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Aug 15, 2024
A Numbers Game | August 15, 2024 | Hour 2
A Numbers Game | August 15, 2024 | Hour 2
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0:00
The numbers told the story, they always do. He's one of those idiots who believe in analytics. This is a numbers game with Gil Alexander on VSiN.
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Hour number two of a numbers game right here at VSiN, the sports betting network. VSiN.com, Game Plus, iHeartRadio, YouTube TV. Every which way, we don't care which way you take us in, we just appreciate that you do.
0:20
It's Gil Alexander. It's Kelly Bidlin. Kelly, uh, buttoning up the shirt, smoothing the beard out. Yeah. Ready to go. Ran to the restroom quick, you know? Did you really?
0:28
Little crew meeting in the, uh, in the restroom, yeah. Yeah, that's awkward. Is that where you guys meet usually? [laughs] We just all happened to run at the same break, right? I never get out of this chair.
0:39
No, you don't. You're, you- no. A camel. That's why you can call me weird all you want. It's way- There we go... it's way odder to me that you've- There we go... I've never once seen you go to the restroom.
0:46
This is Kelly's thing. If I- It's-... if I poke at him, he goes back with this. Oh, the water bottle has been open today. It has been open. I had a bit of water. Usually I, I put a water bottle there every day for Gil.
0:56
Usually it's, it's full still by the end of it. Well, that's not because I don't like water, it's because I, uh, don't really, uh, necessarily recommend the D H2O. Oh, okay. I did not know that.
1:05
Over, say, a Fiji, 'cause, uh, you know. Well, well, come on, yeah. [laughs] Obviously. Oh, come on. Let's- I'll, I'll go, I'll go to, I'll go to my death arguing, uh, arguing for Fiji. Yes.
1:15
Like, when people, people- You're with me on that... like to dunk on it- Yeah... oh, no, it is- Yeah... it's worth the buck, yeah. The people who say there's no difference- There's a difference... just stop it. Stop it.
1:22
You know why, Kelly? It's artesian, they tell me. That's right. [laughs] I have no idea what that means. Ladies and gentlemen, second hour on Thursday, you know what that means.
1:29
Unscripted with the Crack Man, Bill Krackenberger. [upbeat music] Oh, yeah. Soft rock, scouting out machines. Oh, a little fade out there. Oh. Let's play the long version.
1:46
Can we play the remix that keeps going here? Oh, no, we can't do it. I think it just, it does for a little while. There we go. Here it is. Billy. Hey, guys. I like this part. How we doing? We're doing very well.
1:54
You know you're the only guy that has, like, this kind of spectacular intro music? The intro's unbelievable. Yeah. Yeah, it's like almost Kramer on Seinfeld. I settled for that instead of getting any money.
2:03
[laughs] Yeah, just give me the intro. Like, you know, when Kramer had, like, the... Well, there wasn't any, like, smoking a s- something. I, I settled for that, for the coffee. Remember the coffee spill or something?
2:11
If you had under four and a half seconds- Yeah, the coffee spill, yeah, yeah... on Crack asking for money, you cash. [laughs] Yeah. No, I mean, I'm sorry. I'm not, I'm not really asking for nothing. I'm just...
2:20
I, they, they could donate something for... I'll give them a charity. Hey, um- Um- You know that, uh, Survivor documentary that you and I, uh, kept doing last year? We- Yes, yes.
2:29
A matter, matter of fact, they, I got all those checks too. [laughs] I did as well. Bill, Bill Ade, uh, just said he posted the trailer. Uh, episode one of Circus... Oh, ep- uh, he posted the trailer at vsin.com.
2:41
Episode one of Circus Survivor: The Quest For $9.2 Million, which is what the, uh, prize was last year, will make its debut Monday night right here on VSiN.
2:51
Five-part docuseries takes you inside the high-stakes world of the annual Circus Survivor contest.
2:56
Follow the contestants as they make all or nothing picks over the 2023 NFL season, and go behind the scenes of the world's largest legal betting contest.
3:04
Uh, by the way, several VSiN hosts make appearances along the way to offer their advice. Billy, you and me apparently are featured in the, uh, first segment when you took me to the Italian American Club. Oh, nice.
3:13
So we're all- Wow... about that. Circus Survivor: The Quest For 9.2 Million on Monday, 9:00 PM Eastern, 6:00 PM Pacific on vsin.com and YouTube TV, as well as a live broadcast on X. Go to vsin.com/survivor for details.
3:26
Oh, wow, so you can go... Did you say live broadcast on Twitter? That's what, that's what I just said. Wow. That's what I just said. I am impressed. Yeah. Yeah.
3:34
So this is it, you, you finally reached the big time, Billy. Yeah. Yeah. So, um, you know, guys, I wanna th- start out with last night's dinner. Oh. So last night's dinner- Okay. [laughs] Um, sorry. That's all right.
3:46
We can go anywhere. Mostly- That's all right... we can go anywhere, but mostly food. [laughs] Um, so last night's dinner was at the Fountain Bleu. Oh, Fountain Bleu.
3:55
And there was more people inside the restaurant- Yes... than the casino itself. Than the casino itself. In the steakhouse? By the way- In the steakhouse?... what a restaurant. It's called Mother Wolf.
4:04
Is that the one where they- Italian... come running with the whole show and the fire and the steak and all that? No. No, it's not. Not the steakhouse. No. Oh, steak house. I was in Mother Wolf.
4:10
Steakhouse is really not... I heard Don's is good. There's a place called Don's, supposed to have one of the best steaks in the city, actually. That'll be my next- It's, it's really good. It's really good.
4:16
Yeah, I heard Don's is good. Um, but Mother Wolf shocked me how good it was. I never expected that there. What's the cuisine at Mother Wolf? Italian. It's Italian. Okay.
4:26
It's, it's, it's Italian, but it, it was just top chef. The, the chef there, and I'm, I'm sorry to not know the chef's name, the chef is really popular and, and, uh, it, it showed. Every single table was taken on the...
4:39
By the way, people know that Wednesday's the slowest night of the week in the gaming business. Slowest night usually.
4:45
Uh, you could run a team of Sherman tanks through the casino and not hit anybody, blindly, just run- rolling down the aisles. However, Mother Wolf was 200 people in the restaurant. Really? Yes. Yes.
4:56
It, it, it was- Wow... it was really, really great too. I'll tell you- Are they a new opening, uh, Bill, or- I guess they opened when the building opened, I guess. Okay, okay, yeah. Yeah.
5:02
'Cause I know they, you know, when, when they first opened, right, like they opened a few things and then they're gonna be opening more here, as, what, the next year or two progress. But- Yeah.
5:09
I went to dinner with a couple guys that were, uh, poker players that are sports bettors now, um, which I met for the first time. Uh, how did it all start out?
