| James Dodd |
| | 12/17/11 at 01:17 AM | | #1 |
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Hello,
Where to start .....Gaming in Laughlin, Nv. can be a death-experience that will send you to live with your non-Earthbound kin.....forever !
November's trip was the first trip, this year, that I did not hear the blades from the 90 miles away, Vegas, Search and Rescue Chopper over the Casino's......looking for the daily drowning body.
The string of Laughlin Casinos stretch for two miles along the Colorado River on the North side of the River.
Davis Dam is just over Don Laughlin's Bridge that connects Nevada with Bullhead City, Arizona.
Each morning, before 9:00AM, Davis Dam releases massive Colorado River water downstream ....near the Casino's.
The water is released from giant tubes on the bottom of the River bed. It creates a killer undertow. All the River Casino's ferry docks have signs.... "RIVER UNDERTOW .... Do not get into the water off the docks ! "
Well, as told to me by Harraha's Casino employee's, a drowning- a- day is the norm on the River.....sad stuff.
Each Month, for over two years, Harraha's sends an MD 80 to Fresno, California's FYI Airport and I take it (Comped flight, food and rooms.....what's NOT to like ? ).
OPPS..........I FORGOT SOMETHING .........
END OF PART #1...
LATER.................
Jim
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| James Dodd |
| | 12/18/11 at 01:46 AM | | #2 |
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PART #2..........
Yo .... Good Evening,
Just back from the heated 70 foot Indoor Pool at the gym............
November's trip did not start well. I packed my monster-expandable Ford blue, 8 wheeled 32 inch luggage with useless junk like my 12 inch tall collection of Bullwinkle,Rocky and Dudley-Do-Right into the luggage.
I use a wheeled walker ( also Ford blue ) and I strap them on it.
Boy....do they bring-in comments from the Harraha's staff and the public..
People really loved that TV series. I had one female Harraha's employee yell at me, from across the Casino floor ........" Hey Bullwinkle....what's up ?
Anyway...... I took my new Ford blue Prius to the Fresno, airport to board the junket jet that was almost full. It had over 100 players from the Monterey, Ca. area.
I was trying to park in the long term airport parking lot and my brain locked-up.
I could NOT remember how to get the damn Prius doors to lock .....so.... out came the owners manual.
A Toyota Prius does NOT have a standard car key..... you have to hit the " park " button in the console between the dash and the driver's seat and then hit the " start button " built into the dash before you can lock the damn doors...... very weird stuff !
That solved, I went to the Alleigent Air terminal counter to join the mega people waiting to sign-in and get their boarding passes. I waited in the back of the line.
Presto ! ..... the four Allegiant ticket agents pointed me out and brought my boarding-pass to me ..... super nice !
I went through the TSA bull and found I DID NOT have my BP meds with me.....so.... out I went to the Airport parking lot to search around my car for my meds.
The fully-loaded plane was held for me because I had to go through the TSA for a second time .......jessssss !...... the older I get the more I see I need a keeper !
The ......" Where the hell have you been ? " look I got when I boarded the plane was not a good thing.
The flight was outstanding..... the quickest ever. We had a tail-wind and the pilot flew 450 miles in only 44 minutes flat !
I was given my usual room on the 8th floor in Harraha's Northern-most tower #3.
It has a killer view overlooking the Colorado River with the bright neon lights from The Palms, The Golden Nugget, the Colorado Bell and the Riverside Casino's reflecting on/ off the River. It has a very deadly glass-like surface on the River water.
The Monthly luggage from the plane is not delivered to your room for over two hours so I waited for it in my room.
After it showed up I turned off my CD of the Universal, repeating, Far-Eastern Sound of Life... ... "OM."
I play the " OM" CD, in the background 24 hours a day, seven days a week, wherever I am at. It affects all Human Chauckra (sp) energy centers and gives my body a mellowness... sort of like....... " I have been in a hot tub for three days ! "
Hey ! ........ anything to try to get a leg-up on the Casino's.....right ?
So........ down to the gaming floor I went , past Starbucks, Mc Dee's, 31 Flavors, and the Cinn. Roll Store before I hit the two craps tables on the Harraha's Laughlin main gaming floor ...............
I have got to deal with my four dogs..........Pronto !
END PART #2
Thoughts ?
Jim |
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| James Dodd |
| | 12/18/11 at 12:37 PM | | #3 |
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Good Morning,
Boy, I'll be glad when this Xmas season is over. The overblown happiness thing
is a bit much.
I am into Buddhism because of what happened to me as a kid.
