"dealing two lines".....

[scott]

I've been a good earner wherever I've been. At the Stardust in particular I had the co-operation of mgt and was able to put some inovative ideas in action. Most were copied and still in use today, but mabey my best idea never saw action.
I didn't want to lose any business so I installed a free phone room so my players could call other bm's and not have to leave. The Stardust of those days was a rectangle, like a Velveta cheese box. We were at the extreme North entrance. I went to the owners with a drop dead idea. Lets put another sportsbook at the other end of the building. Completely seperate, no contact, different #s. That way the runners could run all day from book to book and never leave the building. The bonus was they would have to pass all the traps on the way. They would have to "run" past the tables & slots, with money in there pockets. LOL. I thought it was a drop dead idea but this time the owners (of the br) told me to drop dead.....ScottyS
A different look at "dealing two lines" that come up twice a year like allergys.

 

[Fishhead]

GOOD IDEA SCOTT!!

Not only the tables and slots would they have to pass, but also about 4-5 bars. Not to mention the in-house ladies of the evening.

 

[dimeplayersonly]

OLD-SCHOOL IN ACTION...........sums you up Scott.............lol

 

[PatrickMcIrish]

I like it.

 

[Woody0]

LMAO

 

[Java]

Scott-
The runners have lots of money, but not their own. A runner playing the tables with the bosses money is a real problem. At the end of the day, the tickets and the cash have to add up.

The idea that this would bring in enough revenue to from the 'traps' to justify cost of another operation is ridiculous.

Also, a pair of runners, one at each location defeats this.

I'm assuming this whole idea is a joke. I'm deflating it because I don't find it sufficiently amusing.

 

[scott]

strut/fish/dime/patrick/woody
If any of yuuzz guys were in the Stardust in those glory days you know this is the nuts. We did so much business that we were the only book, ever, to force slot machines out for more space to put sportsbook customers. On the level. We figured the sports/race customers, that we attracted, fattened the pits bottom line by 2%-3%. Thats serious $$$ besides what the book ground out. The book at the other end would have generated a huge amount of juice. Huge. One of us would have won and the other stood a chance of losing(not a lock to loose though) but the bottom line would probably double. The more one of them lost the more the other would win + juice. The idea was modeled after our phone/counter business. They were essentially two books. The phones usually lost but the more they lost the more we won overall. On the rare occasions we beat the phones the counter burried us. The secret was NO CLONE LINES.....ScottyS