I didn’t believe you that those were actual SZA lyrics, had to google it to believe it, wow.

How much of your advantage slots is vulturing Utlimate X? I’m guessing the slot hustlers are getting all the good slot plays.

I went to the first Lollapalooza and enjoyed it immensely. There was a lot of moshing going on with Rollins Band and Ice-T's Body Count, who just about tore up the place with their set.

I got into the pit and was trying to do one of these moves...



At one point I pivoted, and my back arm came swinging around like a flail, and a 10 or 11-year old girl ran straight into my fist. She was short, as you would expect, and I clocked her square in the face by accident. She and I got pushed to opposite sides of the pit, and I swam back over to see if she was all right, but I couldn't find her.

By that point, I was tired and needed to get out, but the spectators surrounding the pit—when they weren't themselves being pushed into the pit—were pushing the dancers back into it.

I had been a defensive lineman on my high school football team, so I knew how to bust through human obstructions. A space opened up in the pit, and I was able to get a running start and burst through the wall of people, only to stumble a few more steps into the middle of an adjacent mosh pit that I had to then fight my way out of.

Good times.

I'm getting very few plays on the non-X machines. The Asian syndicate has them locked down pretty well. They have 2 or 3 players on hand most of the time. One grinder will sit by a likely machine that looks like it's going to be abandoned in a +EV state by a regular player, while the other grinders wander the floor looking for similar scenarios. Their coverage of the floor is excellent.

The syndicate doesn't check the Ultimate X machines, for whatever reason, but there are currently 4 or 5 other white guys, besides myself, who check them on a regular basis, so there aren't many plays on those either. I've just been running good lately with the few plays that I've found.

Last night, the slot floor was unusually soft, and I found a larger number of plays, so I subtracted an hour from the poker session and added it to the slots. I have today and tomorrow off; back on Friday.

MGM Springfield $1/$2 poker: 7 hours
+$14.00
MGM Springfield Slots: 3 hours
+$320.44

2024 Running Poker Total: 140 hours, +$1410.00
2024 Running Slot Total: 88 hours, +$4780.38

2024 Grand Total: 228 hours, +$6190.38

i was also at the first year of lollapalooza, shoreline amphitheater
nine inch nails, butthole surfers, jane's...it was a blast.

Great Woods for me. Also, I want it to be clear that accidentally punching a girl in the face was a distinct exception to the good time that I had there.

I felt quite bad about that, and I still worry about her to this day. I kept an eye out for anyone getting medical attention after that and couldn't find any evidence of it. I hope that she came out of it all right.

I play Ultimate X from time to time and I never want to walk away with active multipliers, which sometimes leads to me playing more hands than I want until I get one that leaves none, and I am just equal parts flabbergasted and embarassed that it never occurred to me to just play a 5 credit hand instead of a 10 credit hand.

You were very much not alone among X players, and that fact has made me several thousand dollars over the last year or so.



BTW, you can't jump down to 5 credits with the Bonus Streak variant of Ultimate X. That particular version won't give the the multipliers without a 10 credit investment. Bonus Streak is still beatable, but there has to be a lot of multipliers on the board to offset the 10 credit cost, and that's more rare of a find.

Time to cal ICE.

They would likely be replaced by a syndicate who wouldn't be benign to their competition: i.e. the Hard-eyed dudes. That's how easy money works.

I'm just getting back into David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest. The last time I read it was around '99, and I was living in Las Vegas without the Internet as a resource. DFW finished the book in '96, and most of it took place in his near-future, which equated to around '09, which is now our near-past.

I say around '09 because sometime around '02 in his world, the Organization of North American Nations (aka O.N.A.N., with its biblical masturbatory reference intended) started selling naming rights to the years.

The first time I read the book, I spent a lot of time puzzling out which year was which; I believe that I tried organizing all of his scattered references into a chart. Now, with the Internet, I can just look it up. It's going to be a good read-through with all these easy resources nowadays.

CHRONOLOGY OF ORGANIZATION OF NORTH AMERICAN NATIONS’ REVENUE ENHANCING SUBSIDIZED TIME™, BY YEAR

2002: Year of the Whopper
2003: Year of the Tucks Medicated Pad
2004: Year of the Trial-Size Dove Bar
2005: Year of the Perdue Wonderchicken
2006: Year of the Whisper-Quiet Maytag Dishmaster
2007: Year of the Yushityu 2007 Mimetic-Resolution-Cartridge-View-Motherboard-Easy-To-Install-Upgrade For Infernatron/InterLace TP Systems For Home, Office Or Mobile (sic)
2008: Year of Dairy Products from the American Heartland
2009: Year of the Depend Adult Undergarment
2010: Year of Glad

TBH reading about the Year of the Whopper makes me want one. Not so much the Depend Adult Undergarment though.

