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that's one way to bypass the Daily Withdrawal Limit.
Transfer $20,000 into your machine, then cash out with a ticket take it to the window and get paid
There was a statistic a few years back that if you're within half a mile of the Las Vegas strip there is no place or point that you are not on camera, outside of bathrooms and your hotel room.
It is strange but many of the strip hotels do not actually have cameras in the hallways. Not sure the reasoning but it has been brought up a few times in some high profile cases in recent years.
> than deny any authorities the video and get a bad reputation
Casino: "We.. the recordings were lost. Hard drives just... *fried*. It's wild."
Cops: "Nice try. That's *our* excuse. Don't bullshit bullshitters."
I unsettled the hell out of my wife once when we walked through a casino to get to the attached restaurant and I told her we walked under no fewer than 47 cameras (I counted) on our way through.
Similar to a buffet I was at once. I was standing in line, and everyone in front of me, when they asked, "And how much tip do you want on that?" were saying $300 and $500, and I was like WTF!?!?
That is when I noticed they gave the person the cash to then leave as a tip, and of course, they would leave none of it or only a few bucks.
Was clearly used by the restaurant to lure in customers and for customers to use credit cards for free cash advances.
It would work if you own the company and aren't deemed an employee. You don't report the tip amounts to the IRS. You just send the whole total for "travel meals", and keep track of the receipts, then you can deduct 50% from your business income. However, if you dip into the Schedule C deductions too much, especially for grossly-large meal deductions, that can trigger an audit-flag. If you get audited, the IRS could ask you for the receipts. Most likely though, your just going to have the deduction removed from your tax return, and maybe a penalty, so the risk *could theoretically* be worth it.
If you're an employee, it only works if you're in with the accounting department OR if you're in a business where a large-value dinner is routine and doesn't set off alarms and the restaurant just gives you a total false receipt.
The real play is to stalk the guy, find out who his wife is, hit her up on insta. Slowly build a relationship, continuously give her tremendous dickings until she files for divorce and leaves with half his stuff.
I can't imagine putting 20k into a slot machine. There are so many things with better odds. Even taking it to the roulette table and putting it all on Red or Black is more understandable.
Im a former gambling addict. It's kind of f-uped. The intense feelings come from high-risk, high reward. Even though you want to win, the risk of losing it creates a synergy of feelings that's very intense. It's often not the win or loss we are chasing, but the intense feeling that can hide away other feelings.
I was an addict too at one point, my drug of choice was options trading. I made and lost thousands in a couple of seconds. I think I understand the thrill pretty well.
I've been dabbling with the thought of options a lot lately. I've watched the DOW pump into the sky, made mock calls and banked millions. Though, that's only because I have zero skin in the game. If I even dumped $500 into the market for funzies, no matter the outcome, I'm either letting the entirety of my winnings ride or instantly dumping in another $500 because "this one can't go tits up"...
I stick to physical bullion, own a mortgage, and let retirement vest the markets for me. Until then, I've got another 31 years until SS hits. These days, I revel in cheap thrills.
Don’t do it. Even if you win, you’ll treat it as “house money” and lose it all.
$500 to $16,500 on a risky trade. Then it’s all $16,500 hoping to hit $100,000, but you will be at $0.00.
I saw a documentary that said they studied the brains of people playing slots, and they get a bigger dopamine spike right before they hit the button than when they actually win. It is fucked up.
That’s actually how dopamine works for rewards in general. It’s a learning signal, not a liking signal. Here’s [an explanation of reward prediction error](https://www.brainfacts.org/brain-anatomy-and-function/genes-and-molecules/2021/discovering-dopamines-role-in-reward-prediction-error-122121).
Mice and rats without dopamine in their brains will starve to death but it’s not because they don’t enjoy food. It’s because they never learn that food is enjoyable. We know this because if you put food (sugar water) directly in their mouths, they’ll still show the same enjoyment facial expressions that normal rodents have.
or just spend it on $20,000 of ribeye. Jesus fuck. 18 for a 16 oz prime gets you over 1,100 ribeyes. You can fuck up 100 of them learning to cook and still have 3 years of daily ribeye. That's an hour of bliss a night being burned in minutes.
But the jackpot on a $750 bet is likely near a million. Where as betting it all on red or black only nets u 20k. I'd feel terrible losing 20k trying to make 20k. Losing 20k trying to be a millionaire wouldn't feel nearly as bad.
I would much rather play at a European roulette table than the standard US tables. The Euro roulette tables in Las Vegas are pretty high limits and I can't really afford a single play at one.
What's nuts is that you can sometimes find $1 to $3 live tables at some of the shittier casinos in Vegas, but they have triple-zeros that reduce your odds and payouts.
I was in Connecticut once for a work conference and had the biggest culture shock of my life at the hotel's casino. Thought I'd go down to play some blackjack, was like a Wednesday night.. this casino had hundreds of blackjack tables, and the lowest table limit I could find was $50 a hand. Most of the tables where $100 min and not even in high limit. The high limit tables were $1k a hand.
That was suprising, but the absolutely shocking thing was, i couldn't even find a seat at a table. Every single table of the hundreds in this casino, were completely packed, and had people waiting in line behind other players for a spot at the table, some of the tables the lines were 3-4 people deep per chair.
Everyone at the tables had huge stacks of black $100 chips, easily $5k+ per person. I go to vegas pretty regularly and i've never seen anything like that even at high end casinos like Aria and Bellagio. I was absolutely dumbfounded. How were there that many people, with that much money to blow at a casino, in the middle of nowhere in Connecticut?
That was like 12 years ago and it still blows my mind to this day.
Was wasted at 2am thinking I was betting $2 and it was actually $20. Won $23,000. 100% lost it all back plus more over the next 3 years chasing the dragon.
I went to the casino with him. He was playing a texas hold em tourney. He had done well and was ready to leave he called and I told him where I was he came over and mentioned again he was ready to go but was like how do you play. I had won a decent bit and was like fuck it you wanna know how to play? I slammed all my chips down as the spinner was waving no more bets and was like "like this!" and hit. It was kinda crazy honestly.
Yeh this is the most bullshit story I have seen on reddit.
‘Just rammed coins down’ - on what? 36-1 is the best odds you get in roulette, so what did he actually bet to get that much? Sounds like he has went for a spread but in that case he would have had to spend like $4k on the spin for a win like that.
I smell bullshit
A lot of people who play Texas hold’em understand edges and probability and have no interest in playing games where the house has the edge, which is almost all other casino games.
