[UA] Words from a Casino Floor

[Saul]

I second that 'Bwah?'

Saul

"Unknown Armies -- A Roleplaying Game of Power and Weird Hairiness"


----- Original Message -----
From: "Susan Dohnim" <bibadoo at hotmail.com>
To: <ua at lists.unknown-armies.com>
Sent: Tuesday, March 16, 2004 8:51 AM
Subject: RE: [UA] Words from a Casino Floor


> Sooo in need of a translation:
>
> >I do this by aggressively getting into the bank on tables.
>
> What does "getting into the bank" mean? What game is being played?
>
> >We call the players who aggressively chase the bank "bank-chasers."  Two
> >nights ago I had a particularly rude and obnoxious bank-chaser on my
table
> >who was managing to get into  as many banks as I was (sacrelidge).
>
> See above. Huh?
>
> >Then comes the kicker.  There's a bank where my parter and I have enough
> >money on the table to cover the first big bet and nothing else.  I cover
> >the rest alone.  Awful hand, King high, in the bottom twenty possible
> >hands--not twenty percent, twenty hands. Kills the first big bet, loses
> >everything else.  I'm laughing.  Everyone looks at me like I'm crazy.  I
> >turn to my partner and say, "See, I told you--you go with corporation,
you
> >make money.  Don't care nothing else."   Everyone at the table laughs.  I
> >take back two of his three partners.  Bank chaser gone.
>
> Huh? What? Also: Bwah?
>
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