Please PLEASE do not throw me into that briar patch

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St. Paddys Day and I completely forgot. Never the less I had the perfect plan for the day: Attack local a casino somewhere west of the Rocky Mtn divide (best not 2 mention one's whereabouts too specifically) and plunder their ill gotten gains.

Everyone needs a hobby.


I'm not even wearing the Green but I'm so Irish it hardly matters at all. My dogs are gonna have to bite the bullet on this trip as the sitter is unavailable. It won't be too hot and I have the canines well bribed with comfortable bedding and numerous treats and water in car with open windows.

The scenery is spectacular. My check engine light finally turns off after I take the car up to 85 mph. Speed just fixed it! Enter Casino:

Sadly I drop three hundred in the lousy six deck shoe game within the first 45 minutes. It's not a huge loss nor unexpected. Guess all the high cards were behind the cut card. There wasn't very good penetration anyway.

I decided to check out some other game and that's when i found the "Briar Patch" You have warned me not to go there many many times.

The "briar patch" (a hand held game) though has decent penetration and a relatively low minimum. A high max too. I spontaneously calculate that this is a far better bargain than the stinking shoe game that had threatened to ruin my mood. I now know that it is March 17...

I buy in for two hundred and start working on my persona and camo.

A few shuffles go by and I take a small loss then the count climbs through the roof. I've been playing a "faux" worthless progression betting plan disguising my increasing with the count bets by always capping with a red nickel chip.

I bump to two spots at a nearly a hundred each. First one splits and gets a 20 then a 21 the other is a 9/2 I double and get a perfect 21.

Damn it's one fine day!

I stay at the game for a couple hours taking various bathroom trips to rat hole chips.like a squirrel! Then after 2pm I leave that table. Don't wanna appear like a headstone. I get absolutely NO watch from the pit. None.

Then I find a nother sweet woman dealer pitching at another briar patch. Among the fastest dealers I've ever seen. She also has a nice tail end.

I dump another two hundred in the first three shuffles but since I'm up 900 bucks it hardly matters. I just refuse to believe that such a fast dealer needing penetration (Freuudian bra, I mean slip) wouldn't eventually pay off.

It does! I make another easy five hundred, color up the greens into pocket and leave casino. But not until after buying Chinese food.

Dogs loved those pot stickers. i ate all the spring rolls. Not bad!

Most of all I won because I learned something today:

Find out what works for YOU. Certainly follow the advice of what the others before you have learned but find your own way.

the briar patch clearly is one of mine.

What is the "briar patch"?

I shouldn't give you this hint but is here:

I hate those 6:5 games and so should you.

And please PLEASE under no circumstances ever throw me into that briar patch.

Irish
 
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I was making green...

There was no chance to Wong in but I did sometimes leave for the mens room when the single deck went down in value. Sometimes anyway. Can't go to the bathroom ever other hand.

There was no mid deck entry.

Funny comments from the ploppies:


"You ever hear about those kids who made a fortune in card counting"?

"What kids"? replied the counter.



"Hey bud after you left for the bathroom we all got killed by the house"!


I did make one mistake on a minimum bet. Thought my pat hand was a sixteen so I ended up hitting an eighteen & going bust. Don't know what went through my head at that time.

No matter. It took the ten card away from the dealer preventing a 21. She had 8/3 and went bust. So my freak accident saved the rest of the table.

But I guarantee I won't do that again. Imagine busting with a 28!
 
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