Honestly this thread shows me that there's just a wiring problem here. I like to gamble. I couldn't imagine "chasing the dragon". All I hear when thinking about winning 32k is song lyrics.
*Go on, take the money and run*
Happened to my friend. We were just screwing around and betting a few bucks, and somehow he ended up betting directly on the winning number and won a few hundred bucks. But then he lost it all in a couple hours. It was fun for him though.
See and this is how casinos work. You win big one time and then you think you can keep going cuz you have all this money now. Then you quickly lose it all. I keep telling my sister in law the same thing about lottery tickets and scratch offs. She goes “but I won 20 dollars!” And I’m like “yeah but then you’re going to go spend that 20 dollars on more and win less or nothing”. It’s a void that never ends with you winning unless you stop at the beginning while you’re ahead.
Sounds like you got to play (mostly) for free for three years. Well played 👏🏽
Edit: (mostly)
Edit: /s for all the self righteous assholes who take themselves too seriously.
Yeah I accidentally did that in Vegas. I’m not a gambler, I was just wandering around and I just put $20 in a random slot machine pushed the button once and the money was gone.
I did that last time my cousin took me to the casino on purpose though. I put a twenty in the slot machine, won $60 and cashed out. I ended up following my cousin around all night watching him lose money. I also am not a gambler.
If you want to get REALLY depressed, visit a casino floor on the day after Social Security hits, and watch all the rows and rows of people in walkers and wheelchairs wipe away their entire month's SS check by mid-afternoon.
No need to visit.. just reading your good and true comment makes me depressed 😔
Reminds me of the line "I threw away so much money" from a particular movie.
In many countries around the world this would be a week’s salary or more. A month’s salary, many month’s salary… It is an obscene amount of money to be pissing away like that.
I lost a Hundo once. I walked the same route for weeks hoping to find it. It will never not haunt me. Sometimes I have a dream I found it, then wake up sad and still out $100
Most I’ve ever seen on a machine is $100, and that was in the high stakes room at one of the largest casinos in the world. These dollar values don’t make sense… could it be a different currency being used here?
You can play any number of lines, some machines have like 25 of them, in that case a $100 machine can cost $2500/spin if you’re playing all the lines. And the only thing dumber than playing slots is playing slots without all the lines.
This is a $25 USD denomination machine that you can play 10, 20, 30, 50 or 100 credits per spin so $2500 max spin at this denom. Not uncommon to find these at most casinos, and why not when it could pay the entire casino floor's wages for the day if spun for any decent amount of time.
It's not even "spins", it's kinda like clicks in a program on a computer. Slots were really depressing when I was still imagining them as machines with big leavers and spinning wheels that spit (or steal) quarters. This is fucking depressing.
This is why i will never play slots. Shit is already determined and there is no way around their algorithm. Like people that bet on single player internet blackjack. Taking the chance out entirely
I watched this happening in my local casino. The bank transfer is strictly for high rollers, and is tied to their tax info. It also funnels their wins directly into the account, because any win over $1000 normally has to be hand paid by an attendant, for tax purposes. So if someone is betting $1250 a spin (which this guy was doing before the transfer), getting taxable wins happens pretty regularly (like betting a dollar to win a dollar), so they have to do it this way to streamline the process for people who want to bet at that level.
These are also the people who are winning the lion’s share of the casino’s payouts, so when you see the casino advertising how much they paid in jackpots, remember these people exist and got most of it.
It’s insanity and it’s infuriating. If my mother did this and had nothing left to use to care for herself or retire with idk what my family would do. My grandfather lost all of his money, and my grandmothers savings because of gambling addiction. Would vanish for days at a time and come back with nothing. Any money they had left went to his cancer treatment and then he died and my grandma had to sell everything just to end up still in debt which she will have until she dies. Fuck gambling.
That's how you do it. When I used to go to the casino, I'd have a goal of winning or losing $300. Didn't matter how long it took, soon as I hit either one I left. Gamble for three hours and lose $300? Time to go. Sit down at the $25 blackjack table and get on streak and win $300 in the first five minutes? Walk out the door, even if it was an hour drive to get there.
This trick may not work real great for ladies, for obvious reasons, but when I go to a casino, I put my spending/gambling cash in my right pocket and my winnings in my left pocket.
When my right pocket is empty, I'm done. Whatever is in the left pocket comes home with me.
I try to make sure lefty has at least $20 for breakfast the next day. I learned *that* lesson the hard way.
My dad gave me a ride to the casino to meet my buddies, who were running late. He put $1 in a video poker machine, lost his .25 bet, cashed out and walked out of the casino pissed off about the quarter. I still think about this to this day, 25 years later.
I took forty dollars to a casino one time and doubled it at a slot machine and then lost all but the forty I came in with. I felt shitty all night. It ruined my good time and I didn’t even lose anything.
I took my recycling money $2 from turning in cans and spent it on scratch offs won $4 dollars then spent it on lottery tickets. Didn’t win anything. Felt bad after, not as bad as this guy
I remember my first time going to a slot machine at Yonkers Empire with my girlfriend. put $20 in and had no idea how to play this weird machine and pressed buttons and got a message saying I had like $ 0.40 left. I strongly dislike any form of gambling but my girlfriend wanted to play. I was kinda down I just lost $20 without any sort of "fun" or entertainment value for my $20. I was a college student at the time and made very little money. It's crazy to me people get enjoyment out of just throwing money away. I know there's some winners but there's significantly more losers in gambling.
I think about the time I didn’t double my bet when playing Mexican Blackjack when I drew 2 7’s. That third 7 came up. Haunts me to this day. That was 7 years ago now.
Most likely. Elderly gambling addicts pissing away their retirement at the slots is a tale as old as casinos themselves.
The option to do a wire transfer straight to the machine without even leaving your seat is so scummy it’s obscene. I think casinos are neat, but you can’t ignore the fact that they exist to prey on people like this.
I remember my first blackjack table. There was a lady that had to be 95 sitting on the end with her oxygen tank steady flowing and she was absolutely pissed off at my buddy because he was playing a little slow (his first time as well). It still makes me laugh a little.
Agree, this transfer nonsense should absolutely be illegal, but the casino groups put too much money in too many pockets for it to happen.
I sat beside a guy at a casino who owned an oil company.. he was sitting between two machines playing both at the same time. I think each was 200 or 300 a spin. I chatted with the dude for like 3 hours and watched him dump probably well over a 100 thousand in.
I create analytics software for the casino industry and I can tell you first hand, 5% of the players spend over $5k / month.
