Mystery revealed

Men,
I apologize for the delay in writing this.

On Saturday morning at 9:00, I left on one of the most ridiculous trips I have ever been on.

But before I get into that, I feel I explain a little bit first. We go to church with a gentleman we will call S. S is wealthy. S has never been married. S is also retired.

So for fun, he goes to casinos all over the place, and has been doing so for some time. He goes so much, that he has acquired a certain status with multiple casinos. These statuses allow him certain amenities. This trip showcases a few of those amenities.

About 2 months ago, S had an idea to bring a few friends with him to the casino, and the casino thought that was a swell idea. S said, i want to bring my banker and some of his friends, and they became bigger fans of this idea. He had been promised a limo to pick him up and drive him home in the past, so he cashed that in for this trip. Imagine their disappointment when S's banker and his friends turn out to be me and 4 friends under the age of 30. I imagine they were hoping for 6 "whale's" like S, but instead it was one "whale" and 5 "minnows". On to the trip....

At 9:00, we had this pick us up in Nashville. This would be our ride to and from the casino, round trip. (Its worth pointing out that every bill or tab we had along the way, the casino picked up.)



Instead of heading straight to the casino at 11:00, S and the Casino had arranged for us to play 9 holes of golf at a course nearby. all golf expenses, including lunch and range balls were on the casino's tab. Not only that, we had a host there to play with us who was a former PGA professional for 15 years on the west coast, giving us free lessons. Landon, this guy was money. Had a Bob Murphy-esque swing, but each shot was so pure it was sickening. Finally, the casino decided to send the General Manager of the casino out to play with us as well. Imagine his surprise when he sees the "whales" S has brought into town.

After golf, we head to the hotel and they set us up with our rooms. S has his usual suite, pictured below. It is sick.






We had 2 other rooms, that were nice as well, just not suites. Again, the hotel comped all of these rooms.

We clean up and head down to the casino. S is an all-star. Everyone knows his name, and welcomes him back. We gamble for an hour or so before dinner. We have all been comped buffet dinner, which was awesome. Casino food is actually pretty good. and they had everything imaginable.

We gamble for the rest of the night. Half of us end up winning, the other half lose what we came with. I was in the losing half. Aaron, there was only 2/5/no limit poker available, so there was no 3/6. I was bummed about that.

We had free breakfast on Sunday morning at one of their restaurants. S had comp money left over, so he got 4 pies to go with the rest of the free money. Then our bus brought us back to Nashville.

The moral of this story? Casino's have so much money, they can waste it on low-spending players such as myself. As long as you know the right people.