Any last minute advice?

[Ray_BearKat]

I'm off to Vegas for my first time ever...I leave later on tonight. :D

[Old Tiger]

What happens there stays there ;)

[Sans Couth]

Right before you leave. Take all of the clothes and all of the money that you plan to take and lay them out on the bed.


NOW, take one third of the clothes and three times the money and you should have a good time.

P.S. And this is very important. Make sure you have your return trip paid for BEFORE you get to Vegas. There have been many a poor soul not have a quarter to make a phone call, when Vegas got finished with them.

[Old Tiger]

Don't get trashed and sell off your plane ticket home :D

[bullfrog_alumni_02]

yea, sell your plane ticket too some unsuspecting fool and dont go. a friend who went to college there said that the only way too not loose all your money there is to eiter dont go, or live there and dont go to the casinos, so i think your best bet is to stay home and donate your money atleast that way its going to a good cause and you still wont have it...

[Sans Couth]

There is a ton of great food and entertainment to be had in Vegas. Spend as much time as you can eating and watching shows, and as little time as possible in the casinos.

[SintonFan]

Never pay for a drink. Most places if you play you drink free. You can play the nickel slots and still get free drinks, but the service sucks with the nickel slots. If you tip $1 for each drink your service improves a little. ;)
Go try the highroller(roller coaster) at Vegas World and tell me how it goes. It supposed to be the highest coaster in the world.
Have fun!

[sinton66]

I would recommend deciding up front how much you can afford to lose. Set that much aside to gamble with and when it's gone, QUIT. If you come out a winner, all the better, but not many do.

The most success I've had playing slots is to sit back and watch other people feed money into the machine, then when they get disgusted and leave, go play that machine for a while. As soon as it pays more than you've put in, Stop and watch another machine.

[Sans Couth]

One few more word from experience.

As well as having a limit to the amount of money you are willing to lose. Set a limit to the amount you are willing to win.

I now this sounds silly, but listen carfully.

There have been millions of players that were 'UP' a lot of money before they lost it all. If you don't set a winning limit, and you play long enough, you will give it all back.....and that is a promise. The only folks that ever leave with more money than they came in with are the ones that are disciplined enough to set a strict limit on the amount they win, or the time they spend at the table.

Nobody ever walks out a winner if they play until they think they have won enough.

[Old Tiger]

Originally posted by Sans Couth
One few more word from experience.

As well as having a limit to the amount of money you are willing to lose. Set a limit to the amount you are willing to win.

I now this sounds silly, but listen carfully.

There have been millions of players that were 'UP' a lot of money before they lost it all. If you don't set a winning limit, and you play long enough, you will give it all back.....and that is a promise. The only folks that ever leave with more money than they came in with are the ones that are disciplined enough to set a strict limit on the amount they win, or the time they spend at the table.

Nobody ever walks out a winner if they play until they think they have won enough. That is excelent advice

[SintonFan]

Originally posted by Sans Couth
One few more word from experience.

As well as having a limit to the amount of money you are willing to lose. Set a limit to the amount you are willing to win.

I now this sounds silly, but listen carfully.

There have been millions of players that were 'UP' a lot of money before they lost it all. If you don't set a winning limit, and you play long enough, you will give it all back.....and that is a promise. The only folks that ever leave with more money than they came in with are the ones that are disciplined enough to set a strict limit on the amount they win, or the time they spend at the table.

Nobody ever walks out a winner if they play until they think they have won enough.
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Some great advice there. I was up $200 on quarter slots and ended up down $50. Not fun at all.
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Originally posted by SINTON66
I would recommend deciding up front how much you can afford to lose. Set that much aside to gamble with and when it's gone, QUIT. If you come out a winner, all the better, but not many do.

The most success I've had playing slots is to sit back and watch other people feed money into the machine, then when they get disgusted and leave, go play that machine for a while. As soon as it pays more than you've put in, Stop and watch another machine.

