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Will the price of gas stop you from going to A B&M and play on-line

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yes, it stopped me today. surprisingly airfare to vegas is still cheap and i booked a flight. will arrive on tuesday. i guess there is always a silver lining.

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i hope you make it

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The price of fuel to get there (2 hour drive) did factor in a little. But to be honest the fact I can make more playing online was the deciding factor. Also not spending 4 hours in a car was a plus.

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Not exactly.

but it did occur to me how much better off I am as a professional online-player these days.

My old job had about a 40-minute commute and the price of gas even then (over a year ago) was definitely something I felt.
Today I have no commute at all since I work from home (or at the internet coffee-place down the street if I feel like it).
And I'm sure glad that I don't really have to worry about the rising prices of gas like I would have pre-poker.


On another note - Heading out to a suburb today I passed a spot where there were gas-stations across the street from each other that had a $0.50 difference in the price ($3.39 on one side, $2.89 at their competitors).

The line at the cheaper station was pretty darn incredible.

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I pulled into a wawa (convenience store) the other night to get a sub while heading home and you could not even get to the pumps. There was a guy there filling up a huge mobile camper!!! Wish I had a tank that big to store fuel...

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a WAWA??

Where the hell do they have convenience stores called WAWA's??
I want to know!!!

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Eastern PA. Not sure how large an area the chain covers though...

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Central NJ too.

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Bob, you really are missing out on one of the finer things in life in Wawa. It is simply a hell of a convenience store.

It is a distant second to Sheetz, but those two are so far out in front of the rest of conveniencestoredom that it hardly even matters.

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Now Sheetz I know from my days in western PA.

They had those sandwiches where you checked off on the little form what you wanted it. Yummm.
Sheetz absolutely rock and I think my life is not what it should be now that I am living without them.


The Wawa thing is kind of weird.
Is wawa supposed to mean something?
Were they watching a lot of Jon Stewart perhaps? ("Whaaaaaaaaaa???????")

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Being from WNY, we used to always stop in PA on road trips to Ohio, the Carolinas, whatever...for the cheap gas and even cheaper price of soda (or pop as we'd call it...) Not sure about the gas, but I'm sure the price of a 12-pack of our favorite non-alcoholic beverage(s) hasn't risen .50 a can during a shortage crisis!

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Eastern PA. Not sure how large an area the chain covers though...

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Central NJ too.

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Delaware and Maryland too.

And to answer the original question, yes, I probably will be more hesitant to make the 150 mile hike to AC until these prices go down. However, my roommate has been wanting to take some shots at the 1/2 NL and has recently acquired the cashflow to do so, so we may be going somewhat often anyways.

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Now Sheetz I know from my days in western PA.

They had those sandwiches where you checked off on the little form what you wanted it. Yummm.
Sheetz absolutely rock and I think my life is not what it should be now that I am living without them.


The Wawa thing is kind of weird.
Is wawa supposed to mean something?
Were they watching a lot of Jon Stewart perhaps? ("Whaaaaaaaaaa???????")

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From the Company's website:

"Wawa" is a Lenni Lenape Indian word for the Canada Goose that was found in the Delaware Valley, that's why we use the goose on Wawa's corporate logo.

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It is 94 miles from my house to the Taj. I get about 20mpg on my 2000 jeep. Gas figuring to be at $3.60. 4.7 gallons each way = $33.84 trip just on gas = 1.384 SB. Let's do it... [img]/images/graemlins/cool.gif[/img]

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Bob, you really are missing out on one of the finer things in life in Wawa. It is simply a hell of a convenience store.

It is a distant second to Sheetz, but those two are so far out in front of the rest of conveniencestoredom that it hardly even matters.

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sheetz does not have porn last I checked, not even a playboy. I've never been in a wawa though.

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Yes.I deposited yesterday with the Party reload bonus so I would have a reason to stick around the house this weekend and not be as temted to drive the 200 mile roundtrip to the casino.

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You guys remember when WAWA used to run the promotion where you could use their free atm and in turn get $1 off a hoagie!!! Now it's just 25 cents off a crappy iced-tea (just kidding...i love wawa iced-tea too).

MMMM...WAWA hoagie...i gotta go

ERBY [img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img]

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NO...the live game at most places is just too profitable

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I pulled into a wawa (convenience store) the other night to get a sub

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If you pulled into a Wawa, didn't you get a hoagie?

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Eastern PA. Not sure how large an area the chain covers though...

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Central NJ too.

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And they go through MD all the way down to at least Ricmond and Va beach Va

Greg

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Bob, you really are missing out on one of the finer things in life in Wawa. It is simply a hell of a convenience store.

It is a distant second to Sheetz, but those two are so far out in front of the rest of conveniencestoredom that it hardly even matters.

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Sheetz = touch screen ordering at the pump!!!

Love it. Dont even have to talk to people anymore. [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

Greg

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It is 94 miles from my house to the Taj. I get about 20mpg on my 2000 jeep. Gas figuring to be at $3.60. 4.7 gallons each way = $33.84 trip just on gas = 1.384 SB. Let's do it... [img]/images/graemlins/cool.gif[/img]

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24.45/48.90 is my fav game at the Taj

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Now it's just 25 cents off a crappy iced-tea (just kidding...i love wawa iced-tea too).

