[UA] Re: Las Vegas UA

[Nenad Ristic]

Pressed Send by accident (players, still no read)

Anyway, a couple of things which will happen

- Somebody tries to steal a slot machine that scored a jackpot recently

- Four people win simulanteous jackpots, with each person winning 333000

What do you guys think?

(BTW, this is the first UA game I am running)

On 10/18/06, Nenad Ristic <plosiguant at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Thanks a lot guys, will definitelly use the info from Aaron. Good to have
> info from someone with an 'inside view'
>
> My players, please stop reading now
>
>
>
>
> Are they gone? Good!
>
> Anyway, here is the setup I am thinking of:
>
> The Casino, called Lakshmi's Dance, was owned by a member of the OU, who
> recently died, leaving his interest in the Casino to his son, who has no
> idea about the OU.
>
> Since the Casino, due to some architectural oddities, is very important,
> now there is a war on to see who gets control of it
>
> A couple of inidents I am thinking of putting in:
>
>
>
> On 10/17/06, Aaron Harmon <hkdharmon at gmail.com > wrote:
>
> > I used to work in casinos. I dealt craps and blackjack for 4 years and
> > heard lots of weird stories, not supernatural, just weird. Also, understand
> > that I have not seen "Casino, the cooler, etc"
> > OK, here goes:
> > Casinos will do jut about anything for a high roller, someone who bets
> > big. Big bettors are big losers and casinos waant them coming back.
> > I have heard of:
> > A high roller who wants to sit at his own table with no other players, a
> > hot young female dealer, and a towel to cover the fact that he is
> > masturbating.
> > Violent suicides and murders covered up if they happen in the casino,
> > not to avoid procecution, but to keep the story out of the media (bad
> > publicity).
> > All dealers having to pay the pit boss a commision ($20+) for each day
> > of work or lose their job (Illegal).
> > Pit bosses firing and hiring dealers as a joke and on a whim.
> > Pit bosses having sex with dealers in the broom closet on their break
> > under the threat of being fired.
> > Dealers being fired because a player won too much money at their table.
> >
> > Things I have witnessed:
> > Dealers going to the one bar in the casino where there are no cameras to
> > drink on break.
> > Being told to work overtime with no warning ("You're not off. You're
> > staying four more hours") or lose your job.
> > Lots of dealers are drug addicts, mostly meth (speed, crank) so they can
> > work back-to-back 12 hour shifts.
> > Dealers who do not know how to deal a game being assigned to a game
> > becase they are sexy (see above).
> > The casino will replace the deck or dice on a game if players are
> > winning too much. This often makes players mad and they may stop playing.
> >
> > Also, I do not know if you know this, and it may be useful, dealers work
> > 60 minutes and then take a 20 minute break throughout their shift. Sometimes
> > this gets juggled a little to cover tables properly, but this is the rule.
> > No lunch breaks, just 60 on, 20 off.
> > There are usually four dealers on a craps table, though a full table can
> > be run with three (called "inside-stick") and I have seen "half-tables" run
> > with just one (requires some special equiptment to make the table smaller),
> > called a "craps crew". They are sort of a team and often all have the same
> > scedles and hours. They may even be hired and fired as a group, though this
> > is less common now than it used to be. Craps tables usually have adedicated
> > supervisor watching the game called a "box-man". SO yes a busy craps game
> > may require 5 employees to run properly.
> > Craps dealers are a little arrogant because it takes a long time to
> > become good at craps. Blackjack (BJ) can be learned in a few days and there
> > are millions of BJ dealers. BJ is sometimes called "Snapper" and BJ dealers
> > sometimes called "Skirts" because only "real men" can deal craps, so BJ is a
> > "woman's game". Women are often looked at with a little disapproval if they
> > deal craps, because it is a "man's job". It is not uncommon to find a very
> > old-school craps dealer who will refuse to deal BJ if the casino needs him
> > to because he sees it as beneath him. Also, it would be very rare to find a
> > dealer that cannot deal BJ. Craps dealers are a little rare and becomeing
> > more so as time goes on as craps is losig its populatrity (people think it
> > is too hard to understand, boo fricking hoo, try dealing it). Roulette is
> > somewhere in the middle as far as prestige goes.
> > All the stupid new games like carribean stud and others are often put in
> > one area by temselves (a group of game tables is called a "Pit") and that
> > pit may be referred to as Disneyland, because of all the "mickey Mouse"
> > games.
> > More if I think it it.
> >
> >
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