As someone with over a decade of gambling, who grew up in atlantic city, and is now excluded from all atlantic city casinos, I promise you, if you gamble enough, you wont just lose money, you'll lose everything. And yes, I've had many big big wins, from $5,000 scratch off lottery tickets, to $6,800 on a penny slot machine at Caesar's. I've turned $25.00 into $3,000 at a spanish 21 table.
How much of that do you think is in my "Savings" account?
I now think the state is as addicted to gambling as i am. There is a statewide ban in New Jersey, that you can't smoke within 20 feet of ANY public door. No bars, restaurants, nothing.
But you can at one place.....
The casinos of course said they would allow it.
I was getting $5,000 markers (lines of credit at 0% interest) at 22 years old. How is that allowed? I easily could have walked in an taken out $20,000 at one point. at no interest. And I was never someone to be a conspiracy theorist, but i cant help to imagine, they are allowed to do the things they do because of the big dollars they bring in...
I think the A.C. casinos last year had a profit of like 32 billion dollars or something. Which the state then gets several hundred million dollars from taxes. (I could have the numbers wrong but i know it was a lot of money obviously)
So they tend to prey on people like me, and anyone who appears to be Asian (hahahahaha jk)
I haven't read the thread thoroughly but your reply is the only one that is sensible.
I'm not sure why people are promoting to play -EV games as much as you can.