[ArcadeQuarters]

Future headline: Unlucky gambler turned $1.5M win into $0

[Oshkalaboomboom]

When we lived in Georgia we played in a poker league. One of the players was a doctor who owned a chain of clinics. Another was a former Vegas casino worker. The Casino worker knew the doctor from his many visits to Vegas.

One night he saw the doctor in the high roller's slot machine area with a big smile on his face. He told him that he had just won a $50,000 jackpot. After he had congratulated him on his win the doctor told him "Now I'm only $30,000 down!" and he wasn't kidding. This was the doctor's way of having fun.

[MisterArtery]

A person I knew, addicted to the slots, won $1.5 million on a progressive quarter machine. Flat broke in less than two years. A whole lot of the winnings went right back down the slot.