5:18
Okay, so, um, Rick, remember Rick from, on Don Best, Rick Aleck from Don Best? Rick invited me with Johnny Detroit, who I've never even met, met before, never met him, and they- You've never met Johnny Detroit before?
5:31
No. Oh, wow. Mm-mm. No. Yeah. So I, I brought the...
5:34
No, so those guys invited me t- And who joined us at dinner was poker players/sports bettors, very, very smart guys, David Williams and Jay Farber, who I've never, never met either one of them too.
5:47
Um, David and I have known each other for, for years, but never, ever met Um, so it was, but the dinner with... Those guys know how to order. That guy, Jay, first time I met him, he knew how to order.
5:56
These guys go out to gourmet dinners like every night. He ordered and everyone split, like, family style. You know what I mean? And it was, he knew exactly what to order. You, you respect a guy who knows how to order.
6:05
I, I agree. Oh, more than a handicapper moving games five points. I agree. I agree. Oh, yeah. No, he knew how- What, what he, what, ha- Jay, I know, I know that name. I know Jay Farber.
6:14
Do you respect a guy who knows how to order more than you disrespect a guy who does not know how to order? 'Cause I think the flip side of that is even w- is- Yeah... is, is more dramatic. Oh, interesting.
6:22
Yeah, that's interesting. I never really gave that- Have you, have you gone with someone, you know, to a restaurant and they're like, "Uh, is there anything simpler on the menu?" Like, that kind of person? Yeah.
6:30
That bothers me. Y- yeah. That kind of bothers you. You know what, though? No, no, I think I have a bigger issue with the people with the op- with the opposite. Okay.
6:38
'Cause some people are just, some people are just picky or have allergies or whatever. Well, yeah, if you have allergies. It gets annoying. But then, then, you know, then don't come to the restaurant. Yeah. Yeah.
6:46
Um- So did you not like yesterday when we were out at breakfast and I was like, "What's your favorite item here?" And then the wait- the waitress kind of gave me some crap for that.
6:53
We went to, speaking of, yeah, uh- Where'd you guys go? We went to, um- Don't ask me. Yeah. Siegel's? Siegel's? Siegel's. Oh, Siegel's at, at the El Cortez? El Cortez, yeah. Yeah, with Steve Fezzik. Yeah.
7:04
Big sweat joint over there. [laughs] I'm, I'm so mad at them. I'm kind of mad at them, them. They, they, uh, one night I went in there and played a bonus machine.
7:12
A guy called me from downtown and said, "Hey, there's a machine down here." Yeah. "It's $50 a spin, though. I, I can't afford it." But that, you know, I ha- I got, I have spotters out there. I like when you do the voice.
7:21
[laughs] Yeah. Yeah. [laughs] I got s- I got spotters. And he's like- Then what happened, Bill? [laughs] Oh, yeah, like I, I went down there. Yeah. And sure enough, he's sitting on the game. Yeah. And, um,
7:32
it, it was $50 a play, and I hit it for 1,700, and like the GM came over to me, and p- someone'll know who the GM is, and, uh, the GM come over to me and said, "Listen, yeah, you gotta..." You gotta go. "You gotta go."
7:42
Really? Yeah. [laughs] They wanted me out of there. Meanwhile, like I, I, you know, I know the guy that owns the place- [laughs]... but I don't wanna say, like- You should call, just call him over...
7:51
it's kind of embarrassing, like- You should call him over to tell the other guy, "You, you gotta get outta here." Oh, man. To the GM. It's kind of embarrassing. Like, I know the guy.
7:56
I literally have met, through, through a, a b- a buddy of mine who owned M- Mastro's in Beverly Hills, and I, I, I met the owner of the place multiple times.
8:04
I used to go to dinner at Pierro's, and right next to me was, you know, Jackie Gaughan used to sit all the time on Thursday nights. We used to watch games in the main room there.
8:11
And, um, you know, here I am trying to hustle a machine. And I actually hit for 1,700, but I g- I went and got a player card first, told the guy to sit. I said, "Let me, let me go get a player card."
8:20
They've never mailed me anything, [laughs] just to let you know. After giving them big play, $50 a spin on a reel- Oh, yeah... and a bucket of blood like that? Are you kidding me?
8:28
[laughs] I mean, literally, the guy came over to me and was telling me I have to leave, and these beads of sweat were hitting my, hitting my arm. Like, take it easy.
8:34
Oh, I'd like to s- I'd like to tell you that I was very disappointed with the matzo ball soup, which came highly recommended. Wow. Oh, yeah. Yeah, I, I- My- Matzo ball soup's so good.
8:42
Wait, did it actually come highly recommended? It did. Oh. Yeah, it was supposed to be a thing there. Okay. By the way, that restaurant's good. Meltzer, like Seltzer told me to go. Okay. Oh, really?
8:49
So, so that's where I asked the waitress. Yeah. I'm like, "What do you recommend on the breakfast menu?" Yeah. 'Cause the breakfast menu looked so, it, it was so large, right?
8:55
There was a lot of options, and I don't like have a go-to breakfast thing. I, I like different things. And she said, "Well, this is what most people order." Ah.
9:03
So I went a different direction, and then she gave me crap for it. And I was like, "Well, you didn't recommend anything. You just told me what most people order." She just gave you a, a popularity item.
9:10
Yeah, like that's not a recommendation. I- if you're a waiter or waitress, you have to be halfway sharp. You have to know what happens every night. Customers say, "What do you like?" Yeah, yeah. "What do you sell?
9:20
What do you do?" I mean, seriously, last night at, at, at, um, at that restaurant last night, even though, uh, Jay ordered right, the girl, smoke show, by the way, 10 plus.
9:30
[laughs] She, she said, she's like, "You have to get this and try this and try this." She was right. Her recommendations, and by the way, I, this girl was so th- I have body parts that weigh more than her.
9:40
How does she know? But, but she knew. No, she, she knew exactly what to order. It, it, that place was great, but let me tell you something. Over there, I like that restaurant.
9:48
Kenny Epstein's the owner of the, of the El Cortez, by the way. Um, Kenny been in town for 100 years. Uh, h- he is the owner, and, and, and I've met him multiple times. When that guy told me I...
9:59
He didn't tell me to leave, but he said, "Listen, yeah, we, we don't like that kind of play. We, we don't like your kind of play." I was like, oh, my God, this is so embarrassing.
10:05
I have to actually tell Kenny this if he sees me or something. But, um, that restaurant I like, and I'll tell you why, that you guys went to last night. I just made a wrong order. Let me tell you why I like that. Yeah.
10:15
Now, starting September is stone crab season, September through May. So they get the same exact stone crabs that Kenny gets them from, uh, Freddy Glusman over at... A lot of Jews involved here. Okay.
