It's what my daughter's boyfriend does for a living, they are going to vegas tomorrow, he won 300,000 a few weeks ago. nice guy treats her well, wants her to stop working so she can concentrate on finishing her RN.
My father wasted a couple fortunes, playing poker. He knew how to make money, and give it away! Every year he would rent a house in Reno, and play cards all winter. He started doing that when he retired, and continued until he passed, about twenty years of winter card games! I never got tbe urge to gamble, just not lucky enough I guess!
It's what my daughter's boyfriend does for a living, they are going to vegas tomorrow, he won 300,000 a few weeks ago. nice guy treats her well, wants her to stop working so she can concentrate on finishing her RN.
"There never was a horse that couldn't be rode and there never was a cowboy who couldn't be throwed."
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 ...
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 ...
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
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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.
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.
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.
Yep, all the big casinos here in Vegas were built with all those "winnings".
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.
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
Wyatt: Didn't you always say gambling's an honest trade? Doc: I said poker's an honest trade. Only suckers buck the tiger. The odds are all with the house.
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.
Buddy of mines dad ran a bar on the county line with an illegal gambling room in the back. Liquor was free as long as you were settin in at a table. I reckon he done alright money wise. I know he took a schit load of "stuff" in Trade against out standing tabs. Boats, cars, motorcycles you name it. I know it cost him a lot of money to keep the law off his ass.
I knew a guy who made his living playing poker and betting on Jai alai. He made very good money at it. I knew him in college and he drove a new BMW and had plenty of cash. He was majoring in accounting. He said Jai alai was completely rigged and the only trick was understanding the betting and how the game would go depending on the betting. He couldn’t bet big at Jai alai without changing the rig but it was steady easy money. Poker is a game of skill and you need the right game.
Had a bunch of farmers, in my neighborhood, who would gather at a tiny, tiny community (five houses and a big grain elevator) to play poker. There was a little general store/gas station that had an old kitchen table in the corner where they played. The game never really ended. It was postponed for periods but it would always resume. The stakes were always pretty much pocket change and no one cared whether they won or lost. Then it changed. Not sure who decided to make the stakes higher, but they got pretty serious. Finally, one guy had to turn over the deed to an irrigated quarter to another player and another guy blamed the game for his divorce. The local sheriff locked the door and told them he'd start putting people in jail if he heard the game was up and going again.
I won't buy a pickle card or watch the power ball drawing, I gambled on farming, too long to think that I can win.
Backroom and garage poker and craps with acquaintances and "friends of friends" can sometimes be a fast road to broke, too.
Not uncommon for two to play as partners unknown to other players.
Then there's marked cards, and assorted crooked crap shooting devices.
Still got dad's little catalogue of nothing but crooked gambling products -- everything from pre-marked decks of cards in all major brands and devices and dyes to mark 'clean' decks while in play, loaded and shaved dice and electromagnets, punch boards with the winner keys, ...you name it... The seller played it off as a catalogue of "Magic Tricks".
I watched dad clean them out time after time and take their whole paycheck then they thanked him for loaning them $20 till next payday.
I do , like many here do numbers for a living, most "gambling" is not even close to fair, its a game of chance . If you have the ability Black Jack is your game !
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 had a buddy that paid his bills for 5 years playing Hold 'Em. We were in our 20's. He had a rule that you never bet too big with someone who doesnt know how to play. Because well its a game of chance at the end. Someone who doesn't know what they are doing will play hands they shouldn't and take long chances. People who know what to do will fold on because the chances of getting the card they need is so low. He went big one night trying to win a huge pot playing against a woman he said barely knew how to play...............................and lost his entire knot. She got the million to 1 card she needed to win the pot on the flop. He had like $100 when he walked out of the casino wiped out after doing very well for years.
Favorite Uncle was a gambler. Was a medic in Europe in WW 2. Came home after the war with enough money to buy a house and new car. Keep at it all his life. Would bet you on which bird flew off a power line first. Porker and pool was his favorite games. Hasbeen
Yes, I know the horrendous odds playing Powerball. Pick up a ticket once in a great while. Fun to daydream...no expectations. Can't win if you don't play.
It's what my daughter's boyfriend does for a living, they are going to vegas tomorrow, he won 300,000 a few weeks ago. nice guy treats her well, wants her to stop working so she can concentrate on finishing her RN.
major red flags lol Kind of surprised as you been around
Whats his criminal history? You know the old adage: If it seems too good to be true, it probably is. A strange guy meets your daughter and is going to just give her 40 to 50k for nursing school? Sounds like someone with control issues. Any guy that will just throw around a lot of cash for a gal is always going to want something in return. Tell him to show you his 1040's from 2019, 2018, 2017. Did he receive a W2 G from the casino from his earnings? Schedule C when he files file taxes?
