Back in The Game
More interesting…
More challenging…
And,
Much more lucrative…
If I seem to be MIA, now you know why…
More interesting…
More challenging…
And,
Much more lucrative…
If I seem to be MIA, now you know why…
04/15/2021 @ 5:31 pm
You making money?
04/15/2021 @ 5:47 pm
Yes I am….
I’ve managed to net a rather hefty sum over the past few weeks…
If I maintain my approach and style of play, the trend should continue going forward….
For the time being, I’m freerolling on ‘house money’….
09/25/2021 @ 12:51 pm
Historic moon gone too soon, those clouds, bluejay feathers in hat bands, semantic play: away away: deep water higher than the window lock, air gauges like gummed switchblades…theater rebounds sharp sensuous ladies in gowns, bright orange barrels as bright as dayglow sun-center, an adept Blue Northern light scans the moss purple shale mosquitoes hither & yon fits that midnight, another rhyme trap, around the curve
crosses row on row midnight glimpse green swale—bamboo notes, our piper wet intermittent dank cloak those notes and an all hours train, FOG: guttural hail GOOD GRIEF: another red light, disappears above the rusted rail. Verbose whistle acute the melodious clarity of the ‘Summer Wind’ — luck just right — penultimate accolades gentlemen — subliminal silent sanity ~~~ sacred sleep.
04/15/2021 @ 8:29 pm
I remember once you gave me hell for saying that I had not used cash for some period of time. To you, not using cash was taking part in a system that disadvantaged the poor. It is encouraging to know how much gambling must be advantageous…for the poor. I’m sure you’re using cash as well. Good to know!
04/15/2021 @ 10:10 pm
I don’t believe that a cashless economy/society would benefit those who don’t have access to the banking system or those who aren’t able to navigate the the fundamental aspects of the contemporary financial terrain to their benefit.
Many casino poker rooms will not permit the purchase of chips with debit or credit cards…
That’s why ATMS abound in casinos all over the world…
Today many , if not most, states operate a lottery that has been characterized by some as a hidden tax levied against the poor.
In the main , I would tend to agree which is why I don’t play numbers or buy scratch-offs.
I play poker and don’t mind saying that I’m fairly good at it…
04/15/2021 @ 10:12 pm
Uh huh.
04/16/2021 @ 3:02 am
“In the United States, lotteries are run by 48 jurisdictions: 45 states plus the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands.”
—–Wikipedia
04/16/2021 @ 6:14 am
You’re funny. Suddenly this is about lotteries.
Participating in the cashless society by not spending cash in my wallet hurts the poor. But when it comes to gambling, whether at a casino or online, “the poor” are not a consideration, because you are “good at it.”
I have seen you cast aspersions at “most white people”, the profession of law enforcement, people who practice religions, the mass vaccination effort because of its connection to Donald Trump, and even the use of a debit card, without the slightest introspection.
Let me tell you about gambling. You may not recall, but Donald Trump was once in the casino business. The logistics of vaccination was suspect because Trump gave it the ill-advised name of “warp speed”, but a business model used to launder money receives none of your scorn. Using a debit card hurts poor people, but recreational money games which do not develop skilled trades, produce no wealth, and do not circulate through the community are free of criticism. (This industry incidentally makes wide use of debit cards).
You made a connection between police work and slavery…by lifting another person’s article. You imply that there is a relationship. Consider the relationship between gambling and money laundering, bookies, card counting, loan sharing, corruption, illegal alcohol and drug use, and theft. Gambling has played a role in all of these…and even slavery. It’s funny how that never came up.
“State lotteries”. You’re hilarious!
04/16/2021 @ 9:47 am
I grew up knowing about gambling.
My dad had the bug. Too often he wagered on 3 legged dogs, horses with the jockey facing backwards and got into card games where somebody crimped a corner of the “right” card.
He did not like poker and said it was dangerous. When I insisted on learning he taught me the game with my back to the dining room hutch. He taught me to hold my cards up high so the other players couldn’t see them, telling me to expect to meet cheaters. I lost a couple months of lawn mowing money that night I was educated in parlor sports.
In retirement he dealt “pan” the precursor to gin rummy, in the back room of a downtown dive, with a green neon sign and brass spittoons on the floor by the bar where every eyebrow went up if you asked for a drink “on the rocks”, chomping a cigar and hanging out with other WWII vets , since retired from careers as garbage men, police, taxi drivers etc.
“Pan” was not for the feint of heart or dandies. Poker in fact was held in disdain by his crew.