10:30
[laughs] Uh, it's fr- from, he gets them over in, uh, from, uh... What's that restaurant? Pierro's. So from Pierro's- By the way, for those just landing, Bill is saying that in tribute to me. He is. Oh. Yes.
10:40
I wasn't meaning, I was meaning Freddy and, and Kenny. Yeah, yeah.
10:42
[laughs] Um, but so he gets them from, from the guy that Pierro's gets them, and I hate to say this, I, I love Pierro's, but Pierro's charges at least double the price. So here, for 60 bucks, you get the 150...
10:56
They're 150 at Freddy's. Sorry, Freddy. They're, they're 150 over there. $60, you get the same order of stone crabs- Wow... from the same... And by the way, they're great. Early in the season, you wanna wait a month.
11:07
I'm gonna say October, November, December, January, unbelievable stone crabs- I-... right down there at Siegel's, so I'm giving them a plug even though they threw me out.
11:15
I appreciate, [laughs] even though they threw you out. I appreciate the value play on the stone crab, though I will say in my, in my crab rankings, Maryland one, Dungeness two- Ooh... stone crab three. Wow.
11:26
I'm, uh, I think stone crabs are underrated. Missed out on the best one. What's that? Alaskan king crab. Oh, stop it. They're the most expensive probably. [laughs] You're probably right.
11:33
I thought Kelly was going in an entirely different direction. [laughs] Yeah. But, uh- Got to think it's catch...
11:38
we're, we're with Bill Krackomberger, Unscripted with the Crack Man @BillKrackman with a K is where you can find him on Twitter. It's a numbers game at VSiN, the sports betting network.
11:46
[upbeat music]This is the Sports Betting Network We get off air last segment, first thing out of Bill's mouth, he goes, "I didn't even get to pizza yet."
12:04
[laughs] Oh, no, these pizza rankings just came out. Like, I didn't even get... I can't believe the whole segment went by and, and I, and, and we, we, we... Yeah, I had some things to get to.
12:13
I know we're, you know, sports betting, but I talk everything. Wait, Kelly has, had a great question off air. Oh, yeah. Can you repeat that question for me? You want me to hit that now? Yeah, yeah. Okay, okay.
12:20
I was curious about it. Well, I do, I do highly recommend, though, the Steve Fezzik walking tour of the El Cortez was... We, we got- Yes... treated to quite an experience. We did. It was, it was very nice. Yeah.
12:29
Um, my question for Bill, and I've been wondering this for years, but never really had the right person to ask this question to, is why when you go into, I feel like this is, like, every casino nationwide, but sp- sp- specifically Vegas, you will, if you w- if you're playing the casinos here, you'll al- always notice the ATM machines that you can also put your ticket in to get money back if you're playing on a machine, something like that.
12:49
They make it very easy so you don't have to go to the cage. But at some location inside the casino, you will also see, like- [laughs]... some crappy bank ATM that does not, like, have a bank branding or anything.
13:02
So it's not like Wells Fargo's, like, paying for this spot. But, like, why are th- why are there multiple ATMs, Bill? You're right. There's, like, J- Joe's Bank of Cleveland. Right. Yeah.
13:10
Like, yeah, it's like, you're like, "What is this?" And, you know, um, one ATM is a fee that they charge you a set fee. As a matter of fact, I put one on Twitter last week.
13:19
The g- lady w- got, she, she took out $40 and paid $10.99, and she left the receipt, so I took a picture of the receipt. Yesterday I seen one- $20... $20 from her checking account, six bucks- Oh. For 20 bucks.
13:32
And this is a local casino, which, you know, it seems like that. I, I, I just didn't know the locals casinos bust you out like that.
13:38
Now, what Kelly is saying, certain casinos have a, a, a, you know, not, not that it's a fugazi bank, but a bank you never heard of. They actually charge you a percentage of your withdrawal.
13:52
So if you're getting $100- Ooh... they'll charge $19.99, and, and they'll actually tell you to go to the cage sometime. The cage has them. If you cash advance $500, you pay $79. I mean, it's, it's sick. Geez.
14:04
So you're right, there are many different ways to get money in, in Vegas from machines or from these processors. From the casino's perspective- From the casino...
14:13
why, from the casino's perspective- Well, the casino's whacking up the fee room. Right. But I'm saying one of those is probably more profitable than the other. Why do they go with both? Well, here, here's how it works.
14:23
If you- I guess the-... take money out of the ATM, and you have a certain amount of money you can get per day- Ah. How would I, how would I even know this? Ah, that's a great que- that's a great answer.
14:33
This, the way you do it at the cage, it's not, they, they, they finagle it in w- the proper wording to the companies that it doesn't look like it's a cash advance. Right.
14:43
It looks like you're buying a, a service or a merchandise. Oh, gotcha. So I mean, it really, it, it's really, uh, f- the, the money goes- Yeah, but the, the main casino ones you can get cash advances out of.
14:53
But you may have limits for your cash advance on your card. Okay. And you may have hit it earlier in the week. You may have hit your limit, withdraw. The way you could circumvent, go into the cage and get...
15:05
Now, I don't recommend this for nobody. Please don't do this. [laughs] I was gonna say, pro- pro tip for degenerates out there. Yeah, do not do this. If you feel like you've exhausted every way- Yeah...
15:12
of getting money out, there's still one more way. Let me tell you- I'm so glad you said this, 'cause this is not what people should be doing. No. Yeah, no.
15:17
But I used to be, I, I was a little DGen when I was, like, 18 sneaking into Atlantic City casinos. Yeah. So I know all about these little things.
15:23
You can go Sunday night, like midnight, and you can get, like, 11:50 PM, and then at 1, 12, 12:10 PM the next day, it looks, looks like a different day. You just wait- Mm... to take money out.
15:34
You know, um, and, and by the way, I haven't used an ATM. It's, my, my card's not even signed. I don't, I, I, I just don't use ATMs. I mean, I just don't carry cash. I mean, what, what are you gonna...
15:43
It doesn't m- You know, when I see this, this bothers me. I was in a l- local casino, 20 bucks, $6 fee. That's insane. I, I, I almost felt bad for the lady. I was like, "Oh my God, what are you doing taking $20 out?"
15:53
Like, $6 you're paying. That, that's 30% you're paying for your, for a fee. I mean... But, you know, when you're an advantage gambler, though, you think so much differently than, than, than regular people.
16:03
I go in and walk in a casino. When I walk in, I look at casinos so differently. You, and you, Kelly, listen, off break, we could tell, we could tell the people.
16:11
When I walked in here, if you guys noticed, I went to those two machines there- Yeah... and these two over here. I love watching Bill walk in these places.
16:19
I go and check the f- I check four there, I check three in the back, and two there. So I, I literally check 11 machines when I come in here right away to see if the, if the bonus...
