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10-31-2012, 07:39 PM
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Little Distorted had already been bet down from 150-1 to 80-1 at the Wynn, William Hill had him 125-1.
Violence was 75-1 at William Hill. Otherwise I thought the WH prices were generally worse than the Wynn prices, which is sad because the WH outlets used to be Luckys, which generally had better prices than Wynn--which is the reason they got torched by O'Neill and friends last year. Today's true gambling story. My favorite gambling movie is California Split. In it, George Segal's character has a wild run in Reno playing poker, blackjack, roulette and craps. Roulette is a sucker game. In the movie, Segal hits big on 26 playing roulette. So today I am in Venetian setting up a pari-mutuel account, and I walk by a roulette table (actually 2, back to back). A bunch of people are playing one and as walk near it I think, WTF, I'll take a flyer on 26. But before I can bet, the ball is gone, the guy is waving over the table, and no more bets. Guess what--26 comes in. JFC. This mirrored a bad experience the night before at a craps table. I think I am already effing mushed on this trip. Later, coming back from the trip to scout futures at the Wynn and Riviera, I again walk by the same two tables. The "other" table, the one I did not try to play, is empty, but attended. I'm like, let me get this s--t out of my system. So I ask, OK if I just take one spin for $20. Yeah, sure, so I put $20 on 26--MFer comes in. $720, give the lady the $20, and I leave. Now I am done with roulette and craps (well probably on the latter)--it is now horses, football, poker and maybe blackjack (which bailed out my ass yesterday after the craps debacle--a $27 profit yesterday is still profit). 
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