I took a homeless guy to lunch.....

Last Wednesday I arrived in Vegas, and went to meet a homeless guy I had met on my last trip. We met at the Green Valley Ranch, where he was playing bubble craps. I was clearly a good luck charm, and he went on a pretty good roll, winning $400 in the short time I was watching. He cashed out, and headed to Makino, my favorite sushi buffet. When we were getting of the I-15, there was a guy with a sign begging for money stating he was homeless.... At which point I looked at teddys and asked him if he still has an apartment back home in Ohio. When he said no I told him that he is technically homeless, too, as he has been rotating casinos as his domicile. Anyway, after dinner we went to the Palms, where I asked teddys to show me a +EV VP game, and how he plays it. I forget which one, but it said it was 100.8% payback. He turned his $45 into $90 in maybe 1/2 an hour, with me trying to intuitively guess what the correct EV play was, and I think I picked it up pretty quickly. I drove teddys to his new home (he was 'moving' to 4queens).
I asked teddys how long he could keep this up, before getting a real apartment..... We shall see!

I think threads about homelessness and all that social worker do-gooder stuff belongs on the "new site" but I question whether anyone who is sleeping in comped casino rooms qualifies as homeless.

Quote: FleaStiff

I think threads about homelessness and all that social worker do-gooder stuff belongs on the "new site" but I question whether anyone who is sleeping in comped casino rooms qualifies as homeless.

Flea- it was more about my good time with a forum member, and his unique living arrangements....
and the good time we had gambling together...
I can't imagine anyone on the 'new site' giving a flying f... about this, but I can see a gambler finding it interesting that there is a guy living out of a suitcase going casino to casino.....

I could do the same thing...in fact, I did for a while, until my boss found out I was using VPN to do everything and wasn't "physically" at work...(why it matters I don't know...)
I know people on SSI/Disability that are living this very way...haha, they live better than most casino employees who serve them!

Interesting post. I had to read it twice to figure out hat you meant.

Yes, I believe Teddys does fit the government definition of homeless. I did too for a while when I had no apartment, and was living in hotels Monday-Friday and with my brother-in-law on the weekends. Interesting lives we lead.

Quote: SOOPOO

Flea- it was more about my good time with a forum member, and his unique living arrangements....

Flea probably missed that you were talking about Teddy all along, and that it is tongue in cheek to call him homeless. I had to reread it myself . Try those emoticons [g]

Could the same have been said of Howard Hughes? I guess it is different when you own the hotel you are living in.

So what are the details on the VP he was playing?

Quote: Boz

So what are the details on the VP he was playing?

If it's at the Palms, I'm guessing full pay deuces wild.

http://www.vpfree2.com/casino/palms

Quote: tringlomane

If it's at the Palms, I'm guessing full pay deuces wild.

http://www.vpfree2.com/casino/palms

I am pretty sure that tringlomane is correct. It definitely had deuces wild, as he hit a royal and just seemed mildly happy about it. Hit 5 of a kind twice, too.

Quote: odiousgambit

Flea probably missed that you were talking about Teddy all along, and that it is tongue in cheek to call him homeless.

Flea thought his dead pan response would be humorous.

As to eking out a living in Las Vegas I think we have one member who is retired and an avid poker player who wrote a blog about his 27 days in Vegas on Comped Rooms, Comped Buffets and an average expenditure of less than ten dollars a day for uncomped rooms and occasional laundry facilities.

Thanks for the write-up, Scott, and the lunch.

I'm an amateur at the hotel game. Apparently there is a guy who did five days on/two days off at the Harrah's properties for 13 months. The weekends he paid for or got comped elsewhere. This I assume was before the TR system got really going, and they gave you any weekday night comped in Vegas if you were Diamond level.

I also met a guy who lives at the Four Queens off his comp dollars. He wasn't the kind of guy I'd want to run into again, however.