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    By the way, that's the power of the Force over weak minds that I was getting those two, thousand dollar chips cashed today without having to present my player's card or hear any more of that nonsense about "we'll temp. close your line if you want to cash these out."

    I just said something about, "I managed to win a little," which was true, and tossed the chips on the cage counter with the tone of a man long accustomed to quick service. The cashier manual and machine verified the 2000, counted it out in front of me, collected the fiver I tossed her in way of a tip, and I was on my way.

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    Day Five play

    Things got a little turbulent today. I started at the 100 limit table, and then before I could play or have the no smoking sign erected at my table, before the first hand some Indian guy plopped himself next to me with a full pack of cigarettes - Marlboro menthols (that's the way to die!) no less. He was polite enough to ask if I minded if he smoked, but - what could I say really, other than, "I suppose you're going to anyway" - and the guy turned out to be a chain smoker.

    The plexiglass barriers actually seemed to help, but - now 12 hours later my throat feels it a tad.

    Three others including a guy with his girlfriend eventually arrived at the table, and bets were all over the place. Finally, I found a sequence where I won something like 11 hands in a row at 500 a pop to rally back from a couple grand negative, and people started to follow me. When the shoe ended I was up two grand. The Indian guy left the table but said that he would return. I didn't want any more of that cancer stick fuming next door, so I colored up and left to a higher limit table with 10000 even - 2000 plus the 8000 marker I pulled.

    At the higher limit table I played alone all evening, which was good. What was not good was that within something like the first fifteen hands I had dumped the whole ten grand including one five thousand dollar bet I lost handily. I admit I was playing harder because I kept thinking I was ahead thirty grand and could afford to take some risks. Then I started doing call bets - 2000, 1000, etc. and I won each of them, but just couldn't take those wins anywhere, until I lost a 2000 call bet on bank and had them print it to 20K. So, I was now in for 28K in markers.

    The bets kept going back and forth until - somehow - I must've been down -18K for the day because I put 10K on player, all I had in front of me (CASE BET), and it wasn't an easy hand either - six card draw, and I WON! From that point on there was some back and forth and more than a few large bets I barely won (a couple 6000, an 8000 - and by barely won I mean six card draws where I ended maybe one point ahead), but eventually a few shoes later I made it back to having 9165 in front of me which represented +1165 for the day, and I called it quits. I was constantly getting stuck at -4000 for the day but eventually made it past that bump. (Not much before I stopped at +1165 I was -300 for the day and seriously considering stopping as this was almost even but I decided to play a bit longer to get to the point of being ahead something for all my effort). Pit boss told me my average for that session was 1750. I actually tried to make a case for a 2000 average, and mentioned the 10K bet, but this pit boss hadn't seen that bet, so I left it alone. 1750 is pretty strong anyway.

    And so - winner's envelope has a clean 10K in cash now, plus the 23K in chips. +33K for the trip.
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    Ran into my host in person. Host told me that "all host's players" were winning. In office, host also said that as of the moment while all of the room and food would be picked up easily, that couldn't get more than 200 from the spa, "because I was winning" and also because my Theo loss was only -8500. Decided to extend so will be here a bit longer at least.

    While eating a sumptuous take out meal (decided to charge about two and half to the room, as long as RFB was in play) I mentioned what the host had said - about all host's players winning - to my wife. She said, "Do you believe that?" - I said, "Well maybe they are now, but will give it back later." She thought it was just a line, that the host was just trying to make it seem like "everyone's a winner at this casino!"

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    Day Six play

    Smoooooothhh Billll today as I played just 1 3/4 shoes. Beginning of the first (pit boss cut) had some zigging and zagging but from the point where I put fifteen hunny on bank and won that, the story of the scene was simply winning most of the hands, and in fact towards the very end at the dealer switch I won EVERY SINGLE HAND to the end.

    Second shoe (I cut) until towards the end where the pattern shifted and I stopped and cashed out NEVER WENT PAST TWO I mean I could have murdered the rack but I was having such a good time that I forget to bet. Still, +10950 to the good, which brings me to just a hair under +44K total (who says the number 4 is bad luck?).

    I showed a picture I snapped of the second shoe to another pit boss I know and pit boss remarked, you won only ten thousand on that shoe? I'm telling' yah, I frequently have the magic touch when it comes to the cut.

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    Day Seven play

    Went straight to the higher limit table again, this player who plays big sat down next to me after a bit. Player actually did all right but player's betting was all over the place - sometimes 20K and sometimes 2-3K, and no progression into the streaks. Player ended up losing some and leaving. Once player left did fine, and ended the first shoe a few grand ahead.

    Second shoe I was doing all right too playing a sort of a chop perfectly and then another big player who noticed how animated I was and how well I was doing sat down next to me and bet 20K and PROMPTLY lost every hand after that as well. I dumped while that player was there and some afterwards and then paused. I looked at the shoe and declared that the next hand was going to be Player. I put first one thousand, then two, then three then finally sprinkled ten five hundred dollar chips and there and stated definitely - it's GOTTA be Player now. I KNOW it will be. Sure enough - BAM! natural nine for player and hand over. I played just five hundred next hand on Player again, won, and then ended the shoe +4030 ahead, and quit for the day.

    Later in the host's office determined that they have me down at WIN +53,100, Theo loss -12,500, average bet about 1000 - and given that I have 48K in cash and chips in the winner's envelope, means I have tipped out about five grand, which sounds about right. The dealers love me!

    As I generally do after winning I make the rounds and chat with some of the dealers and I found out that this player mentioned at the top has won more than one contest at this casino so far - to the tune of almost a million in winnings. So they were saying that no matter what this player claims to have lost at the tables, player is still way ahead.

