Baccarat Hall of Fame Member kachatz1 Posted August 6, 2017 Baccarat Hall of Fame Member Report Share Posted August 6, 2017 OK, have to tell you a good story happened last night...it's true, and I wish you were there... As a prelude, you often find I will " inter-mingle" tidbits/parts of movies, songs, childhood fairy tales, comedians, etc. into their relationship with baccarat/ casino table games , and ways to " look at the games". - Often? Sometimes? ( are you kidding me??) So anyways, here's a funny one happened last night. Pretty much every band, solo performer, musician who has ever had any success last 70 years passes through Vegas...often once a year, or if they are still around, still can draw in the crowds, they establish what is known as a " residency" , and play a few weeks, a few months, a few years at one of the many, many showrooms/ nightclubs in Las Vegas Well, since unfortunately many of them no longer " tour" , or the bands have been disbanded, at some point the party is over... EXCEPT Next up are the " tribute bands" , who do their best to emulate the style, the " look" , the vocals of the original bands, and now they go on tour and play the original band's songs,....many of them with surprising similarities to the " originals" , and some decent success. And yes, they also come to Vegas... So last several weeks, have seen Queen ( still two original members perform, Led Zeppelin tribute band , and last night The Bee Gees tribute band , who played at a casino called The Cannery, in North Las Vegas ( out near Nellis Air Force base) . What, pray-tell, does any of this have to do with casino table games??? ( Just so I don't get timed-out ...or thrown out... I'll break this into a few segments...Read the next post, and I'll tell you...) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baccarat Hall of Fame Member kachatz1 Posted August 6, 2017 Author Baccarat Hall of Fame Member Report Share Posted August 6, 2017 (edited) 29 minutes ago, kachatz1 said: OK, have to tell you a good story happened last night...it's true, and I wish you were there... As a prelude, you often find I will " inter-mingle" tidbits/parts of movies, songs, childhood fairy tales, comedians, etc. into their relationship with baccarat/ casino table games , and ways to " look at the games". - Often? Sometimes? ( are you kidding me??) So anyways, here's a funny one happened last night. Pretty much every band, solo performer, musician who has ever had any success last 70 years passes through Vegas...often once a year, or if they are still around, still can draw in the crowds, they establish what is known as a " residency" , and play a few weeks, a few months, a few years at one of the many, many showrooms/ nightclubs in Las Vegas Well, since unfortunately many of them no longer " tour" , or the bands have been disbanded, at some point the party is over... EXCEPT Next up are the " tribute bands" , who do their best to emulate the style, the " look" , the vocals of the original bands, and now they go on tour and play the original band's songs,....many of them with surprising similarities to the " originals" , and some decent success. And yes, they also come to Vegas... So last several weeks, have seen Queen ( still two original members perform, Led Zeppelin tribute band , and last night The Bee Gees tribute band , who played at a casino called The Cannery, in North Las Vegas ( out near Nellis Air Force base) . What, pray-tell, does any of this have to do with casino table games??? ( Just so I don't get timed-out ...or thrown out... I'll break this into a few segments...Read the next post, and I'll tell you...) So at the end of The Bee Gees Gold concert ( tribute band), the ushers, and waitstaff in that particular venue circulated through the crowd, and handed out drink tickets and $25 Match Play vouchers to everyone in attendance...more accurately, they handed them out in " handful amounts"... Meaning our group of 6 ended up with about 25 between us... so off to the Bar we go... After a few drinks and conversation, and " spreading the wealth" to a bunch of appreciative patrons who had not attended the concert, I asked everyone in our group if they would like to play a little game... Well, as luck would have it, not a single person among our group is a table games player...including my girlfriend...so I had no takers... Until I convinced them to just make a single Match Play bet...and I would " finance them" ... Would not cost them a nickel out of their own pockets. All agreed, and after a 5-minute " strategy session" , off to the Roulette tables we went. Each member of our group had their own assignment. And armed with their $25 Match Play coupon, and the $25 I handed them, the 6 of us each played one of the single " outside " even money" bets. 1-18 19-36 Red Black Odd Even The ball was spun, the dealer shouted " NO MORE BETS!" And the die had been cast. Now, I am certain that you have already figured out the result of all of this...Barring those pesky 0/00 outcomes ( which I had explained the odds to our group) , we were going to win in total $75... Alas, outcome was between 1-18, Black and Even....3 Players got paid, 3 didn't . We retreated from the table ( quickly, as I had explained to them earlier...), I got my $150 back, and our " group party fund" was awarded the $75 net win... Because the next tribute band we'll all go see is just around the corner... A long story, and purposely so, but next time you read a post which I somehow link to a song, a children's parable, a movie or some other such thing... ( You might just figure out how/why I got there...) Wishing you all the Best! Edited August 6, 2017 by kachatz1 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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