OK, boys & girls, I am here to
announce an actual, real, contest. With
an actual, real prize.
A good prize at that.
The prize is copy of the brand-new,
hot-off-the-presses book, “Blood Aces” by Doug J. Swanson.
It is the biography of Benny Binion,
one of the most famous and important characters in the history of Vegas—and poker.
In fact, the subtitle of the book is
“The Wild Ride of Benny Binion, the Texas Gangster Who Created Vegas Poker.”
The book is scheduled to be released
in a week or so, and I have been authorized to offer one copy of it as a prize
to one of my blog readers.
So I needed to come up with a contest that
someone could win so I could award the book.
Here’s what I thought to do. It’s “The
Robvegaspoker Quiz.” A bunch of
questions about the characters I’ve mentioned on the blog in its (nearly) three
year history. So below are 10 questions
about the blog to answer if you’d like to play.
Since I’ve never done anything else
like this before, I have no idea what the response will be. So don’t be afraid to submit an incomplete
test. It’s possible judy one or two
right answers will be enough to win. I
don’t expect anyone to have memorized all my blog posts—or to take the time to
research the questions to any great degree.
But hopefully you’ll have some fun with it.
After 48 hours, the person who has the
most right answers will win the book. In
the event of a tie, the person who responded earliest with the most answers
will win.
I
do have to limit this contest to residents of the U.S. You must have a United States mailing address
to qualify.
So here’s how to play: Submit your answers in a comment to this
post. Please use your Blogger
Profile/Google+ profile or some other unique Internet profile you have when you
leave your comment/entry. If you don’t
have anything like that and normally comment anonymously, put a unique
identifier at the bottom of your comment AND also send me an email with your
answers (the same ones in the comment) identifying yourself so I can make sure
I give the prize to the right person.
The email address is robvegaspoker(at)gmail.com.
I won’t approve any of the comments
with answers until the contest is over.
If you have other comments about this that don’t include any of your
answers, I will approve those right away, as usual.
I hope this works and that you can
have some fun with it.
Here are the questions, I tried to put
it in order of easiest to hardest, and the first one is a gimme. Note:
In all cases, the name I’m looking for is the name I use on the blog,
not the real name of the person. You lose
points for using real names, if you happen to know them.
1. Name the outrageous Asian girl who was
a star of my early blog posts and became my good friend and who falsely accused
me of being “obsessed with bosoms.”
2. Name the BSC regular who has “Yellow
Fever.”
3. Name the dealer at BSC most likely
to crack my dreaded pocket Kings.
4. Name the BSC dealer I once drove to
Red Rock, featured in more posts as a player than as a dealer.
5. Name the player who told everyone
her bra size and pulled down her shirt to expose her purple bra.
6, Name the BSC dealer who didn’t see
I had a straight and almost gave the pot to the wrong player instead of me.
7. Name the dealer who told everyone
at the table I blogged about her, called me a “gentlemen” and announced that
her “rack is perfect.”
8. Name the BSC dealer who “never
pushes me a pot.”
9. Name the player who intentionally
annoyed the other players to put them on tilt, and explained that she was in
“relapse” and had played blackjack all day.
At another session, she announced she was leaving the table to perform a
sex act on another player at the table.
10. Name the BSC 2/4 regular who
worked as fully nude male stripper.
Contest is open as soon as this posted, and ends at 6PM Pacific Time on 8/12/14, or when someone submits all 10 correct answers.
Good luck!
WINNER WINNER.....CONTEST IS OVER, SEE HERE.
Contest is open as soon as this posted, and ends at 6PM Pacific Time on 8/12/14, or when someone submits all 10 correct answers.
Good luck!
WINNER WINNER.....CONTEST IS OVER, SEE HERE.
No fair. Am I the only person to just go to your blog to look for booby pictures?
ReplyDeleteNo, not just you.
DeleteThere's anger.
And VegasDWP too.
LOL. sir ,I have u know I read your blog 4 the SLUT PARADE
DeleteWhat, no reaction to the boobie pic I put in just for your amusement?
DeleteI could have easily just had to the book cover only for graphics.
that rack is AMAZING A++++++++++++++++++++ who is she???
DeleteThe future Mrs. Robvegaspoker, I'm hoping.
DeleteSeriously...no idea. Just found the pic out there.
As Rob sat there thinking, "It's not like my blog posts aren't long enough, so let me taunt everyone by posting a quiz where they have to name ten specific things from the billions of words that I've typed..." Well played sir, well played... ;)
ReplyDeleteHey, this was one of my shortest posts!
DeleteQuit kvetching.
1. Prudence
ReplyDelete2. Abe
3. Mike
4. Ginger
5. Didi
6. Jack
7. Denise
8. Michelle
9. Natalee
10. Freddy
Congrats, Nick, you totally nailed it. Impressive.
DeleteI'm curious as to how many you knew cold and how many you had to research.
I am surprised one of the answers isn't the rich guy living in Reno. I'll say the answer to #7 = Denise
ReplyDeleteWell, right about that one, xdex.
DeleteI tried to limit it to characters I introduced to the world and whose name I created.
I take no credit for the man from Reno. :)
1 Prudence
ReplyDelete2 Abe
3 Mike
4 Ginger
5 Didi
6 Brent
7 Denise
8 Michelle
9 Natalee
10 Freddy
Excellent try, thanks for playing. You did miss #6, it was Jack not Brent.
DeleteI do wish I had a consolation prize for you, sorry.