{"id":121042,"date":"2020-07-03T02:38:12","date_gmt":"2020-07-03T09:38:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/gambling-with-an-edge\/?p=121042"},"modified":"2020-07-03T02:38:12","modified_gmt":"2020-07-03T09:38:12","slug":"in-the-wild","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/blog\/in-the-wild\/","title":{"rendered":"In the Wild"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In this ongoing series I&#8217;m going to share anecdotes and observations from the casinos, usually for entertainment purposes only.  I&#8217;m limited in what I can share in real time, so I might expand the column to guest contributors or non-casino material in the future. If you leave a comment, please reference the post number.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>#2. [Posted 20200703]. Three years ago at a Midwest casino, I saw the worst-played hand ever. In Mississippi Stud, the guy had pocket JJ with a $10 bet on the Ante. On 3rd Street, he called $10. On 4th Street, he called $10. On 5th Street [go ahead and guess!] &#8230; he folded. I just shrugged my shoulders. You can&#8217;t save everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>#1. [Posted 20200625]. This pandemic just got <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"real (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=gxx2qCGHSvY\" target=\"_blank\">real<\/a>! Reminiscent of one of David Letterman&#8217;s &#8220;Brush with Greatness&#8221; sketches, I once ran into Vince Carter. I was at the Ritz-Carlton casino in Puerto Rico, maybe 15 years ago (maybe 20), and I believe the US team was in town for an exhibition tournament. Walking through the pit, Vince called out to a teammate, &#8220;I&#8217;m already down twenty bucks in this bitch!&#8221; I liked seeing his irritation from the loss of a mere $20. &#8220;Half-man, half-amazing&#8221;! That was awesome.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this ongoing series I&#8217;m going to share anecdotes and observations from the casinos, usually for entertainment purposes only. I&#8217;m limited in what I can share in real time, so I might expand the column to guest contributors or non-casino material in the future. If you leave a comment, please reference the post number. #2. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[558],"tags":[1354],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121042"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121042"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121042\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}