{"id":839488,"date":"2016-11-22T09:40:11","date_gmt":"2016-11-22T17:40:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamblingwithanedge.com\/?p=4871"},"modified":"2016-11-22T09:40:11","modified_gmt":"2016-11-22T17:40:11","slug":"more-information-is-required","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/blog\/more-information-is-required\/","title":{"rendered":"More Information is Required"},"content":{"rendered":"

In my \u201cWaiting for Wednesday\u201d blog a few weeks ago, found here.<\/a> I was addressing the idea of scheduling when to play. One reader named Steve responded by quoting me first and then stating his \u201ccorrection.\u201d He wrote: \u201cFor me, that includes remembering that chasing every good promotion takes a backseat to doing what Bonnie wants to do. At least some of the time.\u201d \u201cSOME\u201d of the time? For me, \u201cHappy wife, happy life\u201d is at least \u201cMOST\u201d of the time \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

Okay, Steve, you are now Bonnie\u2019s new best friend and she sends her regards. And while I don\u2019t disagree with what you said, there are some nuances worth discussing.
\nIn my family, Bonnie isn\u2019t a player — and she knows how I make my living. She knows I play at, among other places, South Point, M, and Dotty\u2019s. She knows they run promotions and I do most of my play during certain promotions.<\/p>\n

What she doesn\u2019t know is how valuable the promotions are compared to each other and how flexible the promotions are. If she wants to know how much coin-in I plan to play at South Point in any particular month, I\u2019ll tell her. But usually she doesn\u2019t ask.<\/p>\n

For example, I want to play $xxx at Dotty\u2019s during the month to keep mailers and other benefits coming. For certain reasons, I play weekly rather than all at once and since the maximum benefits come after midnight and before noon, it doesn\u2019t matter too much when I do that play subject to those constraints.<\/p>\n

Conversely, if I play for the Silverton\u2019s seniors\u2019 drawing, that play MUST be done on Monday\u2019s between 2 a.m. and 4 p.m. and prizes (if any) must be picked up between 4 p.m. on Monday and 4 p.m. on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

I rank each promotion on a 1-5 scale, where 1 means it\u2019s okay to skip it entirely and 5 means \u201cI don\u2019t care if your daughter is coming to visit — I\u2019m playing! If you want to take her out to dinner, I\u2019ll get a comp, but I\u2019m not going to eat with you.\u201d<\/p>\n

Bonnie trusts my ranking system. If I tell her a promotion is a number 5, she works around that. (If Bonnie or I had a medical emergency, for example, that could definitely trump a number 5. But under normal circumstances, when I declare that a promotion is a number 5, I get my way.) Could I abuse the system and usually get my way? Yeah, probably, but the \u201chappy wife, happy life\u201d motto Steve cited is a good one to keep in mind.<\/p>\n

We use the same sort of system near the end of the month when we decide which food coupons we\u2019re going to use — and which ones we\u2019re going to let go. Bonnie has a huge vote in these discussions, but it\u2019s my job to keep track of the offers so I can explain her options.<\/p>\n

As I write this I\u2019m on a cruise ship. We use a variation of the same system on deciding when and where to eat, or who gets to use the bathroom first.<\/p>\n

There have been occasions where Bonnie has said she really wants to go to a particular square dance event and can I please have some flexibility in my ranking system. When she says this, she usually gets her way. Had she said this about the night of the \u201cmistake\u201d 12x promotion at the Silverton which I wrote about recently, she would not have prevailed. That promotion was worth more than $5,000 in EV and would have been worth more to me than yielding on that particular night.<\/p>\n

To be sure, I would have \u201cbargained\u201d with her, saying something like \u201cI really, really can\u2019t do that on Thursday, but what can we do on Wednesday or Friday to make up for it?\u201d<\/p>\n

We are both trying to make this relationship work — so almost always we can come up with something that is acceptable to both of us. Winning in casinos is the name of that game. Winning (or getting my way) at home — not so much.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In my \u201cWaiting for Wednesday\u201d blog a few weeks ago, found here. I was addressing the idea of scheduling when to play. One reader named Steve responded by quoting me first and then stating his \u201ccorrection.\u201d He wrote: \u201cFor me, that includes remembering that chasing every good promotion takes a backseat to doing what Bonnie […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15763,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[643],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/839488"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15763"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=839488"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/839488\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=839488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=839488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=839488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}