"When You Feel It"

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So, last night I am standing solo in line at the dinner buffet here at Jack Casino Cincinnati and this pudgy nerdy looking guy with glasses in a blue polo too tight for his body walks up to me and asks, “Are you going to be paying cash for the buffet?” I say, “Yeah,” and he replies, “Don’t do that. I have a buffet for two coupon I have to use by the end of the month. You can have the other one for free.”

I’m like, “Hell yeah. Ship it. That will save me $20. That’s $20 more I can spend on drinks.” Then he tells me his name is Bradley, that he is a “K” card member, and how he gets almost everything comped at the casino. I’m like, “Wow. So where you staying tonight? Where did they put you up?” He goes on to tell me that the only thing they don’t give him is free rooms now because the comps have changed since it became Jack casino and no longer “The Horseshoe.”

Anyway, we get onto eating and I start telling the story about how my Grandma Eda always played Double Diamond slot machines and those are the only slot machines I play when I am killing time because it makes me feel good to think about her and remember how happy she’d get when she won, but also how irritated my Papa George would get when she lost even though money was not a worry at all to either of them. I go onto tell him that I was up $160 on a Double Diamond machine just two weeks ago but had to cash out quick because some meth head looking guy came up to me at the machine and kept telling me to push the “credits” button three times then pull the lever and not hit the “spin reels” button to beat the machine. I told Bradley that I decided to cash out instead of maybe win another $100 and have this loser beg me for money.

Right away Bradley says, “Well. He was telling you right to pull the lever. If you used the strategy he told you and you won you’d have to give him something.” I’m like, “Well I guess if I did exactly what he said and won big I would throw him $20 or something.” Bradley replied, “$20 off another $100 win or like $20 off a $5,000 win?” I’m like, “$20 off a thousand or more. Or maybe nothing.” Bradley started to look offended and was like, “That’s cheap. If he helped you win he helped you win.”

So, I start thinking, “Wow. This Bradley guy is probably one of those degens. How in the hell did he get the biggest shooting highest class comp card? He must be a huge slot machine degen!” And then I ask, “Well. What exactly brings you here tonight?” He says, “The slots.” So I smile say, “Well. I don’t know shit about slot machines. So, I got no advice you can use and there will be no way you’re owing me any money for help!” And then I pull out $15 in red chips and give it to him for the buffet. He says, “Thanks.”

Then a little after as I am cleaning up my side of the table and preparing to go back to the poker room I say, “You know. I have never met a big time slot machine player here that carries a “K” card. When you come to play the slots what do you usually bring?” Then he replies, “Well, tonight I just brought $64.00.” I’m like, $64.00 and your ATM card?” He calmly replies, “Nope. Just $64.00. And I live three hours away so I can’t go home and grab any more money either. But, it doesn’t matter anyway. I don’t get paid until Friday. I just came today with the $64.00 because when you feel it, you feel it, and today I felt it. So, I took the drive.”

And that’s the last I heard from Bradley besides exchanging goodbyes after the dinner buffet. God damn I hope he won.
 
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So, last night I am standing solo in line at the dinner buffet here at Jack Casino Cincinnati and this pudgy nerdy looking guy with glasses in a blue polo too tight for his body walks up to me and asks, “Are you going to be paying cash for the buffet?” I say, “Yeah,” and he replies, “Don’t do that. I have a buffet for two coupon I have to use by the end of the month. You can have the other one for free.”

I’m like, “Hell yeah. Ship it. That will save me $20. That’s $20 more I can spend on drinks.” Then he tells me his name is Bradley, that he is a “K” card member, and how he gets almost everything comped at the casino. I’m like, “Wow. So where you staying tonight? Where did they put you up?” He goes on to tell me that the only thing they don’t give him is free rooms now because the comps have changed since it became Jack casino and no longer “The Horseshoe.”

Anyway, we get onto eating and I start telling the story about how my Grandma Eda always played Double Diamond slot machines and those are the only slot machines I play when I am killing time because it makes me feel good to think about her and remember how happy she’d get when she won, but also how irritated my Papa George would get when she lost even though money was not a worry at all to either of them. I go onto tell him that I was up $160 on a Double Diamond machine just two weeks ago but had to cash out quick because some meth head looking guy came up to me at the machine and kept telling me to push the “credits” button three times then pull the lever and not hit the “spin reels” button to beat the machine. I told Bradley that I decided to cash out instead of maybe win another $100 and have this loser beg me for money.

