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Loser:

If I had a gun for every ace that I had drawn
I could arm a town the size of Abilene
Don't you push me baby, 'cause I'm moaning low
And you know I'm only in it for the gold

All that I am asking for is ten gold dollars
And I could pay you back with one good hand
You can look around about the wide world over
And you'll never find another honest man

Last fair deal in the country
Last fair deal in the town
Put your gold money where your love is baby
Before you let my deal go down

Don't you push me baby, 'cause I'm moaning low
Well I know a little something you won't ever know
Don't you touch hard liquor, just a cup of cold coffee
Gonna get up in the morning and go

Everybody's bragging and drinking that wine
I can tell the Queen of Diamonds by the way she shines
Come to daddy on an inside straight
Well I got no chance of losing this time

Last fair deal in the country
Last fair deal in the town
Put your gold money where your love is baby
Before you let my deal go down

Everybody's bragging and drinking that wine
I can tell the Queen of Diamonds by the way she shines
Come to daddy on an inside straight
Well I got no chance of losing this time
Well I got no chance of losing this time
Well I got no chance of losing this time ...

Whatchamacallits?

Austin Squattie ended up here floating face down in the Colorado river. Figger he pissed someone off. Old family here.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Holmes_Jenkins

My kid sister did time for embezzlement trying to get enough money to keep gambling. And pay off the credit cards that were maxed out.

I have no use for gambling having seen what it can do to a family.

Obviously a case of suicide. Shot in the back of the head and firearm never being found, ain’t a reason to suspect foul play.

Texas Ranger

LMAO

😎🦫

Yep, all the big casinos here in Vegas were built with all those "winnings".

Gotta acknowledge Jerry and the Dead!

Texas Rangers didn’t have much to do with it. I knew the sheriff at the time who made the suicide call. There was a reason he went with the call. Can’t remember why now. But I think the Texas Monthly article on it all is still available on line to read. Good article. Haven’t read it in years. Sheriff took a lot of heat for that call.

Here it is;

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.texasmonthly.com/articles/john-holmes-jenkins-rare-books-texas/amp/

My group of poker friends is nickel, dime, quarter. Just an excuse to get together and shoot the BS. We play a couple of dozen different rules for the poker games..Omaha, Chicago and the like.

One of our latest is called "San Francisco". Queens are wild and straights don't count.

They pay for all them big flashy casinos in Vegas by letting all them people win all that money.

Only the winners talk about it...... or at least they only talk about their winnings.

A guy I used to work with had a knack for winning pretty regularly at the blackjack tables. He would watch how the other players played for a while before he'd decide if he was going to play at that table or not. He said the worst thing for a savvy blackjack player was a table with beginner and stupid players.

He worked third shift and several times came into work straight from the casino with thousands of dollars cash on him. The 3rd shift supervisor found out he had brought $18k cash in winnings with him to work one night and jumped his ass royally for it. Supervisor told him he better NEVER bring anywhere near that much cash money in to work again as he was responsible for his as well as other employee's safety and he was making himself a big target to be knocked in the head and maybe even killed with that much money on him.

I have a nephew who is a dealer at the Bellagio Casino Hotel. He's been dealing there for many years. Before going to Las Vegas, he worked as a dealer on several of the river boats on the Mississippi and Missouri Rivers. When he has visited us I have asked him if he gambles?

He said "No. Las Vegas is there for one reason and one reason only. They'll take my money just like they'll take everyone else's."

He makes very good money and spends it on real estate, hunting, and fishing. He and one of his friends are duck hunting right now.

L.W.

Old saying----"A Gambler's money is never his own"

Lol!!!
I might buy 5 or 6 bucks of em over the course of a month.
Or none at all for a couple of months.

We had a foreman that the guys liked to mess with . Somehow they got a B.S. scratch off . They bought a couple legit ones , no hit , then tossed them on the console of the truck and said fugg it .
Foreman looked at tickets and said , you got one you didn’t check .
So the guy says screw it , Im done with that BS . Foreman says well I’m going to scratch it off and I’m keeping it if it’s a winner .
Guy tells him if it hits , you can have it .
So he starts scratching , then beams a big smile and says he won a hundred bucks .
The guy says , yeah , right .
Foreman insists he did. Guy says let me see . Guy says dam it. You did . So after honoring his word , foreman goes strutting up to clerk and says he wants to cash it in . The guys are standing behind him videoing the ordeal . Aftertastes getting rude because he just knew he won and girl kept telling him it wasn’t real . The guys lost it , the look on his face was a mixture of emotions .
It was pouty lips all the way home and the guys would occasionally say his name and he would bark a F-CK YOU !
Kenneth

Gambling can be fun and productive. You can also lose your azz. It’s all in how you go about it. I always had a separate “poker fund”. It was independent of the house budget and if I lost it all the only person it hurt was me. I put together a very nice gun collection from my poker playing days. And still have a nice fat account at the bank. Did I have times that I lost? Absolutely. But there is no doubt in my mind I am way ahead.
Casinos are a different matter. We love playing the slots but the money we take we already told ourselves it is gone. If you hit a nice streak then it’s time to quit. That’s the most difficult part.
Cheers

There's gambling at the casinos and then there's today's professional card playing there's a difference. If you're good enough to be in the circuit with all the tournaments etc. most of these guys make a half assed predictable wage and a few do very well.