16:28
I, my, I just look at things differently. I'm looking to steal. I'm l- not, not looking to gamble.
16:31
Well, well, you got me looking that way too, Bill, 'cause I said, we said, I said during our break yesterday, I'm like, "Gilly, you see that lady over there?
16:36
She's been sitting at that machine for three days straight during this show." Wow. You knew she was doing something. Not there anymore, but I saw you walk in, and you- Yeah... kind of looked over at the same machine.
16:44
It, it's a must hit by 15, so it has to hit by 15 of these particular bonuses come on in the blue. And if it's at 14, it's a great play, actually, 'cause you don't see it that much. But I even look for the one, the red.
16:55
And there's a red, there's a green, and there, and there's a, uh, blue. The red I look for 12. So the red you look for 12. I don't know the name of the machine. I'd be happy to give it out to people.
17:03
I just don't know the name of it. Uh, Wolf Run? No. No, no, no. No. This is the progressive free games. It's, it's just, yeah, the wolf... Is, is that Wolf Run there? I don't even know. Let me, let me ask you a question.
17:10
Sorry. Somebody's, somebody's listening here like, "How does Bill become, how does Bill develop that eye for these machines?" It's, it's, it's not really an eye. [laughs] Let me just be blunt.
17:21
Uh, Alan Kessler, who just hit for 1.2 million o- on a machine, Alan was the first person I've ever learned machines from almost 30 years ago, like these bonuses and stuff like that.
17:31
And- All right, well, you learn from somebody. I did. That's, that's important.
17:33
And then als- I'll, then the new ones that come out, if you notice, I'll just show you my last text to Randy McKay, and Randy's very good to me. I mean, he, he's, uh...
17:42
So the new one, if I see a new one, if I see a new machine, I'll s- Ran- Randy- Yeah... Randy can see it from across the casino like a- [laughs] Yeah... $6 million man.
17:50
He's like, "Boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop." So these, these, these pile of purple little balls, I say, "Randy, what is this thing? It looks like something new."
17:57
And then I, I said, "I've seen some checkers looking for this," you know, the poachers. And he says, "Uh, I believe if all three are high, I'll try. I'll find, you know, so I'll find out." Like, he's good.
18:06
Randy will g- will share information. Alan Kessler will share information. Uh, these guys are, are the geniuses behind the, the, the slot machines and what they'll tell you.
18:15
And- So let's get back to the important thing, uh, pizza. So this- [laughs]... this, this, this, uh, company that every year, this particular site, it's the top 50 pizzas come out. It's 50toppizza.it.
18:29
I'm not really advertising for them, that's just it. So there, there are these, um, top 50 pizzas in the United States. So they rate, um, all over the United States. I, listen, I gotta be honest with you guys. I, it...
18:41
You almost wanna think it's fugazi. How can number two be in San Fran? Um, it doesn't make any sense to me, but- Well, if you s- if you said.it, is that an Italian- It is... URL? This is an Ita- this is an- Yeah...
18:51
Italy URL. Okay. You're exactly right. Right. So these- What's the, what's the place in San Francisco? Tony's Pizza Napoletana? Oh, I know Tony's Pizza.
19:00
Is that Tony G- is that Tony the, the, the chef from Vegas, the, the guy that owns Pizza Rock? I don't know. It might be. Might be. It might be. It looks like him.
19:06
Uh, by the way, the two pizza places in Las Vegas that made the top 50 are Pizza Rock downtown, right here. Okay. Not the one at Green Valley, this one downtown. And you know what?
19:16
I have had some d- I- They have so many different types of pizza... I have had some good pizza at Pizza Rock. I, I've had some good pizza. They have, they have a- Yeah... sausage appetizer with- Yeah...
19:22
honey on it, drizzled with honey. Oh, God. The, uh, I would... Most coal fire pizza I am not a, that big of a fan of. I w- love wood fire pizza way more. Yeah. But that's how good I think Pizza Rock is. Oh, wow.
19:35
Because I, I, I really li- So, so- I really like them, and they're a coal fire place. Coal fire, okay. So, so Pizza Rock was in Vegas. Then, um, think it was number 28.
19:43
Number 45 out of 50 in the whole United States also lands here in Las Vegas. It... And I've been there. It's Double Zero.
19:50
It's a Neapolitan pizza, which I don't really like 'cause sometimes the Neapolitan's softer in the middle. And, but it's a Neapolitan pizza. The outside's charred.
19:58
It's in Chinatown, and, uh, it's, it's right at the start of Chinatown, though, when you come off the, uh, the 15. And, uh, they made the top. They're, they're the two.
20:07
Now, uh, I got this, um, th- every year I see this, this, th- this, uh, review, and Anthony Curtis' great podcast, and I'm sorry I don't know the name of it, but Anthony Curtis has a great weekly podcast here in Vegas.
20:19
I watch it every week. They mentioned, uh, Anthony mentioned a couple other places in town. I'm gonna see if you guys hopefully know these places, 'cause I don't. Gambling With An Edge. Gambling With An Edge.
20:30
Excellent podcast, by the way. Um, Metro. You guys ever go to Metro Pizza? I've never went. I've had it once or twice. Yeah. Where's that? I think there's multiple locations. Yeah, I think they have multiple.
20:39
But I, this is what Anthony and, and his partner said, and, and his, uh, cohost. Evil Pie down here. You never- Evil Pie. That was the one I was trying- We, we went into Evil Pie yesterday. Oh, we went into Evil Pie.
20:47
Yeah. Yeah. Oh, okay. We, you didn't have anything? It was part of the Steve Fezzik walk tour. Okay. Downtown Vegas, yeah. Evil Pie. Um- For, for that story... which is Evil Knievel. Yes. It's Evil Knievel Pizza.
20:57
Uh, Moondoggies, never went there. I think that's in, like, Naked City area there, Moondoggies. Brooksey's and Sand Dollar, I never had any of them. Yeah, I've never heard of any of those. No.
21:06
Papa Pizza at the Plaza in s- got, got a, got a review, and they said it was good. I've never been there either. Uh, Secret Pizza at Co- at Cosmo. Secret Pizza at Cosmo.
21:15
Now, that's like a boardwalk pizza like I grew up with- Yeah... down the Jersey Shore, Kingsburg, New Jersey. It's, it's a solid pizza, though. It's a solid pizza, like a boardwalk pizza. Yeah. Yeah.
21:22
You know, you know what used to be better? Where? Is, is the one outside the Aria Sports Book was the, what was it, Five Fifty it used to be. Yes. It was- What happened to that?...
21:30
spectacular, but they changed it to Moneyline, and it's not nearly as good. Oh my God. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Like, why, why do things change? Why, why do good things change?
