re: What is your best gambling story: Scared Money Never Wins Edition

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maybe he's in for only $20 with QQ, but not very likely

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actually i think it's pretty likely. he said the player sat down with $350, so he's probably playing 1-2 or 2-5. a $20 preflop raise is on the high end in 1-2 but very average in 2-5.

I watched my drunk friend lose a $300 hand by accidentally hitting on a 19. The dealer didn't hesitate or say anything just layed down the card that wasn't a 2. I tried to reason with the her but she wouldn't budge. We both eventually were thrown out. Good times at Hollywood.

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I tried to reason with the her but she wouldn't budge. We both eventually were thrown out. Good times at Hollywood.

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That's fricking bullshite........I've never witnessed a dealer ever do that.

That sucks. A good dealer would ask "Are you sure you wanna hit on 19?" Good dealers know they're better off helping players, rather than trying to dick them over.

Btw, I play at PH in vegas all the time. The older Asian women they put at the 10, 15, and 25 dollar tables are often not too friendly. Same goes for the high limit ones at the 100 tables. The friendly ones I like are in the middle pit of 50 per hand tables. There are 4 tables there in a circle in front of the high limit room where I usually play there.

Good dealers have saved me from making much less obvious dumb moves. He probably would've tipped $10 if he had won that hand. He claims he did it on purpose full expecting the deuce

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Harrah's in New Orleans

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It seems like I win at every other damn casino, but this one.

Vegas for a bachelor party.

None of my buddies or I are OT ballers or anything, and we were literally playing craps on a laptop on our flight down to learn how to play, but dammit, it was Vegas and we were going to throw some money on the table.

Turned $40 into $200 the first night. Second night turned $40 into about $250.

Sunday afternoon I had to fly home, so we decided to stop and play the $5 table at Circus Circus. This was Labor Day weekend the day after LSU played a depleted North Carolina team that required a miracle to pull off the W. I had a Saints visor on, and a buddy of mine had his LSU polo on. Put $40 on the table, started slow. Had a group of guys across from us that started giving us shite about the Saints and how shitty LSU looked.

And then the bachelor got the dice... An hour and 15 mins later, he relinquished the dice. He started throwing 8,6,8,6,8,9,6,point,8,9,6,8,8,etc. A crowd started forming. One of the guys in our group hit $300 on a snakeyes bet. We had the guys across the table yelling "Who Dat!" The table would cheer everytime we rolled. We made a bunch of money for that table.

They ended up raising the min to $20 before we finally left. The crowd reached the street. There was a round of applause and high fives all around. I turned $40 into $450. I don't know how much the bachelor ended up making, but he was throwing money down pretty good.

By far the coolest gambling moment for me ever. It wasn't a ton of money, but I made enough over the course of 3 days that I paid for all the drinks I bought, dinner at the steakhouse in New York, New York, dinner at Bobby Flays Mesa Grill, and dinner at Texas de Brazil without using my card and still had cash left over.

Put my last $20 on a 50-1 longshot and he came in. I met the owner a few years later and he said they were just in it for the exercise day, and didn't bet on him themselves. The horse just decided to run a big race.

Not that it is any of my business, but how do you know Jack Binion so well?