My friend DC won $13K in about 8 hours playing blackjack at a riverboat casino. He normally played about $25-$50 a hand, but got on such a roll that he was playing $300 a hand on two maybe three hands at a time. After that, the $500-$1000 win that he used to be content with, wasn't enough for him anymore. He got it in his head that he could do it all the time. He'd get up $1500 and lose it all trying to double it (hell...trying to quadruple it).


I always made the analogy about him that he always swings for the fences...the game could be tied 2-2 in the bottom of the ninth, man on 2nd, no outs...a normal manager would try to get his man to third with a sacrifice and then hope for a Sac fly....not DC...he wants to win the game with a 2 run homer...every time. Compulsive???? Hell yeah