21:38
Well- What's the other one downtown I always hear about? Good Pie, right? Isn't that the one down here? I've heard of it. I've heard of it. Yeah, that, that's another one. Yeah. Isn't that part of the Evil Pie empire?
21:45
I think it's Evil Pie and Good Pie. You would think. I don't know. I haven't- I think it is. Oh, okay. Yeah. You know, until I... I always liked New York pizza. There's John's on Bleecker.
21:52
It's a, it's a, a great thin pizza. And until the New Haven places, the Frank Pepe's, the Sally's, the Modern, the... Until those pizza places, there's a place to do parties in West Haven. These places are all great.
22:03
Great pizza places. I love that thin style, old, I think it's, it is, it's old coal fired. Yeah. And, and, uh, it's grandfathered in on, uh, uh, ovens. That is a, is a g- my favorite type of pizza.
22:16
But I still think we just have okay pizza here. I agree. We're, we're nothing, we're nothing special. I agree. Yeah. Generally speaking, I think it's okay. Another commercial going out, talking about food. All right.
22:28
Bill Cr- Bill Krackomber. That's why they pay you the big bucks, Bill. Yes. Exactly why. Bill Krackomber @BillKrackman with a K. The name of his podcast is called Wise Cracks. He does it with John Orlando.
22:39
More on Scripted on the other side. Numbers game. VSiN, the sports betting network. [upbeat music] A numbers game on VSiN, the sports betting network.
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Back on our numbers game live at Bar Canada, Bar Canada, The Barrage here at the D. Uh, we get twi- uh, we get texts, we get tweets.
23:01
Tim Lawson, for the better life, uh, Tim Lawson texts in, "I always like to ask the waiter what the most popular item is because it's most likely to be made with freshest, uh, with the freshest ingredients since it's made the most often," he says.
23:14
Yeah, that's fair. Uh- That's just different from what I w- like, I was asking the waitress, "What do you like?" What do you like is different from what's most oftenly ordered.
23:22
Chris Filica the Bear, "I can't believe Jason doesn't own an ATM." [laughs] That's a great point. That's a great point. [laughs] Yeah. It's random- It's a good point... but it's a great point.
23:31
Yeah, like, like, if someone told me, like- Yeah... if Bill just answered my question with, "Oh, Jason Weingarten owns those," I'd be like, "Ah, that makes sense."
23:38
Uh, having a back and forth with Mark Decard, who says that on the VSiN picks page, the Pablo Carreño Busta pick is not there. Mark, if you click on my name, it is there.
23:47
I have been looking at it all morning and all night. But people insist. Does it just show, like, the top three or something? No. You click on my name, it's there. It's there. It's been there. Uh, let's see.
23:59
Money Capperletti, uh, by a San Francisco fan telling myself they cannot win the division, but Seattle wildcard plus 340. So I think he's just- I like that. Yeah. Okay.
24:11
Um- I bet the two to one to make the playoffs, but sure, I, but I can't argue that. Jay Buckley said, "Had the chance to meet with Krackman the other day at South Point." Oh, nice guy. What a l- Good...
24:19
he says, "What a legend about you." What a... With, uh, with Dave, the sportsbook and casino area. What a, what a nice guy that guy was. I'm so happy to meet him. Teasers and parlays. Hey, it's our buddy Matt.
24:29
Kelly: "Do I need to have the Viciant plus plus plus subscription for the bathroom board meeting and how you prepare Gil's water before the show?" [laughs] No, I just talk about it on air apparently.
24:38
[laughs] Tommy Lorenzo: "Please ask Crack if he enjoyed the music at Mother Wolf. The early '90s hip hop is a vibe at that place." Ooh. "Great food, too." Not a hip hop guy.
24:47
That's an attraction for me, early '90s hip hop? Chili Gambler- Mm-hmm... uh, attributing a quote that, uh, never came out of my mouth to me. I think this came out of your mouth, Kelly, perhaps. Uh, Larry Fresh [laughs]
24:58
talking about what you said earlier that I had to clarify for the audience. He said, "Made him spit out drink," his drink laughing. Um, let's see. Boop, a doop, a doop.
25:06
The Under's Club: "Can you have Bill explain, quote, 'We don't like that kind of play.' He's playing slots. What's their deal?"
25:13
Well, that means when, uh, you're playing games like Regal Riches or something like, like, um, one of your producers just came out and showed and, and talked about, you're just playing the bonus.
25:22
So you're just waiting for someone... You're, you're actually not even waiting. You're walking around checking to see if a bonus is ready to hit that someone else built up before me. So someone else played for...
25:32
That, that particular guy at, down at the El Cortez said to me, you know, "The customer that was playing that lost a lot of money I'm sure, and, you know, now you're coming in and you're taking his jackpot."
25:42
I had to explain to him how life worked. He doesn't know. He just g- he obviously just got his job because of a connection or something. Um, but, you know- Hmm... and that, that doesn't...
25:50
The, the guy could've went broke and went home back to Cleveland, back to Boston. What do you mean he, uh, he's gonna come back?
25:55
That, that's the idea of a slot hustler, a guy that walks around trying to make money, uh, like the spotter. He looks for games in advantage situations. He's not telling someone to get off the game.
26:05
He's not do- we don't do that. I put those videos out about, about being sour rooters. I don't do that.
26:10
I don't stand behind someone and actually wait for them to get off the game and hope they get off and, you know, uh, you know, put the horns on them. I don't do that, you know? You know, I don't do that kind of thing.
26:20
That's an Italian thing, sorry. [laughs] Um, you know, I, but however though, that, that's what that is though. Thanks for the question.
26:25
Uh, Guglielmo, hope I'm pronouncing that right: "Extraordinary restaurant talk with a side of sharp slots play and with whisperer knowledge to boot." [laughs] "I love this show, and I don't even gamble on sports."
26:33
[laughs] Uh, the Auburnest. Oh, Auburnest: "Had to look up Siegel's breakfast after you mentioned it. Was the 50% off for 50 plus- [laughs]... on Wednesdays a factor on your restaurant choice?
26:45
Not for us, but it was for Stevie Fezzik." [laughs] I felt very glad when that menu was put in front of me, and then it was taken away immediately. I was like, "Why does Fezzik wanna come here so badly?
26:54
Oh, 50% off for 50 plus." Um, let's see. And the Silent Mike D: "Not to correct Crack, man, but didn't the guy who sold Zappos to Amazon own the El Cortez? He died mysteriously a while back."
27:07
He didn't own the El, El Cortez that I know of. Okay. You're talking, talking about Tony Hsieh? Um, he, he, he was a great guy for downtown. He was in with the mayor here.
27:15
They, he put hundreds of millions, that container park he built, um, it was worth a ton of money, and he, uh, he, he started Zappos, sold it, cashed out a lot of money, and, and, and unfortunately, he died in, in, I think Connecticut.
