Do you gamble?

[bobjustbob]

PA already did it's damage. The tracks were to get them in phase 1 of the state plan. Philly Park is owned by Greenwood Gaming, a British gambling dude. He had 3500 slots in that track in a matter of months of legislation passing. A 10 minute drive from Trenton.

Harrah's opened the Chester harness track(of all things, a harness track?)just to get into that first phase of slots. The location is on a waterfront of abandoned industries. It is next to a prison(convenient for the track crooks?) Part of the racing surface had to go over water just complete it. It is the cheapest slapped together thing you will ever see. The tote board is no bigger than a living room wall and the infield is just mowed down weeds. 2000 of the cheapest plastic seats they could find bolted into concrete. The P.A. system is such that you can't hear the race call. No shade at all so it's 100 degrees anywhere to view a race. What a hunk of shit. The inside is no better. Just add air conditioning and carpeting.

They added Sugar House Casino at the doorstep of the AC Expressway and Valley Forge along the same interstate leading to it. Mind you, none of these 4 places are as nice as Atlantic City but for someone wanting to just make a bet, they won't travel the extra hour.

 

[takeeleven]

I work as a sound engineer at our hard rock. I had never really played the slots etc until a year before I started here. I was new to it so i only played the hot shot penny machines, id occaisionally get lucky and win like 50 bucks. Then one night i decided to play lucky duck 25cent and did well so i moved to lucky duck 1.00 machine and hit 290.00, went to a 5 dollar machine and put in 50 and hit 550.00 and cashed out. The addictiveness kicked in 24 hours later so i went to the same 5 dollar machine, put in 100.00 got down to 15 and hit and went up to 900.00 and played down to 700 and cashed out. a week later i felt the nerve again and went in and lost 300.00, next night lost 200. luckily im not as addictive and have only been to the machines after work once christmas night and lost 100.00. So I used to gamble. not no more. Nikki wait till youve been there awhile, if you havnt already youll see people come in and blow their social security etc. shit we had one woman blow all of hers so she left, pulled over in the center median and called 911 and told the police she was robbed of 2000.00. later ended up confessing to the cops that she didnt wanna go home broke cuz her husband would be pissed that she blew it at he casino. youll see all kinds of walks of life in there! the tweakers are my favorite..lol!

 

[Mayhem]

Cincinnati Casino Welcomes First Guests During Trial Period

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/02/28/dry-run-is-new-cincinnati_n_2777015.html

Slot machines were clanging and bets were flying for the first time Wednesday as the last of Ohio's four voter-approved casinos began trying to clear a final major hurdle before being allowed to open to the public.

Up to 15,000 invited guests planned to attend an eight-hour dry run of the $400 million Horseshoe Casino Cincinnati on Wednesday. The event is closed to the public and media.

Agents with the Ohio Casino Control Commission will be watching every aspect of the casino's operations during that time and well into Thursday morning, when workers still will be counting the money brought in.

"Slots, table games, the work in the cashier cage, the counting room, the main bank — we're looking at all these sensitive areas to make sure they're complying with the rules and regulations," said Matt Schuler, executive director of the commission. "All aspects of the casino's operations are important to us."

Any major operational problems, such as being unable to accurately count the money, could delay Monday's opening of the casino.

No problems delayed the opening of Ohio's three other casinos beginning in May in Cleveland and Toledo; Columbus' casino opened in October.

If Cincinnati's casino opens on time, that will mean the state's four casinos will have opened in a 10-month period following voter approval in 2009. Voters approved the casinos after a statewide legalization campaign touted the immediate boost the casinos would give to Ohio's economy and despite strong disapproval from anti-gambling groups and others.

The state collects 33 percent in taxes from the casinos, which is distributed to Ohio's schools, counties and cities.

Since they opened, the casinos in Toledo, Cleveland and Columbus have earned just under $404 million through the end of January, generating about $133 million in taxes. Once all four are up and running, their yearly revenues are expected to be just under $1 billion.

Members of the media got a first look at the two-story, 400,000-square-foot casino on Tuesday, when workers were busy making last-minute preparations.

The facility includes 2,000 slot machines, 87 table games, a buffet, a VIP players' lounge with limits as high as $50,000 a hand, a World Series of Poker room, and three outward-facing restaurants, including singer Jimmy Buffet's Margaritaville and Bobby's Burger Palace by celebrity chef Bobby Flay.