He also taught me that gambling was destructive and that if you cared at all whether you won or lost you shouldn’t be in it. Gambling he said, was only about the action and that if you cried when you lost or gloated when you won then you didn’t belong at the table.
My dad’s employer required a person to be married of course to leave a pension to a spouse, so he talked my mom into marrying him a second time on his last day of employment. They got hitched across the river and he told her he’d go get his retirement gold watch then pick up his suitcase at his apartment and be right over. Instead he went to play cards.
When he told mom he’d be home soon after the next hand was played she wouldn’t let him in.
“Why did you do that to mom?” I insisted on knowing.
“Her rent will be paid now for the rest of her life.” he said
“How did that work?”
“It was easy.” he said. “I told her I quit gambling. I knew she’d buy it. She always believed it when I told her.”
I have the gold watch.
04/16/2021 @ 12:16 pm
That is a fascinating story, AS. It reads like a movie.
“Gambling” is a broad subject with lots of games involved, but, when done honestly, it involves a lot of losing. It is not good for any economy on any level. It isn’t good for an individual, or a city or state. Vegas, or Reno, or Monaco are exceptions that rely on prohibition elsewhere. And observed closely, they are probably not even entirely exceptional. Gambling has all sorts of problems built in. Vets doesn’t allow prostitution in the city limits, but it is easy to find outside. That’s not really adding economic opportunity. It is grinding flesh into sex patties.
The world has to have its vices, and I get that gambling has to be one of them. It doesn’t alarm me. If you want to gamble, do it. Whatever floats your riverboat. But don’t try to stand on some sort of pedestal of helping mankind. Gambling multiplies into all sorts of evils.
04/16/2021 @ 12:18 pm
I mention state lotteries as the most prolific form of legal ‘gambling’ which can be characterized as a hidden tax which disproportionately falls on poor people.
And then I said:
“In the main , I would tend to agree which is why I don’t play numbers or buy scratch-offs.”
The ‘numbers racket’ of times past was designed specifically to prey on poor people.
State lotteries and numbers games were designed to usurp and displace the lucrative rackets that still exist in many jurisdictions.
Re Trump’s casinos and money laundering, that’s a different ball of wax or kettle of fish…
BTW
Have you read/heard about how Trump’s latest scam of fleecing his own supporters through their online ‘contributions’ is being exposed?
Not mentioned here because this post is not about gambling or exploitation of the needy or gullible…
It’s about why I might be less active here than usual..
The gambling and cashless thing is your rabbit hole be my guest.
I’m sure you’ll excuse me if I seem disinterested.
As I said:
Poker is more interesting;
More challenging;
And, far more lucrative than quibbling over syntax and semantics…
04/16/2021 @ 12:28 pm
You’re so blind that you just are not worth it. I had a pretty saucy response for you that included the word “cunt”, but why insult cunts?
Gamble your ass off, you crusader for the downtrodden.
04/17/2021 @ 8:06 am
“Barack Obama came into office in 2008 as the first poker-playing President since Richard Nixon forty years earlier. As a rookie Senator from Illinois, Obama co-hosted a regular low-stakes home game for which there was a waiting list that included Republicans as well as his fellow Democrats. It was not a big game—a couple of hundred bucks won or lost during a night—but Obama nevertheless downplayed his participation in it during the presidential campaign, aware that in the wake of the Bush Administration’s passage of the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act, poker was something of a political hot potato. Writer James McManus, who detailed the candidate’s poker playing in his comprehensive history of the game, Cowboys Full, observed that “American Puritanism has turned playing poker for tiny stakes into radioactive information.”
—–Poker News
“When President-elect Barack Obama was the new kid in the Illinois Senate, he used to organize friendly poker games to help grease the wheels of negotiation. James McManus, author of the poker book Positively Fifth Street, talks about Obama’s history with the game.”
—-NPR
Heard on All Things Considered
November 8, 20084:00 PM ET
To hear Obama tell it, poker was a significant element in his rise to the presidency…
I suppose, according to you, the people he played with couldn’t be much more downtrodden than that.
BTW:
“I had a pretty saucy response for you that included the word “cunt”, but why insult cunts?”
There are some psychiatrists who might diagnose that remark as a manifestation of latent homosexual tendencies or subliminal homosexuality.
