Y'all have mentioned a lot about NFL, but how are the TJ places for college football?
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Real Cuban cigars. I spent a very pleasant afternoon a few years back in a Dublin, Ireland, pub reading the local newspaper, chatting with the barman, and enjoying a Cuban along with a few pints of very fresh and perfectly poured Guinness. That was a nice day.
lostucanes said:
I have had the same experience. Ironic, isn't it?
I used to live in Mexico, but now spend most of my time in the LA area and on the East Coast, fooling with properties. Maybe I'lll get back there some day, the best year-round weather in the Western Hemisphere.
I doubt I'd go back to Caliente tho - in a game of small edges, they take them all away from you. Except, as noted, going the dog/under way on the high profile games.
And the thing I hate about TJ now is that it looks like a fucking American suburb. I mean, if I go to a foreign country, I want it to be itself, not a clone of the San Fernando fuckking Valley.
In TJ now you are beseiged by huge signs for McDonald, Carls, Burger King, Home Depot, Sam's Club, Pizza Hut, you name it. Even, for cryin' out loud, in parts of Mexico, for Taco Bell --- an alien import in the land of the people who invented the taco . . .
YourAllAmerican said:
Caliente books college football. And most everything else. Hoops. Hockey. Soccer,of course. Racing (and simulcasts) from many US tracks. Racing from Hong Kong. Golf. Tennis. Even the US presidential elections.
You can make large bets at Caliente - you will get paid. Immediately after the game is official - like maybe five minutes after it ends. Minus the 1.5% on the winning bucks - so why would you want to make a large bet?
To fatten the lifestyle of some useless ladrones in Mexico City?
If you really just want to cross and bet you have two options that are very safe. Once you cross just keep walking straight through the two gates and just past the taxis (Taxi Amigo?) and just before you get to the street there is a Caliente location, open air with a bunch of white patio chairs in it. Its about the crappiest feel to a book you will ever get, but hey its convenient. Even easier, cross over the border, go through the two gates and then make a left and then cross over the bridge as if you were going right back to the US. Just before you get to the customs building there is a little street that dead ends right there at the line to go into the US and on it there is a nicer Caliente location. If you are walking across the border you can't miss it.
Its very rare to get "clipped" by the cops anymore. TJ cleaned up the way they act with the tourists about 5-6 years ago, sending people out to watch them. They still might get you for some traffic violation, usually saying you missed the stop sign, but pedestrians rarely get in trouble with the cops unless they are drunk or high.
If you do go, you will notice Americans are the ones betting on football. The Mexicans just bet on horse racing and a bit on soccer. They might bet $10-20 on a football game, but they certainly aren't moving the lines. And yes the 1.5% tax is a total bitch. They even have the nerve to charge it on a push, treating it like you have "won" your wager back. As a result I never bet there. You are better off just going into Mexico and finding an internet place so you can make your wagers if you fear doing it in the US.
Its very rare to get "clipped" by the cops anymore. TJ cleaned up the way they act with the tourists about 5-6 years ago, sending people out to watch them. They still might get you for some traffic violation, usually saying you missed the stop sign, but pedestrians rarely get in trouble with the cops unless they are drunk or high.
If you do go, you will notice Americans are the ones betting on football. The Mexicans just bet on horse racing and a bit on soccer. They might bet $10-20 on a football game, but they certainly aren't moving the lines. And yes the 1.5% tax is a total bitch. They even have the nerve to charge it on a push, treating it like you have "won" your wager back. As a result I never bet there. You are better off just going into Mexico and finding an internet place so you can make your wagers if you fear doing it in the US.
Caliente is all over Mexico, tho they have some competition in a few areas. Not in Baja. They are waiting for the atmosphere to improve, and the law to be changed, so they can rush in the slots. (According to the LV Convis, Mexican visitors to Vegas are the most openhanded spenders)
I believe Calente is also in several Central and South American countries. Also a few in Europe - Austria, I think.
Despite the change in party power in Mexico, Caliente (the family that owns it has long been stalwarts of the PRI, the old ruling party) is still politically very well connected. This is why they have no competition in the lucrative northern Baja area. The PAN is as corrupt, maybe more so, than the old PRI. Don't believe the sanguine shit you read about the "new Mexico" in the Wall St Journal. Same old same old.
Many entrepeneurs in Mexico are slavering over slots, and the prospect of getting them again. The great president, Lazaro Cardenas, outlawed casinos in the mid-30s - they were owned by the politically potent crooks then, as they will be again when they return.
I believe Calente is also in several Central and South American countries. Also a few in Europe - Austria, I think.
Despite the change in party power in Mexico, Caliente (the family that owns it has long been stalwarts of the PRI, the old ruling party) is still politically very well connected. This is why they have no competition in the lucrative northern Baja area. The PAN is as corrupt, maybe more so, than the old PRI. Don't believe the sanguine shit you read about the "new Mexico" in the Wall St Journal. Same old same old.
Many entrepeneurs in Mexico are slavering over slots, and the prospect of getting them again. The great president, Lazaro Cardenas, outlawed casinos in the mid-30s - they were owned by the politically potent crooks then, as they will be again when they return.
