boonies14
boonies14 t1_j5oghee wrote
Reply to TIL Prison Rodeo is a real thing - inmates play poker in the middle of a rodeo with a raging bull and have to sit and resist the urge to run from it in order to win money by gravitasgamer
They do this at non-prison rodeos as well. It’s not called Prison Poker, it’s called Cowboy Poker.
boonies14 t1_izpgynv wrote
Reply to TIL In 1939 chess Grandmaster Miguel Najdorf started regular simultaneous blindfold exhibitions hoping that international news coverage would reconnect him with family in Poland. He succeeded in setting the record and getting international coverage but his family had already been killed by nazis. by SigmaGrooveJamSet
Fucking Germany
boonies14 t1_ixea0cf wrote
Reply to [OC] Countries with Three Start Michelin Restaurants Since 2007 (Reviews expanded outside of Europe in 2006 but data was not available) by Metalytiq
Yeah, but what about the Man vs Food restaurants?
boonies14 t1_j5osh1z wrote
Reply to comment by brighter_hell in TIL the odds of winning jackpots at slot machines ranges between 1 in 5000 to 1 in 34 million, when using the maximum coin play. by carpitown
I worked in a casino and ate lunch on occasion with the Head of Surveillance. He told me a story of a couple of guys who absolutely had a system for beating some of the slot machines. He had absolutely no clue how they did it.
The two guys were neighbors in Florida, but would act like they didn't know each other in the casino. Sit near each other, not acknowledge each other, that sort of thing. But they would play and win at statistically impossible rates. Switch machines at seemingly random. The machines they would play on would be pulled and checked but they were in perfect working condition.
The security team looked into the two men, and they apparently owned some kind of company that provided gaming supplies to casinos, but nothing to do with slot machines. Real weird stuff.