Six hours is a long time for me today. 20 years ago I would probably spend 12 or more hours at the tables when at a casino. Now if I win in the first hour or less, I can walk away and enjoy the day.
PS: never chase, at anything, tomorrow's another day
PS: never chase, at anything, tomorrow's another day
yeah well I'm a weird Gambler when it comes to Casinos ... I ONLY gamble at Night ... After Dinner or a Show ... I have never been to the tables in the day time
Even when once we were in the Bahamas and we had one day of bad weather, so couldn't hang out by the pool or beach ... Host calls me and asked if I would be playing
I told him no, only at night.
I also won't drink while gambling
Funny BAS, I do the same thing. Hang at the pool all day, go to dinner and a show, gamble after 10 PM (with a few exceptions)
But I do drink at the tables, although not nearly as much as I did just two years ago
But I do drink at the tables, although not nearly as much as I did just two years ago
My father-in-law introduced me to craps. He was pretty sick. Once he was in Vegas and he had been glued to the table for a long time one day. The pit boss was trying to get him to take a break. He offered him a room but my father-in-law declined. The pit boss went home after his shift was over and when he came back the next day my father-in-law was still there!! He ended playing over 36 hours before going to his room. His nickname was Barnacle Bill.....once his fingers got curled around a craps table you couldn't pry him off. He's in a nursing home now....has lost his eyesight completely and not in the best of health. Next Saturday is his 88th birthday and he asked me if I would take him to the casino for one last fling. He said I could make his bets for him and tell him what was rolled and he would sit in his wheelchair. He thinks since it's his 88th that hard 8's should be hitting all night. We will see.
Craps is the most addictive game on the planet. The guy that invented that game is a genius......it is so deceitful. You know you can't win, you know that you have zero chance to win, but you still want to play. And during a long roll, you feel like you're gonna roll for 2 hours. I honestly don't know why anyone would play any other game in the casino when they can play craps. I was once playing with two degenerates in St Louis. I could just tell by looking at them that they were good buddies and played all the time together. After awhile, I got into a conversation with them. They were carpenters or painters, blue collar guys of some kind but I can't remember exactly. One guy estimated that he had dropped 1.4 mil in his life playing craps. I was like dude, wtf. You know his response? "I have no regrets. This game has given me so many thrills over the years and has made my life fun." I think they were still hoping that a million dollar roll was coming and they could retire. And if not, whatever it was fun.
At the RX bash in 2010, Viking611 and I were drinking in the afternoon and decided to hit the automated craps table at Wild Bill's or Barbary Coast, whatever it was called at the time. It was a real craps table, but you made your bets on a computer, so it went much faster. We literally were not looking to make any money and just bet like $5 with $5 odds. It had a scoreboard that showed how many rolls you had thrown. I held the dice for a long time, probably 45 minutes. On a real table, it would have been so much longer. I read that the longest roll ever was 3 hours, 45 minutes, and the lady only rolled like 154 rolls. So basically I rolled for half as much as the longest roll ever. You know how much I made? $300. LMFAO. People at the table had bought in for $200 and were cashing out 3K plus and getting hosts to come up to them and get their info. I've had many degenerate days where I lost a lot, and I only won $300 on the longest roll that I will ever see in a lifetime of consistent craps play. I had the one roll that everyone dreams about, and made $300. Lol, what a joke. Viking still sends me pics every once in awhile of the scoreboard that said 80 rolls.
80 rolls is a lot. That's like nearly a 10 grand roll if i'm hitting it hard. I play less craps and more blackjack as I get older but I am still drawn to the craps table. If I am playing blackjack and hear a full craps table yelling and screaming I almost have to leave the casino because I know what I am missing out on.
