105 Year Old Says Playing Blackjack Kept Her Young

The game of blackjack has come to mean many things to different people, but for Annie Asaro, a 105 year old woman, it has come to symbolize the secret to a long life. Annie Asaro is a very happy and cheerful woman at her age and spends a lot of her time at the casino playing blackjack. When asked what her secret to long life was, she answered “Just play blackjack.”

Asaro was born in the year 1905 in the month of December, and has spent 88 years of her life living in Escondido. This blackjack player who has lived through the Great depression and many wars, can be found playing way to her hearts content at the blackjack tables at the Pala Casino.

Annie Asaro also plays slots games and likes to look for tournament games; she admitted to frequenting the Pala Casino and the Pauma Casino in the same vicinity. Both casinos held celebrations in her honor, and Asaro was even asked to cut a deck in honor of the occasion at one particular blackjack table. “I like to play blackjack,” she admitted and was noted to be playing the Super Fun Single Deck blackjack tables. Asaro appears to be very sharp for her age and has now closed 105 years of age.

This blog entry was posted on Wednesday, December 15th, 2010 at 8:03 pm and is filed under Blackjack News.