Poker is stupidly easy when you hit the board and you hit your draws, especially in the large-group multiway pots found in the $1/$2 game. You look like a whiz kid, and table mates start complimenting your play, as if dumb short-term luck had nothing to do with it. The thing to do in this case is not to believe the hype and by that way avoid winner's tilt.

Mind you, if you're showing down the goods, you will get more bluffs past the table, at least vs players who are paying attention, but that doesn't give you a license to turn into a maniac.

If I work a 10-hour day tomorrow/later today, I will complete my second 40-hour week of gamblework in a row, a feat that my lazy ass has heretofore never been able to pull off in 25 years of card counting and poker playing and slot grinding. Let's go.

MGM Springfield $1/$2 poker: 8 hours
+$658.00
MGM Springfield Slots: 2 hours
+$30.12

2024 Running Poker Total: 148 hours, +$2068.00
2024 Running Slot Total: 90 hours, +$4810.50

2024 Grand Total: 238 hours, +$6878.50

In the words of Jean-Luc Picard, "Make it so."

Or, in the words of one of the Redneck Comedy guys, "Git 'er done!"

You talk about your days of card counting, poker and slot hustling. Figure with the somewhat recent legalization of sports gambling in Massachusetts might still be some good sign up bonuses worth chasing. Also there seems to be a market for beards, guys in different markets with fresh accounts and can go into different areas to make live bets.

I listened to a recent podcast of Risk Of Ruin about a couple guys who specialize in getting bets down for groups that are professional sports bettors.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=XX_HmkcsuAw
These guys I think are in Arizona but have bettors throughout the country that get money down for their originators. It’s something I’d be looking into if I was in your shoes. It’s sort of a job as if your actually getting bets down for them instead of just handing over accounts they will likely message you at random times to put in a bet, possibly live.

Thanks guys! I'm off to work at the crack of deuce (PM)



Interesting....some of the dealers are heavy sports book punters. I could ask around. The two things that give me pause are (1) the tax situation would be complicated, to say the least and (2) it smacks of working for someone else, which I don't want to do anymore.

Yeah although not that much of a working for a man. Probably a daily request to place X bets and probably a weekly bookkeeping request. That being said you can still do the sign up bonuses and possibly sale these accounts to one of these syndicates and let them manage it. I’d also think any of these organizations doing this have the taxes figured out.

$28.90/hour for a hobby
godspeed my friend

Thanks REDeYeS00!

Yesterday was a long breakevenish day, which was better than a long losing day by a longshot. I made my second consecutive 40-hour week in a row. I'll try to start in on a third straight week later today.

The poker room will have a couple of $3000 drawings today at 6pm and midnight, so that will spice things up. I have only one entry in the drawings out of 300 or so; I'll have to run pure.

MGM Springfield $1/$2 poker: 8 hours
(-$32.00)
MGM Springfield Slots: 2 hours
+$78.36

2024 Running Poker Total: 156 hours, +$2036.00
2024 Running Slot Total: 92 hours, +$4888.86

2024 Grand Total: 248 hours, +$6924.86

I've been leery of Bob Marley covers ever since Clapton's execrable version of I Shot the Sherriff, but I heard this country cover of Three Little Birds on the drive home, and it was quite lovely.

You can get in trouble doing this if you don't inform the casino as to whose money you are using. It can lead to false currency transaction reports. It was a while ago, but I think that's how the IRS got Artie Bodendorfer. (ray zee might be the only one who remembers Artie, but he was a great pool player.)

Re: I shot the Sheriff: a couple years ago I was on the western slope. The local radio station had an (apparently daily) feature where they played the well-known version, then a lesser-known version.

This was that day's selection:

Toots is amazing!!! The funny thing is, I actually knew the Toots and the Maytals version of Take me Home before ever hearing the John Denver one!!! I was never well versed in country music, but quite so in the reggae scene (I use to be a dj for a reggae night).

There has been many covers of Bob Marley songs, most of them good, but known as known as I Shot the Sheriff, granted.

almost any person would be well served listening to the messages Toots had to sing