Playing blackjack at a casino

I went to Morongo last Saturday night for my cousin’s bachelor party.  It was fun.  Got my cousin to drink a bit, we played a little poker tournament, and of course we gambled.  After my cousin and his friends got tired at about 2 am, my brothers and my brother in law went back downstairs to play some blackjack.  For those who don’t gamble or play blackjack, let me just say that even though blackjack is a game where its you versus the dealer, its so much better playing with people that you know.  You can talk with them, play at your own paces, and most important of all, you actually know who knows and who doesn’t know how to play.  Why is that important?  Because you are going to have some piece of crap who doesn’t know how to play the game mess up everything for the entire table.  If your friends don’t know how to play, you aren’t scared to tell them what to do.  There’s absolutely nothing worse than playing with someone who doesn’t know how to play.

Anyway, we played until about 6:30 am that night, and let’s just say it was the best I’ve ever done playing blackjack.  Every single person at that table that night won at least 500 bucks.  It was freaking awesome.  I’ve had nights where I couldn’t buy a hand and lost tons.  But, I’ve never experienced the opposite like I did that night.  Very nice.  The night went by so fast and all of a sudden, we noticed it wasn’t dark outside anymore.  I wish that could happen all the time.  But, they don’t call it gambling for nothing and I guarantee the next time I play, the night will be  a lot more negative than it will be positive.

On a somewhat related note.  Why is it that everytime I tell someone I won some money playing poker or blackjack or something, they expect me to buy them lunch or dinner or something?  Seriously.  I don’t ask them to  buy me lunch or dinner every time I lose so why do they expect me to buy them something when I win???