Month: November 2013

Craps

Class and Trip Money

I’m going to the casino tomorrow to pick up my check to pay for my GTC class next year. I shouldn’t be any longer then 30 to 45 minutes at the table. 🙂 Replies: Posted by: TommyC on December 1,…

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Throw Height

I recently lowered my throw I throw from 7 1/2 – 8 ft from back wall S1-2 post My station table set at 28 in abovefloor I have height bar set now at 20 in above table at half point…

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Point Wins

What is the average roll for a win ? Or how many rolls should you be looking at till you make a point . Is it any different on which number is the point or are the odds the same…

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Happy Thanksgiving

Happy Thanksgiving to all my friends in the GTC community. Turkey Riddles Why do turkeys gobble? Because they never learned table manners! What kind of key has legs and can’t open doors? A Turkey! How can you send a turkey…

Coffee Chat Lounge

Mind over Mechanics

A team at University of Minnesota, uses only their minds to control a remote controlled helicopter to fly a maze. Some day they hope to achieve movement of limbs with this method. http://www.youtube.com/embed/6LWz4qa2XQA?feature Replies: No replies were posted for this…

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Reviving Las Vegas With Less Sin, More City

Las Vegas, long known for its gambling-fueled revenue model, took a big hit in the financial crisis. The city is now trying to remake itself as more than a one-economy town. In Nevada, there is no income tax. And if…

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Harmon Hotel demolishion halted by insurance questions

By TIM O’REILEY LAS VEGAS REVIEW-JOURNAL Insurance questions have frozen plans to demolish CityCenter’s never-finished Harmon Hotel. At a Friday hearing, District Judge Elizabeth Gonzalez withdrew the approval she granted on Aug. 23 for CityCenter, operated and half-owned by MGM…

Life on the Home Front

For Las Vegas homebuilders, 2013 called ‘year of recovery’

By Eli Segall (contact)Monday, November 25, 2013 – 12:08 p.m. Las Vegas’ home construction business slowed again last month as buyers faced rising prices and higher borrowing costs. Southern Nevada builders sold 588 new homes in October, according to a…

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Sirens of TI pirate show permanently canceled

By Michelle Rindels, Associated Press Published Monday, Nov. 25, 2013 | 1:14 p.m. Updated Monday, Nov. 25, 2013 | 2:13 p.m. Sirens of TI Actors perform in Launch slideshow » An open-air Las Vegas Strip pirate show that featured sirens…

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Bally expects $30 million savings in takeover of Shfl Ent.

By Richard N. Velotta (contact)Monday, November 25, 2013 – 2 p.m. Shfl Entertainment’s 350 employees in Nevada and 900 worldwide began working for Bally Technologies today as Bally put the finishing touches on a $1.3 billion acquisition announced in July….