Gambler's Lock Box

[FAA]

I usually visit two casinos. Time to start locking up my FP winnings at C1 before proceeding to C2 with my own bankroll. If anyone wants to remind me on Friday, I would appreciate the nudge.

[FloridaPhil]

My wife thinks the gambler's lock box is hilarious.  It suspect it conjures up images of me in the casino parking lot beating the hell out of the thing to get it open.  It actually does a number of good things.  It makes me more aware of what's happening with my money as I play, it keeps me playing a low variance game with halfway decent odds and it keeps me from doing stupid things to recoup my loses.I ditched single coin play along with it, so I'm substituting quality for quantity.  If I want to play longer, I'll just have to bring more money.   It's already saved me hundreds of dollars as I haven't lost a dime since I started using it.  Another trip is planned this week. Stay tuned...

[olds442jetaway]

I'm heading up in a little while. My friend will be there and he will be the lock box for tonight. I am going to stick with regular deuces, but just trying something a bit different in an attempt to rush the quad deuces. I know the variance on multi line games is higher, but I can play this bank of nickel and up machines on spin poker and only play 2 or 3 lines keeping the variance to a minimum. These are the machines with 800 for 1 for just a nickel bet. Martingale clone won't be used unless I need more than bet 1 to be even if the deuces hit. This has worked great for me for 2016 as long as discipline doesn't fail. It won't tonight. I already promised the Mrs. and we know what happens if you break a promise to the Mrs. Watching the UCONN girls game now. Had penny size hail last night and wind gusts over 60 mph. Wow...good luck all on your next trips..Olds...

[FAA]

GLB is a financial chastity belt. User is guaranteed to protect the integrity of their funds. It can prevent a breakthrough bonanza since you will be taking about half the risk. But risk of ruin is essentially eliminated. If naturally conservative with money but overtaken by the id in a bustling casino environment, this is an imperative tool. I must utilize it before setting off on my casino crawl.

[olds442jetaway]

I'm heading up in a little while. My friend will be there and he will be the lock box for tonight. I am going to stick with regular deuces, but just trying something a bit different in an attempt to rush the quad deuces. I know the variance on multi line games is higher, but I can play this bank of nickel and up machines on spin poker and only play 2 or 3 lines keeping the variance to a minimum. These are the machines with 800 for 1 for just a nickel bet. Martingale clone won't be used unless I need more than bet 1 to be even if the deuces hit. This has worked great for me for 2016 as long as discipline doesn't fail. It won't tonight. I already promised the Mrs. and we know what happens if you break a promise to the Mrs. Watching the UCONN girls game now. Had penny size hail last night and wind gusts over 60 mph. Wow...good luck all on your next trips..Olds...

     Back from the above trip. I was very lucky this time and as promised to the Mrs., everything went home. I caught a Royal playing 3 lines for dimes on the top and bottom line good for a hand pay of 1280 bucks since at the time, I was betting 8 dimes a line. I also caught quad deuces twice at the nickel level good for fifty bucks each time. The weather in the morning up there was horrible with snow and hail, so of course I had to hang out awhile and play just a little more. It worked out OK, since the twenty I allowed caught quad deuces again on a single line quarter game 98.91% The Royals were on that bank of machines as described above and were only the 25/16/13/4/3/2/1 game for 96% or so. My Royalless record on the single line or deal line is still intact however now exceeding 200k hands for the year. Needless to say, I am a happy camper. I know long term, it is a bad move to play a 96 percent game when a 99 one is available, but what is long term anyway. I am beginning to think it is more than a lifetime and approaching infinity. I wouldn't even say this except that I have in just a couple of years two stints of no Royals in over 500k hands each on the single line games or on the deal line if playing a multi line game, and 200k hands and counting this year since hitting one on the single line or deal line.
     Edited to add a non vp poker story. Since I love old cars as much as vp, I just had to post this. The guy playing next to me about my age ( really nice low key guy ) in his youth had stuffed a 390 police interceptor engine in a 1960 Ford Falcon. He had a cut down Lincoln radiator in it too. He just left the car in primer. Needless to say, nobody in the neighborhood could catch this car.

