Lack of Posting:
If I really had something to say, I would. Regardless of being afeerd that Ken would be miffed about not understanding what I was trying to say and as a result be "mad" at me. To be explicit, that's supposed to be a joke.
Haven't been able to make tourneys. So there's little comment there. Been reading the sister site and have become impressed with a couple folks over there. And ah shucks, there is something I have to share, this being the "anything else," section.
As fortune, would have it, I'm sitting at the bar playing video poker, minding my own business and sipping on my own beer at the Horseshoe in Council Bluffs, Ia, just the other day. This fella comes up to me and strikes up a genial conversation. Yadda, yadda, yadda. During the course of the conversation, he informs me that P****** away quarters at video poker is not the way to go and throws a wad down on the bar to prove it. Seems, he plays $5 a pop in the high roller slots cubicle. Now, playing two "coins" for ten is the max, but his play is just $5. He just won $1,200 doing that and he's done it quite a bit. He knows how them machines work. And you tinkle them with just the $5 bet. Heck his wife has won gabazillions and he's on his way, after about 5 successful forays. Asking me, if I'm an honest man, he has a proposition to prove he's correct. Now I know right off he's no "machinest" but I listen anyway, irritated somewhat that I'm not getting enough sips per minute out of my beer and there's $47.50 credit remaining on the machine, that I'm not massaging
Here's his prop. He'll give me $100 to go with him to the high stakes cubicle, if I promise to play just $5 a pop in the machine he tells me to. He's going to play too at another, or other machines. He'll tell me when to leave the machine and try another. All I have to promise is that whatever I hit, I split 50-50 with him. All this to show his expertise on slots and who knows, maybe something else. I say "How can I refuse."
So he says to seal the deal, he'll buy me another beer, so we can warm up to the action. Tosses me $20 and a pack of Marlboro Reds, hard pack. "What's the $20 for?" Good faith.
Well I'm so escited, I don't finish the beer there, I testify, "Let's go"
We take our beers to the cubicle. He gives me the $100, tells me to start at a certain machine and we start punching away. In one minute I move to another machine and he's been at five. In two minutes the original $100 is gone and he gives me another. Between us we play all 20 or 30 machines in the cubicle, and I think I got a return of $20 twice. In five minutes $400 of the $1,200 bankroll is gone and he proclaims, that the machines must a got hit and are tired out. We retire to the bar for another beer, which he doesn't finish, cause all of a sudden he's light headed since he hasn't eaten and wanders away to find a restaurant.
Now there's more than a couple a lessons in there. But most importantly, be careful what you wish for, especially about a lack of posting.
