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For MMA I usually like to bet underdogs. I also tend to bet against guys I really hate. Anything can happen in MMA but to be honest I have no clue if it’s a good bet or not. It’s really just me looking for value to add to my streak. I’m gambling with house money essentially.
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drat the guy who hosted our cigar and scotch house games died yesterday. I dunno how
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Feb 9, 2020 10:07
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Feb 9, 2020 11:13
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Heh rough loss on such a disputable decision.
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Feb 9, 2020 20:42
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I Brake For MILFs posted:Depends on where you go. At Mohegan Sun in CT there is a giant mall filled with stores and really good restaurants. They have bands play free shows nightly in the one casino. I saw Eddie Money and Blue Oyster Cult play while I was fuckin around on a slot machine. Last I heard they were trying to open up a movie theater and a bowling alley as well. Mohegan Sun was where I saw a performance from John Valby, a musician whose work is basically a cross between Weird Al and the early years of internet comedy: http://www.johnvalby.com/
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Feb 9, 2020 21:08
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I usually deposit £15 ($19) on Pokerstars every week or second week, today I had $10 left in my account and couldn't be bothered playing so decided to chuck it on the roulette, Just starting at $1 Red, $1 first third of the board, and 0,50 on 14. I hit 14 at least five times in the session, Got up to $2000, down to less than $100, back up to around $1800, then cashed out at $1200. Im gobsmacked that I've won $1200 dollars on a $10 game of roulette, but also kind of terrified that I didn't stop in the middle and nearly lost it all again. I guess when you're in the middle of it you don't see the won money as your own, 9/10 times it would have gone the other way and I would have lost it all before I stopped. Anxiously waiting for the withdrawl now, I had to send extra ID over after gambling more than $2000 in one day.
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Feb 13, 2020 21:34
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Annabel Pee posted:I usually deposit £15 ($19) on Pokerstars every week or second week, today I had $10 left in my account and couldn't be bothered playing so decided to chuck it on the roulette, Just starting at $1 Red, $1 first third of the board, and 0,50 on 14. I hit 14 at least five times in the session, Got up to $2000, down to less than $100, back up to around $1800, then cashed out at $1200. You either won a grand or lost 50 thousand plus Its up to you
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Feb 13, 2020 22:26
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Annabel Pee posted:I usually deposit £15 ($19) on Pokerstars every week or second week, today I had $10 left in my account and couldn't be bothered playing so decided to chuck it on the roulette, Just starting at $1 Red, $1 first third of the board, and 0,50 on 14. I hit 14 at least five times in the session, Got up to $2000, down to less than $100, back up to around $1800, then cashed out at $1200.
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Feb 13, 2020 22:34
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Lol what a stupid term, poker nerds are the worst.
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Feb 13, 2020 22:43
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Cockmaster posted:Mohegan Sun was where I saw a performance from John Valby, a musician whose work is basically a cross between Weird Al and the early years of internet comedy: John Valby was friends with the dad of one of my friends growing up in Buffalo. I had met him a number of times when I was a kid but it wasn’t until high school that we ‘discovered’ his music much to the chagrin of our parents. Then of course we looked up to him as a god Eisenhower? Eisenhower who? And of course the eat bite song
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Feb 14, 2020 01:59
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And barnacle bill He’s still going but I don’t know how much longer. Saw him a couple years ago and it was rough but still fun. Younger generation doesn’t care about this sort of thing anymore, they prefer memes instead.
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Feb 14, 2020 12:57
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I know a guy who basically only lives to play roulette. He works his rear end off during the week, taking every single hour of overtime he can get, only to take all his cash for the week and play roulette all weekend long. Once he won almost 20.000 euro in one night, only to lose it all again the very next day. Gambling is one helluva drug
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Feb 14, 2020 13:08
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I've gone home empty handed before but my instinct on being any significant amount over my original bank is to gather my winnings and run before I can lose any of it
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Feb 14, 2020 13:35
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SilvergunSuperman posted:Lol what a stupid term, poker nerds are the worst. Phil Laak, probably the biggest poker nerd in the world, came up with it, or I think he did anyway. And poker has some ridiculous terms but upstuck is not that bad, after all pretty much everyone knows exactly what it means as soon as they hear it.