27:29
Um, I, I, I guess he was, you know, doing some kind of drugs in the garage or something that, that blew up like freebase. And what a shame, 'cause this guy was such- Oh... a good guy for the downtown and for Las Vegas.
27:40
I, I really felt bad when he died. He was a, a good dude. Um- You're talking about the Zappos story? That's a, that was an awful story. Awful. Yeah. Awful story. Oh. Yeah.
27:48
Um, you know, thank you, guys, for the, for the tweets. We have a couple there from, uh, um, [laughs] Trust- What-... Trust the Glove. Um- What was the, what was the, uh... We'll get, oh, we'll get, we'll get to those.
27:57
Yeah. You wanna read those now, or you want- No... let's, let, I wanna- Go ahead. We'll, we'll read more tweets later. I wanna get to your... It, it seems like every time you come in here we talk about a, a robbery. Oh.
28:06
Yeah, that, that's, um, another situation. You know, I don't mean to be so negative about Vegas sometimes, but, but we... I'm all positive. I just told you great things.
28:13
Now I gotta tell you about the suicides and the robberies. Um, so the, the robbery was $750,000 that's being reported, uh, from Sam's Town. Um,
28:24
Kelly just read it to me, that the, someone posing as the IT director called down to the cage and said, "Hey, we need 750,000 in cash.
28:34
Uh, put it in some bags and, and yeah, we're, we're, we have to pay off somebody or pay off something." And sure enough, they put it in the bag. They don't even know the IT guy.
28:43
Put it in the bag, took it outside the casino, supposedly to a Mexican restaurant- Yep...
28:49
and gave someone $750,000 and said, oh, and then they, they posed as the company's lawyer, and they said, "Oh, thank you very much."
28:57
They were all professional, and as they were driving back they was like, "Maybe I shouldn't have done that." [laughs] Yeah. I, I don't mean to laugh, but geez. Kelly, am I reading- Is, is- Am I... Is that right?
29:06
Is it, wasn't this the same tactic- Yeah... used- Used at, uh, a Circa casino, yeah. Yeah. Yeah, no. Just somebody calling and saying, "I'm this person." Yeah. "Give me money." How can this happen? Persuaded- How?...
29:16
c- the cashier's cage supervisor to drive a box with the cash to the restaurant. It's unbelievable. Okay.
29:24
So, so sh- shouldn't the casinos, I, I guess they ha- I mean, I'm gonna assume that they do this, but apparently not well enough.
29:31
Is, isn't that like, shouldn't they have a company-wide meeting where they're like, "I- if somebody calls and asks for this or asks for money, please not only double or triple check, check 10 times before you, you even consider doing this."
29:44
Well, well- "In fact, don't do it. Come up to the o- you know, come up to the office or wherever." I mean, A, that. The more obvious one to me is leaving the property- Leaving the property- Leaving the property...
29:53
with cash. Is, is the big crime. Like, what are we talking about here? Leaving the property. Not only, [laughs] not only- What? [laughs]...
29:58
am I not walking in for the robbery, why don't you come to me and give me the money? Just, yeah, come to me. And there's no cameras. Like, what are we doing here? [laughs] It's the craziest thing ever.
30:05
It's so, it's hard for me to blame the guy if he actually got away with this, but like- Listen, I'm a very, I'm a very lazy burglar. I would like you to come to me with your money.
30:12
[laughs] But if you could pull off so- If you could please... I can't wait for the, the show, the miniseries on this. This looks great.
30:17
Oh, and something that's never talked about here in Vegas, there's a lot of suicides here. A lot of people jumping from buildings. I, I just... It happened over at the Palms the other day.
30:27
So, uh, it happened at the Palms and it st- it, it, it was a big discussion at, at, at dinner the other night, and, uh, the amount of people... You know where people Really, that they never report it.
30:37
Inside of the Luxor. Have you ever been, you've been in the Luxor? Oh, God. I was there before, yeah. And you've seen those, those, like, uh, like there's balconies- That's how the inside's built, yeah...
30:45
on the inside there's balconies every- really high up. I never even thought of it the other night. I'm like, wow. So people are jumping there. Uh, every year- Ugh... someone jumps from the inside of the Luxor.
30:55
It's, it's a, it's obviously a, a way too serious subject for us to tackle, but it- Yeah... it's a- It's sad... it's, of course, the worst. It's, it's horribly sad.
31:03
But you, you said something in there, which is typically in a place like Las Vegas, this is the case in San Francisco as well, I know, but in a case, in a place like Las Vegas, which is very tourist...
31:12
Obviously, Las Vegas, there's no greater example of something being so tourist-driven. You don't find out about them unless you happen to be on property and learn that way. But- Yes, or in the know with someone.
31:22
Yeah, or in the know. You're right. The word is, is, is stifled. Stratosphere, it's happened a lot. Yeah. A lot less over the years, but the beginning- Yeah... it happened and they, and they would land in valet.
31:30
Sorry to even give you the so- so the graphic descriptions, but God, it's just, uh, happened again here, and I just was like, "Wow." Uh, next thing.
31:39
Well- So they had the, so BetBa- I didn't go to BetBash, but I did show up a couple times to sign some people up for, um, not, not that I was signing.
31:46
I'm, I'm, I'm, I have friends that were in town for BetBash, and they needed a proxy, so I, I agreed to be their proxy. And, um, you know, I, I didn't charge them anything. By the way, I didn't charge them anything.
31:56
I- do you know what the proxies charged this year? No. So if you have the maximum of 15 entries, which is 10 in, uh, 10 in the millions and five in Survivor, and if you wanna put your picks in Saturday, the day of...
32:09
Which by the way, if you're serious about that- That's how you should... you should. Perfect information. If you're, and you should put your picks in a Saturday. Yeah. Yeah.
32:16
Um, the latest is possible, that's, uh, $1,500, m- about, give or take, for, for the season. Now, again, we're talking about this, now at the end of the season, if you win something, you have to tip on top of that.
32:30
Oh, dude, we've, we've, we've talked- I know we beat this- We've, we've talked about this before... we beat a dead horse here. But anyway, so I, I do a free- Yeah... for a couple of my friends, and, and- Yeah...
32:37
'cause I put my own picks in, too. That's nice of you. I feel like we miss you at BetBash. You should be part of BetBash. Yeah. No, no, no, I'm, Spanky would, like, grab me and was like, "You, we need your voice," so.
32:45
Yeah. Um, not that I just don't, I just don't go. I just, you know, Spank, I'm looking for a comp, I'll be honest with you. All right, so anyway, um- [laughs] Sean Higgs, you know Sean Higgs? Yes, of course.
