Posted on 10/05/2017 6:22:13 PM PDT by Zhang Fei
"We’re wealthy people," Eric Paddock said. "$100,000 isn’t that much money.... He gambled that much through a machine in hours.... He’s got the highest level of membership card at a lot of these [casino] hotels. If a lot of these hotels say they don’t know Steve, they’re lying."
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Paddock remembered his brother as a man who used his money to take care of his family financially. "He helped make me and my family wealthy. I mean, he’s the reason I was able to retire three years ago when I got really burned out doing the job I did," Eric Paddock said.
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"He didn’t have a lot of friends," Paddock continued. "He was a private person. There’s a story about that he’s, ‘ohhhh, he kept his shades closed, and he didn’t talk to me for the first three times he saw me walking in the neighborhood.’ Wow. That makes him really weird, doesn’t it? He was a private guy. That’s why you can’t find out anything about him, that’s why there’s no pictures. Is he such a weirdo because he didn’t have a Facebook page and posted 50,000 damn pictures of himself every day? Who’s weird?"
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But, of his brother's attack, Paddock said: "This is 100% Steve, did this by himself. People can’t seem to cope with that either. But Steve is a — was a — highly intelligent, highly successful person. He could have done anything he wanted to do. And he did. He made himself wealthy. He made us wealthy. He was a very successful person. He gambled for 20-plus years, successfully. It’s like a job to him. He did it mathematically."
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Who said he hadn’t talked to his brother in 10 years?
Bruce.
Even the baseball diamond shooter wasn't explicitly a member or supporter of antifa, so far as I know. The group isn't as big a thing in the outside world as it is for people here. It's possible that the Vegas shooter was a Trump hater, but he wouldn't have to be antifa or an antifa sympathizer to be that.
FWIW, you probably do find more supporters of Trump among country music fans, but in the blue states, you'll find a lot of country music fans who aren't fans of Trump. It's not 1970 anymore, and a lot of country music is basically pop. If he really wanted to strike at Republicans or Christians or Trump supporters leaving Vegas would have been a logical step.
I assume the brother and girlfriend have been asked about his networking acumen.
That was said on Fox?
Interesting, insightful post.
I don’t think he was a psychopath, either, but sickly lonely? Suicidal? That seems likely, but the police said they didn’t think so.
But in October, everyone thought Hillary was going to win.
No, he was about to say his brother was an “army of one”.
TMZ reported that Stephen Paddock booked two rooms at the Blackstone Hotel facing Grant Park where the Lollapalooza festival was held, but he never showed.
Lollapalooza draws hundreds of thousands of music fans every year, and this summer the shows attendees included Malia Obama, the daughter of former President Obama.
Do we have the reason that he didn’t attack Lollapalooza?
he has a lousy choice in t-shirts, too. Maybe it’s just Freudian.
attendees included Malia Obama, the daughter of former President Obama.
There was more to the father than robbing banks.
Slot machines and video poker are different things. Video poker is the antidote for the gambler who gets bored simply pressing the bet button. But the real odds for the person who doesn't play perfect poker are actually lower, because he will make tactical mistakes whereas it's impossible to make a mistake when playing slots. So video poker can actually afford to pay more to winners. And that is why video poker can theoretically be a money maker, if the gambler plays perfect poker. (Most people don't play perfect poker, that's presumably how video poker machines make money). Here are the payouts on some machines:
Popular Types of Video PokerThe following list includes some of the most common versions of video poker. When possible, we've also included the expected return for the player. Expressed as a percentage, this number indicates the amount that the player should expect to receive back in the long term. For example, a return of 99% would deliver $99 for every $100 wagered (on average).
You’ll also notice that games sometimes have a fractional number in front of them, such as 9/6 Jacks or Better. This means that a full house pays 9 times the original wager, while a flush pays 6 times the player’s bet. 9/6 is generally the top payout for Jacks or Better, so this is known as a “full pay” machine. An 8/5 machine, meanwhile, would be labeled a “short pay” game due to a decreased payout.
Jacks or Better
Also referred to as “draw poker,” this game doesn’t deliver a payout unless the player gets a pair of jacks or higher. Using a simple strategy on this game delivers an expected return of 99.46%, while employing a more advanced optimal strategy yields 99.54%.
Deuces Wild
Two cards are considered in this version of the game. While a royal flush comprised of one or more wild cards pays 125 credits, a natural royal flush is far more valuable with a 4000-coin payout. Using a simple strategy on the full-pay version of this game yields an expected return of 100.71%, which means the player actually has an advantage over the house.
Bonus Poker
One of the most common casino options, this version offers a full-pay of 8/5 and includes a number of four-of-a-kind payouts. When using optimal strategy, the expected return is 99.17%. It’s not uncommon for this version of video poker to be the most profitable version offered in some casinos, especially since the others often give the player a mathematical edge over the house. Double Bonus Poker
10/7 is common for the full-pay version. Players are paid with jacks or better, although four-of-a-kind hands offer the largest prize. 100.17% expected return.
Joker Poker
The joker acts as a wild card, and a pair of kings or better are required for a payout. The expected return is 100.64% when using a basic strategy.
Double Double Bonus Poker
This game offers increased payouts for four-of-a-kind hands in specific combinations. For example, four aces with a 2-4 kicker pays 400 coins, while four-of-a-kind of 2-4 with an ace-4 kicker pays 160 coins. The full-pay version is 10/6, and employing basic strategy on this machine yields an expected return of 100.07%.
I look at it this way:
You can’t beat the house.
If you could beat the house, there would be no house.
Unlikely, unless he kept a diary. Maybe too much security, he had other things going on that day, bad angles or he felt like a night out on the town. I don't think there's any lack of opportunities to kill large numbers of people in a big city. What I've been surprised by is the total incompetence of most of the perps. We've been blessed in this respect.
Even Paddock's effort wasn't particularly successful when you consider how bad it could have been. He had tens of thousands of fans out in the open who were fenced in and effectively unlimited resources for this kind of thing, and he only killed about 60. Compare this to Oklahoma City where, on a shoestring budget, McVeigh killed 3x as many in a Federal building. Assuming his objective was to stack up random bodies, a truck bomb attack against a tall building would have accomplished a higher body count while letting him get away, at least initially.
The house doesn't have to beat everyone. It only has to beat the majority of the gamblers who show up, as measured by dollars won vs dollars lost. The winners provide free marketing by talking up their wins to people who would lose even if the odds favored them.
The house wants to take everyone,
to pay for all of those neon lights, fountains, tigers, etc.
A.) Sure he could have and B.) Relax dude. They've only just started looking at his computers at the FBI's lab in Quantico.
These things take time.
There isn't really much of a mob presence in Vegas these days. Some say there isn't any at all. They started leaving Vegas in the late 80s, driven out by the megacasinos that were replacing the old hotels of the Rat Pack era. There hasn't been a mob hit in 20 years.
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