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Bingo! And that is exactly how I ended up $200 to began with.:)

[sinton66]

I've played using my strategy about four times in different places, and have come home with more money than I went with every time. Most I ever won was about $160 playing quarter slots. My brother was with me, and played the same machine the whole time. At one point, he was up about $500 and ended up losing it all back. Of the six people that went that particular time, I was the only winner.

[Ranger Mom]

I have only been to Vegas 1 time. When I finally got there, I only had $167 dollars to play with.

I played the quarter slots and stayed strictly on the Joker Poker machines, (since I am a mean poker player anyway).

I won a jackpot of $250 (would have been $500 if it would have been a natural straight instead of having a wildcard) and about 5 minutes later I won another $250 jackpot.

I was with my mom and each time I got a free dinner for 2 at some swanky restuarant.

I put that money up and still had about $150 to play with. The next night we were in a casino and I wasn't playing but was watching my mom when a security guard asked me for my ID. I didn't have it with me but told him I was 25, a mother of 3, and was there with MY mother. He didn't care, he made me leave.

I didn't have my ID with me at all, I had left it in Midland. When I told him I had hit the jackpot twice the night before, he told me if it had been over $500, I couldn't have gotten it without an ID.

So.....my advice to you is: Take your ID!!

[VWG]

Remember, craps is one game that you can play "with the house".

[bullfrog_alumni_02]

it might just be me, but i think he is gone now...

[Ranger Mom]

Yeah...I kinda thought about that myself...but I still wanted to tell my story!!

As a matter of fact...I stopped in Town and Country last week to get my husband a can of snuff and I was carded....I could NOT believe it. I told the girl, my ID is in the car and I can go and get it, but I am 40 years old!!

She must have believed me cause she sold it to me, but told me never to go into a store without my ID to buy tobacco or alcohol.

I just smiled and said Thank You, you have made my day!!:D :D

[Old Tiger]

dang RM you must be a young lookin hottie woohoo :D:p

[Ranger Mom]

Originally posted by Old Tiger
dang RM you must be a young lookin hottie woohoo :D:p

LOL!! I've been told I don't look 40, but being a "hottie" may be stretching it a bit!!:D :D

[Old Tiger]

i would use the American Pie trilogy cliche but I don't think it would be appropriate for the board :D

[bullfrog_alumni_02]

Originally posted by Ranger Mom
LOL!! I've been told I don't look 40, but being a "hottie" may be stretching it a bit!!:D :D at any rate your a very sweet and respectful person.

[Chris Hart]

Originally posted by bullfrog_alumni_02
at any rate your a very sweet and respectful person. Agreed!:)

[olddawggreen]

I stopped in a casino at Lake Taho about 20 years ago and decided to try the slots. As I was walking into the casino I passed by two little old ladys coming out. One was telling the other that she had had $50.00 in the dollar machine before it had started to pay off, and that she hade done pretty good after that.

Since I was in the area on business and not really there to gamble, I wasn't carrying a lot of cash on me at the time, but I decided that I would take $100.00 and put it in a dollar machine till it was gone, win or lose. I found a machine that I thought looked lucky and started making the maximum bet each spin. Well before I knew it I was down $75.00. But the next spin I won, and kept on winning. It was wild. The machine just kept paying off until it ran out of coins, the lights and bell kept going off and everybody kept watching. When the casino workers came and put more monney in it I tried two more pulls and lost. I then walked away and when I finnished counting my money, I had $750.00! I actually paid for my trip.

It was so easy!

Now the moral to the story. This was my first time to really work the slots, and I was ruined. Although Im not a serious gambler, after that trip I always expected it to be easy and let me tell you, the casino owners have made their money back several times over as I tried to recapture that first lucky strike:( :( :mad: . Over the years I have found that I can do just as good on the nickle machines as on the dollar machines and last a whole lot longer.:) Just have fun and don't ever gamble more than you can afford to lose. Theres plenty to do in Vegas with out gambling anyway. Good luck!

[spiveyrat]

Bet on the winners! :D