32:55
Sean Higgs gets a nice big cabana at the pool, spends thousands of dollars, like five grand. Like, Sean- He came, he came in here, gave us shirts the other day... such a nice guy.
33:03
Sean, Sean, I- I'm trying to help you out with some things, and he, he takes some videos from me. You got a 1992 flip phone still. [laughs] You gotta get the better phone here, Sean. I'm trying to help you with things.
33:14
And by the way, I, I- My iPhone 10 feels disrespected... went to, went to dinner with Sean, and we went to an Asian restaurant, and we had these soup noodles, and he, and it's the first time he ever had them.
33:23
He cuts into the soup noodle, it s- splatters across the place, and went on a, it literally buried an entire Asian family. I felt so bad for the people. This, you know, soup noodles are like that.
33:34
They have soup inside the, inside the noodle. But- I'm gonna guess you're referring to an udon noodle. That's my best guess... it was like a soup, like a round soup noodle. Yeah, Bill Crackerberger, everybody.
33:42
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34:41
Always appreciate the feedback. Uh, Norman Vegas, uh, "When El Cortez had their beautiful gourmet room, The Flame, we'd go for stone crab claws.
34:51
After dinner, they still had a poker room, and I'd play, and Jackie Gaughan would be at the same table. But they got rid of The Flame for seagulls. Now we eat stone crab at Joe's." Oh, wow.
34:59
Jackie, the great Jackie Gaughan- That's awesome... Michael's father. Wow, yeah, Michael's dad. Yeah. Yeah, no, and, uh, I, I actually, uh, heard of The Flame. Never been there.
35:07
I see their, they had their, they've saved their neon sign. They put it in the, in the boneyard here, so. Yeah. Yeah, The Flame.
35:14
Uh- Well, this also gives me an opportunity to bring up the fun fact with shrimp, that there are more shrimp consumed in this city than the rest- That's-... of the United States combined on a yearly basis.
35:22
Sounds about right. Yeah, they're all out the buffet all day long. It's a lot. So I guess we're, yeah. By the way- Yeah, but like you keep saying that. There's not as many buffets. Not anymore. There isn't. Yeah.
35:31
Not anymore. But that was, uh, that was- But the Wynn has a buffet with giant shrimps, uh- Yeah... galore, and I, I think Caesars don't So maybe this is an outdated fact.
35:37
That is one of the most cle- I mean, most obvious, uh, developments from the pandemic- Yeah... is that Las Vegas buffets largely went by the wayside.
35:49
Um, and they were replaced by, I don't know what the technical term is for, like, what you have at the Aria, the food court at the Aria where you- Oh, yeah... and, like, at, at Resorts World, where it's kiosk-based.
35:59
Oh, I do like those, though. You order on the kiosk, and then you go pick up your food in what looks to be an old-school food court. Ah. Right, right. Ah. It's like a mall food court almost. Right.
36:08
Not as much human contact. Yeah. When you guys do go on a buffet, though, do you look at it like, "I gotta get the best of this, and I gotta make them lose money"? Uh, not- Trying to think of the last one...
36:17
not in so many words, but yeah, kind of. Yeah. It's a sickness. 'Cause it, 'cause, 'cause if I don't go at least twice, if not three times, then I feel like, why did I come here in the first place?
36:25
[laughs] It also depends which buffet and how much you're paying, right? Like- Yeah... I, I think that, what's the one at Caesars? Yeah. Like, the last time I- The Wynn and Caesars are like 80 bucks...
36:32
I made him pay for that one at Caesars... yeah. Bacchanal is a good one. Bacchanal. Yeah. Yeah. But the, you're right, the Wynn is fantastic, too. Are you not like Cousin Eddie?
36:39
You don't pull the bag out of your pants- [laughs]... and start shoving things in[laughs] That's what, that's what I would say. Vegas vacation. Yeah, Randy McKay.
36:47
It was, uh, Rusty's, uh, character was based off of Randy McKay. [laughs] Put a quarter in and win a car. Put a quarter in and win a car. Put a quarter and win a car. "Dad, we must have jumped 50 yards."
36:55
[laughs] It's nothing to be proud about, Rusty. Nothing to be proud about. [laughs] 50 yards.
37:00
Nash, last name Nash, "Love how Bill's giving incredible info on advantage plays and what to look for in slots, then quickly saying, 'Yeah, uh, that's fun and all, but let's talk pizza.'
37:09
It's why Thursdays are always a must listen." [laughs] Spontaneous. Uh, Joe Abraham, "Locals are always the best judges of pizza. Website or magazine critics always prefer the hipster pizza with exotic ingredients."
37:19
LosVegas514, "Yo, tell Crack not to sleep on Komodo at Fountain Blue, absolutely delicious." Ooh. "Smoke shows all over the place," he adds. Yeah, and, uh- I've heard that is very good as well. Yeah.
37:29
I need to, apparently need to do a Fountain Blue, uh, trip again. Yeah. Fountain Blue, where the casino, uh, has the ambiance and the- Fountain Blue-... ambiance and charm of Miami International Airport circa 1973.
37:40
Fountain Blue, where Randy McKay sent me in and said, "Listen, Bill, you gotta give them a big play and they'll give you some great bounce-back."
37:46
I was there for hours, lost four grand playing video poker, and they sent me $50 in free play and then $20. Look, worth $20 for food.
37:54
I don't know what you can get for $20 for food there, but I'll just tell you something. So to... He is a friend of mine, I really shouldn't blast him.
38:01
Um, Maurice Wooten, president of the Fountain Blue, who I've known for many years, used to be president of the Golden Nugget, president of the Wynn.
38:08
I met Maurice 25 years ago, uh, when he came into my room at the Golden Nugget up on the 18th floor with a cassette tape. I know, what did they used to call those things? A VCR tape.
38:18
But it w- a VCR tape that said the Kraken Burger footage on it, by the way. VHS, yeah. VHS tape. Yeah. Kraken Burger footage. Um, that, that's a stor- uh, well, well we're, we're gonna tell it.
38:28
But let me just say, Maurice, maybe this is the reason why you guys got no business over there. Oh. You can't, you can't let someone play for hours and give them 50 bucks.
38:36
I'll go back to the story, 'cause this is spontaneous. I was staying up at the eight- lived up on the 18th floor. Unbelievable room.
38:42
The Sinatra Suite, where s- it was actually called the Chairman's Chamber, where Steve Wynn and Frank Sinatra filmed the commercial. Um, Steve Wynn says, "Hi, Mr. Sinatra, I run this place." By the piano there, was it?
38:54
By the piano. Yeah. And Sinatra folds up a 20 and gives it to him, and says, "Ma- make sure I got enough towels." [laughs] That's... The same room is exactly the same today. Same piano. Very good B- uh, Gil.
39:04
This- The pi- piano's the same. Everything is the same. The statues are the same that were in that room. But let me tell you how this story went down.
