Oh, dont get me started on Lottery players...I just hate standing in line behind them at the store. I just I dont know rubs me against the grain...they are rude and stand there with those damn scratchers then interupt when they win a few bucks. Oh.....!
The scratch ticket players annoy me as well. I go into a store for just a cup of coffee and maybe newspaper and now I have wait behind the lottery junkies as they choose which type of scratch ticket they want to play today. It can be worse than being behind a kid at Dunkins trying to choose what kind of donut to get.
Then when they get their tickets, they have to play them right away. If they can get away with it, they scratch off the tickets right in the store but due to the mess that creates, a lot of stores here have big signs saying "No scratching tickets in store" so these lottery bums sit out in their cars scratching the tickets on their steering wheels. Then they are right back in the store to convert what winnings they have back into more tickets until everything is gone. Really sad to see.
Back to casino gambling, as I stated, I stayed away for most of my life. But now that the kids are grown, my wife and I decided to go to Las Vegas about a year ago around this time. I had never gambled in a casino before so I read several books on it and learned the basic strategy of most of the games there. We then took our spending money (that we would use for gambling), divided it by the number of days we would spent there and that was how we did it.
When we got to the hotel, we put packets of gambling money in the hotel safe for each day. At the end of each day, we would take what was left over and put back into our pocket. So on Tuesday, for example, we'd grab the Tuesday packet out of the safe and whatever we brought back that night would no longer be gambled. Next day, we'd move to the Wednesday packet.
I must say it was the best vacation my wife and I ever had together. Now we didn't only gamble there. We did the Hoover's Dam thing and saw a lot of other attractions. In fact, we always had other things to do during the day that kept us out of the casino. So our actually gambling time was usually restricted to the 4PM to midnight time frame, which also helped to keep our losses down.
Besides, it didn't feel right to be in a casino earlier in the day. To me, it is sort of like having a beer at 10 in the morning. There is just something degenerate about it - it screams "I have a problem".
All in all, the casinos at night were a blast. They seemed to be filled with mostly regular people having a good time. My wife won $1700 on a slot machine one night that we basically used the rest of the week to sample some of the more expensive restaurants Vegas had to offer. I also upgraded our rental car to a convertible with some of that money. As for myself, I played mostly table games but because I read extensively on how to play them, I was able to avoid most of the sucker bets and hold my own. Especially with Blackjack. In almost every session, I left the table at or near the break-even point. I had the basic strategy tables memorized in my head and made the proper play pretty much every time.
It was a lot of fun but it was clear that you could lose a lot of money fast if you didn't exercise some discipline and self-control.
Think of Las Vegas as a "Disneyland" for adults. Now we took our kids to Disneyland back in the day and I shudder at the amount of money I put out, only to have the kids fight most of the day and wait up to an hour at a time just to get on a 45-second ride or to buy $4 Cokes.
Since the Vegas trip, we have been to casinos in Atlantic City, Foxwoods in Connecticut and Harrah's in Joliet, Illinois. None of those places came even close to the experience we had in Vegas so for now on, we will only go there if we are in the mood for casino gambling.
Give your money to the government on YOUR OWN DANM TIME!!!
It isn't their first time around the block - but they go over their “choices” like the fate of the world depends upon the proper choice of “Cat Scratch Fever” or “Big Buckaroos”. RUDE IDIOTS!!!