And another one.

https://www.english-heritage.org.uk/visit/places/stonehenge/history-and-stories/stonehenge360/?utm_source=awin&utm_medium=Affiliate&utm_campaign=Affiliate&awc=5928_1585840304_f6e999bc4a56bcd3d8de00d66e286d4a

I highly recommend the following links.  Take a trip without leaving your your living room, the confines of your home or wherever you're lockdown at!

Get a cup of coffee or a beer, whatever floats your boat and remove yourself from the confines.

https://artsandculture.withgoogle.com/en-us/national-parks-service/parks

On lockdown over dinner at the restaurant with a few people that I normally hang out with on sporadic occasions, one is H-Money, whom has been over here for a few days and in fact it's a couple hundred miles from his home and he slept over for two nights and stayed in my office with a pull out couch and we've been doing some soul-searching. 

Many other things we are doing to stay busy and clean out the ideas, notes and soul-searching departments, but I won't bore you with the details along with some some pictures of some snacks and meals i posted.  We hit the karaoke machine ourselves and gave a private showing to nobody  , it would have been comical if I videoed it.

But I'll tell you, going through the mail and going through some email the last day or so, you really see the good companies versus the not-so-good companies or let's say the 'customer value' in the non greedy companies versus the greedy companies trying their absolute best to capitalize on everything in this miserable event of 2020. I have several insurance companies, one for the business and I have of course the auto insurance and I have life and health insurance companies. The auto insurance company send an email this morning saying, that they think it's only fair to issue a 15% refund for 3 months. For both of our autos because there is less people on the streets as what the policy was quoted with, so they will credit our policy and that kind of floored me and I'm classifying them as a good company.  I'll never leave them. Then there was our cell phone company, which is giving us 50% off on any accessories or upgrades for the next 30 days and giving us 25% off of our monthly bill for 120 days as saying that is their part in trying to help their customers because they know most of us, if not all of us are affected and having a difficult time. Which again I put them in the good category and would never leave them and probably never would have, but most certainly this seals the deal.

There's been a couple of other things that are very minor from other companies that I'm not going to mention. Then came an ugly one from the business insurance saying because of the restaurant has an HVAC system, they want a certification from an HVAC company saying its disinfected and it is clean and it doesn't have any buildup of anything that could potentially harm the public and of course that is going to cost money, but H-Money owns an HVAC company, he's just not licensed here where I'm at, but he knows some people and could probably use someones letterhead stationary to back it up. So that kind of sucks, putting that insurance company on the bad list.

Just some thoughts I am putting out there.

Hanging out tonight.  I just made myself and someone else a couple of fresh pork chops with some country gravy and fresh sausage that's crumbled up in the sauce.  A little spice inside of it along with some red pepper flakes and some fresh mashed potatoes with some black pepper and cilantro, finely chopped.

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Went out to get some supplies and food pick ups for the restaurant this morning.  Stopped to get gas and noticed the porta potties outside the store,  I asked the manager and he said a lot of their key locations were getting them in case they have to close the restrooms and part of the inside of the store, people can still use the bathroom outside. Sure hope it gets better real quick.

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Finished October 2019.

And as they say, the rest of the story. Here is a synopsis from the US Attorney's Office in Nevada about what he did with nearly two million dollars and how it  funded his gambling, his high-end lifestyle in relationship to Las Vegas.

"These two victims sent Zogheib a total of $1,307,475. Zogheib immediately used the ill-gotten proceeds to fund his gambling habit and high-end lifestyle."

https://www.justice.gov/usao-nv/pr/las-vegas-man-sentenced-8-years-prison-committing-nearly-2-million-business-fraud-scheme

Started October 2011.

A few years old, but people that make deals to get money for a high-stakes gambling and then it blows up in their face, do get prosecuted. Here's one article I came across:

https://www.reviewjournal.com/crime/courts/bad-check-triggers-five-felony-counts-for-man/

I know two people that do that quite frequently, the only way they do not profit is if there is zeros or double zeros hit or if it is pure red black red black red black consistently. But when one of them wins, he will full parlay it for the second time only and then they go back to the original unit and then if they win again they parlay it.

While the other one that is losing only covers the original bet, he stays at the one unit so if there is lots of repeats (RRRR and BBBBB, etc.), they win a few units or if there's doubles they win a few units because they're winning on the parlay as well while the loser only covers the original bet.

Majority of the time they do win a few units but they are very conservative and they are larger bettors.

Latest on casinos being closed in Las Vegas, it has been extended of course that was expected.

https://www.staradvertiser.com/2020/04/05/travel/las-vegas-advisor/las-vegas-governor-extends-casino-shutdowns-during-pandemic/

Hanging out with a few people today.

Here is a pic of the fresh spring rolls we are making.

