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10-03-2017 , 04:10 PM

#1001

Stu Ungar

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Join Date: Sep 2011 Posts: 4,966

Those beef ribs sure look good..so much better with a dry rub, and not drenched in sauce. Maybe not "Rollin' Smoke good", but good, nonetheless..

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10-04-2017 , 12:31 PM

#1002

gobbo

Trust the fat man.

Join Date: Jun 2005 Posts: 15,623

lol, from the most recently interview with the shooter's brother it actually might have been the guy reserving machines next to leon. Leon, confirm/deny?

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10-04-2017 , 01:00 PM

#1003

Bloobird

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jfc no ****ing way

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10-04-2017 , 01:06 PM

#1004

gobbo

Trust the fat man.

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Watched the really long interview with the guy's brother. He was a huge whale at all the strip casinos including Wynn and got comps for everything. Would make sense if he could reserve his machines. What machines were being reserved?

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10-04-2017 , 01:14 PM

#1005

yimyammer

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Originally Posted by RunninCM

Playing the dark side is not fun at all. Even when you win it isn't much fun.

lol, it really isn't, you can feel the hate coming from everyone

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10-04-2017 , 01:16 PM

#1006

yimyammer

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Originally Posted by gobbo

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10-04-2017 , 01:51 PM

#1007

rpeezy

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Originally Posted by gobbo

Not to derail the thread but just watched this interview. It seems very plausible that, if it's not the guy reserving machines, he at least had a regular presence at the Wynn just based on the level of comps he mentions.

https://www.cbsnews.com/videos/the-b...a-second-time/

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10-04-2017 , 02:06 PM

#1008

gobbo

Trust the fat man.

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Agreed, seems likely.

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10-04-2017 , 03:27 PM

#1009

Stu Ungar

Pooh-Bah

Join Date: Sep 2011 Posts: 4,966

JHC..it might be him!

I guess Leon can confirm if it was..

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10-04-2017 , 03:39 PM

#1010

yimyammer

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Originally Posted by rpeezy

https://www.cbsnews.com/videos/the-b...a-second-time/

That interview is a trip, they just let him riff for 30+ minutes

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10-05-2017 , 11:03 AM

#1011

overcast

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Join Date: Nov 2013 Posts: 230

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/04/u...-gambling.html

Doesn't sound like the guy reserving machines, if he chases machines as people get up from them. Although the last line sounds like something Leon's guy might say:

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At the Atlantis in Reno, Mr. Paddock would often move to a machine when somebody using it got up to take a break. “That would annoy people and he did not seem to care at all,” Mr. Weinreich said. “He acted like ‘these machines are for me.’”

Either way, he might have been a presence to the point Leon or dad noticed him:

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He was better known around a few high-limit rooms of the Las Vegas Strip, including at Mandalay Bay and the Wynn Las Vegas. In May, Mr. Paddock invited his brother Eric and his nephew, who is in his 20s, to a weekend at Wynn, where he had achieved “Chairman’s Club” status, his brother said. They feasted on expensive sushi and saw a show. Mr. Paddock said his brother had seen it so many times that he noticed that one of the performers was an alternate.

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10-05-2017 , 01:05 PM

#1012

drbeechwood

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Join Date: Aug 2013 Posts: 1,179

I don't think we should derail Leon's awesome thread with shooter speculation. I know there's a VP connection but still, it's his TR. Maybe move all this stuff into:

https://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/1...51/index7.html

and then if Leon wants to comment in that thread, fine, but don't pressure him to talk about this in his own thread if he doesn't want to.

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10-05-2017 , 01:34 PM

#1013

therrinn

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Join Date: Dec 2015 Posts: 12

Has anyone heard from Leon? Hope everything is okay and that he wasn't in town this past weekend...

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10-05-2017 , 03:06 PM

#1014

yimyammer

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Originally Posted by drbeechwood

but don't pressure him to talk about this in his own thread if he doesn't want to.

No one is pressuring him, they're merely asking questions. Every reasonable person here will have no problem with whether he addresses this topic or not

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Originally Posted by therrinn

Has anyone heard from Leon? Hope everything is okay and that he wasn't in town this past weekend...

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10-05-2017 , 03:17 PM

#1015

leon

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Hi all, I'm fine. Thanks for the concern. We just got back from a cruise so I had no internet access. I heard about the shooting and basically just confirmed my parents were fine.

I briefly watched the vids and looked at some pics- the face of the shooter doesn't ring a bell.

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10-06-2017 , 12:18 AM

#1016

dNAssume

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Join Date: Jan 2010 Posts: 1,227

Glad to hear you and your parents are safe! Hope the cruise was a blast

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10-09-2017 , 01:06 PM

#1017

Stu Ungar

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Good article in today's L.A. Times on Video Poker and Stephen Paddock.

Video poker has been called “the crack cocaine of gambling,”..

http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-...009-story.html

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10-09-2017 , 03:35 PM

#1018

leon

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Originally Posted by Stu Ungar

Good article in today's L.A. Times on Video Poker and Stephen Paddock.

Video poker has been called “the crack cocaine of gambling,”..

http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-...009-story.html

I want to know if he was net money-loser or not. I'm sure he was if we don't count the comps.

Strange to think how any of the people we pass or play next to every day could be some totally deranged person. They look and talk like humans, but in actuality they're something else entirely.

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10-09-2017 , 03:37 PM

#1019

gobbo

Trust the fat man.

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I agree, that's why I try to let everyone know how ****ed up I am.

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10-10-2017 , 03:08 AM

#1020

Bighurt52235

I was born to eat hamburgers

Join Date: Oct 2011 Posts: 24,218

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Originally Posted by gobbo

I agree, that's why I try to let everyone know I'm a freak and a very weird dude.

Ongoing video poker "TR", how long will this last?

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10-10-2017 , 04:14 PM

#1021

Stu Ungar

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Join Date: Sep 2011 Posts: 4,966

Congrats to Leon on this thread finally reaching the highly-coveted 5 Star status!

Not even the Poker Player Vlog thread has accomplished that.

Very impressive..keep up the good work..

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10-10-2017 , 07:01 PM

#1022

leon

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Originally Posted by Stu Ungar

Congrats to Leon on this thread finally reaching the highly-coveted 5 Star status!

Not even the Poker Player Vlog thread has accomplished that.

Very impressive..keep up the good work..

I'm just happy that-
- I've been able to keep this going for this long
- I've had the opportunity to play and update this thread
- you all enjoy it

Spoiler- next TR will definitely feature craps. I'm meeting up with a friend who I used to go to Vegas with fairly regularly. We've spent many a trip essentially standing at a dice table. We haven't had a joint trip in a while, and he's since become a slot player, so we're planning on both craps and I teach him VP as well. Can't wait!