Useless drivel

[Tarzan]

It’s another fun-filled festive day in Atlantic City…. I am strolling through and seeing all the usual suspects. There are the career panhandlers doing their thing on the boardwalk, the elderly blowing their social security check on those slot machines, some woman playing the “Kahuna Cash” 1 cent slot machine with Tiki bonus who looks to be about 3 notches away from being a baglady. The horrifically overweight security guard lumbers past (this is the casino’s secret weapon against security risks and they lug her in on a forklift and she falls on top of the potential security risk, immobilizing them).

The boardwalk is convenient and you can meander through several casinos if it’s nice out and feel like walking but you have to work in the Borgata along the way! Stroll into here and there’s no boardwalk for panhandlers to wander in from. It’s an island unto itself so you make a separate little drive and hope the tables aren’t too crowded in. What a difference in the people there! On the boardwalk casinos you have people that are dressed casually (or even much like bums) pulling out stacks of 100’s to play with and at Borgata you have a younger crowd (for the most part) that are well dressed and look like they are MADE of money but… are peeling a few hundred at a pop off some plastic, getting charged a huge interest rate for it and gambling as frugally as it gets. I have to laugh about this at times when I see this strange paradox.

One thing about the Borgata for SURE is the difference in waitresses! We have discussed this on the board before and I don’t want to sound sexist or anything but whereas many of the the boardwalk casino waitress look like they made a few too many trips to the KrispieKreme donut shop and gorged on too many twinkies along the way and sort of limp along like they have a bad case of the gout, the Borgata waitresses all look like they were hand-picked from a modeling agency (or a California porn producer)… newer casino, newer waitresses… we’ll check back in 15-20 years or so and see if the trend continues. I was talking to a Caesar’s waitress that I have been friendly with for a long time and asked her how long she had been doing this--- 16 years all at Caesars! She is pushing this through all the way to her retirement she said. Will the “Borgata Babes” as they are called in house still be looking so good after they plow out 16 more years at the Borgata? Will those well-dressed (but flat broke) yuppies ever completely max out their credit cards? Will those career panhandlers on the boardwalk ever parlay their money into an IRA or seek more lucrative careers such as a WalMart greeter? Only time will tell…

 

[Machinist]

Memories

Sound like things haven't changed in a dozen years!!! Used to play bonus run back many years ago. Had a 5th wheel camper stayed at Harrah's . Fished off the old bridge by harrahs. Seeing the board walk and all the panhandlers was a site to see. Played williams BJ machines a couple of places on the boardwalk. Had a nice 1 percent card. Took my wife there once and told her no eye contact with the panhandlers. We still laugh at that. LOL
Good times . Thanks for the memories Buddy.

Machinist

 

[Machinist]

feeling your pain

I'm sitting here in northern Il. and thinking about AC. God that's a nasty place. I got sick of it after a couple of month trips . I hung around till the fall once and man can it get cold and nasty there. Yuck!!!
I'll have to get out there to see the girls some time. My parents live in Laughlin, and i can remember starting out my hustiling career there and the cocktail waitresses were nice. LIke ya said they are hangin on forever. Who the heck will order a drink from a old obese cocktali waitress? I don't even bother anymore.

Take CAre
Machinist

 

[Pro21]

25 years ago the Peppermill in Reno was known for having the hottest dealers. All young pretty girls, mostly blond. Today many of the dealers are still there from 25 years ago, and the Peppermill doesn't look so hot anymore.

 

[Thunder]

Tarzan,
Do you ever see the black woman who sits on the boardwalk with the awful voice singing for change? The Borgata is representative of the excess in this country. The casinos like Bally's and WWW represent a different class. I don't think those yuppies are maxing out their credit cards at the Borgata. I think they're living the single life (Few expenses high paying jobs at Wall St. firms) judging from the many I've talked to. This is one of the reasons why I fully enjoy playing poker at the Borgata. Lots of drunk yuppies with lots of money.

 

[Tarzan]

Sayings of old

I recall as a young boy some of those old quotes that were rattled off to me by my elders (they never thought I was paying attention but I really was)! One of those sayings was "A fool and his money are soon parted". This applies to the sum total whole of humanity but much more so in a gambling environment. Young people (in general) are inclined to living beyond their means and having less than complete common sense with financial matters. The "read" I get on many of those well-dressed (trying to look perhaps more wealthy than they really are) from the bits and pieces of information that they divulge (perhaps inadvertently) in talking to them or overhearing them talk indicates that many of them are not necessarily as "well to do" as they imply they are. I have been up at the cage to see the fear and panic on their face as they are blasting out a credit card so they can wander back over to the roulette table. I can also see how their impulsive behavior may make them ripe for the "pillaging" at the poker table as you mentioned. Much like blackjack, poker requires patience and common sense and tackling it with "wild abandon", while providing a favorable short term result will ultimately catch up to them.

Flash gave me a great book to read entitled "Stung" about a young assistant bank manager of about 25 years old that was supposedly brilliant, "up and coming", destined for rapid advancement, etc. He went on a gambling spree that in order to feed his gambling habit, he embezzled 10 million from his banking firm over a period of about a year and a half before they finally caught up to him. I have seen those yuppies "in action" and the way they play in general and there is no amount of money that can keep that sort of action afloat indefinitely! Hahahahaaaa

I have seen them ALL, Thunder! Wow, you are right and you want to hand them a dollar but only provided that they shut up a while! The dancing old guy... crazy and whacked out as he looks I would imagine… he is “discoing the night away” and loving it out there. The array of "singers" giving all they got to score that next bottle of thunderbird wine, the old lady that sings a whole lot of "God bless America" (obviously one of her favorites), the old black guy that has been wearing the exact same clothes for as long as I can remember (he is an interesting character as he is not a panhandler at all but wanders the entire stretch of boardwalk casinos, steadily moving/ walking with his eyes scanning back and forth on the floors---he is a "chip hunter" and he actually SCORES in doing this). I have talked with him at length and he is one of the more creative and industrious of this scavenging type of person. He has said that on occasion he has run into a purple chip or two even!!

 

[JulieCA]

<snip>He has said that on occasion he has run into a purple chip or two even!!

God bless people who get drunk and gamble!