1PlusGame

   1plusgame’s Sic Bo table was a little oasis of calm amid the casino’s melee, and the game itself, with its heritage of thousands of years and its basal mechanics, carried a certain magic. The dice, to whom it had been my lot to deliver, writhed away on the gentle bed of dim lights inside the acrylic dome that had caged them, their quintessential points – the very embodiment of the 0s and 1s that existed in the veins and arteries, and in the brain itself, of every computer on Earth – glinting and flaring at me.  I’d been invited, but only with a sense of passive curiosity – as if traversing, eternally calm, an alternate realm in which the laws of time change – so I do not remember clearly who placed my chips and invited me, but it was done, by the methods I have described, grinning me to the sum of 1,500 pesos, which at that time was roughly C$400. Then we were escorted past the roulette and blackjack rooms to the baccarat and poker tables. Clad individually by a genial...