A friend from Norway is visiting and already has hotel reservations in Las Vegas. For some reason, he could not book a flight from LA to LV, and is planning to make a reservation today. It costs $250 to get a flight today. I vagely remember that there are bus trips that the casinos sponser, but don’t know if they still do that.
im goin to las vegas in nov 2010 and i want to book my trip now but the thing is that i doint know what hotel to stay in. i want to stay in a great hotel that has a nice room and great casino on the srip. pls hlp
Or at least they are more beligerant. I have met many many many wanna be-s in my life, and once a week or so I meet a female non-native who will mention an indian grandma in the family ancestry, usually they just mention it in passing, before leaving our museum, and about once a month we have a woman decked out in turquoise and black ink-dyed braids looking for spiritual guidence or whatever. Almost every day though, especially in the summer (and especially since those damn Twilight books came out…) we get a man with a pony tail and a feather wanting to be “adopted” or “sign up for treaty rights” etc…and when told we are not the department to handle such situations, they get aggressive and rude. Or worse, when they are rejected by our enrollment office, they come back to our museum or casino and harass the employees (we get about 10 of those a year). I am thinking it has something to do with male ego or something…I don’t know. What do you think?
I am mostly asking this to get the input of some of my Native American contacts…I work in a tribal museum. Those of you who are not enroilled tribal members wouldn’t be able to quite grasp what I am talking about.
good question! I have no idea why these people claim royalty, we didn’t have a monarchy! and from what I have been told, no other tribe did either!
haha, Roman, I needed a good laugh. I’m gonna put this one up to vote. the first skin to vote for themselves gets mine too! Ayye….
I’m going to Vegas next year and hopefully staying at NewYorkNewYork Hotel Casino (haven’t booked yet!) – Can you please give me an opinion of the Hotel and best places to see, if you have been there?
In Las Vegas I worked at a stapling machine for those coupon books for a casino on the strip, it was like an old treadle machine that you geared with the pads of your feet for speed in the execution of them….I loathed that job….I lasted three weeks. How about you?????
*BTW Things got immeasureably better after I bit the bullet ant to the jiob, when I gathered my wit and one remaining nerve, to decide that it just was NOT worth it to stay at the job????
I am a beginning player, 10 months exp. online. I turned 18 not too long ago and I want to play in casinos and win obviously. I am a loose agressive player, I mostly play SNG (I find I make more money in short amounts of time there) but I would like to branch out into cash games. What are some books I could read to get more of an insight on strategy both for online and live play. I have read hold em for dummies but it only reinforced things I already knew. I also listen to several podcast(tips from the bear, all strategy, cash plays) and I frequent the redpro forum and see how professionals play their hands. Also I want to get more of an understanding to the math in poker can you recommend books for that too. Thanks in advance.
I play $5, $6 & &10 SNG and I feel that I am better than most my opponents. I’m not looking for SNG strategy though I want to play NL Cash games stakes like $1/$2, $3/$6 or $5/$10.
So you get kick out of a casino for counting cards(which isn’t cheating because it doesn’t say in the rule book). Before you get kicked out, you ask for the chips you betted in the table (Prentend it was a lot of money). They say no. Can you sue.(WAS NOT STATED IN THE RULES)
Yes they can kick you out but shouldn’t you get back the money you betted
that is still on the table before the final when the dealer says who won or lost
…For President:
1. Congress should hold a series of hearings and invite broad public comment on any proposed bailout. Congress is supposed to be a co-equal branch of our federal government. It needs to stop the stampede to give Bush a $700 billion check. Public hearings should be held to determine what alternatives might exist to the four-page proposal advanced by Treasury Secretary Henry M. Paulson.
2. Whatever is ultimately done, the bailout plan should not be insulated from judicial review. Remember there is a third co-equal branch of government – the judiciary. The judiciary does not need to review each buy-and-sell decision by the Treasury Department, but there should be some boundaries established to the Treasury Department’s discretion, and judicial review is needed to ensure that unbridled discretion is not abused.
