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By request, here are a few more tidbits about the casino.

Back a few years ago, I was going pretty regularly. I’d be there almost every weekend. A few times I went twice on the same weekend. There was a stretch of about 20 weeks where I was there at least every 14 days. This wasn’t a problem: I wasn’t betting (and thus losing) gobs of money, I had the funds to be there, and I had a glut of free time that I was killing by being there. In other words: don’t judge me.

That said, I met a few people that were there as often - if not more often - than I. I met a lady playing poker who was there 3-4 times a week with her husband. I never ‘met’ anyone in the sense t“Happy Dice” is a guy who is friends with Toothless Dave. When he throws the dice he yells “HAPPY DICE” really loud over and over again.
I’ll post another one of these as I think of them…
hat we became friends, but I knew them because I saw them often enough to figure out who they were. Here are some tidbits on those folks:

Kenny was a hard core craps player. He didn’t make big bets, but he always seemed to be there. He had a system. The most notable thing about Kenny was that he brought all of the dealer Christmas gifts around that time of year. Some kind of pen or pencil contraption with a reindeer on it. I bet he brought 75 of them to pass out to his favorite dealers. Interesting times, indeed.

Toothless Dave was a toothless guy who always played the ‘don’t come’ on the craps table for 25 dollars. This is the only bet he ever made. He made it pretty regularly. This is a bet where you basically win when other lose and lose when others win. A lot of people don’t like it, because they think it brings bad luck to the table. I never cared. Dave commonly would find a chair to sit in whilst at the craps table, which looks funny if you ever see someone sitting in a chair at a craps table. Also, Dave didn’t have any teeth.

Pony Tail Mark was a dealer who had a big pony tail. And he was really tall. And talked a lot. Very nice guy. That’s all I got.

Twitchy was this dude I played craps with a few times. He was a former craps dealer from Louisville from many years ago, which I assume meant that he dealt in some non-legit places. I also never quite figured out why he played craps if he spent so many years dealing it. He was very twitchy. He also bitched a LOT if dealers didn’t pay out bets in a orderly and timely fashion. Like, if someone made an odd bet amount and the dealer had to think about what the payout would be, he would bitch and say bad things about them. He’d tell other dealers at the same table how incompetant these dealers were. It was funny to listen to. I haven’t seen him in a long time, so I assume he either died, moved away, or got killed in the face by a pissed off dealer.

Kim is a blackjack dealer, mostly dealing pitch (meaning they throw the cards to you - not dealt out of a shoe). She’s most known for having very large fingernails which she paints intricate designs on for each and every holiday. Good times.

Andre, or Dre, or Ura Winner - this is a dealer with really bad jokes. Stay away from Andre.

Alex is a Chinese dealer who is faster than lightning. If you told him to just make plays by the book he could literally play all of your hands for you in the shoe, make the payouts, and reshuffle in less than 5 minutes. It is always amazing to sit at his table.

One time I went up to a table and threw down a 500 chip. The pit boss looked at me and in a stern voice said “where did this come from?”. I was a little nervous, like they thought it was a fake or something. Then he said: “nah, I’m just messing with you Caleb. How have you been?”. I didn’t remember the guy at all, but he must have remembered me. Every time he saw me since then he says hi and shoots the shit, like we’re old chums.

“Happy Dice” is a guy who is friends with Toothless Dave. When he throws the dice he yells “HAPPY DICE” really loud over and over again.

I’ll post another one of these as I think of them…

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