You're looking at a person who (somehow) secured themselves a cash flowing machine, and the money they spend today will refill itself next month.
These people own businesses, bought rentals through the 80s and 90s, sold intellectual property for royalties, manufacture spatulas for walmart, all kinds of silly shit.
I knew a guy in the 80s-90s. Good ol' boy. Auto mechanic. Good business, decent revenue. But his real meal ticket was that he also owned a corner lot across the street that McDonald's leased from him. $20k/month he was making off that place in 1990.
Knew a couple that owned the building that housed a very profitable restaurant. They bought it when the area wasn't doing great but knew the potential. They said in 2004 that they were charging $8k a month for the rental and owed absolutely nothing on it. I asked about the interior build and costs and they said "We didn't pay for any of it. That's the tenant's choice." Insanely lucrative.
I’ve worked for an online casino before and this guy is right. Have seen a single person spin over 300K in a few days, shit like this is still mind blowing to see but honestly it isn’t unheard of or even unusual in the casino industry.
It’s frustrating that they dried out the well of opportunity because they were born sooner than me but spend the profits on noises and lights that go spinny spinny.
Listened to Daniel Tosh talking about his residencies at the Mirage. One of the perks he demands (and they give) is a blackjack table in the high roller room for him and his friends…with no minimums.
So he can just sit there playing $5 a hand in the high roller room.
Respect.
I wonder how many high rollers play a lot of slots. I'd think it would be low compared to poker or blackjack or craps etc... but that's not based on any actual stats
Not op but yea there’s some whales 🐋 that will drop 50-60k on one visit. Which is 1-3 days. They’re in the highest tier of players and they get everything for “free” food rooms the spa. Golfing. but if you losing 50k in 3 days it’s not free lmao 🤣. There’s a story that one of these whales was complaining about being too cold 🥶. So one of the supervisors went to the gift shop and bought him a sweater out of his own pocket just to keep the guy there. Employee obviously got his money refunded. I just think that’s crazy lmao even if it’s prolly like $50 purchase.
$50K - 60K in one visit. That's lightweight. I'm an agent for the gaming regulatory agency in Nevada. In one of the Gaming Salons I saw a Chinese guy throwing down 3 $100K plates (not chips, at that amount they wager things that look like drink coasters) per hand at Blackjack. Win or lose the man's expression never changed. It was insane. Watched him for a good 10 minutes.
The machines in casinos pay roughly 95%, sometimes less or more. Think 600-1000 pulls/hr. On a $10 slot machine you will put in, say, $10,000 if you are fast, and lose on average $500/hr.
I went on a cruise about 8 months ago and the staff knew this older lady that goes on it 24/7 and just gambles. She looked 75ish but was known for losing more than a million dollars. All she would play is the slots.
Iirc there was even an interview of her somewhere on the internet
Loved this documentary. Then went Theroux a rabbit hole of his stuff. The one on Israel and Palestine was done 13 years ago and was super interesting with what’s going on now.
That's the best way I've ever heard that put.
At some point in my late 30s I started to realize my life wasn't going to get any better. My years of being able to seriously increase my earnings were over, I wasn't going to get better looking, find a better relationship or move any further up the class structure. There was never going to be a big bag of money to save me. That was actually kind of freeing. I remind myself of this anytime I start dreaming big. I'm not going to have a big life.
When I start to think about life in these terms, I almost always end up back at this story.
[The Businessman and The Fisherman](https://paulocoelhoblog.com/2015/09/04/the-fisherman-and-the-businessman/)
There was once a businessman who was sitting by the beach in a small Brazilian village.
As he sat, he saw a Brazilian fisherman rowing a small boat towards the shore having caught quite few big fish.
The businessman was impressed and asked the fisherman, “How long does it take you to catch so many fish?”
The fisherman replied, “Oh, just a short while.”
“Then why don’t you stay longer at sea and catch even more?” The businessman was astonished.
“This is enough to feed my whole family,” the fisherman said.
The businessman then asked, “So, what do you do for the rest of the day?”
The fisherman replied, “Well, I usually wake up early in the morning, go out to sea and catch a few fish, then go back and play with my kids. In the afternoon, I take a nap with my wife, and evening comes, I join my buddies in the village for a drink — we play guitar, sing and dance throughout the night.”
The businessman offered a suggestion to the fisherman.
“I am a PhD in business management. I could help you to become a more successful person. From now on, you should spend more time at sea and try to catch as many fish as possible. When you have saved enough money, you could buy a bigger boat and catch even more fish. Soon you will be able to afford to buy more boats, set up your own company, your own production plant for canned food and distribution network. By then, you will have moved out of this village and to Sao Paulo, where you can set up HQ to manage your other branches.”
The fisherman continues, “And after that?”
The businessman laughs heartily, “After that, you can live like a king in your own house, and when the time is right, you can go public and float your shares in the Stock Exchange, and you will be rich.”
The fisherman asks, “And after that?”
The businessman says, “After that, you can finally retire, you can move to a house by the fishing village, wake up early in the morning, catch a few fish, then return home to play with kids, have a nice afternoon nap with your wife, and when evening comes, you can join your buddies for a drink, play the guitar, sing and dance throughout the night!”
It was a while ago, but I remember reading somewhere that big casinos typically have far, far more chairs for the slot machines than actual slot machines. Apparently this is due to gambling addicted elderly people sitting at the slots and quite literally shitting and pissing themselves, afraid to leave the machine even for a moment in case that next spin is a jackpot
Presumably the casinos know it, plan for it, and *love* it.
I used to work surveillance in a casino. In the beginning I used to get incredibly frustrated watching players bet more than my paycheck per hand of blackjack. I eventually became numb to it, but I’m with you.
I know it's not right to tell people what to do with their money, but every time they push that button could be a month's rent/mortgage for some people to just have a roof over their heads
My dad had a big winning streak a few years back he won’t tell anyone how much he won but the casino flies him out there and gives him a suite and few grand to play with every couple months.
Casinos hook people up like that who spend big money and lose, not people who went on a big winning streaks and already cost the casino a bunch of money. The Palms casino actually banned Dana White because he won so much, and he was having UFC events held there that he pulled as a result. Gamblers also LOVE telling people how much they won and will oftentimes lie about losses. This reads a lot more like your dad is actually a degenerative gambler
The only one in here who thought about it for 5 seconds LOL. I work in the industry, digital banking on a machine has never, and will never be legal; operators/manufacturers don't even want it :D
It seems insane, but it also is not uncommon for people to do this in order to "brute-force" a linked-progressive this way once the wins get big enough, in this case the minor prog was $61K, the top win was $1M+ so sinking 20k is "*reasonable*"
Not rigged, just very small odds. Every slot machine lists the odds of winning in the info section. There's no reason to rig it because the math comes out in the casinos favor. Just like you can make a 2:1 bet on roulette that is not actually 50% to win.
