vegas that when I met him, he lived in his car most of the time and in a weekly during times he was doing well with his poker.
I also used to see and talk you a number of, I don't even know how to describe them, degenerate gamblers, maybe played a few little things at an advantage, but not enough to make any real money. I would see these guys at places like Gold coast, Sam's town, and maybe downtown. Not really at the Station casinos except maybe Boulder Station. These dudes usually had some sort of government check, welfare, SSI whatever and they lived in these weeklys, sometimes in groups of 2-3 and gambled all day, mostly -Ev, but as I said some small shit that was +EV if done right. NOT card counting as these guys would never be able to put together even a small bankroll for card counting. Sounds like a pretty tough existence to me.
The only way I could see going through that shit is if you were just starting out and building a bankroll. But you build a BR and move on. For someone to live in these kinds of places 3-4 months a year for many years, doesn't make sense. I doubt Billy Waters lived in weeklys or if he did it was a very short time at the very beginning and then he built a BR and never looked back. This is the kind of thing from Red's story that just doesn't fit.
But I really do want to try to stop "picking on him". I am really getting the feeling there is something medically wrong with him.
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