Right away Bradley says, “Well. He was telling you right to pull the lever. If you used the strategy he told you and you won you’d have to give him something.” I’m like, “Well I guess if I did exactly what he said and won big I would throw him $20 or something.” Bradley replied, “$20 off another $100 win or like $20 off a $5,000 win?” I’m like, “$20 off a thousand or more. Or maybe nothing.” Bradley started to look offended and was like, “That’s cheap. If he helped you win he helped you win.”

So, I start thinking, “Wow. This Bradley guy is probably one of those degens. How in the hell did he get the biggest shooting highest class comp card? He must be a huge slot machine degen!” And then I ask, “Well. What exactly brings you here tonight?” He says, “The slots.” So I smile say, “Well. I don’t know shit about slot machines. So, I got no advice you can use and there will be no way you’re owing me any money for help!” And then I pull out $15 in red chips and give it to him for the buffet. He says, “Thanks.”

Then a little after as I am cleaning up my side of the table and preparing to go back to the poker room I say, “You know. I have never met a big time slot machine player here that carries a “K” card. When you come to play the slots what do you usually bring?” Then he replies, “Well, tonight I just brought $64.00.” I’m like, $64.00 and your ATM card?” He calmly replies, “Nope. Just $64.00. And I live three hours away so I can’t go home and grab any more money either. But, it doesn’t matter anyway. I don’t get paid until Friday. I just came today with the $64.00 because when you feel it, you feel it, and today I felt it. So, I took the drive.”

And that’s the last I heard from Bradley besides exchanging goodbyes after the dinner buffet. God damn I hope he won.


Good afternoon! You describe the events very nicely when I read it. I found myself in this casino. Are you a writer?
 
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Often with lotteries and slot machines, the people who can afford to lose the least end up losing the most, in the hopes of improving their life situations.

casinos are right to treat their slot players well - they are essentially guaranteed income.

I've met some OK people in casinos too, but as your story alludes to, there are some troubled people as well!
 
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Often with lotteries and slot machines, the people who can afford to lose the least end up losing the most, in the hopes of improving their life situations.

Casinos are right to treat their slot players well - they are essentially guaranteed income.

I've met some OK people in casinos too, but as your story alludes to, there are some troubled people as well!

I think the best R.O.I you can get on slot machines is like 30%. So, its no wonder the casinos treat slot machine players the best. ;)
 
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Sometimes i feel it when I'm playing blackjack and I have 13 on a dealer 5or6 and double it, the dealer is always surprised and asks what I'm doing or if I'm sure and if I'm playing with other players they look at me like I'm crazy but I almost always get a 5 and save the table. Also even when I bust so does the dealer so I never crush the table.
 
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I have received copies of bills where people have been in another country for three or four days and have to pay several thousands of euros just because they have downloaded their favourite
 
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I always take a slot budget when I got to Vegas to play poker - but I stick to my budget and never take extra money out to play. I consider it the vacation portion of my trip and enjoy playing - it is money I can afford to lose and while I always hope to win I never expect to. I get lucky every now and then lol.
 
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The game is not a job, but rest and money for rest do not need to regret otherwise it will not be a rest, but a torment
 
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I always take a slot budget when I got to Vegas to play poker - but I stick to my budget and never take extra money out to play. I consider it the vacation portion of my trip and enjoy playing - it is money I can afford to lose and while I always hope to win I never expect to. I get lucky every now and then lol.

I have been told giving action on Video Poker is slightly +EV if you know how to play Video poker perfectly because as you rise from a Platinum to Diamond Level card at Total Rewards properties you get lots of free stuff/perks as a Diamond member. Thankfully, I know a bookie from Minnestota here in America that takes my Platinum Total Rewards card and makes it into a Diamond in one day by all the action he gives on Video Poker. He's a Seven Star.
 
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I have been told giving action on Video Poker is slightly +EV if you know how to play Video poker perfectly because as you rise from a Platinum to Diamond Level card at Total Rewards properties you get lots of free stuff/perks as a Diamond member. Thankfully, I know a bookie from Minnestota here in America that takes my Platinum Total Rewards card and makes it into a Diamond in one day by all the action he gives on Video Poker. He's a Seven Star.

I have heard that too - but I obviously don't know how to play it perfectly because I always lose when I play it lol.
 
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Let me just say that if there was a "CardsChat Post Of The Month" award, I would nominate the OP to win it. It's really refreshing to not have to wonder what on earth you're trying to say or what kind of medication you might be on.
 
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To win money in poker you need to be a professional and not the fact that you will always be waiting for success
 
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Casinos and gambling brings so much pain to our word ): Let's just keep playing poker witch in the long run is 80% skill 10% luck and 100% fun :)
 
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Every time I win "I feel it" :).
 
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