For 30 thousand dollars you could go to Paris for a week and vacation there and come back while visiting great restaurants and historical things, for 300 dollars you could have a decent weekend at wherever you are, so it is not "tiny amount for a rich person" when it gets bigger since if you are super rich there is still other stuff you could do with that money, which is why winning is still quite important.
Very true. Some people think that rich people are not blown away by amounts like $30K which is true in some cases, but this applies to the minority based on what I have observed. Majority of the them still go crazy when they win such amounts.
Majority of them earned money through their own hard work which is why they tend to value every single cent(Eg: Bill Gates), but a minority of them treat such amounts like nothing(Eg: Rich kids who never earned anything).
Yeah, that is exactly how the sportsbook and basically all of casino world turns. You can't possibly go all right all the time without ever being wrong, that dude has to literally play only once with that being his only slip and never gamble again in order to say he profited.
A person who has wagered over 30k in order to get 140k could have very well lost a lot more before that bet or maybe he WILL lose a lot more after this bet. I have always said, the biggest enemy of addiction is winning, when a person wins time to time, they realize there is a "chance" of them profiting and continue whereas in reality you will of course win time to time but because of the house edge no matter how much you win, eventually you will lose more in the end and end up spending more than you spend