gaobest

Bagels with cream cheese & lox
latkes with applesauce & sour cream

braslvr

Commercial Dungeness crab season opened yesterday on the north coast, so today we went down to the dock and bought 2 live right off the boat. Straight home and into boiling water. Along with some crusty bread, dinner was served.

corky

I use a bit stronger language...really disgusting & foul language. They deserve it.

Visconti

Last night at Prime Steakhouse at the Bellagio. Bottle of Veuve Cliquot Rose, golden Ossetra caviar, pepper crusted foie gras, dry aged ribeye, 6 oz A5 Wagyu and glass of Louis XIII Cognac.

All with compliments of the Bellagio Casino Marketing Dept.

corky

wow...you must be a whale!

Visconti

No, just a person who is used to losing in life! This is the Bellagio, and I can't even count the times the person next to me was betting $10K per hand in the high limit Baccarat room. I'm just a peon whose had a pretty long and good relationship with my host.

Finkface

Wait, were you yelling at squirrels or birds? Do squirrels understand fowl language?

corky

fixed it. But for the record, I yell at the crows sometimes.

phillygold

Amazing how many folks don’t realize how important that relationship is. Congratulations on the great meal. I’m sitting on some MGM freebies. I really need to make it out there. It’s been too long.

ILuvParis

Yeah, I would have been happy with the pink Veuve.

Visconti

Thanks!

And, while I understand and appreciate that it's purely business to them with our "comps" basically being a loan where they expect to be repaid via the ADT (average theoretical loss), the relationship nonetheless matters. I'm not really sharing anything earth shattering here, but while their job is to separate us from our money, they nonetheless appreciate it when their clients treat them with respect & dignity, adhere to gambling etiquette (making an effort to gamble the hours per the comps requested), and are polite even when some requests are refused.

I'm under no delusions that I'm anything more than part of her meal ticket, but a long mutually beneficial relationship is often underappreciated in this day and age, IMHO.

gaobest

For the steakhouse meal, isn’t that required risk of 100-200k? My friend probably had 50k at risk and only got in-suite dining.

phillygold

They will never tell you the exact amount needed to gamble. The number seems to be variable. I’ve been comped when not gambling much…and I’ve lost a decent amount (for me) and not seen a thing.
Keep in mind, Vegas is still rebounding. Thus, they really want your business.
A pizza as a comped meal? Was your friend staying at Excalibur? (Although the steak and lobster tail helps)!

Visconti

As phillygold observed, it's not something they'll ever disclose.

But, I’ve been using the same formula since the early 2000s whenever fulfilling my end of the gentleman’s agreement on comps granted and received--average $500 - $1,000 per hand of, say, blackjack for at least 4 hours per day. Assuming the average of around 60 hands per hour, that’s anywhere from the equivalent of $150K - $200K coin in/out? While it’s an unspoken rule, some pit bosses will rate you higher if you have a rapport with them, make the occasional dealers’ bet, and/or having a particularly brutal session.

While I suspect my host’s comps vary greatly with her clientele, I haven’t had a “hard” limit on my comps for the past decade. I assume it’s probably because I’ve always probably exceeded the $200K per diem coin in/out over the years during my gambling sprees, usually with a combination of BJ, Craps, Baccarat and video poker.

Once I hit the appx $500 per hand BJ for the requisite 4 hours, I’m no longer under any obligation to gamble further, regardless of the comps received and granted. Sometimes, the comps are relatively minor, and during others, especially when I have guests, they can add up to quite a large number--it all evens out in the end.

BamaVol

I’ll be making stew in the crockpot for tomorrow night. In addition to carrots, onions, pork, beef, garlic and potatoes, I will be including green beans and turnips from the garden. I cooked the turnip greens to go with jambalaya tonight. This is my first turnip harvest although I’ve cooked greens a few weeks ago when I thinned out a row.