Gambing addiction the early years

[Lady Fury]

My mother in law has an old slot machine in her garage. Actually it's her long time boyfriend/common law husband's. The kids love it! It's fully functional. David didn't want to leave the house last night because he spotted the machine on the way out the back door. (I have video to but I'll just share the picture.:tongue:)

http://i226.photobucket.com/albums/dd295/LadyofPainLoP/12-25-09087.jpg


*I wish he didn't collect old creepy doll parts. :mad:

[Harry]

Wow. You're daughter has got the jaded bar queen look down pat! Slide her a glass of Johnny Walker and one of those sand bottom ash trays, and she'll set!

[Lady Fury]

Wow. You're daughter has got the jaded bar queen look down pat! Slide her a glass of Johnny Walker and one of those sand bottom ash trays, and she'll set!

She loves to play that machine as well and was pretty pissed off that David got to it first. She's also my drama queen, out of the 4 of them.

[shiningbrow]

That is a world-class pout she has there. She must be pretty fun to be around otherwise.

[alternate identity]

Happily, gambling (with money) is something that never got hold of me. I know too much about probability and statistics to start, and I also know (since I grew up without money and know how hard it is to get any) what my response to losing is.

Before they started doing large-shoe blackjack I was interested in that game. But not as gambling. In single-deck blackjack there are ways to shim the odds in the player's (as opposed to the house's) favour. At that point it is no longer gambling. While this is still possible in large-shoe blackjack, the shim becomes much smaller, sufficiently so that it becomes prohibitively difficult to successfully execute it.

AI

[cyphersmith]

Happily, gambling (with money) is something that never got hold of me. I know too much about probability and statistics to start, and I also know (since I grew up without money and know how hard it is to get any) what my response to losing is.

Before they started doing large-shoe blackjack I was interested in that game. But not as gambling. In single-deck blackjack there are ways to shim the odds in the player's (as opposed to the house's) favour. At that point it is no longer gambling. While this is still possible in large-shoe blackjack, the shim becomes much smaller, sufficiently so that it becomes prohibitively difficult to successfully execute it.

AI

And they tend to throw you out when they figure out you're doing it.

[Name Lips]

Is this one of the ones that can be reprogrammed to have whatever odds you want of winning? That would be fun to mess with.

[Name Lips]

And they tend to throw you out when they figure out you're doing it.

No casinos use single-deck anymore, so it's pretty much not worth it. But the idea is that you win a bit, lose a bit, win a bit, come out ahead in a stroke of luck, and then leave for another casino before they catch on.

[shiningbrow]

I saw a documentary on this yesterday, amazingly enough--the prospect of cheating at casinos. Blackjack is your only hope and counting cards the only actual reliable method. As soon as one casino catches you at it, they'll kick you out, with your winnings, supposedly.

But here's the catch--
All casinos, world-wide, subscribe to a face-recognition software system that allows any card-counter's identity to be instantly communicated to every subscribing casino. So, if you plan to do this, make sure you wear some inventive theatrical makeup!