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.

Paid salaried employees are now turning into furloughed employees. Which basically means they'll keep most of their benefits but no pay checks, as they will or did when they were were just laid off.

In June sometime if this is not straightned out, all benefits will be canceled for virtually all of their employees as well. That will really be the breaking point for the casino, brick-and-mortar industry.

https://news3lv.com/amp/news/local/mgm-resorts-ceo-says-60000-employees-have-been-furloughed-in-cnbc-interview

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2020/mar/12/record-116m-uk-gambling-fine-meted-out-to-betway

https://amp.theguardian.com/society/2020/apr/02/uk-casino-company-caesars-entertainment-fined-record-13m

Actually, what you said a few years ago is exactly what happened to the strip today. I hereby award you an A+ in prediction.!

"I think we've turned conventional wisdom on its head today,"

https://www.spokesman.com/stories/2013/mar/05/asian-group-buys-site-of-stalled-vegas-casino/

Just what the Vegas Strip is going to want, a huge mega resort featuring Chinese food if they ever do open. 

If dreams can come true so can nightmares. Resorts World just might want to be thinking about if it was such a good choice in the very beginning:

"Resorts World President Scott Sibella, a veteran casino executive and former president and CEO of the MGM Grand, is no stranger to challenges. But Resorts World is the biggest and most expensive project he has worked on."

https://vegasinc.lasvegassun.com/business/gaming/2019/dec/09/resorts-world-president-this-will-be-a-property-li/

Some of the events that C19 is  bringing to the casino industry here in the USA:

https://www.nativebusinessmag.com/tribes-sue-commercial-insurers-to-cover-costs-of-business-disruption/

https://www.bloomberg.com/amp/news/articles/2020-04-01/in-shuttered-las-vegas-tropicana-is-sold-for-5-months-rent

https://www.pressofatlanticcity.com/news/casinos_tourism/nj-losing-millions-in-taxes-fees-from-closed-atlantic-city-casinos/article_0459d4cf-477a-533d-9d4b-3f3db6d2a41b.html

As most of the world already suspected:

https://www.businessinsider.com/us-intelligence-found-china-misrepresented-coronavirus-stats-report-2020-4

Paper thin rice paper wrap. It's pretty much a staple at most of the southeast restaurants and the takeout places they make different variations of it. Most of the larger cities.

I would never go back to fried egg rolls but of course half of my family is Southeast Asian and they normally go for the rice paper wraps anyway.

Can I please interject here and just give my opinion?

That is, it is beatable, but it can also beat you.

The highest majority, not all but the highest majority of all players will not capitalize on the opportunities that are being presented by the shoe and then when they do they are so convinced  that's how they can beat it

Then the Dominos fall for the rest of the shoe or the following shoe, if you get what I mean.

Hanging out.  Snack time!  Yes, it is good.

Super Fresh spring rolls we just made, avocado, shrimp and a little bit of spice inside of it!

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Good background for start of some of your research, for those curious as to where past Pandemics came from or how they came about.   

Same as in gambling, reality is reality.

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/news/2014/1/140123-spanish-flu-1918-china-origins-pandemic-science-health/

One of the best comedians of all time. RIP  Mr. Buddy Hackett. This was a classic, a Buddy Hackett joke about duck hunting


https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=RDaww4HT5g7ig&feature=share&playnext=1