Casino Night

On Friday night, David and I went to Darling Harbour to eat dinner with some friends before we headed off to the only casino in New South Wales. It's considered a casino because it has tables as well as pokie (slot) machines. As mentioned before, most bars have pokie machines for your enjoyment, so we were going to check out the tables.

A couple of annoying things happened as we tried to enter the casino. As we entered, I was specifically stopped. You would think it's because of my age, but they stopped me because I wasn't allowed to bring in my messenger bag. Besides my messenger bag, the security guard also said that I wouldn't be allowed to enter since I was wearing thongs. He even mentioned that "especially on Friday", I wasn't allowed in with thongs. Luckily, we were able to go to another part of the casino to check in my bag and enter in another area, where the guards weren't looking at my feet.

My big complaints of this are: Don't casinos want ANYONE to come in and gamble away their money? Are they really restricting people based off of what they are wearing?

After we entered, we only ended up staying for a couple of hours for certain reasons.

1. The roulette table only had 1 zero, but all the numbers were scattered around the board and not the same as in the US. How could I play my numbers if they weren't touching each other?

2. ALL the blackjack tables had automatic shufflers. There was no shoe, so how could we even pretend to count cards??

3. Finally, the big annoying one. The craps tables was just very different. There was only 1 craps table in the entire state of New South Wales. The minimum bet was $10 and you couldn't bet $1 on the random small bets like hard ways or the C/E. Those bets were a minimum of $5 each. A couple of funny things were that instead of the pass/don't pass line, it was the win/don't win line. After losing some money, we decided it wasn't worth it to stay at the craps table!

After the casino, we headed back to Darling Harbour where I found a $20 bill on the ground! It makes up for part of our losses. Dave and I parted separate ways so that I could spend the night with Cindy in her hotel since she had just arrived!

The weekend has been very chill with Cindy, but I think we're going to try to go to the zoo today.