My mom was a gamble-alcoholic, my step dad and her gambled away his retirement fund after the opening of casino's here on Indian reservations. I was always curious what the draw was about it, one year she invited me to go up and visit my aunt on Thanksgiving, she said she'd take me over to the casino and give me a thirty dollar head start. Every machine I got on it would go up close to a hundred then start coming back down, I'd always exit the machine right before the loss would drop below thirty then go try another. To be honest I really didn't see the intrigue in watching pictures of fruits whirl around in circles then come to a halt. I didn't lose her thirty bucks though, on the way out the door she said no keep it, you earned it by not losing it. I told her no you loaned it to me and now I am giving it back. On the way out to the car I thought to myself I guess it's to bad she didn't use the same analogy when she was playing they'd still be several hundred thousand dollars ahead in life.
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I had a friend that was addicted to it too. He would put £200 - £300 in them fruit machines with a £10 payout.
We had a spell of going to casinos also, I walked out a winner 9 times out of 10, sometimes winning big, I could never celebrate in front of Phil though, as I never watched him walk away a winner even once. One time we had been there 5 minutes and he was £200 up, I said cash in and lets have a free day of drinking and fun, he refused and walked out £400 down, money he did not have to lose, it was credit card money. 20 years later and he is drowning in debt and even had to sell his half of his own home to his wife to try to get straight, I dare say that money has gone the same way! Some people just never learn you see.