I once lost 83 straight hands at blackjack. The odds against that are stupendous (Although I never bothered to calculate them.) Until that time, I was actually a slight winner overall in my gambling.
I took it as a ‘sign’, even though my bets had been small and I only lost a couple of hundred dollars in that session. Never gambled since.
I guess Phil Mickelson is immune to ‘signs’, or even just common sense.
I have detailed knowledge of an Indian-owned casino where one can sell ones house for cash. At 2:00 AM. It takes about 15 minutes.
I know a nurse who left her paid-for condo for a night of “fun” and came home to a rental.
True story
I was at Stateline Nevada in Tahoe and I was at a slot machine and I won $150, I proceeded to the Porsche that was attached to another slot machine and proceeded to divest my newly earned $150 into the slot machine to see if I could drive home in the 928.
I was about done shoveling money into this machine when this gorgeous blonde came up to me and put her hand on my shoulder and said “would you like to have some fun tonight?”
I had two tokens left, I looked at her and I looked at the two tokens and I dropped one token in and pulled the lever nothing happened, I took my last token put it in the machine pulled the lever and again, nothing happened and I looked sadly at her I said “sorry honey not tonight” she gave me this disgusting looking walked off in a huff... sorta. I ventured over to black jack, lost a bit more, we gathered up the carload and headed back to Two Rock.
That was the last time I’ve been in a casino and the last time I really ever gambled except for the occasional pool or Super Bowl.