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the current (5-8 years) crop of wawa tea is bunk, the wawa tea that used to come in the half gallon milk carton for 99 cents was like liquid crack

i couldnt live without wawa, luckily i have one right down the street from me on belmont ave, holla

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If you pulled into a Wawa, didn't you get a hoagie?

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Well actually since it was a meatball sub maybe I should call it a grinder?

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Bob, you really are missing out on one of the finer things in life in Wawa. It is simply a hell of a convenience store.

It is a distant second to Sheetz, but those two are so far out in front of the rest of conveniencestoredom that it hardly even matters.


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Uh, Sheetz is simpy terrible IMHO. Their rolls for hoagies are just soft white bread, ugh. You really need a hearty bread for your roll. Sheetz may have a larger selection of their MTO items but every time I've gotten anything there it has been a disapointment.

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24.45/48.90 is my fav game at the Taj

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nice i didn't know they had pink chip games? [img]/images/graemlins/confused.gif[/img]

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If you pulled into a Wawa, didn't you get a hoagie?

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Well actually since it was a meatball sub maybe I should call it a grinder?

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meatball sandwich

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Though it is not keeping me from making the 4-hour one way trip this weekend, it is something that I had to take into consideration. But, I have two things going for me:

1) I have a ton of player points at the casino I'm going to (Sandia) so I can use some to fill up the gas tank for the trip home.

2) the games are incredibly soft so the money I make live justifies the trip [img]/images/graemlins/smirk.gif[/img]

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meatball sandwich

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Dang it, now you've made me hungry!

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Eastern PA. Not sure how large an area the chain covers though...

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Central NJ too.

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No. Central NJ has "The Wa."

scrub

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Eastern PA. Not sure how large an area the chain covers though...

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Central NJ too.

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cream cheese pretzels baby.

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Will the price of gas stop you from going to A B&M and play on-line

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At $3.19 a gallon it costs me $10 round trip to drive from my house to Green Bay, as long as the game is full of donkeys playing J-5 sooooted I'll still be there to take their money!

Now if it hits $5 a gallon, it's time to start thinking about finding a donkey to bring with me to share the transportation expense.

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Now that's pretty damn cool!!

I was in Erie and Johnstown in 94 and 95....so this was way back in the dark-ages as far as sandwich ordering convenience is concerned.

I remember the first time I was riding with a co-worker and we stopped off to get gas and he said "you've got to try the subs here."
I thought "you've got to be kidding...it's a freaking gas-station."
Boy was I wrong. I was hooked on sheetz.


GF and I are likey driving up from Memphis to Washington DC at end of Sept and then perhaps driving across to Cumberland, MD area (my grandmother).

Will be keeping an eye out for any Sheetz and Wawa's.


The other Pennsylvania franchise I miss are Eat 'n Park's, "The place for Smiles!"

Tunica\'s dead rooms
 

Didn't stop me from going to tunica to play some nl at the goldstrike yesterday (thursday) on my way to visit the folks, however, according to some of the dealers the gas prices could be the primary reason the tunica poker rooms were so dead thursday afternoon and night.

KoW

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There's absolutely no reason to believe the dealers there have any more insight than anyone else on why it would be kind of dead.
Upcoming travel for Labor Day weekend.
Also...right before the first Friday of the month...as well as right on the first of the month.
People are probably getting some paychecks this weekend I suspect.


When I dealt blackjack we would theorize as to why it was 'busier than usual for a Tuesday/Friday/Sunday/whatever-day' or why is what less busy than normal.
Different dealers would have different theories....and nobody really ever had any clue what they were talking about.

Sometimes there are busy days...sometimes there aren't.


Another Tunica theory could be that many of the New Orleans and Biloxi refugees have stopped playing as much because they are realizing that this is going to be a MUCH longer haul than they previously figured and that they better start saving their money.


Lots of theories. Rising gas prices could be a valid one as well....although driving around Memphis today I thought that auto-traffic was just as busy and nutty as usual.

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it's usually never busy on sunday evenings because everyone is home watching "desperate housewives"

ERBY [img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img]

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Certainly taking what a dealer says with a grain of salt is good advice to live by [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]

I was disappointed that my time at the NL game at the goldstrike wasn't as wild and crazy as advertised. We played 6-8 handed much of the time and it was full of weak-tighties. At first I was a bit nervous about being pushed around not used to playing deep stacks, but it turned out I was the one doing the pushing around and booked a couple nice wins from aggression and being paid with top set [img]/images/graemlins/smirk.gif[/img]

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If you play pro or semi pro, it could definately make you think about going online. Case in point a few weeks ago I met a buddy in downtown Toronto who was playing at the EX. I decide to head to Niagara to play NL, I played for 2.5 hours and won 39 dollars I tipped away about 5 bucks to bartenders/waiters and dealers, I paid 10 bucks for a meal and paid 20 in gas . So what did I net about 4 bucks? If I was serious about the trip I wouldn't have made the trip in the first place....... [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]

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I've been going to Foxwoods (90 miles each way) roughly every 2-3 weekends; I don't think I can keep doing that without some serious carpooling.