HARVEST ADVENTURES FROM AN ADDICTED CHIP COLLECTOR

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

PERSONAL HARVESTING STORIES

CYPRESS BAYOU – SHORTY’S CHARENTON, LOUISIANA

By:RICHARD “REGGIE” GUMMER

ONCE AGAIN I REFER TO A LONG HARVEST TRIP THAT TOOK IN THE ENTIRE WEEK OF THANKSGIVING. THIS WAS ONE OF MY MORE PRODUCTIVE TRIPS THROUGH THE SOUTHLAND. NANCY AND I HAD LEFT THE AMELIA BELLE RIVER BOAT EARLIER IN THE DAY AND IT WAS RAINING OFF AND ON ALL THE WAY UP TO CHARENTON, LA. WHEN WE GOT THERE WE MARVELED AT THE SIZE OF THIS LITTLE KNOWN CASINO.
IT WAS KNOWN AS THE CYPRESS BAYOU CASINO WHEN IT WAS ORIGINALLY BUILT, BUT THEY HAD ADDED TO IT, AND ADDED TO IT; WAS KIND OF LIKE THE WINCHESTER HOUSE IN SAN JOSE, CA. HUGE SECTIONS ADDED TO IT FROM EVERY DIRECTION. WHICH INCLUDE A HUGE BUS CENTER, NOT JUST THE PARKING AREA FOR BUSES BUT A TERMINAL FOR PASSENGERS AND PEOPLE TO GIVE THEM INFORMATION ABOUT THEIR RETURN TRIPS, ETC.
AS LUCK WOULD HAVE IT WE PARKED THE FARTHEST WE COULD OF FROM THE POKER ROOM. AND WE WALKED, AND WE WALKED UNTIL WE FOUND THE POKER ROOM. AND YEAH YOU GUESSED IT I SAT DOWN AFTER A SHORT WAIT AND NANCY HEADED TOWARDS THE KITTY GLITTER SLOTS…LOL.
I GOTTA SAY IT WAS A WELCOME BREAK IN THE MIDDLE OF THE DAY TO SIT IN A FAIRLY TAME HOLDEM GAME. I DID WELL IN THE GAME, SPENT SOME TIME SORTING OUT WHAT I NEEDED AND SINCE THEY HAD BOTH RACKS OF CHIPS ON THE TABLE (CYPRESS BAYOU & SHORTY’S) I HAD TWICE AS MUCH TO SORT. ALONG THE WAY I ASKED THE PIT BOSS WHAT THE RULES WERE ABOUT TAKING SOME CHIPS OFF THE TABLE AND POCKETING THEM. THEY DID NOT HAVE A TROUBLE WITH THAT AS LONG AS I BOUGHT BACK THE SAME AMOUNT OR CLOSE TO IT TO REPLACE THE “HARVESTED CHIPS”, SO I DID AS THEY ASK. THIS WAS A GREAT HARVEST. FINALLY, I GOT UP AND SAID ( I WAS BREAKING EVEN) FOLKS IT HAS BEEN REAL AND IT HAS BEEN FUN; BUT I CANNOT SAY IT HAS BEEN REAL FUN. I LAUGHED AND THEY ALL CHIMED IN AND SAID, C-YA NEXT TIME…REGGIE http://www.themogh.org/cg_chip2.php?id=LACHCB