George Sorial, the Trump Organisation’s former chief compliance counsel, told The Scotsman in 2008 that it had £1bn “sitting in the bank and ready to go”
lol. 1 billion sitting in the bank. That may be the most absurd thing anyone related to Trump ever said.
Yeah when they told people who knew how to play blackjack you are no longer welcome I was pretty much finished.
I used to go to Vegas 3-4 times a year in my late teens and through my mid 30s. Used to go a lot even as a kid with my parents. It has been a long time since I went there.
it’s in the bank, for sure. it just doesn’t technically belong to me, in the traditional sense.
You get the backing of one billion Russian oligarchs, suddenly everyone wants a piece
Wow these video poker guys are absolute morons. Guy finds the golden goose and decides to go full Potripper by winning ten jackpots at once. We’re lucky he didn’t shoot up a concert.
Edit: Having read more of the article, this is wrong. The dude likely could have gotten away with it but these guys always get greedy. At least the ones we find out about.
Edit 2: I was right the first time. I should just read before posting but you guys have my pony shook.
I wonder how many of us continued with poker because we crushed our first sessions? I remember walking away from the table thinking, “oh baby, this is sweet, I’m gonna rake it in and play every day!” LOLVARIANCE
I don’t remember my first buyin but I remember my friend’s, to Paradise Poker. He got torched by running a king high flush into an ace high flush. Did take him a little while to come back to it though.
Paradise Poker! That’s a name I’ve not heard in a long time. As good as my first ever session was, when I discovered Planet Poker and realized I could play online 24/7?
After that first winning session in Vegas, I couldn’t wait to get home and continue dominating online.
I set up my Poker Stars account, made a deposit, and sat down at a 1/2 Limit table, excited and ready to gamble.
But something was wrong. Everyone was just sitting there. Unlike the loose Vegas games where almost everyone played every pot, no one was betting. Maybe the software was frozen. So I exited the table and sat down at a different one.
Another software glitch. They sat me back down at the same table. I tried again. Same thing!
Except it wasn’t. It was the same group of rocks 10-tabling; set mining, waiting for the fish (yours truly) to arrive.
I tried to play the same way I played in Vegas. Predictably, I got crushed.
And that was my harsh introduction to the world of online poker.
I remember when I thought this was the depth of our stupidity:
It’s hard to believe how wrong I was.
This poll is obviosuly just for the lulz, but if I were the GOP I’d be pretty nervous about the future.
https://twitter.com/Politics_Polls/status/1281457522344439808?s=20
Oscar the Grouch: 14%
Agreed. There’s no way the place is not packed this time and going forward.
I get you had a $1.25 session loss. But your $100 bets weren’t any smaller because you were reverse martingaling. A casino should and does count a $100 bet as a $100 bet, because that $100 bet had nothing to do with the bets you made and won previously, they were all independent events. And most casinos (correctly) don’t care about how much you’re winning or losing in any particular session, they care about your average bet size, because over time based on EV, that determines how much money they’re making off of you.
Also, yeah, at the time you made that $100 bet and lost, you just lost $100. Again, your bet at that moment was completely independent of your previous bets. To think otherwise is to fall for the fallacy that drives people into systems like the martingale or reverse martingale in the first place.
Maybe. In a world full of destitute poor people and increasingly wealthy rich people with dumb kids, I can understand their instinct to move up market.
I think it would take something like a UBI program to make the business case for going down market.
Can we please not do that stupid shit with coded messages in the title? I know it’s a joke, but it’s dumb and may turn off new visitors.
edit: thanks to who changed it!
Did you miss the part where I went to my hosts office and they had me down for an astronomical loss that wasn’t close to accurate? Not my theoretical loss, the loss that would print on a tax form if I requested it.
I get I was betting $100 by the end of that sequence. I’m saying something was definitely off for how they were awarding comps for the machine. Let’s say my average bet was $5 (most cycles ended long before I was betting $100/hand and I often took profit and started over at a much lower dollar amount than this) with a theoretical loss of 2% and I could average 300 hands an hour. That’s an hourly theoretical loss of $30/hr. I should not have gotten full RFB for that and I’m going to guess each of those estimates is on the high side.
The other possibility I thought of is this they had the theo set to 15% or something on the machine and so they were overcomping me by a factor of 10. But that doesn’t explain why my card showed a massive actual loss playing these machines.