The Path

The lighter side... playing for entertainment, less concerned about "the math."
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FAA
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Successful Saturday. I won $4 on Tropicana JOB FP. Harrah’s shuttle. I hit two quads within twenty two minutes. The first was $50. I moved to pursue the max quad on BP. Just a $125 vanilla quad. Italian bakery lunch. Back to Tropicana for afternoon comp. Yanked due to last week’s no play. I complained at card center. They kindly restored it, but warned me to keep up my rating. Sure, just lose big weekly. I earned token twelve points and left +$45. Deal with it. Net Day: +$87.

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Don’t let me near an Italian bakery. Especially if they have Angel wings.

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Strange sensation to get actual fresh air among people instead of chained to the casino. What a concept.

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Fresh air? What no cannoli aroma?

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These are what you cannot let me near. I would eat them all.
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Successful Saturday. I won $6 on Tropicana JOB FP. At Harrah’s, I hit max four Aces deuce kicker almost upon arrival. Unfortunately, I was still playing JOB. At Bally’s, I decided to play sliding ten coin JOB to hit a $250 quad. Fifty minutes and $272 later, I did just that. My reckless play cost me $22 and was almost a disaster. Machine has 1 equals $50 sticker, so I only earned 47 TCs. I jumped for joy, drawing a crowd. Net Day: +$95.

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WTG. I temp disaster way too often I should stick to playing what will keep me even if I hit quad deuces. If I forget about the Royal and bet one quarter at a time, I wouldn’t even have to bet 2 quarters until I had lost 200 of them betting just one. I have tried many times to do this and get too antsy and up the bet too early often shortly after going into panic mode trying bet 5 then 10 for awhile then 15 then 20 and finally max bet 25. More often than not, it is the bet 25 that busts the bankroll as nothing big hits

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Post by tech58 »

Discipline, always discipline, Olds. Been there right with you many times.
When i played 21 for 10 years on junkets i had a travel buddy who watched my back and i watched his.
We actually physically pulled each other from the table(if necessary) when the deck turned.
He is gone, sometimes i do alright, sometimes not. I miss him.

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I hear you. The trips I have the Mrs with me.......

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I began with a discipline mindset, but feared a wasted early quad. Before I knew it, two thirds of my money was gone. The confused dopey lady two seats away made a huge fuss about drink ordering, making me even more upset. I desperately wanted to hit and run. I ended up crawling away even. After my hit, Knocker came over, highly confused as she’d likely never bet above nickels in her life. So what’d you win?! I said 250. Then she peered in: “Oh, dollars!” I made such an embarrassing scene of it, out of sheer relief. Another woman even related her last minute escape. I had my earplugs in the whole time, but politely humored her.

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