The Adventures of MDawg II

I wore this coat in Vegas several years ago around New Year's.



If you are outside walking around especially after dark it may get cold in Vegas in winter, especially if the wind is whipping.

From this post of mine January 2020
https://wizardofvegas.com/forum/gambling/betting-systems/33908-the-adventures-of-mdawg/11/#post752291
you may see people standing around pretty bundled up in Vegas, daytime, around Tacos El Gordo.

Some hosts were let go too.

Venetian hotel-casino lays off some top-level employees

Less than 50 laid off - among those known to be affected by the layoffs are executives and senior-level employees in multiple departments, including hotel operations, marketing, celebrations/banquets, group meetings and casino hosts.

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Some hosts were let go too.

Venetian hotel-casino lays off some top-level employees

Less than 50 laid off - among those known to be affected by the layoffs are executives and senior-level employees in multiple departments, including hotel operations, marketing, celebrations/banquets, group meetings and casino hosts.
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Anyone you know?

Yes and no.

No, not the main people I deal with. Yes, some of those I know.

Of course Venetian claims the changes will help everyone including the players, but the Bottom Line is always what's all important, especially since Apollo took over.

Back now from our latest trip, new watch arrives tomorrow, BTC pushing 100K, and Vegas F1 coming up. All's right with the world!

For those of you who like to push dem buttons.

Player banks $1.2M on $50 bet at Strip resort



I like that he chose to remain anonymous.

It’s never gonna happen to me. Can’t imagine betting $50 a spin on slot machine. Maybe tad more likely than me plopping down $1k on a baccarat hand! 24,000-1 payout from anonymous stranger doesn’t interest me as much as a 1,000-1 story from someone I know.
Your nice watch buys are more interesting than that slot win, as an example.

I wonder how many of the million dollar slots winners have already dumped in a million. That year!

New watches are definitely exciting, for me. And I’m not the guy who walks into a dealer and pays full retail unless it’s for a watch that is already worth more than MSRP and I’m getting it due to some allocation.

Most of my timepieces I buy from private sellers by that I mean gray market dealers who are selling them often brand new unworn at a fraction of full retail.

All of my watches are worth at least what I paid and especially the vintage Rolex ones are worth far more and rising steadily.

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It’s never gonna happen to me. Can’t imagine betting $50 a spin on slot machine. Maybe tad more likely than me plopping down $1k on a baccarat hand! 24,000-1 payout from anonymous stranger doesn’t interest me as much as a 1,000-1 story from someone I know.
Your nice watch buys are more interesting than that slot win, as an example.
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I have played a lot of $50 a hand video poker but also would never do that on a reel slot.

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It’s never gonna happen to me. Can’t imagine betting $50 a spin on slot machine. Maybe tad more likely than me plopping down $1k on a baccarat hand! 24,000-1 payout from anonymous stranger doesn’t interest me as much as a 1,000-1 story from someone I know.
Your nice watch buys are more interesting than that slot win, as an example.
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I can tell you that most people I know prefer the $12 to $20 per spin range.
$50 reel spins can easily disappear a thousand dollars a minute into a 10% house edge, and for some reason the bonus rounds almost never seem to hit.

Going much over $50, even fairly basic line hits turn into handpay hassles that suck the fun out.
If you feel strangely compelled, I recommend a strict one-and-done policy.
Money in, spin. Cash out, win or lose.

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It’s never gonna happen to me. Can’t imagine betting $50 a spin on slot machine. Maybe tad more likely than me plopping down $1k on a baccarat hand! 24,000-1 payout from anonymous stranger doesn’t interest me as much as a 1,000-1 story from someone I know.
Your nice watch buys are more interesting than that slot win, as an example.
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I have played a lot of $50 a hand video poker but also would never do that on a reel slot.
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I have bet numerous hands at $1250 a spin during a promotion somewhere on the east coast. I'm not sure how many people I had played for me on that promo, but it had to be 20 +.

Distant memory of something...distant! Wolf has flat out told us that he cannot remember accurately past events before.

For example, Wolf still claims that this claim is inaccurate, but can't even remember why he believes so!

In any case, pushing dem buttons is a fate worse than death in mah opinion.

I've watched a couple more of Adin's Red Rock casino blackjack videos. Including this one.

An example of what might happen if you’re flat betting big with not only no advantage but even playing badly (splitting 4,4 against a dealer 2, among other niceties):


Almost painful to watch, but entertaining. Apparently he has very recently stated that he is practically broke now and needs to give up gambling. Not surprising, the way he plays. There are theories that his gambling on Stake (some online casino) is fake, supported by Stake itself to promote itself, but within that video above his buddy does a few huge bets on Stake too in a Martingale catch up desperation play and the grim look on his face makes it clear there is nothing fake about the life savings he is wagering.

