The Adventures of MDawg II

Plus one oh eight.

I like the sound of that!

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+$110K

Nothing wrong with that.

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Byrne at the Colosseum.

Game 2, playoffs, Utah wins 3 : 2.

Now 1 - 1.

More than a bit of craziness that ended quite well.

First session: dumped -$250K

Second session: promptly dumped another -70K then got a Big 6 Tiger plus Bank win to bring me about +100K then some back and forth until at the low for that session I was minus around -900K. THAT was not edifying.

Then I won four 250K hands in a row to bring me back to +100K and then gradually won steadily until I stopped at +$280K.

Took a break. Went to a different casino. Had dinner.

Third session: I hit a massive win Tiger 6 after I was down maybe -70K and ended the session +$185K

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First session dumped -$250K, rather quickly.

Second session, won +$300K, took a bit of time, but not very long.

Relief!

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Was down -110K when hit a 30K tie.

+$130K

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Not looking good for the Knights. They needed to win the first two home games, so that if they lost the two away, it would be tied.

I generally tip 18% of food only. I deduct for any drinks and give a dollar or two per drink. I do not tip against tax.

If there is any takeout, I deduct all of that and if the tip on the food served in house is sizable or at least decent then I tip zero or close to zero on the takeout.

But what if it’s a very high-end establishment and we’re getting something like Japanese Wagyu or caviar or some kind of Omakase where the bill for two people is pushing $1000. for the food alone. I generally don’t tip the full 18% of the food if we’re talking about something like $500 of Wagyu or something like that in caviar, etc.

In other words at some point, my tipping maxes out more or less and if the bill is above a certain point and represents extremely expensive individual items I don’t give a full 18% maybe more like 10 - 14% of the food only is what it comes out to in those situations.

I do tip in cash, so the server doesn’t have to declare all of it and that helps the server a bit too.

I realize that there is a general practice of not tipping a full 18% or whatever on say an expensive bottle of wine. You don’t have to give the server 18% of a $5000 bottle of wine just for opening it but what about serving very expensive food does the same principle apply that there is no need to tip a full 18% of a $500 steak? It is no more difficult to uncork and pour a $5000 bottle of wine as a $100 bottle, nor is serving a $500 steak more difficult than serving a $50 one if you follow what I’m saying and getting at.

Being in a the high roller world I believe you’re a little cheap. I from blue collar roots and tend to tip 25-30% for good service. Having worked in the service industry myself I appreciate the hustle of good service.

Not saying g you should tip $300 on a $1000 bottle of wine but still should also consider level of service given.

High end steak house waiter definitely giving you better service than Outback. Should be tipped accordingly

Just saw an article that said McDonald's goes to cash only. Really? Why? Their credit card networks go down!

With no tax on tips starting with a waitress complaining during the 2024 campaign about the IRS taxing her tips because the restaurant she works for was caught red handed underreporting tip income and that tax break unavailable to other low income workers, I have no interest in making it easier for a tipped worker to underreport income. If I have to declare all my income, so should they.

I like the idea,though,of maxing out tip amount. Casinos have maximum payouts, so it's the same thing.

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With no tax on tips starting with a waitress complaining during the 2024 campaign about the IRS taxing her tips because the restaurant she works for was caught red handed underreporting tip income and that tax break unavailable to other low income workers, I have no interest in making it easier for a tipped worker to underreport income. If I have to declare all my income, so should they.

I like the idea,though,of maxing out tip amount. Casinos have maximum payouts, so it's the same thing.
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I have no interest in helping people underreport tips either. But I have a desire to. Because the social cohesion that comes from the working class helping one another to get away with things is worth more to the society than government getting more money to spend on themselves. It's more important to me that the waitress gets the money.

Conspiracies of silence, unspoken codes, situational suspension of rules, are all good! Where did we ever get the idea that everyone should be treated the same or that the rules should be the same for everyone? We're not all the same so why would we expect to be treated the same?

Two big wins:

+$200K

+$300K

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Two losses, one huge:

-$250K

-$1.75M (ouch)

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Cashed out at the casino where I dumped the one point seven five. I had been stacking 100K chips there but I gave back a large number of them via losing markers. Pretty jarring to lose like that after winning so consistently. Losing two million in one day is a new experience and not a pleasant one.

Still a big winning trip might call it here.

