Here's a short preview for the next chapter... · 2:47am Mar 20th, 2015
Chapter Six: I Am Going Places
My downward spiral of bad decisions began the same way that many such spirals begin... with a trip to Las Vegas. I was on a road trip for spring break with a few guys I know from campus. Normally, spring break was when I would launch myself into an RPG, and spend the entire time making that game my b****. I take a sort of perverse joy out of finding the perfect exploits in a game, to make my character or party unstoppable. Skyrim was like mother****ing Christmas for me, as was Fallout 3 and New Vegas. Of course, what really makes me happy is finding a game that I can't 'break', and instead have to conquer through my own skills...
But I digress. This time, I had a sort of... thought experiment that I wanted to perform, one that I had already given a quick test while playing Poker Night and Poker Night 2 over the last few weeks, with surprisingly impressive results. Now, however, I felt that I was ready to test things out in the big leagues. And that, right there, was my first big mistake.
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Any game where you pay money to play is a game where you're going to lose more than you win (unless you run the casino).
2893352 Except poker, where the house will take its 5% rake from every pot, and, if you're the best player at the table, you'll walk away richer. You're up against other gamblers, not the house.
And lo behold...
His mistakes do not destroy the world.
Which isn't so bad.
Dunno bout vegas but here in Perth the Australian Poker League runs a mix of free monopoly money poker games and buy in real money games that don't rip you off as much as the casino does. That's the best way to do it here, Casinos are rigged :p although I have played baccarat, poker & roullette. Roughly broken even from my wins and losses. I usually go once a year with a small amount.