Here is Stacy's story, after what Stacy went thru Stacy deserves the win: On June 2 and 3 of 2006. I played in a 150,000 Blackjack Tourn. at the Grand in Tunica. Until this I loved it there and had never had even the smallest complaint. They treated me well. Of course I spent well up into the 6 figures there over 6 or 8 years. Anyways, I made it to the semifinal round 23rd hand and the dealer mispaid me on a blackjack. I bet 2500 (the Max) At the time i was behind at my table and there were only 3 hands left. Also only 1 player at the table,(5 players total) got to go to the final table and the big money. So I had no choice bet big and win or lose and go home. Anyway, the dealer only paid me 2250 and said my bet was 1500 not 2500. They reviewed the tapes and said they were inconclusive. The Tourn. Director Rob Winkler said " If the 1500 makes a diffence in the end I will make this right" Understand also I was way behind the leader and the odds were against me. Well in hand 24 i won 5000 (I doubled down) in hand 25 I won 2500. They counted the chips and I was 700 or 800 behind the leader and they did nothing after promising to make it right. In a hearing they now even deny saying it. Also they claim the video is so poor because they cram 24 hours of video on an 8 hour tape and reuse them 35 times a year. I spent almost 3 grand hiring a forensic tape specialist. He found that I was right. They claim there is no such thing as any type of video enhancement EXCEPT ON TELEVISION. On 10/28/06: From Stacy: By MS. gaming laws the casino was supposed to notify the Gaming Comm. of my compliaint since it was over $500.00. They did not. And have admitted this to Gaming Comm. Also Gaming Comm., if they rule in my favor, will force the Grand to put me in a like tourn. in the future, at the final table. Still I'm out about 5 Grand so far and can't get that back unless I sue in civil court. Also the General Manager, who offered me 3 grand a couple of days after the incident, but refused to admitt any wrong doing, has put some distance between him and the Tourn. Director. Also the Shift manager has done the same. The paper work which the Gaming Comm. asked them to produce has vanished. Everyone at the casino is blaming the Tourn. Director who is the one that is lieing and caused the mess to start with. On 12/30/06 from Stacy: Just got my verdict from the Miss. Gaming Comm. hearing examiner. The Judge found in my favor. The Grand, after 7 months of lieing, has now been ordered to put me at the final table of the next 150,000 blackjack tourn. No thanks to Robert Winkler at the Grand who got caught destroying evidence in my case, but in the end the hearing examiner caught his misdeed and saw it for what it was. I want to say in the end the system (Miss. Gaming Comm.) worked. Or at least pretty well. My justice still cost me almost 5 grand, but at least the big machine was slowed at least a bit, by the little guy.
Keep the spammers at bay It's not a good idea to post anybody's email address in a forum like this, or on a web site of any kind. The spammers have software that automatically trawls the web looking to harvest any addresses that they find. Poor Peggy is likely to be on the receiving end of any number of interesting advertisements. One option that some people go for is to write addresses something like this - name AT place DOT com - so that a human reader wil hopefully be able to work out what it means, while the spammers' software will overlook it. I'm not altogether convinced that this is sufficient though.
Opp's I didn't even think of that London, but I did it at her request. That is a good point though, I have noticed that I get a lot of spam, I wonder if that is why?
Well, if she asked you to post it on the forum then I suppose you should leave it, but if she just asked you to pass it on to those that need it then I would recommend you delete it and replace it with a request that people PM you for it. Ironically, among the spam that I receive I get offers to sell me these lists of email addresses. Clearly spammers are not without a sense of irony! In general, don't publish your email address (or that of anyone you don't want to make an enemy of) on any public web site, unless you really have to. If you need to put your contact details on your own site, a more sophisticated alternative to the 'name AT place DOT com' idea I mentioned above is to actually create it as graphics rather than text, much like the security codes that you sometimes have to enter to sign up to a forum or other service. (The purpose of those grahical code numbers is also to stop 'robots' signing up to forums in order to post spam; It requires human intervention to sign up, which helps stem the tide.) I think there are three ways an address can become a target for spammers - They simply try common names @aol.com and @ other big domains You give your email address when registering with some service, and the unscrupulous operators of that service sell it on to a third party. You post your address in a public place, and the spammers pounce like hungry wolves.
Grand THAT IS A VERY INTERESTING TURN OF EVENTS-YES THE LITTLE GUY WON OVER THE BIG CASINO YET THIS DOES SEEM UNFAIR TO THE OTHER PLAYERS I THINK THE GRAND HAS JUST SHOT THEMSELVES IN THE FOOT NOT TO MENTION A FEW JOBS AND INTEGRITY OF THE CASINO AND ALL WHO WORKS THE TOURNAMENTS THEY SHOULD BE IN THE SPOTLIGHT FOR AWHILE WE HAVE NOT HEARD KEN S STORY YET AND WOULD BE INTERESTING TO HEAR