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Quote from: Lungyeh on April 05, 2020, 11:20:35 AM
I have wanted to say this for a long time but given the diatribe that can sometimes be off-putting, I have bitten my tongue for a long time.

What is a house edge of 5% when winning on banker and player having a lower percentage of winning.

Brothers all, for this small house edge, you have the privilege of deciding when you want to bet or if you want to bet at all. And you have the privilege of deciding how much you want to bet subject to the table and casino limits. You may want to bet $10 or $1000 the casino has to accept. That in all negates the house edge. Not to mention the freebies.

So what's the problem? If we lose its because we are not good in controlling ourselves. Period.

Yes, too much greed by the majority of the players that are winning or do win.

Almost all, not everyone but like I said almost all, they win and all they see is dollar signs and the continued win.  Betting larger and longer and then it's all gone. Time after time, week after week, month after month, year after year, that is all I see at the casinos.

I've tried to describe it in in detail on this forum. There is not one side that you cannot wager upon in the game of baccarat. There is nothing the winning side can do once you are placed with your decided upon wager, no matter what. You choose the winning as well as the losing side. You choose your outcome more than you realize at the table and usually without much thought that will benefit yourself. 

Here is what most do not understand, the statistics are made up of what hand was slightly more than the other side because of dealt cards you cannot control once your wager is placed. Statistics have nothing to do with each game in front of you for 50 or 200 or 500 or 1000 hands of play, those statistics in those test modules people publicize on the internet are for millions upon millions of hands if not hundreds of thousands of hands and no matter what, they will not transfer to the game that you're sitting at.

I find it almost comical, it is sad but it's comical to the point where greed kicks in caused by sheer stupidity, the same as winning larger wagers and falling into fallacy land that you finally found a proven and cannot fail betting niche.  Again, it's the financial markets where you have hundreds if not thousands of these fake firms prying on the innocent middle-class person that has a little bit of savings to get out of the US Dollar and into gold, silver, precious metals and stock, but the only problem with that is the money is going straight into the sellers pocket.

It's scam after scam after scam. The US government meaning the FBI,Securities and Exchange Commission, the IRS, the Secret Service and all kinds of agencies, hundreds if not thousands of complaints in cases that they're working and all of a sudden the last month or so the numbers doubling and quadrupling all involving Scare Tactics in the investment field of getting people out of the US dollar and into solid sssets such as gold-silver precious metals and so on.

The only problem is they are given the money to scam artists such as what they profile on some of these news shows, one a few years back that comes to mind is Spyker Investment corporation in Florida, a very well publicized case where they were selling gold and silver and precious metals and storing it in the United Kingdom but the money was never sent and nothing purchased, wasn't anything stored one day the phones were disconnected.  If you look it up it's under Spyker Investment, those are the type of cases that are being worked in droves now where everybody feels they are doing the right thing but they are going totally the wrong way with it.

What is even more comical is talked about so frequently on other gambling boards how people believe they're making money in Precious Metals and in the stock markets, let's hope they're not investing with fake firms.

https://www.complaintsboard.com/spyker-consulting-spyker-metals-spyker-precious-metals-manipulators-unethical-tactics-c290294

https://www.cnbc.com/id/48814569

You are correct. Good skill to gambling is ammunition to combat the variances that cannot be controlled by the gambler. Most gamblers problem is they fail to capitalize well on the opportunities that are presented to themselves, especially at the game I know well, which is Baccarat as I have extensively written about.

You touched on a good point and people like to combat that for the drama. The fact is that all of the mathematical results, it is not that they are incorrect, it is that they do not always consistently apply themselves to the table where the presentments are being made while you are playing.

Myself, H-Money and a couple of other people are sitting around in a closed restaurant, we have some movies, we have some widescreen TVs playing some YouTube clips and we came across the following one posted below.

Seeing that we are just kicking back, bullshittin, we got about three dozens fresh spring rolls out on a platter, we got some jalapeno peppers stuffed with cream cheese and mango and topped with mozzarella cheese, melted in the broiler. We got some ice cold beer and we're just watching stuff on YouTube and playing some movies all night. 

In light of what's going to happen to Vegas, which is, it'll never be the same and at least half of it will implode during this shut down crisis and if does not during this lockdown it certainly will after, because it will never be crowded for a long long time like what it has been for the past several decades. They will never ever recover, no matter what anyone says, that is all wishful thinking.

Watch this first clip. Going to put a link to it. You Have To Laugh!!!  If not, have a few beers and watch it again cuz it's absolutely fantastic classic Ron White.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=RpdJzBcjXfo

I would estimate that the total payroll weekly for the MGM operations would be roughly $62,500,000.00 dollars.  Taking the amount of employees that they have, the average salary paycheck per week and figuring some of the benefits that they have to float as well and the payroll taxes.

That's probably a good mean average of $60 to $80 million dollars a week.