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The Bride Of Bulletman Part5
B-O-B: This time we decide to stay for a weekend at Caesars in Atlantic City and we take $200. We get to the casino and the man says to Bulletman: "Sorry, sir, but you can't get into the casino without a jacket." We went into AC and we walked all over the place looking for a place to buy a jacket. We asked one of the hotel workers where I could get a jacket that was reasonable. The hotel men's shops had jackets but they were all $300.
We only had $200. So we finally found a shop that was reasonable and we bought a jacket for $50. So now we're down $50. The blackjack turns out to be $25 minimums. Maybe one or two tables with $10 minimums but you can't get near them. So I go over to play the slot machines—I don't even know if there were video-poker machines at this time. If there were, they weren't a big thing. A few minutes later, I feel a tap on my shoulder. We hadn't even checked in and he says that we're going home. He had lost all the money. We hadn't even spent the night.
Bulletman: It was about midnight or one in the morning and we go out to valet and…
B-O-B: They had lost the keys to our car.
Bulletman: Some first trip to Atlantic City this was!
B-O-B: Then we had to stop every five or ten miles to get gas because at that time…
Bulletman: That was 1978 and the gas rationing.
B-O-B: So we didn't even know if we would make it back home.
Bulletman: I figured that this would cure her of any desire to gamble but it didn't.
B-O-B: What I realized was you needed a decent-sized
bankroll to go to Atlantic City. You can't play with scared money. You can't have only a couple-of-hundred bucks if you wanted to play blackjack. Now, even with the video poker this is true. I have a very big bankroll because I know how streaky the game is. I can weather any storm.
Bulletman: So we saved up a bankroll. When we went back next, we went with some friends who were fully comped.
B-O-B: That was impressive. We were treated so well. You could name the time you wanted dinner. The reservaions were made for you. They ushered you in. "How good to see you Mr. an Mrs. so and so." Just great.
Frank: You were the masters of the universe.
Bulletman: Right.
B-O-B: That did it for me. That night I hit on a slot machine. I won $600.1 split it with my girlfriend because we had put up the money together. After that I decided to see what it would take for us to get comped.
Bulletman: When we first went to Atlantic City, we weren't comped. We had to pay full room rates. I think at the time it was about $150 for a weekend night.
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The Bride Of Bulletman
Let's soar with the eagles in this chapter, shall we? I had a choice to make here and I'm making a choice that is a little uncharacteristic of me. You see, the typical chapter I had in mind for this section would detail the philosophy and strategies of players who, like myself, play cautiously and think of themselves as mundane exploiters of possible player edges. While the mathematics of video poker is clear—proper play on full-pay machines will yield long-term wins, there's nothing spectacular or elevating in that and nothing all that unusual in someone achieving wins playing the proper strategies on the right machines. It's a given.
However, Chapter Eleven may have been a somewhat depressing read, especially for Atlantic City video-poker players. The distinct possibility that you are playing slot machines in video-poker machines' clothing is no doubt an irksome, pehaps deflating, thought. But take heart. Despite this, some people do well in Atlantic City video-poker games. As you will see in this chapter, at least one player has intuitively grasped the nature of the machines in this venue and has selected her game and the locations of her machines inside the casino accordingly. If there is such a thing as a "gambling instinct," this lady possesses it. She is truly the most devastating player to hit Atlantic City in the past decade.
So meet Angela and her husband Phil.. .ah? Smith! Angela teaches elementary school on Long Island, New York. She's been doing so for some 20 years. Her husband is also a teacher, in a high school, but his gaming claim to fame concerns the fact that he was the renowned "Bulletman" of football handicapping lore. I know Bulletman because he is an aficionado of the Captain's craps systems and we have had many interesting conversations concerning the Captain and his ideas.
However, Angela is the focus here because Angela is unique among Atlantic City video-poker players. For example, in 12 recent trips to Atlantic City, she has won the progressive jackpots on joker-poker machines 13 times! In addition to this, for the past six years Angela has not had a single losing trip to the resort town by the ocean. That is remarkable. That is unheard of. That is why I want to profile her—despite the fact that she probably violates all the rules I've set down for proper play; despite the fact that she relies on "intuition" as much as on logic and computer studies.
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