Old mountain boy that my dad worked with in the steel mill back in 60's and 70's, used to drive up to Michigan each fall. Would buy a pickup truck load of apples. Bring 'em home to the mountains and resell them. Nice little profit for a weekends' worth of driving. One year he drove up. Got to drinking with some local boys. Got into a poker game. When it was all over, not only did he lose his grub stake for the apples, lost the title to his truck as well. But no worries. Them Michigan boys were nice enough to buy him a bus ticket back to KY !
Back in 1992, the Chief of Police in Detroit named William Hart got caught stealing $2.3 Million from the Police Drug Forfeiture Fund. He used the money to support three separate mistresses plus a wife. When asked where he got all the funds to support the mistresses he said they were winnings from his weekly poker games with his buddies. When asked what the poker stakes were he truthfully said..”.10 to .25 a hand”. At that rate, it would have taken him 200+ Years, assuming he won every hand he played. He got 10 years in prison. Ten years later the Mayor of Detroit, Kwame Kirkpatrick got 30 years in prison for years of bribery and kickbacks. Both were pigmentally gifted Democrats.
I have known 2 successful professional gamblers in my 50 years of living in LV. Both were very bright w/ phenomenal memories and only gambled at what they considered skill games, mainly poker and gin. They considered it a job and made enough to support their passions and only worked 6 months of the year. They despised the environment and most of the people they played against. A successful gambler needs a good tax accountant and a secure system for dealing w/ large amounts of cash.Many of the high$ games are done w/ a broker and no cash is involved at the game to decrease the risk of robbery. Las Vegas attracts predators like blood attracts sharks.
My daughter and he came by invited us to go to vegas. Might go never been there, he's going to play in a tournament, thirty thousand buy in, damn
Friends just spent two weeks at the Bellagio and the room was only $140 for the full time! That is not a nightly rate! Some great deals available. But serious gamblers are comped.
Bunch of California (SF, mostly) Eyetlians have Bristol Bay drift fishing permits. Probably 30-40 in all. They all tie up together at the same dock-location in Naknek, side by side. That section of the dock is known as Little Italy. They don't make anyone else feel especially welcome.
The one season I worked as a deckhand out there, I was waiting in the terminal for my airplane ride back to Anchorage and overheard a dad and 3 of his sons talking. All with thir own boats and permits.
Seems the fourth son (not present) had lost his permit AND boat at the table the night before.
"I don't think Gino ought to gamble when he's drinking" (or maybe it was the other way around)....
Understatement? Probably a quarter million right there, plus whatever season's earnings he pissed away prior to thowing the permit and boat title on the table. Hopefully on different hands at least.
I love nickle, dime, quarter, 3 raise limit. Made $34.60 one night starting with $3. Probably lost 10 times that over 40 years - I don't play often, or well, but I like it - and that can afford. Good entertainment.
I did have one night tho, I could not lose. Regularly drew to inside straights, a couple times needing two and getting them - got one Royal Flush. I maye lost 4-5 hands all night.
Won 10 boxes of matchsticks off those two suckers. . Twice. We each started with 5 boxes, I had to refund theirs to keep playing. I still think they were cheating.
Bunch of California (SF, mostly) Eyetlians have Bristol Bay drift fishing permits. Probably 30-40 in all. They all tie up together at the sme dock-location in Naknek. That section of the dock is known as Little Italy. They don't make anyone else feel especially welcome.
The one season I worked as a deckhand out there, I was waiting in the terminal for my airplane ride back to Anchorage and overheard a dad and 3 of his sons talking.
Seems the fourth son (not present) had lost his permit AND boat at the table the night before.
"I don't think Gino ought to gamble when he's drinking" (or maybe it was the other way around)....
Understatement? Probably a quarter million right there, plus whatever season's earnings he pissed away prior to thowing the permit and boat title on the table. Hopefully on different hands at least.
I love nickle, dime, quarter, 3 raise limit. Made $34.60 one nigh starting with $3. Probably lost 10 times that over 40 years- I don't play often, or well, but I like it - and that can afford. Good entertainment.
I did have one night tho, I could not lose. Regularly drew to inside straights, a couple times needing two and getting them - got one Royal Flush.
Won 10 boxes of matchsticks off those two suckers. . Twice. We each started with 5 boxes, I had to refund theirs to keep playing. I still think they were cheating.
