Casino

Barabus



Joined: 04/01/2009
Posts: 163

Message Posted:
07/01/2009 14:07

If anybody has any questions about the casinos, ask me.

Barabus



Joined: 04/01/2009
Posts: 163

Message Posted:
07/01/2009 14:08

sorry thopught I was putting this in the casino place....please remove it

No1Doyen


Joined: 04/07/2008
Posts: 16617

Message Posted:
07/01/2009 16:01

Barabus. Which is the best Casino to visit and come out winning?

lovingcyprus


Joined: 02/03/2007
Posts: 1272

Message Posted:
07/01/2009 17:06

Can you arrange for me to win loads a money

No1Doyen


Joined: 04/07/2008
Posts: 16617

Message Posted:
07/01/2009 18:58

Come on Barabus. Help us out. I'll split it with you, 70 - 30

Barabus



Joined: 04/01/2009
Posts: 163

Message Posted:
07/01/2009 20:17

Just sat here and typed a good long post and done something stupid and deleted it.



Will say this, if you are a guy and have never been to the VIVA....go ! your eyes will pop out at your head..At the MINI SKIRTS on display. Shocking exploitation of young girls to help keep your mind OFF what your doing with your money. One of them even asked me out....'think' she was from Saudı Arabia.



AND gotta tell you this one.....For the more enterprising among you. The Savoy was doing a Bingo promotion last week...5,000 Lira to the winner. They sold 7 tickets and I was told by two turkish guys that they never even played. It was 50 lira a ticket. So I was going to go and buy 10 tickets, which would have given me 4/6 chance of winning what would have been a 9/1 bet..not bad odds hey ?

Lilli



Joined: 21/07/2008
Posts: 13081

Message Posted:
07/01/2009 20:21

hi barabus didnt know they play bingo in casinos whats clickety click in turkish. are you at viva.

rsalih


Joined: 01/11/2008
Posts: 306

Message Posted:
07/01/2009 20:24

oscars does a simple version of bingo on thursday night

Barabus



Joined: 04/01/2009
Posts: 163

Message Posted:
07/01/2009 20:25

No lilli........i'll answer that email later...I was on a spying trip. Purely professional. BUT i'm fair kicking myself over that girl, but i'm always kicking myself over something or other.

fire starter


Joined: 19/06/2008
Posts: 3401

Message Posted:
07/01/2009 21:49

lilli

bingo in turkish is tombola.



barabus

we went to jasmin court a few times with friends.

one evening i had a head ache and sat back and watched what went on.

all those natasha's drewling over anyone who was spending and winning, what a wh--e house.

couldn't even get an efes!

i called a cab and went home, just saw the true sleaze of the place.

casinos and gambleing are for saps.

and before you ask no we didn't loose,lol.

we just prefer a nice enviroment to spend the evening in.

Barabus



Joined: 04/01/2009
Posts: 163

Message Posted:
07/01/2009 22:03

Totaly correct Fire !!...that's why I didn't re-type the original post......The Jasmine is considerably run down and the rest are pretty nice inside, but that is about it...wouldn't waste my money on them---AT ALL !!! but alas they are here to stay...maybe just as well hey ? or this place would have a lot less money floating around it to pay all the council....staff....AND ı do wonder where would the government then look for their Bakşish ????????

craig2536


Joined: 09/06/2007
Posts: 277

Message Posted:
07/01/2009 22:19

funny, savoy casino is run by jasmine court. same management.

Barabus



Joined: 04/01/2009
Posts: 163

Message Posted:
07/01/2009 22:36

Thank you Craig........truth is my post on advice, was on how NOT to play the casinos...but to play them at their own game..I have yet to see a Brit in any casino unless it was a holday maker. Let them take money off the turks.......Do any of you know what the local turks call the casinos ? free food shops. I was going to post a load a valued litle gems on how to get free goodies form them but alas...someone has picked me up wrongly.....again !!!! by the way Craig, did you get the text.

fire starter


Joined: 19/06/2008
Posts: 3401

Message Posted:
07/01/2009 22:37

barabus

i have never seen a dealer so lucky in all my life. playing black jack.

i guess if your drunk you don't see it lol.

Barabus



Joined: 04/01/2009
Posts: 163

Message Posted:
07/01/2009 22:38

You wanna know how to play Blackjack and win ????

craig2536


Joined: 09/06/2007
Posts: 277

Message Posted:
07/01/2009 22:46

Viva is one of the better managed casinos on the island, they do not depend on local business, there are consistantly profitable and very succesful because of their huge data base of customers from turkey. Every weekend they will have 60-100 customers flying in to play for three days. The idea of any business it to get customers through the doors. Just because a girl wears a short mini skirt it does nt mean she is a cheap prostitute, its her uniform. Here she will earn over 1000 dollars a month, mostly the girls are from Krgzystan kazakhstan and moldova etctrying to better themselves.Their average salary there would be maybe 300 dollars in Moldavia or Krgyzstan, 600 in Kazakhstan.

