Thanks for your comment, Ted!

If I’m ever playing the tables extensively (not likely 🙂 ), I’ll keep your advice re: asking for compensation in mind. One thing that I found a little irritating: as soon as my wife joined me (and we were walking as a couple) there were all of these people jumping up in the casinos and saying “Hey, want a free meal?” They were trying to get us to attend one of those hard sell sales sessions for resort time shares, or at least that was what I gathered from their sales patter. I hate those things… and these sales people seemed to be in every casino. To my thinking, this kind of hard sell/misdirection selling is bad for Vegas, but I’m sure the casino owners know what they are doing.