Originally Posted by MDawg View Post
More power to you if you made a million in casinos last year.

And that's the difference between me and you. You guys all cry and say it can't be done when anyone else is booking profits and getting comp'ed playing the high end table games, but if I see someone else making it I just say, Good for you. So what's more likely? that you are doing well and happy, or that you are sad and sorry - personally, I think that the more dubious a person is with what I've posted, especially at this point with all the images and videos, the more that person has probably lost at casinos, such that it makes sense that he espouses the theory of, "I can't win, so nobody can."


Getting back to polite conversation if it's possible, I do understand that having a casino host and playing above the radar has its risks. I did get banned from BJ for a couple years, but at the same time, my playing above board and becoming friends with the same Director of Table Games who banned me resulted in my eventually getting reinstated for BJ play. As well, at my level of play, it's hard to convince a pit boss you found the money in a taxi cab - meaning that it's just very hard to do anonymously. And finally, part of the reason I switched to Baccarat from BJ (although I still do play some BJ too, at certain tables in Vegas) was to be able to keep flying high and still get comp'ed. They can't hold it against you that you won on what is viewed as a game of chance (versus BJ, which is viewed as a game of skill).

I am not doing this for a living. But if I lost at it, I would not do it at all.

Question: at the Pepp you were excluded from events and so on because you had a host and flew above the radar. But if you had been under the radar and unknown you would not have been invited anyway?
No, I was not invited to anything. This is what happened at the Pepp in 2002. My friend, Al, also an AP, called me and told me they had put in $1 Full Pay Deuces Wild Video Poker, a 100.76% game. Not anything spectacular to write home about, worth about $35 an hour to a skilled player. There was no cashback on the card but the meal comp was pretty good for locals. And the drawings were good. They added somewhat to the expectation on the play. It was the drawings that pulled AP's into the Pepp. You got tickets based on action.

So I show up and play for a few hours. I went to the booth to get a meal comp. The boothling said I was assigned a casino host and what time would I be available to meet him. I said about 5 PM would be okay. At the Pepp $1 players and higher were assigned hosts whether they wanted one or not. I went and ate, played a couple more hours, blew the meeting with the host off, and went home.

The next day I go in and hit a royal. I go get a comp. The boothling said I didn't meet my host the day before and gave me another appointment. After eating I went back and played another couple hours, blew the host off and went home.

The 3rd day I go in and I'm playing. My buddy, Al, is two machines down from me. A casino host walks up to him and says "Al, I have to disqualify you from all drawings and special event." Al said "What for?" The host said "C'mon, Al, you know you're a pro. I'll leave your meal comp alone, FOR NOW! Now, I have to find this Crimm guy and and tell him the same thing." I was sitting there with my back turned to the host hearing every word of it. Al said "I'll tell him for you." The host walked off.

So I was assigned a casino host I never met. He disqualifed me from drawings and special events before he even met me. I could've kept playing but without the drawings there was better stuff around.

I personally think the hosts were trained to identify AP's and used the newly installed deuces to sniff us out.