If you don't like gambling, use the $20 to somebody killed.
The game: "and then I found five dollars."
The rules: You genuinely have to lose a five dollar bill. Then you genuinely have to find it.
The benefit: Hey, at least you've put a five dollar cap on you gambling losses.
The limit: You can play up to four times.
If you don't like gambling, use the $20 to somebody killed.
Or combine the two: Russian Roulette.
The limit: You can play up to four times.
Only if you keep losing.
The penny slots room at the Tropicana may be the most depressing place on earth. It is a sight to behold.
Roll up the bill and use it to do lines of coke off a hooker's breasts. The coke and the hooker will put you over budget, though.
The game of my choosing is the most dangerous game.
I am a "10", you know. In my mind.
Skee ball!
I guess they probably don't have that there. Too bad. I could play skee ball for hours.
The most fun I've ever had in a gambling environment was taking over a $5 blackjack table with some friends at one of the ratty old casinos on Fremont and losing $40. Find the cheapest social game you can play and play it with at least one person you already know and like. If there's no one who fits the bill, adopt a completely false but believable persona and play as that character. The only way to win is to turn the game into a different game. I'm not trying to be meta and subversive, just saying that it is entirely possible to make one's own fun and doing so is way better than working down in the money mine.
Hey! Semester's over! Four months without classes! I only took two courses but I've got straight A's! Also, I'm thinking about law school. See, Stanley? You're not contemplating law school right now! You're already ahead.
$20 wouldn't buy very much law school.
It can, however, buy enough cheap blackjack to score several free drinks.
I could play skee ball for hours.
This is the only thing I genuinely miss about the Good Times Emporium.
$20 on roulette, black. Let it ride until you lose. Go do something else.
Craps. Lowest vig, only true odds. I don't care that you don't understand the rules. Learn 'em.
Sir Kraab is right. Do the procedure in 20 but betting on Pass in Craps.
...betting on Pass in Craps.
That's pretty much what the doctor said when my brother swallowed a tack.
Yeah, craps can be fun, because of the camaraderie the rules allow for (you aren't pitted against each other), especially when you're with a group. When I was having my first casino experience recently, all of us kept consistently betting on the highest-odds numbers (is that the same as what you said, Kraab?), so while we went up and down, it was usually together.
If Minivet is there do the thing in 20 but bet on Don't Pass.
The game of my choosing is the most dangerous game.
I went to a fake casino night - as in, casino games, casino rules, fake money - hosted by some friends a while back, and since I was going to leave early, I finished up at the roulette wheel figuring that I'd play until the money ran out.
No one got my Simpsons reference* when, after a few rounds, I dropped a large amount of money on a number (I don't remember which) and said "I've got a feeling about that number." The number won. I then had enough to place bets on 2/3 of the numbers, and won again. I eventually ran out of money, but I left later than I thought I would.
*Kids these days.
26: No, not the same. In craps, there are certain bets (behind the line) where the house pays you the true odds, meaning that if the mathematical odds are 2-to-1 against a particular outcome, the house pays 2-to-1. In every other bet in craps and in every other game, the house pays slightly worse odds. The house keeps the difference, the vig, which is why the house really does always win.
I totes just played skeeball by myself for Blume. Next up: roulette for Stormcrow.
which is why the house really does always win.
Not at all. "In the long run, and overall" does a ton of work.
According to my understanding, the house wants 10-20% of what money walks in the door every day, and wants what leaves to come back again. And this is not balanced among games.
There should be a lot of nightly winners.
5: mike d!
Or am I wrong in thinking you haven't been seen much around these parts for a while? (that sentence now reminding me of those ones constructed to end "... read to out of about Down Under up for?")
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... In every other bet in craps and in every other game, the house pays slightly worse odds. ...
Not so. Blackjack.
35: Great. How about $40 on black then?
ALWAYS BET ON THE SOOTHING SHADE OF YELLOW THEY PAINT THE VIENNA AIRPORT'S ARRIVAL HALL.