Monthly Archives: August 2011

More on Mlife Players Club

The information I gave in the previous blog entry for MGM’s new players club  is for POINTPlay, which you redeem for FREEPLAY.  This is the number that you find on the card reader when you insert your players card. There … Continue reading

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Figuring Out MLife

MLife is the new players club for all the MGM properties.  It has some good features, but one I just hate is trying to figure out the number of points  you are earning/have earned or the amount of coin-in for … Continue reading

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Answering Your Questions

Thanks to everyone who has said good things about the recent series on Brad’s gambling experiences down through the years.  To answer your queries about whether I will now start writing about my own early gaming history, that is a possibility … Continue reading

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Brad’s Gambling Life – Part 15, The Final Chapter

After 30 years of marriage, Brad and his wife divorced.  Brad always jokes, “I got out on good behavior.”  He rented a small bachelor pad close to Naval Avionics and continued to go to the various horse tracks on the … Continue reading

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The Casino Part of Our Vacation

Okay, back to gambling topics.  (Yes, I know stories and pictures from other people’s vacations can be boring!) Although, as I have said before, gambling was not a top priority on our recent road trip, we did visit several casinos: … Continue reading

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VACATION REPORT

In order to write this report, I am taking a break from going through the mountains of paperwork I found when we returned last Thursday evening from our 23-day road trip.  If I waited until I was “caught up,” it … Continue reading

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Finishing Last Post

I hate working on strange computers!! Anyway to finish the thought of the last entry: After Brad and I met and started casino gambling, he has kept busy with advantage plays. We rarely play “just for fun” because we have … Continue reading

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Brad’s Other Gambling

Writing from Albuquerque – just two days from home-sweet-home! To respond to a recent comment: Brad has always had a gambling advantage in his adult life when he was playing Tonk and poker since both are games of skill and … Continue reading

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Brad’s Gambling Life – Part 14, The Early Indiana Years

After Brad got out of the Air Force in 1952, he settled down back in his parents’ home in Connersville, IN, with a job at Philco, a major refrigerator manufacturing plant in town. Then came marriage and four children.  There … Continue reading

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