Nice Lady..
Posted: Tue Sep 15, 2015 9:26 am
I don't usually talk much when I go to a casino. I enjoy the quiet time to myself and I'm afraid I'll run into someone who wants to tell me about their problems. Anyway, I recently had a very nice discussion with a sweet lady at the Tampa Hard Rock. She was playing max coins and noticed that I was playing single coin quarter DDB. I told her I was killing time, that my regular game was deuces wild and that I play once a week. She told me her husband had died a few years back and that she had been coming every week but had to cut back because of her loses. She looked to be pretty well off to me, so I assumed she had lost a lot. She told me she asked the casino for a printout of her play and was shocked that she had lost so much. "My husband would be very angry with me", she told me. Then she added "My friends tell me only low life's go to the casino." This saddened me because I could see she felt a lot of guilt about what she was doing. I told her she shouldn't feel guilty about coming here and that her husband would want her to enjoy herself. Then she asked me about one of her hands. I looked over and she was playing Triple Double Bonus and had a pair of aces and another small pair. My mouth flew open and I told her to hold the pair of aces as if her life depended upon it. After my head stopping spinning, I asked her why she was playing that game and she said "Because it pays more than the rest". I asked her if she had ever hit 4 aces with a kicker for 4,000 coins and she said "Once a long time ago". I suggested she might consider playing a game that gave her some money more than "once a long time ago". We briefly talked about some other games, odds, training software and money management and I left to go home.I hope she grasped a little of what I was telling her and that she would quit beating herself up. I wish her well...