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With no tax on tips starting with a waitress complaining during the 2024 campaign about the IRS taxing her tips because the restaurant she works for was caught red handed underreporting tip income and that tax break unavailable to other low income workers, I have no interest in making it easier for a tipped worker to underreport income. If I have to declare all my income, so should they.

I like the idea,though,of maxing out tip amount. Casinos have maximum payouts, so it's the same thing.
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I have no interest in helping people underreport tips either. But I have a desire to. Because the social cohesion that comes from the working class helping one another to get away with things is worth more to the society than government getting more money to spend on themselves. It's more important to me that the waitress gets the money.

Conspiracies of silence, unspoken codes, situational suspension of rules, are all good! Where did we ever get the idea that everyone should be treated the same or that the rules should be the same for everyone? We're not all the same so why would we expect to be treated the same?
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Oh,she gets her tip money...which she then has to pay taxes on.Just like I do.

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With no tax on tips starting with a waitress complaining during the 2024 campaign about the IRS taxing her tips because the restaurant she works for was caught red handed underreporting tip income and that tax break unavailable to other low income workers, I have no interest in making it easier for a tipped worker to underreport income. If I have to declare all my income, so should they.

I like the idea,though,of maxing out tip amount. Casinos have maximum payouts, so it's the same thing.
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I have no interest in helping people underreport tips either. But I have a desire to. Because the social cohesion that comes from the working class helping one another to get away with things is worth more to the society than government getting more money to spend on themselves. It's more important to me that the waitress gets the money.

Conspiracies of silence, unspoken codes, situational suspension of rules, are all good! Where did we ever get the idea that everyone should be treated the same or that the rules should be the same for everyone? We're not all the same so why would we expect to be treated the same?
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Oh,she gets her tip money...which she then has to pay taxes on.Just like I do.
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Your position is not wrong or unreasonable. The waitress is free to declare every penny of her tip income. But if she doesn't, she needs to get a pass for her wrongdoing, just like I do. In my faith my forgiveness is contingent on insisting others be forgiven, and helping people avoid punishment draws me closer to the one who would prefer no one be punished.

We had better not hijack Mdawg's thread. He will slip an oversized chip to a security guard as a tip and have us both run off the Strip at a celeritous clip!

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With no tax on tips starting with a waitress complaining during the 2024 campaign about the IRS taxing her tips because the restaurant she works for was caught red handed underreporting tip income and that tax break unavailable to other low income workers, I have no interest in making it easier for a tipped worker to underreport income. If I have to declare all my income, so should they.

I like the idea,though,of maxing out tip amount. Casinos have maximum payouts, so it's the same thing.
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I have no interest in helping people underreport tips either. But I have a desire to. Because the social cohesion that comes from the working class helping one another to get away with things is worth more to the society than government getting more money to spend on themselves. It's more important to me that the waitress gets the money.

Conspiracies of silence, unspoken codes, situational suspension of rules, are all good! Where did we ever get the idea that everyone should be treated the same or that the rules should be the same for everyone? We're not all the same so why would we expect to be treated the same?
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Oh,she gets her tip money...which she then has to pay taxes on.Just like I do.
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Your position is not wrong or unreasonable. The waitress is free to declare every penny of her tip income. But if she doesn't, she needs to get a pass for her wrongdoing, just like I do. In my faith my forgiveness is contingent on insisting others be forgiven, and helping people avoid punishment draws me closer to the one who would prefer no one be punished.

We had better not hijack Mdawg's thread. He will slip an oversized chip to a security guard as a tip and have us both run off the Strip at a celeritous clip!
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Forgiveness and escaping punishment is meaningless without contrition and future avoidance of wrongdoing. Pay your taxes!

As for Mdawg, I can't imagine dropping 2 commas worth of money without stopping well beforehand. Hope he bounces back!

Trying to win that much back (at once) is what got me into that situation, that particular session loss, in the first place!

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Two losses, one huge:

-$250K

-$1.75M (ouch)

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So what went wrong? Were you trying to win it back in spite of you not having serious "advantage hands" (whatever they are) or did the variance run bad against said advantage?
Or might the casinos be on to whatever advantage knowledge you seem to claim to have... E.g. are they maybe not using the preshuffled cards that you have knowledge of.

Or did you go on tilt?

I think it was a combination of least that
-the hands I was going special limits MAX on were not as clear cut advantage hands as they could have been (which is a form of going on tilt - impatience)
-variance running against me.

