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I go to the casino in Schenectady to bet football. I don't bet anything else at the casino.  I'm very conservative in the number of bets I make in a season, but I bet decent amounts when I bet.  I didn't bet anything in 2020 due to Covid.  In 2019 I bet 5 Bills games & won 4 of them.  I also bet futures on various win total overs & to reach the playoff.  I won about $5,000 for the season.  This year I'm 1 for 1 (bet the Miami game) & won $744.  I also put future bets in on the LA Chargers to win 11 or more games (Over 10.5 wins) as well as over 9 wins at lower odds & the Bills to win the AFC.   

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I mainly play blackjack, craps and poker tournaments in person. We go to Vegas once a year or so (prior to pandemic). 

 

Here's my online poker story. I was about to quit (back in 2005) as the the last money of the 4th $100 deposit on Party Poker (took about 4 months to burn) was lost. I had a slew of points so I used them to enter a tourney that had a ticket to a tourney $200.00 buy-in. I won the ticket. The tourney was on a Sat night and I got to the computer 10 minutes late. There were 1200+ entries. At the money about 3 hours in, I was guaranteed $250.00. A few hours later I hit the final table in 7th out of 9th and was hoping to move up a couple of spots to maybe 5th. 

 

Well the deck hit in me in the face. When we were down to 3, I was the chip leader. I had KK on final hand a knocked out the last 2 for $58,444. What a rush! 

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4 hours ago, Albany,n.y. said:

I go to the casino in Schenectady to bet football. I don't bet anything else at the casino.  I'm very conservative in the number of bets I make in a season, but I bet decent amounts when I bet.  I didn't bet anything in 2020 due to Covid.  In 2019 I bet 5 Bills games & won 4 of them.  I also bet futures on various win total overs & to reach the playoff.  I won about $5,000 for the season.  This year I'm 1 for 1 (bet the Miami game) & won $744.  I also put future bets in on the LA Chargers to win 11 or more games (Over 10.5 wins) as well as over 9 wins at lower odds & the Bills to win the AFC.   

I like to gamble, but I never mix business and pleasure, so I never bet on or against the Bills. I enjoy watching the game for what it is. I feel like if I bet it's a conflict of interest. 

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22 hours ago, Bill from NYC said:

Does anyone know of a nice Las Vegas Hotel that has small limit poker games? Is there any such thing?

 

 

 

I havent been to Vegas since two super bowls ago, pre Covid, but small tables are hard to find on the strip, especially on the weekends.  You will get a few $10 or $15 minimum tables but a lot of them are $25 minimum.  They took Osheas out a few years ago which always had small limit tables.  Your best bet for finding small limit tables is probably going off the strip, maybe to the downtown section, not sure though.

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15 hours ago, Gordio said:

 

 

I havent been to Vegas since two super bowls ago, pre Covid, but small tables are hard to find on the strip, especially on the weekends.  You will get a few $10 or $15 minimum tables but a lot of them are $25 minimum.  They took Osheas out a few years ago which always had small limit tables.  Your best bet for finding small limit tables is probably going off the strip, maybe to the downtown section, not sure though.

Thanks. i want to go to a nice hotel but I don't want to risk thousands playing poker. 

 

I think that I'm a better than average blackjack player but the last few times I have been to a casino (which is very rare), a drunk will sit to the right of the dealer and screw up the game. One guy was hitting 17 when the dealer had a 6 showing. It turned me off to blackjack.

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13 hours ago, RaoulDuke79 said:

I like to gamble, but I never mix business and pleasure, so I never bet on or against the Bills. I enjoy watching the game for what it is. I feel like if I bet it's a conflict of interest. 

I know the Bills better than any other team & have a totally opposite viewpoint.  When I thik the Bills are a lock, I bet the game.  I don't bet many because everything has to be right for me to bet a football game.  I've only bet 6 Bills games since they legalized sports betting & the only game I lost was when Cincinnati made a game the Bills won closer than the spread.  

 

The best business decisions are the ones you have the most information about.  For me that's Bills games.  

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4 hours ago, Bill from NYC said:

Thanks. i want to go to a nice hotel but I don't want to risk thousands playing poker. 

 

I think that I'm a better than average blackjack player but the last few time I have been to a casino (which is very rare), a drunk will sit to the right of the dealer and screw up the game. One guy was hitting 17 when the dealer had a 6 showing. It turned me off to blackjack.

 

 

Yeah you might have better luck downtown, I am not a big downtown guy, about 8 years my wife & I were in Vegas and she begged me to take her downtown as she was never there.  We were walking  on the sidewalk and I was looking up at this sign not paying attention and I ran right into about a 300 pound girl who looked like mortisha and had only a bikini bottom on and two pasties to cover her nipples and leather black boots that went up to her knee.  I had nightmares for weeks and vowed never to go to the downtown part ever again.   

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9 hours ago, Bill from NYC said:

Thanks. i want to go to a nice hotel but I don't want to risk thousands playing poker. 

 

I think that I'm a better than average blackjack player but the last few time I have been to a casino (which is very rare), a drunk will sit to the right of the dealer and screw up the game. One guy was hitting 17 when the dealer had a 6 showing. It turned me off to blackjack.


you can find a 1-2 dollar blind poker game w 200 buy in pretty much anywhere 

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2 hours ago, Teddy KGB said:


you can find a 1-2 dollar blind poker game w 200 buy in pretty much anywhere 

Thank you!!! Even in fancy hotels? I am going with my fiancee and she is allowing me one night to play poker, for which I am grateful lol but she wants to stay in a fancy place, which I am totally down with.

 

The last time I played poker was a 1/5 game in Atlantic City and I kicked ass, but it was 7 card stud LOL!!! Still, I am confident that I would do well in a low stakes hold 'em game.

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On 10/8/2021 at 10:26 PM, Bill from NYC said:

Thank you!!! Even in fancy hotels? I am going with my fiancee and she is allowing me one night to play poker, for which I am grateful lol but she wants to stay in a fancy place, which I am totally down with.

 

The last time I played poker was a 1/5 game in Atlantic City and I kicked ass, but it was 7 card stud LOL!!! Still, I am confident that I would do well in a low stakes hold 'em game.


yes, I’d say 9 of 10 poker rooms will have at least a 1/3 game with 100-500 buy in 

 

Bellagio/Aria etc have the humongous games available but 1/3 and 2/5 tables fuel most card rooms imo.  

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I'm quasi-interested in casinos. The intellectual challenge of playing odds is very interesting.

 

But to be shallow: the cigarette smoke gets to me. There is literally a cloud in every casino I have visited. What is it with gamblers and smoking? Is it OCD?

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1 hour ago, boater said:

I'm quasi-interested in casinos. The intellectual challenge of playing odds is very interesting.

 

But to be shallow: the cigarette smoke gets to me. There is literally a cloud in every casino I have visited. What is it with gamblers and smoking? Is it OCD?

You get the worst vices at casinos

 

Gambling addicts, heavy smokers and alcoholics ... 

 

It usually all boils up to the house winning a lot of money 

 

Though there have been plenty of shrewd people who have carved out a niche and taken advantage of it

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