The Gambling Takahina

Lately, Takahina has been gambling with the 7 Flowers, partly due to being coerced and partly, I hate to be out of a group, so i've been going along with them. They have been mostly playing Blackjack or "Ban Lack". So today, i shall elaborate on the ways of it.

The way they play hor is that the banker opens one card of everyone, with his the last. Then from then on, he slowly determines whether to add or to open ppls card to see if they POM. Frankly lah I hate this rule and way of playing.

Let me just elaborate on the ways of the CASINO playing. Don't forget, i've entered into the Superstar Virgo's casino to get free drinks.

The bankers opens one card of each player as usual. The players will then play, with the following rule: Split, Double.

Split: 2 cards of same number can be seperated to form another side bet.
Double: You double your bet for the next card. So you can only get 1 more card for double the stake.
Insurance: Player can buy half their bets if the first card of banker is an ACE.
Banker's rule: Banker will continue to draw below 15 and will stop drawing at 16.

I'll elaborate with an example that features all rules.

Player bets $100. Banker gives card, you get a card of 5 while banker first card is an ACE. You are offered a chance to buy insurance, and thus your bet will now be $50. Then Banker gives second card, you get another 5 while banker covers her card, proving it's not a blackjack. Now have you 2 cards of 5, you can split. You open your card and seperate it into 2 sets, adding in another $50. So now you have 2 sets of cards with $50 for each. For Set A you get 15 pts. You end your turn. Set B you get a 6, so you have total of 11 for that now. Since it's 11. Player decides to go for Double. Hence, now you add in another $50, turning that bet into $100. The next card which comes in for Set B however is a 4, thus you are left with only 15 for that round and you can't take anymore card for Set B as you betted double. Now banker will open her card, showing it is just a 2. So now she has 3/12/13 points. ACE counts as 1/10/11 for first 2 cards, but counts as 1/10 at 3rd card beyond. Banker draws card again, King. So banker now has 13 points. Banker draws again, gets a 2. So banker now has 15. Due to banker rule, banker cannot stop drawing. Banker nows draw and gets a King. So you won both sets of cards with only 15 points. Total amount of wins = $150.

Understand now? Don't understand MSN me.

Anyway, the commonplace gambling is different and it places more advantage on the banker, thus so whatever blackjack rule you playing now, you can just scream back at him, "YOU EVIL CONMAN BANKER!" But still continue to bet.

Gambling, surprisingly it adds an extra element of fun to gambling. In the past when i first betted soccer, I was so worried about the outcome of Leeds and Leicester (Both football club at English Premier League), that when Leeds lost, I grew berserk and siao and began to fuck the television set which was displaying the match of Leeds and Leicester.

There was also another time whereby my mother gave me $50 to play jackpot. She has been at it for around 2hrs with just $50, while I set on it for less than 10 mins and the bloody machine ordered me for more money. I fuck it. My mother however was unconcerned and continued to be addicted to the flowing images and 7s you see all over. The sounds and graphics has gotten very high tech too.

From then on I decided, "I suck at gambling" despite having the techniques there.

And indeed it showed. There was once I played Blackjack with each round only 10c. Banker won almost all my rounds and won me 50c. I grew pek chiek. I shouted...

"I bet 50c!!!"

Banker has blackjack, now i lose $1.50 from 10c. Bah. So on that day I have to walk home.

But indeed gambling has a great effect on people. Nowadays, 7 Flowers are so hiong they can bet like $2 each round, thinking it's new year. And the amazing thing is they never stop. They keep on going until they lost like $12. It's nothing compared to true casino lah, but then hor, we as students, this is freak enough.

Gambling is indeed one of the most addictive thing in society, almost everything in this world has a sense of gambling in it. However, the one thing which makes it addictive is the fact that you don't believe you will keep on losing if you are obviously losing. Or the other thing is you believe your good luck will last and you will keep on winning more money. That's the holy factor. People has lost families and alot of shit with that fucking holy factor. But then, fuck i'm not gonna elaborate on social unrest, such people don't deserve the strength of my fingers typing here.

Anyway, gambling in the end, is just a pasttime lah. You can gamble and treat it like it's a sort of entertainment. You lose, treat it like paying for entertainment. You win, treat it like the banker is a man in red with either black or white hair. You gamble football, you will grow excited and spastic with even the most boring of matches. That is the power of gamble.

Just treat it like entertainment fee. Have your life depend on it and it'll means you're a no life.