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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;The Penny Lady®, post: 1091151, member: 16948&quot;]As I mentioned, yesterday was very busy with lots of people in the room, I did quite a bit of buying and selling.&nbsp; Then last night we had reservations at Spencer&#039;s Steakhouse in the hotel for dinner, there were 9 of us and we brought 6 bottles of really good wine to taste and share.&nbsp; However, the restaurant wanted to charge us a $25 per bottle corkage fee.&nbsp; Since we had so many bottles, we expected that they would reduce it to $15 like they did last year, but this manager refused, so we ended up leaving and just having dinner at the cafe.&nbsp; Even at the cafe, the food was pretty good.&nbsp; Soon, the higher-up manager came over and talked to us about why we left, and after some negotiating, he agreed to reduce the corkage fee if we would return to Spencer&#039;s the next night (tonight) which we agreed to.&nbsp; So we&#039;ll see how it goes tonight.</p><p><br /></p><p>Then I was off to the casino!&nbsp; I was excited to go play cards since Bay 101 is a really nice casino with lots of action.&nbsp; I was playing 6/12 limit but wasn&#039;t getting very good cards for the first couple hours so I switched tables.&nbsp; Then I started getting good cards, was making straights and flushes, but what&#039;s even worse than getting bard cards is getting good cards and coming in second!&nbsp; I was being beat by full houses back to back!&nbsp; When I finally got a full house and thought I for sure couldn&#039;t lose that hand, and got beat AGAIN by a bigger full house, I knew it was time to leave, and I did!</p><p><br /></p><p>Today once again has been quite busy, even more people here than yesterday. I bought some more collector grade coins, 1909-S Indian and Lincoln cents, and even got a nice 1873 closed 3 S-2 (double Liberty) MS64 Red.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Saw a couple forum members, and took some more photos around the show.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>This is the kids&#039; table outside the front door in the lobby area of the show....</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://i441.photobucket.com/albums/qq139/thepennylady/IMG-20110129-00061.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>This is Scott Western and his wife also set up in the lobby - he&#039;s our wonderful coin supply guy and hauls a ton of stuff to all these shows!</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://i441.photobucket.com/albums/qq139/thepennylady/IMG-20110129-00062.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>These are my San Jose party animal coin dealer friends!&nbsp; LOL!&nbsp; I very much enjoy spending time with Jerry and Linda Carsman and Sara Wargo (behind them) - Jerry has taught me most of what I know about good wines.&nbsp; He has an amazing wine selection. </p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://i441.photobucket.com/albums/qq139/thepennylady/IMG-20110129-00064.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>This is Sarah&#039;s other half - Joe Wargo - he is a big wheeler/dealer and will buy and sell just about anything - he&#039;s very savvy, and a very hard worker!</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://i441.photobucket.com/albums/qq139/thepennylady/IMG-20110129-00065.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>And here is the McIntosh clan in their Saturday &quot;uniforms&quot; hard at work (or as Todd would probably say, hardly working!)....</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://i441.photobucket.com/albums/qq139/thepennylady/IMG-20110129-00059.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>And this is fellow forumite Stealer - he&#039;s such a very nice polite young man and very and serious about coins!</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://i441.photobucket.com/albums/qq139/thepennylady/IMG-20110129-00058.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Also, Gene Bruder&#039;s table is directly across from my table.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://i441.photobucket.com/albums/qq139/thepennylady/IMG-20110129-00067.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Last but not least is our own sweet big ol teddy bear Larry Shapiro!</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://i441.photobucket.com/albums/qq139/thepennylady/IMG-20110129-00066.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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