Last night Kim had a hankerin' for some bingo, so we headed over to the Diamond for the evening session. Bingo is a funny game; nowhere have I seen people trying harder to assign patterns to random number events than there. "Oh, sure... the first two numbers he pulls are the ones I needed last time." As if the little plastic balls with no cognitive abilities and no memory were just playing a little game and taunting you. I especially enjoyed how the old folks directly across from us were ripping on the caller (the guy pulling the numbers) as if he had anything at all to do with the numbers popping out of the little vaccuum tumbler machine thingy. After the bingo session (no, neither of us won, although I was within one number twice) Kim went to hit the slots, and I went to play some poker. There was a pretty long list for $3/6, so they started a new table and I got a seat. The action started pretty slow as everyone was just trying to get a feel for the table, and then it turned into magical loose table like that one "at the Rio":http://feralboy.com/log/archives/001316/. All kinds of crazy loose passive play, 8-handed flops, etc. Of course I was only playing for about an hour and got only a few playable hands. Two good wins though... once with AJo (a notorious trouble hand) which I raised from early position, got two callers, hit an ace on the flop and had them call me the whole way down to the river. The other hand I had AKs in the small blind, raised to get the big blind out, and only got called by Star Jones across the table. Flop came all undercards, but with 2 of my suit! I bet out and was called, and then bet $6 in the dark before the turn card came out (it was a queen, and not my suit, btw). Star thought about it for half a second and said "He bet in the dark? He can have it." and folded. I think if I had waited until the card had come out she would have called, but by representing AA or KK I got her to throw away whatever she had, maybe she had hit a pair on the board. I don't know if I would have spiked a pair on the river or made my flush, but I'd love to think that my in-the-dark bet got her out of there.

Kim came to collect me with me up $20, so $15 for bingo plus $3 for snackies for us plus $1 for the woman who cashed out my chips meant I had made $1 for the evening! Kim was bumming because she had lost another $40 at the slots, so on the way out we passed by some sort of Monopoly nickel slot machine and I threw in $10. A few spins later, we landed on Boardwalk, collected 300x the nickel bet, and cashed out up $7! Total for the evening +$8 and lots of fun.