PERSONAL HARVESTING STORIES

FEATHER FALLS CASINO OROVILLE, CA

By:RICHARD “REGGIE” GUMMER

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 THEY WERE CLOSED, 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 WAS 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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