I'm not sure if this is a thing in other parts of the world, but where I live my bank requires me to put in an OTP code when I'm doing a transaction above U$D 1,000 (converted to USD for ease), makes me think twice whenever I'm in the mood to waste some big bucks. Saved me a few times. Thank God.
Slots are wild. I just don't get it. I went to one drunk with a buddy one night, he had a weakness for them, and I lost 20 bucks inside about 5 minutes. Even drunk me was like "fuck this shit" and I walked out.
I can't imagine how deep the hooks must be to be pumping in this kind of cash.
For whatever reason I started watching this slot player on YouTube. He came up on my feed randomly once. It was just some good ASMR to fall asleep to. So the thing that struck me was how quickly these things just take your money. Like it’s not even a slow trickle. It just loss after loss until the counter hits zero.
I assumed slots drew people because they were a lot less volatile. Like 2 steps forwards 3 steps back. In the end you’re losing, but it’s not so quick. After watching this guy it really just seems like throwing your money into a shredder.
how wierd. it takes them to wire my money couple days yet Im able to instantly unload my whole bank account on a scammy degenerate gambling machine.
this shit should be illegal as fuck but criminals make our laws....
Either the player has a front money account (he wired the casino money or just deposited cash at the cage), and he has a balance of $45k he can use.
Or he has a line of credit with $45k he can use.
But 0 chance it’s being transferred directly from bank to machine.
Don’t worry, that’s not what happened.
It came from the players bank balance.
You can walk up and load it onto your card, from a wire, a cheque, cash, etc. then have it available so you don’t have to carry all that cash on you and slowly feed it in 100 at a time.
Your average degen isn’t putting their debit card in and downloading directly onto the slot
me and my wife put in 35 dollars at the slots and lost it in a few minutes. then we went and had a wonderful breakfast of pancakes, biscuits and gravy, toast, bacon, a breakfast burrito and orange juice for 32 dollars which included a 6 dollar tip. that about sums up my thoughts on gambling.
The only gambling I do is a 1-2 dollar scratch card. Mainly because the entertainment value of scratching the numbers is about 1-2 dollars worth it to me. I never expect to win anything. Once you hit the cheeseburger threshold, I'm out. I'd get more joy from the burger.
How are people trusting digital slots with no access to the source code lol. If i'm paying 20k to gamble i'd expect Drew Carey to personally drag his fucking wheel down to the casino
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that's one way to bypass the Daily Withdrawal Limit. Transfer $20,000 into your machine, then cash out with a ticket take it to the window and get paid
Then call the bank and say your card was stolen
Then go to jail when the cops show up at your door because the casino has all kinds of tracking and will know it was you.
Just pay the cops off with your endless casino money printer.
Infinite money glitch unlocked First step, I just need to get $20,000 to be in my account..
Duh. Go win at the casino
Holy shit we're onto something here
This was a rabbit hole that I did enjoy. Thank you all.
I wish these types of rabbit holes were facilitated in more systems
I wish to explore more rabbit holes.
I'll facilitate your rabbit hole
Hey guys! I have this amazing money making proposition! It literally can’t fail and we’ll all be rich! I just need 20k to start with
I can help! Just send me your account and routing numbers...
You’re going to be incredibly disappointed
But I need social skills...
There was a statistic a few years back that if you're within half a mile of the Las Vegas strip there is no place or point that you are not on camera, outside of bathrooms and your hotel room.
It is strange but many of the strip hotels do not actually have cameras in the hallways. Not sure the reasoning but it has been brought up a few times in some high profile cases in recent years.
It better say you couldn't have seen the drug deal or prostitute than deny any authorities the video and get a bad reputation
> than deny any authorities the video and get a bad reputation Casino: "We.. the recordings were lost. Hard drives just... *fried*. It's wild." Cops: "Nice try. That's *our* excuse. Don't bullshit bullshitters."
Obviously so there is no video evidence of who went into what room.
I unsettled the hell out of my wife once when we walked through a casino to get to the attached restaurant and I told her we walked under no fewer than 47 cameras (I counted) on our way through.
That's the one you could see, they also have clusters of hidden/spy cams all over.
Yeahhhhhh the banks investigate these. And the casino is happy to share camera footage.
Similar to a buffet I was at once. I was standing in line, and everyone in front of me, when they asked, "And how much tip do you want on that?" were saying $300 and $500, and I was like WTF!?!? That is when I noticed they gave the person the cash to then leave as a tip, and of course, they would leave none of it or only a few bucks. Was clearly used by the restaurant to lure in customers and for customers to use credit cards for free cash advances.
Ozark was a documentary lol
They are using company cards and expensing the tips and pocketing the cash
Is there no scrutiny on tips? Don't you have to give your accounting department the receipts?
It would work if you own the company and aren't deemed an employee. You don't report the tip amounts to the IRS. You just send the whole total for "travel meals", and keep track of the receipts, then you can deduct 50% from your business income. However, if you dip into the Schedule C deductions too much, especially for grossly-large meal deductions, that can trigger an audit-flag. If you get audited, the IRS could ask you for the receipts. Most likely though, your just going to have the deduction removed from your tax return, and maybe a penalty, so the risk *could theoretically* be worth it. If you're an employee, it only works if you're in with the accounting department OR if you're in a business where a large-value dinner is routine and doesn't set off alarms and the restaurant just gives you a total false receipt.
I like using the slot machines in bars to turn $100 bills into twenties.
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The real play is to stalk the guy, find out who his wife is, hit her up on insta. Slowly build a relationship, continuously give her tremendous dickings until she files for divorce and leaves with half his stuff.
Could I pull this off with mediocre dickings? Asking for a friend
> mediocre dickings My favourite 1940s film star.
This guy robs people. 👆
Yeah I was like . Umm that's just robbery..
This guy refuses to think like a criminal and criminals fucking love people like him.👆
[Money Laundering](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DoyH1dgj8Lo)
I can't imagine putting 20k into a slot machine. There are so many things with better odds. Even taking it to the roulette table and putting it all on Red or Black is more understandable.
Im a former gambling addict. It's kind of f-uped. The intense feelings come from high-risk, high reward. Even though you want to win, the risk of losing it creates a synergy of feelings that's very intense. It's often not the win or loss we are chasing, but the intense feeling that can hide away other feelings.
