Good Ol' Boys (GoB) Talk on Redemption

 

On the 5th hole.  Down by three strokes and you’ve just hit a water ball.  Some people take a mulligan and some people will let them.  I won’t take a water ball, I take the penalty.  It’s still a competition between Dan and Nate, but for me, it’s just turned into a round of redemption.  I’m not playing myself.  I’ve just given myself an opportunity to play the best game of redemption of my life. 

I’m down $200 gambling.  Call it a night.  Most people would.  Some people wouldn’t, and those that wouldn’t you have to be a little worried about.  Most people don’t rely so well on their gambling ability.  Take out $200 more, take a seat at the poker table, and turn this night, into a night; of redemption.

It’s a little bit after midnight, and you try to keep up with the fellas.  It’s not about you, it’s about the fellas.  Well the fellas are about 60 pounds heavier than you and you haven’t been goin’ easy on yourself.  The dance floor looks real good, and at this stage in the night, it really, really shouldn’t. 

Go to bed, you are obviously done for the night.  Or are you?  Put down your whiskey and coke, and pick up a red bull vodka.  You’ve just turned this night, from a night of loss, into the golden opportunity of redemption,

and nobody can take that away from you.

Kevin

Good Ol' Boys (GoB) on Gambling

What should you do when the dealer shows a 6 and you have a 12?  Double down?  Hit?  Stay?  Odds say to stay every time.  Might win, might lose.  Odds say you’ll win more than you lose.  But what the hell, everyone knows the game is stacked to the house.  The house always wins.  You know that going into the casino.  I will do whatever I’m feeling like.  When you have that good, lucky feeling, you can do no wrong.  Don’t let the “cheat sheet” card given to you by the casino that tells you the right way to play dictate your move.  That doesn’t smell right does it?  Hell I would double.  Right now I would.  Who knows what I’ll do tomorrow. 

At casinos they teach you how to play craps.  They tell you never bet the field.  Would you have guessed that there’s a 44% the field hits?  A one-time bet where you can double your money.  Yeah, 44% isn’t in your favor, but when you’re looking for entertainment, your smile will be much wider when your field bet hits!  

The only time I will ever play my odds to a fault is when playing poker.  The casino doesn’t get the odds at a poker table.  It get’s the rake.  You are playing the odds against a fellow poker player, and if you play your cards right, you only put yourself in situations where your odds of winning are 90% and a lot of the times you are staring down at the nuts.

Look, I’m not making a career gambling here.  I am looking for the thrill.  The entertainment.  The rush.  I won’t get that rush when I play the way the dealer tells me.  Math will have me a broke man at the end of the night.  A couple of lucky rolls, a couple of lucky hits and doubles, and some basic A-B-C poker.   Doesn’t happen every time, but just remember, according to your significant other, you always win.

Kevin