[FloridaPhil]

[quote=olds442jetaway] I was very lucky this time and as promised to the Mrs., everything went home.[/quote]Sounds like your dry spell in behind you.  Winning feels sooo much better than "you know what"...On the car thing, I grew up in Miami in the 60s when it was a hot bed of street racing.   The place was full of rich kids with Jaguars, Hemi Roadrunners and L88 Corvettes.  The real racers built some pretty potent cars and drove them on the street.   I once saw a 406 Ford stuffed into a Ford Anglia.  The guy had to sit in the back seat to drive it.  That was a real Kamikaze rig.   The fastest guys in town built a 1964 Ford Falcon with a 427 side oiler and a straight front axle.  It was the king of the midnight drags and it took a lot of trust account money home. Eventually they stuffed a blown 427 offshore boat racing engine into a 1965 Mustang fastback.  It was really an A-Altered race car with headlights.  The thing finally killed the driver when it rolled over at 150 mph.  After that they quit jacking the cars up in the front and got a little smarter.   Great memories...I was in the thick of the drag racing scene back then.  I didn't have any money but I was a good mechanic and had some well healed friends that wanted to race.  We street raced a 467" aluminum motored Camaro for a couple of years.  It had stock suspension and was a real handful to drive.  I raced a bunch of other cars over the years.  My favorite was a black 1966 Ford Fairlane GT with a Holman and Moody modified 450 inch 427 FE stroker.   The brand X Chevy's never had  a chance against that one...   Those were some of the greatest racing engines ever built.  They were created to beat the Ferrari GTOs at LeMans and they did the job.  Enzo must have been really pissed over that turn of events.  American engineering at it's best....

[FAA]

Amazing trip! I would have taken the hand pay as a check and left. Of course that would have precluded the extra $100 worth of quad deuces hits. 

[onemoretry]

My Royalless record on the single line or deal line is still intact however now exceeding 200k hands for the year..
I'm a bit confused by this.

Could you elaborate on what you mean by "no royals on the deal line"?

[olds442jetaway]

    Most of my play is on single line games. On a few occasions like my last session, I will play a little spin poker. The center line is your deal line. If I catch no Royals on that center line, like in the case the other night, I still count all of the spin poker dealt hands ( just that center line ) toward my Royals for the year. In this case, I haven't hit any on a single line game since Jan 2016 and none on any spin poker ( center deal line ) or Multi Strike Poker ( bottom line ). Actually, I haven't hit any on any line on Multi Strike, but I am only keeping my count going on single line games, center line on spin poker, and bottom line on multi strike. I also am not counting any hands played on Double Down Stud poker, since you do not have the opportunity there to draw cards. Just as a side note, I have not had a dealt Royal on the Double Down Stud game since 2001 in which I had 2 and on the same machine. Mohegan pulled the machine shortly after I hit those. I don't have the exact count on the Double Down Stud hands since 2001, but it is in the 4 million range. I should have hit about 6 dealt Royals on that game since 2001. I just cannot account for these horrible Royal statistics. Luckily, everything else is coming in about on schedule and my new way of playing for 2016 which is only betting the amount needed to b e even if quad deuces hit is saving my behind. I may actually be even now for 2016 after the nice hits the other night. Early in 2016, I was not playing this way, so I did have some ground to make up.

[olds442jetaway]

I love that Enzo quote Phil. Those were quite some cars you spoke about. I grew up in a blue collar neighborhood, so we never had those cars, but we had fun anyway. I like playing the 3 lines giving the quad deuces additional chances to come in, though I am paying a variance penalty. Still, only betting what I need to be even if the quad deuces hit is saving my behind for 2016, and so far, I haven't had to push my bets too high.
     On the car tidbit front, About 25 years ago, I helped my friend put together a really nice Cobra replica with a high quality fiberglass body. He had a pretty rare 1963 Olds all aluminum 215 cu in v-8 lying around with iron cylinder liners and we put that in the car. It really came out nice and was a great fit for the car. After a year of tooling around the cruise nights, he got involved in another project and offered me the car for his cost about 15k, My daughter was nearing college age at the time and I passed. Still kicking myself on that one.