Comments on: Q+A about the Shooter Article https://www.lasvegasadvisor.com/frugal-vegas/qa-about-the-shooter-article/ A Las Vegas Advisor Blog from the "Queen of Comps" Fri, 10 Apr 2020 07:43:17 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.7.4 By: Kevin Lewis https://www.lasvegasadvisor.com/frugal-vegas/qa-about-the-shooter-article/comment-page-1/#comment-70791 Mon, 27 Nov 2017 17:26:30 +0000 https://www.lasvegasadvisor.com/frugal-vegas/?p=21435#comment-70791 What he probably didn’t even understand, and was certainly not reflected in the article, was that the “happy ending” of your particular session was essentially meaningless. Session results don’t matter, at least not if you’re a habitual player. And given that you “should” have registered a modest loss (if you were playing any multi-line game anywhere in the city, it couldn’t have been inherently positive), the win you actually registered wasn’t really representative anyway. The advantage VP player wins the way a discount grocery chain makes money–“We make it up on volume.” The best way to explain to the reporter what you do would have been to say, “For every $1000 I put through the machine, I expect to lose $5 but get back $10 in comps and bounceback cash” (or something to that effect). Like the casino, you are (or should be) indifferent to the actual result as long as you are playing with an advantage.

]]> By: George B https://www.lasvegasadvisor.com/frugal-vegas/qa-about-the-shooter-article/comment-page-1/#comment-70775 Sat, 25 Nov 2017 23:30:51 +0000 https://www.lasvegasadvisor.com/frugal-vegas/?p=21435#comment-70775 Jean,

I remember your truly “frugal days”; when you had the CBS film crew with you, and could not get a “win”, to save your life. Then when they had left for NYC, you hit a new car, in the casino drawing. Much can change, but there are things that always seem, to stay the same.

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