{"id":46683,"date":"2019-09-10T23:05:52","date_gmt":"2019-09-11T03:05:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=46683"},"modified":"2020-08-11T23:06:04","modified_gmt":"2020-08-12T03:06:04","slug":"not-surprising-but-still-sad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=46683","title":{"rendered":"Not surprising, but still sad"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I found out recently that the Hooters Casino & Hotel in Las Vegas is going under<\/a>, and I can\u2019t help but feel a little melancholy at the thought of that.\u00a0 It was definitely not the most glitzy and must-see destination of all of the Las Vegas casinos, but it was still one of the casinos that seemed like it might actually have some staying power, based on its fairly decent location at the south end of the Strip and just the general fact that they were Hooters, a company powered primarily on one of the staples of Las Vegas\u2019s commerce: boobs.<\/span><\/p>\n

Then again, the south end of the Strip hasn\u2019t always been that advantageous, especially looking at the sad state of properties like the Tropicana, Excalibur, and the revolving door of identities that Hooters was before it was Hooters, and it shouldn\u2019t be that big of a surprise that even the mighty titty-centric Hooters is even failing.\u00a0 Especially considering that in comparison to the many casinos that employ go-go dancers and lingerie dealers, Hooters\u2019 signature uniforms have become somewhat tame and daresay conservative, and their business model has grown stale in a city that\u2019s always changing, in the name of making money.<\/span><\/p>\n

It was a few years ago in which I went to Hooters last, when mythical wife was still mythical gf and it was her first trip out to Las Vegas ever.\u00a0 We were staying at the neighboring MGM Grand, so we wandered over to Hooters, just so she could get the full gamut of casinos, seeing as how the night prior, we had wandered around through bougie joints like the Cosmopolitan, Aria and City Center, so now it was an opportunity to see some of the more tired and less-than-glamorous joints.\u00a0 And walking into Hooters, it was the very definition of tired and defeated, with carpets that looked like they haven\u2019t been changed since 2000, the odor of stale cigarettes, defeat and desperation, and barely any dealers working the floor.\u00a0 Granted, it was a little earlier in the day, but it was still kind of a reminder of the harsh reality that not everything in Las Vegas is glitz and glamour.<\/span><\/p>\n

Ultimately, it\u2019s of no consequence to me that Hooters Casino & Hotel is getting shut down, because I\u2019ve only ever stayed there once, and I don\u2019t always go there whenever I go out to Vegas.\u00a0 When the day is over, the emotion I feel is mostly based on the simple fact that it\u2019s a change to something that I\u2019d grown accustomed to, and there\u2019s no secret that change itself is one of the chief evokers of emotion these days.<\/span><\/p>\n

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What really chaps me though however, is the fact that not only is Hooters going away, it\u2019s basically going to be replaced by some budget Indian hotel chain, which rubs me the wrong way.\u00a0 It\u2019s like enough shit in America gets outsourced to India as it is, and now a Las Vegas property is outsourcing some decent real estate to an Indian company?\u00a0 Or maybe I\u2019m just being racist, who really knows.\u00a0 All I know is that it sucks that Hooters is being replaced by some budget hotel chain, and it seems kind of sad.<\/span><\/p>\n

I actually do have one of my favorite gambling stories to have come from none other than the Hooters casino.\u00a0 It was when I thought that I was a somewhat competent card counter, and my brother and I happened to be gambling over at Hooters, because they had pretty low limits and we were being cheapskates.\u00a0 I was at a table playing blackjack, probably because the dealer was a hot blonde, and it was single deck, so this was naturally a recipe to get me to play there.\u00a0 The count was favorable, so like a high-roller I doubled my bet to a whopping ten dollars<\/a>, instead of the table minimum of five.<\/span><\/p>\n

Kelly Kelly the dealer was showing a 2, while I was dealt double 7\u2019s.\u00a0 I don\u2019t remember if this was a scenario where the book said I should\u2019ve split them, but regardless, I split the 7\u2019s; and with my first new card was, another 7.\u00a0 So I split the 7\u2019s again, and then I get a shit 5 and a ten, which brought me to a putrid 12 and an okay 17.\u00a0 So with my other 7, comes the fourth 7 in the deck, and because I\u2019ve come this far, I split those as well, putting all the 7s in the deck on my hand.\u00a0 I can\u2019t remember what two specific cards I drew next, but they were both shitty, leaving me with three shitty pairs and one likely-to-push 17 against whatever the dealer had.<\/span><\/p>\n

I don\u2019t remember the specific sequence of cards Kelly Kelly drew, but I do remember that it took more than one hit for her to hold the last card in her possession for dramatic effect, before flipping a bust-inducing face card, and bailing my ass out like The Big Short<\/em>.\u00a0 To which I then celebrated winning a whopping $40 win like I had just gotten the final out of the World Series.<\/span><\/p>\n

I didn\u2019t really dump that much money into, or even care that much about the existence of the Hooters Casino & Hotel.\u00a0 But I still have at least one fond memory to have come from there, and I\u2019m still going to miss it. 🙁<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I found out recently that the Hooters Casino & Hotel in Las Vegas is going under, and I can\u2019t help but feel a little melancholy at the thought of that.\u00a0 It was definitely not the most glitzy and must-see destination of all of the Las Vegas casinos, but it was still one of the casinos … Continue reading Not surprising, but still sad<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[79,152,52,65,182],"class_list":["post-46683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brog","tag-cashmoney","tag-gambling","tag-owned","tag-travel","tag-tryharding"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46683"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46683\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46685,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46683\/revisions\/46685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}