Midnight Cruises

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Dschddny

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Has anyone ever gone on a midnight gambling cruise, such as the one here on Long Island which takes you out for about 5 hours of gambling? Mine offers Surrender, but I'm not sure about the other conditions. I wonder - how do you deal with "having to" play at the same casino for the full 5 hours and avoid getting heat (or thrown in the water!)? Also, would I be immediately suspicious getting on the ship by myself (as my wife gets seasick and thus wouldn't be joining me)?

Thanks!
 
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Abraham de Moivre

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"How do you deal with "having to" play at the same casino for the full 5 hours and avoid getting heat (or thrown in the water!)?"

I would just blend in with the hundreds of other clueless ploppies, who will also be gambling there for the full 5 hours.

"Also, would I be immediately suspicious getting on the ship by myself (as my wife gets seasick and thus wouldn't be joining me)?"

How does the ship even know you are married? And how many degenerate losing gambling bums take their wives along as they pour their life savings into the casino bottom line? They might even like the fact that you don't have some one with you to "pull the reins" on your sick gambling addiction ;-)
 
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revereman

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Don't bother. The BJ sucks. The food sucks. The players would have to be upgraded 3x to move into a trailer park. The water can get choppy. The players suck (doesn't matter EV wise but very unpleasant). Dealers aren't even friendly. In case I seem unclear, don't go.
 
Automatic Monkey

Automatic Monkey

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Re: You don't say

Funny, I was thinking about getting on the Midnight Gambler tomorrow night!

If I go, I'll heed your warning about the food. You can always get away with bringing your own, just make sure everything you bring is in packages with the Kosher symbol. I do that to bring food into the movies all the time. That might be a little harder to get away with on a Friday night! But it also makes it less likely that there will be an observant Jew working who will figure out that you are pulling his leg.

According to CBJN, rules are decent, pen is awful, but the min is low ($5) so that it will allow a strong spread providing there is no heat. That would suck to be stuck out there for 4 hours on a crappy boat where you are barred from playing BJ. If the crowd is the way you say it is my guess is there will be no heat.
 
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BlackJackHack

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I once played on one of those boats in the Tampa area -- an 8D S17 LS game with poor pen.

One important thing to keep in mind - they don't open the games until you're in international waters (12 miles, I believe), which takes about an hour each way. The five hour cruise, then, only offers about three hours of gambling.
 
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revereman

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Re: You don't say

Don't bring a ham and cheese sandwich.
Seriously, it's not a very pleasant experience.
 
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Dschddny

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Re: You don't say

Are you going on the Midnight Gambler II out of Freeport? If so, I'd love to get a full report afterwards (conditions, heat, food, gambling time, etc).

Thanks and may the advantage be with you!
 
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