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Never, I passed third grade math.

My wife and I have gone once 2 years ago for about an hour and between us came out about $300 ahead. Haven't been back since. It's just not something that interests me.

My Father-in-law died about 20 years ago, too young. My Mother-in-law will never re-marry, but for the last 10-12 years has been had a steady boy friend who is also a widower. They are good company for each other and travel a lot. William loves to gamble and has a pretty good system. He goes enough to get free room vouchers at casinos all over, they get to Vegas about once a year, but Mississippi and NC pretty regularly. They only go when the room is free and often the food is as well. But that is 8-10 times a year. He calculates how much it would cost him for the room and is willing to lose up to that amount then he quits. Most trips he comes home with less than he had, but is disciplined enough to not lose too much. Some trips he does pretty well.

Two years ago he had an extra voucher for a room he had to use or lose so my wife and I joined them in Cherokee NC. We each got a voucher for $50 to gamble since it was our first time. When I used up my $50 on slot machines I was $90 ahead. I stopped and cashed out for $90. My wife did the same thing but was ahead just over $200.

I've often wondered if the system was rigged for beginners to win a small amount just to get us hooked to come back.

Well, there is the math $ (see my above post,) and then there is the game. Do not gamble/bet what one is uncomfortable losing. Then quit that session. And be sensible about that.

In Winnemucca my brother took me out to lunch at a slot place. While we ate, I watched guys on their lunch hour come in and immediately hit the slots, waitresses coming up to get their order and deliver it at the slot.


Those guys have a problem....

Afterward, my wife asked me how much I lost.

I thought she knew I was too cheap to go that route....

Same here. Every farmer is a gambler, but not every gambler is a farmer.

Did that make sense?

Back when the gulf coast of Mississippi got their casinos i took one of my brothers to play around.

He plays quarter craps and i did the slots.
I got done upstairs and went to watch him play some.
While sitting there i started playing on 3 machines at once.
When he had lost all of his money we had to get some of the floor help to get all of the quart containers of quarters to the tellers.

It was enough to pay for the trip down and back with expenses paid while there.
Got home with about 2500,00.
Have been some more over the years and won enough to play for quite a while.

I always start with seed money,then when you have won enough to cover that put it away then play on the house.
I only do it with money that we can afford to loose.

It's a good way to watch folks for fun and have a good time yourself.

Gambling addiction is a pretty big thing. Many people are susceptible including people that are in the industry. I know only 1 pro gambler and he is very successful over a 30 year period. He only plays card games, mainly Gin, Poker and bridge and mainly in private games, many on cruises. He is very disciplined and very smart.

Isn''t gambling risky? Not the way I do it. W.C. Fields.



mike r

Back in my college days, we had a "club" of poker players.
I won $38 playing penny-ante poker one night.
While the big winner that night, the money just seemed to change hands over time - win this week, lose the next.
Mostly we "lost money" on the beer we all drank!

My best win was 18k playing blackjack at the plaza in vegas. Started with 200 bucks.

A well known acquaintance of mine got the bug pretty bad and ended up in the klink for three years for embezzlement trying to pay the debts and accquire more funds to maintain the habit.

Me? I can take it or leave it.

I've seen too many guys throw away an amount money that would solve a lot of mine own problems.

I think gambling is stupid. And that's coming from someone with family in the Vegas game, floor boss. He liked gambling, was a pretty good blackjack player and counter, enjoyed the nightlife and a little bit of the mob sleaze, taught me how to break even and when to walk away. So I like blackjack, a little, but that's absolutely it.
I think it's all right to have Vegas, or major casino centers, but the "casino" on every effing corner, with the rusted-out cars parked out front at all hours, it's just pathetic. I find out someone routinely gambles, like more than once a year on vacation, I pretty much minimize my involvement with them. Too stupid for me.

One of my co-workers is an addict. One year during tax season he was bragging to me that he was paying taxes on over $16K worth of jackpots. Next sentence he tells me he is still in the red for the year. I said "so your paying taxes on over $16K worth of money that you really never even gained?" By the look on his face I gathered he had never thought of it like that before.

BIL is or was (not really sure which) an addict. He's done some crazy schit to feed it.

I used to play hold em at the casino while in college, won some lost some but not much either way.

Never picked it up.

Used to go with my mother to bingo. She pimped me out to watch a batch of her cards often. I hated that crap. Shriveled up old ass bitchy people smoking like chimneys. I used to conjure up thoughts of rolling a couple of hand grenades in that place. 😄


Old ass mofos used to yell at me "SHUT THE HELL UP" Hahaha. I was only about 10 - 11 years old.


My other won a $2500 jackpot one night. 300 old people wanted to give her a beatin. Lmao. The guy at the cash window said, I walk you and the boy to the car and yall need to get the hell outta here. 😄

Mom wanted to keep playing

Every fuggin day is a gamble.

Sometimes..not too often...

What are those things, PA?

Money

A pile of those scratch off thingies falls out of the passenger side floorboard on renegade50's truck whenever we go somewhere.

I swear the man could wallpaper a gymnasium with his rubbed off tickets. Between that and the guy smokin 3 packs of ciggs a day, he's a time bomb.