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Pffft, really? You're talking to someone who walked from the Notre Dame to the Eiffel Tower. Stupid me.

Chaeya

I've lived in Vegas for over 15-years now.. Some years back I had a roommate who's dad was the GM of Harrahs. That's right, the head man in charge. He explained to me how Roulette has the worst odds in Vegas to the bettor. According to him Craps has the best odds for a consistent gambler. He said it's the only game he'd consider playing. Nothing else.

Did you know that there are dealers who they call "heavyweights" for Roulette. Believe it or not, they have skills that can place the ball somewhere in a small area of the wheel. So you're best to be playing at a crowded table if you are going to play. Play alone, and a heavyweight can wipe you clean. Especially if you're drunk.

Sometimes I think I'd shoot a man over $5.00
Think I'll not gamble.

Ever get a gut feeling about something, then
it happens.

(...)

It's not logical. What are
you a psychic? It doesn't compute so you
disregard it. But still you know it was real.

Honestly Klugmo, THAT I can swallow much easier, than the... "walk away, once I hit a streak" strategy.

Because I am a spiritual person, I have had many spiritual experiences, including premonitions that later came true, seeing the soul of a deceased person, feeling a deceased person communicate with me, and having their mother confirm for me, that what was told to me was true, and was spoken the way their daughter would have said it. God tells me things occasionally through prayer and meditation. And the most profound experience I had was being in the presence of an entity of goodness and love, which I can only believe was God Himself, or his angels. The room became so bright that I couldn't look at the light. I closed my eyes, and the brightness hurt even through my closed eyelids. It was at a time I was praying 3 or 4 hours DAILY, and was exceedingly pure of heart at that time period.

As far as games of chance, and having some knowledge of the outcome, I once paid for a raffle ticket at a party with hundreds in attendance. I gave a friend a dollar, and told them to buy me the raffle ticket for a TV (there were tickets for several dozen other prizes as well) when the raffle person stopped by our table.

Don't ask me why, but I "KNEW" I was going to win the TV if I bought the ticket. Not any of the other dozens of prizes... just the TV. My friend kind of got stunned, when they later announced the winner of the TV, and it was me!

I also know of a true story, of a young man, whose grandfather had died, and the grandfather came to him in a dream, and gave him a series of numbers, and told him that they would win the lottery! Millions of dollars. He told his family about it, and they bought the ticket.

The numbers came up, and they won.

How did that happen?

I don't know, but it did.

Was the grandfather able to manipulate the balls in the machine, spiritually somehow, so that they came up in the desired order?

Theoretical physicists tell us, there is no reason that TIME TRAVEL could not be possible, within current understandings and accepted models of physics. Is it possible that the future has ALREADY occurred in some other plane or another dimension, and the grandfather, in his spiritual state, can exist anywhere in "our" time line, future or past, and so he could have knowledge of our future (the upcoming lottery numbers) and then, speak to his grandson in "our" current time period, to alert him of the upcoming results?

Some theoretical physicists believe that there are innumerable parallel universes, and that EVERY POSSIBILITY gets played out in the various dimensions, that exist all around, and even through us, but without our conscious awareness of them.

Heady stuff.

Who knows?

But I do agree with you, and have personally HAD, experiences of KNOWING... ABSOLUTELY KNOWING, something, which I should not be able to know... and yet... I DID!

Nothing else feels like that when it happens.

Nothing else feels like that when it happens.

I agree.

I got to the casino with 30$. If I lose it, I leave.

Bu I generally parlay 30$ into 300$ and then I leave.

So, you "regularly" make $270 for maybe, what? 3 or 4 hours effort?

How much do you make in your full time job?

You work that for 8 hours most likely. Do you make $270 for those hours?

If you do, that would be over $70,000 for a year, if you made that 5 days a week.

But apparently, you can make that in a casino, in HALF THE TIME, and have ALOT more fun doing it! Hell... If you only won, even HALF the time, you would still be making over $35,000 per year, still a liveable income for many people, and you get to play in a casino to achieve it.

You and Klugmo are very smart it seems, when it comes to profitting from a casino on a REGULAR basis, and yet when that apparently provides you a better income (according to your testimonies you both win regularly) than your full-time jobs, you choose to be enslaved by a corporation, and... for less income even?

