Gather round, my advantage player scuffling children (\u201cPlease, sir! More coupons!\u201d) and let me tell you the tales of Santa Vegas and Coupon Karma.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I\u2019ve already encouraged you to use all your Member Rewards coupons before they expire, but what if you still have some left?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Here are two stories to warm your hard-boiled EV-calculating hearts. The purpose \u2014 nay! hey gift \u2014is to keep an open mind. Don\u2019t assume you know everything. More will be revealed!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I mean, does prayer work? Is God a good bet? Duke University did a double-blind study praying for two cancer groups. The group that was prayed for (unbeknownst to them) did statistically significantly better than those that weren\u2019t. Hunh.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Now, I\u2019m not making any assumptions about exactly what\u2019s going on, but it\u2019s very interesting, isn\u2019t it?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
So there I was, flying into Vegas with an extra unused MRB. The lady sitting next to me on the plane turned out not only to be a video poker player with her own MRB, but she was meeting family and was thrilled when I gave her my extra MRB for her clan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Coincidentally, and many of you math freaks may call this unrelated correlation, it just so happens that was the trip I hit 14 four-of-a-kinds. Kinda cool, eh?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Then there was the time pre-COVID when there still were hard-copy American Casino Guide coupon books and I\u2019d double stack coupon runs with both the MRB and ACG.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I\u2019m up at Rampart and realize I have an unused matchplay. I HAVE To go back in for another roll of the dice. It\u2019s a tough job, but someone\u2019s gotta do it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I\u2019d also been distributing unused coupons everywhere I went. Texas Station, Four Queens (where the slot booth lady, seeing me give away a Magnolia coupon while waiting in line, reminded me to check my ACG and let me use both the MRB and ACG free-play coupons. \u201cWell, thank you ma\u2019am!\u201d As Jean says, you catch more bees with honey than vinegar.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
So back to Rampart. I go back to the crap table and the guy I\u2019d left there has turned his original $100 buy-in into a row of blacks and greens. He makes another point and I place my $10 with the $10 matchplay on the pass line.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThat\u2019s it?\u201d he asks me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThat\u2019s all I got.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Shaking his head, he mumbles something to the dealer, lays down some chips, rolls an 8 for the point, then a hard 8.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The dealer pushes $200 over to me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cWhoa! What just happened?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cOh, he just threw some green on hard 8 for you.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Now that\u2019s why my favorite movie is not The Cooler though I do love that one), but It\u2019s A Wonderful Life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I\u2019ve run out of word count here, but for good cheap pasta, I just have six words:
Sign up for Buca di Beppo! More on that in my next post.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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