And yes I am a casino expert. Thirty years in the business, Over ten years as Casino Director, and more than ten years before that as manager.

craig2536


Joined: 09/06/2007
Posts: 277

Message Posted:
07/01/2009 22:52

Casinos here for sure do not need the british players, and do not market them. 95 percent are of no value, it was illegal for turkish cypriots to even enter a casino, they will be arrested and both the customer and the casino will be fined. The casino can infact loose its licence for consistantly breaking this law. Most turkish cypriots that I have come across are usually good value for the casino as players.

craig2536


Joined: 09/06/2007
Posts: 277

Message Posted:
07/01/2009 22:55

And how do you consistantly win in a casino playing any game,

Easy, you have shares in it like me.

Barabus



Joined: 04/01/2009
Posts: 163

Message Posted:
07/01/2009 23:02

TOOOOOO TROOOOO Craig.....I obviously know all of this, and agree with everything you say, and I don't even work IN the casıno.

craig2536


Joined: 09/06/2007
Posts: 277

Message Posted:
07/01/2009 23:09

Barabus Please Please Please encourage as many people as possible into the casinos. We love system players, card counters , card trackers or wheel watchers. Seen and heard it all before, I am sure some casinos would even pay you a commision. Good Luck, make lots of Money

Lilli



Joined: 21/07/2008
Posts: 13081

Message Posted:
07/01/2009 23:17

hi barabus you will see many brits in the casino when the free food comes out beleive me xxx they may play a few lira on the machines but are of no value or revenue whatsoever to the casino. Just look around when dinner comes out xx

craig2536


Joined: 09/06/2007
Posts: 277

Message Posted:
07/01/2009 23:28

110 percent true Lilli, 20 lire in the slots eat drink and smoke free all night

Cypfan


Joined: 10/10/2008
Posts: 104

Message Posted:
07/01/2009 23:47

fire starter,



I remember when the Jasmine Court welcomed Brits with open arms and you could get a family suite (more like a large apartment) plus breakfast for tuppence ha'penny. Stayed there many a time and the Green Room buffets were a sight to behold. Then they started getting greedy about fast food orders and after that all thery wanted were freeloading gamblers from Turkey. Sad really.

Barabus



Joined: 04/01/2009
Posts: 163

Message Posted:
07/01/2009 23:56

LOL............yeah ! yeah ! yeah ! Craig.........but you wouldn't like the advice I gave on blackjack. ythis would NOT benefit your share price.

fire starter


Joined: 19/06/2008
Posts: 3401

Message Posted:
08/01/2009 16:46

craig

please pull the other one.

i have spoken to some russian girls who have been working the casinos here.



cypfan

my neightbour was part of the team who built the swimming pool there.

he also went to school with mr T.

craig2536


Joined: 09/06/2007
Posts: 277

Message Posted:
08/01/2009 17:33

pull what other one

you think the casinos encourage girls to have sex with customers or cheat on their behalf.

The casinos get girls from night clubs for the casino players, jasmine court has been open for at least 12 years, you think customers would nt know and talk and scream very loudly if they thought they were being scammed. Northern Cyprus is a big village everyone knows every one elses business, they would be closed down in days. Blackjack is dealt from a shoe, or shuffling machine. You cannot cheat with a shuffling machine.

Barabus



Joined: 04/01/2009
Posts: 163

Message Posted:
08/01/2009 17:53

Na-na-na...Craig, I am in total agreement with almost everything you have said........but 'that' in the VIVA is NOT a uniform !! it is provocation !! and a shoe would be pretty hard to cheat from......especially for some unknown reason in a few place iv'e been in hand shuffled cards. Tend to return a beter % than from a shuffler......But if any woman wants a game of guessssss ? what.....i'm afraid i'll have to deal them from my hands and if I do that. I definately know who the percantage will favour.

stan the man


Joined: 29/09/2008
Posts: 26

Message Posted:
08/01/2009 18:10

Craig

You seem a very sensible man who talks a lot of sense, so why the cheap looking over the top neon signs at the Pia Bella, puts you off going in.

craig2536


Joined: 09/06/2007
Posts: 277

Message Posted:
08/01/2009 18:57

well the neon was the cheapest way to draw attention to the new casino, they made a law to ban casino advertising on bill boards. So neon was the option chosen to draw attention to customers who drive past the building.

No, a shuffle machine will return a better pc because there is no downtime, a constant shuffle and not possible to count cards or track cards.

