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Terrible night
| March 15th, 2011 at 3:18:07 AM permalink | |
| HKrandom Member since: Oct 1, 2010 Threads: 16 Posts: 126 | I went in a small city in China and since I had nothing in the afternoon I took a cab and asked him to bring me to a good bar. The place he brought me to was empty so I left after half an hour and they charged nearly 2000 RMB (USD300) for a few beers and snacks. I was really pissed off that night so I went online to 'get my money back' with baccarat and lost US$1000. I am really depressed now. That cab driver can be proud of himself and the commission he got... |
| March 15th, 2011 at 4:25:56 AM permalink | |
| rxwine Member since: Feb 28, 2010 Threads: 69 Posts: 1211 | Asking cab drivers for advice on the best places has become more myth than reality. It's not a good idea in Vegas either with the kickbacks they get. Maybe there's some things you can ask them about - as long as it's unusual enough that no one is paying them off for directing you there. Sorry to hear about the non winning results. |
| March 15th, 2011 at 4:41:51 AM permalink | |
| odiousgambit Member since: Nov 9, 2009 Threads: 174 Posts: 2414 | Education is not free. You paid to learn this lesson. Look at it that way and laugh at yourself. A lonely guy is vulnerable, some predators out there are looking for just that, it could have been worse. "Baccarat is a game whereby the croupier gathers in money with a flexible sculling oar, then rakes it home. If I could have borrowed his oar I would have stayed." Mark Twain |
| March 15th, 2011 at 5:01:27 AM permalink | |
| JIMMYFOCKER Member since: Jan 24, 2011 Threads: 12 Posts: 339 | China is not a good place to be, let's be honest. |
| March 15th, 2011 at 5:01:28 AM permalink | |
| JIMMYFOCKER Member since: Jan 24, 2011 Threads: 12 Posts: 339 | China is not a good place to be, let's be honest. |
| March 15th, 2011 at 5:08:10 AM permalink | |
| HKrandom Member since: Oct 1, 2010 Threads: 16 Posts: 126 |
The same kind of stuff happens everywhere, it just never happened to me before. |
| March 15th, 2011 at 5:48:09 AM permalink | |
| RobSinger Member since: Oct 6, 2010 Threads: 5 Posts: 199 |
I've had that same thing happen to me in several different countries before, including China. But all I had to do was put some customer names down and create an expense report out of it so the experience didn't bug me any longer than it should have. Life is a game, a constant game. You have to play it right and stay one step ahead. If you get behind then you have to figure out a way to make up for lost ground. I'm sure your mind would be much more at ease had you won the money back but you didn't. Now it's time to really get creative. |
| March 15th, 2011 at 10:21:34 AM permalink | |
| teddys Member since: Nov 14, 2009 Threads: 100 Posts: 2723 | Did you pay for the drinks by American credit card? You can get a chargeback. "If you can make one heap of all your winnings / And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss / And lose, and start again at your beginnings / And never breathe a word about your loss..." -Rudyard Kipling |
| March 15th, 2011 at 10:49:53 AM permalink | |
| s2dbaker Member since: Jun 10, 2010 Threads: 34 Posts: 1215 | Amsterdam is the same way. Don't ask cab drivers for advice even if they implore you to. Especially if they implore you to. |
| March 15th, 2011 at 10:52:44 AM permalink | |
| thecesspit Member since: Apr 19, 2010 Threads: 38 Posts: 3107 |
There, fixed that for you. "Then you can admire the real gambler, who has neither eaten, slept through nor lived, he has so smarted under the scourge of his martingale, so suffered on the rack of his desire, for a coup at trente-et-quarante" - Honore de Balzac, 1829 |
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