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Feb 14, 2020 19:45
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Oswald Kesselpot posted:Phil Laak, probably the biggest poker nerd in the world, came up with it, or I think he did anyway. And poker has some ridiculous terms but upstuck is not that bad, after all pretty much everyone knows exactly what it means as soon as they hear it. I've played poker professionally for 12 years and this is the first time I've ever heard that term haha I assume it means like you've won but you aren't up as much are you were? That actually is interesting that someone coined a word for it, since like if you go by prospect theory it actually is quite different in emotions than just winning straight to a certain amt. Like studies show you will be happier if you walk in, win $100, and leave, than if you were to win $1000, lose back down to $200, and leave, even though you won twice as much in the second scenario. One of the interesting things that someone at Caesar's did, I forgot who, but you know someone high up in the hospitality part of the company, was to use these studies and actually specifically target people who would be shown to be like the most unhappy, because it actually isn't people who just walk in and lose. People actually expect to lose when they go to the casino, if someone walks in with $100 and loses it, they aren't really that upset. But if someone runs up 5x what they came in with, then even just goes back to even and doesn't even lose overall, they try to target them with like extra comps or whatever because that's who they know will be the most unhappy. Conversely, someone who walks in, loses 1k, and gets back up to only losing $100 is gonna be pretty happy, so like just going by how much someone is up or down is way incomplete.
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Alright so I just finished my first live poker tourney. I forget who it was (Jase maybe?) who said wearing a BLM shirt was a helpful start because it made all the coffee sipping old men flip out. I wore my Bernie Sanders shirt and while nobody seemed all that triggered, I somehow finagled my way to the final table and busted at 6th place. Honestly I was nervous as gently caress at first but it was a great experience. Super small time, only costs $100 and I think there were maybe 40 people or so in the entire tournament (it is a Wednesday night during ACs offseason so i guess I shouldn’t have expected more) Had a ton of fun just shooting the poo poo with people. This older southern woman went on a loving heater and kept asking me questions about my tattoo. Some old timey union guys with thick jersey accents yelled “Bernie 2020 bro!” As they exited. Just a weird mix of people. Also, $100 for an entire evening of entertainment is a pretty drat good value by any stretch let alone a casino. One interesting thing I did not expect was how many people had good luck charms. Some made sense. A former marine had some sort of button, a guy had a commemorative coin for the 1986 Mets World Series win. Perhaps my favorite, though, was a tattooed up blue collar guy with a keychain that said “I love my orange tabby”. If any of you can share poker good luck charm stories I would love to hear them
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Feb 20, 2020 05:45
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I see tons of people with stuff like that at my local place. One guy always sets a funko pop of the futurama spaceship on his cards after he checks them. Tons of other people have random little figurines or little tokens.
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Feb 20, 2020 07:14
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Aiming for a tiny Buddha card protector and knocking it down with the cards is one tiny pleasure you get as a dealer. Also, some of them are stupid, but they do serve a purpose. If a dealer sees cards that are unprotected and going slightly towards them (especially for Seats 1/9) those cards will get snapped into the muck so fast.
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Feb 20, 2020 08:46
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I always used a chip and that was just so the dealer doesn’t grab them by mistake. I have had pocket pairs disappear several times with a really good dealer who keeps the game going. I don’t even blame the dealer I’m responsible for protecting my cards.
