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[scotttie]

Hey, the straykatz discussion was going slightly OT so I thought we could continue it here maybe.

Found, was it fun dealing blackjack? I love to play cards and it seems like it would be cool to play with the house money. I'd get fired though cuz I'm not very good at it.

[scotttie]

On 6/24/2014 ILikeShade said:

On 6/24/2014 scotttie said:

found, was it fun dealing blackjack?

Sometimes. But, in the big picture it just disgusted me. Not pleasurable hanging out with drunken gamblers 5 nights a week. Starting out, all dealers are put on swing shift or the overnight shift....day shift is not as bad but you meet drunken players during the day too.

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I'll bet the drunks could get mean when they lost too.

[foundinlv]

Late at night some would get really raunchy and depending on where you worked you had to watch yourself. Very few places let you give them back a snappy retort but I never liked being someone's doormat and taking abuse from some frigging moron.

[MomOf4]

I read somewhere that the odds are actually in your favor if you really know how to play blackjack (not card counting).

[straykatz]

Gambling addictions can be serious.....I watched an inlaw lose everything he owned and also had thugs threatening him and his family because of gambling debts.

I think my late grandmother was addicted to bingo...she went 6-7 nights per week.

[scotttie]

On 6/24/2014 ILikeShade said:

Late at night some would get really raunchy and depending on where you worked you had to watch yourself. Very few places let you give them back a snappy retort but I never liked being someone's doormat and taking abuse from some frigging moron.

Yeah. I wouldn't like that either. Sometimes waitresses have the same problem. The customers think you are their personal servant. Although I'll say a couple of times the meanest ones gave the biggest tip!

[LyndaGee]

I used to work at a Jai-Alai fronton, so sometimes I'd see the ugly side of gambling. But it could be interesting, too: This one man used to carry a small suitcase into the VIP Room. One of the other employees told me it was filled with money!

[hckynut]

On 6/24/2014 straykatz said:

Gambling addictions can be serious.....I watched an inlaw lose everything he owned and also had thugs threatening him and his family because of gambling debts.

I think my late grandmother was addicted to bingo...she went 6-7 nights per week.

Different strokes for different folks. I gambled a lot of football for many years. I finally realized it was consuming a lot of my life and some of my money. Decided to quit it cold turkey and succeeded. I don't enter lotteries or buy tickets to any raffle. I did send in some money to the State Cancer Society once and won a $100 check, but I knew nothing about getting any prize. When the gave the check to me, in front of a camera for media exposure, I gave it back to them and told them to put it into their Cancer Fund.

Gave it up and have no intention of ever starting again. Liked card games when I was young but saw so many of my friends get drunk and fight each other over a card game. Decided to quit playing cards also as they inevitably seemed to end up in arguments or worse.

No cards for me thank you.

[Tyak]

George Strait played blackjack for 5K a hand at TI every time the rodeo came to town.

[foundinlv]

On 6/24/2014 LyndaGee said:

I used to work at a Jai-Alai fronton, so sometimes I'd see the ugly side of gambling. But it could be interesting, too: This one man used to carry a small suitcase into the VIP Room. One of the other employees told me it was filled with money!

I went to a Jai-Alai game in Mexico once. Very interesting. But, yes in Las Vegas the MGM Grand now Ballys used to have Jai-Alai games but that abruptly ended with that horrific fire in 1980.