Do you play games of chance, visit casinos, buy lottery tickets, raffle tickets?

Years ago, we use to go to Atlantic City, when all the casinos were going great guns. Back then we played with coins, quarters usually, and I can remember how black our hands would get handling the coins. We were there when Trumps Taj Mahal was having grand opening. Try to get in, but it was impossible because of the crowd.
 

I rode the buses to the Atlantic City casinos a few times back in the day when they gave you a small cash stake for doing so. I'd play until I had either lost that cash stake, or won $20. Then I'd use the $20 to buy some small indulgence to remember the trip by.

I buy the spousal equivalent lottery scratch-offs. She's happy as a clam while doing them, plus she stops talking when so engaged. I've learned that the $5 Bingo cards take the longest to do... ;)
 
Fyrefox said:
I rode the buses to the Atlantic City casinos a few times back in the day when they gave you a small cash stake for doing so. I'd play until I had either lost that cash stake, or won $20. Then I'd use the $20 to buy some small indulgence to remember the trip by.

I buy the spousal equivalent lottery scratch-offs. She's happy as a clam while doing them, plus she stops talking when so engaged. I've learned that the $5 Bingo cards take the longest to do... ;)
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I like the $10 bingo card. You’re right, they take longer to do. When you took your bus trip to AC, did you play bingo on the bus? We did, cost $1 a game.
 

no, i bought a lotto ticket back in 1973 and won a dollar, traded that for another and lost. I said, "there is only one winner to these and that is the state" and have never bought another since.
 
No I don't gamble!! Gambling broke my first marriage up.. my ex was an inveterate gambler ,..he'd gamble away his wages the day he got them and we'd have nothing to live on with a new baby to feed... ...

I've been in a Casino twice since my divorce... once in the UK with friends.. and another in Spain near where we live .. neither floated my boat and certainly didn't make me want to make someone else rich on my dollar...

As for lottery, I played in the very beginning a couple of times and won a couple of times, but I stopped before I started to lose ... and scratch cards... no thanks, I feel sad for those I see buying scratch cards and only getting as far as the door of the store while frantically scratching them off..

I've lived that life at the hands of someone else... it freaks me out to think others may be going through the same thing
 
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When I lived in Burbank, CA, my beau and I would go to Las Vegas every other weekend. I really became addicted to Black Jack and Craps, it was awful. I finally broke away from that habit and about 15 years ago, an old boyfriend looked me up. Well, he too was a gambler and we spent every weekend in Atlantic City. I finally told myself that this was sick. We were comped at the Borgata and I told him no more. I couldn't live like this in my old age. We parted ways and I never saw him again. As for the lottery, I wouldn't waste my money. My son is addicted to them. He wins some, loses some. Nothing big.
 
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I have a real abhorrence of gambling. My ex has a gambling addiction. Plus, I hate loosing. Yeah, somebody is going to win big, but there's 9,999,999,999, who aren't. Also, the odds are further stacked against you to pay taxes, salaries, business expenses, mortgages, and investors. When I was working at the hospital, once a year we hired a bus to drive a bunch of us to Atlantic City. We did this for years. On the way back home, nobody said they won a dime, everybody lost, except my ex. She truly lost between $400-$600-(that we knew of). Yeah, they call it "entertainment", but putting money in a slot doesn't do it for me. It's boring after a while. Like I said, I'm super biased. When you talk to "winners", you find they lost way more cash , over time, than they won.
 
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I have a real abhorrence of gambling. My ex has a gambling addiction. Plus, I hate loosing. Yeah, somebody is going to win big, but there's 9,999,999,999, who aren't. Also, the odds are further stacked against you to pay taxes, salaries, business expenses, mortgages, and investors. When I was working at the hospital, once a year we hired a bus to drive a bunch of us to Atlantic City. We did this for years. On the way back home, nobody said they won a dime, everybody lost, except my ex. She truly lost between $400-$600-(that we knew of). Yeah, they call it "entertainment", but putting money in a slot doesn't do it for me. It's boring after a while. Like I said, I'm super biased. When you talk to "winners", you find they lost way more cash , over time, than they won.
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Me, too.

We buy an occasional lotto ticket, that's it.
 
Not anymore.

I've played slots in Reno, Lost Wages, and Tunica. It's boring and you're lucky to break even. We always limited spending to $20 each. We stayed at a big hotel/casino one time for a convention. The cheap buffets were worth going to.

I was never tempted to gamble in the casinos on cruise ships, but dinner mates have done well in them. Looser slots can be found on the first and last days of the cruise. One guy won enough to pay for their entire cruise!

I have friends who drive to the neighboring state line and buy lotto tickets every week. They plan to retire when they win big. They still financially support their married daughters and never saved for retirement. Not much of a retirement plan, if you ask me.

The stock market is a big enough gamble for me!
 
Once many moons ago I won 8 of 10 races at horse track in Illinois. I gave been to horse races may five times in my life and Vegas never. I don't win at things involved with gambling. If gambling paid off we would all be doing it.
 
For the last 37 years I've lived within 5 miles of casinos (on the border of CA/NV). Thankfully gambling (or anything else that can lead to addiction) has never held any appeal for me. Part of the lack of appeal of casinos is that I'm a bit claustrophobic and most of them have few, if any, windows, and the exits seem hard to find. (A purposeful design I'm sure). They become a frustrating maze for me (kind of like Walmart stores :LOL:). Add that to the fact that I've never been a smoker....ugh, just ugh. I have friends that occasionally visit that like to gamble and of course want me to go with them. So I take my own car and $20 that I can afford to lose, so I can vamoose when I'm done!
 
I used to have a habit of playing the 3 digit number in the lottery for a while but I lost more and I won so I decided to hang it up.
 
No. Placing bets for money has no appeal to me at all. On the other hand, I love to try to pick the winners on the Kentucky Derby, Preakness, Westminster Dog Show etc. and I'm right pretty often. I just jot down my guess on a post-it note and keep it till it's over. My moment of satisfaction is all the winning I need. I also love to play cards, but again, it's playing the game that I enjoy and I don't care much if I win or lose. Money and fun don't go together for me.
 

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