top ten reasons to visit ha-ha-ha/binion's....

[gehrig]

1] that third deep fried twinkie went through your boiler like a torpedo and you need a w.c., pronto

2] you're tired and need to sit down and all seats at all joints within 10 blocks are fully "ploppied"

3] you are an "advantage player" and you want to try your luck at the only joint in town where the percentage hold at keno is lower than bj

4] to view the quintessential "pitstiff"... the only joint in town where the 'stiffs have longer bamboo poles up their bums than caesar's

5] to try to pass leftover lunch counter comp tickets (if it works, avoid the latest chili "soup")

6] to ridicule the chumps/brain transplant wait-listees, who are playing 6:5 bj

7] to play 20 year old slot machines

8] to scan the multi-colored rug for dropped checques

9] to get one last look at the big chandelier over the main bar

10] none

 

[Rob McGarvey]

11

To cry in the rooftop pool about days gone by and your third degree sunburn you got while swimming around up there. The steak house, still going strong??

 

[gehrig]

food venues...

my "dining" experiences at the 'shoe were limited...

never ate at the gee joon or the steak house. ate at the barfet upstairs a few times...they had the same chili as the lunch counters. you could like, get thirds, for one price. then there was that coffee shop, $2 steak dinner after 10:00pm. mostly that line forming @ 9:30 or so had mebbe 11 cab drivers and one card counter. once tried to buy two steak deals but the crass waitress said i had to get back in line. by that time, the line was up the stairs, 'long side the first 21 table.

since the lunch counter menu has been gelded, i'll venture into the venerable basement coffee shop. last time there, "b-b" (before becky), i had a steak deal at the counter in back. the guy next to me was in town playing in some satellite poker tournament. he was boasting about how he had a handle on the game. when he was mostly done with the meal, he asked directions to the head (in the downstairs area just on the free side of the cashier). the waitress and cashier, are still waiting for him. i dunno, maybe he was sucked in by the undertow.

anyhow, since the nugget closed zachariah's eating house (monte cristo sandwich and a dr. brown's cream soda), i don't eat at downtown coffee shops. well, that ain't 'zactly true neither since i'm a semi-regular at the western and gold spike. usta be a reglar at the cortez but jackie jacked up the prices on a lot of the stuff at the 'cortez coffee shop to get some of the bums out. some left. last time there, the guy on the counter a seat or so down, ralphed into his plate. i think he musta been an advantage player/card counter polishing his act. his shtick was a bum with a 2nd degree puss full. and just like "freddy the fainter" (dirty harry), in this case, security tossed him out. best is that they didn't even slow down past the cashier. i'll have to work on that "barf on demand" move. might work every once in a while, like if you had a split with dd's and the pitcher built a 21. any respectable pitstiff oughta call the hand dead, dontcha think ?

 

[Automatic Monkey]

Gross behavior

Good idea! It might be handy to be able to vomit on a shoe that has gone bad. Wonging out with a twist. The only problem is they will never serve you with alcohol again in that place if you get sick. Well not the only problem; they could assume that you were creating a distraction as part of a cheat team and hawk you for the rest of your life. Last week I was at a table and a woman started rubbing her nipples with the cut card and eventually lifted her shirt. I got out of there, let surveillance pay attention to her table and I'll play at another one. (Maybe directly across from hers so I can watch.)

Off-duty dealers have told me stories of people who would urinate on the floor rather than leave the table. (I guess that's one way to preserve the "flow".)They say this was a problem in the early days of AC when a lot of CG's would show up in one small place. Still today I've heard tales of people whizzing in coin buckets rather than leave a slot because they are convinced it is ready to pay.

 

[Rob McGarvey]

Re: food venues...

Well, hate to say this, but I can puke at will. I can thank two solid years of chemotherapy for that little trick. I just have to recreate the events in my mind, and toss my cookies. Even after 30 years. I too like to scam free meals more for the fun of it, but I do like to spend large when I feel the dam is ready to burst.

Rob