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Casino The Adventures of MDawg

Discussion in 'Casino Forum' started by MDawg, Feb 23, 2020.

  1. Play2Win

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    MDawg, a little off topic here. But I see that u have fine taste in things, from Rolexes to food to good/bad memories gambling. You mentioned abt a Redhead there, so may I ask back in ur single days gambling, have you had any fun experiences with babes at casino? Plz disregard if inappropriate to share here.
    I’m just like some others here, thinking this is like a guys hang out place (forum) where we can share fun experiences ... lol
    As stressful as gambling can be, we can always mix in some fun right?
     
  2. MDawg

    MDawg Well-Known Member

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    Many such Adventures! But, probably have to put them into a book versus post them here.
     
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  3. MDawg

    MDawg Well-Known Member

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    Still, must keep in mind always what a host once said to me,

    "____, you have to understand, when you have forty thousand dollars in front of you, EVERYONE's your friend."

    I've had good luck with genuine women in Vegas and Tahoe. I tend to attract the real deal, but that's not to say that hangers on haven't tried.
     
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  5. MDawg

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    This is an interesting case

    Las Vegas Strip resort spending spree draws fraud charges | Las Vegas Review-Journal

    Man checks into Wynn Vegas and presents a credit card for a pre-authorization, which is routine. All hotels block out a sum on a guest's credit card upon check in, whether to cover room charges, or incidentals. Apparently these days due to coronavirus precautions the desk clerks do not even look at cards they just allow guests to insert them themselves into a chip reader, which begs the question of that perhaps the man was not even using his own credit card for all of this.

    At some point the man was upgraded to a $1950. per night Villa, which actually sounds low for a Wynn Villa, but may be a reduced rate these days due to limited demand. At that point the front desk tried to run his credit card for an increased pre-authorization to reflect the additional daily room rate, and the card was declined. The man then presented a corporate credit card for the pre-authorization.

    Later, he bought a $13K Rolex in the hotel and had it charged to his room. Apparently this extra $13K was not pre-authorized but the Wynn store simply allowed him to walk out with the watch. Later, Wynn contacted the guy and told him that he had exceeded his pre-authorization, and the man then presented a letter, apparently forged, from his credit card bank showing he was authorized to charge an additional $55,000.

    Wynn looked up the guy's hotel stay record and realized that he had had a similar problem in the past, with exceeding his authorization on his credit card, but had managed to make good on the bill after returning home.

    This time, upon checkout, he was presented with the $58K bill, asked to pay in cash, and when he could not - was arrested. Apparently he had a prior criminal record for this sort of thing. The corporate card had been opened towards the end of June 2020, just prior to his stay, and cancelled by mid July 2020, before he checked out, due to suspected application fraud. (Sounds like a platinum corporate AMEX - these are often granted initially based on just good credit, and later suspended upon "financial review" pending proof of income. I have both a personal platinum and a corporate platinum AMEX and at least once during the life of the accounts I've been hit with an AMEX financial review. No, I don't have a Centurion - the annual fee on one of those is a waste.)

    The way I look at it, the hotel was stupid to allow him to charge the Rolex to the room without getting a pre-authorization on the card attached to the room. And the hotel should not have let him get so far ahead of himself as $58K without pre-authorizations for all of the charges. A real merchant would never accept a "letter" to validate charges, it would want an actual electronic authorization. (It is not clear if $58K was his entire bill, or just the portion where he exceeded pre-authorizations where the hotel was ultimately unable to charge the card.) Apparently, the credit card was cancelled by the bank before the man checked out of the hotel.

    Where the man went wrong was in presenting the forged letter. Also, perhaps, in getting too greedy with charging a Rolex to his room. (People DO love those Rollers!) If he had not presented the forged letter, still he might have been guilty though of violating "innkeeper defrauding" statutes - i.e. skipping out on an unpaid hotel bill, but he probably would have at least made it out of town before they realized what had happened and not previously drawn their attention.

    Reminds me of this case
    Sharron Laverne Parrish Jr. Charged With Apple Credit Card Scam - Business Insider
    where a guy was presenting a maxed out, already closed, set of debit cards to the Apple Store to buy goods. In each instance the cards were of course declined, whereupon the guy would offer to "call his bank" himself, and then present a correct number of digits "authorization code" to the Apple Store clerk to enter in their system, which would apparently override the system and allow the charge to go through. The guy must have figured out that any set of random digits, as long as the correct number of digits, would work to trick the system into processing the transaction. This guy got away with $309K in purchases before the authorities caught up with him.
    Ended up getting four years eight months in da fed for that one.
    Man Sentenced in “Force Posting” Scheme that Defrauded Apple
     
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  6. Punkcity

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    good interesting post .
    Cheers
     
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  7. MDawg

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    As far as Vegas: It is looking like 2021 for us, absent an unplanned sudden rush to rashness. Which has been known to happen.
     

