But that guy has (had) a girlfriend

This is sort of sideways right but not really bec everybody knows drinks are free in LV. But since it's not completely off base I'll give you this one.

The thing about BJ is that it can tilt players very easily. Lose 5 in a row and then spite bet big on the 6th hand to get even. That doesn't happen much in Pai Gow.

OK, as long as you put it all on red and let it ride if you hit. All I've got to hear is 'I'm borg23' (don't try to pull a fast one SM) and it's yours.

oic, so it's wrong to hate on someone that regularly scams others and then blasts off money that doesn't belong to him while being deep in debt because there is no such thing as free will and we're all just slaves to destiny. Can't argue with that I guess.

AA is not religion but if you actually went to a few meetings you would understand what it is instead of making stupid assumptions. Only 2 out of every 10 alcoholics make it even when they try AA. No one ever said it works for everyone, only those who are serious about their recovery.

You guys are just horrific at reading comprehension. You can HATE these people all you want. But the moment you take YOUR ethics, and how you believe YOU would live your life if you were that person, is the moment that you lose touch with reality. If you believe that a course of action is rational and you know that you would do it, you cannot expect people with obvious out of control irrational tendencies to change because you told them what to do.

You people don't actually go through life like this, do you? First, to not be able to read the King's English in a competent way is just terrifying, if you are in fact, over 10 years old. A few of you here actually display reading comprehension that is in the kindergarten range. That is scary.

Another Internet tough guy. What was so compelling that you had to post here and threaten him.

So do you go around to all the murderers or child molesters in Reno and tell them to get out of town?

It is what it is. Mike has a gambling addiction. No need to threaten him.

There you go making unfounded statements again, that's all I was pointing out. Do you have any scientific basis for your claims? If not, it's no different from religion.

Where would you like me to start?

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/25/op...f-aa.html?_r=0

http://www.aa.org/newsletters/en_US/f-13_fall03.pdf

It is written in the Big Book of AA. One of the first things I was taught. Quit derailing the thread about the scientific aspect of it. Be grateful millions of alcoholics(as well as other addicts who use the basis of AA) have changed their lives due to this program instead of dissecting if it is some sort of cult(which it isn't).

I spoke to someone who visited Chad today. He is in hospice, weighs less than 100 pounds and has days to live. Very sad

The 12 Step recovery model believes in abstaining 100% from your particular addiction.

As a sober AA member, I've had to let go of the pipe dream of having a cold beer at the ball game, or taking a hit off a joint at a rock concert. I choose being clean and sober today.

I'm not saying AA is for everyone, but it's the best thing that ever happened to me.

I could site "studies" that support this recovery method, but there recently was a study that said 15% of alcoholics stay sober with or without AA

So I don't know what anybody else should do, but I believe in what I'm doing.

Someone gave me this advice a long time ago. It was the best advice I was ever given.

Pretty sure I haven't told the guy to do anything and I don't expect anything from him other than the obvious. I also understand that if I was him that I would do the same things as him, since I would be him. That goes without saying. Most places...

I also don't think it's really necessary to all caps the "YOUR ethics" when we are talking about someone that regularly cons people out of money and then gambles it away despite owing many people.

This is reminiscent of Mike snitching on Lou for singing 'grease is my friend'. He gets all sanctimonious about somebody else's scam, despite being a regular scammer himself.

So here we have PotDragon insisting that Mike is a low-life jailbird while telling us that he's also a low-life jailbird -- who isn't scared to **** up a ****ed-up overweight chemical engineer nerd.

Irony, mother****ers.

It's kinda strange that PSU is this unstoppable degen force whose main game is paigow.

Isn't that the game where all the old nits sit because you lose the slowest there? This seems like the least interesting game for a sick gambler....hell, I'm not a degen and even I find it too slow and uneventful.

You make a very good point here. Almost everyone that smokes always say they're trying to quit. It's the fashionable thing to do. The people that actually want to quit do so without talking about it. Me, and about a dozen people I have known. A couple of pregnancies, a few flashes of common sense, whatever the reason, the ones that really did want to quit did so and never smoked again. Saying what you should do and actually wanting to do it are two entirely different things.

This thread has sooooo much potential, and it all rides on Mikey shippin' it. Gogogogo

Anyway, any updates from the Rio?

I don't care if you want to be spiritual or religious or pray to the flying spaghetti monster. Don't claim something is universally true if you don't have evidence.
that's different from what Mullet was saying.

Yes that's my Pai Gow experience, I can make $100 last a long time. The dealer can't deal that many hands per hour because players have to make their hands. You can ask the dealer what's the house way, about 50% of the hands are a push. I enjoy playing it in a Nevada casino.

Blackjack, the dealers fire hands at you like an Uzi. BJ scares the **** out of me, and I play solid basic strategy and I can't win.

In a California card room, Pai Gow sketchy as hell. Because the house can't "bank" the game, the dealer button goes around and you put a bunch of money out and play against all the other players, which results in huge swings. Big degen action. It's evil.

But in Vegas, it's a safe game. Sometimes you see whales play and the bet denominations are huge and the swings up and down are huge. Not my scene.

Rhetorical question: if it's such a losing proposition, why are there so few tables compared to blackjack roulette slots ?

I'm in Tulsa right now. And I'm in a hotel literally 1/4th of a mile from the entrance of the hard rock casino here. I checked the bravo app and there's like one 1/2 game going, and I'd sooner walk into oncoming traffic than play that.

Didn't even cross my mind to go there and play anything else. I don't know, I'm
Weird. I can sit at a poker table for a full day, but can't even imagine playing more than like 8 hands of Bj.

I wonder if anyone is reading this thread while playing in the same tourney as PSUmike. Would be awesome if someone was and the spotted PSUmike across the poker room and stood up and yelled "ship this tourney PSUmike.'

Oh hell yeah!!!!! Busto to robustoooooo!!! Forget 2m2m give this guy a camera right now and live stream the next 24hrs

Difficulty to learn? Not as fast?

Bahahahahahahahaahah

If I was in Vegas right now I would so go try and find PSUmike and rail him. Maybe go shirtless with his name spray painted on my chest in nittany lion colors.