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Termyn8or -> RE: Atlantic City (8/23/2010 6:13:11 PM)
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How'm I doin' ?
Things are a bit rough, I am going back to the hospital tomorrow after work. I have no energy. I'm dragging ass and I am sick and tired of being sick and tired. I know that means no beer unless I have some smuggled in, but I even have second thoughts about that. It's not that important as long as I can find something suitable to drink. I have to do this and I do not know how long I'll be gone. But then if the hospital has wireless internet I do posess a laptop that can pick it up and I might be on here ad nauseum during my stay, as there will be little else to do in between the times they poke me and prod me or whatever.
The poker tip, that is based on two facts I know. Running those things legal for trade is under much stringent regulation. A certain amount of money has to be paid out for every dollar taken in. To gain an edge, the makers of the machines have made pairs and thrips pay less and the flush pay more. You can buy those machines and I know people who have, but they do it through connections so they are not rechipped. When offered for sale on the open market they must be rechipped so that you can no longer make money on them. The house edge must be removed.
The machine has a virtual deck of cards, and if you analyse the odds, it still adds up. When you have a pair you have five cards. There are two cards in the deck that can get you three of a kind. But if you have four of one suit there are nine cards out of the same deck, with 47 remaining that can get you the flush, which pays alot more. Most people just take the pair and hope for better luck later.
You would've loved my buddy Jim Watt. He may have been a racist and a radical, but he was no dummy. He taught me how to gamble, REALLY gamble. I was just getting my tuition back when the SOB died on me. In a game of stud I took him good, really good. But he had an un-rechipped poker machine which several people would come and play. One day someone (Tina, who became his olady) hit the royal flush. He had to go in the safe and give her $1,000. I asked "Doesn't that hurt a bit ?". He said "No, she is going to put it all back in there anyway". So that's the other shoe so to speak. When you hit, git.
One day he set one of his grandkids in front of the machine with a bunch of quarters. He was in the kitchen. I went by the machine. Now these machines don't just dump a grand worth of quarters on you, they say 'call attendant'. I snuck in there and had the kid yell "It says call attendant". What's he gonna do, give a seven year old kid a grand ? LOL.
T
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