Sunday, September 04, 2005

Let it ride

My dad and I went to the casino in Gananoque after my grandma's birthday dinner. It was kind of spur of the moment, so we didn't consider the fact that it was Saturday night on a long weekend. The place was packed, but I quickly found a seat at the $5 Let It Ride table. I then proceeded to clean up.

for the unfamiliar, Let It Ride is a poker-style game. Players are dealt 3 cards and use the 2 dealer cards to make the best 5 card hand they can. Betting is done before the cards are dealt, and consists of 3 separate bets of at least $5 each. As the hand progresses, you can take 2 of those bets off the table, and if you win you get paid for each bet still on the table. The first bet can be pulled back right after you receive your cards, and the second after the first community card is shown. Following the second round, you tuck your cards under the last bet (I don't know why exactly, it's just what they do), and then the second community card is shown. Each player's cards get turned over, and payouts are given for each bet they left on the table.

It's a fairly simple game, and it depends on the luck of the draw a bit too much to make it easy to win at. The payouts are pretty good, and if you pull back both bets you don't lose too much. Simply put, if you're getting the cards, you're going to walk out of there with a lot of money.

After I sat down, my first hand was a pair of 10s. I tucked my cards under my last bet right away, and won $15. The second hand gave me a pair of aces, and then the first community card was another ace. Three of a kind pays 3:1, so I won $15 per bet, and I had all 3 out still, so after two hands I was up $60. I probably should have quit then, but I decided to see what else might happen. I went on a bit of a losing skid, eventually getting dangerously close to my original $40, and the point where I'd be losing money.

My luck turned around again soon afterwards, when the dealer turned over a pair of 10s, so everybody won. Not long after I started getting dealt pairs, and soon I had doubled my money. Dad wanted to leave then because he'd hit a streak of bad luck at the blackjack table, so I walked out with $80, nicely doubling my money.

It would have been nicer if it was a little more, but I'm not going to complain.

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