3. Sunlight is a good disinfectant. The bailout that is ultimately approved must provide for full and timely disclosure of all bailout details. This will discourage conflicts of interest and limit the potential of sweetheart deals.
4. Firms that accept government bailout monies must agree to disclose their transactions and be more honest in their accounting. They should agree to end off-the-books accounting maneuvers, for example.
5. Taxpayers must be protected by having a stake in any recovery. The bailout plan should provide opportunities for taxpayers to recoup funds that are made available to problem financial institutions or to benefit from the financial institutions’ rising stock price and increased profitability after being bailed out.
6. The current so-called “regulators” cannot be trusted. The U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO), “the investigative arm of Congress” and “the congressional watchdog,” must regularly review the bailout. We cannot trust the financial “regulators,” who allowed the slide into financial disaster, to manage the bailout without outside monitoring.
7. It is time to put the federal cop back on the financial services beat. Strong financial regulations and independent regulators are necessary to rebuild trust in our financial institutions and to prevent further squandering of our tax dollars. The Justice Department and the SEC also need to scrutinize the expanding mess with an eye to uncovering corporate crime and misdeeds. Major news outlets are reporting that the FBI is investigating American International Group, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, and Lehman Brothers.
8. Cap executive compensation and stop giving the Wall Street gamblers golden parachutes. The CEOs who have created the financial disaster should not be allowed to leave with millions in hand when so many pensioners and small shareholders are seeing their investments evaporate. The taxpayers are bailing out Wall Street so that the financial system continues to function, not to further enrich the CEOs and executives who created this mess.
9. Congress should pass the Financial Consumers’ Information and Representation Act, to permit citizens to form a federally-chartered nonprofit membership organization to strengthen consumer representation in government proceedings that concern the financial services industry. As the savings and loan disasters of the 1980s and the Wall Street debacles of the last few years have demonstrated, there is an overriding need for consumers and taxpayers to have the organized means to enhance their influence on financial issues.
10. The repeal of the Glass-Steagall Act, separating traditional banks from investment banks, helped pave the way for the current disaster. It is time to re-regulate the financial sector. The current crisis is also leading to even further conglomeration and concentration in the financial sector. We must revive and apply antitrust principles, so that banking consumers can benefit from competition and taxpayers are less vulnerable to too-big-to-fail institutions, merging with each other to further concentration.
11. Congress should impose a securities and derivatives speculation tax. A tax on financial trading would slow down the churning of stocks and financial instruments, and could raise substantial monies to pay for the bailout.
12. Regulators should impose greater margin requirements, making speculators use more of their own money and diminishing reckless casino capitalism.
The proposal was made by Ralph Nader, who like Green Party Candidate Cynthia McKinney and Libertarian Candidate Bob Barr are not allowed to debate by the Corporate-funded GOP/Democrat managed Commission on Presidential Debates. Only the two Wall Street Parties are allowed & with McCain suspending his campaign maybe it will be an evening with Obama?
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2008/09/25-1
What really makes me sick is seeing Democrats like Shummer and Frank smiling for the cameras tonight and gloating that most are for paulson’s plan of robbing the taxpayers. It is times like this that we can see there really is no “opposition” Political Party, just two Wall Street Parties.
http://www.counterpunch.org/sharon09252008.html
http://www.counterpunch.org/hudson09252008.html
I am a beginning player, 10 months exp. online. I turned 18 not too long ago and I want to play in casinos and win obviously. I am a loose agressive player, I mostly play SNG (I find I make more money in short amounts of time there) but I would like to branch out into cash games. What are some books I could read to get more of an insight on strategy both for online and live play. I have read hold em for dummies but it only reinforced things I already knew. I also listen to several podcast(tips from the bear, all strategy, cash plays) and I frequent the redpro forum and see how professionals play their hands. Also I want to get more of an understanding to the math in poker can you recommend books for that too. Thanks in advance.
Because Kevin B (allows response), Dr Dave (does not allow response), Timess2 (does not allow response) took such exception to my question:
THE ANT AND THE GRASSHOPPER – Two Different Versions…. … …. Two Different Morals – are there any left?
