Gambling

[Jon T.]

Any gamblers here?  I used to quite a bit but not too much any more.  That being said, I put $50 on Tiger winning 3 of 4 majors.  6 to 1 odds.  Isn't it crazy that the odds are so low for such an accomplishment?  Any one else like giving their money away?   ;)

[LEATHER KID]

Any gamblers here?  I used to quite a bit but not too much any more.  That being said, I put $50 on Tiger winning 3 of 4 majors.  6 to 1 odds.  Isn't it crazy that the odds are so low for such an accomplishment?  Any one else like giving their money away?   ;)

That was a damn good bet in my book.  By Sunday Tigs will be up by at LEAST 5 strokes.  I really hope he gets them all this year.

[primushead]

I went to the Cherokee Indian Casino last summer and lost $40 in 20 minutes.  I called it quits (for now) after that incident.

I still play poker with friends every now and again, though.  Although the most I stand to lose with that is $5 in a sitting.

[red]

The Saturday after every payday I head to the casino with just $20 my in hand.  Usually leave without out.   ;)

[The DARK]

Gambling (high-stakes) is illegal in SC.  :(

[.Walt]

I play machines...Top Banana. I was playing next to a lady, and she was getting paid. She told me her secret. She brings $300, she plays only Top Banana, and she max bets. I tried it, and it worked!!...for awhile. everything went south, so i stopped. Won $200 in Seattle though. It was a great way to start off the trip. bought a pair of shoes.

[dragonboy]

Looking forward to losing some money in Vegas  ;D

My sister & brother-in-law made some pretty serious money playing the slots in Vegas  [smiley=thumbsup.gif]

[mjkoehler]

While working in college (filthy nasty factory job but damn did it pay great for a college student) we would go to one of the casino's in the Omaha area. Cheap beer prices and slots. I should have just driven by and thrown them $20 bucks. I probably would have saved some money that way (and brain cells).

[dragonboy]

butt hoo neads brane sells aniway?  ;)

[ycartrob]

true story:

When I was living in Oxford, Miss., a friend of mine was a bartender at Harrah's in Tunica (90 miles away). His bar had progressice video poker machines (jackpot for royal flush is $1,000 and progessively gets higher until one of the machines hits a royal, then back to $1,000) and he calls me on a Sunday night and says the progressive is up to $3,800 and he has never seen it that high and I needed to come over and play b/c someone was surely going to hit it that night. I told him I didn't have the cash but that I appreciated the call. So, the next night I went to work (waiting tables at a 5 star restaurant where I made much bank!) and went home early b/c we were slow, and slow meant making only $75! I got home, and my friend called, sort of frantic, saying the progressive was now up to $4,200 and he was positive someone would hit it that night on his shift. So, I had some extra cash and told him I'd be over in 2 hours. well...

I played 1 machine for like 3 hours straight on only $20, kept getting 4 of a kinds. Around 3 am my friend is standing behind me watching (he's off the clock at this point but he can't play since he is an employee) and lo and behold I hit the royal flush for $4,400! I tipped my buddy a clean $500 and called it even.

[bowl of soup]

Me loves the gamble, perhaps a bit too much.  I have replaced all sports gambling with fantasy sports - a good monetary trade for me.  How often do you make the 3 hour journey to Biloxi Jon T?

I first went to Biloxi as a 19-year old and there was no gambling.  My friends and I had a very drug-addled sense of geography and thought that Biloxi was REAL close to New Orleans, so we stayed there for Mardi Gras.  Nothing like a 75 mile drive after 15 hours of parades, pissing in the streets, questionable sex-shows, 47 hurricanes, and an endless supply of $3 whip-its.  There were mini-golf courses and fast-food restaurants directly on the beach.  We stayed right next to the Jefferson Davis house.

Fast forward 3 years - the casinos open and all is changed forever, probably not for the better.  We indulged frequently nonetheless.

[Jon T.]

Me loves the gamble, perhaps a bit too much.  I have replaced all sports gambling with fantasy sports - a good monetary trade for me.  How often do you make the 3 hour journey to Biloxi Jon T?

