Michael,
Don't give me the "I'm broke" story. Geeez, your a drug pusher...err...a..pharmasist for cripes sake! Sell a few more pills and go! ROTFLMAO!!!!
Sure wish you 2 would find the time & money, I got plans for Lee Ann & you! <G>

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Lee-PA
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Gregg,
The Flamingo is terribly understaffed at the wee hours in the morning. It's one of my pet peev's with the place.
I still haven't caught up on my rest yet.

Thanks for reading & replying to my report.

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Lee-PA
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Lee,
But Michael would have to behave on that trip because his Mom is going to be in town then. [img]http://www.talkvegas.com/ubb/wink.gif[/img]
BTW, he is broke not me. He doesn't believe in the power of the lucky bow. LOL
Seriously, he does have to work that weekend and I don't think he can get the time off from work, but you never know. <vbg>

Lee Ann
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Lee,

We met Al at the Paris Sportsbook bar last night. I heard him saying he came over from the Flamingo so naturally I asked him if he knew you!<g> Unfortunately we were being served by a different person and he wouldn't comp the 18 yr Macallan. Had to live with the 12!

Randy

Lee - Thanks for the trip report. You, Sue and Sandy travel around like we do. Sorry we didn't run into each other downtown. It sure was busy down there that weekend. Saw the car show in progress, but didn't take the time to visit. That would have cut into our gambling time [img]http://www.talkvegas.com/ubb/smile.gif[/img]

I was so glad to finally meet you and Sue. Glad you had some wins this trip. This always makes it easier to tell the folks back home about the latest trip. That's always the first question: "How did you do."

Have fun in November. Wish we were going.


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Doye/KY

Jeff,
An old guy like you & John.......?

For a coulpe of "old guys" you 2 do alright!
I don't think I'd spend the night at Mesquite, but I think I'd like to see it.
Lake Tahoe isn't exactly a ball of fire in the wee hours either, you know.

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Lee-PA
Moderator, What's New Forum
lee@talkvegas.com

Randy,
I posted a note in the "after hours" section before I seen this note.

The other guy is pretty cool too. Paul is from the Las Vegas Hilton, and those two get along well. I've shared a few beers with both of them since the move to paris. Now depending on what time you got thier, you might have had one of the break guys serve you, and then you're SOL. <S>

Glad you got to meet Al, he's one heck of a guy.

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Lee-PA
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lee@talkvegas.com

Lee, thanks for the laughs....I assume you've already heard that "you don't buy beer, you just rent it"?? That trip to Binion's had me ROTFLMAO!

They have a new system out at Sam's Town that might interest you....there is a small red circle on top of the machines that alerts you if the machine needs a fill...it's not perfect since I still had to wait for one coin fill, but slot crews really like it since it allows them to keep ahead of the game (and keep some folks from getting rather rude with them<g> ).

Doye,
I am glad we finally met. The only problem with jumping around so much is you comp points never really amount to much in the places. But as we get older, we have narrowed our travels down to about 15 casino's. We used to try to hit them all! LOL

Thanks for the kind words about my report. Now if only November was here already...I'm ready to go again! <s>

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Lee-PA
Moderator, What's New Forum
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Daisy,
Any Idea of how the Sam's town thing works? At first I was thinking weight of the coins still in the hopper, but now it's maybe wired right into the workings of the machine, keeping track of coins in & coins out.
What's your angle on this...anyone?

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Lee-PA
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Lee, I am not sure how it works, but Caesars has a similar thing now that lets the slot attendants know when the machine is low on coins. I'll have to ask them next trip how it works. I think this is something they are all going to. If you have a player sitting for 10-20 minutes waiting for a hopper fill, then they aren't playing. The casinos want you to play, so anything that keeps you putting money into the machines is a benefit to them.

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John
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John,
I've seen a few differnt ways to speed up the fills. One of them used by a few casino's downtown is to have reserve bags of coins under the machines in the cabnet stand of the slot. This way when they need a fill the money is already there and accounted for, for that machine.
A five or 10 min. break is fine, but I've had some real lenghty waits recently. Caesars (at the sports bar) and the Flamingo (up front) MSS (early morning at VP machines)

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Lee-PA
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Lee, the slot attendant out at Sam's explained that the fill light is a small red ring on top the machine that is triggered by the weight of the coins left in the machine. She said that Mirage was also going to this system, and I read that Trump casinos were also installing it.

Daisy,
I think it's a pretty neat idea, as long as they have the casino staff on hand to properly impalent the concept. A red light on a machine doesn't nessarly mean they'll see it! LOL

It will be interesting to see how many of the casino's follow this trend.

But down time, waiting for a machine to fill at late night, not only does the casino loose money till I'm filled & playing again. There are times when I actually fall asleep waiting, then when the fill comes, I go up to the room....end of night for me!

Lee-PA