Soulless.

Thanks. Yeah it seems like that’s the best route to take.

Seems like there’s lots of options for what it’s worth

Yeah ill have to do a little research it sounds like. But definitely some good ideas there. Appreciate it.

One followup on this if you don't mind. So he made around 50k last year. This year he's gonna be looking at like 16k max. Will they go off of last year's income in this case?

That's a very interesting proposal. Thank you. That way he gets his money back when he turns 65 anyway. Thank you.

Awesome, thanks a bunch for the link and for the information. I'll give them a call.

The weird way this question is worded implies Vermont or New Hampshire or Maine have more going on than CT does. Even for a tourist, the list of stuff to do here far eclipses anywhere outside of Boston in New England.

Sure here’s the chart I follow-

https://wizardofodds.com/games/blackjack/strategy/4-decks/

The dealers at Foxwoods hit on soft 17 and the ones at Mohegan stand so you gotta use the corresponding charts for each.

Best food you’re gonna get is Frank Pepe’s and Krispy Kreme at Mohegan. I recommend the pepperoni at Pepe’s.

Try to download the app/monitor when Krispy has the “hot light” on. That means they just made them. They taste ridiculously good fresh and hot, like, best donuts you’ve ever had good.

However, Foxwoods has better table minimums from my experience. I play real blackjack and always bring a chart with me to know the best possible move for every hand. Lowers house edge down to .4%, best odds you’re gonna get at the casino.

So I’d recommend going to mohegan first for lunch, then go to Foxwoods to gamble/drink (scorpion bar and sugar factory at Foxwoods are great) then go crash at a hotel near Foxwoods. I doubt any of the new years shit they’re doing at either place will be worth it but I’ve never tried. Just giving my standard advice for a good time.

You could extend that to the state as a whole to be honest lol.

Wouldn’t be a true Thanksgiving without it lol. Cheers🍻

You raise a good point regarding our proximity to NYC. Detroit does not have any nearby cities to cannibalize its sports fans, we have the biggest city in the US a short distance from our most financially prosperous county. I hadn’t considered that point. Had a (slightly inebriated) debate with a family member regarding this issue today over thanksgiving and you raised a much better point than he did so kudos.

I guess in hindsight there was no amount of money that would have convinced the patriots to come here. The NFL wanted to keep a presence in the Boston area and they weren’t gonna allow a team to come here. So the outcome was pre determined and they used us as a pawn

The Detroit metropolitan area is considered to be 3913 square miles. The entire state of Connecticut is 5567 square miles.

Detroits population is 4.3 million people. CT is 3.6 million. These are not dramatic differences. We have the 4th highest population density in the country.

Yet Detroit has 4 major league sports teams and we have 0. This is nonsense.

Yes. The way we determine metro areas in this country is stupid. Houston has a larger “metro area” than the entire state of CT. We have the 4th largest population density in the US. Somehow you’re gonna argue that the Detroit metro area can be almost the same size as the entire state of CT and have a similar population density and yet we cannot sustain a single major league sports team while they have 4.

The Detroit metropolitan area is considered to be 3913 square miles. The entire state of Connecticut is 5567 square miles.

Detroits population is 4.3 million people. CT is 3.6 million. These are not dramatic differences. People love to give cities these gigantic metro areas to inflate their populations and never afford the same luxury to Hartford. Any other state in the country would, at a bare minimum, include west hartford and east hartford in Hartford’s metro area population statistics but we don’t for some reason.

It’s a fair point that we have a lot of double and triple A teams in CT. It just shows the potential this state has in that respect. I think it could have definitely worked, we aren’t West Virginia lol.

We have one of the highest population densities in the country and we couldn’t get a single major league team here? Ridiculous

That’s a fair point. Maybe there was only so much we could do

Detroit isn’t a major city anymore, it’s a dying trash pit in the middle of nowhere and yet they have a bunch of teams. Michigan has way lower population density than us.

We were never gonna get the patriots. Putting all our eggs in that basket was horrifically stupid. We have the capacity for at least one major league team.

Being a “larger” state doesn’t mean much. Alaska is a gigantic state and there’s nothing there. In terms of population density Michigan is way smaller. Sure they have a lot of land but why does that matter? You might as well include people living in Vermont factoring our size with that comparison

Rowland was a stupid governor and we shouldn’t have zero major league teams because of one shitty governors incompetence 20 years ago