TheWacoKidd, apestyles and The Venetian
Well, it turns out I did go out last night. After TheWacoKidd got 4th in the Party Million he was in the mood to go out and drink. He came over to the Bellagio with apestyles and we went over to the Venetian to meet up with some friends of his. On a sidenote, the Venetian is a piece of crap. It reminded me of crappy AC casinos, not the nice Vegas casinos like Bellagio or Wynn.
Anyway, after going through the weirdest valet parking ever (they basically make you drive through the garage), we met up with waco’s friends at the video poker game bar. Then we went over to this table game called “Bonus Texas Hold’em”. Here’s how the game works:
1. Place an ante of $15-$100. Get two cards.
2. Pay double your ante if you want to see a flop, so $30-$200 to see a flop. Otherwise, you have to fold and lose your ante.
3. After the flop, you can check before the turn or bet an amount the size of your ante.
4. After the turn, you can check before the river or bet an amount the size of your ante.
You can’t bet after the river hits. At this point, the game goes to showdown. If you beat the dealer, then you get your pre-flop, flop and turn bets matched 1-1. You don’t get your ante matched unless you hit a straight or higher. Obviously, that’s where the casino gets their edge.
The “bonus” aspect comes in with an extra pre-hole cards bet of $1-$25. If you get AA, you get paid 30-1. If you get something like A-J suited, you get 20-1. If you get something like QQ, you get 10-1. There are a lot of bonus payoffs, but I didn’t memorize the whole payoff board. Obviously, it’s definitely a sucker bet like anything is at table games.
So anyway, waco, apestyles, Roothlus, muchaka and a bunch of other people played the game for awhile. I can’t bring myself to play table games even when the money isn’t significant, so I just hung out. I did get a bunch of pictures… I don’t really feel like going through them and deleting the worse ones, so I’ll just post all of them.
TheWacoKidd
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There was this random Asian table game railbird who stood by the game the whole night. I’m not sure if this is like his profession or something, but he was obviously entertained. He hit up Waco for like $25 bucks at the end of the night just as apestyles and I were leaving.
Speaking of casinos, I’m always amazed by the popularity of the online casino world. It’s similar in some ways to online poker, but as much as I know about online poker, I really know very little about casinos. I’ve been trying to learn a little more about it by reading sites like the online casino guide at CasinoToplists.com, but I’m really still a noob. Granted I won’t ever be playing in an online casino because it’s kind of -EV, but I’d still like to learn as much as possible about the online gambling world since it’s basically my profession now.
Anyway, I came back around 6 AM, got up really late today, went down to the pool for a bit and now I’m about to leave for the 2+2 dinner at ESPNZone. I’ll get a bunch of pics from there and I’ll be back later with another entry.
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