[2ndDivisionVet]

My mother got a lot of comps wagering quite a bit less in video poker at Treasure Bay prior to Katrina. They even gave her a lower-class high roller lapel pin so that employees would know instantly what level of player they were dealing with.

[Vince Ferrer]

Today the theory is that he wanted to get away. If that is true, why did he let himself be known to the casino?

[Eddie01]

diversion

[Jeff Chandler]

gamble, and occasionally win, tens of thousands of dollars in one sitting

Years ago my SIL gave me a casino gambling tutorial program. Here is what I learned:

The amateur bets a hundred in hopes of winning a thousand.
The professional bets a thousand in order to win a hundred.
The best odds are at the Blackjack table
The second best odds are full-pay video poker machines with nothing wild.

I studied and practiced every night for a month, at which point I could play indefinitely and continue to break even. Then I realized I had broken even before wasting my time playing poker.

[Meet the New Boss]

So according to the NYT, at 1:30 a.m. and 2:00 a.m. the night before Paddock committed mass murder, he called security on the people staying in the room beneath him to get them to turn their music down?

[Vision Thing]

Some starbucks cashier in Mesquite told a reporter that the filipina girlfriend had once urged paddock to use his casino points to pay for their drinks. The galfriend (who worked as a host in casinos before) knew that this starbucks store accepted casino points. Paddock got angry at her and paid through some other method instead. The girlfriend then stood behind him meekly.

[William Tell]

From the linked article: "The top machines at Mandalay Bay pay out 99.17 percent, or $99.17 for every $100 wagered, ..."

My extensive experience at local casinos playing nickel slot machines is that they return about 95%, keeping 5% of each wager on average. One hundred dollars is equivalent to 2000 nickels.

Let's assume that a nickel player and a one hundred dollar player play at the same rate; let's say ten spins per minute. That would be 600 spins per hour. The nickel player would be wagering $30 dollars each hour. The hundred dollar player would be wagering $60,000 per hour.

The house would be keeping 5% of the nickel player's wagers or $1.50. The house would be keeping 0.83% of the hundred dollar players wagers or $498 dollars.

This explains why I have never received a comped hotel room and why someone like the shooter gets treated so well. Neither luck nor skill has anything to do with it once you play often enough. The house wins.

The above analysis also explains why I only play nickels.

[jonascord]

I’m sorry, I must be missing something. I’ve been in a casino perhaps 6 times in my life. I just can’t get that mad at my money. I work too hard to get it...

[MagnoliaB]

I think he was using casinos to launder money.

[DaxtonBrown]

I live in Vegas. I guarantee he wasn’t making money. Former boss gambled the same way.

[Lionheartusa1]

All games in Vegas are designed to make money for the house ,, he was probably never ahead of the house for very long . My definition of a loser .

Las Vegas / Lost Wages .