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Old Jul 12, 2009 | 7:26 am
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Originally Posted by verse99
On my 3 night Mexico Cruise they had casino night.

a drink cost $ 3.50 + mandatory tip and you got a $ 5 casino chip that had to be wagered once.

I bought 1000 Cocktails. The servers were happy since it added up a few hundred $$'s in tips. I got tons of miles on that crusie.
This is nice idea, but only if you were planning to gamble almost $5,000 anyway (or drink 1000 drinks), as you would be expected, mathematically, to lose a majority of the gambling money.
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