Comments by CTQWERTY (page 19)

Spotted this gem while reading some reviews for Secrets: "My friends were automatically accosted by 2 aggressive ugly bitches who barely spoke english, which was fine, because my friends didn't speak much english anyway." LOL!!!

Perhaps there's a difference if they look like they fit in with the clientele vs. walking in wearing a leopard print one-piece with black leather cowboy boots (saw that one standing in front of the entryway to a casino in Reno.)

The one guy was lucky he was only shot in the foot.

Just curious, but which casino (I hope it wasn't Circus Circus)? The girls were probably 'aware' of each other. Were they open to discounting? Were they better or worse looking than the talent at The Spearmint Rhino? I got the sense options were available from dancers at Rhino and Rick's but didn't inquire further. I knew prostitution in Vegas is illegal and was content to just check out the scenery. There's a real estate website called Redfin. Lookup a Vegas zip code and then feed it in to the Redfin website. Often Redfin shows the sales record for a property. From that info one can get a sense for just how weak the Vegas economy is now. And it's pretty bad. I'm guessing if the gals can't make the money in the clubs, they're trying to pickup guys in the bars...

Well, I'll consolidate... Feds are after online poker: U.S. calls online poker site a "global Ponzi scheme" By Grant McCool | Reuters – 5 hrs ago... Thu, Sep 15, 2011 NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. prosecutors made new allegations on Tuesday in a probe of the Full Tilt Poker website, accusing self-styled "Poker Professor" Howard Lederer and professional poker champion Christopher Ferguson and others of paying themselves more than $440 million while defrauding other players. In a motion filed in federal court in New York to amend an earlier civil complaint, the prosecutors accused Full Tilt Poker of running a Ponzi scheme that continued even after the original charges were filed. Prosecutors unsealed the earlier charges on April 15, accusing three Internet poker companies -- Full Tilt Poker, Absolute Poker and PokerStars -- and 11 people, including Full Tilt director Raymond Bitar, of bank fraud, illegal gambling and money laundering offenses. Lederer is described on his website (http://www.howardlederer.com) as "The Poker Professor" and Ferguson has won five World Series of Poker events. The men are directors and owners of Full Tilt Poker. "In reality, Full Tilt Poker did not maintain funds sufficient to repay all players, and in addition, the company used player funds to pay board members and other owners more than $440 million since April 2007," the office of Manhattan U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara said in a statement. "Full Tilt was not a legitimate poker company, but a global Ponzi scheme." A Ponzi scheme is usually one in which early investors are paid with the money of new clients and it collapses when funds run out. The U.S. Attorney's previous civil complaint did not contain allegations of the company defrauding players or owners taking payments improperly. Representatives of Full Tilt Poker could not immediately be reached to comment on the amended complaint, which has yet to be approved by a U.S. District Court judge. This type of filing is usually approved as a formality. The prosecutors said Full Tilt Poker's board of directors, including Bitar, Lederer, Ferguson and Rafael Furst, defrauded players by misrepresenting that their funds in accounts were safe, secure and available for withdrawal. In the new complaint, they cited emails and poker message board postings in 2008 and 2009 in which Full Tilt Poker and its representatives assured players their money was safe. One of those emails read, in part: "To protect both our players and business from financial problems, all player account funds are segregated and held separately from our operating accounts. Unlike some companies in our industry, we completely understand and accept that your account money belongs to you, not Full Tilt Poker." The government challenges the assurances, saying the company did not have money to repay the players. The case is USA v Pokerstars, et al, U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, No. 11-02564. (Reporting by Grant McCool; editing by Gerald E. McCormick and Andre Grenon)

With all the publicity generated from the royal wedding this year, maybe that's fertile ground?

"At one event, Starr pointed out a billionaire and the new wife he’d met online. She was a single mother and had been living in a trailer park when they met, Starr said, and they’d fallen madly in love." Okay, get that [very wealthy] PL an honorary TUSCL membership!!!

Detroit isn't bicycle-friendly?

VM, NO! Princess Leia is a major turn off!!!

And while I did see a butterfly-winged dancer at another club, she darn near cleaned me out at the tip rail. Kept coming back after every turn 'round the pole because I was the only person seated at the rail, until I ran away to the safety of the bar...

Halloween costumes are not always good: Princess Leia stalked me one time.

I wonder whether the manager has a photo of that infamous 13-yr old (now surely 14!) mounted to his office wall with the words "DO NOT HIRE!!!"?

"The shot girls are annoying as they sit there in the booths and talk about each other and talk about strippers. They have fake shots and they sit there and pretend to get sloshed off them as you spend money on them. many shot girls go upstairs with customers when managers arent looking. The bouncers just want tips. also the shotgirls, especially the blonde named mary, meet up after work to screw for cash. My buddy fingered her and her friend in the booth a while back." Gosh, hope vice doesn't return!!!

London, you're fortunate the dollar amount was so small. I've met some gals who minimum are tring to lift $60+. Which club was it?

Somewhere, amongst the collection of articles is one or more written about picking up a stripper. But here's my advice: skip the formalities (flowers, dinner, fine film, etc.) and take her to meet mom. If all parties survive the encounter, then maybe you have something with legs.

Alucard, no. So she came up with plan B: borrow the money from her sister. She did though, already have a monster roll of $20s -- hard to believe THAT wasn't enough -- and it sure dwarfed my supply.

Thanks, Magnum! Sam, Memphis, TN. TTT: I do that aplenty when I have a single objective for a given map. Memphis has 8 to 10 clubs, all pretty much on the south side. But that's also a not-so-good part of town. I'd prefer not to be off in my crayon scratches to the extent the locals take note and make me a statistic.

Met up with one who counted out her dough in front of me and then said "I need $200 more to get my books." Was that just a bit of a hint???

WoW! Art, that's some travelin'! My car would fly apart at 160...

Well, I'm glad Founder stopped his flirtation with Facebook.

Shadow, what song was playing on the radio?

As Art stated in another thread, in Toronto it's all out in the open. But my most acute experience was at Bogart's. I got a regular lapper with a gal. No sooner did it end than another gal, who msut've seen I hadn't been getting serviced, hopped onto my lap to pitch me. Come to think of it, that happened twice with two different gals.

Wait -- what?!? Guys brag about receiving *special* attention??? What ever happened to chivalry?!

Juice, I suspect a counteroffer of $20 would've sufficed. Just keep it in mind for the next visit and save some dough. In fact, I'm surprised the one doing all the work/risk for $100 didn't complain about the kind of moola the lookout was making ... I have paid a Dancer $5 twice to sit in and save my seat in a busy club while I went to the bathroom. Good idea and worked out well. Afterall, who wants to stand and stand and stand???

I guess more folks than Steve229 use the emergency exit in a pinch! Now she's going to be perpetually worried over the neighbor showing up every time she's working. Time for a 'dancer disguise'?