Monday, March 7, 2011
Good morning crew,
Have you ever had a day when you made all the right decisions
and everything turned out in your favor? Doesn't happen often,
does it? Well, it happened to me this weekend at the casino.
The girlfriend has been itching to go for months, so when I
got my tax return recently I carved out a medium-sized stake
and we went to one of the big casinos out in Michigan.
And since old Mason is not the kind of person to pass up an
opportunity to throw money away, he came along, too.
The girlfriend is a fan of the slot machines, something I
don't have a lot of patience for, so we divided forces and
Mason and I headed for the tables.
We started out playing something that normally would be a
mistake for us...blackjack. Both Mason and I have a bad
history with this game, but this time the cards seemed to
be coming out in our favor.
This is where making the right decisions paid off for me.
Normally, when I hit a winning streak, I would immediately
begin upping my bets. But I decided to be conservative and
continued to bet low. Fortunately for me, because the streak
was short. If you win five ten dollar hands in a row, all
you need is to lose one fifty dollar hand to be right back
where you started.
Then I made another smart decision and walked away from the
table as soon as got a couple bad hands in a row. It's too
tempting to try and wait out a bad streak, but that is
exactly what you don't want to do.
Mason and I goofed around with a couple of other things until
we found a couple open seats at a roulette table. Once again,
the temptation is to bet big, especially when you're down!
But the winning strategy is to bet small and play the tends,
and that is exactly what we did, although I practically had
to physically restrain Mason from switching or upping our bets
(since at that point we had pooled our money).
Once again, the strategy worked. We were up, then we were down,
and we were down, but then we were up again! Each spin betting
small but consistently. Finally, after a grueling hour or two,
we walked away at the end of a winning streak to count our
chips.
I was immensely gratified to find that I was more than three
hundred dollars ahead! Mason had done well too, but since
he was playing more aggressively than I was at the blackjack
table his winnings ended up being smaller. But a small win is
always better than no win at all.
We were sitting at the bar congratulating each other when my
sweetie finally found us. I could tell right away by the look
in her eye that she had lost, which is a role-reversal for us.
She is notoriously lucky at those stupid slot machines.
So I took pity on her and bought her dinner at the buffet.
Hey, it was the least I could do for the poor loser.
Laugh it up,
Joe
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