RE: An honest post3 Feb 2021 23:20
Hi Andy
It reminds me of an experience I had in a casino many years ago. I was on my honeymoon and in the heady days of being childfree, young and foolish my new wife and I settled down at a blackjack table.
It was a bit hit and miss then a friendly German guy who had amassed a mountain of chips started discreetly coaching us. In no time we were hundreds of dollars up so wisely we thanked our new friend and headed back to our resort feeling like we’d beaten the bank at Monte Carlo.
The next night flush with our previous nights success we headed back to the casino thinking we’d cracked it and expecting to win big. Sadly our mentor was absent. I had a few drinks won a few but lost a couple of big hands. I started chasing it, used up spare cash and against my new new wives good sense cashed a load of travellers cheques too. Anyway I was down but thinking it was like 21s or pontoon I went in heavy on a five carder. It came off but instead of pushing piles of chips in my direction the croupier reached out with her little rake and instead took all my money. This was black jack not 21s so no 5 card tricks house wins.
That night we didn’t even have enough money left on us to get a taxi back to our hotel. My new wife had to trudge back in her finery because I had been too ****y to check the rules and had overcommitted.
That memory has stayed with me I have rarely felt so stupid and I vowed it would never be repeated, so make sure whatever you decide you keep enough aside not to over expose yourself financially. We should all do well here but you don’t want that long walk home & no taxi.
You know what I mean.