The Podcasts of Casinos USA

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Part 1: Wynn  Resorts lays out reopening strategy using Thermal cameras, worker and customer masks among tools to be used. Wynn Resorts Ltd. CEO, Matt Maddox, hopes to see the Strip “slowly begin” to reopen in the next month, according to an updated health and sanitation plan published Sunday morning. Once that happens, Wynn’s Las Vegas resorts will look much different under new guidelines, with the use of thermal cameras to steer away people with high temperatures, altered layouts to ensure social distancing and masks worn by all employees.  “Nevada will likely be one of the hardest-hit states in the nation and suffer very high unemployment,” CEO Matt Maddox said in the statement. “It is imperative to flatten this curve so we can re-emerge in a safe, sustainable way.”

Part 2: Online casino table and slot play not as much fun as being inside of a real casino.  Online gambling right now is all that the casinos and the gamblers have.  10 cent video poker? Why not.

Part 3: The most romantic Las Vegas love story that you will ever hear.

Part 4: Craps Segment: Coach Fav’s transition to the Don’t Pass Line and Hybrid Play all began when a casino raised the table limits from $5 to $15. He explains how it happened.

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Show Notes: Stay Safe and Strong against the pandemic that we are facing head on. When we do get the all clear, here are some important principles to embrace that may maximize your casino enjoyment: Don’t play with scared money, Don’t use your government relief money to gamble, Be responsible, Resorts offer more than just gambling. Quit when you are ahead, Celebrate when you win, and when you lose, don’t be a sore loser  

Trip report from a Blackjack player from Pittsburgh (Josh)  who was visiting in Vegas with his wife the last weekend before the state of Nevada ordered all casinos to shutdown. This is a powerful, intense, and interesting phone call.

In a shortened Craps Talk segment, Coach Fav admits that he makes a hop bet on the come-out roll when he is shooting by placing $2 on the hard ten hopping. Remember that “Hop the Hard 10” is a one roll bet, but it pays 30 to 1. A $2.00 bet wins $60. It’s a fun bet that doesn’t do much damage, but it pays enough to be enjoyable. I hit it back to back on Veterans Day 2019 at the Rivers Casino in Pittsburgh.

Finally, Coach Fav recalls that his father was born during the Spanish Flu Pandemic of 1917 and 1918. So America has faced demon pandemic before.  America always comes back. So until we meet again, thanks for listening and stay safe everyone. April 9, 2020

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Episode # 84 is based on suppositions made by several callers to Casinos USA and Coach Fav and Janie regarding how Las Vegas Casino Resorts might be like once the terrible Coronavirus has gone and they reopen to the public.  

Also reviewed in a more factual manner is the steps the Nevada gaming companies have taken with protecting their own employees and the credits that their own customers have accumulated in rewards programs. Also noted is the food that the casinos gave to the Las Vegas food banks and other charities. 

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Show Notes: Corona Virus may hurt the tax revenues for states where casino gambling is legalized and taxed. In Pennsylvania the casino business is booming as there was a 4.5% increase in revenues despite a small drop in slot machine play. PA taxes the slot revenues at an amazingly high 54% and now count on this money, which is not always certain.Until the Corona virus, experts were expecting another increase in 2020 as sports betting by app and in sports books continues to attract customers.  No one knows how the virus will ultimately affect casino profits.

A Florida gambler has been charged with making threats against professional gamblers on social media. State laws are catching up with regulating social media comments so beware. This man faces the possibility of a 5 year jail sentence.

In our popular “3-2-1 Craps” segment, Coach Fav finds another set of  YouTube Craps Videos that he deems worthwhile. Check out the “CRAPS HAWAII” videos for honesty and interesting pressing strategies on place bets.  

Just a reminder, if dice hit the back wall of a craps table as required by the rules, the results will be random. Take that to the bank. So hit the wall babydoll.  A slow motion camera shows how hitting the wall on a craps toss makes a dice throw random. That’s proof.  Still, players often win despite this and overcome the house edge built into the game because anything can happen in the short term.

In the final segment, Janie and Coach Fav talk early March Madness and pick the National Champions and give advice on tournament early bets that should win. Finally, Janie highlights an upcoming trip to the Meadows in March and Rocky Gap in April and invites listeners to join us for some craps. At the Belterra a few weeks ago, Coach Fav’s podcast  listeners hit the “Make Them All” bet three times in two days of play. Nice!

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Contact Casinos USA by our 24/7 voicemail; 1-724-519-4556 to make a Trip Report, ask a Gambling Question, tell us about your own Casino Capers, or to Comment on the show.  We give you up to 5 minutes.  Join our Facebook group at Casinos USA.  Follow us on twitter at @UsaPodcasts… Hundreds and Hundreds of listeners enjoy our bi-weekly  podcasts daily, now over 20,000 plays monthly. Our podcasts are monitized via advertising and are always completely free to our listeners.  Casinos USA Podcasts are available on all major outlets including, Apple Podcasts and IHeart Radio. 