But that could be construed as an insult to a portion of the population of gay men…
You must have been a regular riot in the police locker room…
As far as I’m concerned you can go and protect and serve yourself…
04/17/2021 @ 9:35 am
President Obama didn’t spout off about how using debit cards disadvantages the poor…like you did, thus making himself look like a hypocrite. You seem to miss the central point. Your debit card position was a reach to smear, as you frequently want to do, and then a face plant when you revealed that you’re a degenerate gambler with a “system”.
You’re no Obama, Ron. You’re just Riverboat Ron.
04/17/2021 @ 11:56 am
“President Obama didn’t spout off about how using debit cards disadvantages the poor…like you did, thus making himself look like a hypocrite.”
You have no idea what Obama may or may not have spouted off about before he became a national figure. He was certainly playing poker before anyone beyond Chicago knew who he was…
In 2005 Bush II entertained a plan to privatize Social Security and other ‘entitlement’ programs.
The plan include restricted or controlled debit cards which would limit the recipient’s purchasing power and options.
Some time back, welfare recipients received a cash supplement for food etc. It then became food stamps, which is now a highly restricted WIC debit card.
The plan to privatize Social Security was scuttled along with the debit card idea….
Prior to all of this I took the position that I took in response to your blithe mention of how you don’t carry cash…
There was absolutely no attempt or intention to smear you or anyone else in that comment. Just an expression of my point of view which I held long before I became aware of your existence.
You may find this difficult to believe, but not every utterance expressed here is an attack against you personally.
I don’t believe that people here are, or should be, that wound up about you and your opinions to want to disparage you at every turn.
That’s your stock in trade, complete with vile epithets, vulgarities, and obscenities….
.
04/17/2021 @ 12:37 pm
Let me clarify that for you, Riverboat. Barack Obama never tried to imply to me that I was in the wrong when I said I had the same cash in my wallet for a year. Obama did not spring from that totally innocuous fact to some indictment of my actions with regard to the poor. That is where you, and your “stock in trade” separate themselves from most people. It is one thing to say, cashless economy disadvantages those without access to banking. That is a reasonable statement, with which I happen to agree. It is quite different altogether to respond with that when someone says that they have not spent any cash…as a statement to show how the pandemic was changing activity. Context maters, Ron. Yours came across as an indictment.
Now, that being the case, your revelation that you gamble, and pay into the gambling industry is ALSO detrimental to the poor. You make implications and accusations without ever admitting your participation. That is what separates you from Obama. You probably don’t understand this because every comment you have ever made never contains an element of self knowledge. You act like you and the world are hermetically sealed from one another. Hundreds of millions of white people are racists, and cops al want to murder and oppress…and invented slavery…etc, but you are not aware, and can’t concede that gambling hurts the poor worse than the existence of bank cards.
04/17/2021 @ 12:04 pm
Your view of the profession of policing is formed by television and movies. You don’t have the slightest clue about how it actually is. Your education is from the imagination of some screen writer.
Here is one for free, Riverboat Ron. There is no joking around in a LAPD locker room. There were hijinks and pranks, but there was no joking. There was rarely any discussion at all. It isn’t some fraternity, or high school. An LAPD locker room is quite serious. Most of the back of the house was serious most of the time, but the locker room was monastic in its solemnity. Honestly, I am not entirely sure why, other than to say that the workday was not begun with levity. It was generally quite serious. There was meticulous preparation and attention to detail. There were things to do and it wasn’t a time to bullshit. There were deadlines to be met, and roll call to attend. Discussion, if there was any, would occur in roll call. Jokes, if there were any, would also occur in roll call, interrupting the heavy seriousness of preparation for a day where you or a colleague might be dead in 15 minutes. A daily announcement might be, (Joe Riverboat just got paroled, and he has stated that he is dedicated to killing a cop from one of the following divisions. He is accomplished at martial arts and taking weapons away from officers. He has committed x-number of murders in these various ways, including kicking one man off of a cliff. This is his photo image. If you see him, don’t try to apprehend him alone.). Except for a few details, that is an announcement that I recall from one roll call…including the kicking a man off of a cliff. So, the steering doesn’t lend itself to jokes. Silly fuckers don’t make it to this point because they’d lose the trust of other officers. You’re not just responsible to save your own life. You’re responsible to save theirs. Paying attention is valued, and discipline is held. Not like you in whatever class you were supposed to learn about the definition of Manslaughter.
Let’s see, “there are some psychiatrists…”. Blah, fucking blah. Really, Ron?
04/17/2021 @ 12:22 pm
I confess to having a weakness with you. I dislike the way you enter with an insult, and then accuse others of being insulting. You never acknowledge your own misbehavior. You just cry when you have been slapped back. This stupid post is one example of how you enter insulting.
