Yeah.  That's why I don't order anything when they come around.  They take too long to come back.  I buy a tall boy from the gift shop and lug that around the casino floor with me.  Some people say you're not supposed to but I have yet to be stopped.

I will order drinks when playing craps.  They come around fast.  Sometimes too fast.

Craps is a fast moving game so it's hard to chug beer which I like to do.  Many times I only took one swig and next thing you know she's back asking if I want another, LOL.

Not sure if that's normal but I do tip them a red chip everytime they bring me a beer.

Yeah.  That's why I don't order anything when they come around.  They take too long to come back.  I buy a tall boy from the gift shop and lug that around the casino floor with me.  Some people say you're not supposed to but I have yet to be stopped.

I will order drinks when playing craps.  They come around fast.  Sometimes too fast.

Craps is a fast moving game so it's hard to chug beer which I like to do.  Many times I only took one swig and next thing you know she's back asking if I want another, LOL.

Not sure if that's normal but I do tip them a red chip everytime they bring me a beer.

The sad part is that when playing, the waitresses don't come around as often like how they did precovid.

Tip bigger ! 

Others at the craps table are tipping from $5-20 and it's the same speed.

True.  In almost every casino, the waitresses go in order by table.  When they get a full tray of orders, they go to the bar, then deliver what they had to that point.  There's little chance the waitress will be running back to a $20 tipper and ignoring everyone else.  That's just 4 times a $5 tipper, so she's losing out if she ignores more than 4 of those.

If you want VIP treatment, you have to go the the high limit table games.  Those are the ones the casino wants to make sure gets all the alcohol they can drink!

I don't really drink alcohol in Vegas.  Free drinks can make you play sloppily and make bad decisions that you wouldn't do otherwise.

Having said that, I watched a Vegas local who was out on the town drinking to get over his divorce being finalized.  The second day he found me we played at the same table from 11pm to 6am.  He staggered away with $20,000 from the same $300 max bet BJ table.  he was playing according to what he guessed the next cards would be.  i played by the book, and only made about $300.

So, sometimes the gambling gods are kind to drunks.  And he was REALLY drunk!

Up after playing BJ for that long is a win, even if it is only $300.

Yes, but if i'd been down the same amount, it would have been worth watching blind luck being in total control of someone's play.

There were people behind me actually yelling at him things like, "What?  Splitting 10s against an ace??!!"  I'd look back and say, "Just watch."  The split tens would make both hands, and the dealer would turn over a 3 and bust out.  Had he stayed on 20, the dealer would have had 21.  No matter what he did, it turned out to be the best decision, even though according to BJ theory it was the wrong play.

To add to the drama, he'd sit there for 10-20 seconds before finishing the hand telling the dealer, "You can't beat me."  Then he'd make his decision and prove he was right!

 

That sounds like a fun table to be at. I gave up playing BJ.  The last time was in 2019 or so at Circa.  $10 table and I lost like 7 hands in a row.  And all bad beats. I would have 20 and dealer would get a 5 card 21.  Stuff like that.  And I was alone on teh table, so I lost $100 in about a minute.

After that, I told myself that I give up on playing BJ since that is how my luck usually is for that game. Then add in I stress out over my small $10 bet to hit or stand cause no matter what I did, I would lose.  So book says to stand, but everytime I do, dealer wins.  Or if I hit, the dealer would get the 1 card he needs to beat me.  Compare this to having $66 on the craps table at any given time or $60 on the Utlimate TX Holdem.

Today for July 4th Danny the Medic went to the America restaurant in the NY NY casino.  He said to celebrate he is going to eat Apple Pie and Hot Dog since nothing is more American than those two foods.

Then the f*cker changes his mind and decides to only eat apple pie and ice cream.  He claims he ate 5 hot dogs at his apartment the other day so didn't want to eat a Hot Dog.

The America restaurant listed their foot long hot dog at $14 so I wanted to see what the deal was about this hot dog that made them charge 14 bucks for it.  But asshat Danny the Bullsh*t decides he won't eat the hot dog.

Then he goes home and eats a hot dog by heating it in his microwave, stating that some of his viewers are gonna comment and complain about why he didn't eat the hot dog like he said he would.  As if eating a fricken hot dog at home is gonna make up for it.   What a dumb-ass.

Anyway I did comment saying I wanted a review on the America hot dog.  That was the intent of his video in the first place.

Sigh.  Vegas and some of it's Food Bloggers are not what they used to be.....

Report on ARFCOM where security found a guests handgun in a Wynn suite.  Guest left their gun on the nightstand, went to dinner, then security confronted him and put the gun and ammo in their armory.  Suspected the maid saw it when preparing the suite for the night, or it was detected at the entrance weapons detectors, or both.

No issues except having to retrieve it from the armory and being escorted out at the end of his stay.

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1 could say parking fee's are also impacting as that only came about post covid.

The alarms are out but it was noted above that the people who ARE going to Vegas are spending more.  Duh.....do they have a choice?

We're thinking of changing the way we do Vegas.  Instead of running here and there and visiting different casino properties we're looking at staying at just one property that has more or less everything we like to do in Vegas.

The nicer local properties off-strip (like Red Rock and Green Valley) has everything as far as dining, entertainment, gambling and even shopping.

I still like staying at the Cal Downtown but if the gambling minimums are rivaling the nicer properties I might as well stay at those places instead.  I do really like Circa, though.  Maybe I'll stay there.