BACKGROUND INFORMATION :
When I was nine years old my Father moved his family and his Mack and
Kenworth logging trucks down from Coos Bay, Oregon to Tivy Valley, California.
Tivy Valley is located in the Central Valley foothills.
He relocated us from Oregon to log-off the burnt trees from the massive Dinkey
Creek fire.
He allowed me to ride shotgun in his red 1957 Ford F 150 pick-up and every
time he passed the Buddhist Church in Dinuba, Ca. I would totally blow it !
I would get goose-bumps and my hair would stand-up all over my
body.
I could not speak....until..... he passed the Dinuba Buddhist Church.
At age 9/10 I had almost zero life experiences in my brains hard-drive. I
basically knew............ nothing.
It took 40 + years to find out what the power the Buddhist Church had
over me.
I was drugged-up with a 12-inch opening cut in my chest I was on the
operating room table, in 1996, at the Bajanor Hospital in Tijuana, Mexico.
I had a massive heart attack. I died with the 8 Mexican Doctors looking on.
The next thing I knew I was in the blackest of black-space when a
a train-like awesome White- Light came toward me and said :
" It is not your time....go back to your life ! "
I told the Light ( I thought I was dead ) ....
" WOW ! ....That Earth thing was an E-Ticket ....let's do it again ? "
The Light repeated its demand that I return to my ljfe ....two more
times....so...I drifted back to the big blue globe in the sky.
I used the 1,200 miles of snow-covered Mts. covering Eastern California as a
homing beacon to return to the West Coast of America.
I CAME BACK THROUGH THE ROOF OF THE BUDDHIST CHURCH IN DINUBA, CALIFORNIA !
So..... that was it !
At age 9 my being KNEW .... the Buddhist Church was a portal to the other
side....a Spirit-World door...so to speak.
To this day, I get chills when I am in Dinuba, California.
Anyway, back to the TR :................................................................................
I was on a re-con mission on the junket flights arrival night. The single open
craps table was packed with loud 20- something's. They were making mega
prop-bets and that slowed the game to un-playable crawl.
So........ I drifted back to my room after hello's from several dealer's dealing
various Casino games.
On each trip I try to sleep until 3:00AM. At that time, my internal clock has me
up. I hit the craps table then because, usually, I have the table to myself and I can
get a craps throwing outcome in 3 to 5 seconds.....flat !
I am using Heavy's inside-betting-trigger. I hook it into Frank Scoblete's
five-count pre-betting-qualifier-craps-system and I am using the " 777 Craps
System " ( found on the VLS board ) as my 5-6 step bet-regress and recovery-
from-my- losses system.
The 5-Count System is generating 30% to 70% less profit than Heavy's betting
trigger, but it is a.... much......... safer way to play.
With the 4/10 System working with the above system, I was able to stuff 57
President Grants, that I did not have in the beginning of the trip, into my gaming
kitty wallet.
I will pencel-out a real session to show how all this works together in the next post....
END OF PART #3 ..........................................
Party On !
Respectfully,
Jim
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| JOHN PATRICK |
| | 12/18/11 at 01:40 PM | | #4 |
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Jim
My symathies for your childhood experiences and your near scrapes with death.....
and I am leaving your post up becaue you are not an evuil poster .....
But one more mention of buddhism and down goes every post made in that text by you or ANYONE ANYONE ANYONE who even mentions it again on this board .....your ip number=s will be deleted .....
there will be no replies to this setof comments by NYONE .....which would cause the elimination ability to post here .....
the thread will remain UP for the purpose of gambling related comments ....
Don't test me on this one ....don't even dream about testing me .............don't anyone dare .....
PATRICK |
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| Michael |
| | 12/18/11 at 05:44 PM | | #5 |
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| Thank you John. |
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| James Dodd |
| | 12/19/11 at 06:27 AM | | #6 |
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Yo,
It appears I have made a fatal-error in posting on this site.
I falsely assumed I was posting to humans with adult minds.
It was recently posted, on another site, that 99% of craps players lose money .
I know that 100% of my life-experiences affect 100% of everything
I do in gambling.
Have a good life............
Respectfully,
James Dodd |
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| trackman |
| | 12/19/11 at 10:53 PM | | #7 |
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| And another one bites the dust. |
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| Dave G_CT |
| | 12/20/11 at 01:05 PM | | #8 |
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Hi James
You did take a swipe at the Christmas Season-how can happiness be over blown? As to Buddism- I do not know much about. It seems anytime I hear anything about Buddism or is it Hinduism is when someonr lights himself on fire to correct a perceived injustice. |
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| Phil |
| | 12/25/11 at 01:22 AM | | #9 |
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What abot the Zen Master?
