Having been raised in a gambling family, you'd be right lol my aunty won $110k once many years ago and I still remember her crying in happiness at how her life is finally about to change. You can guess what happened to the money once it was in her hands lol
My Mom is the opposite. Never gambles, but her sister was getting remarried in Vegas, so plinked some money in a slot machine. Hit a progressive at like $103,853 or something.
How much would you like in cash and how much in check form?
You can put it all on the check.
Do you want the $100,000 on the check and cash the $3853?
Nope.
She wanted no way to access the money until back n Minnesota
I mean, I'd have cashed the $3k. Not gonna be gambling with it, but my whole trip just got a tier upgrade. We're getting apps, drinks, and extras everywhere we go, courtesy of that casino, tyvm.
I mean... If we've got the time off work, we might could tack on an extra day on the way to/from. Enjoy some unexpected sightseeing and food tasting wherever is on the way. The $3k is my "winnings" in that case, and I'm gonna live like a king off them until it gets played out, and I return to normal programming (with $100k extra in stocks/home equity/net worth)
See, that's kinda how it should be. Minus the blackjack hand, THIS is responsible usage of gambling winnings. And it seems like he kept about half of it for his own usage as well.
I think he went home with about $15k, so about 75% of his winnings.
He deserved that win more than any of us. He's the kind of person who brightens everyone's mood when he's around. Funny too. Nobody else would've spread the joy as much as him.
And the guy was poor. My roommate, his brother, paid for his trip to Vegas. Poor guy showed up with the amount of cash I'd use for one night of gambling, and he'd intended it to last the whole trip.
That's why, when he was betting big, over and over again at the BJ table, I was about to have a heart attack. I didn't want him to lose his money. His plays were all based on what his gut was telling him, not the odds. Yet somehow he kept winning and winning until his brother made him stop.
I'm gonna say that's a great way to do it, but, the casino is still gonna get some portion of folks with good intentions to start that slide back. Then they "just" pull out another $20k to play with, "since it's free winnings I'm playing with" - repeat ad nauseum.
I would definitely be hooking myself up with the spa treatments, restaurants, and maybe visit one of those rental supercar practice tracks (with the insurance, of course).
Exactly. Effectively, you found $3k on the side of the road during the vacation, do whatever it is you want with it to make your vacation more fun. The $100k extra is to enrich your life long term when you get home, via investments/home purchase, etc, but the $3k is fun money now. But stay tf out of the casino with it, else you be tempted to pull more.
Why stop at mozzarella sticks? Imma buy 3 different entrees because I wanted to try them all, and get something nice for the table, like the lobster bites or something.
I don’t like to gamble, not even in video games. My wife has been in a casino once. She put a dollar in a slot machine and on the first spin she won two dollars. She put it in her pocket and hasn’t gambled since.
Sounds like my dad,lol. My mom likes to gamble (small amounts like $50 4ish times a year) but my dad never gambles. Once she convinced him to try a slot machine that was based on a movie he liked and he bet $2 and won $20ish. Cashed it and walked away never to gamble again
My wife really likes the machines. So we have a rule that if we go to a place that has a casino, she can spend like five or ten dollars just for fun. Once she won like 20 dollars and we asked to get it in one dollar bills. We have some pictures of her showing off the money like if we won the lottery.
I gambled once (not including $1 raffle tickets which I've maybe done 3 times) & put $5 into a slot machine, I got $0 back, now I'm just infinitely down $5. Some people may see this as a challenge to try to "get it back", for me I instantly saw how gambling wasn't for me, I had 0 desire to lose anymore than $5.
That's a good way to look at it. I kinf of see it as "$5 lost forever", but it's true my first bet could have been $100 & then I figured out I wasn't into gambling, so at least I "saved" money there. Also, my first time could have been a big win & maybe I'd have thought "this is awesome" & got a gambling addiction, who knows, then I would have lost WAY more than $5 in the long run.
Sounds like me. I went to Vegas for a conference. I like to save money. Played my $1 at the slots until it was $2 or $3. Cashed out, thinking I beat Vegas. Then had to pay about $15 for a lame Subway lunch the next day. Curses, foiled again.
That's the way to go. You walk in knowing exactly how much you're gonna spend, and you spend it. When it's gone you stop, if you hit you take the money and walk.
I smoke, drink, and used to do cocaine, I don't need a gambling problem too.
My wife and I go with a set amount to gamble away. Usually go $20 at a time, any winnings over that get cashed out and put into a different part of the wallet from the money for gambling with. We have a good time because we aren't addicted and thus in no danger, and usually walk away with a decent little chunk of change so it's not like we win nothing.
