I had the good fortune to roll with Dragon Boat Racer, Slamming Sammy, Big Frankie and his wife, and Rubin 74. I had a roll of 17 box numbers according to DBR. If it hadn’t been for the generousity of DBR and Big Frankie I would not have made a dime. My toss has been off lately and I was betting minimally. When I hit their parlayed hard ways they each rolled me a tip.

The real winner of the week end in my mind was Rubin 74. I understand that he had an hour and a half roll on Jan. 1st in the evening which I wasn’t able to be there for. But today he more than made up for it. He banged out a 52 count roll. He had 3 4’s, 5 5’s, 7 6’s, 10 8’s, 9 9’s, 3 10’s. He made 4 points but no fire and 2 11 come out winners. One of the come out winners was followed by 2 3’s. Any one who has rolled with Rubin 74 knows that he always has a Whirl (World) bet on the come out and pushes it up one unit when he hits it.

Again I didn’t make much money because I have been very tenative and I was helping some newbie bet the roll. This newbie was betting Quarters across and after he had his initial investment returned I had him pressing one unit each time. The newbie got nervous around roll number 35 and wanted to come down all the way. I convinced him to just come down to $210 across. On roll number 50 Rubin74 rolled a 12 and I had the newbie call off his bets for 2 rolls thus avoiding armagedon on roll number 52. The newbie colored out at almost $4000. His buddy at the other end of the table did about the same as he was trying to mock us.

This newbie tipped me generously for my help in addition to putting me on the line for all 4 points. He tipped the dealers generously and even tipped Rubin 74.

The table all passed the dice back to Rubin74 and he had a modest roll of 7 box numbers but that included 2 points made. I then rolled an 11 number hand consisting of 8 box numbers and one point made, and he rolled again getting a 12 number hand with 6 box numbers but no points made.

The newbies treated us to dinner at Charlie’s Pup (not sure of the exact name). I had great steak fahitas.

Thanks Rubin74 for ringing in the New Year with Lois and myself.
Clark

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