Quote (Serria @ Jan 30 2016 12:34pm)

Lost the same amount of money the other day, if you gamble that much and can't take the loss you are obviously gambling too much. (And it's your first time lol)

Also, best advice is to not gamble when on tilt as kraguejvac said and don't gamble irrationally thinking you will get the lost money back. Rather gamble with a small amount and use the profit to get more.

Quote (Deathbv @ Jan 30 2016 09:03pm)

yep thats true, but what is tilt :P

Quote (noob_whacker @ Jan 30 2016 09:11pm)

urban dictionary defines it as,
"Gambling term (most common in poker) descibing an angry or "reeling" state of mind usually caused by a big or unluck loss. People playing on tilt play below their usual abillity and usually make larger and more aggressive bets to try to quickly recover their loss. In poker, this is very valueble to other players at the table, hence worth keeping track of and/or attempting to cause. People known to be prone to tilting are often taunted or generally aggrivated when they take a loss and then egged on when they do tilt in order to keep them in this state as long as possible."

Quote (kragujevac @ Jan 29 2016 04:43pm)

Never continue to gamble if you're on tilt.

Always set a chip or buyin limit, after you've used it all if you're over or under, leave.

Leave when you're ahead before you blow a hot streak.

Quote (bnrhodes2 @ Jan 27 2016 10:07pm)

I've never lost more than $200 in a day at the casino, but $250 isn't enough to go nuts about. It sucks to lose any money, yes, but you shouldn't be going broke over it - if you are, then you should never step foot in a casino anyway. I've lost $200 in roulette once, and lost $200 in blackjack once. (As for income, ~$120/hr).

In total, I'm up like $2k + comps. I got lucky - the first time I got a player rewards card at a casino near me, I forgot the card in a slot machine (got $10 of free slot play for signing up). People must have kept playing while my card was in the machine. The next time I went back, I asked for a new card and they said I had been upgraded in membership. Apparently $42k went through the slot machine while my card was in it. After that, I was sent coupons for free slot play, good blackjack coupons (a free hand each week - if you win, you get $75), and 2 free nights at the resort each month. (I live within 30 minutes of 3 casinos in Arizona, the closest is less than a 10 minute drive).

You nailed it though - expect to lose everything you walk in to a casino with. Even with knowing to count cards and having a slight advantage, you still can go on a streak and lose. I'm glad I've only had that happen once though lol.





with blackjack, counting does work to put the edge in your favor..but, in perfect circumstances, you still will only tend to see 2%-3% in your favor, which is only beneficial with huge sums of money, or long stretches of time

Quote (iGotThatFiyah @ Feb 2 2016 01:07pm)

you make $120/hr? you must be on that CEO time.

Quote (dgkblack @ 27 Jan 2016 23:36)

Lost a quite a bit of money in poker once with quad 8s. A girl who was playing under the gun had quad jacks. Talk about next to impossible.

For anybody that doesn't understand, probability of one person pulling quads is 0.00168 %. The probability of a second person pulling out quads after the first person is 0.031%. For two quads to drop, it's somewhere near 0.00005208 %.

Shat myself promptly.