Must make sense somehow, but... stupid me... I don't get it!

Craig, being a dick, come one come all.


CRAIG! I play for fun, not for my yearly income.

Are you hearing me or you just spouting?

IT'S AMUSEMENT, MAN! And I am amused that you think you want to try and make a yearly income or any work related income from GAMBLING.

SIGN OF AN ADDICT!

Never take anything too seriously!! Especially GAMBLING!!!!

I'm guilty of that

I'm guilty of that

Did you just dump your life savings down "the gambling hole"?

If so, you have a problem.

If not, you are doing this to the best of your ability.

30$ is the price to have a good time in AC when I feel like it, if I feel like it.

If I wanted to, I'd just set the 30$ on fire and it would be the same thing to me.

"it's not going to break me, whatever I do."

I got the bug from the want to gamble big.

I figure, "if I can parlay my $ into an exponential profit, I can basically throw it away and all I really lost was 30$."

I.e. If I make 30$ into 1K, I can throw it all away into the casino and I still only lost 30$.

Get it, got it, good.

Cap, I tend to fixate on things when they peak
my interest.
Roulette peaked my interest years ago and I
have never shaken it. I like it, I enjoy it and I
want to use it to my advantage. I make money with it
and I want to make more.
When I go it's like work to me not pleasure.

Usually I go by myself. My room and food is all comped
so it's all about the Roulette.
I have 3-4 different methods that I use and I am
always experimenting with new ones. The money
I use now is all winnings but act as if it comes right out of my pocket.
$30 is one mid sized bet for me.

Cap, I tend to fixate on things when they peak
my interest.
Roulette peaked my interest years ago and I
have never shaken it. I like it, I enjoy it and I
want to use it to my advantage. I make money with it
and I want to make more.
When I go it's like work to me not pleasure.

Usually I go by myself. My room and food is all comped
so it's all about the Roulette.
I have 3-4 different methods that I use and I am
always experimenting with new ones. The money
I use now is all winnings but act as if it comes right out of my pocket.
$30 is one mid sized bet for me.

Just don't dig yourself a hole or Vinny and Rocco will break your legs. lol

OR MRS KLUGMO

I think gamblers have to simply write their own commandments and follow them.

If I'm playing slots, I'll bore most people. If I don't win within the first $20, it's a bad day and I won't gamble anymore. I'll just walk around and watch everyone else.

When I sit down at the roulette table, I sit out five hands before I'll jump in just to see what numbers are popping up for that dealer. I had one dealer who kept getting odd numbers. Every dealer's energy influences the numbers.

The last time I was in Vegas, I was smashed on three Martinis, walked over to the roulette wheel and won $80. I left and went back to my room. Ha ha. I was using my usual betting, but the table limits were higher.

Whenever I'd need money really bad, I'd win. If I didn't really need the money, I wouldn't win. I have countless stories of needing cash really bad and I'd wind up at the casino and I'd win on the slots. But I can't play slots if I don't really need the money. I don't know, maybe I'll be proven wrong one day.

Chaeya

I don't play slots but I Love watching the old ladies play.
They hug that bucket of quarters like it was a grandchild.
What's really funny is watching two of them argue over a
particular machine they just know is about to payoff.

Somtimes I have seen security hauling an old woman off gently
because they will sit at a machine for so many hours that
they loose track of time and become almost zombies stareing
at the machine and pushing the buttons over and over.
That is sad.

Ha ha. I remember one night Cisco and I were just walking around. It's a nice casino and we had just done the karaoke there. We watched this one woman who was hogging two of the Wheel of Fortune machines. She thought we wanted her machine and she started getting all agitated. She ran out of money and was yelling for her friend to go to the ATM for her. I told her to calm down that we were just watching. She then told us that she had been there all day and that the machine had broke for her, and she felt it was going to break again and soon. She didn't want to lose her spot.

Yeah, that's pretty sad because all the money she'd won earlier was gone.

We finally left her. I guess her friend got her money. It was late and I had to get to bed. I couldn't imagine sitting at a machine all day. I'll sit at the roulette table for a 3 or 4 hours only because I'm racking up time without losing much money.

Chaeya