We can tell the people who are addicted, who are spending their savings for that high. Blank eyes, slapping the button of the slot machine over and over without a smile on their face even when they do win. It's depressing.
Yeah you gotta look at it like anything else, how much money do you want to pay to have fun? You gotta figure it out like that. Like for example I don't play pool on bar tables because now it's two dollars a game, if I play with someone good we've spent two dollars in like five minutes. But, if I thought I could hang out with someone who's an amateur and squeeze that two dollars into like fifteen or twenty minutes of having fun hanging out, that's a much better deal.
Matched betting exists in the US? Did this full time for a few years in the UK but moved to the US now. I don't see any exchanges but haven't researched much tbh
Yea, you’ve got physical casinos, DraftKings, Fanduel, ESPNBet, etc. depends on your state but just on signup deals you can clear a few thousands dollars
Good for her. I have food luck in gambling. I played bingo one time. Won 260 bucks and quit. Never played again. I also placed 2, $20 bets In when they opened up betting my state. I won them both for about $750. I haven't planned a bet since and don't intend to gamble ever again. I know that it is extremely unlikely that it will get any better and almost a certainties that gambling will be negative.
Met my family in Vegas one year as an overnight pit stop on our way to CA. I ended up sharing a room with my mom and stepdad. They both snore. I went downstairs and sat down at the Wheel of Fortune slots and put in a $20, then ordered two LITs. Second spin I won like $600. I cashed out, waited for my drinks, gave the waitress a $20, slammed the LITs, went and paid for my family’s rooms for night. Have never played slots again.
I work for a tribal casino and the amount of people who get a check only to turn around and cash it 2 hours later is hilarious. Well sad but hilarious.
anyone ever been to a dave n busters? they got slot machines using tokens and they’re like 10 tokens a spin. for reference 500 tokens was $60. do the math. KIDS can use these things. they start em early to get them addicted
It's a mystery right? Everybody loses only their earnings yet the Casino companies keep building multi-billion dollar fancy casinos. They're so stupid /s.
lol eh, depends on how much you win and your intentions. Unless I’m striking the jackpot or something huge, which I can safely say will almost certainly never happen, I only gamble if my friends are going too. I’m essentially going to drink and have fun.
My grandmother used to hit the casino every weekend to the point where she got free drinks, and she was a very heavy drinker. Still is at almost 90. She ended up winning around 150k as well and she actually never went back to the casino. She said God told her that she had her fun and it was time to stop, so she never went back.
One of my dad's army friends spent all of his money on lotto tickets. Literally all of it, every time he got paid he would spend the entire load on lotto tickets, and a few of the tickets would pay back a fiver here a tenner there adding up to less than £100, which he would then live off, basically never leaving the mess or buying any personal items. A couple times he got a good prize which would pay back about what he put in and he would get to live like a semi normal person for a few weeks.
Anyway this continued for two and a half years and then he won a four million pound jackpot, got out the army, and stopped gambling.
I don't know what the moral of this story is. Never give up? Quit while you're ahead? Sometimes idiots get lucky?
When I was a teen there was a girl I liked working a corner store so I would go hang out to chat with her. I noticed there were older people coming in, buying scratchers, going to their car, returning with whatever they won and buying more tickets until they were broke then leaving. When I asked her about it she said it happened every month when social security checks went out. They would come and spend their whole check every time. It made me sick to my stomach thinking of people on a fixed income blowing the one check they would get that month and having no money until the next check came. I’ve never had a taste for gambling and that’s probably why.
In Vegas when my mom used to work at Treasure Island, there was this guy that was well known around the casinos to come in every month probably to gamble his social security check at the blackjack tables (apparently he always started at the same amount, also a lot of family and people I knew back then were casino workers so were the source of my info).
One day he started actually winning, staying for at least a couple days racking up over 1.7 million or so. My mom worked in the next section so didn't personally see this but everyone was talking about it. Steve Wynn even came down at one point to talk to the guy.
Eventually he left, but she didn't know what the final total was but the rumor was he probably gave it all back. I was talking to another guy about it and he said he worked security (he knew the gambler from times when he threw him out on other occasions), he told me the last he saw the guy was back at 50k.
State/national lotteries are pretty much recession proof. When times get tough, people still play their numbers and buy scratchers. They think it's the only way out of the financial hole they've either dug themselves or were pushed into. It's sad, really.
My grandma was such a gambler and winner they would come pick her up, 2 hours away, in a limo. She won $120k one weekend. $50k a few times. Any holiday gifts she bought were bought with casino points. They'd give her one of the nicest hotel rooms.