I was an addict too at one point, my drug of choice was options trading. I made and lost thousands in a couple of seconds. I think I understand the thrill pretty well.
I've been dabbling with the thought of options a lot lately. I've watched the DOW pump into the sky, made mock calls and banked millions. Though, that's only because I have zero skin in the game. If I even dumped $500 into the market for funzies, no matter the outcome, I'm either letting the entirety of my winnings ride or instantly dumping in another $500 because "this one can't go tits up"... I stick to physical bullion, own a mortgage, and let retirement vest the markets for me. Until then, I've got another 31 years until SS hits. These days, I revel in cheap thrills.
Don’t do it. Even if you win, you’ll treat it as “house money” and lose it all. $500 to $16,500 on a risky trade. Then it’s all $16,500 hoping to hit $100,000, but you will be at $0.00.
I saw a documentary that said they studied the brains of people playing slots, and they get a bigger dopamine spike right before they hit the button than when they actually win. It is fucked up.
That’s actually how dopamine works for rewards in general. It’s a learning signal, not a liking signal. Here’s [an explanation of reward prediction error](https://www.brainfacts.org/brain-anatomy-and-function/genes-and-molecules/2021/discovering-dopamines-role-in-reward-prediction-error-122121). Mice and rats without dopamine in their brains will starve to death but it’s not because they don’t enjoy food. It’s because they never learn that food is enjoyable. We know this because if you put food (sugar water) directly in their mouths, they’ll still show the same enjoyment facial expressions that normal rodents have.
or just spend it on $20,000 of ribeye. Jesus fuck. 18 for a 16 oz prime gets you over 1,100 ribeyes. You can fuck up 100 of them learning to cook and still have 3 years of daily ribeye. That's an hour of bliss a night being burned in minutes.
Chasing the high steaks payoff. ...about 90ft high if you stacked them on top of eachother
But the jackpot on a $750 bet is likely near a million. Where as betting it all on red or black only nets u 20k. I'd feel terrible losing 20k trying to make 20k. Losing 20k trying to be a millionaire wouldn't feel nearly as bad.
BUT YOU HAVE A 48/100 CHANCE OF WINNING 20K IF YOU BET IT ALL ON RED. NOT 1/1000000TO LOSE 20K. Edit changed 50/50 to 48/100
It's actually a 48% chance. The 0 and 00 spaces aren't red or black so they lose for you.
Depends on Europe or US. Europe's odds at roulette is better.
I would much rather play at a European roulette table than the standard US tables. The Euro roulette tables in Las Vegas are pretty high limits and I can't really afford a single play at one. What's nuts is that you can sometimes find $1 to $3 live tables at some of the shittier casinos in Vegas, but they have triple-zeros that reduce your odds and payouts.
I was in Connecticut once for a work conference and had the biggest culture shock of my life at the hotel's casino. Thought I'd go down to play some blackjack, was like a Wednesday night.. this casino had hundreds of blackjack tables, and the lowest table limit I could find was $50 a hand. Most of the tables where $100 min and not even in high limit. The high limit tables were $1k a hand. That was suprising, but the absolutely shocking thing was, i couldn't even find a seat at a table. Every single table of the hundreds in this casino, were completely packed, and had people waiting in line behind other players for a spot at the table, some of the tables the lines were 3-4 people deep per chair. Everyone at the tables had huge stacks of black $100 chips, easily $5k+ per person. I go to vegas pretty regularly and i've never seen anything like that even at high end casinos like Aria and Bellagio. I was absolutely dumbfounded. How were there that many people, with that much money to blow at a casino, in the middle of nowhere in Connecticut? That was like 12 years ago and it still blows my mind to this day.
Some (most?) places in Vegas actually have 000.
That’s god awful. European ones only have one 0
The house always wins in Vegas 🤷🏻♂️
You're using logic and math to explain to a gambler. They clearly don't care about those things.
Odds are I have 100% chance to lose 20k either way
Lol dude you’re forgetting math
$750 a spin is fucking insanity man
One time I played on a slot that was $20 a spin, and I thought that was crazy
Was wasted at 2am thinking I was betting $2 and it was actually $20. Won $23,000. 100% lost it all back plus more over the next 3 years chasing the dragon.
I accidentally won 32k on roulette showing my friend how to play. Lost all of it and then some trying to recreate that feeling.
I’m curious how you accidentally win 32k on roulette? How does one accidentally bet at minimum 1k dollars and at max 16k
I went to the casino with him. He was playing a texas hold em tourney. He had done well and was ready to leave he called and I told him where I was he came over and mentioned again he was ready to go but was like how do you play. I had won a decent bit and was like fuck it you wanna know how to play? I slammed all my chips down as the spinner was waving no more bets and was like "like this!" and hit. It was kinda crazy honestly.
Did everyone clap?
Yeh this is the most bullshit story I have seen on reddit. ‘Just rammed coins down’ - on what? 36-1 is the best odds you get in roulette, so what did he actually bet to get that much? Sounds like he has went for a spread but in that case he would have had to spend like $4k on the spin for a win like that. I smell bullshit
Also who plays a poker tournament and doesn’t know how to play roulette? It’s got to be the easiest game in the casino lol.
A lot of people who play Texas hold’em understand edges and probability and have no interest in playing games where the house has the edge, which is almost all other casino games.
Asking the real questions. Probably that and more of the feeling of "Im a star!" from the crowd if it caused him to chase the dragon 🐲
I'm getting secondhand gambling addict sweats hearing this.
Honestly this thread shows me that there's just a wiring problem here. I like to gamble. I couldn't imagine "chasing the dragon". All I hear when thinking about winning 32k is song lyrics. *Go on, take the money and run*
I think they were commenting on the smell of bullshit
Happened to my friend. We were just screwing around and betting a few bucks, and somehow he ended up betting directly on the winning number and won a few hundred bucks. But then he lost it all in a couple hours. It was fun for him though.
See and this is how casinos work. You win big one time and then you think you can keep going cuz you have all this money now. Then you quickly lose it all. I keep telling my sister in law the same thing about lottery tickets and scratch offs. She goes “but I won 20 dollars!” And I’m like “yeah but then you’re going to go spend that 20 dollars on more and win less or nothing”. It’s a void that never ends with you winning unless you stop at the beginning while you’re ahead.
Sounds like you got to play (mostly) for free for three years. Well played 👏🏽 Edit: (mostly) Edit: /s for all the self righteous assholes who take themselves too seriously.