Flay is expected to attend Monday's opening.

The casino was built from the ground up in just over two years on what used to be a bedraggled parking lot in the city's downtown.

Profits from Wednesday's dry run will be given to charity.

 

[PlumpRump]

I used to play all the time. We have 7 Indian casinos within 45 minutes of where I live, and several more card rooms scattered throughout the county. When I was in my late teen's and early 20's I would gamble 5 or 6 nights a week, usually blackjack, to the point where I was nearly broke. The kicker is, I'm actually a good blackjack player, which isn't all that hard to do if you're familiar enough with the strategy of the game, and I would, on most nights, be up $1,000-$2,000 and just start playing $500 hands until I lost it all, go to the cash machine and lose even more. Never knew when to walk away, or even more accurately never wanted to walk away. The biggest "win" I ever had playing bj was a little more than $7,000 in just around 5 hours of playing. I got up, walked away, and drove home. The only thing I could think about on the way home was that I could have hit $10,000 if I had just stayed that much longer. So I was more disappointed with the fact that I walked away than I was pleased with the amount I had won. One night I lost $5,300 in about 2 hours, after being up more than $4,000. Losing was pretty much a bigger rush than winning for me, and I had a lot of affective numbness when I was younger so losing a significant amount of money was a pretty good way to feel emotions for me. Hard to explain, I guess.

I stopped playing altogether for 3 years. No casinos, no card rooms, no horse races, no sports bets, no "fantasy" sports with entry fees, nothing. Not even "I'll bet you $20 the Lakers win tonight," with my friends. I finally decided to start playing again, sometimes at the Indian casinos and I take 3 or 4 trips to Las Vegas every year, because I really do enjoy gambling and the casino atmosphere, and I have since begun to concentrate mostly on poker games and sports betting as they have the least risk (at least for me) to be compulsive. I play blackjack occasionally, with personal limits, but I find it to be pretty unenjoyable simply because blackjack, if played "properly," leaves very little room for any actual decision making, as the cards dictate what you "must" do as a player or as a group of players when playing with the table. Too methodical, not a game that one actually "plays" so to speak, and with the limits I set for myself, not enough wiggle room to win any actual money. If my limits make it so I can't physically win $1,000 in an hour or so, its just boring to me. If you know what you're doing, you don't play blackjack, blackjack plays itself. Poker has become a hobby of mine, and sports betting will always be great fun, and serves as a (somewhat) inexpensive way to make sporting events more enjoyable, with the added bonus of the potential to win some money. Since I've started playing again, the most I've lost is $300 in a night, and the most I've won is $2,300 in a night with a few $100 loss nights and more than a few $500 win nights mixed in there, mostly playing poker.

 

[Jarib]

I am not a gambler but once did went to a casino and played slot machines just for fun. I was just invited by a friend to try it out. I lost I think $50 no more no less. I am not a fan of gambling. I would rather go to bar or eat out than spend my money on it.

 

[bobjustbob]

Girl that used to work for me takes her first trip to AC and wins $60. She's thrilled and is setting up to back right away. 2nd trip she's not as happy because she only won $25. Mind you now, this is after gas, tolls, food, and drink tips. I tell her this is good when you come home with more than you go down there with but she doesn't understand. 3rd trip she comes home devastated. She lost $20. This included her paying for her brother's dinner too. I asked her if she was out of her mind. 6 hours of entetainment and expenses for only 20 bucks? She had this idea that Donald Trump stands on the boardwalk handing money out to people. She never went back.

 

[Bones_92]

I tend to only bet on sports. Bad history of gambling in my family and the pokers, roulettes etc really reel you in.

 

[niccolo]

In life, yes a lot of times. There are situations when you are left with little options so to be in a much better place you need to gamble and take a risk. In casinos, a big no no!

 

[Stefanh]

No I don't. I am saving money because I want to buy a new house with a bigger lawn than what we have right now. Gambling is very addictive specially when you are winning at first but later on it becomes addictive and the end result most of the time is loosing everything you have.

 

[cleland]

No i do not gamble because I do not have extra money for that.

 

[Neutron66]

Anyways my question is, Do you gamble?

Only with my life, never with my money.