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Playing in Las Vegas
is easy. Winning there is easier still. But leaving Las Vegas with money is one
of the most difficult gambling traps known to man. I went broke the first twenty
times I went to Las Vegas. Stone cold minimum. Cashing in souvenir chips for blackjack
money, sleeping every two days in a twenty dollar motel room and loading up on
graveyard eggs. Las Vegas can be brutal. But the town will change for you once
you've left Las Vegas with money. Make no mistake. Las Vegas is not easy. But
it is worth it. Here are my top five Las Vegas tips. 1. Sleep on them 1. Sleep on them - Most overseas visitors to Las Vegas have
never encountered 24 hour gambling up close. Brits are used to the casino closing
at four am and everyone going home. It just ain't like that in Las Vegas, where
a good game can last four days or more with the same players. In a 24 hour town
like Las Vegas, mental freshness can be your biggest asset, and the best thing
you can do is to sleep on them. You walk into the poker room at midnight after
dinner and a few drinks and spy a cooking Hold'em game in the corner that you
figure to be a slight favorite in. Now comes the important concept. That poker
game will be better in four hours. Go upstairs, set your alarm for 4am, and sleep
on them. When you've jumped in the shower and entered the poker room at 4:30 am
with wet hair and chomping at the bit, you have gone from being a slight favorite
in the game to an overwhelming one. The game has gotten better, the winners have
left, the losers are four hours more drunk and tired, and you are fresh as a daisy
and ready to mow them down. You will never make as much money in Las Vegas as
when you sleep on them. 2. Have a pit rule - They don't call it the pit
for nothing. There might as well be a hundred guys standing around with axes and
guns. The pit is the most sharpshooting bankroll sniper that has ever been. On
the other hand, it's an established fact that craps is the most entertaining pastime
on the face of the earth not involving artificial stimulants. It's a clever paradox,
and one that must be negotiated in Las Vegas. The number of people who have pledged
to play only poker and then lost their entire bankroll during one session trying
to get even at the blackjack table is legendary, astronomical. It happens to everybody
until you come to grips. You must set a rule for the pit games and stick to it.
Maybe your rule is no pit games at all, maybe it's a $50 blackjack session once
a day, maybe it's a c-note at craps in the morning. Whatever it is, make a pit
game rule and stick to it. Because nobody that ever got stuck into the pit games
left Las Vegas with money. 3. Don't mix gambling with partying - Las Vegas
is the entertainment capital of the world, bar none. But mixing gambling with
partying is a dangerous equation. Here is the optimum schedule in Las Vegas -
Sleep, gamble, eat, party, sleep. It works. There is a lot of fun to be had in
Las Vegas without gambling. The best idea is to leave your gambling bankroll in
the safe and take a few bucks for fun. That way you also won't be susceptible
to the rare but killer disease known as stripper tilt, which has seen men losing
their entire gambling bankrolls at the Olympic Gardens strip club. Pitiful, really. 4.
Scout the lineup - This is not your local cardroom, where every face is familiar
or friendly. In Las Vegas, the lineup can change from nine fish to five sharks
quicker than boo. You must always be aware of who you're playing with and how
they're playing. And always be willing to change tables to a better game. It should
be an obsession to get in the best game in the house. In Las Vegas poker rooms,
what you are playing never matters so much as who you are playing with. 5.
Quit a loser - No one has ever survived in Las Vegas without quitting a game a
loser. If you're not willing to quit a loser, then every session is a potential
bankroll buster. Make it your goal to quit a game while losing at least once during
your stay. You'll appreciate it later.
Five
Tips For Leaving Las Vegas with Money
2.
Have a pit rule
3. Don't mix gambling with partying
4. Scout the lineup
5.
Quit a loser
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