Yesterday (and today) I tried and am trying to concentrate on what I have WON past couple months, versus what I lost yesterday. Otherwise, I'd be thrown into a funk.

Who loses that much in one day? 🤨 Well, on the other hand, who wins that much in two months.

My friends with whom I have confided what happened, along with a couple of the acquaintances first hand familiar with my epic run who have been present (close by, not at same table) during many of my sessions, keep consoling me telling me that, hey, Few people ever win as much as you did, and Almost no one plays or stays in Vegas that long and wins anything at all, let alone THAT MUCH.

The pit bosses who have been following my epic run, looked all sad because they had thought, wow here's a guy who really was going to do it, but then I dumped a significant portion in one go. I told them "Don't look!" as far as checking their screens to see how much I dumped. This particular casino (like most) has more than one high limit salon, so while the pit bosses in the room who saw me dump know what happened, the others who had been watching me win (almost) daily didn't know. Anyway, I just told them, look, I walked with _____ which is still more than most ever win or have ever won. I got a check for most of it, with enough cash (which was a LOT) to pay off the losing marker at the other casino where this happened.

If you follow my "trips" something like this tends to happen (not always, but usually) - I win and win and win, then suddenly dump a lot. I still walk ahead, but I'd like to walk at the peak. Perhaps that is not possible. Perhaps it is.

You can't win like I have been winning lately without risking. That same risk might lead to a big loss.

I don't think there is anything going on at these particular casinos as far as having figured out what might be going on. Although there was one pit boss the other day who said something, I assumed jokingly, that hinted at that this pit boss might have an inkling of what might be going on, said something about my being careful not to "score" the edges of the cards when I cut, but even that is only part of the equation, I doubt anyone thinks anyone could track that many decks or clumps as perfectly as I do.

The deck setup, and play setup remain the way I want, which means, no one suspects much if anything.

If anything, dumping as much as I did in one go, affirms in the higher ups' minds that it was just plain luck. Pit bosses have nothing to do with the real decisions about whether to ban someone like me or not. The one casino where I remain banned (from casino play only, not property), from a couple years or so ago, I've gone back to visit occasionally and the pit bosses ask why I haven't been back in so long and invite me to sit and play, so they don't even know what happened, and would know only if I sat down and they ran my player card.

If you were to enter that casino where you are banned from playing,and accept the pit boss's invitation to play, can you be sanctioned for not following the ban, considering as it was their employee who invited you to play?

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If you were to enter that casino where you are banned from playing,and accept the pit boss's invitation to play, can you be sanctioned for not following the ban, considering as it was their employee who invited you to play?
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If it was still illegal to play after an employee invited you to, the employee would be an accessory to the crime.

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If you were to enter that casino where you are banned from playing,and accept the pit boss's invitation to play, can you be sanctioned for not following the ban, considering as it was their employee who invited you to play?
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If it was still illegal to play after an employee invited you to, the employee would be an accessory to the crime.
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Not if the employee is unaware. It's up to the banned person to stay away from banned activities.

The last time I attempted to override the ban via a request it was made clear in writing that I was free to visit and stay at the property, enjoy most anything it had to offer, but if I attempted to play, I might be subject to a trespass which would mean a complete 86.

I have no interest in staying in a casino resort where I cannot earn comps.

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If you were to enter that casino where you are banned from playing,and accept the pit boss's invitation to play, can you be sanctioned for not following the ban, considering as it was their employee who invited you to play?
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If it was still illegal to play after an employee invited you to, the employee would be an accessory to the crime.
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Not if the employee is unaware. It's up to the banned person to stay away from banned activities.
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That touches on my point- if a pit boss can ban you a pit boss can unban you. Whether the pit boss is unaware you've been banned, or he knows the one who banned you was fired for being a jerk and nobody cares what he thinks anymore, or he thinks your value as a player is more than whatever you were banned for, is not something you have any way to be aware of either. As long as you did not engage in any deception I'm not sure what you could be charged with for sitting down to play after a managerial employee told you to sit down and play.

I've gotten a lot of mail invites with fine print saying to the effect of "This offer does not apply to those who are banned." And this was from places that banned me. It makes sense to do that, because if I went and got identified, then horsed around, thrown to the floor etc. my lawyer is going to take that mailer and say "If this is how you treat people who have returned to the casino after being banned, why did you invite him to come back? Was someone in your company negligent in inviting him back, or were they malicious in inviting him back?"

+$225K

The point is that it still works.

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