how do you handle a friend on tilt gambling away his $$ till its gone?
serious question this happened to me yesterday.
went with buddy to local casino which only spreads slot machines and video poker.
nicest guy you could meet, always friendly and smiling.
i hate casino games cuz you'll lose your money in long run unlike poker. long story short, he drops 300 in about 15 minutes at a let it ride machine..not a biggie he can afford it but it wasnt fun.
then he goes to hi limit slots cuz he wants to make it back quickly. i try to talk him out of it and just swallow the loss...i dropped 60 bux and didnt care to lose anymore.
anyways he says just 200 more on a $5 slot. He drops both bills without hitting one winning combination...not even a cherry.
He reaches in his pockets and puts in 2 more...i tell him to let it go and literally wrap my arms around him to pull him away...some of it in jest, but i didnt want him to drop more. He loses that.. now he's getting steamed...he insists the machine is ice cold (which it was) and is due for a big hot streak now.
He drops those two bills and now i tell him seriously lets just go. before i can act 2 more go in the machine. Finally he hits triple sevens and gets a $300 score. I tell him to cash out there was his big hand, but he would still be down a couple hundred even then, so now he starts to give me a bit of an evil eye, like im annoying him and being like a nagging wife. very unlike him....he has the gleam in his eyes that he aint leaving until he made back all his $$.
At this point i give up and leave him alone, and tell him i'll be playing 25c video poker a couple of rows over.
An hour later i dropped another 80 just waiting for him to finish. then i head back to see him do his last 3 spins.
He is really pissed off. he finished wasting close to 2 grand, and tapped out his withdrawel limits for the day.
he wasted 3 days of profits from his families restaurant he runs, and was now also a bit peeved at me for not pulling him away sooner, although he did know i tried, but i guess not hard enough.
He is not a degenerate gambler, he goes to casino quite rearely, but when he goes, he thinks he has to stay and keep playing until he hits a jackpot or go broke.
I thought i tried every reasonable approach to get us to leave, but with him i guess another method is needed. He'll laugh about it a couple of days from now, but while its happenening hes a whole different person.
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