I find it necessary to add this and ask you to consider some things:
This nation was built on the idea that if you don’t work, you don’t EAT! It has to do with PERSONAL Responsibility, not dependence on the United States Government. [It is also found in the Bible, but I know that is of little concern to libs. 2 Thessalonians 3:10 (King James Version)
10 For even when we were with you, this we commanded you, that if any would not work, neither should he eat.]
If you do not make enough to purchase (this assumes you are not an illegal alien), what you need and or want, go out and get a second, third, fourth, and as many other jobs as necessary in order to sustain yourself.
Call it a rant if you want, but I’m rather tired of those that throw fire bombs here, yet do not allow a response. So, here is the article and IF you read it, see how many times the choices these people not only made but continue to make directly affect where they are today.
Lost Vegas
From PETE SAMSON
US Editor
in Nevada
Published: 24 Sep 2009
LOVEBIRDS Steven and Kathryn share a well-organised home in bustling Las Vegas.
Dank … Steven and Kathryn in their bedroom
Read more: http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/features/2651937/The-people-living-in-drains-below-Las-Vegas.html#ixzz0Uskr3s2A
They have a neat, if compact kitchen, a furnished living area, and a bedroom complete with double bed, wardrobe and bookshelf featuring a wide selection including a Frank Sinatra biography and Spanish phrase book.
And they make their money in some of the biggest casinos in the world.
But their life is far from the ordinary.
Because, along with hundreds of others, the couple are part of a secret community living in the dark and dirty underground flood tunnels below the famous strip.
Rather than working in the bars or kitchens they “credit hustle”, prowling the casinos searching the fruit machines for money or credits left by drunken gamblers.
Despite the risks from disease, highly venomous spiders and flooding washing them away, many of the tunnel people have put together elaborate camps with furniture, ornaments and shelves filled with belongings.
Steven and girlfriend Kathryn’s base – under Caesar’s Palace casino – is one of the most elaborate. They even have a kettle and a makeshift shower fabricated out of an office drinking water dispenser.
Home comforts … the couple’s kitchen under the famous city
Austin Hargrave
But their bed and many of their belongings are on crates to keep them off the damp floor.
Despite it being hot and dry outside, their tunnel is wet from water being sent down from nearby construction work.
As he gives a guided tour of home, Steven Dommermuth explains: “We use our imagination a lot.
“Our bed came from a skip outside an apartment complex. It’s mainly stuff people dump that we pick up. One man’s junk is another man’s gold.
“We get the stuff late at night so people don’t see us because it’s kind of embarrassing.”
He later gives directions to the tunnels’ own art gallery, a collection of graffiti by local artists and some by the underground residents.
Steven moved into the tunnels two years ago after he lost his hotel front-desk job due to a heroin problem he claims he kicked in January.
He now works the same hotels credit-hustling, and his life retains other similarities with the one he left behind.
He says: “We work our way down the strip. The most I’ve ever found is 997 dollars (£609) on one machine. I’ve found about $500 a few times. But normally $20 or so is enough to call it a night.
“We buy food and supplies like shampoo and soap. Last night I went and watched the new Quentin Tarantino movie Inglourious Basterds up at the Palms Hotel.”
Going underground … the entrance to the flood tunnels
Rex
Despite his established set-up, Steven claims he eventually wants to leave the tunnels but can’t because of two outstanding arrest warrants from drug possession charges two years ago.
It is estimated the population of the underground community could be as many as 700. As well as credit-hustling, they earn their money off the wildly excessive city above by begging and “dumpster diving” – raiding bins and skips.
There are around 350 miles of flood channels running under Las Vegas. Most inhabitants are in the area under the city’s strip.
Another couple, Amy and JR, have lived in the tunnels for two years, having moved to Las Vegas in search of work, wealth and a slice of the famous Sin City action.
Putting down the Twilight vampire book she is reading for the third time, Amy, 33, explains: “My husband and I have been down here two years th
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/features/2651937/The-people-living-in-drains-below-Las-Vegas.html
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