Feb 24, 2011

(Un)Lucky Number 77

Bellagio, 2010

I am not a gambler. I don't go to casinos, never joined the Friday poker night at Starcom or bet on any type of competition except of once in three years to National lottery. I once won an ironing machine in a promotion I never participate (but had a shopping card though). Except of that, never won something out of luck.

But all this changes when I am in Vegas. And I had been lucky enough :) to go there 4 times. It's becoming a frenzy. It's like an urge to try my luck. Is not that I am gambling but I am winning. Always on the slot machines. Only on the slot machines. Only on the Blazing 7s slot machines with a specific combination. I don't give a damn about blackjack rules or never tried to throw the dices. But I have a bullet proof technique on winning on my blazing 777.

My criteria: 1. I need to be alone; 2. I need to be in the Puparo mood. 3. It's technical (no of machines, time spend per machine, how many times I tap or pull the lever, how often I change them and so on and on). 4. Knowing when to stop.

In four times in Vegas I have always won. Not much but enough to get back important part of my shopping list in US. And constantly. You might think that point 3 & 4 above are the most important. It might be so. But I know that is about 1 (I never won if Cami stayed near me) but mostly 2.
Something happens when I am staying there and staring to the rotating lines and hearing the obsessive permanent machine sounds. Is like every number is a soul that interacts with me and I have the magical power to influence and stop it when  and how I wont. It's maybe my pact with the devil and I grab my payment. Or it might be just a pure luck.

But sometimes, when I stay there and have the first 2 sevens lined up, in the remaing second until the last column needs to stop from rotating, I am thinking that maybe I am too manipulative to those souls and I need to let them go. 

So, the number remains 77 only and I am loosing. But maybe that 77th soul is the most luckiest one. I might never find out the truth.