Show Notes:  We once again explore the charm of the Southern Indiana Riverboats, Hollywood Lawrenceburg, Rising Star in Rising Sun, and the Belterra in Florence, Indiana. Yet we were shocked to learn that the state of Indiana has changed its casino laws and now permits land based casinos.  All three resorts that we visited have a combination, some of the casino remains on the boat, some of the casino is now on land.  In fact, all three have new sports books in these resorts are land-based.  Perhaps the day of the  Riverboats, put in the river waters way back in 1993 will be coming to an end.  

In “Craps Talk” Coach Fav highlights a new small craps table at the Belterra that is run by just two dealers. The table is for six players maximum. In this way the casino can keep a craps table open at those hours when it would not be sensible to put a crew on a larger table. This idea is a good one. Our “Meet-Up Listeners” made the “Make Them All” bet three times in two days of play in the small tub of a table.  Coach Fav did play on the larger tables later in the evening where he saw a player lose $5,000 in about 90 minutes. We learned via Messenger that one of our podcast listeners, Mike, won $5800 at the Belterra just a few days before we arrived. Mike was not with us the nights that we played. We missed him by a few days. Again, he messaged us regarding his good fortune.

In the third segment of the podcast, Janie and Coach Fav reveal how they feel as if they are in a John Cougar Mellencamp song when they are visiting the small rivers towns of Southern Indiana. “Here’s a little ditty about Jack and Diane, two American kids doing the best they can.” So much fun to be here. Give it a try for a total change of pace. Finally, in church Janie meets a friend who explains that she is giving up casinos for lent, with some safety nets.  She is staying until Midnight on Fat Tuesday and playing again on Easter Sunday. Count Janie and Coach Fav out on that giving up casinos thing.  How about you?

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Contact Casinos USA by our 24/7 voicemail; 1-724-519-4556 to make a Trip Report, ask a Gambling Question, tell us about your own Casino Capers, or to Comment on the show.  We give you up to 5 minutes.  Join our Facebook group at Casinos USA.  Follow us on twitter at @UsaPodcasts… Hundreds and Hundreds of listeners enjoy our bi-weekly  podcasts daily, nearly 20,000 plays monthly. Our podcasts are monitized via advertising and are always completely free to our listeners.  Casinos USA Podcasts are available on all major outlets including, Apple Podcasts and IHeart Radio. 

Podcast Show Notes for Episode # 81, February 6, 2020

1. The show opens with a Trip Report from Casinos USA member, Elaine, She gives the Mississippi Beaux Rivage a big, YES, and explains why so on a phone call to Casinos USA.  

2. Remembering Elaine’s big slot win in Las Vegas at Ellis Island…

3. Our low rolling pass line play called 3-2-1 craps has reached 154,000 views within one year of publication on YouTube. Coach Fav tells of his book called “Craps Across America,” which sold more than 1900 copies. The cost was $8.95 a book, but Coach Fav only got a royalty of $1.19 per book sold.  Today the out-of print book is selling on Bay for several hundred dollars and Coach Fav doesn’t get a penny. To see the free Color Up video, go to YouTube and just search “3-2-1 craps.” Enjoy. 

4. Coach Fav wins a Super Bowl wager against a one point spread in a wild finish by KC. Shakira and Jay-Lo put on an amazing dance routine at the Super Bowl. In this Super Bowl aftermath segment, Janie and Coach Fav discuss their views. The government of Macau because of the Corona Virus closes their Asian casinos for the next few weeks. Over 400 people have died from the virus next door in China. 

5. Casinos USA travel plans for February 20200 are revealed; Come shoot some craps with us at the Belterra Casino Resort in Florence, Indiana, the evening of February 18 and during the day and evening on February 19. Coach Fav will be wearing either a Nevada or ND hoodie or sweatshirt. On our last visit to the Belterra Coach Fav made the Make Them All bet. Can he repeat that roll?

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Part 1: Casinos USA presents its suspicions with craps videos where early 7-outs do not occur at all. Come on! Still, we enjoy many of these videos even though we do not take their positions as Gospel.  We challenge all of the promises they make because of their dice setting or betting strategies unless they are willing to go LIVE. There are a couple of YouTube channels that offer craps videos that are honest and transparent.  Try Color Up and the Wizard of Odds. Both of these are enjoyable and well done, and an early 7 does appear on these videos because there is not any doctoring being done on these sites.

Part 2: How much cash can you legally carry on an airplane? A recent case from the Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania International Airport, may shock you.  What until you hear this one!

