The casino

There are many weird things that seem to be unique to casinos. people with very expensive accents and really cheap shoes. people that are sitting at a particular machine when you walk in and still sitting there when you walk out 6 hours later and people that express no emotion whether they win or lose pounds or hundreds.

it was the second part of Wes's stag do and we went to the largest casino in London which was actually really nicely decored and turned out. We had a table in the resturant and ate delicious food before hitting the casino floor.

BTW, if you're a rural lad in the country asking 13 lads to throw up gang signs for a photo is hilarious. In a central london casino at 10PM surrounded by people it could be considered rather stupid.

I got 12 warning glares and the off duty policeman on the stag do pointed out the folly of my idea.

Whoops.

Anyways we got a tour of the Casino and the hostess explained the varity of strange and weird ways we could hand over our cash to them. The poker tournment had been our major factor in coming to play. Wez is rather good at poker and so e flet he might want to take a shot at competing on a bigger stage than jujst against a couple of his friends.

However as the minimum buy in for the poker games on offer were forty pounds and thats per hand not per total game we dicided digression was the bettr part of valour and played other games instead.
roulette for a bit and came out about even. then after a few drinks I went back and won in the geekiest way possible.

I was playing the odd/even red/black part of the system and thought I'd have a quick punt on red 5 for a quid, sure enough 'Red five, Standing by'
won me a considerable amount of money.

And thats when I cashed out.

I am under no illusions about who wins overall in those places. Put it like this, how could they aford to stay open if more people won than lost?

So they're relying on my reptilian hindbrain to overwhelm good sense and reason and think 'Im on a role! I can win massivly!' and plough all my hard earned cash into winning more. Soon I'd be 90 quid down not up and feeling like a right gimp.

So I cashed out quicker than you can say coward! and I played the much cheaper roulette spending a fiver and winnibg back about 15 pounds.

So in conclusion a great great night, but I would never suggest a trip to a casino as a thing to do with a group of friends or, god forbid, on my own. but if people were going I may well tag along.

Thinking about it the number of people that were there on their own was rather depressing. here we were on a saturday night and the only thing these people could think to do was to come here in the deluded belief they were better than the system.

please note: I do understand that poker is slightly different in that you can win money consistently if you are good enough.

Also this was typed using the new keyboard which works better than I could have dreamed. it makes things so much easier to get long strings of thoughts down. without the thumb rsi that I used to suffer from.

I think its gooing to be a real boon to any future traveling as it folds down to about the size of a small paperback and is fairly sturdy, so far anyway!!