Has anyone here gambled on Stake? I did watch a video where Adin gambles on it and he goes up to betting $200K per hand (two hands) which is crazee no brick and mortar casino would allow that at blackjack. Is it because of some special limits he has due to large funds on deposit, or just anyone may wager up to the amount on deposit at any time?

In any case, if Adin is being paid to gamble on Stake or those funds are not genuine, there is no question that at Red Rock, it is real money for him. A Vegas casino could not fund anyone to the tune of hundreds of thousands of dollars just to play as a shill for promotion purposes, and the way Adin reacts to the losses makes it clear it's blood money.

In recent videos he has posted about being broke, down to his last $20,000. and needs to quit gambling.

Watching someone like Adin gamble at the Red Rock is representative of what I've mentioned about high rollers who get stuck a sum, then keep trying to win back an ever increasing sum with a smaller and smaller bankroll, and the same max bet. The risk of ruin seems to get them much more often than not, especially in that when they come back on the next trip, their goal is to win back everything they have ever won, and keep playing to ruin again trying to get all that back.

Chasing.

Here is another one where he makes a lot of basic strategy mistakes, but his main problem is that he just keeps flat betting ever increasing sums "chasing" an ever increasing loss, until he runs up against his limit, and is then just mostly flat betting his max trying to win more and more. The risk of ruin gets him.

I guess I played it all wrong. If sites like Kick are (or used to, supposedly they cut him off, along with his being banned off Twitch) willing to pay him millions to watch him LOSE, imagine what I would be paid to watch me win. Plus all he does is go to the tables with a bunch of unattractive mostly fat dudes. I'd be filmed with an entourage of the beautiful people, and almost all female, and we'd go behind the scenes to the "before and after gaming" too. Might get me in trouble at home though.

Although, the majority of the casinos I play at would not allow open video filming like that. It might however be good marketing for them.

Renderings of the new resort and NBA arena project proposed for the north end of the Strip — tentatively called "The Galileo" — from Steelman Partners.

If an NBA arena is built there, it should help out Fontainebleau, but can that portion of the Strip really sustain another resort in the immediate future?

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Renderings of the new resort and NBA arena project proposed for the north end of the Strip — tentatively called "The Galileo" — from Steelman Partners.

If an NBA arena is built there, it should help out Fontainebleau, but can that portion of the Strip really sustain another resort in the immediate future?


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Looks interesting. I would expect it to have some space or astronomy based themes.

I was scouting at the Fountainbleu this week. Couldn't stand it. What a run down, depressed environment! I had to leave, and go back across the street to the Circus Circus so I could feel civilized again.

Maybe you're trying to make a point, but the Fontainebleau is anything but run down. It may be perceived however as a bit antiseptic "bleau" as in Picasso's blue period, which is what you mean by depressed I assume.

You can't really go into their two high limit lounges and say it is run down though.

F1 promoters are going that extra mile to make sure no one may view the race from the pedestrian bridges this year.



Room rates are dropping though - at Caesars Vegas rack rate around $500. a night versus 5X that at this time last year, with Cosmo balcony suites (standard 730 sq. ft. ones) around $1100. right now rack rate, is what I read.

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Distant memory of something...distant! Wolf has flat out told us that he cannot remember accurately past events before.

For example, Wolf still claims that this claim is inaccurate, but can't even remember why he believes so!

In any case, pushing dem buttons is a fate worse than death in mah opinion.
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Apologies for offending Wolf on this one.

However, do you contend that the below is untrue?

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For example, Wolf still claims that this claim is inaccurate, but can't even remember why he believes so!

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Distant memory of something...distant! Wolf has flat out told us that he cannot remember accurately past events before.

For example, Wolf still claims that this claim is inaccurate, but can't even remember why he believes so!

In any case, pushing dem buttons is a fate worse than death in mah opinion.
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Hijacking and personal insult. Three days. However, I'm told we owe you three days for over-serving a previous suspension. So, consider that credit spent.

Back now, just in time to pick up the new timepiece, regroup a few days...and off to Vegas for F1.

The goal MIGHT JUST BE to win MORE than two of these in ONE session. Or at least day.

Actually, no - though. I'm not really looking for home runs this trip. Whatever will be, will be. Any win, is a win!

Vegas isn’t that busy. Not yet anyway. F1 starts tomorrow.

The Strip casinos have their “weekends only” tables open so they are obviously expecting some traffic.

Really not that busy up and down the Strip, including inside the resorts. Not yet anyway.

Day 1 play

I was down as much as -20K at the low point, was actually time constrained, as soon as I got back to even, stopped.

+400

Note: Lately, for security reasons, session reports are not necessarily presented in real time corresponding directly to the day played.

And this is the MDawg challenge.

Obviously F1 Vegas is not turning out to be the draw it was last year. However, the tables are not vacant, but by no means crowded.

Went to a special pit + paddock event at Neiman Marcus for a little while, great food and watching the F1 practice. Watched (or rather heard, the screaming sound of the F! cars coming back) most of it just from the hotel suite though.