Question about casino comps

[Hashish]

Ask.com. :mj07: :mj07: :mj07:

You cannot even read, yet you are a dentist. I'd rather thaw out a caveman and have him bash my teeth out with a club than experience your "services." I weep for both your patients and your employees.

Here is another source: A job placement agency looking for cardiologists.

http://www.summitsps.com/default.aspx?tabid=57

Show me where they are offering first-year salaries even close to what your friend heard from 3 other of his "friends." If he is as big of a jerkwad as you, I am sure they were just fucking with him to make him jealous. He probably went into anesthesiology because it is lucrative and lazy.They were probably sick of hearing him brag about how much money he would be making, so they shut him up. Or maybe he thinks you are as big of a tool as everyone on here does, so he is lying to you because you are such an ass.

You must be the punchline to that old joke:

What do you call a guy who flunks out of med school?

A dentist

What do you call a guy that finishes at the bottom of his dental school class?

Saint

More sources to prove you wrong

http://www.glassdoor.com/Salaries/interventional-cardiologist-salary-SRCH_KO0,27.htm

http://salaryquest.com/jobs-interventional-cardiologist-salary/

By the way, MGMA (http://www.mgma.com/) was the source of the data that ABOUT.com used. I know they both start with the letter "a," but ASK and ABOUT are different words.

 

[dawgball]

He isn't making that kind of money as a doctor. I can tell you that much.

He could be as an Interventional Cardiologist

 

[Hashish]

He could be as an Interventional Cardiologist

So he makes enough practicing medicine to walk in the casino with a few million to play with. Assuming the $10,000 a hand story is accurate. That must be one hell of a practice! What does he do, work on the hearts of the entire state of Arkansas?

Even if he was a very top tier interventional cardiologist, which it sounds like he is, he isn't making more than a million a year. You need to be pulling in a lot more dough than that to play $10,000 a hand. Unless you think it is acceptable to lose a year's salary on one bad run.

 

[lawtchan]

So he makes enough practicing medicine to walk in the casino with a few million to play with. Assuming the $10,000 a hand story is accurate. That must be one hell of a practice! What does he do, work on the hearts of the entire state of Arkansas?

Even if he was a very top tier interventional cardiologist, which it sounds like he is, he isn't making more than a million a year. You need to be pulling in a lot more dough than that to play $10,000 a hand. Unless you think it is acceptable to lose a year's salary on one bad run.

I don't know what his bets are. I'm guessing 10 k.

I don't know him well enough to ask yet.

He does own a hotel and local businesses, so he's not poor , by any means.

I can't even get a comped buffet. :142smilie :shrug:

 

[PaSprint]

I don't know what his bets are. I'm guessing 10 k.

I don't know him well enough to ask yet.

He does own a hotel and local businesses, so he's not poor , by any means.

I can't even get a comped buffet. :142smilie :shrug:

Lawrence... if you'd market those fucking pickles worldwide you'd be chestbumping this guy in the penthouse suite. No shit.
On the flipside.... it would probably suck pumping out 1500 quarts of em a day. :lol:
Just fucking with ya man. But I'll tell ya with the right marketing those things could go places IMO.

 

[SixFive]

Jedi, the first interventional cardiologist in BG worked on me and is a friend of mine. Trust me when I tell u that even in a small town like this, he is making money hand over fist. Ridiculous cash, and really, they are worth it. They are fixing problems that have been been chronically managed medically for decades. My :0008 to that field.

 

[THE KOD]

Jedi, the first interventional cardiologist in BG worked on me and is a friend of mine. Trust me when I tell u that even in a small town like this, he is making money hand over fist. Ridiculous cash, and really, they are worth it. They are fixing problems that have been been chronically managed medically for decades. My :0008 to that field.

yeh and if they dont know what they are doing then you die

Got to pay for that knowledge somewhere in there.

I am always hesitant to go with doctors that are big gamblers though.

If they are working on me I want their complete focus and not thinking about the next football game.

 

[Hashish]

Jedi, the first interventional cardiologist in BG worked on me and is a friend of mine. Trust me when I tell u that even in a small town like this, he is making money hand over fist. Ridiculous cash, and really, they are worth it. They are fixing problems that have been been chronically managed medically for decades. My :0008 to that field.

I am not disputing that they make mad money. I think most people on this board would feel like anyone making a million a year is making it hand over fist. I am just saying there is NO WAY in the world a doctor's medical practice ALONE is covering $10,000 a hand blackjack. Well, I'm saying that and that Saint is a fucking toolbox.

 

[MadJack]

$10K a hand?

Playing a progressive system.

If you play quarters and you're going to Vegas for 3 or 4 nights, you better have $3000 just for BJ. And that's not totally comfortable.

