Last Night at the Casino

Last night me and a few of my buddies went to the casino again. It's only about a 20 minute drive, so after work we all decided we'd take a ride up. Funny story - as soon as I pull into the casino I get out of my car, and walk up to the entrance waiting for a casino valet to come get my keys. I see a guy in a red jacket, so I toss him my keys and stroll by. For some reason he looks perplexed... and after a few moments I realize the man is not a valet after all, but just happened to have on a red jacket! Lol, slightly embarrassing, and definitely a signal of things to come at the casino.

When I walked into the casino we passed by the Roulette tables, Craps games, and Slot machines until we got to the Blackjack tables. I decided to play some $20/hand Blackjack and see if I could get up a little before heading to the poker room. I was running pretty well for about 15 or 20 hands, and I was up about $100 - not bad at all. But then disaster struck. I swear the Blackjack dealer was out to get me, because for about the next 15 hands I don't think I made a single hand over 15. Then, it got even worse.

For about the next 5 Blackjack hands after that, the dealer made all 21's or 20's while I had consistent 19's and 18's. I would get a great hand, stand pat on the dealer's 5 up card, and then he'd peel off the perfect three card combination to make Blackjack. Ridiculous!

After dropping about $200 during that Blackjack session, I decided to try my luck at Roulette. The trend from my Blackjack session would continue. I started off with just doing a few inside bets spread over 2 numbers. My favorite bet is always just placing a $5 chip on number 2, and after about ten of those bets I was down $50. I recovered my losses after hitting on a 7/8 spread bet for about a $70 winning, but I continued to donate it all back by betting red/black for a while.

Now that I was down about $300 I had had enough. We decided to head up to the new steakhouse that the casino just put in - WOW. This place was practically a 5 star restaurant, and their prices weren't even that bad. I'll post more about dinner later. Gotta run though.