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| James Dodd |
| | 12/25/11 at 01:45 AM | | #10 |
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Yo All......
NOT NOW or have I ever been a Buddhist.
In fact, my Grandfather was a Church of Christ Minister in Falls City, Oregon for 35 years.
At age 9, when my father drove by the Buddhist Church and I flipped-out .....each and every time ............I knew NOTHING about NOTHING.
My above experiences HAPPENED TO ME....... by forces beyond my control.
I did not seek them out.....period !
END OF DISCUSSION........
Respectfully,
Jim |
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| Bigdog |
| | 12/26/11 at 01:04 AM | | #11 |
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Jim
I and I am sure a few others are interested in hearing about the rest of your trip to Laughlin ....... How did it go ? |
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| James Dodd |
| | 12/26/11 at 08:29 PM | | #12 |
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BIGDOG....All.......
I just got off the phone with Harrah's Laughlin. I have scratched my New Year's trip to Laughlin.
My head-voice told me not go........hummmmm ?
I just gave up rooms and an invite-only buffet with every seafood you can think of.......but.......
It is 18 hours of driving (RT) and only 1 hour and 45 minutes (RT) by R. Royce engined jets to the Bullhead City Airport on the Colorado River.
I am booked on the junket-jet for Jan 13th and the Feb. 13th flights.
I would really like to get you-all's take on the following.....
Around 18 months ago, I was at the 7-11 getting gas and I dropped my wallet near the gas pumps and as I went to pick it up..... a straw-haired 20-something ran like hell and took my wallet.
It happened super- fast. I was stunned !
He took my cash and emptied my bank accounts of several hundred $$$$.
With the Police Report, my CC made- good my lost $$$'s.
Three days ago, it happened again. This time I dropped my wallet on the floor of the local Mc Dee's inside our local Super Wal Mart.
I was 15 feet away when an Angel Woman said.... " Hey ! Mister, you dropped your wallet ! "
Wow ! .... she saved me the cash that was in my wallet.
Two days ago, on local-news TV, a young mother, at the Clovis,Ca. Wal Mart, turned to pick-up her 15 Month old son and her purse fell on the floor.
In her purse was +$2,500.00 cash that she was going to use to pay bills.
Another woman saw what happened and sent her 4 years old son to bring her the purse. The store surv. camera tape shows it all .
She paid her Wal Mart bill with the stolen money and the tape shows her leaving the store with the stolen woman's stuff.
The Clovis Police put out the video on the airwaves and they asked for the public's help on ID'ing the suspect.
Nobody has come foward so far. It has been 72 hours since this happened.
I thought it over and came up with the idea to give the woman the $$$ that was in my wallet that I would have lost if my Angel had not called me to the fact that I had dropped my wallet.
I called the Police to get the woman's address and they told me to contact the TV station. No luck. I can get her address from my Rockford- File- like contacts in my local PD.
My friend says I will be giving her to much $$$$ ......+$800.00.
I reminded her on my last junket trip, in Nov., I ripped the Casino's for almost sixty President Grants.
If you were in my shoes ........what would you do ?
Respectfully,
Jim |
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| Damian Housman |
| | 12/26/11 at 10:40 PM | | #13 |
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| One thing I DON'T do is carry cash in my wallet. It's in another pocket. |
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| James Dodd |
| | 12/27/11 at 06:29 AM | | #14 |
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Damian H....All..........
Our Wal Mart Super Center opened a bill -paying and check-cashing center recently and it seems to be turning into a low-life magnet.
I live in the Central Valley of Ca. and we have the worst un-employment in the Nation.....26%. It is becoming scary around here......people are stressed.
Today, I sewed steel rings to all my pants just below the wallet-pant pockets.
I hooked black straight bungie cords, from the slot-machine player cards to the sewed-in pant -ring and to the steel ring in my wallet......problem appears.... solved.
The Nov. junket-trip was a good trip. As I started to post........... I went down to the Casino, as planned, at 3:00AM and there were 5 overnight players... still on the craps table.
They were not doing prop-bets but were getting killed by point-seven outs.
When they left the table, I switched to the Northern end of the table. It faces the Colorado River.
It was Black Friday morning and the table filled with players faster than it usually does, on a standard Friday morning.
I was setting the dice using the V-2 for my my C/O roll set....hoping to bring up 4's and 10's as my points.
