Often at work,with friends etc people take the piss out of my gambling. It is always a laugh for me these days because while I am a avid poker player, and probably to a certain extent addicted to the game, I am not a gambling adict.
To many people I know poker is gambling. Alot of people I know, my mother for example(!) just see poker in the same way as they see going down to the casino and blindly placing £50 on 32 red. The key difference for me is that you can beat poker. You can find a game of players who are worse than you and beat them. I can say with relative certainty that you will never find a roulette wheel in a genuine casino that you can beat!!!
There was a time in a long ago fogotten age when this meant nothing to me and I visited the casino all the time. It has taken a long time for me to be able to trust myself to go into a casino without being there to play poker only. Anyway I have included my visit to a dublin casino last month in my live figures, as I will tonight. Tihs ensures that the boss can see all my ins and outs!!
Fortunately I had a very good night at the casino. I walked in with £100 cash on me and left the card in the car. I played a few hands on 3 card poker without much success, before playing some roulette. I have a set syste covering a set selection of numbers (0/2/4/10/11/17 to 29nd 33). There is no reason for this, its pure luck and thats how I keep it. Anyway after misisng with the first couple of £20 buy ins, I hit the third and had several decent numbers in a row making me up to around about £170.
I then took the unusual decision for me to play a slot machine. I dont normally play these, but justr fancied something different. I put £20 in one, and won £20... I then pu the £20 back in and won £20!!!
I changed machine and put the £20 in... at £0.50 a go it was sime mindless fun, but a couple of decent results later Including 4 worm icons, I found myself with £135!
I cashed up at this point, with £275 in my back pocket(I had bought a couple of drinks). This is when I dedided to have a final £25 roulette spin or 2, as I had a good night and thought "why not"?
This is when I managed to have a very good run. If I hit a number I always double it the next spin, and a couple of nice spins later I was on another £60 or so pounds. Suddenly I had a very hot streak. I had a good bet on 0 and all three of its 17-1 splits, winning around £100 cash + 100 chips @50p each. I doubled all the bets on the number (0,0/1,0/2,0/3) and it came in again!!!
In the end I ended up with £550 for an overall profit of £450!
Anyway this will almost ceratinly be my last visit for a while....
On the poker front I had a bad day on ladbrokes, losing £450. However I managed a good win on poker333, making £358.97, with just over £102 left on the site.
Monthly update -
VC +£1712.57
Laddies +£344.52
Party -£223.55
Poker333 +£862.10
Pokerstars -£250
Live +£183.33
Overall - +£2628.97
Best wishes
