{"id":32980,"date":"2018-01-30T09:42:27","date_gmt":"2018-01-30T17:42:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/gambling-with-an-edge\/?p=32980"},"modified":"2018-01-30T09:42:27","modified_gmt":"2018-01-30T17:42:27","slug":"am-i-healthy-enough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/gambling-with-an-edge\/am-i-healthy-enough\/","title":{"rendered":"Am I Healthy Enough?"},"content":{"rendered":"

In December, the M Resort had a promotion involving W2Gs. Simply put, every W2G you earned from December 1 \u2013 December 29 gave you a \u201cdrawing ticket.\u201d For each drawing ticket you earned through those 29 days, if you also received another one on December 30, you received a bonus of $150 in free play. In addition to being able to earn as many of these $150 bonuses as you could, there were drawings based on those tickets.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0A W2G promotion is basically geared towards high limit players. Lower-stakes players don\u2019t earn very many of these documents — and the best lower-stakes machines were excluded anyway. There were still some high limit machines where I believed it made sense to play this promotion. So, by December 29, I had received a few dozen W2Gs. These would be worth a lot more if I could earn the same number of W2Gs on Saturday, December 30. <\/span><\/p>\n

Unfortunately, beginning Tuesday, December 26, I began coming down with a cold, or maybe something worse. Beginning that day, I began scarfing down mega-doses of Vitamin C, drank a lot of water, and slept a lot. Even a pint of chicken broth every day along with DayQuil. I\u2019m not positive such a regimen works, but I was optimistic.<\/span><\/p>\n

By Friday, December 29, I was probably 75% of the way back to being healthy. Staying away on Friday and Saturday would have cost me a significant amount in EV. This was not a close decision for me. I was healthy enough. \u00a0Was I still contagious? Probably not. I certainly told people I wasn\u2019t. But I couldn\u2019t be sure. I participated in their drawings on Friday (they forgot to call my name) and played heavily beginning at 1 a.m. Saturday (which was still December 29 casino-day wise). \u00a0Beginning at 4 a.m., when the casino day became December 30, I continued playing heavily so as to match the number of W2Gs I had already earned.<\/span><\/p>\n

Enough about me and this promotion specifically. (I did okay. Not great. Nothing to brag or complain about.) But what if I had been only 50% of the way back to being healthy? Or 25%? Or 10%? Or 0% for that matter? And it isn\u2019t just me, of course. It\u2019s hundreds of players in each casino who are making this type of decision independently. Players who might be too sick to go to work, but definitely aren\u2019t too sick to go to the casino.<\/span><\/p>\n

You should always assume that many people in the casino aren\u2019t completely healthy, but during this time of year especially, there are players in every casino who are infectious. Don\u2019t even dream about not washing your hands regularly. Whatever your health regimen — flu shots, exercise, getting enough sleep, eating as best you can — it is especially important now. New Year\u2019s resolutions generally don\u2019t work very well, but now is a good time to make some anyway. <\/span><\/p>\n

I don\u2019t have any new advice in this column, but just another reminder to \u201cbe safe out there.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n\"Facebook\"<\/a>\"twitter\"<\/a>\"youtube\"<\/a>\"instagram\"<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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