Recently we had our office christmas party up at Sundance resort. Great place with classy people. The theme just happened to be Casino Royale. (I think Tasha [or T Kubb] made up for my frumpiness with her stellar looks.) The nights goal was to make as many chips as you can in 2 1/2 hours, then translate those chips into drawings for our raffle. Games: Bingo, Texas Hold 'Em, Black Jack, and Craps.Tasha and I are regular Texas Hold 'Em players (free hold 'em players... :) ), and when we found out what the theme was, we thought it would be a good opportunity to put our 'skills' to the test....in the end, not the most strategic move we could do. We took the last two open seats at the hold 'em tables, which happened to be next to our CEO (photo: my left).
Now...it was not for lack of skill that I ended up left with only the shirt on my back (I had to fight for my pants), but a severely lucky hand. My betting strategy was perfect, but accounting for luck is apparently not a strong suit of mine, and 'all-in' really translated into 'all-out'.
While T Kubb won more than she lost (she's a great player), we ultimately walked away with about half the chips of when we started...my no chips didn't contribute too much.
Next year, given a similar party theme, I'm gonna stick with black jack...especially since most of the people that walked away from those tables hauled in a cool $40k (We each started with $1k). My new years resolution?...find and kill my bad luck.
It's a good thing you don't have to rely on your gambling non-skills to pay your bills. It sounds like win or lose it was still fun.
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