Mr Omneo Blogs…

Starting Kitty: $385

OK, you’d have thought I’d have learnt by now, wouldn’t you? but no! I hadn’t learnt my lesson and so decided to just deviate from the system to try and ‘catch up’ with what I ‘lost’ yesterday, it didn’t go well as I took another hit so decided to change tables and stick to the system.

Now, whether it’s my paranoia or not, but I am convinced these bloody online casinos are not as ‘random’ as they claim, either way I was on a losing streak and I was faced with following the system or packing it in. The system is an 11 bet system, that is after 11 bet’s you’ve gambled exactly $200 I put $75 on bet 12 and the remainder on bet 13… I ended with ZERO.

Bye Bye free money =(

Now, having learnt my lesson I’ll try another online casino and see if I can do a better job.

So, the end result of this experiment is I started with $200 of free money, I built that up to $600 and then lost it all =) But it didn’t cost me a penny and at the end of the day I made 79p due to exchange rate fluctuations when I deposited my original $200. So ultimately I made more money this month than I usually get from the bank in interest, so all in all I come out a winner, albeit a very modest one :p

Ending Kitty: $0

Today’s blog I’m turning over to music or more specifically I’m turning it over to a selection of 20 tracks that say a lot of what is in my head. These are tracks where the lyrics alone justify their inclusion but topped with the choooons they are pretty awesome =)

So, get yourself comfortable, fix yourself a drink, sit back, relax and listen. For those of you with kids around the home who can’t afford yourselves the luxury of sitting down for more than 90 seconds, just turn the sound up and carry on with your hectic day, these work pretty good as background sounds too =)

One of the interesting things I’ve realised AS (after shrink) is that after all that time I spent thinking I was alone in the world in agonising over some ‘trauma’ or other, I wasn’t fully understanding the words to a lot of the songs I was listening to. Sure I could recite any number of Bruce Springsteen songs to you from albums such as “Darkness on the Edge of Town” or “The Wild, the Innocent and the E Street Shuffle” but what I failed to realise of course was that while I felt as if some of these songs were written just for me, at that particular moment in my life, there were millions of other people around the world thinking the exact same thing, at the exact same time. I spent a lot of time thinking I lived in a vacuum. If I only knew now what I knew then

I’ve always held music in high regard. I’m not going to lie and claim to be any sort of music ‘expert’ as I’m not at all convinced that such a thing exists. We are all music ‘experts’ and we’d realise that if we’d stop thinking we aren’t. People have such little faith in what they actually hear that they are content to read someone else’s review of the same thing and even though they may undergo a rapid transformation from mild mannered Joe Shmoe eating his slightly salted buttered toast topped with damson jam to Brigadier Wilfred P Montessori (Retired) as he coughs and splutters his toast over that week’s edition of Not Musical Entertainment, they’ll reluctantly defer to this ‘experts’ viewpoint and assume they have better hearing than or a deeper understanding of the lyrics which mean they are right and whatever anyone else hears and interprets is wrong. I have 2 words in response to that…FUCKING BULLSHIT!!

Music matters whether you can hear what’s being said or not. I’ll admit, I’ve tried and failed to get into the music of bands such as Slipknot but I respect the right of the music to exist for those that can get into it. I’m pretty sure Slipknot fans would feel the same if they encountered my Billy Joel collection =)

Starting Kitty: $390

You’d think I’d learn wouldn’t you? After 35 mins I ended up $5 down. If I had followed the system I should have made a profit of $23, so my total loss was actually $28. And why was this?? I deviated from ‘the system’

Ending Kitty: $385

Starting Kitty: $310

Well, I played a variation on the system tonight for an hour. I mostly followed the low bet system but every now and then added an extra chip here and there. There were a few hairy moments when I thought I was going to end up with less than i started with and I realised that my random increasing of bets was pretty foolish as I wasn’t actually sure if I was winning or losing at one point. However, that said it did work out in my favour. If I had followed the system to the letter I would have been in profit after the hour by $49 however I was actually in profit by $82, so I gambled $2 on the slot machines and called it a night with a total profit of $80 after 60mins. Not bad =)

Ending Kitty: $390