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I seem to have excelled myself in the inefficiency stakes.
Although I came out with plenty of dollars, I didn't bring a back-up sterling reserve because I have my Schwab card (which I have used many times) to access my dollar account. I also have my Smile debit card. So, I thought, who needs sterling back-up?
Having decided that $15-$30 and a "serious" game was needed, using my online bankroll rather than my cash bankroll, I went to withdraw some money. Schwab card, no good. Smile debit card. No good.
I quickly figured out that no US ATMs in the casinos seemed to cover the Delta network as used by the Co-op Bank. Maybe there are other ATMs out there that do. I shall check.
With the Schwab card, I eventually noticed that the expiry date was June 2006. Fuck. Did Schwab send me a new card? Did I bring the old one by mistake? Whatever, it was seriously annoying, cutting me off from a major source of cash. And I don't make mistakes like that normally.
I'm hardly going to pay the extortionate rates charged to withdraw cash via credit cards, so that leaves me with the cash in my pocket for gambling purposes. I can use the cards for the Belz mall purchases (but not the Schwab one, obviously), so I appear to be somewhat fucked.
I played a couple of hours in the MGM last night and lost another $70, but that caused little concern, mainly because it was a generally tighter game and I simply ran slightly bad. Clearly the disturbing thing about what happened previously was my continual coming up against situations with which I was unfamiliar. If that kind of thing messes up my head, I shall have to think again about any No Limit ventures, because for a year or so, new scenarios crop up all the time.
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Something has definitely changed in me over the past five years. It used to be that, when I was in my LV hotel room, I would turn on the TV to see the local news, find out what was happening. This trip, the TV has remained resolutely off. Perhaps that's because I have Internet access for international news. But I don't think that is all of it. I just like to lie there in bed, in the dark, doing nothing. The sheer efort required to actually get up seems enormous, even if I've ben sleeping for 10 hours. Perhaps part of that is the increased strain and stress in my life when I am not on holiday. Perhaps the body is still recharging. Perhaps new things now scare me. Or perhaps I'm plain jus' gettin' old.
Although I came out with plenty of dollars, I didn't bring a back-up sterling reserve because I have my Schwab card (which I have used many times) to access my dollar account. I also have my Smile debit card. So, I thought, who needs sterling back-up?
Having decided that $15-$30 and a "serious" game was needed, using my online bankroll rather than my cash bankroll, I went to withdraw some money. Schwab card, no good. Smile debit card. No good.
I quickly figured out that no US ATMs in the casinos seemed to cover the Delta network as used by the Co-op Bank. Maybe there are other ATMs out there that do. I shall check.
With the Schwab card, I eventually noticed that the expiry date was June 2006. Fuck. Did Schwab send me a new card? Did I bring the old one by mistake? Whatever, it was seriously annoying, cutting me off from a major source of cash. And I don't make mistakes like that normally.
I'm hardly going to pay the extortionate rates charged to withdraw cash via credit cards, so that leaves me with the cash in my pocket for gambling purposes. I can use the cards for the Belz mall purchases (but not the Schwab one, obviously), so I appear to be somewhat fucked.
I played a couple of hours in the MGM last night and lost another $70, but that caused little concern, mainly because it was a generally tighter game and I simply ran slightly bad. Clearly the disturbing thing about what happened previously was my continual coming up against situations with which I was unfamiliar. If that kind of thing messes up my head, I shall have to think again about any No Limit ventures, because for a year or so, new scenarios crop up all the time.
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Something has definitely changed in me over the past five years. It used to be that, when I was in my LV hotel room, I would turn on the TV to see the local news, find out what was happening. This trip, the TV has remained resolutely off. Perhaps that's because I have Internet access for international news. But I don't think that is all of it. I just like to lie there in bed, in the dark, doing nothing. The sheer efort required to actually get up seems enormous, even if I've ben sleeping for 10 hours. Perhaps part of that is the increased strain and stress in my life when I am not on holiday. Perhaps the body is still recharging. Perhaps new things now scare me. Or perhaps I'm plain jus' gettin' old.