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    Despite this gloomy report let us hope for the best.
     
  10. soxfan

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    I never did like the Palms and don't know why some cats found it appealing, hey hey.
     
  11. MDawg

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    Palms was pretty hot for a while there in the early 2000s, the same way the Hard Rock was pretty hot before it. Then both cooled, and the Hard Rock is in the process of being converted to a Branson "Virgin" casino

    The Palms beyond cooled. Got to the point where the crowd there was sketchy, and no one respectable gambled there. They took out their high limit pit. This all happened during the fifteen years or so that I quit gambling, so I didn't really care or keep track of the Palms' status. During that period we went to Vegas still frequently but only as a tourist and not to play a nickel.

    The Palms was much brighter, more open when it reopened in 2019. $690M, a Las Vegas record, was spent on remodelling.
    https://www.forbes.com/sites/amanda...tion-at-palms-casino-and-resort/#e6eb46b2a99a
    Many of the suites were redone, a new high limit area was added, and a new spa with an excellent steam room.

    The fitness center is pretty small, but adequate.

    New VIP area and check in.

    Some nice restaurants both expensive, such as Bobby Flay's Shark, Greene St. Kitchen and Scotch 80 Prime, but also great inexpensive restaurants too such as Tim Wo Han, a dim sum place.

    The crowd in 2019 and early 2020, when we started going there again wasn't entirely upscale, but it wasn't at all sketchy either. The nightclub Kaos didn't last - was turned into a pool area for both general use and special events, but everything else remained open at the Palms until the coronavirus pandemic.

    We liked the Palms, and hope it reopens.
     
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    OMG, i want all this money!! I'm trying so hard to win, but i don't know what i'm doing wrong...
     
  13. MDawg

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    Welcome! to the Adventures of MDawg.

    What is your casino game?
     
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    He is right on in 40 years of playing never seen 1 person get cut off in BAC BJ yes all the time never BAC
     
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    The main reason that I see people losing at Baccarat is that they play too conservatively when the going is good, and don't even press their bets on runs, and then jump the bet ridiculously, chasing, when the shoe is random and it's just blind luck whether a hand is to be won or not.

    Ask any pit boss, and the majority of Baccarat wins come not from the slow grind of the house edge but from players dumping every penny in a small number of hands towards the end of their sessions as they lose control and chase.

    And with many of them it's not even that they are chasing losses per say, many were up a good amount of money and then panic as soon as that profit stops dropping instead of just calling it a day and leaving with some profits they want to go back immediately to as high ahead as they were and end up dumping everything in front of them in the process.

    Play consistently and if anything, lower don't increase your bet when you start winning less hands, and you should do well. Also, know when to get up after a good run and don't just keep playing all day expecting the going to be good indefinitely. Do not expect to always leave the table at the peak of whatever you were ahead - leaving ahead anything is always a good thing.

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    Over time you should be able to find out if you are cut out for casino table game play. If you are disciplined and capable of playing not based on emotion, not chasing and can get up and leave after a good run even if it comes after just a short time of play, you should do fine.

    If you're the type who just keeps playing always hoping for some massive win, and panics when the chip count in front of you starts dropping, chasing with ever larger bets, and then runs off to get more money to dump while on a bad run, then casino play simply may not be for you and you should quit while behind.
     
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    Cats lose at the baccarats because they try to out-guess, trend, reads shoe nonsense instead of basin their bets selection on the logical sures thing that is certain to pop over times, hey hey.
     
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    At any table game, if you are able to determine that there is an even slightly greater chance that you will win the next hand (at say, Blackjack), or that there is even a slightly greater chance that one side or the other will win (for example Bank or Player, at Baccarat), that will give you an edge.

    As well, if you are presented with a shoe where you should win and are able to take advantage of that, and this applies to both Blackjack and Baccarat, then you will also be able to win more often than not. If you don't think that there are such things as shoes where it is easier to win than other shoes, such as at Baccarat, then that game is not for you in the first place.
     
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    I know that it is possible to win well and regular at the baccarats on a stricts bets flat basis. I also know that casinos will comp winning baccarats players for a long time based on theoretical loss, only. But I reject the notion that you can subjective trend/read a shoe without the powers of pre-cognitions, hey hey.
     

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