A method of betting in Las Vegas, wherein the better visually ascertains what bet Mr.Kiser is making, and then makes the exact opposite bet...almost assuring a positive outcome for the better. This has been historically specific to the table game Roulette, though the method has been used with success in many other casino table games, as well as slot machine play.
In layman’s terms, whatever he does...you do the opposite.
Kiser : “I’m gonna put $1,000 on Black! I got a system”
Everyone in earshot: “Hey Matty just put $1,000 on black...I’ll put $1,000 on red!
Someone’s fried: “Why?”
Everyone: “ It’s the Matt Kiser Method ”
Casino: “14 Red.”
Kiser: “Aw shit!”
Everyone else: “Yay!”
Fogey/fogy /fougi/ sl. (early 18C+, orig. Scot) old-fashioned, stuck-in-the mud.
Person with old fashioned ideas which he is unwilling to change: Come to the disco and stop being such an old fogey!
You think me an old fogeyand an old tory, his thoughtful voice said. I saw three generations since O’Connel’s time. I remember the famine. Do you know that the orange lodges agitated for repeal of the union twenty years before O’Connel did or before the prelates of your communion denounced him as a demagogue? You fenians forget some things. (James Joyce, Ulysses. PenguinBooks,1992. p. 38)