You okay?  You don't even stop by and say hi any longer......well, Hi!

Ted009, here is another one I was trying to find the other day for you.

Numerous things don't really apply to on-line, just live casino, but again--I never play on-line.

There is a term around casinos which is called a 'Known Player'.  Basically the term has two meanings.  1) An advantaged player that is either banned from the property or constantly being watched; And, 2) A player already in the data base and also a regular player usually known to all the pit managers and dealers at the table game section he/she regularly plays. 

Let's just talk about #2 here.  The 'known player' could very well be a bit pompous and stubborn at times and really not held against them.  Not obnoxious or rude as a general rule, just overly friendly and is on a more cordial type of 'business friendship' with the floor people, pit managers and most dealers.  Let's just sum it up as most are not a threat to the casino for security reasons, hangs out with a super positive attitude the majority of the times and they are given the latitude to get a little bit out of hand without staff worry whatsoever.

The 'known player' usually gets comps without a question or even account look ups from the floor people and pit managers, always is slipped tickets and other little goodies when a host or other casino personnel is free to pass them out, etc., and always is able to snag a room or a suite from the block that is always reserved by the top hosts and pit managers on high volume sold out weekends. 

The 'known players; also get a bunch of extra lee-way when things are challenged, such as problems on the table, needing a restaurant take out when the posted hours are not the ones coinciding with the request, or say keeping the spa open an extra hour or two or something along those lines. 

Also, the 'known player' would receive a bit extra consideration for such things as, banging the table, throwing a playing card on the floor or raising his voice to counter someone there.  Yes, possibly someone that was not a 'known player' would suffer some kind of negative response from the casino staff for the exact same action performed.  However, the consideration is a professional consideration the same as another private non-casino type of business would give to its regular customers versus one time or 'unknown customers'.  Why?  Because business and patronage is valued, plain and simple. 

OMG, I owned a service business for many years.  I would find myself going out of my way for a regular customer without even thinking.  Not that I was rude or obnoxious as a business owner to a first time or a sporadic customer, but thinking back-just going an extra long mile for the 'known customer'. 

Hope I made my point.  'Known People', 'Known Players', 'Known Customers', 'Known Members(?)'.

Someone PM'd me and brought up, how I have mentioned cashing out and then keeping a couple green chips or a black chip.  Then, on the way back out pass the bac table and throw the green or one black up for one wager.  They questioned this.

You know, I never really thought about it or really why.  I guess it is silly???  IDK?  I really do that more often than not. 

Say I throw up 2 green chips and win, I would immediately stack the win and try once more.  If won I would do once again.  Then I would definitely go cash those out and leave, calling the $400.00 'mad money' or 'pocket money', etc.  Figuring if I lost, I lost $50.00 out of the win, no big deal. 

Ted, not a problem, but like I tried to explain to you yesterday.  It cannot be written or definitively reduced to a few paragraphs.  It is more than that.  Seriously.

There are underlying reasoning's to almost everything.  Some written, some published, some known and yet.....others are not.

Let me give you one great analogy, at least I think it is.

I used to own a tractor trailer shop and a major wrecker service in another part of the country.  I was pretty close to the state police on several levels.  One, I towed for them and I was the only major heavy wrecker service for a huge geographic portion of the region.  I also was right next door to them so we serviced the state patrol cars under contract in our shop.  I also serviced numerous troopers personal cars, etc.  My life was saved by one of the senior ranking troopers who was working a large collision on the interstate one icy winter day and he received life saving award of the year for his action on me. 

One day, I was stopped for doing 8 miles per hour over the commercial truck posted speed limit.  I was given a warning ticket, just have to sign it and turn it back in.  No points, no fine, nothing on your driving record, etc.  No big deal.  Of course, I had to make a big deal over it.  I march next door to the state patrol barracks, past the receptionist and straight into the Captain's office.  Slam the warning paper down on his desk and say, 'WTF man'.  He looks at me, laughs and throws it in his garbage can.  Explains to me, that they have to, after 5 miles per hour they have to pull over.  Each trooper in that state (as most states also have an internal rule/regulation over) decides what speed they will issue a citation up to 16 miles per hour over.  Then from 16 or over, it is a mandatory citation no matter what.  But here is the kicker, they cannot give me a warning for 8 over and write you for 8 over.  If they write at 10 over, everyone they pull over has to get a citation for 10 over.  Stops favors and wrong doing, etc. Speed is logged and the trooper cannot alter it on his radar and computer, etc.  So he didn't pull me over to bust chops, he had to because he was working traffic and it was in excess of 5mph over.  He doesn't choose to write at 8 mph over the posted speed which was obvious.  So the trooper did nothing wrong.  The only way around it is not to pull someone over and say, if anything was ever brought up, it would have been unsafe to conduct a traffic stop.  Also turned out a superior was with the trooper that day and he had to or he would not even have pulled over the truck I was driving and could have just explained to the superior that he knew me, no chance of drunk driving, approved state police rotation wrecker detail people, etc., etc.  But he figured it wasn't all worth anything being said.  So he did the pull-over and issued the warning already calculating there was going to be no citation issued.

