Re: [vpFREE] Re: An Old War Horse

mayhem wrote "does it involve murder by math?"

LOL! no, nothing that serious. Just a personality conflict with someone I've known for 16 years. I met him in the Stardust in 2000. Right off the bat I knew he was quite intelligent. We were both working the banking slots in Vegas at the time. We kept running into each other.

In 2002 he showed up in Reno when I was there. I showed him what he had to do to become a proficient video poker pro. He became known as a torch artist in Reno. LOL!

For the next several years we were always in phone contact. When he found something he thought might be advantage he would call me and i would do the math for him.

Then it gets on to Nov 2007. I had just spent the summer in Montana and was thinking about going back. I walked into the Golden Nugget and found him leaning over the rail watching the uncapped $1-$2 NLHE game. The one thing I knew about him at this point was he was an excellent poker player.

"You can beat that game, can't you?" I asked
"Sure."
"So why arent't you playing?"

Thats when he told me about getting divorced and deciding to hurt himself by blowing off his bankroll. I loaned him $4000 to attack the game and told him not to try to pay me back until he got to $20,000. Then I took off for Montana.

He called me a month and a half later telling me he had my money. i told him to just throw in his safe deposit box and I would pick it up the next time I was in Vegas. He beat the Nugget game for $50,000 in four months.

So it goes on for 2 years and I still haven't gone back down to Vegas to pick up the money. He tells me that he is going to "take a Montana vacation" and pay me the money while he is here. But I know what he is really up to. He knows I wouldn't stay in Montana for 2 years if I wasn't making decent money. He wants to see what I'm doing.

So he shows up and pays me back the money. I show him my plays. He likes them. I tell him that if he wants to he can go to the eastern side of the state and work the plays for a while.

He gets over there and just stays. So we made a deal that everything on I-15 and all points west was my territory and everything east of I-15 is his territory. That is, unless we were taking a road trip together.

And thats when the SHTF. Joint road trips. We had never been jungled up together before. Dude started trying to boss me around. I tought everything he knows about this stuff and he thinks he's the boss. Get out of here.

We got so pissed at each other that we didn't talk for two years. Then we ran into each other in Shelby. Never mind, I guess, that Shelby is my territory. The next thing I knew we were off on another road trip together. But the same thing happened. And I found out that he had been working the hi-line for two years behind my back.

We ran into each other six months later and the same thing happened again. The definition of insanity. So I said I'm though with the situation. No phone cantact, no nothing.


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Posted by: mickeycrimm@yahoo.com
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