[MicroBob]

I know a guy who was pretty wealthy and owned several restaurants and bars who was a pretty wacky gambler. He could certainly afford it. Went to Vegas 2 or 3 times per year (super heavy drinker....insane).
We went on a trip to Alaska one time and he sat at this bar buying up these scratch-off lottery tickets 100 or 200 at a time (which is the only gambling in Alaska I think...but they can sell them at bars).


Haven't seen him for a few years but I can almost guarantee that he sometimes gambles online just for recreation and probably has swings of $1k-$5k on occasion.



But doctors and lawyers and others certainly are there too.
I dealt BJ at a smallish casino for 8 months and I dealt to a handful of doctors and lawyers who dropped through a few thousand.
And they weren't really even our market.
Go to some of the other casinos in the area to see the more affluent types dropping some big bucks.

Just looking at some of the people at the casino who are varying their bets from $25-$100 per hand in live blackjack is kind of appalling to many people on low-ish to regular incomes who haven't seen that type of thing before.
Then when some regular looking 50-year-old guy walks up and slaps 5 black chips down for a single bet it can be quite jaw-dropping.
And this barely gets you toward some of the high-ish gambling that takes place in live casinos from Vegas to Atlantic City to Tunica ALL the freaking time.

It boggles my mind too....but it's far too common amongst semi-regular folk to just write it all off as people who are taking food out of their kids mouths (I've dealt to people like this too...coming to the casino wearing their uniform from the grocery store...and promptly dropping $500 or so which is likely their whole pay-check).


Certainly some of those on the top of the list are as Gabbyyyy imagines.

People who make $200k a year or so aren't exactly everywhere...but there are certainly a lot of them. Some people do have more money than they know what to do with....and some of those people are spending some of it on online poker or blackjack.


So, in short, it's likely a mixture of idiot degenerates running up a huge debt they can't afford...and idiot degenerate richer folk who actually can make it back or can afford the losses.