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Feb 20, 2020 18:18
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A dead giveaway for an old timey experienced player is some chip from like a famous Vegas cardroom or smth You can usually tell but it made it really obvious which seemed stupid, why give away that you are experienced? But guys played with their dick a lot, helped me so much (again, i stunk, but info always valuable) Once in a while a guy would use a gold nugget which was surprising because so valuable This is all almost 20 years ago
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Feb 20, 2020 20:17
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Spinz posted:guys played with their dick a lot, helped me so much (again, i stunk, but info always valuable) is that to psych out the other players or what? I would think it'd just get you thrown out
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Feb 20, 2020 20:49
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Flavahbeast posted:is that to psych out the other players or what? I would think it'd just get you thrown out Must have been the Centauri ambassador at the table that night.
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Feb 20, 2020 22:06
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I think you are kidding but in case not I mean play [or presentation of persona] affected by EGO. Instead of looking like joe schmo who might be making a bad raise say They wear gold and riffle chips skillfully and talk vegas bad beat stories ^at the lower limit poo poo I was playing that was ego, better to be inscrutable
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Dealer here, and thoughts on various games as follows. Blackjack: $10 auto schuffler games suck to deal, either you are dead or have a table full of non-tippers who hate you personally. Spanish 21 is the same players but at least you get a little break when you change shoes. Hand shuffle is actually pretty great to deal as you have better players who tend to be better behaved. Roulette: we took out our single zero wheel because everyone wanted to play the double zero wheel. Carnival Games: 3 card and 4 card poker are easy to deal and fairly mindless, almost like a night off, but they tend to be a main source of tokes. Mississippi Stud is probably my favorite game to deal mainly because the players tend to be some of the most decent in the casino. UTH or HUH are the most difficult to deal which means if you are good there and do not have roulette or craps you will be on those tables a lot. Craps: can be fun with the right players, and at our casino craps probably brings in 40% of our tokes. Most surprising thing is how many people do not take odds. Crapless Craps is fun to deal but people on it do not seem to tip as well as on normal craps.
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CrimsonWolf posted:Dealer here, and thoughts on various games as follows. Why are people better behaved/better tippers at tables that aren’t auto shuffled? Is it because they see you doing what they consider to be “real work” or something? I’ve never played blackjack at an auto shuffled table, I don’t think I’d change my attitude toward the dealer at all but I’d pick hand shuffled over that every time, for whatever reason. But I also have no issues with holdem tables using an auto shuffler lol. Gambler logic. Tetramin fucked around with this message at 15:19 on Feb 26, 2020 |
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Basically the auto shufflers are lower minimum bets and that leads to worse tippers, for instance our auto shuffle games are usually $10 while the hand shuffle games are $25 minimums.
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Feb 26, 2020 15:42
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Casinos should just ban poor people, solve the low toke ratio on lower minimum games because they can just do away with lower minimums altogether.
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Feb 26, 2020 16:05
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CrimsonWolf posted:Dealer here, and thoughts on various games as follows. Do you have fusion games yet? Those tend to siphon the low bet/shittier attitude players. Vvvv They realized exactly that but thought it would make them special. "If we build a Vegas casino on the East coast we're guaranteed to make money! Also, we'll build it on a former toxic waste site, charge $40 for self park and $650 a night." They actually projected a $1B EBITDA and will be lucky to clear $700M revenue.. Macdeo Lurjtux fucked around with this message at 16:45 on Feb 26, 2020 |
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Dick Bastardly posted:Casinos should just ban poor people, solve the low toke ratio on lower minimum games because they can just do away with lower minimums altogether. They tried this at the new Wynn in Boston or whatever it's called now and posted a 41 million dollar loss in the first quarter. They just laid off about 70 of their staff because no one gives a gently caress about $50 table minimums and people just want to have fun gambling with McDonalds money. They backed off, lowered table minimums, and people seem to have started spending more, but they're still hosed long term if the trend persists. Turns out not even people in the most expensive place to live want to gamble at those prices. They probably should have realized that they weren't building a new house on the Vegas strip
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Feb 26, 2020 16:28
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CrimsonWolf posted:
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Baddog posted:Hilarious Honestly thought that would be the first thing commented on. For those that do not know in roulette for a straight up bet, or a bet on just 1 number you get paid 35 to 1. On a single zero wheel there are 37 numbers on a double zero wheel there are 38 numbers. If someone were to bet a dollar a number on a single zero wheel they would lose 1 dollar per spin, on a double zero wheel they would lose 2 dollars a spin.
