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A Harvest Adventure Story BY RICHARD “REGGIE” GUMMER
SOME PEOPLE HAVE COMPULSIONS TO GAMBLE, SOME TO AMASS FORTUNES AND OTHER’S, WELL THEY JUST LIKE TO WRITE STORIES. YEAH, THAT WOULD BE ME. I HAVE ALWAYS LIKED TO WRITE, NEVER WAS VERY GOOD AT IT; BUT I HAVE DONE IT OVER THE YEARS JUST THE SAME.
IF ANY OF YOU WANT ANY INSIDE INFORMATION ON ANY CASINO THAT I’VE BEEN TO, I WOULD BE HAPPY TO TELL YOU WHAT I KNOW.
REGGIE
COLUSA CASINO WAS THE OBJECT OF MY POKER THIRST ONE LATE NIGHT IN AUGUST, WHILE MAKING MY BI-ANNUAL TRIP TO MONTANA TO A FAMILY REUNION. I WAS DRIVING MY EDDIE BAUER FORD EXPEDITION, AND HAD STOPPED AT THE COLUSA INDIAN CASINO TO PICK UP A FEW HANDS. UNFORTUNATELY THE POKER ROOM HAD CLOSED FOR THE NIGHT, I HAD INTENDED ON A MAKING A HARVEST WHILE THERE. I WAS JUST STANDING THERE AT THE CLOSED DOOR TO THE POKER ROOM PONDERING WHAT TO DO NEXT, ACTUALLY MY ONLY CHOICE WAS TO DRIVE BACK TO I-5 AND GET ON DOWN THE ROAD TO REDDING. THEN THIS YOUNG MAN, WELL; HE LOOKED YOUNG TO ME, POSSIBLY THIRTYISH WALKED UP TO ME AND ASKED, ARE THEY CLOSED? I SAID THEY SURE ARE, HE SAYS THAT HAPPENS IN THE MIDDLE OF THE WEEK WHEN THEY CANNOT GET A GAME GOING EARLY. HE SAID, I AM GOING UP TO FEATHER FALLS THEY ALWAYS HAVE A GAME GOING. WE CHATTED A BIT MORE AND HE SEEMED LIKE AN HONEST SORT. I ASKED HIM DO YOU MIND IF I FOLLOW YOU? HE SAID SURE, AND WE WERE OFF THROUGH THE BACK COUNTRY OF NORTH CENTRAL CALIFORNIA. AFTER WE WERE SEATED AT THE FEATHER FALLS POKER ROOM, I GOT TO KNOW HIM BETTER, AND WE SHARED SOME POKER STORIES, A FEW LAUGHS, AND AROUND 5 AM SUNRISE, THE GAME BROKE AND I WANDERED DOWN TO THE BLACKJACK TABLES TO FINISH MY HARVEST AT THE FEATHER FALLS CASINO. I DID GET ENOUGH CHIPS AT THE CASINO IN OROVILLE, ENJOYED THE NIGHT, AND DROVE AS FAR AS MY PREVIOUSLY RESERVED MOTEL SOME WHERE ON I-5; STOPPED LONG ENOUGH TO GET A SHOWER, AND GOT BACK ON THE ROAD TO MONTANA.
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