Musical Dice -- My Craps Blog

     Today marks a very special craps anniversary for me. It was 25 years ago today that I played my first craps game in a live casino! It was in the wee hours of Sunday July 12th, 1998, when I went to a craps table at the Showboat casino in Las Vegas (before it became the Castaways, then demolished). I played at a $3 table, basically playing all the Place bets at minimum levels. I won $28 that morning. I loved it. The rest, as they say, is history. ☺

     I had several somewhat related anniversaries come up recently as well. For example, it was ten years ago on the late night of July 3rd, that I first started coming out to Lake Charles, Louisiana. I had gone to the Isle Of Capri casino that night (chosen only because I was familiar with the Isle Of Capri casino in Kansas City Missouri). I won $775 that first night, a session that lasted until 4:45 in the morning, making it technically, the 4th of July. That was also my biggest win in Lake Charles for over 8 years!

     Other anniversaries that came recently, include 10 years ago, July 6th, when I started going to L'Auberge, the property my wife and I stay at the most when we go to Lake Charles, and by far, the one where I've had the most success at. I first played craps there too. Also, it was 25 years ago, July 11th, when I first came out to Las Vegas! Ironically, it was a spur-of-the-moment thing, fueled by a very painful break-up, that prompted me to go out to Vegas for the first time. Ironically, when I first arrived in Vegas, I was taking one of those shared rides to where I was staying, at the Showboat, but on the way there, the driver was driving past the Fremont experience, and it was at that point that he asked where everybody had come from. My answer was "Fremont--Callifornia, that is."

     Arguably, the most important anniversary for me, personally, is coming up two days from noe, for it was on July 14th, 2013, that I first met the woman that is now my wife. Since how I met my wife is totally irrelevant to craps, if you want to know more about how I met my wife, just email me at musicaldice323@gmail.com, and I'll tell you all about it. ☺