My trip to the Grosvenor Casino, Manchester

This isn't directly poker related but tonight I visited the Grosvenor Casino in my new home, Manchester, for the first time. I'm also now a member.

So first of all I checked out their computer roulette machines and slots but I wasn't really impressed, kinda bored me. So I headed over to the blackjack tables which I spent most of my time at during the night. I built up a decent stack (after going down to near-nothing at one point), and eventually
bet all my chips (~£25) on one hand and low and behold, I won.

Earlier in the night I had pushed about £30 into one hand and actually hit blackjack (which would have paid ~£70) and I started celebrating... only to see the dealer hit blackjack too so I won nothing

Soo.... back to the story, I was feeling like a bit of a daredevil and took all of my chips (£50) and went crazy allin on black to win on (live, real) roulette and it came in

So mr happy Nick went home with £100.

I thoroughly enjoyed my trip there (especially because all my buddies ended up -£50 ) and will be visited next week to play in my first large live poker tournament, a £20 rebuy.

P.S I'm now a total live-(blackjack-)gamblerholic

that brings back a few memories
*gazes back to medieval days*

sure it took me to at least the end of the first year to find the casino though

Nick said:

P.S I'm now a total live-(blackjack-)gamblerholic

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Nick, it's only a gambling problem if you're losing. I read that somewhere before. Oh yeah, down below in my sig. LOL.

Blackjack is -EV dooood!

Nice report though. What do they spread in terms of poker?

I agree with Chris.....Just Say No!...to blackjack. (try pai-gow poker if you're not playing real poker)

Thats not the stuuu-dent loan going on black now is it?

Enjoy and Peace

Nice to see you left a Winner, thats the way to do it, very nice>> buck

Dorkus Malorkus said:

Blackjack is -EV dooood!

Nice report though. What do they spread in terms of poker?

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There weren't many Poker tables. One three card stud table I think.

There was a MTT going on at the same time though, £10 rebuy I think.

Dorkus Malorkus said:

Blackjack is -EV dooood!

Nice report though. What do they spread in terms of poker?

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If you're a smart player, you can come out on top though. Blackjack used to be my game of choice, before I discovered the joys of poker. So now, blackjack bores me...

Good on ya Nick, nice job!

Nick said:

I was feeling like a bit of a daredevil and took all of my chips (£50) and went crazy allin on black to win on (live, real) roulette and it came in

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I can't believe you put it on black... Red rules! IMO you got VERY lucky there.