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    Day Eight play

    One shoe / walked with 6000.

    Was an easy shoe, bank runs, streaky, mostly repeating pattern. Early on after few losers I did do one larger bet 2000 on Bank and won with a 7 (five card draw), but otherwise my average bet was only around five hunny (which I negotiated up to 600), and I merely pressed into each run. If anything I underpaid myself I could have easily made much more on this shoe. The big player from yesterday came over and tried a thousand call bet on one of my runs but he got there too late, and didn't come back, for which I was grateful. I play best alone. I was placing red chips on the side for the dealer right and left so dealer made some money too. Everyone happy!

    I cashed 1000, converted 100 of it to fives for more tips, and added the 5000 chip to the winner's zipped compartment.

    Vegas is good. +54K in my pocket not counting what I have tipped out.

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    There's a little under 16K and a little over 38K in chips in there.
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    But the real point of this picture is to show how their counting machine mangled the 4000 I cashed out a couple days ago. I should mention that to them I believe I do recall exactly which station at which I cashed out that day.
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    "Excuse me but, your machine mangled my payout cash. May I get a replacement?" Anyway, a little mangling is better than the torn in half twenty I tipped out that day.

    Or I'll just deposit that mangled 4K and pass the problem along to the next recipient. Usually I just throw it into one of my safety deposit boxes. No, there's not nearly as much in there as Ace put away for a rainy day under his wife's name.
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    By the way, getting back to CTR discussions - there is no way I got a CTR for any of this. I have cashed out barely 16K over longer than a week. At the end, I'll have them cut a check or wire the chips cashout. And this gets back to how anyone who thinks that a high roller would automatically cash out large sums doesn't know anything about high end table game play. If I had attempted to cash out even double what I did, by now they would have temp. closed my line.

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    Day Nine play

    One shoe / ahead 3300 and change, called it quits at the dealer's suggestion. "You pulled fifteen thousand, you won over three that's very good, just leave now." Who am I to argue? Dealer won a few hunny too.

    Spent an hour chewing the fat with different dealers and pit bosses. I mentioned to one of them that I won, and the dealer said, "But you always win." What could I say but - yes.

    At the cage I cashed 3300 in hundreds and told the cashier about how one of their machines mangled one stack of my money. "Really? All right then - let me give you brand new ones this time."

    There it is on the upper right there
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    all crisp and new.

    Back up in the suite I told my wife I'm up over 57K now and she said "Whaaat? I had no idea." She knew I was up, but not that much, apparently. Have you ever seen that episode of The Casino where these two girls drove into Vegas in a brand new Porsche crowing about how they were there not to make deposits, but withdrawals. They lost. I won. I'm here to make BONA FIDE withdrawals.

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    Day Ten play

    When I came up there was one other player at the table I picked, decided to go with it. Was one of those players that bets side bets on EVERY hand? How did you know the ___ was going to hit? Oh, that's right, you bet it every hand.

    But anyway, must have been this player's lucky day because was eventually up over twenty grand just on those side bets! I won some, but not much. If I had been a novice player I might've even been sucked into betting those side bets with him. Player managed to drag away from the table when was still up about 17K. I believe was a local.

    On the second shoe, I was winning a bit, but when I started chunking the 500 chips on a hand here or there, I was losing. I believe I lost a 1500 hand or maybe even two 1500 hands as well, then, I looked at the shoe and declared that three more Players were a'coming. 2000 win!, 2500 win!...pause. Debate. 3000! and win. I drew a natural eight on two of those hands, and won all three. I kept winning after that and ended up tipping out 250 to the dealer via side bets although for a while there, it was looking like the dealer and I couldn't win a single hand together as something like four 50 dollar side bets went to waste. It was, interestingly, after I reduced to just 25 for the dealer on the side that we started winning together.

    At the end of the second shoe I realized that I had 13,025, paid off the 8K marker, and walked with a single 5K chip and a single 25 dollar chip. Didn't bother to cash anything, up in the suite just zipped the winning chips into the green winner's side pouch.

    After winning, I spent a while just talking to the dealer. I get animated after winning and start talking a lot. The whole room seems brighter I must say.

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    As we were talking the dealer and I agreed completely on that a successful player must be disciplined and leave while ahead. Is there another way to win, other than leaving the table ahead? I play just one session a day that's it. I will return fresh and clear tomorrow, without any delusions of how easy it is to win. Today's easy win will be behind me, and I'll resume from ground zero - other than, of course, the confidence that MDawg can do it! "I'll be back after dinner" players are your average gamblers. Play your one session, win, then walk, until the next day.

    Funny how I was down over 5K in TSLA today and then ended up not only winning on that trade but winning - coincidentally - 5K at Baccarat.

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    By the way, I was given about five hunny in free play chips for one of my sessions. They were the play once only variety. They lasted two hands - lost about half on the first, won with the other half on the second half. So, they rinsed to 50%. Had no effect to speak of on the end results, during that particular session I ended up tipping out via side bets to the dealers more than I won with these chips. I'm not a grinder, and with an average bet closer to the grand, five hunny in chips is usually not going to do much of anything for me.

    There are exceptions. Last trip I had this shoe where I won almost every hand in shoe (minus ties) after I arrived about 15 hands into the shoe, and betting just two hundred a hand I won over ten grand. In that particular instance, even two hundred in freeplay chips would have gone to a lot. Years ago, I took a single hundred dollar bill to almost twenty thousand. But, absent monstrous runs like that, five hunny in freeplay doesn't make much difference to me, other than the nicety of getting something for "nothing."

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