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CrimsonWolf posted:Honestly thought that would be the first thing commented on. For those that do not know in roulette for a straight up bet, or a bet on just 1 number you get paid 35 to 1. On a single zero wheel there are 37 numbers on a double zero wheel there are 38 numbers. If someone were to bet a dollar a number on a single zero wheel they would lose 1 dollar per spin, on a double zero wheel they would lose 2 dollars a spin. Yeah but change is evil and unlucky! MATHEMATICS IS A LIE!!!!!!!!!
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CrimsonWolf posted:Honestly thought that would be the first thing commented on. For those that do not know in roulette for a straight up bet, or a bet on just 1 number you get paid 35 to 1. On a single zero wheel there are 37 numbers on a double zero wheel there are 38 numbers. If someone were to bet a dollar a number on a single zero wheel they would lose 1 dollar per spin, on a double zero wheel they would lose 2 dollars a spin. Perhaps the logic is "after a zero is hit there are a few rounds where the wheel is 'safe' from hitting another zero. Obviously the more zeroes on a wheel the more safe periods you get." They should introduce a wheel with one number and 36 zeroes. Edit: or maybe at their casino a two zero wheel pays 36 to 1, and any fool can see that 36 is more than 35. Hobologist fucked around with this message at 02:02 on Feb 27, 2020 |
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Hobologist posted:Perhaps the logic is "after a zero is hit there are a few rounds where the wheel is 'safe' from hitting another zero. Obviously the more zeroes on a wheel the more safe periods you get." I think the logic is people are dumb as poo poo and I need to figure out how I can get a piece of a casino that isn't leveraged to the loving gills.
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Feb 27, 2020 01:13
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I just read a huge chunk of this thread all in one go and it doesn't sound like gambling is fun or good at all, despite all the goons saying that they had a great time chatting with strangers
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Professor Shark posted:I just read a huge chunk of this thread all in one go and it doesn't sound like gambling is fun or good at all, despite all the goons saying that they had a great time chatting with strangers Its the massive still silent addiction. Its astounding that it STILL isn't talked about. You can suck dick for crack, go to rehab and get better and you will be shamed less than if you were a degenerate gambler. Its weird.  (Btw, it is exactly like being a massive alcoholic or smth, you CANNOT just gamble a little ever) If you go into any casino like 90 percent of people in there have or are in the process of ruined their lives gambling. The statistics on scratch tickets are staggering, like a relatively small number of poor people buy them all and NEVER will win--- of course same with lotto. I stopped after I wasted the my years 25 - 45, but of course its far too late for me, those years are too crucial.
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Feb 27, 2020 02:52
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Being good at online poker was fun and good tho. Grinding live is for degenerates.
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Spinz posted:
It's never too late: have you seen boomers? They go to their graves refusing to change. What's are some good candidates for your new passion?
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Feb 27, 2020 04:31
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She's already picked one and it's posting
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i like nice words
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my one and only casino gambling story is being on a cruise with the family when i was 17. i went in to the casino, decided i knew nothing about proper card games, and decided to play a slot machine instead. put in 20$, said to myself "Alright, if i lose this, i'm done." Won a bit. lost a bit. Won some more, ended up with 40$ in quarters. cashed out half, put my 20$ back in my wallet, continued playing. after about an hour or so, had about 75$, decided to call it a day, since being a teenager, having a nice wad of pocket money to spend on food and in the arcade on the ship seemed pretty sweet. Caught up with my cousin who had decided to play blackjack. "So, how'd you do?" "...I dont want to talk about it." "What do you mean, you don't want to talk about it?" "I DONT want to talk about it." Found out later he'd lost about 500$ at the table.
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