What If,... you're currently playing and suddenly you run out of funds and on the next draw you missed the game which you are about to win the Jackpot.
What would you feel and do about it? Will you stop playing because of that miserable scenario?
I have seen such a scenario in real life when I was a teenager. I was in Germany at this time and we were in a big shopping center called Karstadt with several uncles, aunts, and their children. There was a casino in this Karstadt with many games and of course slot machines on which my uncle who's addicted to gambling was playing from quite some time (the hall time we were in the shopping center
). At the end of the shopping, I have to call my uncle and together with my father we have walked into the casino to tell him that we are already going home.
When he saw my father he was very happy and said: "Great, that you are here, please give me some money because I know this fuc... game will pay me soon!!!"
My father gave him a couple of bucks and an additional 5 minutes. He loosed everything in a few minutes and after this, he asks again and again for the money to play.
Of course, after the second or third time, my father told my uncle, that he doesn't have more money and we have to go.
Just after my uncle left the chair a guy who was sitting by the bar and watched what was happening in the casino room, jumped to the slot and after the first pull of the handle, he won the main jackpot of all Karstad casinos. We just couldn't believe what is happening when all the lights come out and we hear nothing more as the noise from the game: "You won the MEGA JACKPOT!!!".
I will never forget the look of my uncle's face, who had a good feeling that the machine will finally pay in a couple of spins, but because he was an addicted gambler, my father couldn't believe him, what I totally understand. Of course, my father still had a few small ones in his pocket and could lend to my uncle, but he thought it would be better this way, anybody would do this same at my fathers' place. My uncle never spoke to my father again after what had happened in the casino and I will add that this jackpot was 150.000 German Mark at that time and it was almost 25 years ago, so this money had a lot more of buying power.
This lesson hasn't learned my uncle anything and he lost his life to gambling. Such a sad story.