The Adventures of MDawg II
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Sleaziness all around. Now you know why I go into a casino, play my games-craps, slots and VP-collect my winnings and leave to go to dinner with my companions and then go home. If I ever get to *that* level like those in the story, check me in to the nearest mental hospital.
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Note none of that happened in a legitimate casino. I'd guess more people get murdered in churches than casinos. In my experience when a skilled player gets in trouble it's when he left the casino floor. Got drunk, went someplace with a girl, went to buy drugs, went someplace with a girl, went someplace with a girl, was careless in the parking garage or traveling between stores.
That's why usually on a road trip I prefer to stay in a roach motel miles away from any casino. Nobody at the casinos knows where I'm going when I leave. Nobody at the motel knows where I've been or about my bankroll.
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Which is exactly my point. There is enough sleaziness in the world, and there is certainly concentrated enough sleaziness in legal casinos. I don't need to be around the super concentrated sleaziness that is illegal-or even legal-home games, and all the trouble that goes with it. If I ever et to the point where I'm chasing it like that, put me on the injured reserve list.
Not to mention that if a place like that got wind of someone's advantage methods the response might be something like a throwback to old Vegas days.
As far as this,
Quote: AutomaticMonkeyThat's why usually on a road trip I prefer to stay in a roach motel miles away from any casino. Nobody at the casinos knows where I'm going when I leave. Nobody at the motel knows where I've been or about my bankroll.
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do places like that even have an in room safe? And if any in spots like North East Vegas, if that's where you mean by a roach motel, got wind of that you had anything valuable in the room, they'd cut your balls off to make you tell them where it is.
Quote: MDawgIn Vegas I have run into the occasional Bacc player who gives me a phone number and invites me to play at some back room Baccarat parlor in places like Honolulu. We do travel to HI pretty regularly and the family has a house on one of the islands, but why would I go to HI or any of the other non gaming destinations to which we travel regularly, to play Baccarat?
Not to mention that if a place like that got wind of someone's advantage methods the response might be something like a throwback to old Vegas days.
As far as this,Quote: AutomaticMonkeyThat's why usually on a road trip I prefer to stay in a roach motel miles away from any casino. Nobody at the casinos knows where I'm going when I leave. Nobody at the motel knows where I've been or about my bankroll.
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do places like that even have an in room safe? And if any in spots like North East Vegas, if that's where you mean by a roach motel, got wind of that you had anything valuable in the room, they'd cut your balls off to make you tell them where it is.
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I know an acquaintance who was in HI with the family. His entire family got mild food poisoning and was out of commission for a day. He was fine because he doesn’t eat fish and that was the food in question. He decided to look up any private poker games in town and came across a gambling den. To his better judgement, he decided to go check it out. He went on a heater at the bacc table and ran up $5K to over $65K (not MDWAG heater level, but still good). When it was time for him to cash out, they told him to go to a private room to “cash out” due to the large amount. When he was in the back room, they refused to pay him out and threatened him. He threatened to go to the police, and they said go ahead and they said “nothing good can come out of it.” They already had his drivers license and because he was scared if they were bad actors, he decided to just forfeit the cash and leave.
I am not sure if this bacc parlor you were invited to is the same one, but you’re right about not going to those. There is no point.
