fandomhigh | Enjoying Those Teenage Years [period 5, Tuesday]

When everyone filed into the Danger Shop today, they'd find that it looked like a small casino.

"Hello, children!" Robin said, unusually gleeful. "Today, we're playing some games. Now, I'm sure some of you have actually played these games before -- that's not in question. The question is whether you're any good at them. Because hey, guess what? Gambling isn't about luck, or the odds, or anything like that -- I mean, to a degree, it is, but what it's about, more than anything? Is knowing how the game works and being able to think on your feet."

She passed out a few handouts. "These'll explain that scary math involved with any game of chance like this, so look them over. You're all going to be playing against the house, not each other, though I do encourage you guys to play outside of class and try to clean each other out. Don't tell anyone I said that. And on that note, fake casino, fake ~~NPC~~ dealers, and that means -- yes, you guessed it: fake money. For today, I want you guys to take a look at craps, blackjack, and Caribbean stud, which is just like five card stud but you play against the dealer. If you want to play something else, by all means, but if I catch any of you guys by the slot machines, I'm branding you losers. That's Grandma's game."

[sorry on the semi-lame class, guys! My power went out and I only just got it back, eep.]

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Luckily.

And read your extensive handouts!

Make sure to do it in practice mode! (http://casino.bodoglife.com/free-craps.jsp) Which that already is, but if you exit to the menu or something, go back in practice mode. Unless you WANT to pay.

See above re: practice mode, yo (http://casino.bodoglife.com/free-blackjack.jsp).

Which I had never heard of until today, but it makes my life easier (http://casino.bodoglife.com/free-caribbean-stud.jsp).

Stay away from the slots, though, Grandma (http://casino.bodoglife.com/).

Who loves this icon more than life itself.

Who is not actually wearing a bradigan. Scout's honor.

Okay, confession time: I CANNOT gamble to save my life. I'm awful at poker, and the math of pretty much everything else goes straight over my wee little head. I'm decent at blackjack, but that's all luck. So, uh, you don't have to be as good a player as your character. You can fudge the numbers if you want.

Also, no worries if you can't play at work or something. *totally just thought of that*

Jeff Murdock

Jo Harvelle

John Sheppard

John was good at working the numbers. Hopefully no one would notice he was counting cards or slightly tipsy from his time out on the deck.

Edited 2008-07-22 19:15 (UTC)

Ned

Michael Guerin

Michael was already plotting how to cheat.

Dice were easier to fix without getting caught than cards. He headed for the craps table.

Yamanaka Ino

Chuck Bass

See, he's getting lucky.

I am awesome at drinking games involving cards. Seriously. Asshole, Up and Down the River, Beat the Dealer, Suits...I'm just awesome.

Although I don't know if that's as much as my awesome playing skills or the fact that I have a stomach of steel.

Omg drinking games are bad for me too. That's my low, low alcohol tolerance, though. I am the shame of my extremely Irish family.

Rikku. And let's all be grateful she's not wearing the Vegas stripper outfit. Ah, the jossed sequel ....

Rikku -- who had luckily sobered up some from her morning's rum shower -- was doing math calculations in her head. Ooooooh, this was nifty.

Okay, so -- she understood craps, and she knew it was a bad bet, but she couldn't stop herself from laying money on hard eight, hard six, and all those other pretty ones on the side. Which was why she went broke pretty quickly.

Don't worry, you come up to WVU for a weekend during football season and you'll get so good at drinking you'll be able to chug paint thinner.

Oooooooh. She got better at blackjack when she remembered useful things like taking the dealer's visible card into account. If you have 16 and he has a 4 showing, way better to stand than if he's got an 8 showing, right?

So she managed to peak around $1400 before hitting a bad streak and going broke. Ah well.

Oh my gosh, their little blurb on Caribbean Stud totally makes the game make no sense. They don't explain the bit where half the time, you're not betting because you think your hand can beat the dealer's, but because you're hoping the dealer's hand is too low to qualify, since he only actually plays with Ace-King High or better. And if you bet and he can't play, it doesn't matter what your hand was, you win your Ante bet and just get your Raise back.

........ um. I'm Relly, and I'm an enormous card geek. Sorry about that. o.o

Rikku was hitting up the Pai-Gow Poker table. Because it had nifty dragons on it, and the game made no sense, and she kinda liked that sort of thing.

Dōjima Yurika

Dōjima was trying to read the handouts, but quickly got bored with the bits about the maths. She'd just stick with her old standby - never underestimate the Power of Cleavage and being cute.

Dean Winchester

Dean grinned; a class where you gambled, yeah he loved summer term.

It was actually kind of relaxing to practice his card playing skills this way, with nothing at risk. Dean made a note to see if he could try and get a real game together soon.

Brooke Davis

Brooke was here, and dressed appropriately to be seen by human eyes.

My friends love playing Asshole, and EVERY TIME I get so drunk I need the rules explained to me the next time we play. EVERY TIME.

Ooh, Brooke could do this. It basically consisted to "Hit me" till she won or... didn't.

Angela Montenegro

Warren Peace

Bumblebee

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