Favorite destinations to gamble
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To springboard off the last Motorhead thread. Is Las Vegas gonna run away with this? Or could there be some underrated surprises here.
Las Vegas vs. Atlantic City? Anything else? Casinos popping up all over the place now.
I'm not a big gambler but my recent experiences were I won like $300 bucks at the blackjack computer game in some Casino in Vegas. Also won some money in at some spot in Tucson. But not too long after was at the Hooters casino in Vegas (I know, big time stuff) and I was playing blackjack at a table and man those dealers are so quick at these places. I lost like $80 bucks in 2 minutes. That's felt like one of those shell games on block, total hustle play I don't trust that shit.
Vegas is cool for a tourist POV to see once or twice but I'm definitely NOT a vegas guy. I used to date a girl who would take every vacation she could there. That I don't get. To me the strip and Freemont are cool but that's like the whole city, it's just a T of tourist trap stuff. I get more a kick out of the 20th century history stuff, old vegas, rat pack, mob stuff more than the slots.
AC I think boardwalk is really cool and having the beach right there. But once your off that in the neighborhoods the city get ghetto as fuck real quick, they gotta work on that, nothing drives money away faster than hoodrat shit.
If your about that life, what's your spot?
Las Vegas vs. Atlantic City? Anything else? Casinos popping up all over the place now.
I'm not a big gambler but my recent experiences were I won like $300 bucks at the blackjack computer game in some Casino in Vegas. Also won some money in at some spot in Tucson. But not too long after was at the Hooters casino in Vegas (I know, big time stuff) and I was playing blackjack at a table and man those dealers are so quick at these places. I lost like $80 bucks in 2 minutes. That's felt like one of those shell games on block, total hustle play I don't trust that shit.
Vegas is cool for a tourist POV to see once or twice but I'm definitely NOT a vegas guy. I used to date a girl who would take every vacation she could there. That I don't get. To me the strip and Freemont are cool but that's like the whole city, it's just a T of tourist trap stuff. I get more a kick out of the 20th century history stuff, old vegas, rat pack, mob stuff more than the slots.
AC I think boardwalk is really cool and having the beach right there. But once your off that in the neighborhoods the city get ghetto as fuck real quick, they gotta work on that, nothing drives money away faster than hoodrat shit.
If your about that life, what's your spot?
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Three other cool properties I have had a good time at:
Harrahs New Orleans - Walking distance to Bourbon Street
Harrahs Cherokee - In the Smoky Moutains; huge property with a great concert venue.
Harrahs Southern Cali - Near San Diego and a cool drive up to Palomar Observatory.
There was really good hiking spots nearby the town too, which was my favorite part. Oregon is awesome. And the seafood bucket that the hotel restaurant was amazing and one of the best meals I remember. (Though disclaimer, I had eaten a candy from the dispensary before having dinner, so that could be possibly clouding things)
I mostly stuck with slot machines. I kinda wonder if there was a point I should have laid off the edibles so that I would have had enough confidence to do their scheduled bingo games without being too zoned out. Oh well.
My main criticism with them is that they could maybe update the interior style in their hotel rooms, but they can get away with the beach being right there and people overlooking that.
Real gambling is doing OTC when her baby daddy owns at least one unregistered Uzi. Gambling money is for basic bitches once you're gambling with your life.
It, I am sure I will give it back to them next time we play.
Luckily one of those four times was for a bachelor party. Going off the boardwalk, where most casinos were located, things go downhill quickly. Some folks aren’t comfortable with the drop off, but it worked quite well for a bachelor party.
Aside from AC, I’ve only played football pools and March madness pools.
When I play poker I want to play against weak poker players. There’s always good poker players everywhere but there’s a lot in Vegas. The lower the stakes at the poker tables or tournaments the shittier the players so that’s one thing to think about when playing in Vegas.
Really if you’re gambling does it matter where it’s at as long as you’re winning?
So back to poker some of my favorite places to play are:
Detroit charity poker rooms (lots have closed down since the pandemic)
Random Midwest/Rust Belt small casinos (Cleveland, Toledo, Detroit, Buffalo, Pittsburgh)
Some small casinos in California
Vegas
I like all the casinos in Baltimore but competition is tough in the poker rooms.
Montreal poker rooms are cool too but again lots of good players.
I’ve taken strippers to both Soaring Eagle north of Lansing in Mt Pleasant and to Firekeepers in Battle Creek. I find it boring but they wanted to go
The other trips usually averaged $3k-$4k (life's great when you make more money at 24 than 40...). I remember sitting at a poker table during March madness. I bet on Montana to beat Nevada just to troll Vegas. Just as that game ended and Montana won, I was small blind and got 2S, 3S. Nobody raised so I was in. Flopped a straight. Turned a straight flush. Nobody had a clue...they were re-raising each other after they hit the straight, flush, and full house they were chasing. I just kept calling the raises. When the dealer mouthed "holy shit" as I turned my cards, dude with the boat got pissed and asked why the hell I played 2, 3. "Because I was blind and you didn't raise me out of it." -- That was a few hundred...that I would lose at blackjack tables an hour later.
Now?? Gambling is best on my couch. Got my booze, my three TVs in the living room, my pen, and my trusty notebook to keep track of all the games. I love it. The single moms of Phoenix, not so much. Almost never go to strip clubs anymore.
The coolest casino I have been to was in Monaco. We dressed up in black tie attire and had to show our passports and pay an admittance fee of like 15 euro to go in. Very James Bond feel to it. By the way, once I changed my dollars to euros, they refused to change them back without a significant fee. A total rip off and tourist trap, but elegant just the same.
My first trip to Vegas has a strip club story. I drove to Vegas with my buddy from his place in the desert east of LA. We were both 21 on our first trip to Vegas. We both hit the blackjack table and lost $100 in about 10 minutes. We said fuck this and found ourselves at the Crazy Horse in the early afternoon. We proceeded to drink beer for at least 8 hours and even went through a sh8ft change. We had fun tipping at the stage but VIP wasn't in our range if they even had that back in the early 80's.
When I caught my buddy watering the plant by the bathroom with the last beer I bought him, we figured it was time to go find a room. Only problem was there were no rooms available on 4th of July weekend. We started driving back to his place, a 3 or 4 hour drive away. We didn't make the best decisions regarding the gas tank and slept in the car on the interstate in a place called Yermo. We have a story for our first Vegas run anyway.
I’ve been to Vegas over 30 times since then and no trip was nearly as good as that one.
For me, there is nothing better than the Bellagio sports book in October, when you have NFL and college football, MLB playoffs, and NBA and NHL just getting underway. Vegas shows are also very good, with small venues (albeit expensive).