[macgeek]

Originally Posted by Atlas1337

It is my opinion that anyone willing to dedicate the time can make an above-average income playing poker on the Strip though they'll probably be working above-average hours and spending all their time casino hopping for all the promotions. My point about the limitless potential pertains to those who have already achieved a comfortable income simply exploiting the promotions and are actually good at poker. Let me clarify -- I don't think you even have to be good at poker to make an above-average income by simply exploiting all the daily/weekly promo tournaments around town.

You just have to think a bit outside the mainstream. I'm still convinced a young American with the motivation can make an above-average living as a professional survey/promo entrant. There are literally thousands of promotions online at any given time for stuff like high-end optical mice. Just ebay all that stuff, fill out all those surveys on the back of CVS/Walgreens coupons, etc. The more you research it, the better ways you'll find to automate it such as outsourcing the longer surveys to someone in India -- 'data entry' labor is nearly a commodity on the internet these days.

Here's a good example: I made ~$100 worth of Amazon gift certs by buying several boxes of $1 coins from the US mint with a rewards credit card then depositing the rolls back into the bank. NPR and other news organizations covered stories of people doing the same thing using 10 P.O. boxes and dozens of sky miles credit cards and earning $80,000 worth of sky-miles -- enough to fly anywhere around the world for the rest of their lives. I could of done it too, but I was lazy and didn't want to set up all those PO boxes/credit card accts.

I have a friend who was buying postal money orders, then depositing them back into his bank account, he said he earned 1/2 million points, before they shut it down (Post offices NOW only take debit cards and cash) for money orders, no more credit cards

Jonathan

[MadManofBethesda]

Originally Posted by aggrofish

Anyone every play in that room? I might check it out this weekend just to see how many nits show up for the bonus and try to run em over.

The promo doesn't start until January 1.

[aggrofish]

I guess MSchu isn't the only one with bad reading comprehension around here. Thanks for the clarification.

[LVPoker1]

Originally Posted by aggrofish

Anyone every play in that room? I might check it out this weekend just to see how many nits show up for the bonus and try to run em over.

The room is mostly dead. They have some draws for tournaments but probably only have one or two cash games running at a time. There are many afternoons where they are completely dead. I have not been in there in months but I assume nothing changed if they are adding a public prop program.

The poker room is in a terrible place, buried in the back of the casino by the parking deck. It gets little foot traffic unless people come by car or the tram from Mirage. If someone comes by cab or in from the strip they would never know there was a poker room.

[Tek_Freek]

Originally Posted by mojavedxer

Why add flames to the fire. Its nice to see that some of the posters still can act like adults after an incident like this one.

Not the intent. If you can't have a little fun and tease people on occasion life gets dull. If I wanted to fan the fire popping pop corn and a food fight are not what I would be referencing.

[Buzz123]

Originally Posted by Robustus

Huh... That's a nice deal. A typical cash-game player is worth about $9/hr to a poker room, so that $400 payout for 40hrs is giving back more than they expect to make off of you. Nice.

Yeah, but the shill factor is worth more than $9 becuz your play will entice others to play.

If I played for 40 hours I'd probably need their money to get home. I'd lose about 10 grand.

[kimba01]

Originally Posted by Buzz123

Yeah, but the shill factor is worth more than $9 becuz your play will entice others to play.

If I played for 40 hours I'd probably need their money to get home. I'd lose about 10 grand.

...I wouldn't even GO home!

[dmbfan41cn]

Originally Posted by aggrofish

Anyone every play in that room? I might check it out this weekend just to see how many nits show up for the bonus and try to run em over.

Yes... as others have mentioned the room traffic suffers greatly due to its poor location within the casino. I've played a few times and the games have been dominated with older local rocks/nits, making for a beatable yet very boring game. I think it's also worth noting that their NL game is 1-3, not 1-2... doesn't make much of a difference but just a FYI.

[philmason]

Just an update for everyone, they are not going to be doing $400 for 40 hours. that is down to $300 now. The highest pay will be at 60 hours, and its $599, $10 an hour or so. At 40 hours it will be only $300, $7.5 an hour.

One last thing, the $2 comp will still be present on all games, all hours , and can be used towards food and such.

[philmason]

With this new promo they should have 24/7 cash game action, and they will be spreading a 2-5NL game as well as their 1-3NL and limit games.

As for the existing crowd in that room, its not what I would call nits. The rocks will show up for the promo though.