Because when you lose big it is VERY painful but when we lose it is just around 20 bucks so not a big deal. However, what is AMAZING is the frequency in which my wife (or me a couple of weeks ago) will lose most of that 20 bucks but then pulls out a nice win. My wife has been doing that with very eerie frequency. In fact, I think she hasn't lost the full $20 since we were on our Caribbean cruise back in February and in that case it went up and down so much that the $20 remained in play for over 2 hours until losing it all. A loss but, hey, it did give us great entertainment value.
“$20 remained in play for over 2 hours until losing it all”
$20 usually doesn’t get me thru 1 little tiny drink.
About 2 years ago nephew of my wife was at an Indian casino near Seattle. Won $7k plus on a slot, so while waiting for the attendant with the IRS form he starting playing the slot next to him won $3K plus before the attendant got there.