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I
think I should pretty much stay away from the blackjack tables the next
time I'm in Vegas. That's the only conclusion I can come up
with. The last two years I've gone out to Vegas I've completely
bombed out playing blackjack. I mean, completely. El stinko.
Now, before you say it, it has nothing to do
with the way I actually played. Before we left Virginia,
I made sure I had memorized basic strategy. As a matter of fact, I think
I was more prepared this year than ever before. I had "the book"
memorized. I knew whether to hit, stay, double, or split in every
situation. Hey, I played the right way. I think I misplayed maybe 4-5
hands the entire trip (and by misplayed I don't mean that I
doubled on a 12 or did something stupid like that--it was more like
splitting 9's against a dealer's 7 whereas the book says to stay).
And it wasn't where I played or how long
I played that mattered either. I figure that I played an average of 8 or
9 hours a day each of the four days we were out there and I played at
several different different tables in several different casinos each day
too. But, in the end, it didn't matter what I did. I lost my ass the
first day we were out there and then I spent the next three days just
trying to stop the bleeding. [Note to self: Don't use "ass" and
"bleeding" in the same sentence] For the remainder of the trip I didn't
lose as badly as I did that first day, but I think I walked away only
twice from a table either being up a little money or even. Pathetic.
So the question is: If I don't play blackjack
the next time I'm out there, what am I gonna play? Craps? I don't think
so. It didn't work out so well for Beth (who pretty much was even for
the trip, gambling-wise) when she tried out craps for the first time.
She had decided that she didn't want to play blackjack anymore so she
went over to a craps table with Barney to learn how to play. Twenty
minutes later she came back. I asked her how it went and she said,
"Well, some people rolled some dice, I didn't know what was going on,
and then I lost all of my money. Good times." So, no. That's not for me.
Of course, the smart thing to do would be not
to go to Vegas at all, but where's the fun in that? Maybe I'll just have
to bring more money next time...
Yeah. That's it. |
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