gambling

You gotta get up pretty early…

September 30, 2005

I woke up a little earlier than my “roommates” this morning, due to an annoying beeping sound. Since I couldn’t get back to sleep, I got dressed and went downstairs to play some blackjack. I won $100 in about 45 minutes. Combined with yesterday’s poker loss, I am now “up” eleven bucks. Sweet! Oh, for [...]

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Hold ‘Em recap

May 17, 2004

OK, so I’ll do my best to recap the action, or at least the highlights. We originally had 20 players signed up, but ended up with only 17 showing up. This made for three tables – two of six, and one of five. Random draw put me at a table with a bunch of players [...]

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Poker recap

March 8, 2004

So Saturday night was our third Hold ‘Em Tournament. Biggest one yet. 16 players duking it out in a table-stakes, No Limit game. We started off at three tables – one of 6 and two of five. Said tables were to then collapse to two tables of six (one eliminated from each table of five [...]

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Hold ‘Em Recap

January 3, 2004

As I mentioned earlier, last night was our second Texas Hold ‘Em tournament. It was really fun. We had 12 people playing – although we added a 13th player at the eleventh hour, which changed things up a bit, but made the first place purse a little sweeter. We started off by having everyone put [...]

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Poker, poker, poker!

January 3, 2004

Just got home from our Texas Hold ‘Em Tournament. I was, as my friend Jeff said, the winningest of the losers. Of course, he was the losingest of the winners. I’ll explain more later when I detail the game. But suffice it to say that I won back my $50 entrance fee, and then made [...]

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I am loving craps…

June 8, 2003

I forgot to mention… Saturday night, after the baseball game, we went out to the boats. Now, with few exceptions, I’m not a big craps player. Blackjack is normally my game. But after winning about $40 at a table last night, I wandered over to the craps table my buddies were at. I was feeling [...]

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Play the field…it pays off!

May 12, 2003

So I’m back from my Vegas trip. Our story begins on Saturday around 1 PM. I am at the Barbary Coast casino with Backstreet and Partytom. Sit down at a $5 blackjack table, and buy $100 worth of chips. Play a few hands, up and down. End up about exactly even. Toss my $5 chips [...]

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