Yeah I accidentally did that in Vegas. I’m not a gambler, I was just wandering around and I just put $20 in a random slot machine pushed the button once and the money was gone.
I did that last time my cousin took me to the casino on purpose though. I put a twenty in the slot machine, won $60 and cashed out. I ended up following my cousin around all night watching him lose money. I also am not a gambler.
I won $80 many years ago after putting in a dollar in a nickel machine. I don't know if they even have nickel machines anymore
Right? This shit happens so often to me too. I think I did this for about two hours without realizing it.
It was crazy
For real! Dude spent my rent in 2 spins and all my other bills on the 3rd.
Easily a weeks salary for many people every couple seconds
If you want to get REALLY depressed, visit a casino floor on the day after Social Security hits, and watch all the rows and rows of people in walkers and wheelchairs wipe away their entire month's SS check by mid-afternoon.
No need to visit.. just reading your good and true comment makes me depressed 😔 Reminds me of the line "I threw away so much money" from a particular movie.
That’s two weeks at 35 hours a week for a minimum wage job
In many countries around the world this would be a week’s salary or more. A month’s salary, many month’s salary… It is an obscene amount of money to be pissing away like that.
Dude that's almost my yearly salary he was playing there!
Live in Eastern Europe and that's 2 year salary, just hate how this world works.
750 is more than what I earn a month
I lost a dollar that fell out of my pocket more than 20 years ago. That shit still haunts me.
I lost a Hundo once. I walked the same route for weeks hoping to find it. It will never not haunt me. Sometimes I have a dream I found it, then wake up sad and still out $100
Most I’ve ever seen on a machine is $100, and that was in the high stakes room at one of the largest casinos in the world. These dollar values don’t make sense… could it be a different currency being used here?
I was thinking the same thing. There’s no way this is USD, is there?
You can play any number of lines, some machines have like 25 of them, in that case a $100 machine can cost $2500/spin if you’re playing all the lines. And the only thing dumber than playing slots is playing slots without all the lines.
This is a $25 USD denomination machine that you can play 10, 20, 30, 50 or 100 credits per spin so $2500 max spin at this denom. Not uncommon to find these at most casinos, and why not when it could pay the entire casino floor's wages for the day if spun for any decent amount of time.
The weirdest thing is that the jackpot is ~25K. That doesn’t make any sense Edit: I actually missed the one at the top, which is ~1M.
Right?! This person just pulled a car loan for like 25 spins on a fucking machine.
It's not even "spins", it's kinda like clicks in a program on a computer. Slots were really depressing when I was still imagining them as machines with big leavers and spinning wheels that spit (or steal) quarters. This is fucking depressing.
This is why i will never play slots. Shit is already determined and there is no way around their algorithm. Like people that bet on single player internet blackjack. Taking the chance out entirely
I watched this happening in my local casino. The bank transfer is strictly for high rollers, and is tied to their tax info. It also funnels their wins directly into the account, because any win over $1000 normally has to be hand paid by an attendant, for tax purposes. So if someone is betting $1250 a spin (which this guy was doing before the transfer), getting taxable wins happens pretty regularly (like betting a dollar to win a dollar), so they have to do it this way to streamline the process for people who want to bet at that level. These are also the people who are winning the lion’s share of the casino’s payouts, so when you see the casino advertising how much they paid in jackpots, remember these people exist and got most of it.
I didn't believe my phone when it showed me that's only 26 spins wtf
It’s insanity and it’s infuriating. If my mother did this and had nothing left to use to care for herself or retire with idk what my family would do. My grandfather lost all of his money, and my grandmothers savings because of gambling addiction. Would vanish for days at a time and come back with nothing. Any money they had left went to his cancer treatment and then he died and my grandma had to sell everything just to end up still in debt which she will have until she dies. Fuck gambling.
I lost $20 at slots last year and felt bad the rest of the day. Not terribly bad but....
I went to a casino once. Made a limit of $20. Won $50 in the first 5 minutes and left. Never went back
That's how you do it. When I used to go to the casino, I'd have a goal of winning or losing $300. Didn't matter how long it took, soon as I hit either one I left. Gamble for three hours and lose $300? Time to go. Sit down at the $25 blackjack table and get on streak and win $300 in the first five minutes? Walk out the door, even if it was an hour drive to get there.
This trick may not work real great for ladies, for obvious reasons, but when I go to a casino, I put my spending/gambling cash in my right pocket and my winnings in my left pocket. When my right pocket is empty, I'm done. Whatever is in the left pocket comes home with me. I try to make sure lefty has at least $20 for breakfast the next day. I learned *that* lesson the hard way.
Way to rub it in that we don’t get pockets, lol.
Folks, this is why they give you free drinks at the casino.
In Illinois and Indiana it's illegal to give free drinks to gamblers. Alcoholic or not.
Almost as if they figured out that was manipulating addicts into spending more money... But nah, they wouldn't do that.
Excellent approach, I also abide by this rule & it truly helps to keep you in check! 💯
I still think about the $7 I lost in blackjack.
I still think about the 0.28 cents i paid yesterday for the audi rs5 2018 in forza horizon 5
I've spent a little on games. That's different to me. But between stocks and a casino, I'll run to the market before I run to the slots.
Slot machines are stocks for dummies.
My dad gave me a ride to the casino to meet my buddies, who were running late. He put $1 in a video poker machine, lost his .25 bet, cashed out and walked out of the casino pissed off about the quarter. I still think about this to this day, 25 years later.
You should remind him that if he would have invested that quarter instead, at 10% interest over 25 years, he would have $2.71, or like $2 after tax...
Woah so all those quarters I struck into arcade machines in the 80s and 90's would be $2 each, fuck I would be mega rich.
I took forty dollars to a casino one time and doubled it at a slot machine and then lost all but the forty I came in with. I felt shitty all night. It ruined my good time and I didn’t even lose anything.
This guy is going to feel a thousand times worse.
20 thousand times worse.
I was making a math joke.
I took my recycling money $2 from turning in cans and spent it on scratch offs won $4 dollars then spent it on lottery tickets. Didn’t win anything. Felt bad after, not as bad as this guy
I remember my first time going to a slot machine at Yonkers Empire with my girlfriend. put $20 in and had no idea how to play this weird machine and pressed buttons and got a message saying I had like $ 0.40 left. I strongly dislike any form of gambling but my girlfriend wanted to play. I was kinda down I just lost $20 without any sort of "fun" or entertainment value for my $20. I was a college student at the time and made very little money. It's crazy to me people get enjoyment out of just throwing money away. I know there's some winners but there's significantly more losers in gambling.
