[MicroBob]

while we're getting off on a bit of a tangent here I have to say I generally agree with you sentiments.

The number of losing players out there who shouldn't be playing nearly as high as they are truly does bother me and sometimes it is more difficult to tune it out.



Went to a casino with my non-gambling GF a couple months ago. She knows nothing about poker an barely can play BJ without getting bored. Sometimes we can play 30 minutes of roulette for amusement at $1 bet.
At the Horseshoe in Tunica some guy walked up to the roulette table and slapped down $1k on a single bet. He put $500 on 2nd 12, $500 on 3rd 12, lost the bet and walked away.
Her eyes just about popped out of her skull.


Similar reaction when we moved to the BJ table and some girl who didn't look that rich was betting $50 to $200 a hand.


Obviously to people who have been around it this isn't unusual at all. $1k on a single-spin of roulette or a green-chip player at BJ who probably can't afford to be playing with green-chips. Big deal.

But to her, never having seen this before, it was almost frightening.
She feels priviliged just to be in the U.S. working as a nurse at a hospital for $27/hr or so (I'm guessing).
She comes from a country full of people who would just jump at the opportunity and she almost feels guilty that she got so lucky because of the sacrifices that her family made to get her in such a position.

Just a different perspective I guess.
She sees the $1k on a single-spin and can't help but think "crap...that's more than a week's work for me."
and then when the dealers mentioned that he had been back and forth to that table SEVERAL times and had bought-in for SEVERAL thousand on different appearances there she just couldn't believe that someone would do that.

Although i think the green-chip blackjack woman might have been more bothersome to her because she seemed to be sweating her losses a bit more. The $1k-spin roulette-guy probably (I am assuming) had enough money to afford most of those losses.
but who knows?? I now am recalling the story of Leonard Toes (the former of the Philadelphia Eagles who is now bankrupt because he blew all of his money in Atlantic City on several bad nights of drunken blackjack) so I guess just because you are betting $1k or more per hand/spin doesn't necessarily equate to being able to actually afford it either.


It's all rather mind-blowing to me that people would do such things that we see take place in live casinos (and in online poker-rooms) day after day after day.