Gambling is fun!
Yesterday after I left work and ran some errands, I met up with my friend Brighten at the wonderful Tulalip Casino, 35 minutes north of Seattle. While there, we shot quite a bit of dice!
Betting mostly the same stuff (full odds pass line and 2-3 come bets), we ended up going on an insane heater to start the session against a wrong bettor who was betting against himself while rolling and winning. It was one of the weirder things I had seen - the shooter was going on a ridiculous heater and losing his shirt while we were raking it in. We both achieved a major craps life goal - covering all the non-point numbers with come bets and full odds due to a shooter staying hot for over 20 minutes. It was awesome.
After losing some back and then rallying to cap the session up quite a bit, we headed over to The Keg (our go-to standard restaurant), where I proceeded to win the first credit card game* for pre-dinner drinks ($20) and lost the second credit card game ($160). Rigged.
We headed over to Parker’s Casino to play some 4/8 limit and various other table games and act like idiots, where we had a lot of fun. Brighten managed to get even from poker losses at the blackjack table, while I didn’t. Still up for the trip due to craps, we went to his place where I met his roommate Chelsea, who had mutual friend Tyson in tow. After chilling out for a few hours, we played over 100 hands of 1-5 ($5/point) Chinese poker with deuce in the middle and a new variant we invented: Two Badugi hands and one five-card high hand. This game was very mentally taxing and really helped me to think differently about setting my hands. Somehow after the long marathon session, ending at 6:45 AM, there was only a final swing of 2 units (with me winning, thank you very much).
Introducing Tyler and Rob to the new variant of Chinese poker should be a lot of fun - it’s pretty tough and probably introduces a lot more variance, which is always fun.
* Credit card game (also known as credit card roulette) is where all dinner participants put a credit card in a hat and choose one randomly. Whoever “wins” has to pay for the whole bill. As long as everyone has somewhat equal shares of the bill, it’s a 0 EV game and adds a lot of fun. Try it!
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