TOO OUT OF IT TO PLAY? CASINO GAMBLING TRIPS GONE WRONG
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This post is syndicated by the Las Vegas Advisor for the 888 casino group. Anthony Curtis comments on the 888 article introduced and linked to on this page.
AC Says:
Gambling and drinking. These two activities have gone hand in hand forever and the consensus is it’s not a good mix for the gambler. If it were, the casinos wouldn’t be offering it. The four examples in this article pretty much constitute the worst-case scenario, but the lesson that drinking can undermine responsibility should be heeded by all players. An interesting twist on this theme is that drinking can be used against the casinos by some clever advantage players who drink to some level as a form of “camouflage” when playing with an edge, e.g., counting cards in blackjack. A player who’s steadily consuming alcohol tends to look less suspicious to casino personnel on the lookout for threats. Of course, the player has to be able to maintain his game while drinking. While he didn’t bring this up in the article, author Michael Kaplan is certainly aware of the ploy. His book, The Advantage Players, is being published by Huntington Press and is expected to be out this summer.
Everybody loves to get casino freebies. Gamble for high enough stakes and you wind up with a hotel suite and dinner at the joint’s fanciest restaurant. Really fire it up, and the casino covers your airfare and may even send a private jet.
At rock bottom, though, anyone in action gets offered free alcoholic beverages. Sit at a casino bar, drop $20 into a video poker machine mounted on the bar’s surface and the drinks will flow your way as long as you keep playing.
High rollers may get bottles of Louis XIV cognac and tumblers of fine single-malt scotch while the rest of us content ourselves with well drinks of vodka and tonic. And if we get drunk with $20 at risk in a game of chance that we’re unlikely to win anyway, who cares?
