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Parlay x5 into Detroit: The Penthouse at MGM Grand, Detroit 7/30 - 8/4

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  1. paigower

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    Heading to Detroit tomorrow. My latest foray https://vegasfanatics.com/index.php...-beau-chene-suite-beau-rivage-7-24-7-27.9395/
    Has given me the means and opportunity to continue cranking the antics into revisiting MGM Detroit, where I scrabbled together my initial seed capital..
    I'll be in Detroit tomorrow evening for the week, leaving on Friday to go to Las Vegas for the Blackhat security conference.
    I've offloaded my 302k win from Biloxi into my bank accounts, and have used the MGM backoffice transmittal system to load my MGM Grand Detroit front money account with 1M.
     
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  2. paigower

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    Waiting for amtrak to Newark airport[​IMG]

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  3. paigower

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    Drew first blood in Detroit. +19.5
    Dealers +1.1

    Rules: I didn't get anything other than corporate limits: 40/80.
    No surrender. They already had RSA4.
     
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    Also - and this is definitely a huge negative. Comps are 12% of theo for tables...
     
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    I guess we'll let you join...
    Well, they used to have a tier earning rate 10X less than Vegas. I guess MGM likes to fleece the locals...
     
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    +29
    Dealers +1.3

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    +31.5. Dealers +1
    Apparently this is only the 6th time they've broken out the 25k chips[​IMG]

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    +35.
    And dealers 1k => 0. Obliterated

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    the last one for last night turned out to be a little dangerous.
    1st buy 100 got smoked
    2nd rebuy 100 got smoked
    3rd rebuy 200, and asked for new shoe.
    Biggest hand was 2x 35, both picked up doubles. 140 on the table.
    Neither of them made it to 21, first double ended up at hard 12, second double at 19.
    Dealer managed to bust. and that was the deal that finally pushed me from >100 loss to being up 15 for the table.
    Next hand - 2x 5. haha, and of course I catch one blackjack.
    ended with 22.5, after buying back the 400. Dealer (5th win in a row, and remembered me from last month, and the limits i was playing back then) was absolutely marvelling at wtf I was doing as my aggregate tip throughout these sessions was my old walk-away point per table for my own play, and the fact that i could go that deep without flipping a shit (I'm generally really calm throughout the up/downs)

    So - at the end of this round.
    +21.5, dealers +1

    Total for yesterday: +136.5. dealers +4.4
    Not bad for showing up after a late dinner.
     
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    Is it still fun, or has it turned into work?
     
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    +34. Dealers +0.2. Oof


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    My sessions are super short - out of the past 6 sessions I haven't gotten to the end of a shoe.

    Once I deposit the chips into front money, I go and fuck off and wander/meander a bit and do other stuff, like this or digging into more infosec stuff. Also getting my "why take money from me as an angel" shit down.
     
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    +27. dealers +0.4. oof again.
    My win was locked in 5 hands, and I lost the first 2.
    Now at net +197.5 for the trip.
     
  14. paigower

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    +29 dealers +0.6. and yet again yikes.
    This one was rough actually, only won 20% of my hands (!).
    Slightly tilted 30 up with 70 total, double down vs 6, dealer bust.
    Only the second hand that I won in the whole session.
    Then it was marker down and dealer tip time, which turned out to be a continuation on the disaster until 3 wins in a row on the last $200.
    FM + pocket shows a net win of 226.5k
    Dealers tips aggregated to 5.8k. (from 8k. yeesh)

    On my side: 8 for 8 winning sessions.

    Ok. just got stats from my host:

    Time: 2 hours 18 minutes
    Average bet: 23k
    Theo: 11k

    Last trip:
    Time: 19 hours
    Average bet: $3595.
    Theo: 33k

    Interesting how the ratios are off...
     
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    +44 , dealers +1
    Started a little dicy, Second hand was 3x 6k and got cracked when dealer pulled a 6 on 15, but then I did 1x 24 that was an easy double, and dealer bust.
    Aggression paid off this time.
     
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    +49 and dealers 1k netted ZERO. Just brutal and my crazy timing in gtfo

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    Do you think at some point they’ll stop welcoming you since you never lose? Lol


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    +19 and dealer 1k tip try got annihilated again. Yeesh


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    My host was initially like you go guy. Now he's like holy fuck you're a monster. Hahahahahahaha

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    If you win sports betting they do cut you off. Sometimes quickly, sometimes it takes them a while. I can't bet any Iowa football or baseball games, or any B1G football games, at any local casino in Iowa. I can't imagine you'd be cut off from blackjack just becuase you're winning. I could see them making up a reason and doing it though. You can get lost to an extent in LV and NY. It's a lot harder to get lost in Iowa. And casinos share that kind of info. I'm firmly convinced without going to specifics.
     
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