For a $10K bettor, that means $1.2 million.

That $3K or $1.2 can EASILY be lost over 3/4 days.

 

[Snafu]

Maybe this doctor got lucky earlier and casino keeps bringing him back to get casino's money back :shrug:

 

[StevieD]

Maybe this doctor got lucky earlier and casino keeps bringing him back to get casino's money back :shrug:

That sounds more like it to me. But what do I know, we don't see those guys at the $5.00 tables.

 

[Hashish]

$10K a hand?

Playing a progressive system.

If you play quarters and you're going to Vegas for 3 or 4 nights, you better have $3000 just for BJ. And that's not totally comfortable.

For a $10K bettor, that means $1.2 million.

That $3K or $1.2 can EASILY be lost over 3/4 days.

:00011

Like I said, he is only playing $10,000 a hand with solely his medical practice income if he is willing to throw away a year's pay in one bad run. Lawtchan, I am not calling you a liar. I believe you that he is a high roller. I am just saying that he the money he is using to be a high roller is not what he is making from practicing medicine.

 

[dawgball]

Even if he was a very top tier interventional cardiologist, which it sounds like he is, he isn't making more than a million a year.

This simply isn't true. It's not the average by any stretch, but they can make more than a million.

 

[Hashish]

This simply isn't true. It's not the average by any stretch, but they can make more than a million.

Jesus, it's like arguing with a brick wall with some of you. Maybe a very, very rare handful squeeze out more than a million. Let's totally make it a fairy tale and double it to $2 million a year. There is still no fucking way in the world that his medical practice is bankrolling him for $10,000 a hand blackjack.

 

[kneifl]

Some don't make $100K, I knew a doctor in NYC who worked for social services and made about $50K. Think about that $50K in NYC, WTF?

On the other end of the spectrum you have a number of them (usually surgeons) that make over $1M a year. Some retired doctors make that who no longer practice, but lend their hands to R&D, clinical trials, and new drug development.

I was just thinking somewhere along the line he stayed at a Holiday Inn.....

:rimshot

kneifl

 

[jhawksoon]

Even if he is making $750k, there is no way he is clearing that much. Anyone know what malpractice insurance is for a high risk doctor?

 

[theGibber1]

Feel like I can shed a bit of light on the conversation here having known a few Surgeons since I was a kid and worked with them for the better part of 10 yrs.

One thing I can tell you is that yes all of them make good money and none of them( that I know of) live simply off their salary. You have to understand that these people have money to invest. Im sure you have heard the term it takes money to make money. They are always looking for angles. Medical companies sell them stock, they buy real estate, they hire people to invest in the stock market, they invest in medical facilities like MRI offices and even entire hospitals are sometimes Doctor owned.

One individual I wont name names, has been a very highly regarded Orthopedic Surgeon in OKC for the better part of 20 plus years. (He did my rotator cuff surgery when I was in high school.) He and my old man are good friends. So not only has he collected a giant salary for 2 decades but he has invested his money in golf courses, hospitals, hotels, medical companies and he owns real estate at exotic locations.

I dont know what he is worth. But I can tell you he has a full fledged 18 hole golf course in his back yard. A family lives on his property only to maintain it. He has six golf carts and his own golf balls. When you go for a swim the 18th pin is right next to the pool. The pool is half outdoor half indoor. His house is simply incredible.

As far as Vegas is concerned The Golden Nugget flies him and his buddies (my father is one of the buddies) to their hotel by private jet during Super Bowl weekend every year. They are treated and fed like kings. Dad has never asked what his credit line is but his guess is somewhere close to a million.

So you see its not that a doc makes 700k a year. Its that he makes 700k a year for 20yrs and can afford to invest and basically grow a tiny empire if they do it right.

Hope that helps

 

[saint]

I called one of the device reps who calls on this doc. He and his wife met the doc in Biloxi once. He had a 3 25,000 chips and 1 10,000.00 chip on him. He had been playing BJ 'upstairs'..

I'm thinking minimum 10,000.00 a hand.

He's not married and biggest IC in Jonesboro, volume wise

Just because he had a 25k chip and 10k chip doesn't mean he was playing that per hand.

I may sit down with greens and play 25$ a hand, and go on a run and have a few blacks...doesn't mean if someone walks by and sees 3 or 4 blacks I'm playing 1k per hand.

Gibber is correct, +1.

 

[saint]

Even if he was a very top tier interventional cardiologist, which it sounds like he is, he isn't making more than a million a year.

Again, you have no idea what you are talking about. The top cards in this country make over 1M.

 

[Hashish]

Again, you have no idea what you are talking about. The top cards in this country make over 1M.