Winter Spring 2021 Vegas Trip

[MDawg]

Day 76 play

I was at an all time high for Vegas winnings this trip, when I dumped about -25K one session. I took a break and dumped another almost -70K at a public table playing with someone else. Probably a mistake as on critical hands this player bet �wrong� and it made me doubt some of my hand choices.

I then returned to my private table with 20k in chips among the chips I had stashed and haven�t gotten around to cashing yet and took those including with a 15 Bank run to a total of 80K or so (+60K or so for that session, tipping out at least a grand via dealer side bets along the way), and then - on the final shoe, I actually dumped the entire eighty or so grand in - unbelievably - about five hands. Crazy.

At that point I was fed up and stopped.

-115K

And this brought back memories of why I quit playing - even though I was over all ahead - a decade or so ago - I got sick of the roller coaster of ups and downs. The losses have been few and far in between for some time but when one hits it leaves a bad taste.

[abilenard]

Wow quite a loss. Well at least you're up enough so that you may lose that much and still be ahead! That's crazy.

[cwwbjr]

Ouch! That's a hit but I'm confident you'll recover. Whatever it was , whether fatigue or an aberrant segment/pattern , if you have a record of that shoe you could go back and take a look and see if it was a rare but inevitable deviation that you could anticipate , recognize and avoid in the future

[MDawg]

Yes, definitely wasn't edifying. Actually, that's an expression I use to mean "not fun," but it actually was quite edifying, in that, I learned:

1 - Not to play too long in one day if I haven't eaten.

2 - Not to play at all if I don't feel my best (night before was at the Vegas Knights hockey game and the next morning I was sneezing and had a runny nose such that I was actually worried I had caught coronavirus from two young girls who sat next to me and kept talking to me in the casino's T-Mobile stadium suite unmasked (and I took off my mask too, while talking to them)) - although, that morning after going to the gym and taking a steam/sauna, I realized I wasn't sick at all, but still, probably wasn't at 100%.

3 - Not to insist on "catching up" all of a loss in one session - I was up over 60K in that second part of the session, but wanted everything I had dumped that day back at once, which led to a total loss.

Of course, I KNOW all of the above, but easier said than done to avoid such faux pas in the heat of the moment.


It's funny because the next day I went all around the casino telling various dealers and pit bosses how "I screwed up the night before, was ahead over sixty K then dumped it all," and each person to whom I spoke offered different advice. This one pit boss kept saying that I should buy something right away with winnings to make it more real, otherwise it just becomes a number being tilled in and out of my bank accounts. I've actually had this thought myself, and almost acted on it last week to buy a very expensive sports car, but the exact configuration we wanted wasn't available.

Another started pointing out the pit boss' "system" for winning at Baccarat.

Most said things along the lines of, Sounds like you're learning about yourself from this experience.

Yet another pit boss told me of a "lifetime winner" knew from the prior casino used to work out, who would place just ONE bet, around $8000., per session - apparently would watch the board for up to hours before making a single bet, then win or lose, would go home for that day. I pointed out to this pit boss that I too am a lifetime winner, and the pit boss said, I know, but just pointing out another way to do it.


One thing everyone knows and says is, "Don't chase losses." Of course, this doesn't mean to quit immediately every time you end up in the red. If you did that, you'd probably end up with a net loss, as many winning sessions dip in the red at some point.

[MDawg]

Speaking of Vegas Knights, as everyone knows, they blew it again last night, and are not going on to the Stanley Cup. A Canadian friend I know actually had advised me a week ago to bet "at least" ten grand on the Knights' winning the Stanley Cup, advice which I fortunately ignored. I actually rarely, if ever, bet on sports or horses.

[MDawg]

Day 77 play

Back in the saddle!

I played barely two shoes, and granted I wasn't exactly playing lightly (varying bet between 300 - 5000) but I got ahead relatively easily and quit at ahead about 11K.

There was good feeling all around as I put first red chips, then green then even black a couple times, on the side for the dealer.

The shoes I played there was pretty consistently a second Bank or Player and I should have been REALLY killing it, but I was a little gun shy from the prior majorly losing session.

+11,600

[MDawg]

Day 78

Three sessions, two quick, one quite long.

First, I dumped about -40K at one casino. Went straight to another dumped about the same, around -45K again. Hateful (but not Eight, more like Eighty-Five!).

Then, a third casino, and here, I stayed ALL DAY from afternoon until mid morning, something like twelve hours. I seriously wanted at least a hundred K. I kept getting stuck at around thirty to forty K ahead, and fortunately - I was winning ALL of my big bets, and something like twice maybe even three times I went back to almost even (but a least I was never at any point behind), and then finally on the last shoe I powered ahead including a few table limit winning bets, until, on a Bank run, I reached my goal of slightly over +100K. ZOWIE!

So, the day ended up well, and I already negotiated a concession on the other two losses at the other two casinos. So, even where I lost, in the end, I won.

[KewlJ]

These 'stories" are just NOT how the Las Vegas casino industry works. Casinos do not comp longterm winning players the high limit stuff you claim. Casinos DO comp higher limit losing players the things you claim. You are either leaving out the losing parts or your stories are simply fiction. I and every other proffessional player and even those that play recreationally, understand this. Who is it that you think you are fooling?

[MDawg]

lol. Welcome!

[MDawg]

I shared privately with the Wizard (Michael Shackleford) TODAY additional checks issued to me by the casinos, dating from the very end of May 2021, to end of June 2021, totaling approximately $250K (where all but approx. 100K was memo marked as "verified win" or "verified chips" - the remaining 100K had no memo on the check(s) at all), and these are besides the ones I shared with the Wizard before for the period March to May 2021.

The prior winning checks totaled some $260K, so that's a half million in winning checks issued to me for verified wins in the past few months, notwithstanding cashed chips and those converted to straight cash.