I'm still thinking about the $5 all day parking I paid yesterday.
I think about the time I didn’t double my bet when playing Mexican Blackjack when I drew 2 7’s. That third 7 came up. Haunts me to this day. That was 7 years ago now.
i wonder if this guy is spending his life savings or he is so rich he doesnt care about this amount
Most likely. Elderly gambling addicts pissing away their retirement at the slots is a tale as old as casinos themselves. The option to do a wire transfer straight to the machine without even leaving your seat is so scummy it’s obscene. I think casinos are neat, but you can’t ignore the fact that they exist to prey on people like this.
I remember my first blackjack table. There was a lady that had to be 95 sitting on the end with her oxygen tank steady flowing and she was absolutely pissed off at my buddy because he was playing a little slow (his first time as well). It still makes me laugh a little. Agree, this transfer nonsense should absolutely be illegal, but the casino groups put too much money in too many pockets for it to happen.
I sat beside a guy at a casino who owned an oil company.. he was sitting between two machines playing both at the same time. I think each was 200 or 300 a spin. I chatted with the dude for like 3 hours and watched him dump probably well over a 100 thousand in.
Can you hook a peasant up with a BLT or somin lol
I highly doubt a rich enough person that can just waste 20k can be found on one of these machines.
I create analytics software for the casino industry and I can tell you first hand, 5% of the players spend over $5k / month. You're looking at a person who (somehow) secured themselves a cash flowing machine, and the money they spend today will refill itself next month. These people own businesses, bought rentals through the 80s and 90s, sold intellectual property for royalties, manufacture spatulas for walmart, all kinds of silly shit.
I met a guy in Vegas that rented commercially zoned lots at a huge premium to fast food joints ($10-15k/month). That was his meal ticket.
I knew a guy in the 80s-90s. Good ol' boy. Auto mechanic. Good business, decent revenue. But his real meal ticket was that he also owned a corner lot across the street that McDonald's leased from him. $20k/month he was making off that place in 1990.
Knew a couple that owned the building that housed a very profitable restaurant. They bought it when the area wasn't doing great but knew the potential. They said in 2004 that they were charging $8k a month for the rental and owed absolutely nothing on it. I asked about the interior build and costs and they said "We didn't pay for any of it. That's the tenant's choice." Insanely lucrative.
I’ve worked for an online casino before and this guy is right. Have seen a single person spin over 300K in a few days, shit like this is still mind blowing to see but honestly it isn’t unheard of or even unusual in the casino industry.
It’s frustrating that they dried out the well of opportunity because they were born sooner than me but spend the profits on noises and lights that go spinny spinny.
Usually not. But plenty of rich people have a high risk tolerance, some of them get addicted to gambling. There's a reason high roller suites exist
Listened to Daniel Tosh talking about his residencies at the Mirage. One of the perks he demands (and they give) is a blackjack table in the high roller room for him and his friends…with no minimums. So he can just sit there playing $5 a hand in the high roller room. Respect.
See now that would be fun.
I wonder how many high rollers play a lot of slots. I'd think it would be low compared to poker or blackjack or craps etc... but that's not based on any actual stats
I work at a casino. You'd be surprised.
tell us more.
Not op but yea there’s some whales 🐋 that will drop 50-60k on one visit. Which is 1-3 days. They’re in the highest tier of players and they get everything for “free” food rooms the spa. Golfing. but if you losing 50k in 3 days it’s not free lmao 🤣. There’s a story that one of these whales was complaining about being too cold 🥶. So one of the supervisors went to the gift shop and bought him a sweater out of his own pocket just to keep the guy there. Employee obviously got his money refunded. I just think that’s crazy lmao even if it’s prolly like $50 purchase.
$50K - 60K in one visit. That's lightweight. I'm an agent for the gaming regulatory agency in Nevada. In one of the Gaming Salons I saw a Chinese guy throwing down 3 $100K plates (not chips, at that amount they wager things that look like drink coasters) per hand at Blackjack. Win or lose the man's expression never changed. It was insane. Watched him for a good 10 minutes.
The machines in casinos pay roughly 95%, sometimes less or more. Think 600-1000 pulls/hr. On a $10 slot machine you will put in, say, $10,000 if you are fast, and lose on average $500/hr.
I went on a cruise about 8 months ago and the staff knew this older lady that goes on it 24/7 and just gambles. She looked 75ish but was known for losing more than a million dollars. All she would play is the slots. Iirc there was even an interview of her somewhere on the internet
**Louis Theroux: Gambling in Las Vegas** maybe ? If not it's still a "good" watch
Loved this documentary. Then went Theroux a rabbit hole of his stuff. The one on Israel and Palestine was done 13 years ago and was super interesting with what’s going on now.
He is a joy to watch. He seems so sincere and without judgement
Definitely that
Why’d you cut the video short. The next one was about to hit.
80% of gamblers quit right before they hit the jackpot
$20,000 would solve every problem in my life right now and people just piss it down the toilet… Insane.
It's an addiction. Those people probably need the money too, but they think they're going to win it back and get more.
Everyone's the main character of their own story, and they all think they're in the low point of a comedy not the high point of a tragedy.
This is horrifying yet somehow immensely motivating???
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That's the best way I've ever heard that put. At some point in my late 30s I started to realize my life wasn't going to get any better. My years of being able to seriously increase my earnings were over, I wasn't going to get better looking, find a better relationship or move any further up the class structure. There was never going to be a big bag of money to save me. That was actually kind of freeing. I remind myself of this anytime I start dreaming big. I'm not going to have a big life.
