Slot Systems

For my third slots session at the Choctaw Casino in Durant, Oklahoma, I chose to play a Saturday Night Live slot machine.

These machines are produced by Bally Gaming, who like to produce licensed machines with a little edgy quality to them. They have the SNL slots, along with stuff like Playboy slots and Pamela Anderson slots.
My game of choice was a Blues Brothers slot machine.

I like the Blues Brothers. You might not know that about me. That chase scene at the end is a classic. And where Belushi sweet talks his girlfriend in the sewer, then kisses her, then shoves her aside (and into the mush)? That was classic, too.

I'll tell you what, though. I didn't like that second Blues Brothers movie.
Actually, I never watched it.

I remember seeing them perform at the Super Bowl the year prior. It was Akroyd and that other guy, but no Belushi.

Now, I know it would have been heard to get Belushi to perform. I'm not saying they should have tried to fake it or anything. But when the guy is dead, maybe that's when the franchise should end.

I wonder if Belushi's character was dead in the movie. I wonder if he died of an overdose or something. Hell, that would have been in poor taste. Looks like it's time to go to themoviespoiler.com.

Anyway, the machine was cool. It had big pictures of the original, cool Blues Brothers. It also had three video monitors above it, which you could watch old SNL skits.

They were playing the one where Patrick Swayze and Chris Farley were battling it out to be male strippers. Gross, yet funny.

what wasn't funny, was I lost my $20 on the machine.

I was betting $3 a shot. I won a few bucks once, but my money was gone in 9 spins. That's eight losing spins, if you want to know the truth.

After that, I watched my buddy play on the machine next to me. You'll be happy to know that he won a couple of hundred bucks on that machine. So it looks like I picked the wrong horse, so to speak.

But let me tell you about my big win at the poker table. These never happen to me, so I want to brag a little bit.

I wasn't dealt one pair the entire first two hours of my poker session. Not one stinking pair.

When it did come, I got a pair of Aces. So I tried to play it all cool. I had help from the waitress.

She was bringing me my coffee (black, with none of that crap in it), so I used her as a prop. To avoid eye contact with my opponents, by feigning confusion at the very act of where the waitress should place my coffee.
I was chewing the scenery, but I did seem too preoccupied with the waitress to have a pair of aces.

I bet before the flop, to try to get all the straight and flush possibilities out. There were three of us in the pot at that point.

The flop comes and it's 8-K-A. Yes, I had flopped a set of Aces.

Not wanting to push too many out of the pot at that point, I slow played it. The cards had flopped perfectly, since all three flop cards were of different suits. There was the chance of the ace-high straight out there, but I was willing to take a chance no one had a Q-10 or Q-J.

A lady across the table started betting. She pushed the one guy out of the pot. I called.

The turn came and it was a 3, or something real low. The lady bet again. I called again.

The river came and it was a 6. There were not three cards of any suit. So there were no flush or straight possibilities.

The lady came in with a huge bet. I came over the top with all I had, or real close to it. She called me down. I figured she had flopped a pair of kings or a pair of aces, and possibly two pairs (king and aces or king and eights).

She laid down her cards. They were three kings. The people at the table were impressed, but not as impressed as they were by my three aces.

I have a question for my readers. Is interacting with the waitress too much (while you hold a pair of Aces) a tell?

Now that I think about it, maybe it is. A good tell is when a player acts non-chalant, as if the hand doesn't matter. I think it is. Helping me, though, is the fact that I generally look clueless. So the idiot act is quite natural seeming with me.

Great hand of cards. I won $100+ on the hand, which more or less made my day. When we got there, the only tables going were $1-$2 blinds, no limit. Ended up playing on those all day, so the $100 pot was about all I expected.

I more or less sucked the rest of the day, because frankly I'm not a very good poker player. I also have about the same luck as I do at slots.

What's interesting, I watched the new James Bond movie a couple of weeks ago. One of them sucked out on the other one, holding A-A-A against K-K-K. So maybe one of the other players at the table was an international spy.

But I'll discuss that at another time. For the moment, I had another losing slots session.

Starting Money: $20 Ending Money: $0

LOSING SESSION