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My home town, where I grew up, has a casino now. I like having it there. Tons of great entertainment for a small town and good restaurants both at the casino and in town due to the casino visitors in town. Nice motels too when we need to stay there for a big family event. The tribe owner is great citizen for the community as well as their tribe. I see little down side from it.
I get an "itch" for it about once a year. I like to find a friendly poker table, optimistic craps table and occasionally a good group to play roulette with.
If you've ever been with a good group when a craps table gets hot, it's pretty fun.
Win or lose doesn't change anything financially for me...but once in awhile it can be fun.
We grew up playing poker with chips. The chips had amounts assigned, but we weren’t allowed to play with money. We each got so many “dollars” of chips and had fun. We were real high roller kids.
Now, the adults played with real money. And our dollar chips were cents. So nobody got rich, and nobody’s wife got angry.
The other thing was the guy who won— next time brought the beer and pretzels.
For the life of me, I will never get what is so much fun about pushing a button over and over. At least with roulette, blackjack, etc., you have to use your brain so you feel like you have some input. I hardly ever gamble but if I'm in a casino that has roulette, I'll play. But with $10 and $15 minimums, it gets really expensive really fast. I've won minimal amounts but mostly lost a few 20's and called it a night.
I've been in Vegas a few times for work functions. The glitz and glamour are fun, especially at the ritzier casinos....but I can only take three days tops. Then the smell of smoke gets to me. Or the "air freshener" smell to hide the smoke.
I saw only active craps table and one active blackjack table on my visit to the Green Bay casino two weeks ago. Was tempted to watch the craps table, but didn't. I agree, both blackjack and craps are more interesting and engaging than pushing buttons on a machine.
Way back in the day - 1970's, early '80's, I visited Las Vegas many times for various business conventions, the Bahamas, too. Knew more about gambling then, knew something about craps and roulette, actually rolled the dice/played both. Seems I recall winning at craps and then playing roulette and losing my entire stake within a minute. We were done for the night. In those days, we stayed at Caesar's for the most part, but went to other downtown casinos as well. So long ago now, I hardly remember.
One thing I remember about Vegas - there were some scary dudes working those floors. Pit bosses right out of the mob book. Is it still like that? Contrast that with the Indian casino - night and day. No one there looked professional or scary - at all.
We used to vacation in Las Vegas every couple of years. Back then Blackjack. Then I got into Texas Holdem. We were conservative gamblers and tracked our win/loss. From the early '80's to 2013 we were within $500 of breaking even. That includes airfare, hotels, food, etc. And it was a roller coaster. Some years up, some down. Fortunately the up years outweighed the down.
Co-worker went to LV. Having a good run at blackjack, then came back upset because some nitwit tourist “picked the wrong card” and ruined everything. I said nothing, forgot to remind him that it is gambling. There is no magic system to win.
...........Roulette..........It was the best hour I have ever seen in a casino!
I much prefer a real roulette table to those electronic ones. The people interactions can be so entertaining.
Sometimes its like watching a train wreck in slow motion.
Not everyone, but yes, there are many gambling addicts, just as there are many alcoholics. No one said everyone or most people there, but there are enough.
Of course there are some, But saying that casinos are full of gambling addicts, and that they are the casinos' best customers and the reason that casinos make money is just ridiculous. As I wrote, it's like saying bars, lounges and clubs are depressing because they're all filled with alcoholics.
Just because you don't like gambling and don't see the entertainment value in that activity doesn't mean that the people that do are gambling addicts.
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There's a reason cruise ships have AA and GA meetings on board.
While "Friends of Bill W" meetings are ubiquitous on cruise ships, in 40 years of cruising (including 29 days of cruising on 3 separate cruise lines in the last year), I don't think I've ever seen a gamblers anonymous meeting listed on any daily program. I'm not saying that there's never been a GA meeting on a cruise ship, but afaik they certainly aren't a regular feature like AA meetings are.
I've been to maybe 3 casinos in my life. The most fun I ever had in one was playing a penny slot machine that had black cats and mirrors; it had the best sound effects of cats yowling and mirrors breaking. I actually got up to $70 playing one cent at a time! Otherwise, I find casinos to be loud, smoky, and pretty much depressing.
That's HexBreaker and I like that one too. That was one of my first big wins on a penny machine. I won something like $125 playing like 5 or 10 cents at a time. I always go find one of those and play it when I'm losing. For some reason it makes me happy, and sometimes it works to "break my hex"...LOL.
I enjoy the mental (especially memory) challenge of playing blackjack using the basic strategy. It's kind of hard to find blackjack games outside casinos. And I've laid an occasional bet at the sports book at Caesar's Palace when I've stayed there, usually making a heart/not head bet on one of "my" teams.
I've never been bored enough to play the slots. Wait, I take that back...I did play some in McCarron Airport in LV when my flight was delayed.
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