That way, I could play the 4/10 Lay Bet Craps System. Every once in a while, the 4 or 10 would set-up as the point. and the 4/10 system kicked in.
However, on my first play the ' Heavy ' betting trigger set up and I went $220.00 inside-across.... after the shooter, set his point number.
Yep .... the next throw was the devil. The stickman kid said... " Jim that is not like you" ....as he swept my $$$ to the box.
The next shooters point was the 10 and the shooter made his 10-point. From mega back-testing I found it is rare for the 4 and 10 points to be made, back-to-back...... by different shooters.
I went... ' $400.00...NO 4 the very next time the 4/10 manifested as the point.
On the 4th roll the devil showed and the stick-kid said .... " Jim that is more like you. ' That left me down only -$20.00.
I went on to use the 4/10 System as a add-on to Heavy's way he is playing and I used John Patrick's ....Ric. System whenever the play allowed me to use it.
My progression was....... $220.00 to $440.00 to $440.00 ( if I won the first $440.00 bet ) ...if not...... I went to the final step......+$1,320.00. My playing ... NEVER.... went to the last step !
The above progression in not my idea. It is from the VLS Board's ...."777 Crap System." The author and his sidekick tested the 777- progression mega-times and it generated five-figure $$$$ over and over....so they say.
There were a few times I would color-up mult. 4- figure $$$ in chips.
I was not betting that much....just coloring-up that much. However, I was asked more than once, by players at the table.....
" How are you winning ? "
I did not know how easy it is to hit an inside-number, just once, on a shooter ! 
I have found Heavy is right. You must wait until an inside box number is rolled....past the point number.... before betting for a ... one-hit-and-down win.
My back-testing has shown...STOP BETTING ON A SHOOTER THAT HAS JUST MADE HIS 4 OR 10 POINT. .... He is .... ' cooked' ... because he has a just-proven-a bias to throw 4's and 10's.
i was lay-betting a shooter's 10-point and he made his point. The kid next to me was shadow-betting with me. The same shooter set up the four as his next point.
The kid asked.... Should we lay-bet his 4 ? i told him ....' NO ' ... because the shooter has a history of making his points.....so....we just stood there.....sure enough..... the shooter came back and made his 2nd outside point ! 
On each trip, I look foward to taking the Colorado River barge up-river the two miles to the Riverside Casino.
When the barge docks at the Riverside Casino, I walk up the covered dock 40 feet to the free employee/customer barge and it travels like a ...... ' BAT FROM HELL ( twin huge 2-cycle Japanese outboards ) .....to the huge parking lot on the Arizona-side of the Colorado River.
On the hour, every hour the ' BAT ' bus ( BullHead Area Transit ) meets Don Laughlin;s river barges. If you walk up the steep gangplank you will meet the BAT bus and for a buck it takes you anywhere you want to go.
I mostly go 6 miles down the Colorado River bank to the nice Bullhead City Super Wal Mart. I buy stuff ( cooked chicken, vegies, etc... ) for my rooms refrig.
Boy ! I listen to the people who ride on that bus. One young mother had her 6 year old's hand and was telling another woman ....
"We had to walk 3 miles to see my husband in his hospital bed because my little girl and I did not have extra taxi or bus fare to get to the hospital. "
As she left the bus, I slipped $$$ into her hand.
Well so long for now.....
Jim
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| James Dodd |
| | 01/01/12 at 07:21 AM | | #15 |
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Yo .......
I was thinking on 2011 and what craps play really stood-out for me ?
It happened on the Sept. junket trip. I was end-center, facing the Colorado River and the shooter was end-center with his back to the Colorado River.
I had just come from my room so I was thinking-fresh as I started the session.
I was going to start my playing using JP's Ricochet......so.... pre-point, I put +$200.00 in the DP box and at the same time, I put on the Ric @..... $400.00.... 'No Ten. '
The shooter throws a C/O 7 and I lose my $200.00 DP bet but I win +$200.00 on the hedged 10.
The shooters next C/O roll was also a seven....same result.....a wash.
The shooters third C/O roll was another seven.....same result.
A player at the far end of the table said to his end of the table pit-crew kid....
Wow ! that DP player is " losing his ass ! "
The pit-kid says to him........ " No he is not....he has a 100% hedge against the C/O 7's. "
I just smiled.....TKS.... JP !
Yep ! ....four C/O 7's in a row..... = -$800.00 without the Ricochet hedge and less the - $20.00 in vig $$$ with the Ricochet.
Yeah....I know, it would have been less stress to play the DC ...but I would have give- up possible point-seven-out $$$$.
Jim |
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