Winning big/gambling

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The feeling of taking a gamble and actually winning big has got to be one of the best feelings in the world. For instance buying a $1 scratch off on a whim and winning $250 which happened to me. I can definitely see how that can lead some people to going down a huge rabbit hole, trying to repeat that success.

It can make you think "I've won before, I'll win again. I just need to buy 10 more" and then when those 10 are all losers, you justify to yourself if you buy 20, there HAS to be another big winner.

But yea, when you do win it feels fucking good
 
Watch ‘the Gambler’ with Mark Wahlberg if you want a glimpse into the world of gambling. It’s the losing that gets the blood going.

If you don’t have the addict personality then I can’t really explain it. Winning big is cool and all, but losing big is a rush like you wouldn’t believe.
 
Cool Hand Luke said:
I put 500 bucks down on bitcoin 2 weeks ago.
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ataboy!

I'm a degenerate gambler while in vegas, so yeah I love the feeling of winning. Have to be happy with the free drinks and slutty cocktail waitresses after getting busted out. If you get butthurt, you shouldn't be gambling.
 
I think I've got vertigo from all the high rollers in this thread.
 
Johnson said:
Watch ‘the Gambler’ with Mark Wahlberg if you want a glimpse into the world of gambling. It’s the losing that gets the blood going.

If you don’t have the addict personality then I can’t really explain it. Winning big is cool and all, but losing big is a rush like you wouldn’t believe.
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I've seen it, great movie.

I think I've heard someone on Rogan's podcast talk about how gamblers actually dont want to win, they want to lose. Thats why serious gamblers never walk away when they are up. They keep going until they lose it. Interesting stuff.

I can say after I won the $250, I immediately wasted $40 trying to win more.
 
SammyPops said:
ataboy!

I'm a degenerate gambler while in vegas, so yeah I love the feeling of winning. Have to be happy with the free drinks and slutty cocktail waitresses after getting busted out. If you get butthurt, you shouldn't be gambling.
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We've been to The Golden Nugget in Lake Charles twice since New Years - I love going there - a 2.5 hour drive, I'm a decent black jack player and we get comped rooms so its just the gas money and our time to get to/fro that it costs.
 
I don't really gamble at all except for when I pay for the ass buffet. Been doing that shit for years now and I have no obvious diseases so it hardly feels like gambling anymore
 
Cool Hand Luke said:
We've been to The Golden Nugget in Lake Charles twice since New Years - I love going there - a 2.5 hour drive, I'm a decent black jack player and we get comped rooms so its just the gas money and our time to get to/fro that it costs.
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Where is Lake Charles and what it like, a big casino area? I really like vegas b/c there is so much going on. Our Ontario casino are lame af!

A couple buddies and I have thought about doing an ex-vegas US casino trip, say fly in New Orleans and hit som eof the casinos around there like Mississippi and such.
 
SammyPops said:
Where is Lake Charles and what it like, a big casino area? I really like vegas b/c there is so much going on. Our Ontario casino are lame af!

A couple buddies and I have thought about doing an ex-vegas US casino trip, say fly in New Orleans and hit som eof the casinos around there like Mississippi and such.
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It's basically on the Texas/Louisiana border

There are two casino/hotels, The Golden Nugget and the L'auberge right next door to each other. I live in Houston its a 2.5 hour drive door to valet for us.

Though I love Vegas (we got married there 14 years ago) its a bit too inconvenient to fly there in view of our kids, since we can do a day trip if we want to Lake Charles or just over night one night and get one of the inlaws to watch them. I'm a member of the Nugget so basically any Sunday through Friday is complimentary.
 
IloveTHIS said:
The feeling of taking a gamble and actually winning big has got to be one of the best feelings in the world. For instance buying a $1 scratch off on a whim and winning $250 which happened to me. I can definitely see how that can lead some people to going down a huge rabbit hole, trying to repeat that success.

It can make you think "I've won before, I'll win again. I just need to buy 10 more" and then when those 10 are all losers, you justify to yourself if you buy 20, there HAS to be another big winner.

But yea, when you do win it feels fucking good
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This mindset works with heroin but not scratchers so much.
 
Cool Hand Luke said:
It's basically on the Texas/Louisiana border

There are two casino/hotels, The Golden Nugget and the L'auberge right next door to each other. I live in Houston its a 2.5 hour drive door to valet for us.

Though I love Vegas (we got married there 14 years ago) its a bit too inconvenient to fly there in view of our kids, since we can do a day trip if we want to Lake Charles or just over night one night and get one of the inlaws to watch them. I'm a member of the Nugget so basically any Sunday through Friday is complimentary.
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Lake Charles is fuckin huge


Gotta be one of the bigger lakes in the US
 
I’d win $250 on a slot machine and proceed to dump $100 back in instantly. Then the other $150 in the next few hours.
 
I'm not a big gambler, but I never won anything big. The most I won at one crack was $1000 hitting the 1000 on the $1 wheel of fortunate slot machine in Reno. Other then that it has only been in the hundreds at most.
 
I went to the casino today and in my first hand I won $80 so I got up and left. $80 for less than 2 mins of work is always good UNLESS you're a prostitute
 
Last year I dabbled in some serious high roller gambling and Killed it....

You have to treat it like a business, Ignore the impulse "feelings" and not get sucked into the "tricks" casinos/industrial psychology employs to take your money.

Ive been holding back this year and enjoying all the free perks the casinos are giving me to entice me to back to gambling.
 
I had a period where I got really interested in blackjack. Bought several books, studied quite a bit, and would go and play fairly regularly. The thought of actually being able to shift the odds into the player's favor through advantage play fascinated me, as well as the thought that the casino has money and if only you can go up there and win it, they have to give it to you.

Anyone remember the History Channel series Breaking Vegas? I fucking LOVED that shit. Watched every episode.


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Here's the pilot episode on the MIT blackjack team. Kind of shitty quality, but it's the full ep:


 
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