My cousin and his wife flew into town and moved into the guest room this afternoon. Once they wake from their grueling flight and start moving about the house things will be different, I’m sure. For one thing, I will have to log out of the online casino. They emerged at about 6 looking rested. I poured drinks and made a short welcoming speech. “So, Pete, what goes on around here? Have you guys got a computer?” I led him into the study where there are 2 desktops and a laptop. He immediately dropped into a chair and sent emails to his children back in Australia saying that they had arrived and all was well. “Do you mind if I tune in and see what happened on the stock exchange today? It’s my weakness. I call that my online gambling.” “Go ahead, with pleasure,” I said. “And then perhaps I’ll show you what real online gambling is all about.” His shares were up. “For a change,” he said. “The whole market is down. It’s this recession. It’s hit Australia hard. Everything is down there as well. I hear that the casino in Melbourne is having a rough time too. Let’s do a little online gambling until the girls call us for diner.” I logged into the online casino and we began to play roulette, both of us using $5 chips. Jack played casually, dropping a few chips randomly on the table at every spin. He won a few odd bets and won one single number bet, which made him give wild yell of glee and beat his chest with his fist. I played more cautiously using the strategy I have developed over years of online gambling. I won a single number bet and let my winnings ride for the next spin. The number came up again and I was now about $6,000 to the good when the women called us to come in for dinner. “Letting the win ride is a strategy that doesn’t work on the stock exchange,” said Jack. “I’m always in two minds. I’m gambling and not investing, so theoretically, as soon as you are winning one should call it a day. And that’s what I did on the roulette table. I picked up my winnings. You let yours ride”. Posted on: May 1, 2009
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