everything I grow dies. With gambling it is a major success to break even in a session. My last trip to Vegas I drove to 7 casinos to play 7 match plays from Las Vegas Advisor. I lost 7 in a row. I was staying at Palace Station, comped for a 2 day slot tournement, in which I came in 370th out of 400, well out of the $10,000 prize money. I went to the casino and lost $300 in 20 minutes. I had no fun and stopped gambling the rest of the trip.

The biggest win I every had was $300 in a session. And that includes when I had a paying job and was playing mini-bacc with black chips. Since I always lose, I gamble for fun, but have no qualms about just flat stopping if I'm not getting a run for my money. I've been at a mini bacc table and lost 13 times in a row. That's a coin flip game. 13 losses in a row is well outside 3 standard deviations of a statistical probability outcome - 99.97%. It's happened more than once. I am the guy that finances everybody else's wins. It's OK, but I want the money to last a while.

That's also the reason I bought my own slots. With my own slots comes the key. With the key there is no loss. A great benefit for a born loser. Now that I have no job, and no luck, my gambling is even more severly limited. I still love the history, but will not lose more than $200 this trip. I used to set aside $500 per day, but those days are gone forever.