Lilli



Joined: 21/07/2008
Posts: 13081

Message Posted:
08/01/2009 19:11

hi craig ae you working here if not you should be and shake the casinos up are you saying its alll in thier favour because i have seeen some really big winners all be it on private tables. i am sorry i do not use caps because when i do they stick. yo u could earn big money maybe here wth your experience. i am not a gambler and i cant even play a machine. however i will place a bet on rugby or a horse if i fancy the name keep us informed please xxxx

craig2536


Joined: 09/06/2007
Posts: 277

Message Posted:
08/01/2009 19:28

Hi Lilli, I opened and oversaw the construction of the casino in the Pia Bella hotel, Green Zodiak, which was an investment of nearly 6 million dollars. It was last month sold to the investors of Malpas Casino. I am currently involved in another line of business now.

Lilli



Joined: 21/07/2008
Posts: 13081

Message Posted:
08/01/2009 19:43

hi crai me again are you happier now i guess that must be such a cutthroat operation so many in a small place. they all want a piece of the action and rightly so with the investment. where is thier core market.. do they all target the same mARKER. WHERE sorry this happens on here. do they target the sausi market, if so what have they got to offer. sorry craig you do not have to answer if you are bound by any contract. howeve i am really interested . if you wish and if you feel i am nt being too nosey email me. the resason i ask is if the marrket is not prediomtly turkish should we look to the casinios for buisness on a corporate level. wold i work here. sorry to pick r brains exploring all opions xxx

craig2536


Joined: 09/06/2007
Posts: 277

Message Posted:
08/01/2009 19:50

Most casinos on the island have their own data base of players that they have built up over many years. They would be predominantly turkish, some casinos were owned and run by israelies and they brought there clients from israel every week too. Many casinos try to get greek cypriots to come to them. Most casinos have people that bring groups of players to them, these group leaders get a percentage of the customers loss, but they also give their players credit .Casinos will pay for all a players all expenses for their trip if they comply to the conditions that the casino asks. All casino games have a built in percentage for the house.

Barabus



Joined: 04/01/2009
Posts: 163

Message Posted:
08/01/2009 20:05

Very good all toooo trooooo..Craig ! and your of course right about the no down time on hand shuffles in contrast to machines.......but in the uk on 'actual' hands dealt the percentage was slightly higher on hand shuffled tables and LIL.............now you ARE talking MY game...placed maybe 22 bets since I arrived here and won or got my money back 20 of them........Really unlucky, 2 weekends ago.....20 YTL's bet, return 600....beaten by about a foot for 8 and a half grand.

CJtill


Joined: 02/05/2008
Posts: 836

Message Posted:
08/01/2009 20:06

Played in a texas holdem turny at the Merit last year (50,000 usd prize fund) and believe I was the only English person there. No cigar but a great evening for the 500 usd buy in. Generally play at the Colony which I find the best visited, though believe the value game being the wheel where backing even money shots only gives the house about 1 and half % edge.

Like playing the stud poker against the dealer but know the odds are against me.

Any tips appreciated.

Barabus



Joined: 04/01/2009
Posts: 163

Message Posted:
08/01/2009 20:15

Although I said ask me anything about the casinos. Craig obviously knows more (not completely my field)......but stay away from doing stupid things like splitting tens at blackjack.......Plus I saw a report form Vegas a while back don't know about it's accuracy (wouldn't think it was right), but it said the casinos there didn't like people playing the stud poker.......and 'staying in' and not folding no matter what hand they had.

negativenick


Joined: 10/11/2008
Posts: 6023

Message Posted:
08/01/2009 20:18

mess 16 - Top post Craig, as ever...





Nick

petez


Joined: 04/12/2008
Posts: 560

Message Posted:
24/02/2009 15:04

Hi Craig...

Where is the best place to play poker in North Cyprus..

is it the Merit?

keithcaley



Joined: 13/06/2008
Posts: 2521

Message Posted:
25/02/2009 12:52

petez,

At home, with your kids - that way you can get their pocket money back off them!

Keith.

pinkchilli


Joined: 30/11/2008
Posts: 689

Message Posted:
25/02/2009 19:58

I have a guaranteed system to win at blackjack.



I am so confident, I will refund any losses you incur.



I have made an absolute fortune using my sytem.



I just need £10 as I have just hit a bad streak.



Meet me at G.A. It's opposite the Celebrity Casino. See you all there. It doesn't matter what time you get there. I'll wait.



No surnames please.



I remember... "Hi, my name is Pink and I'm a compulsive gambler".



Where's my sponser?

pinkchilli


Joined: 30/11/2008
Posts: 689

Message Posted:
25/02/2009 20:08

Before visiting a casino, please take a look at this:



http://www.quatloos.com/quatloosia-goodlife/gamble2.htm