“…More interesting…
More challenging…
And,
Much more lucrative…
If I seem to be MIA, now you know why…”
Rather than just saying what you have been doing, you attempt to say that this place, your company is not interesting…etc. And while I don’t doubt that is accurate, what is the point of saying it if not to insult? It is gratuitous…unsolicited. Everyone else is mature enough to ignore it. I’m not. I’ll smack you right on your inebriated, hypocritical, crumbling face. I will nail you to your cross of lack of principle by stating exactly how you go out of your way to insult. Claiming “most white people are racist”…is an insanely over the top insult. Your attack on the profession of policing is a broad general insult. That is your stock in trade, Ron. You’ll never acknowledge it because you lack the character to do so. But, yes, I acknowledge that I have become quite sick of your infantile bullshit. How does a former lawyer not know the definition of manslaughter, and attempt to make a comment using that ignorance as an indictment of my intent vis a vis some excuse for a manslaughter charge? Your “stock in trade” attempt was so weak that it doesn’t even work with the basic definition. Face it, Ron. You’re a dick.
04/18/2021 @ 10:40 am
There are several degrees and variations of manslaughter which places separate and distinct burdens of proof on the prosecution.
I wasn’t aware of which manslaughter charge has been brought against the
officer charged in the Brooklyn Center shooting.
“Involuntary manslaughter is causing a person’s death by reckless or grossly negligent actions. In this type of manslaughter, it’s the disregard for the safety of others or risk of death that makes the actions criminal, rather than any intent to harm the victim. Minnesota also views these accidental deaths as criminal, but doesn’t penalize the crime as severely as an intentional killing.
Minnesota Second Degree Manslaughter
Involuntary manslaughter in Minnesota is called manslaughter in the second degree (or second degree manslaughter). This charge covers situations where a person’s negligence created an unreasonable risk or where a person consciously took a chance resulting in the death of a person. If convicted, you can face up to 10 years in prison and not more than a $20,000 fine.
1st Degree Manslaughter (3rd Degree Murder) in Minnesota is: Killing another person without premeditation and intent, through inherently dangerous acts, and with no regard for human life.
2nd Degree Manslaughter is defined in Minnesota as: “causing the death of a human being without intent to effect the death of any person, while intentionally inflicting or attempting to inflict bodily harm upon the victim.”
Criminally Negligent Manslaughter.
(Criminally Negligent Homicide)
Or, Depraved heart murder is a part of the Minnesota murder in the third degree statute.
This is causing an act so eminently dangerous to others that you would not have done it without having a completely depraved heart or mind.”
By FindLaw Staff | Reviewed by Maddy Teka, Esq. | Last updated April 14, 2021
Defense attorneys are notorious for ignoring the law and/or the facts of a case in order to produce sufficient ‘reasonable doubt’ to give but one juror justification for voting against a conviction…
04/18/2021 @ 12:09 pm
Great. You did some homework and now understand what Manslaughter is. Here’s the thing, Riverboat, your comment implied that my statement about the officer not knowing what she was doing would be, or could be crafted into some sort of acquittal. The fact of the matter is, it can’t. The officer’s actions whether they resulted from an illegal activity (one level of manslaughter), or from negligence (the lesser version), would still leave her accountable for manslaughter. Your problem is you made an implication about my motivation, and more broadly about law enforcement motivations, that simply does not hold water. The only person who did not understand what Manslaughter meant was you. Placing the explanation in your most recent comment conflicts with the fact that your implication could not have been made if you understood what you obviously just learned.
FURTHERMORE, “{d}efense attorneys are notorious for ignoring the law…”. This notion does not apply. This does you no good as a defense for your actions. Your implication about providing the officer with an excuse is an implication that the state or the prosecution would provide something contrary to their role as prosecution. This excuse that you offer fails. A defense attorney may claim she was Glenda the Good Witch, and incapable of doing evil. A defense attorney may claim she was not present at the event. You are crossing wires in your explanation. The implication relates specifically to a perspective and role of prosecution. What a defense attorney may say is not relevant.
Manslaughter includes, and is essentially about, death that occurs accidentally. The two degrees that you now seem to understand don’t change that fact already included. Your questioning of motive was wrong. That’s what you need to be explaining.
04/17/2021 @ 12:30 pm
I’m in the poker room at Harrah’s Atlantic City…
So please excuse me if I seem to be missing in action for the rest of the day….
05/01/2021 @ 3:41 pm
Wear a mask.