Hanging Ten, Ratios, and 50 50s for cold hard cash.

by Phil

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Wow.  What a great x-mas.  In fact it may have been the best one ever.  My girl got me the coolest gift EVER.  I am the proud new owner of the coolest red (with white stripe down the middle) very sleek and sexy long board.  Complete with a foot leash and a wet suit.  Wow.  I really am the luckiest guy on earth.  2 or 3 years ago I took my first surfing lesson.  I had a blast that day and have been meaning to get a board ever since.  But being the degen that I am I never seemed to get around to it.  (Somehow I did manage to get the surf rack so I would be ready when that day arrived.)

And voila, the day arrived without me even seeing it coming.  I can not wait to go and play around the water a bit.  Hanging out in the ocean can be about as fun as it gets and with my new toy I feel like a 10 year old kid.

Lets see.... Other than that... What is going on??!?

Oh yes, Antonio's New Year's Eve Party.  It was a lot of fun, the party was great and the gambling that followed was also quite fun.  At one point Mike the Mouth had to leave the party for another party.  He assured us that he would be right back!  Unlikely with traffic the way it can be in Vegas on that night.  Rast rose to the occasion and bet him 1000$ that he could not get back to the house by 3:30 a.m. (1.5 hrs).  Mouth took the bet and promptly collected when he rolled on in at 3:05 a.m.! 

Also, other than a playboy mansion party the ratio of girls to guys was the highest I had ever seen.  One of my favorite bets of the night was after things had died down and the party was mostly over.  (5 am or so. Yes, it actually ended that early!)  The degens started betting on what the ratio was closest to.  I love degens, I really do.   Another great bet was when Antonio bet Robls if Rast thought this was the best party that Antonio had ever had.  Rast thought it was and Antonio collected.

The view was perfect for fireworks.  And the vibe could not have been better.  What a great way for me and my girl to bring in the new year.

Oh yeah, I nearly forgot.  

Sometimes when one of us owes another 100 dollars we will "roll it up or down" to either 0 or 1000.  And somewhere in the mix a series of bigger and bigger 50 50 bets started happening.  All done with dice.

I have been having a long struggle with not doing flips anymore (In 2008 I got really hammered.)  But for some reason I could not resist.  Every time I joined the fun I lost, and being the sick degen I am could not stop.  Lose big or get unstuck was my mantra.  I managed to get stuck and unstuck a total of 3 times before things just went haywire and I could not lose.  It felt amazing that ride ... it really did.

When the dust had settled Antonio was even, I was up 9k, Rast was up 3k and someone else was up 13k.  Robls lost 25k to us.  Gross.  Well, gross for him that is.  For me I have officially ushered in the new year on a 9k up note from 50 50s.

 Anyway, that's it for now!

Phil