You learn something everyday

It has been said that you learn something new everyday, and I would have to agree with that. Unfortunately, some lessons cost more than others.

If someone asks me how I can do chip tricks at the poker table I tell them that it probably cost me $200 dollars to do the chip riffle and it cost me $1000 to do the chip flips that I can do. I can't even pretend that those are fake numbers because you have to log a lot of hours at a poker table to learn a lot of the tricks you see on TV. It's not that I set out to learn these tricks, but fuck it, it's boring sitting around a poker table and you're not in the hand. On the flip side, it intimidates a lot of tourists if I'm ever playing on the strip.

One thing I learned today is that even though you bet on the winning team you can lose if they don't cover the spread. What kind of shit is that? So in other words even if a team wins that you expected to win you still lose your money. Not just a percentage, you lose every cent.

So the moral of the story is that you lose money when you gamble. It's no fun to lose, but it made the game a hundred times more interesting to watch.