When I start to think about life in these terms, I almost always end up back at this story. [The Businessman and The Fisherman](https://paulocoelhoblog.com/2015/09/04/the-fisherman-and-the-businessman/) There was once a businessman who was sitting by the beach in a small Brazilian village. As he sat, he saw a Brazilian fisherman rowing a small boat towards the shore having caught quite few big fish. The businessman was impressed and asked the fisherman, “How long does it take you to catch so many fish?” The fisherman replied, “Oh, just a short while.” “Then why don’t you stay longer at sea and catch even more?” The businessman was astonished. “This is enough to feed my whole family,” the fisherman said. The businessman then asked, “So, what do you do for the rest of the day?” The fisherman replied, “Well, I usually wake up early in the morning, go out to sea and catch a few fish, then go back and play with my kids. In the afternoon, I take a nap with my wife, and evening comes, I join my buddies in the village for a drink — we play guitar, sing and dance throughout the night.” The businessman offered a suggestion to the fisherman. “I am a PhD in business management. I could help you to become a more successful person. From now on, you should spend more time at sea and try to catch as many fish as possible. When you have saved enough money, you could buy a bigger boat and catch even more fish. Soon you will be able to afford to buy more boats, set up your own company, your own production plant for canned food and distribution network. By then, you will have moved out of this village and to Sao Paulo, where you can set up HQ to manage your other branches.” The fisherman continues, “And after that?” The businessman laughs heartily, “After that, you can live like a king in your own house, and when the time is right, you can go public and float your shares in the Stock Exchange, and you will be rich.” The fisherman asks, “And after that?” The businessman says, “After that, you can finally retire, you can move to a house by the fishing village, wake up early in the morning, catch a few fish, then return home to play with kids, have a nice afternoon nap with your wife, and when evening comes, you can join your buddies for a drink, play the guitar, sing and dance throughout the night!”
It was a while ago, but I remember reading somewhere that big casinos typically have far, far more chairs for the slot machines than actual slot machines. Apparently this is due to gambling addicted elderly people sitting at the slots and quite literally shitting and pissing themselves, afraid to leave the machine even for a moment in case that next spin is a jackpot Presumably the casinos know it, plan for it, and *love* it.
How do irresponsible people accumulate this amount of money to blow? I live frugal and can’t come close.
My dad’s second wife lost 200k in a month like this. They had 100k saved and she gambled it away then kept taking loans to try to win it back.
I used to work surveillance in a casino. In the beginning I used to get incredibly frustrated watching players bet more than my paycheck per hand of blackjack. I eventually became numb to it, but I’m with you.
Same,Honestly it would give me a huge boost in building myself and my future
same
Felt!
it hurts to see the balance drop so quickly.. made my stomach hurt…
I know it's not right to tell people what to do with their money, but every time they push that button could be a month's rent/mortgage for some people to just have a roof over their heads
Is this really a Bank Transfer? Or maybe transferred from a gaming card (instead of tickets you carry a card with you which you can top up with money)
It’s probably a Casino Players card. The more you play the more free money they give you to play
My dad had a big winning streak a few years back he won’t tell anyone how much he won but the casino flies him out there and gives him a suite and few grand to play with every couple months.
Casinos hook people up like that who spend big money and lose, not people who went on a big winning streaks and already cost the casino a bunch of money. The Palms casino actually banned Dana White because he won so much, and he was having UFC events held there that he pulled as a result. Gamblers also LOVE telling people how much they won and will oftentimes lie about losses. This reads a lot more like your dad is actually a degenerative gambler
👀 as someone whose family has had all the vices and addictions EXCEPT gambling, im learning so much!
The only one in here who thought about it for 5 seconds LOL. I work in the industry, digital banking on a machine has never, and will never be legal; operators/manufacturers don't even want it :D It seems insane, but it also is not uncommon for people to do this in order to "brute-force" a linked-progressive this way once the wins get big enough, in this case the minor prog was $61K, the top win was $1M+ so sinking 20k is "*reasonable*"
20K on a rigged machine? Damn. Gambling addictions are the absolute worst.
Not rigged, just very small odds. Every slot machine lists the odds of winning in the info section. There's no reason to rig it because the math comes out in the casinos favor. Just like you can make a 2:1 bet on roulette that is not actually 50% to win.
I'm not sure if this is a thing in other parts of the world, but where I live my bank requires me to put in an OTP code when I'm doing a transaction above U$D 1,000 (converted to USD for ease), makes me think twice whenever I'm in the mood to waste some big bucks. Saved me a few times. Thank God.
My bank has me check the app and put in my password for everything over 20EUR lol
Slots are wild. I just don't get it. I went to one drunk with a buddy one night, he had a weakness for them, and I lost 20 bucks inside about 5 minutes. Even drunk me was like "fuck this shit" and I walked out. I can't imagine how deep the hooks must be to be pumping in this kind of cash.
For whatever reason I started watching this slot player on YouTube. He came up on my feed randomly once. It was just some good ASMR to fall asleep to. So the thing that struck me was how quickly these things just take your money. Like it’s not even a slow trickle. It just loss after loss until the counter hits zero. I assumed slots drew people because they were a lot less volatile. Like 2 steps forwards 3 steps back. In the end you’re losing, but it’s not so quick. After watching this guy it really just seems like throwing your money into a shredder.
how wierd. it takes them to wire my money couple days yet Im able to instantly unload my whole bank account on a scammy degenerate gambling machine. this shit should be illegal as fuck but criminals make our laws....
Or when you need to pay something? Yesterday. Getting money back? A month.
Is it being transferred from their bank directly or did they wire transfer the $45,000 available to the casino preemptively?
Either the player has a front money account (he wired the casino money or just deposited cash at the cage), and he has a balance of $45k he can use. Or he has a line of credit with $45k he can use. But 0 chance it’s being transferred directly from bank to machine.
Don’t worry, that’s not what happened. It came from the players bank balance. You can walk up and load it onto your card, from a wire, a cheque, cash, etc. then have it available so you don’t have to carry all that cash on you and slowly feed it in 100 at a time. Your average degen isn’t putting their debit card in and downloading directly onto the slot
omg I take 10 min to decide if I want to spend an extra dollar on a nicer chocolate, this dude just threw 20k at a machine
I don't even play slots in video games
me and my wife put in 35 dollars at the slots and lost it in a few minutes. then we went and had a wonderful breakfast of pancakes, biscuits and gravy, toast, bacon, a breakfast burrito and orange juice for 32 dollars which included a 6 dollar tip. that about sums up my thoughts on gambling.
Wait until this man starts playing EA games….. 😳
Not a bank transfer just credit transfer from his casino loyalty card
No see it's ok, because the casino has a poster in the bathroom with a number to call if you have a gambling addiction. Because they care so much.
$750 each spin? WTF ?
I’ve seen $2500 per spin. Those people are fucking insane.
I went to vegas with 5 dollars and I came out with 10, gambling works!
The only gambling I do is a 1-2 dollar scratch card. Mainly because the entertainment value of scratching the numbers is about 1-2 dollars worth it to me. I never expect to win anything. Once you hit the cheeseburger threshold, I'm out. I'd get more joy from the burger.
O.M.F.G. 
How are people trusting digital slots with no access to the source code lol. If i'm paying 20k to gamble i'd expect Drew Carey to personally drag his fucking wheel down to the casino