what is your winning/loosing $$$ at the casino? (pay, live, records)

[civic94]

I cant find a forum that is correct for this, but i just want to see what people won/lost.


please include what your "gambling career" earnings or loosings is.


for myself I am up 500, but at a point i was down and up, and no, I am not a gambler. I might head to a casino once a month to catch up with friends, since i dont like malls, and the weather here makes most folks stay indoors, so the only options is a mall, casino, or a restuaunt to hang out. at the casino there are shows, a club, a lounge, so thats why im there. sometimes i bet 5 bucks, sometimes i dont, but i know my limit.

[Fargobound]

I don’t think you’ll find a lot of truth in this thread. I think gambling is a lot like talking about gas mileage.

[Red Wolf]

I would have better luck trying to strike out major league baseball hitters than winning at a casino.

I rarely went and when I did I came home with less $$$$$

[Red Wolf]

However, I have filled out my HORSE RACING picks every race at Oaklawn ( just for fun from home in the Little Rock newspaper ))

I bet very conservatively and after 28 races I have $1801 of "fantasy profit"

Wish I lived closer to Hot Springs AR !

[Themanwithnoname]

Back when I was on active duty I was near a duty station, we would go and see shows, take girls, gorge at the buffet...


when I had time to kill with others... I'd take $20 and do the penny slots.

more than a few times it was lighting a $20 on fire... kept me busy.

But a fair amount of time: Every time I'd win I'd cash out, put 1/2 the winnings in my pocket and keep going till i was busted.
Often I'd make enough to pay for my buffet. (I'm talking $25 here)

Long term: You don't beat the house.

You PAY for those bright lights....

[earlyretirement]

Hopefully you did better than her. (Former San Diego Mayor)

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/15/us...bets.html?_r=0


Over the long haul, VERY few people will take home more than they lost.

[packer43064]

I've gone a couple of times with like $50. Within 2 hours my friends are feeling bad and throwing me 10 bucks since I somehow lost it all. No luck. So now when I go I just figure I will lose and if I walk out with 50 cents I'm happy.

[jlawrence01]

There are monuments built all over Las Vegas honoring the people who thought they could beat the odds.

[Mightyqueen801]

I went to AC last week and came home with $150 more than I went there with. That's NOT what usually happens, though!

I played Let-It-Ride.

As someone else said, I go with a certain amount of money and if I lose that, it was the cost of my entertainment for the day. If I come home with what I went with or close to it, I'm pretty happy. Luckily I'm too cheap to ever pay the high ATM fees at a casino, so if I lose my money, I'm not going to go get more.

I go to a casino once or twice a year. Never won anything really big. I think the most I ever got was around $700 at The Oneida Nation's Turning Stone in upstate NY.

[JohnZ963]

I am down about 9% over my "gambling career" (I keep records). It's the price paid for entertainment.