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I have used Casino parking lots many times for a 1 night stay while traveling as an option to a rest stop. Always go inside and get something to eat as a way of thanking them, but try to stay away from the slot machines, lol lol lol. It could end up being a very costly overnight stay. 

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On 1/23/2022 at 5:12 AM, Twotoes said:

I have used Casino parking lots many times for a 1 night stay while traveling as an option to a rest stop. Always go inside and get something to eat as a way of thanking them, but try to stay away from the slot machines, lol lol lol. It could end up being a very costly overnight stay. 

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We've stayed in RV at casinos.  Wife always limits/looses $20 on the one arm bandits.  Very rarely have I lost, I usually pay for the dinner and nights camping fees plus gain back what wife looses.  Usually double or more what I take in to play with.  My game of choice is craps or blackjack.  Blackjack, a single player on the table can screw everyone so I always observe and move on if there's a bad player.  Craps is easy, usually if you don't get greedy and play stupid *spots*.  Get greedy, may as well throw $$ on the ground and walk away.

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Our eldest son used to work in the financial part of the Mirage Hotel Casino in Las Vegas. He always laughed when told of people who always win. He says that people who believe that they always win are the casino's favorite customers.  😏

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We had a neighbor who was so good at playing 21 that he was banned from the local casino junkets to Vegas. He made too much money on those casino sponsored trips. That man could count cards as well as Rainman.

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For me, counting cards on decks is fairly easy but on more than one deck, being in your favor is not always garnered a win.  I started with 1k and in 3 years, paid cash for a Harley-Davidson with my gambling fund, never had to add to it.  I always figured I was/am lucky.  Saying that, yea, I've played tables and watched where several thousands would leave an arrogant (meaning pretty stupid) player chasing the dream (mostly on craps tables, it's very easy to loose quite a bit in the role of the dice).  My thing was, take a little out of the gamble jar, only gamble with that amount and the second I doubled it, get up and leave.  A couple times I got greedy and wanted just a little more... I donated back.  Got's to know your limits and when to run, win or loose.

In the end, ya have to remember, your only doing it for fun/entertainment.  Don't let the gambling  bug bite, I've seen that too many times on folks.  Also helps to visit several different casinos, don't fund the same one every time.  I only hit them now, maybe twice a year.

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When I lived in WA there was a small Indian casino halfway between our house and the town with major shopping.  I'd stop there on my way over to get lunch in their buffet.  One day I decided to put a $20 bill in a slot machine and noticed it would let me win $6 - $10 before taking the rest of my money.  Since then I'd do this and cash out when I won enough to pay for the lunch.  Never failed.

This only worked if you inserted a $20 bill - if you had a ticket you'd just lose it.  I guess they figured only a newbie would insert cash and it was their way of hooking them.

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The only good thing we found at casinos is that many have a fantastic buffet....in for the food and then out the door.  I worked too hard for my money and will not donate it to a casino.

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3 hours ago, TXiceman said:

The only good thing we found at casinos is that many have a fantastic buffet....in for the food and then out the door.  I worked too hard for my money and will not donate it to a casino.

Ken 

That's what we did. Go in and buy a meal or two. Casinos used to offer cheap meals as a way to get gamblers in but they don't do that anymore so I figured buying a meal paid for my campsite.

Linda

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We've stayed at casino parking lots many times.  The one near Pendleton, OR made a convenient first night stop for us heading south in the winter, or a final night's stay before heading home in the spring.

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Casinos for the most part have always been one of our favourite places to pull in for an overnight (rarely but if we want a down day maybe 2 nights).    It's typically a hassle free pull in although more nowadays than 10+ years ago require you to register/get players card or play a little to get 'x' points.   That's OK with us.

Sometimes if there's a great sign up promo for the buffet we might indulge but we also enjoy a little flutter.    We set a limit and stay within it!    It's a bit like WM it's usually one of the most expensive CGs we ever stay at (LOL).    They are kind enough to let us stay we drop a few bucks, if they don't allow overnight we just move on down the road without spending anything.   Some now also have an RV park attached and for a couple getting cards they give you a night each with Full Hook Up complimentary.

During our working years we had a rule of "never gamble in the city in which you live in or that close by".   Alas as we've got older and can't do half the entertainment like bowling and other activities we have started going on occasion to our nearby casino.

So our first experience of Casinos was Christmas 1996 when we drove in our mini van late Xmas day night from Calgary to The Holiday Inn and Boardwalk (blown up many moons ago) on LV Strip.    Hubby would hit the tables with US$20 and come back to the room at 5am with $25 was common.   All day/night breakfast was 99cents.   We were hooked.   As we walked up and down the strip I'd have a couple bucks of quarters in my pocket and stop occasionally and put a quarter or 3 in a machine and if that quarter paid me out a couple bucks or more = move on.   We really didn't play slots as you see many hooked on them.

Up until 21 years later the most either one of us had ever one on a flutter was C$1567.   That one night in Oct I had $20 profit still left and my stake monies had been tucked away - went out to leave and it was OMG so bitter cold I remote started my car to warm up.   Kept looking at that $20, went back in and put in my favourite machine (Dancing Drums) at the time.   Pressed max bet of $8.88 that I never ever had done in my life - a dribble line pay came about, so I pressed again and got nothing.   Thinking oh well that's your $20 gone, but on the third spin got in the games, and during the games the progressive lid closed and I miraculously won the Grand (C$16,640).   I wasn't even sure it had happened, someone looked at me as I'd gone rather pale and strange in the face and asked if I was OK.   They said "yep you've won the Grand".   Called hubby to get out of bed and come and collect cos there was no way I was walking out to my car and driving home with that kind of cash on me.

Biggest mistake most folks make (self included) is when you have a win like that you think it can happen time after time and it absolutely doesn't.   Now we love to play a game of $20 each and can we double it and walk out.   For a very very rare social night at the casino with friends our absolute limit is $200 each and hubby never breaks his second $200 bless him.

So yes we love casinos whilst RVing especially visiting different ones around the USA/Canada but we know we have to be ultra careful on depositing in them.   Sometimes we just enjoy touring the resort and seeing it's theme and never playing.

If only they'd bring back those 99c all day breakfasts eh????

 

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