A hard win
After work today I went to the casino. Sally was working as the dealer instead of a supervisor, and I was umm-ing and ahh-ing about going to her table. In the end, I squeezed in between two guys to stand in the middle and bought in at her table.
I have a huge secret crush on her. On my first play, I bet black/third column and it landed on 18. She accidentally swept away my column win. I pointed it out just after she did it and she realised straight away. She was going to put it back but her supervisor asked her to keep sweeping and she would check the camera. On the next spin she had a shift change and that was the end of Sally :(
The next dealer was a tall blonde girl with a slight accent. I wasn't doing too well, going down $400 at one stage. But I told myself to remain calm and I caught up with a combination of section bets and outside bets. She was a bit talkative, but I wasn't really in the mood. I was down so much I had to pull out the $1000 'spare' I had kept in my pocket.
After her was some guy I had never seen before. That old man was playing at the table next to me and eventually came over to say hi and watch. He didn't like the dealer too much, asking him to calm down because he kept banging the dolly as the ball was spinning. I did find him to be a bit loud.
I was down by as much as $600 but managed to come back thanks to playing sections and having it eventually land in mine, even though at one stage it was looking quite scary. I thought about how if I lost the $1800 tonight, it would set me back a lot, and take away the feeling of "easy money at any time".
After this dealer was an old man who came for one spin, then a young guy replaced him. I stayed until I crawled my way up to a $200 win and left straight away. I knew it wasn't my day, and when it's like this, you take anything you can get. Amazingly, I was losing on too many outside bets. Out of the 11 numbers I could lose on, they came up way too many times.
I realised what a large swing it is between losing and winning. If I lose, I'd be down $2000 (in the usual course of things). If I win, I'd be up $200. If you assume I can do that three times a week, 52 weeks a year, it's a bit more than $30,000. So the swing then is a loss of god knows what, and a plus of $30,000 on top of whatever savings I accumulate.
TL;DR - always leave with a win, no matter how small.
I have a huge secret crush on her. On my first play, I bet black/third column and it landed on 18. She accidentally swept away my column win. I pointed it out just after she did it and she realised straight away. She was going to put it back but her supervisor asked her to keep sweeping and she would check the camera. On the next spin she had a shift change and that was the end of Sally :(
The next dealer was a tall blonde girl with a slight accent. I wasn't doing too well, going down $400 at one stage. But I told myself to remain calm and I caught up with a combination of section bets and outside bets. She was a bit talkative, but I wasn't really in the mood. I was down so much I had to pull out the $1000 'spare' I had kept in my pocket.
After her was some guy I had never seen before. That old man was playing at the table next to me and eventually came over to say hi and watch. He didn't like the dealer too much, asking him to calm down because he kept banging the dolly as the ball was spinning. I did find him to be a bit loud.
I was down by as much as $600 but managed to come back thanks to playing sections and having it eventually land in mine, even though at one stage it was looking quite scary. I thought about how if I lost the $1800 tonight, it would set me back a lot, and take away the feeling of "easy money at any time".
After this dealer was an old man who came for one spin, then a young guy replaced him. I stayed until I crawled my way up to a $200 win and left straight away. I knew it wasn't my day, and when it's like this, you take anything you can get. Amazingly, I was losing on too many outside bets. Out of the 11 numbers I could lose on, they came up way too many times.
I realised what a large swing it is between losing and winning. If I lose, I'd be down $2000 (in the usual course of things). If I win, I'd be up $200. If you assume I can do that three times a week, 52 weeks a year, it's a bit more than $30,000. So the swing then is a loss of god knows what, and a plus of $30,000 on top of whatever savings I accumulate.
TL;DR - always leave with a win, no matter how small.
posted by toey | 21:35
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