Thanks brother!

Today the slots were fairly well picked-over, so I took a chance on a marginal play with a low positive EV and a high variance, and it paid off.

As the machine was paying off, I found two of the regular slot grinders behind me, watching with confounded looks on their faces, as if they were wondering if they'd missed out on a good play that only I'd known about.

They hadn't. I just got lucky.

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You’re a great writer. My story is similar to yours in some respects.

How old are you, if you don’t mind?

Old enough to know better, I would guess. He should be retired by now and on some beach in Baja sipping Singapore slings with a bunch of bikini clad young sluts with big tits. Hanging out in casinos forever is for losers actually.

If we had been living our lives like we're supposed to, it's unlikely we had ever become a significant part of this forum, so there's that. Singapore slings are supersweet, at least I don't know of a place that makes them differently. The amount of sugar in it is almost as unhealthy as the alc

Thank you for the kind words, TheOneWhoYawns! You have brought some joy into my life.

I am in my mid-50s. I am immature for my age. I would rate my maturity level as being on par with The Dude from The Big Lebowski. I've certainly downed my share of White Russians and other cocktails during the daytime hours, and I have explored various inexpensive leisure pursuits over other, more practical activities.

At one time, in my early 30s, I was prepared to settle down and marry and have children and a career and the whole shebang. That time is gone. Outside of a few good friends, I am alone, but I'm not lonely. Lately I've been enjoying checking out various masterpieces and near-masterpieces in film and books and albums and TV and video games. I hope that you are also enjoying your days.

My traps are a bit low on retirement grease, but I don't like to work, and I don't want to commit crimes, so it's the casino for the foreseeable future. I'd also like to lose some weight and start rocking a wardrobe of velour track suits, and the casino is the ideal place for that type of display.

Another day at the office. I've put "showing up" back into play, now I just need to keep that going and work on staying around for longer.

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I don't think I've ever had a Singapore Sling. I'm not biased against sweet and fruit-based "girl drinks", though. If it tastes good, bring it. If instead all you have is whiskey, pour me a double, neat or on the rocks.

I wouldn't exactly describe it as a girls drink cos, at least the variants I had usually have a lot of alc in it, but it's very sweet also, which neatly hides the alc you're consuming. You can look up the recipe on the web, I think it's mainly gin and cointreau or whatever that's spelled. That's prolly the other reason I was never too much into it, not a big fan of gin, that's some pretty trashy alc. Yeah it's also in my preferred BS. Suited might know, maybe some other peeps, not sure, many HK bartenders know, I can tell you that much, one of my preferred ways to walk into the abyss is named after a place not too far away from suited

There's also a variant called Texas... Suited might like that one

Anyways, carry on, I'm just a lost alcoholic in a lost world. I applaud your efforts Mr. suited tough....

1nd, gin is an excellent alcohol, not trashy at all.
2st, a "standard" long island iced tea is not made with gin as far as I know.

I stand corrected, there's apparently gin in a LIIT (Long Island Iced Tea). Along with 3 other alcohols: tequila, vodka, rhum.

Yes, the magic of the Long Island Iced Tea is that it has a handful of different hard liquors in it, but if it's been made correctly, then it still tastes almost exactly like sweet iced tea.

It would be counterproductive to the theme of the drink if the extra shot in the Texas version gave it a liquor aftertaste, imo.