Poll of the Day > Great. i lost 700 at the casino tonight

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Now i gotta pick up extra shifts to recoupe

Shouldn't gamble

And if you are going to gamble, you shouldn't put up money you can't afford to lose

I ran to the casino 10 miles as a mid-way point turn back point every Friday for almost 2 years. I had my ID and 5 bucks in my shoe. I put the 5 dollars into the 5 dollar slot carosel and left. I didn't win even a small win in that 2 years.

"Why did you keep doing it?"

It was a ritual by then. I low-key thought eventually I'd win. One payout would likely recoup any losses. Just one.

"Why did you stop?"

I moved away.

Side note, in all the time I went there, I never saw one person playing it. Not once. And every once in a while if I sat on the chair for a minute before pulling, one of the observers would card an adjacent carosel seat and fake speed play. Always wondered why they did that.

"Did you ever play anything else?"

My girlfriend and I went to the seafood buffet once and I gave her $300 to spend. It was gone in 15 minutes.

"What did she say?"

"Ok, let's go to the movie now."

My spouse and I used to go to one of the Indian casinos in San Diego. I'd set aside $20 and I could make that last an hour or more at the penny slots. One day after I'd spent the last of my money we started back to the car and just inside the front door was this very large slot machine that cost $5 to play. I remembered I had a $5 bill in my wallet, so on a whim I fed it into the machine and pulled the large handle...

DING DING DING DING

I won $50!

The rule when gambling, of course, is if you make a profit you put away your own money and play with the casino's money. So I put aside my original investment of $25, dropped one of remaining $5 coins into the machine and pulled the lever...

DING DING DING DING

Another $15!

A bunch of little Japanese women came over and started touching me for luck. It was weird.

Stop before you lose your house.
Gambling is very destructive.

I've seen people living on social welfare burning their monthly cheques on slot machines.

All you gotta do is walk around and watch people at a casino for a while. Count up how much money on slots they're spend. Talk to them if they want to share. You'll quickly find out it's not worth it. Only rich people do it.

And if you figure one of the games out, they'll just ban you. The pros know just how much to win then rotate casinos. They log all your cash outs anyway. All they gotta see is a bunch of good cash outs all year and be like "peace out, homie"

Very few people game the system. Them days are gone. You go there to have fun, not try and become rich.

I stayed in the Seneca in New York for a long time just looking. Tried to get a job there, etc. Talked to a lot of people. Other than the smoke smell everywhere, it's a nice place to work.

Straughan posted...

And every once in a while if I sat on the chair for a minute before pulling, one of the observers would card an adjacent carosel seat and fake speed play. Always wondered why they did that.

Social pressure: If you're on the fence about whether or not to pull, seeing somebody else nearby doing so can help you feel more comfortable with the decision, making you less likely to walk away without spending anything.

Its a little weird, but my first thought was the Danganronpa Casino from V3 Been playing too much V3

Last time I was in Vegas I played blackjack for 4 hours. Ended up making $11. But really, I was there for the free booze. Getting paid $11 to drink 3 glasses of Glenlivet 15 was well worth the time.

Straughan posted...

My girlfriend and I went to the seafood buffet once and I gave her $300 to spend. It was gone in 15 minutes.

Damn, is your girlfriend a competitive eater or something?

I used to work security at a casino. For every $2 you put in slots, you get about $1 back. It's a pseudo-random algorithim, a.k.a, you are screwed by the programming. You can get lucky and win sometimes, but in the long run, you will ALWAYS lose. Casinos make money when you don't win. And slots are the worst thing to try and win money at a casino. Your odds are better playing anything else besides slots. Bingo, Poker, Blackjack, Roulette, anything is better odds than slots. And you know what people love the most? Slots!

How has nobody linked this yet?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=chGlsNax_vc

I shouldve just went to roullete early and said screw it 700 on black. Get it over with

Gambling is just one of those addictions I'll never understand. I think I've probably lost like $40 over the course of my life and that was enough. I found no pleasure in throwing away my money. You just have to understand that statistically you're not going to come out ahead. If everyone could, casinos wouldn't exist. You have to realize you're not special. The laws of mathematics will not make an exception for you. The greatest win you can hope to achieve is to never play again.

VideoboysaysCube posted...

Gambling is just one of those addictions I'll never understand.

Sort of this. I understand it as being people that have no fundamental knowledge of even basic statistics. As a math teacher, I see first hand just how much some people struggle with math.

I've had students that don't know how to use a ruler or tape measure by grade 9. Or not understanding that one fifth is bigger than one sixth. I can't remember not knowing these things.

It doesn't appeal to me, but I've seen enough people enjoy it I kinda get it. It's (clearly) not about statistical logic. It's about the thrill of 'victory' and the remote hope of a big score (which is why slots appeal to people even though the odds suck). It's kind of like how it's fun to run around a map and find stuff in an RPG rather than just fight a couple times and buy the same stuff in a store. Winning/earning it is fun. And you might find a sword of awesomeness, who knows?

But yeah, I think I've wagered about $40 in my life and lost maybe $20.

that's the same as marge's gambling losses last year

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E2RlFfFnhUI

captpackrat posted...

My spouse and I used to go to one of the Indian casinos in San Diego. I'd set aside $20 and I could make that last an hour or more at the penny slots. One day after I'd spent the last of my money we started back to the car and just inside the front door was this very large slot machine that cost $5 to play. I remembered I had a $5 bill in my wallet, so on a whim I fed it into the machine and pulled the large handle...

DING DING DING DING

I won $50!

The rule when gambling, of course, is if you make a profit you put away your own money and play with the casino's money. So I put aside my original investment of $25, dropped one of remaining $5 coins into the machine and pulled the lever...

DING DING DING DING

Another $15!

A bunch of little Japanese women came over and started touching me for luck. It was weird.

Viejas?

Revelation34 posted...

Viejas?

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