Wow, after all that.  I wasn't privy to all those details when he was writing me a warning notice and I took it all the wrong way.  But there was his own rules and regulations regarding what he was doing.

So once again, some known and some not known.  We learn as we go along. 

Ted, this is one of the posts I made I was talking about.  Hope you understand it.  If you can't reach me hear by PM, email me if you have questions. 

 
So, I have it on good info that, Waldo went out to get into his car to home last night when you got off shift.  He noticed a card under his windshield wiper and pulled it off.  Inside his car he looked at it.  It was a card from 'Suzie Q' and escort.  Waldo sat and pondered on it.  On the way home he thought about calling the number but wanted to get home to catch the latest episode of, 'Where the Aliens Land At' on TV.  He put the card away and said to himself he could call tomorrow.

Okay, so today Thursday is my Friday this week......................

Coming in this morning to my office, about a 15 mile drive, I have concluded the following:

The term, "A dollar and a dream" is for the foolish only or the extremely lucky, not for anyone else whatsoever......When you hear that or anything like it--go ahead and save up 2 times and buy a king sized candy bar with what you would have spent that dollar on that would have failed to obtain your dream!

I have to drive through a smaller town with the typical downtown section to get from my house to the highway that leads out of town to where my business is.  There is your typical side streets that cross the one main street running through downtown.  There are about 10 streets crossing that main street and there are stop signs at all the side streets and about 4 on the main street.  If you are on the main street travelling the cars crossing are supposed to wait until it is clear............that is what I thought.  However, these days for some strange reason......it goes like this.  The car on the main street with the clear right-of-way gets close to the side street where there is a car waiting.  The driver on the side street waits and waits and waits until the car with the right-of-way on the main street gets relatively close, just close enough where if the driver pulled out from the side street to cross main street, the vehicle already on main street would have to jam on its brakes.  Exactly.  And that is what they do now more than ever.  WTF?  A game I don't know about???

Instructions.  Last night I put together two things I brought.  Both items had instructions, although not terrible complicated, the instructions used to be helpful when something was supposed to be inserted and assembled prior to another part or section of the item.  Now, I believe that instructions are just one person's opinion of how to do it.  Clearly wrong in both cases last night. 

Okay, carry on.

Yes Vic, definitely nice to chat a bit with some members.  So far I accomplished the following, please don't tell anyone, these are supposed to be secrets but I felt guilty about 'talking behind one's back one-on-one!!!

1)  The best kind of dog food in a can to dump on microwaved spaghetti is 'Alpo';

2)  The best kind of trash bags are 'Glad', you can stuff them over the rated capacity and they are resilient to ripping!!!;

3)  All cable TV in the USA is overpriced and subject to ripping off the consumer with senseless and foolish, almost criminal charges that are arbitrarily tacked on by the cable company.

Now I feel better I am not talking behind anyone's back, these are the things I discussed and learned on your CHAT option on the board last night and this morning.

Quote from: VLS on January 04, 2017, 08:04:54 AM
One on one is fine; it's no sin to talk directly to another member online. That's for sure

That's what I thought....my brain cells were saying, 'hey--wait a minute some members might think we are actually rocket scientists hiding private secrets without publically sharing them for free', but then again--I remembered that awful plate of microwaved spaghetti with the dog food on top of it and just realized my brain was paying me back this morning for seeing that.

So, maybe I am totally missing something?  Should I make all my private phone calls, emails and maybe even conversations in person available to whomever.  Like maybe I should make transcripts and recordings of each and post them so I don't commit the sin of , 'talk behind anyone's back one-on-one'?

click on the "Chat ( )" square lower right hand corner of your screen

Mine works real good for me if I win, when I start to lose for whatever reason(s), as long as I follow my plan, it works perfect, better than anything I every tried.  I gave myself a fair chance (with extra time) on the casino's win money and managed to save my buy-in and at least 1/3rd or 2/3rds of my win money, if not more. I don't have that feeling, 'what if I just played longer', etc.  If I don't win, I can't implement my M.M. agenda of course.  I refuse to get into the debate about progressions.  To each his own. 

Quote from: Mr J on December 30, 2016, 07:01:44 PM
As opposed to where?

Ken

Positive on the win side.  So I can get to the point I can implement my 1/3rd, 1/3rd and 1/3rd agenda.

Didn't even follow it, busy drafting a menu for my new business I am buying here shortly.  Watching 'The Pope of Greenwich Village"!  Classic.  Checking in on the board and just finished a synopsis of New Years Eve at the casino in my blog. 

I just felt compelled to give you my point of view from my experience on the 'Lamb Vs. The Lion'. 

30-3!  Classic by the books!  That entices so many to wager with the +3 or +4 depending on who was giving what.  This stuff never changes, really.