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I gambled $500 (roughly) this week in Vegas, on a vacation with my family, and it's been tearing me up inside since I knew I should had turn around more than a few times, but I kept on hoping that I would win or win back my losses. I drop $800 in house taxes (neutral feeling). Although, it wasn't all bad since in the midst of my hopelessness I kind of figure out how to bounce back from it, which isn't going to happen over night.

I now only have like $900 of savings, and it's depressing me because I just work my ass for the past two months to be at the same square I was then. I just feel like it's kind of the end of the world, and I feel hopeless, but I am going to try to put it behind me.

I just feel pretty depress about this, and I just venting.

If the gambling was a one-off thing it sounds like you have learned the inevitable lesson, the hard way... the house always wins if you keep gambling. If you have a gambling addiction you should seek help before it destroys your life.

Stuff happens.

Five hundred aint so bad.


I just dropped a 1000 to fix the complicated door lock on the used car I recently bought.

Bought the car under the duress of desperate circumstances and now feel that I got myself ripped off by buying a car that needs so much work. But life goes on.

Yeah, gambling can ruin anybody. I am not an addict, but I buy scratch tickets on occasion, and I lose some, I win some. That's how life is.

Gambling is the ultimate I-suck-at-math tax and should only be partaken as an entertainment; commit to spending no more than you would for dinner and a movie. Take comfort in the realization you had that you had to work extra hard just to arrive at the same result, you'll be sure not to forget this lesson any time soon. There is no such thing as Easy Money

Going to Vegas on a vacation sorta sets you up to begin with. But in future if you are going to gamble, plan it out so as to be able to use the time and stick to a pre-determined limit. For example only bring the ammount you can lose without regret. Generally it means playing the lowest level slots.

True. It was somewhat out of my control (the Vegas thing.... the gambling is all my fault, and I just lost all control over myself like a binge eater.... it was sick almost), it happen to be the destination for my sibling's birthday, and I took a 15 day leave from the military to be with my family during the holidays. I had a lot of fun on the vacation besides that, made me think about my life, and where I am going with it. I decided a lot of things on this vacation, and it truly made me show how wonderful the military is, since I am taking time out of basic training, so I can reflect on the "suck"....

In the end, this leave forces me to save my money without leave, and stay in the military for the next 6-8 months non-stop.

I am okay with it now, since I got my health and my job still. I am alive too. I'll get paid again soon because I am on salary, so I'll get paid for doing nothing the past 2 weeks. Yeah.

The next time I gamble, it's going to be for pure entertainment only. And I am going to save my money like a miser for the rest of 2014.

Lol, My first base was Nellis AFB. My first trip downtown was a fiasco finanically. It is really hard to watch yourself pour money down the drain. But I got a grip and set some boundries and then enjoyed all the shows and stuff you can do in the area for the rest of my assignment there.

My NT girlfriend just lost 400 in Vegas.
My inclination is aspies are not as vulnerable to the gambling scam as NT's are.
This is what will happen to you next time you go into the Casino

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9II4W_RiN-o[/youtube]

The movie Casino shows how that scam worked in Vegas in the 1970's

To me Casinos are so depressing. There are much more interesting things around Vegas like you could go snow boarding or enjoying an alpine environment at Mt Charleston. Or sight see and hike in Red Rocks Canyon or The Valley of Fire. And there is Hover Dam too. All these places are within 1 hour of Vegas.

In the movie Casino, Robert De Niro play the character Sam "Ace" Rothsteen. This is based on the real person Frank "Lefty" Rosenthal.
This is an real interview with Frank Rosenthal who discusses in detail gambling.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline ... lefty.html

Here are a couple of quotes from Lefty

"From my experience, as far as being able to win in any gaming environment, casino, race track, dog track, etc., 99.9% of the public, including myself, have two chances: one is slim, the other is none and slim's out of town."

"Winning is virtually impossible. If you want to speak about getting lucky, anybody can get lucky, but if you're attempting to sustain yourself over a period of time and take money out of a casino or a race track or a dog track, you're better off climbing Mt. Everest by yourself."

"It's not an illusion at the beginning. What it does is give you a misconception about reality, reality being eventually, you're going to give it back; there is no two ways about it. There is no way, legally, to beat any form of gaming, gambling--take your choice of words--that I'm aware of. I've been gambling most of my adult [life] and even before that. I've been gambling since I was 17-years-old, and I've never known anybody, with the exception of maybe one or two people throughout my life time, who have been able to win on a consistent basis, and that's the word: consistency. Anybody can get lucky, but can you sustain yourself."

One more note.
When you gamble there are three participant you, the casino and the government.
The casino has what is sometimes called edge, there are always taking more than they give.
If you win the government takes a big cut too.
With two people with there hands in your pockets you have no chance of winning (making more than you lose).[u]

While casinos may give you better atmosphere, you are much better off at private games. No taxes, none of that. If you really like to gamble, learn to play very well. Do not cheat. Ever. I know that's odd advice coming from me but at a casino you'll just get thrown out and at a private game you can get hurt and anything you won taken back. Pick one game and stick to it. Start off playing at smaller games then work your way up.

I forgot a several years ago I meet a guy who worked in accounting at San Manuel Indian Casino here in San Bernardino California. He said they took a little over a million a day and on a good holiday weekend day about 3.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZN6mp2NjMhs[/youtube]

When I first walked into the casino with my girlfriend, I had not been inside a casino in decades, I though the game is using binaural beat frequencies, then I noticed most all the games were doing it. I figured they would not be doing this if it did not work.
http://www.bwgen.com/

These games were very different from what I saw years ago

You have the older mechanical spinning reel, not really mechanical they are all controlled by servo motors.
You have the older poker machines.
And these monstrosities:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=85z22wuohHw[/youtube]
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w9WQhLEhWTg[/youtube]
I hate these games, they intentionally try to maximize the confusion and miss-direction, its would be a painful experience to play those games. These types of games, they are all essentially the same, are the majority of what is on the casino floor today.
There some others types that are new, maybe more experimental types.

Because my girlfriend whole family seems to be memorized by the casino I thought of a new kind of slot machine that you can actually make money at. But it would be a lot of work to make it real.

One college course in Statistics cured any interest I might have in gambling.