39:12
A buddy, a, a bunch of buddies of mine were on a Hooters jet chartered from Myrtle Beach. Big players. Obviously. Six-figure credit lines. Man.
39:19
Came into Las Vegas, came into the Golden Nugget, and yes, we all played craps together. We all got promo chips to play, and played craps together. And I was standing next to the stick man.
39:30
And yes, I was trying out a shot that I learned, which by the way, it's a waste. But I, trying out a shot. If you don't hit the back wall and you do a helicopter spin with the dice...
39:40
I'm always trying to, you know, I'm always trying to win something. I'm looking to steal. Eh. So sure enough- You've gotta practice your dice throw. It's always been [laughs]...
39:45
this particular, the particular guy that showed me it is thrown out of a lot of casinos for a lot of things. It's incredible. It's incredible.
39:51
So he has, he has, matter, matter of fact, he has a dice table on his front porch of his house. A dice table in the, in the front porch. And he, you know, he's practiced this skill shooting.
40:00
You can only do it from the... But I, listen, do I know it works? I know a guy, I watched a guy that you, he would tell you what he was doing and you wouldn't know. He would take, pick up red dice and shoot green dice.
40:13
He was telling you that. Think about that. And you wouldn't even see the move. You wouldn't even see the, the, the- Yeah... the, the dice go in the pocket. You wouldn't even see it happen.
40:20
Well- So- I don't doubt, I don't doubt that there's those guys out there, but oh my God, Bill. Very few and far in between.
40:25
But my God, when I'm at the craps table and you get the one guy that's- Setting, he has no idea what he's doing... "Oh my God, just throw the dice." Yeah.
40:31
"Throw the dice" Was the Fezzik thing where they're like, "Sir, you have to throw it lower than eye level." He goes, "Mine or yours?" [laughs] They, they, they go, "Mine." He goes, "I need a taller stick man."
40:40
This is great. [laughs] That's great. But it just so happens I got on a little roll and I hit four hard 10s I'll never forget, 'cause my friend on the end was double dipping.
40:49
He had a come bet on the hard 10, he had maximum bet on the hard 10, a come bet on the, on the 10, I mean, and he had the place for 5,000 come bet. And there's something called a put bet, which people don't know.
40:58
You can walk up to any dice table and say, "I want a put bet." A put bet- I wouldn't know that I know that one, yeah... a put bet is actually a bet where they put, uh... It's a, it's a come bet that's already placed.
41:07
Say, "I want a put bet on the eight." So you'll put $5 on the eight with five time odds, 25 bucks. Give the guy 30 bucks, it's a put bet. So that 30 bucks i- is, it's, it's five with 25 odds, like a come bet works.
41:17
Yeah, you don't have to come out with it at all. You don't have to come out. Yeah, yeah. Very good. That's the proper word. Yeah, yeah. Just so happens I hit four hard 10s. My friend was up like 100 grand.
41:24
And this is a guy, this is a guy with $100,000 credit line that's lost millions of dollars, millions there. And the whole table, by the way, the whole table was up 250, which was nothing compared to this junket group.
41:37
Do you know the shift manager comes over and says, "You have to stop, you have to hit, start hitting the back wall or you're not getting the dice no more." Oh, man. So now he points at me, and what do I do?
41:48
I don't hit the back wall, and I hit another 10. It was the fourth hard 10. Dispute. They took the dice away from me. "Pass the dice." Oh, man. Now think how stupid this is.
41:57
This, th- these customers have lost a combined millions of dollars at little dump Golden Nugget. That's right, I'm saying it. You know, and, but I, I shouldn't say dump, 'cause I actually like the Golden Nugget.
42:05
It's got great suites, great restaurants, good stuff. And, uh, they made me stop shooting the dice.
42:11
And God is my witness, I, on my parents' grave, they made everyone get their money, I made everyone get their money back from Myrtle Beach, the whole table. I said, "Do not play. We're not playing."
42:21
The casino did not wanna give us the contract bets, which are the come bets. They'll give you the odds back, but they won't give you that contract bet, which is the pass line. You cannot take your pass line bet off.
42:30
You can take the odds off. God is my witness, I made... I personally went to the table, in back of the table where the dealer was, and handed the money off to them. I handed everyone's money off.
42:40
They, they, I mean, they could have arrested me. I literally was in the, where the dealer was. I handed everyone their money, uh, their, their come bets money.
42:46
And Maurice Wooten, president of the casino, came up, Kraken Burger footage, and he said, "Guys, I am so embarrassed. I am so embarrassed. We should have never done this to your group." No. "I am so sorry.
42:55
We, I don't care if you don't hit the back wall. I don't care." He goes, "You guys are worth so much to us. You're such good people. We love you," this and that. And I didn't mean for anyone to get fired.
43:04
They fired, like, the box person. Oh. They fired a floorper- they fired a shift manager. Oh. The shift manager guy. He's an antique, though. He doesn't deserve a job.
43:11
[laughs] No, seriously, he, he, he doesn't deserve a job. I, I got an argument with- He pointed at me. He pointed, like, "You're not gonna..."
43:17
And then of course I went right back at him, 'cause he's, he's just an old sweater. He's the kind of guy that would kick the dealer under the table and say, "Get the dice out. Get the dice out now. We need a seven.
43:25
We need a seven." You know, one of those guys that don't believe in the math of the game. Just believes in something else, just ridiculous.
43:30
I've only seen this happen once in my life, where, where, where I've, I've seen people warned. Yeah.
43:34
I've only seen it once in my life where the dice were taken away, and it was the, it was from this girl who I was, it was a friend of a friend that was with me. I was, we were out playing craps. She had to be
43:45
5'5", like 80 pounds. She literally c- she could barely get over the table to throw them. Yeah. No. And they kept, "You gotta hit the back of the table." They don't even know why.
43:54
"You gotta hit the back of the ta-" I'm like, "Look at her." They're idiots. Like, "She's trying." They're idiots.
43:58
That's why I can't play di- I can't play casino games, 'cause they all sweat the money too bad, especially the dice dealers, dice pe- They're- But they're, you know, they're, it's, it's the management. It's management.
44:06
They don't even know why they're telling you to hit the back wall. Of course- Right... the dice are tumbling. What does it matter? There, there are so many fallacies in casino games that people, like, believe in.
44:15
Even, even l- on the player side, right? That's right. Like on blackjack when someone steps in in the middle. I have a John, there's a John Stark story about this where I w- We'll do it next week.
44:22
Yeah, we'll do it next week. You guys got me swe- I'm sweating beads of sweat. I'm going out and pass posting or something. [laughs] Crack Man's gonna take it out on everybody. Uh, we've done all we can do.
44:31
Enjoy, from Visa, the eSports Betting Network
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