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One of the many things being a cheapskate protects me from.
You'd be surprised. The biggest gambler I know is the biggest cheapskate.
Addicted to money in all forms
They should get that into the DSM
On my honeymoon 7 years ago my wife and I took a very expensive 13-day Mediterranean cruise on a huge ship with a casino. One afternoon I went there and spent $300 over about an hour.
I still kick myself for throwing that money away.
Best thing that could have ever happened to you. If you won it 'big' you'd have ended up losing way more than 300 bucks. A moderately priced lesson.
I went to the casino with friends around 12 years ago. We agreed to get a few coins (around 20€ or so) at the beginning, play them and leave once we run out of coins.
Everyone lost their coins except me, I left with like 27€. It was the only time I went to the casino.
So now I can never go in a casino again ! I have a perfect record, I've always won against the casino and I intend to keep it this way my whole life.
Great decision!
One time a coworker asked me and another friend to go to the casino with her, her mom and her boyfriend after work and me and my friend said yes. We arrive and when we walk in we are told "if you sign up for our players card you get 20 dollars preloaded for free"... What the hell why not, free 20 dollars. Everyone besides me and my friend had one already so we said we'll meet you inside once we get the card.
So we go to the counter and fill out their one page form, take maybe 10 minutes being generous. We get the card and go to walk onto the floor, keep in mind this place only had machine games, no tables or anything and my coworker is walking out with her family. "what's up? I thought you were playing." she responds "nah, we are leaving, we already lost $1500"
Somehow they lost $500 each in under 10 minutes... I still don't know how.
Those $10 slots can get ya
dont let that stop you, chase your dreams!
Next time, I'll definitely strike it rich.
Having shitty luck helps, too.
An important thing to keep in mind when gambling is that luck isn't real. You can get lucky, but you can't be lucky. It's all statistics, and if you play long enough the casino always wins. Odds are a few people gain some money, but more money is always lost than gained, and you'll eventually be a loser.
While that is true, also due to the nature of randomness and big numbers, there will be someone out there that wins an abnormal seeming amount. Like with the lottery. You can't win, but someone always does.