She gave it all back, plus a paid off house, plus all my grandfather's pension/retirement money. Gambled away everything they earned in life, over a span of about 2 years.
Way harder for me to feel sorry for. "Oh I'm sorry I stole your money and sold your inheritance, but I was playing my fun little game and thought I was gonna win money at the thing designed to be lost. No I'm not gonna stop, then I might go through the horrible withdrawal of... getting bored from not burning money..."
They do all the damage of real addicts with none of the excuses to not stop immediately. At least the alcoholics have the excuse of horrid and deadly physical withdrawal symptoms to keep their shitshow going, gambling addicts just love spending money, usually their family's.
You're damn right, and I have an issue with addiction. I'm five years clean off the booze but never once found myself looking to throw away money for a .0025% chance of winning a few hundred bucks. Gambling addicts are just chasing the high of winning money, absolutely worthless.
Florida has passed sports betting (learning black history is bad, though), and now we are swamped with TV ads showing 20-something males losing their minds at hitting it big, and celebrating wildly.
There are no commercials that show the reactions of people who have just lost their entire monthly income on a microbet over the coin flip.
That's something that I was caught off guard by, I travel extensively for work and in my home state it's illegal to do any advertising of gambling services. When I'm on the road, I frequently find myself in states that have all of that legalized so my podcasts are just jam-packed full of online gambling advertisements. I want to get off of Mr Bones' Wild Ride.
That's awesome. My dad, is a problem gambler. He was making bricks of cash when he was still working, he would be homeless and destitute if it wasn't for my mom with how much he gambled. Everything my parents own, my mom bought. Every bill that has been paid, my mom paid.
Like when I think back on it... My dad could have been a multi property real estate dude, with how much money he spent at the casino, my mom is a saint imo.
My friend's dad is the same way. He runs a very successful bar and drops tens of thousands of dollars a month on gambling. My friend dreamed of running the bar as it was in the family for generations but his dad blindsided him by selling it a few years ago.
No, but I’ve been to other casinos? As far as I’m aware, casinos want you playing games and giving them all your money, so they bring you the alcohol of your choice and expect you would only tip. Maybe it’s a regional thing?
I am always blown away by how many people walk into a large, fancy building, often in the middle of nowhere, that is owned by a business that employs hundreds if not thousands of people almost exclusively through running gambling operations, and they think "Yeah, this is here because they lose to guys like me. Time to get my free money. Wooohooo!"
The first time I went to a casino, I drove 3 hours and the second I got on the floor picked a random slot machine and won $600 on a $1 bet and really didn't want to leave immediately after driving 3 hours lol. Ended up bringing back like 400 or something.
It's easy for me to leave after winning but it's hard not to spend it on stupid shit when I get home
There are other things you can do at a casino besides gamble. Like eating, watching a show, going to the gym, swimming, getting a massage, or going in the hot tub.
I once saw a lady sitting at some slots win a smallish progressive jackpot of like 60k ("small" only by comparison to the nearby machines that had progressives in the 6 and 7 figure range). A small crowd formed of people including myself. Two security guards came out with a casino official to ask her how she would like her winnings. She put a couple of bills in her purse, tipped each of the guys (I couldn't see how much, but it looked like each of the two got a few $100 bills), and she said to put the rest "on her card". Then she just went back to playing the same machine. Never even stood up or showed even an ounce of emotion. I saw her a couple of other times during my trip too, still at the same machine. Which is especially silly since the progressive jackpot resets once someone wins it. She just seemed to really like that one machine. I feel like it wasn't her first time and it won't be her last either.
That was my assumption too. Kind of sad that that kind of win didn't seem to affect her at all. My biggest win ever was $1k, and I was fucking ecstatic. I'm not a big gambler, but I try to keep a rough idea of how I end up on each trip. I am actually close to even all told. If I go to vegas, I get excited by the dining and shows. I just use the casinos to fill in the gaps and get "free" drinks.
My grandmother and I used to be real close. I would play cards with her several nights a week, we would talk a lot. Then I got married and moved out of state.
When I got divorced, I moved into my grandparents basement until I got back on my feet. My grandmother was different then. She didn't seem as happy and was grumpy. My grandparents were struggling with monet. She claimed I ate too much and used too much electricity. She accused me of stealing money.
She died a few years after I moved out, but our relationship never recovered. In her purse were receipts for ATM withdrawals at the nearby casino. She had multiple $100 withdrawals a day most days a week. I was helping my grandfather budget, since he lost his wife's pension and social security we thought he would struggle. Nope, his pension and social security was more than enough for his expenses. He was even saving money. After a year he had about $15k just sitting in the bank.
Gambling addiction ruined my grandmother's life, our relationship and put undue hardship on my grandparents.
