Doesn't Fabian have no dick confidence anyway?

Clearly it was me since he didn't say it wasn't, sorry!

Checkmate, athiests!

That's what you get for hoarding all the anzac biscuits for yourself

Gus,

On the contrary, I have the most dick confidence of anyone in OOT (tied with GMLAW I think? Can't remember)

Bugger, mine actually had a decent amount on it. I hope the winning number had a higher amount on.

Gmlaw definitely does. I'm on the fence with Fabian.

Ok I'm hoping it's Yak. Plenty of dick confidence and lotsa moola on his number!

Rexx,

FYI it's MLYLT who decides who does and who doesn't have dick confidence.

Fabian,

Unless she has insider knowledge on all the dicks in OOT it's open slather on the dick confidence declarations imo.

Not sure I want to know what this means.

actually yes, it was!


but not yours!

gregorio, tuma, micro...

Let's go WEED!

I forgot about this until now, for some reason this thread wasn't bumping in my subscriptions. Can't believe we're still getting slowrolled.

It's like credit card roulette, but with just roulette.


So roulette roulette.

wanted to wait until I got back to the hotel so I could post screenshots of confirmed donation, etc... back now and almost done with that stuff, making reveal post now

gobbo is texting me like dude you gotta tell them and I am like damn it gobbo you're right so I can't even disagree with you

The slowroll was my idea but he's taking the slow part too seriously.

Fabian,

Sure. 'Tied'.

Congratulations to the (still mysterious) winner!

OK people, without further slowrolling, I present to you your Charity rOOTlette 2017 Champion:




#23!!!!

congratulations to gregorio who picked #23 to support the National Education Alliance for Borderline Personality Disorder and to his support team of marknfw, MeLoveYouLongTime, and Doozie350 who tossed down cash on #23 to bump up the bet to $28!




additional kudos or at least an X-files theme song moment



for this savage move by gregorio literally one minute after the announcement that a winner had been established:





That's a cool $1284 for the National Education Alliance for Borderline Personality Disorder! ($980 + $28 + $276 = $1284)

After a quick google to make sure it was a qualifying charity, I shipped the monies under the watchful eyes of both daryn and gobbo:



comment choice was a brief debate but ultimately gobbo trumped any other possible comment with what you see there


screenshot of confirmation donation received:




screenshot of confirmation email:





I'm also happy to forward the unredacted full version of that email to a mod or trustworthy 2p2 reg like El Diablo, Howard Treesong, etc to verify it's legit and everything is on the up & up. The full version includes the donation confirmation number and stuff like that which will allow independent verification.



Josie - I'll be dropping off your $50 donation in person at the Nevada Partnership for Homeless Youth in the next week and will get a photo of the people at the office holding a "thanks Josie!" sign with your $50. Will also get you a tax receipt for the donation if you'd like.

How bazaar

defiantly a rouge

Forgot to mention earlier - daryn showed up in person and tossed down an Andrew Jackson on his #36 for the ASPCA, a charity near and dear to my own heart, so we ended up having $1279 riding the board on the spin including gobbo splashing $9 on each of the $16 minbets.


Interestingly, the Bellagio staff were super cool this time about photos. Not only did they give me an "of course" when I asked if I could take photos, they also let me take them myself instead of insisting on taking them for me like last time. One of the dealers remembered us from both prior rOOTlettes which I think helped. Different floor this time tho.

I tipped them $21 (out of my pocket, not out of any donations) for the effort.

Completely forgot to ask if I could video the spin because I just assumed I'd have to fight tooth and nail for the stills. Still doubt they'd allow a video of a spinning roulette wheel in the high limit room, but definitely going to ask next time.



A big thank you to everyone who participated this year!


We raised the following:

$1421 for the National Education Alliance for Borderline Personality Disorder
$50 for the Nevada Partnership for Homeless Youth
$10 for NPR
$10 for Freedom From Religion Foundation

almost $1500 for charity! not bad, OOT! Not bad at all!



Some ideas for next time:

- I'll be less lazy and allow a longer window for nominations, hyping, etc. Was originally planning on leaving Vegas tomorrow but realized I hadn't done the rOOTlette yet hence everything happening so fast.

- A few people have expressed interest in making anonymous donations next time. I've been reluctant to do that in the past because I want to make sure everything is 100% transparent given I'm an internet random handling money that doesn't belong to me. Have always wanted to make sure everything is out in the open. On further reflection, I'm now completely down for future anonymous donations but they will still be semi-anonymous at best if you want to ship moola to ride on the board because someone needs to receive the money. I'm open to ideas on how to make this happen. Don't want to limit donations if I can avoid it. People can also always just show up in person and stay anonymous or just donate on their own without ever posting or participating in the thread.




A story that none of you will believe but I'll tell it anyway:

After daryn arrived and we started walking over to the high limit room from the poker area, I heard both daryn and gobbo lol and when I looked at them they were like "we should totally invite Sklansky" and I was like wtf are you talking about and kept walking. They pointed at some dude that we had just walked past us and was walking in the other direction. All I saw was the back of some random so I was still like wtf are you talking about guys. Then both daryn and gobbo lolled at me because I didn't realize we had legit walked right past David Sklansky, the man himself. I wanted to go back and grab him to invite him to the spin but alas the moment was lost and instead we just kept walking.

For any of you who don't know who Sklansky is, he's the guy that owns/runs this website.

How's that for a lolchopstick

Chop,

Awesome of you to run this, thanks!

So did we manage to turn $1279 into $980 was that the net result? If so, oh well, better luck to our charity next time!

How do you miss the cockatoo?

David does not own or run this website but I would have definitely invited him had he not been on the phone.

We did slightly better than that. We turned $1279 into $1008. We got to keep the original $28 bet that was on the number in addition to getting paid 35-1 on it for another $980. Total of $1008.

$1279 gives us a net EV of about -$34.50 given the 2.7% house edge on a single zero wheel. Sad times that we ran a little below expectation and hit a $28 bet instead of a sweet >=$36 bet or higher (for =>$1296 and a net gain), but Bellagio gotta get theirs and it's more fun to have different amounts bet on different numbers, even if it skews things a bit from a net EV perspective on maximizing the donation size. If gobbo had hit on #17, we'd be loling all the way to $4.5k donation time.

I think we definitely received at least $34.50 in entertainment value collectively (I'd argue it was higher than that, making the entire thing net +EV), so it seems fine to me from any kind of nitty EV analysis..