Gauss Blog, Never Surrender. Never.

 

 

 

 

Tonight I spent about 7 hours in five or so casinos here in Colorado. Didnt place a single bet, no poker, no slots not one penny, even at blackjack. Some friends were going and I felt I needed to get out of the house but cannot afford to waste any money atm. So I decided to go and see what was what NOT playing.

 

I only confirmed what we already know. Casinos are sad places. These slot machine denzians are out of their minds. I feel bad for them, because its obvious that many of them are so bad off physicaly, and mentally, that you can see how they might want to play slots, just because its something they can do. It doesnt require any thought or physical ability. They are diabetic, on oxygen, shuffling from machine to machine with a grim visage upon their wrikled mugs.

 

Is that all there is for them? Hoping that tonight is the night they win big. Even if they won say 5k, would that make up for all those days where they lost? Its really pretty horrible. It would be different if you felt they could afford it, but its obvious from their clothes that they cannot. I have talked to a few people who like slots until Im blue in the face about poker, or even blackjack, about developing some interest in a game where they have some chance. They just dont get it. For them its the slot machine, thats all there is. They dont even try poker. Such a waste. I really feel every single slot player should switch to poker. Its a better game, more fun, and the odds are better, by orders of magnitude. I am disappointed I have never been able to convert a slot player. Not once. I havent even gotten them into blackjack, where you can play at an edge if you are halfway interested in a bit of study, or at a very small disadvantage if your willing to learn basic strategy. They just wont switch. That occasional jackpot is enough to keep them chasing a false dream.

 

I may suck at poker and never be a winning player, but at least I have a chance, there is hope. These people have no hope, or maybe its best to say they have false hope.

 

I have played slots, very casually in the past, but I think Im done with that, I dont want any part of it. All of vegas is built on those buzzing, beeping, electronic money hogs. Its a pretty ****ed up thing. How many starving children could have been fed, or diseases cured with that money. Poker is a wonderful game full of strategy and skill, its nothing like a slot machine at all. Those machines dont even employ many people, there is no dealer being employed as in blackjack or poker. Its apples and oranges, two totatlly different things.

 

As for myself I cannot afford poker atm. Not even 25nl. Had to cash out for real life needs. I am really fine. I sort of miss the game but Ive always know I dont really have alot of gamble in me. When I win at poker I like to think I played well, over a period of time, that I made better decisions than my opponents. I had no problem sitting in a casino for 7 hours and not betting, that thrill of risk is NOT what im after. Not at all. I think thats a good thing. Its like when I used to count cards at blackjack, the thrill was when a winning session was over, knowing I had kept the count and given myself a good chance to win provided the thirll. The anticipation of waiting for a card to fall is not what gets me off. Never has and I think thats a good thing. I know alot of very good poker players have alot of gamble in them, and DO get that thrill. I do not, quite to the contrary I dont like risk or get a thrill from it. I like thinking about how to minimize risk, thats what drives me.

 

Anyway, I sat there for seven hours and watched all of this degenerate sadness, I even had a $100 cash on me, but didnt feel the urge to place one single bet. So I think thats good. I have played alot of online poker over the last few years and this is the first time Ive been away from it, I was wondering if somehow I had gotten myself addicted to it. I really dont think so, Ill come back when the time is right and I can afford it, whenever that is, I feel no urge to gamble and thats a good thing.