Seriously, everyone I know who goes there always "breaks even". Nobody ever says I lost my ass.

I find it amusing. They don't build $1 billion dollar casinos by giving money away or breaking even. Someone is leaving money there

Same for Biloxi. My BIL calls it going to work and makes 2-4 trips there from Montgomery each month.

Plays craps and, shockingly, has a system that works perfectly. Of course he also interlaces that with completely illogical thinking about when to stop/start playing based on recent results as though that has a single thing to do with the odds or outcome.

I don't break even. I also don't ever gamble. I eat. And it costs me a ton of money.
Lots of good food in Vegas.

Bruce

I used to do a ton of casino marketing, as in I heard bells and coin falls in my sleep. One of my biggest takeaways after meeting, tasing to and interviewing more gamblers that I would care to remember is that if you take almost anyone that says they win or break even then look at their pay history (easy to do with players club tracking) you will see they had sots of winning and breaking even surrounded by losses.

Dave Attell said it best; "Gambling stories all start off so dramatic...I was up $8900 then the next thing you know I'm blowing a guy for a sandwich"

I've been to Vegas twice. I don't see how people can spend that kind of money. I don't mind losing/spending money on entertainment, but you can't play very long at a craps table with even a hundred bucks. You need several hundred just to play for a little while.

I'm one of the very few people alive who is ahead playing one armed bandits. I got change for $1.00, but it into a 25¢ machine, and won $1.50. I was in college in the late 60's. I haven't played the slots since and never will again.

A friend of mine always said he took a set amount of “entertainment money” to a casino. When it was gone he would leave.

gambling is a liar's game. Period.

And here I thought everyone wins against the house and the way Vegas makes money is off food and hotels.

I've never gambled. Ever.

I've never lost. Ever.

You can't beat the odds. The odds go to the house. Why would you gamble money you are guaranteed to loose out on?

H&K-Guy

I never lose my ass there because I never gamble when I go there.

I have gambled before, mostly in Reno / Tahoe - made some money at the Blackjack tables, but then likely lost the same amount other times.

The house always wins, otherwise they'd be out of business.

I did have a friend who made 'gambling' via blackjack his part time job while out west. His first year he was up maybe $40K, plus comps (he lived local to the casinos). How do I know he was telling the truth? Because the second year he was down $75K (net $35K down). Not sure how much further he went until the plug was pulled.

I've gone to casinos three different nights in my life.

Each time I walked out with more than I walked in, playing roulette. We're just talking 200-400 dollars though, but starting with $40ish.

I'm not sure I'll chance a fourth.

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Originally posted by chongosuerte:
I've gone to casinos three different nights in my life.

Each time I walked out with more than I walked in, playing roulette. We're just talking 200-400 dollars though, but starting with $40ish.

I'm not sure I'll chance a fourth.

Keep playing, you'll never lose.....

<you can only beat the odds if you win and stop playing>

Even if you don't gamble, you still lose money. Who goes on vacation without thinning their wallet?

That's because gamblers seem to only remember what they won and forget about what they lost. In their mind if the won $1000 and lost $1500, they still won $1000.

In ‘97, I made my first trip to Vegas and broke even. Last day, I hit the hotel’s casino before breakfast and dropped a quarter in a video poker game. I kept winning between $1.25 and $2.50 at a frequency that I was always barely up and never had to put in another quarter for 2.5 hours. I had wagered $225 off that one quarter and was comped 2 breakfasts which was perfect as I was there with a buddy.

In ‘99, I made my 2nd trip to Vegas with some guys from work on the way back from a conference in LA. First night, I hit on video poker large enough that the machine couldn’t pay and an employee had to pay me by hand. I called it a night as it was late and I was up over $300. Next morning, one of my coworkers and I had breakfast and then met up in the casino with 2 other coworkers who had Bloody Marys for breakfast. My breakfast dining companion and I managed our alcohol intake wisely and ate both lunch and dinner. The 2 coworkers who drank their breakfast also drank their lunch and dinner as well. At the Bellagio, I played the exact same blackjack strategy as one of the drunks and he hit 21 blackjacks to my 4. During our dinner break, the 2 drunks hit a hot streak at craps and brought in $5k. I quit gambling when I was down 2 truck payments and my dining companion quit when he was down his predetermined limit. We watched the 2 drunks play blackjack until 2 AM then we took them to Burger King and watched them eat their first food of the day like barnyard animals. We all had early morning flights, and the drunks were still drunk when their flights landed in Houston and had pissed off wives until they pulled out the stack of hundreds they had won.

Now the OP can say he knows someone who admits to losing in Vegas.

Our family and friends will play texas hold 'em for fun once in a blue moon, maybe once a year. It's usually a 10 dollar buy in. Lots of fun. But I have gambled in a casino perhaps 2-3 times in my life (slots and blackjack), last time was perhaps in the early 90s, Reno, I think. And every time lost what I started out with, usually in the neighborhood of $40. Never dug deeper.

Gambling is a tax for people who suck at math.

ETA: Love Vegas - especially in the 90s. Got married there. But that doesn't change what it is.

Lots of people going to Vegas and not gambling.
Is the Chicken Ranch open?