The Adventures of MDawg II

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Let me put it another way. I've known many men married for decades who have a hobby that keeps them in their garage or their basement most of the time when they're home. Some of them call it a man cave. Most of them have an actual hobby that keeps them busy so they have to spend as little time as possible with their wives. I found a way where I don't have to live with my wife so it's not a problem. You say that this time you've been married 13 years which implies you were married before. If you have an ex-wife you certainly understand some of this and don't pretend you don't. There's a reason why you have a second wife. Lots of men choose to keep their first wife and just find a way to live with it.

I do understand and my first marriage definitely had some issues. You mentioned that you would have to kill yourself if your wife was around more. I was just curious what she does that makes you feel that way?

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Quote: EvenBob

Let me put it another way. I've known many men married for decades who have a hobby that keeps them in their garage or their basement most of the time when they're home. Some of them call it a man cave. Most of them have an actual hobby that keeps them busy so they have to spend as little time as possible with their wives. I found a way where I don't have to live with my wife so it's not a problem. You say that this time you've been married 13 years which implies you were married before. If you have an ex-wife you certainly understand some of this and don't pretend you don't. There's a reason why you have a second wife. Lots of men choose to keep their first wife and just find a way to live with it.

I do understand and my first marriage definitely had some issues. You mentioned that you would have to kill yourself if your wife was around more. I was just curious what she does that makes you feel that way?
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Familiarity breeds contempt. Cary Grant was married many times and he said the biggest problem with marriage is its sameness. You get up with the person in the morning, have breakfast with them, come home in the evening and have dinner with them, spend the evening with them and then sleep with them all night and start over again in the morning. The sameness of it, the familiarity of it, eventually wears you down. Wore him down anyway and I suspect it wears a lot of people down.

I did read that the problem Rita Hayworth said she had was that her husbands all wanted to wake up next to Gilda but instead woke up next to her.

I'd agree that most people in casinos including the front line workers and hosts don't know or think much about the odds or house edge.

But nearly all players are aware of Comps even if they don't know precisely how they are calculated, and will argue for the last bit to be picked up off their bills.

Tournaments - I made it far enough in one that I won a couple thou in promo chips (promo means - play 'til you lose). Haven't used them yet.

It was a Baccarat tournament and on the table I was eliminated I got down to my last 20K in chips (started with 50K, and 20K was the max bet excepting the final (non-secret bet) hand). At that point with only 20K in chips I was almost in last place as far as chip stack on the table with 6 of us, and 1 would advance.

I said to myself that I was just going to shove to the max all the way on Bank, and in fact Bank ran 6 times in a row all the way to the end with an intervening tie (that I hit for $2000., and I wagered the tie only twice on that table the entire tournament), but then for some reason I eased off, and on one hand I even went Player via a contrarian bet such that on the last hand I had about 65K chips and the two ahead of me had about 100K and about 80K. If I had kept shoving to the max I would have had so many chips last hand that I could have written my own ticket and advanced no matter what, but saying and doing are sometimes two different things.

Luckily on the last hand I wagered after those two chip leaders, and both went on Bank. The 100K player took literally ten minutes to decide what to do, it was absurd kept counting and recounting stacks, until finally placed 70K on Bank. The next player put some on the exotics but placed all the rest on Bank too.

If I had gone all in on Bank, and Bank won, I could not have caught either one, so I went all in on Player which was the only way I could win. The other 3 players were irrelevant, had too few chips to matter no matter what or where they wagered last hand.

Last hand remained Bank, and I was eliminated did not advance to the final table. But everyone who made it to the penultimate table was in the money, even me who ended that table with 0.