I can not imagine life without gambling. I loved it in the days of my Soviet youth when we knew about casinos only from foreign films. We played various games with cards, coins, bills, and bones. Growing up, we became casino regulars.
First Post-Soviet Casinos
When the country's first casinos appeared, I was ready for them and was not one of those numerous suckers that left at the tables all their grandmother gave them. My gambling period was already in the past, and I went to the casinos to make money rather than for fun.
In the nineties, the strategies did not make sense. It was much easier to deal with some croupiers who stupidly "merged" your chips when the manager was away from your desk.
There were no surveillance cameras in those casinos, therefore, no problems too.
Later, when the casino owners started to worry about safety, we had to work carefully. By then, I had gained practical experience in popular games and even read several translations of foreign books.
Attempts to Play Blackjack
First, we decided to work on the blackjack but quickly realized that counting cards in our reality does not work.
- Anyone competently playing blackjack attracted attention.
- Pit bosses constantly stand above your soul.
- The dealer starts to blindly "burn" cards, and so on.
So, we gave up blackjack.
Other Casino Games
It was much easier to make an oasis poker and even roulette. I do not know who looks at the camera in a casino. Surely these people know the game's intricacies even worse than the dealer who dealt wrong several times in one go.
These overpayments became our bread for a long time. Sometimes we did not even point dealers to mistakes made not in our favor. The main thing was that he considered himself a professional and just blithely foal card further.
The roulette was easier.
It was delicious when we played with ten men; the entire table was piled with chips. You could not know all the subtleties (yet suddenly find yourself on opposite sides) but are prepared for staff obscenities. And not only you - in metropolitan casinos, but the situation was also almost the same.
Even if we could not beat the casino for a few months, traditional drawings helped us correct the situation. We were regular customers and always had a bunch of tickets, so none passed in vain for us. You know how many cars we have won in the past five years, and in fact, we also got a share of those that do not can to us.
What for Now?
Now it is in the past, and the present form will unlikely return, so I am telling it. Legal casinos are not near there. All this underground and riding to distant lands does not make sense.
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