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January 21 Lots of New Birds Eye coverage in EuropeOver the last few days we've published over 100 new cities of Birds Eye Coverage. The Netherlands, Germany, Italy, and Spain received the most new coverage while all of you in Drammen Norway will be pleased to know your city is covered as well. A full list of the new European Cities is below. Here's a nice shot of the Monte Carlo Casino.
Here's a funny story about this place. I made a side trip here from the 3GSM conference in Cannes a few years back. The Casino is this amazingly lush palace, something like a place you would expect to see James Bond Playing Baccarat. we went in to play some blackjack, fortunate to be admitted as we weren't quite dressed appropriately. :-) But it was the off season and things were quiet. We get to the blackjack table and there's.... James Bond. not really, but this guy was standing there in a full on formal tux with a martini smoking a cigarette in one of those long cigarette holders. Bond was the only guy at the table and he had like a quarter million euros laid in front of him. We bought in for a couple hundred and started playing. It became immediately apparent that Bond had no idea what he was doing. He was betting 5 and 10 thousand a hand and killing himself! Staying on a 15 against a dealer 10, not splitting his 8's... Whatever you could do wrong, he was doing. he was losing money at an alarming rate, but didn't seem to care - he had a virtually unlimited supply of it. but sometimes he would do something completely bone headed, like splitting 10's, and be rewarded with some luck, only reinforcing his bad betting. I of course was playing reasonable blackjack, but losing every hand. At one point I took a hit on a 15 against a dealer 10 and busted as expected. Bond got pissed off and came around the table presumably lecturing me about how I should of played it - my french isn't nearly good enough to know for sure. When he went back to his spot I looked to the dealer for some support - "Hey, I did the right thing, right? you would have hit, right?". He paused. "You have zis...", gesturing at my few remaining chips with both hands, "He has zis" pointing now at Bond's wall of chips. sigh. Anyway, enjoy the Birds Eye views. I'll try to get my Collections of Birds Eye cities updated in the next day or so with all of these new cities and regions. France: Italy: Germany: Netherlands: Spain: Norway: Comments (106)
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