We went this past Saturday actually.  I'm not a huge fan of casinos though, so I only go once or twice a year.  Me, my wife, and some friends chartered a bus for the day on Saturday.  It was my friend's 30th birthday.  We got a free $15 voucher for taking the bus, (some kind of casino promotion).  I won $65 immediately on nickel slots (I'm almost embarrassed to admit that).   Anyway, I took about $150 and fully expected to lose every bit of it.  Came back with about $75.  Not a bad day considering the amount of fun that was had.  

They're rebuilding Biloxi real nice like.  The Beau Rivage and Hard Rock are both quality casinos.  The Grand is very, very small though.  That is actually where the charter bus had to take us.  But once we were inside for about half an hour we took a shuttle (free limo) to the Beau.

[primushead]

true story:

When I was living in Oxford, Miss., a friend of mine was a bartender at Harrah's in Tunica (90 miles away). His bar had progressice video poker machines (jackpot for royal flush is $1,000 and progessively gets higher until one of the machines hits a royal, then back to $1,000) and he calls me on a Sunday night and says the progressive is up to $3,800 and he has never seen it that high and I needed to come over and play b/c someone was surely going to hit it that night. I told him I didn't have the cash but that I appreciated the call. So, the next night I went to work (waiting tables at a 5 star restaurant where I made much bank!) and went home early b/c we were slow, and slow meant making only $75! I got home, and my friend called, sort of frantic, saying the progressive was now up to $4,200 and he was positive someone would hit it that night on his shift. So, I had some extra cash and told him I'd be over in 2 hours. well...

I played 1 machine for like 3 hours straight on only $20, kept getting 4 of a kinds. Around 3 am my friend is standing behind me watching (he's off the clock at this point but he can't play since he is an employee) and lo and behold I hit the royal flush for $4,400! I tipped my buddy a clean $500 and called it even.

A story like that's gotta be true.  That is simply amazing.

[EAZYE]

I got addicted to the gambling thing shortly after i turned 21.  Buddy of mine in college flew for free because his mother was a stewardess as well.  We hit up Vegas and the worst thing ever happened to me,  I won $1000 my first time out.  Been back at least 8 or 9 times and have only won once, giving back far more to the casinos than I have ever won.  Used to love to bet on college football since I thought I knew it all back in the day.  Last game I bet on though was when USC handed my beloved Sooners their ass on a platter in the Orange Bowl, leaving me with about $200 with 4 days left in Vegas. :-/  Can't remember who said it but they don't tear down perfectly good casinos to build new ones because they are losing money.

[MarkW]

I work for a company that runs lotteries and manufactures gaming machines.

I don't gamble.  At least not on machines or in games where you're not playing the other person.

I did spend one night playing $0.02 per pull on the slots in Vegas.  Four hours playing = $15 = six drinks for me and the missus.  I liked those odds!

[bowl of soup]

Me loves the gamble, perhaps a bit too much.  I have replaced all sports gambling with fantasy sports - a good monetary trade for me.  How often do you make the 3 hour journey to Biloxi Jon T?

We went this past Saturday actually.  I'm not a huge fan of casinos though, so I only go once or twice a year.  Me, my wife, and some friends chartered a bus for the day on Saturday.  It was my friend's 30th birthday.  We got a free $15 voucher for taking the bus, (some kind of casino promotion).  I won $65 immediately on nickel slots (I'm almost embarrassed to admit that).   Anyway, I took about $150 and fully expected to lose every bit of it.  Came back with about $75.  Not a bad day considering the amount of fun that was had.  

They're rebuilding Biloxi real nice like.  The Beau Rivage and Hard Rock are both quality casinos.  The Grand is very, very small though.  That is actually where the charter bus had to take us.  But once we were inside for about half an hour we took a shuttle (free limo) to the Beau.

Things have changed.  I imagine Katrina had something to do with that.  The Grand was the biggest and baddest when we went.  They're adding table games to our Hard Rock down here in the near future, so it will get better.  Been a few times - they've got a big poker room and I do o.k.  It's basically connected to the Ford Ampitheater which makes it nice if there's a good show there.

