What is up? Welcome back to Casino Friday, the first Casino Friday of the New Year. I'm your host, Rob Fox, joined, as always, by Ryan Moffitt. We're back. We're back. We're playing some blackjack. Not the only one at the table today. Got a friend. First card ace. He did it too early. I'll take a side bet win on the first hand. All right, all right. It's a little bit of a good omen. I got a hit on a 15, I guess. Yeah, versus 7. Yeah. Got to get the cobwebs out of the brain. Yeah, I played a few hands before we started this show. And the first hand I played, I drew 21 on three cards. So it was 15 and I got a 6.

I was like, oh, all right.

He's all the luck pre-show. Hey, there's a 21 on four cards. There's you? Yeah, there you go. Or three again, or two. I can't count. 12, 22, damn it. And everybody went? I kind of felt like, I mean, I did the right thing, but I kind of like, I think I should stand on 15.

I don't know why.

It's a close one.

I guess the 7.

The EV value is, yeah. Against the 7 as opposed to like at 9 or a 10 or something. Yeah, it's scary. I also got messed up over break, too, because redownloaded and modded Fallout New Vegas.

Okay.

You modded it?

Yeah, one of the best video games of all time. But it's a game from 2010. So if you want it to be good in the year of 2026, you have to add 100 plus mods to it. So figured out it literally, I was up until 6 a.m. over break doing this one day. because it's one of those things you get into it and you're like,

well, if I step away, I will forget the steps I'm doing. 6 a.m. over break doing this one day. Um, because it's one of those things you get into it and you're

like, well, if I step away, I will forget the steps I'm doing. Yeah, yeah. I will never, like, it'll take me another six hours to go again. Well, the problem is in that game, they have Blackjack. You know, you're in Vegas in like the Fallout universe. Right. Well, the problem is your character has a luck factor attached to it.

So if you just boost that up,

you can't lose, essentially.

So, universe. Well, the problem is your character has a luck factor attached to it. So if you just boost that up, you can't lose, essentially. So I was just sitting there, like, just hitting cards, hitting cards, doing crazy doubles and all the stuff. And it just, the game is literally rigged to make you win. And so the problem... Do you get like stuff in the universe? Yeah, you get bottle caps, which then it's the currency that you can use to buy things.

Yeah.

Weapons, items, you know, whatever you need. But it was, uh, it definitely was like, oh, wait, this is not strategy. What am I doing? Like, yeah, this is, you don't, you don't hit on all 13s, 14s and 15s. No, you don't. Yeah, I haven't played at all. I'm playing over a month, so we'll see how this goes.

It's a good tolerance break.

Like riding a bicycle. Maybe. I mean, I've lost money so far, so it is very much like riding a bicycle. I'm up a little bit so far. Thank you. Get that sidebed helping you out. All right. Got a chill against the three. Yeah, ought to stand around. Oh, and he has an 11.

There's an 8 under there. Wonderful.

Okay. There we go. There we go.

I thought he was going to do the dealer 21. That's where they pull the 11 and then give you the five for the hope and then the five right after.

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