THE RENO RUNDOWN

Publication invaluable
for Green Felt Jungle

ONE OF the best travel publications T receive is ‘the Reno

Tahoe Events Newsletter and Showguide.

It arrives in my mailbox every
couple of months and for someone
like me who visits that Green Felt
Jungle quite often, it's invaluable.

Oddly enough, I never ordered it:
and have never been sent a bill for’

it so if there’s a charge involved,
some good fairy must | be picking
up my share.’ | mk

The retum address:

- ‘ Reiio/Tahod! |
= P.O. Box 11430
Reno, Nevada 89510

af “you’ re a ‘frequent

Reno

big band music. You can ‘play the
old clunkers up there.
I hope they left the old basement

~ alone. It was always the best spot

in town. for., down-on- -their-luck

o

“y) some.” who v- consider
» hot-shots! Brian ‘and | have had an®

visitor; try writing there and get.on a

_, the mailing list. =..*-

- Pve-got? the “March-Apiil “issue”

“here ‘and’ besides: several schedules”

of events (headliners, cultural pro-

_ grams and ‘special events such. as’
. air shows, ski races, etc.) there are .

several articles “and: features’ par-

ticularly interesting to Reno lovers. -

“Here's just a sample: :
© Did: you: know’ that” the® ‘old
Nevada Club-has been conipletely

“-yenovated? On my: last visit’ that”
club was ‘the’ only one completely °
t visit in

travel
Wise

‘Barbara ‘MeCreadie

way to play blackjack all evening
for $207 Every Thursday night the
' Comstock Hotel in Reno hosts a
$3,000 tournament. :

You must sign up by 5 p.m. and
pay your $20. For that you receive

$200 in special tournament chips.

Four rounds of play start at 6, 7.

“8, and 9 p.m: The player with the

most chips at. the cnd wins the.
$1,000. ;

This is ideal for those who love
the game but don’t want to risk
high stakes. It’s also a cheap way
to. test. your own ability at the

It may come as a big surprise to
themselves

ongoing argument for years, cach

favoring a different style of play.

® i'd always beiieved that craps

"was the game with the best odds

for the players. Wrong! According
to the Game/Shift manager at
Harrah's in. Reno,. Joc: In-
gvoldstad, « blackjack is the - best

“> table game.

The same article mentions two

, _ points’ of etiquette thet the novice...
* player might ‘not: be -awsre_. of:

cards should only be touched with ©

one hand end a bet should never

yf... be touched once it’s made.

jackpots paid. by. nda nickel bear:

ing® brown. paper bags of nickels.
‘Those nickels: were so grungy, that...

ie washrooms w were. supplied | with

Ingvoldsted maintains that there”

2 are no winning methods of play.

“The game is | so situational it’s

: jet the idea that you MUST. go arent simply because you
‘our stuff..On. the ‘other hand... :

: Thee te Ketaz

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. 29 ~ Sunday, April 3,.1988 - North Shore News

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