[Hawkeye]

1)  not exactly on topic but my ex used to work at a casino...let's just say she had a lot of sleezy stories, people offering to take her to orgies, buy her panties for like $500, all kinds of crazy shit.  2)  Honest to god, one of my friend's moms won $450,000 at the casino in Dubuque, IA.  She was already pretty wealthy so it pissed me right off.  She was playing some kind of progressive slot.  3)  Iowa will be enacting a no-smoking in public ban (no bars, restaurants, etc) but the casinos will be exempt.  How bullshit is that.  Just because they have deep pockets they're exempt.  Meanwhile the local ma and pa restaurants and bar owners get fucked in the ass.  The premise of the bill is to protect the health of workers and other patrons to these establishments, but apparently casino workers and gamblers don't matter  :-/  I really shouldn't be surprised...

[MarkW]

1)  not exactly on topic but my ex used to work at a casino...let's just say she had a lot of sleezy stories, people offering to take her to orgies, buy her panties for like $500, all kinds of crazy shit.  2)  Honest to god, one of my friend's moms won $450,000 at the casino in Dubuque, IA.  She was already pretty wealthy so it pissed me right off.  She was playing some kind of progressive slot.  3)  Iowa will be enacting a no-smoking in public ban (no bars, restaurants, etc) but the casinos will be exempt.  How bullshit is that.  Just because they have deep pockets they're exempt.  Meanwhile the local ma and pa restaurants and bar owners get fucked in the ass.  The premise of the bill is to protect the health of workers and other patrons to these establishments, but apparently casino workers and gamblers don't matter  :-/  I really shouldn't be surprised...

The only bars in the UK which were not affected by the smoking ban introduced last year are in... you've guessed it... the Houses of Parliament!  They are currently taking the same view with regard to the recent Freedom of Information Act, which they claim should not apply to releasing details of their "expenses" claims.

It all went a bit Michael Moore there for a moment.  Rant over.  ;)

[Jon T.]

Me loves the gamble, perhaps a bit too much.  I have replaced all sports gambling with fantasy sports - a good monetary trade for me.  How often do you make the 3 hour journey to Biloxi Jon T?

We went this past Saturday actually.  I'm not a huge fan of casinos though, so I only go once or twice a year.  Me, my wife, and some friends chartered a bus for the day on Saturday.  It was my friend's 30th birthday.  We got a free $15 voucher for taking the bus, (some kind of casino promotion).  I won $65 immediately on nickel slots (I'm almost embarrassed to admit that).   Anyway, I took about $150 and fully expected to lose every bit of it.  Came back with about $75.  Not a bad day considering the amount of fun that was had.  

They're rebuilding Biloxi real nice like.  The Beau Rivage and Hard Rock are both quality casinos.  The Grand is very, very small though.  That is actually where the charter bus had to take us.  But once we were inside for about half an hour we took a shuttle (free limo) to the Beau.

Things have changed.  I imagine Katrina had something to do with that.  The Grand was the biggest and baddest when we went.  They're adding table games to our Hard Rock down here in the near future, so it will get better.  Been a few times - they've got a big poker room and I do o.k.  It's basically connected to the Ford Ampitheater which makes it nice if there's a good show there.

Yes, they have changed.  I think the Grand may be expanding though.  I just don't see how they will compete with the others being as small as it is.  It's almost if they've just opened that part up for the time being.   Also, you may already know this, but the casinos were all "floating" on the Gulf.  They were all built on water as part of loophole to have legalized gambing.  After Katrina, there was an amendment made so that they can now be free standing builings giving them a little more protection from future storms.

[ycartrob]

Also, you may already know this, but the casinos were all "floating" on the Gulf.  They were all built on water as part of loophole to have legalized gambing.  After Katrina, there was an amendment made so that they can now be free standing builings giving them a little more protection from future storms.

Here's Presidents Casino in Biloxi that floated off and landed on top of a beachfront hotel after Katrina.