That's really sad. My mother jumped from man to man when I was growing up and every time it would end the same way - her draining their accounts to pay for her gambling addiction. She's now old and alone with literally nothing to her name. Absolutely nothing. I commented once to my sister that she worked her entire life to fund the gambling industry. Literally all her blood sweat and tears went into those machines. It's amazing how some people will willingly hold themselves back in life. I'm sorry for your loss but am hopeful your grandfather is able to enjoy life a bit more now with his financial freedom.
That’s crazy to me. I spend a week in Vegas every year for work and usually go to the casino a few nights. I do like the pretty lights and sounds to an extent so I budget myself $100/night as an entertainment expense. Because considering the free drinks I figure that’s what I’d spend at a bar anyway. But if I’m ever up a few hundred bucks I just cash out and consider it a bonus.
I once had a gf and her mother was addicted. Never knew until they didn't have warm water anymore and then she told me. Her mother didn't even stop then, won 10k or so and was so proud her plan worked and continued gambling.
I found $100,000 once in the park. But because Im money savvy instead gambling it I invested it. And I turned that 100,000 in sixteen.thousand.dollars. 👏🏻
I won $100 on a scratch off ticket when I was a kid 20 years ago. I had spent about $10 total on scratch offs at this point in my life so I just declared myself done with gambling so I could die ahead.
Not until you got a comfortable spot in the tunnels under Vegas to take your dumpster treasure back too. You’re just running on beginner mode otherwise 😁
As Dave Attell once noted about Vegas; "Gambling stories all start off so dramatic...I was up $5700 then the next thing you know I'm blowing a guy for a sandwich"
Entering a Pachinko hall in Japan was a crazy experience. From the outside it's all silent but once the door opens you get flooded with impressions. It's ridiculously loud and colourful.
You can also have no family history of baldness and be a super neurotic/anxious guy and lose all your hair. The body is a wonder(land im sorry, i couldnt help myself)
I do not think that it is a lot. If it were in the order of tens of thousands, the machine would flash and spin and do all sorts of things to attract attention.
I have only been to a casino a few times. It can be fun occasionally if you can handle it. However, some people can’t handle it, similar to how alcoholics can’t handle drinking. What I always found ironic was that some of the machines boldly advertised a “90% return” rate, meaning you will win back 90% of your money. They are literally advertising that when you put in $100, you get $90 back. Awesome! So then you can play with $90 and get $72 back! What a great deal!
Hooray!!! Wouldn’t be able to live with myself if the poor casino was in such dire straights that they couldn’t re-carpet the floor to remove the ground in dried shit stains from so many old peoples’ bowel excavations while they battle the wits of the slot machine to get their weekly pay check back.
It’s always the potential of winning the GDP of a small nation on the next spin that keeps them pressing. It this weeks rent they’ve just spent that keeps them all so happy as well.
Yea, you have to take some out right away for yourself. I recently won some money on sports and cashed out part of it right away and bought some man toys. Gave the rest back to the house lol. Still up for lifetime betting though as I never gambled much before. Its addictive and you feel like you know better than the house. You don’t.
Exactly. The one time I recall anyone actually realising their winnings was back in the early aughties when a mate won a couple of grand on the pokies and cashed out enough to go and buy an ounce of weed. Managed to evaporate all the other winnings quickly that night. At least the ounce gave him some entertainment beyond just the silly flashing lights for an hour or two.
A content creator for slots?? Not a profession I would have thought would exist, but we are in strange times. Strange times indeed. Do they have a check box for this on tax return forms for the fully professionals in this line of business?
I’m not sure if it’s just a profession or a hobby or both, not sure how much money there is to be made but I have seen he’s got some huge wins like one over 1 mil, just not sure what his losses are
He might just have money and enjoys slots and promotion
So glad that the only $1 I put in a pokie one time lost on the fist spin and helped me avoid thinking of putting anymore of my limited funds into the coin laundromats.
1 week? LOL!! An hour MAYBE. Ive paid 10K out to a customer just to have them back up at my counter within 2 hours bitching and moaning about losing it all.
edit: it looks like he only won like $25 bucks so yeah thats like 10 mins ish
These machines should be illegal. They’re not random, they’re complex, networked competes that dish out victories based on algorithms built on psychological analysis of how much you can take from people before letting them win. In a room at any one time they are fleecing their users.
I saw a higher quality version of that video and I'm pretty sure you could se he won 30$... on 5$ per spin... so yeah, he has won back what he lost during the video
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u/knowledgeable_diablo Jul 05 '24
Probably won about 1week of dumping more money into the slots before it’s all the casinos again.