Part 3: The strange story of Doctor Wong, the high roller from Singapore who refused to pay an Austrian casino the nearly 42.3 million that he lost playing Baccarat. Aaron, from the Austrian podcast, CRAPS JOURNEY, called in to explain how the courts ruled in this case.  Who won, Dr. Wong or the Casino? Aaron explains. Check out these sites provided by Craps Journey to read even more about this real life incident: 

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-04-02/the-star-gold-coast-casino-sues-high-roller-for-43-million-debt/10962912

https://www.online-casinos.com/news/casino/singapore-courts-weigh-in-on-gambling-debts.html

https://www.asgam.com/index.php/2019/10/28/singapore-court-rules-against-australias-star-entertainment-group-in-record-pursuit-of-au43-2-million-gambling-debt/

https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/singapore/australia-casino-sues-singaporean-businessman-debts-11404602

Part IV: Janie discusses her slot machine success at The Meadows Casino and Hyatt Hotel in Washington, Pennsylvania

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Introduction: New faces, voices, and a new genre of music are not that far away from being Vegas Headliners. They are Rappers, of course and Hip Hop, of course. For now, Lady Gaga, Canadian singer Shania Twain, the rock group Arrowsmith, and such remain the mainstream draws and the upcoming young rappers and the hip hop crowd are in the nightclubs.  That’s for now.  

Entertainment in Las Vegas is fluid and changing so be prepared as time goes by for headliners that many of us have never heard of or listened much or at all  will be the new normal. We do agree on this. It’s time to appreciate that the Boomer music that nearly all casinos play 24/7 is in its end time. Pull the plug on Boomer Music in Casinos.  Come on! It’s 50 years old.  Enough.  “Here’s my story it’s sad but true, about a girl that I once new.”

  

Part 2  Explanation of “Super Hedge” – a scheme for playing craps at an extremely choppy table. In this Craps Talk segment we consider the plight of people and animals caught up in the bush fires in Australia and also pray that the podcaster Arron and family from “Craps Journey” which is recorded in coastal Australia has escaped these dangers.

Part 3  News Nuggets: Casinos USA presents 5 news items of interest to casino goers around the USA.

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Today’s Podcast

1. Coach Fav and Janie present the many benefits that the Casino Resorts in the south end of the Las Vegas Strip offer visitors to Las Vegas.

2. Craps Talk today presents the explanation of True Odds vs the odds that PLACE BETS pay. We will teach you exactly how true odds are determined. Smart Craps Strategies do not encourage making place bets; however, there is one important advantage of a craps place bet over a pass line bet or a come bet.  The advantage is that the player can turn the place bets off or request that the dealer takes them down. So I place two numbers. If I get one hit, I tell the dealer to turn them off. (She places an “off button” on one of them.). So I have locked up my place bet win(s) and have no further risk of losing money on my place bets. This system of going “off and on” on place bets protects the players from the math of the game that tells us that it is most likely that a 7 will roll every 6 or 7 rolls. Ouch!  Yes, I might win less by going off and one, but I will lose less also. That is a certainty.  

3. Casinos USA will most likely not be going to Las Vegas this summer. Rather we will be on the road visiting casinos outside of Las Vegas. We do plan to be in Reno in September followed by a 3 or 4 day stay in Las Vegas. So we will give our listeners definite dates later, but we do expect to be in Las Vegas in September. We will also be presenting our summer travel schedule so we hopefully can meet up with our podcast listeners at a casino this summer.

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Introduction

Coming home from a hip replacement requires some help the first few days following the operation. Because I was homebound for a month, I spent a lot of time with my new sports app, betrivers.com. After amazing success in college and NFL football wagers, I got so excited that I began to worry that I was getting addicted to sports betting. 

Part I

Advantages of a legal sports betting app is convenience and extremely low minimums. I bet on college and NFL football, NASCAR, and Hockey. In thinking about my “excessive  excitement,” I came across a bulletin from the Mayo Clinic that I want to share with you regarding the Mayo Clinic’s Danger Signs (symptoms) of an emerging gambling addiction. Check yourself as I did paying attention to my own feelings of excitement.

Part II

Rather Personal: We use very little or no profanity in our shows. No dark, deep vulgarity from us. We do not glorify intoxication. It’s a fools game. Drunks at a craps table are disgusting. We are aware that some people are trying to avoid drinking so we do not talk as if that drinking 0is something that one should do. We have great credibility regarding Las Vegas because we have family living there, and a grandson who is a dealer on the Strip. Our podcasts tell of our many travels to casino resorts around the country. Casino 

to Casino trips are our thing and we enjoy attractions outside of the resorts.

Part III

Five Star recruits make the difference at Alabama, Ohio State, Georgia, and Clemson.  Sure, coaching figures into the mix, but recruiting the best high school football players in the nation is what these four teams have done so successfully the past four seasons. Three of them will battle for the National Championship this season.

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