Big Win - What Would You Do?

Quote: DJTeddyBear

30 minutes and you're already done?

Yeah, no foreplay or cuddling, so I think I could accomplish my bullet list in 30 mins. Plus, I have a lot of debt.

Quote: Wizard

You should add a bar graph poll to this one. My answer is absolutely (2). It makes the hair on the back of my neck stand up when I overhear somebody overbetting say they are doing so because it is just "the casino's money." Once you win something that money is no different than money earned. As Susie Orman would say, paying your bills and paying down debt should always be the highest priority.

100% agree. If I win ten dollars and put it back into a machine, I'm playing with MY money and not the casino's. I could have hit Subway for a pair of foot-longs instead. If you win a huge jackpot then you do what's best for you: Pay down bills if you have them, or buy something you've wanted but didn't want to put out for over a period of time. The one thing you should not do is pretend you have a larger gambling bankroll.

Wizard I'm new here, so what does your by-line mean? For a stab I take issue with the first part because as a gambler my only goal is to win some money. If I lose I failed, if I win I succeeeded. That is all that matters is it not? What's the 2nd part mean? I wouldn't play anything if I didn't think I had a chance of winning, i.e., it being a "good bet".

Thanks.

For gamblers you guys are very careful with your money! I have only gambled several times since I am barely above the age limit in Macau but every times I won I went with either 3, 4 or 6.

Anyone who says they wouldn't try to win bigger, at least for a while, I think is kidding themselves. It's EXTREMELY hard to end a trip at the highest amount you have had for the trip. I only remember it ever happening to me once and that was because they closed the BJ table and I had to leave because of travel arrangements, and I got a Blackjack on the last hand.

I don't want to be thought of as the big sinner in this forum but I would definitely blow $500 or $1000 at the Spearmint Rhino. All in $20 dances from different girls, so you get the most for your money.

Quote: rudeboyoi

I would invest half of it in low risk mutual funds and then take the other half over to my friend Asadulah who works in securities

HAHAHA how did this not get any responses?? Best movie ever.

Mostly 2, although I probably would also do either or both of 3 (it depends on your definition of "expensive") and stepping up my usual Vegas routine (see a show or two, and eat at a top-level restaurant or two, that I normally wouldn't do).

I'd add it to my stack of cash on hand; cash is fungible.

When I want gambling money, I take some.

If I need a few grand to pay a contractor, I grab it.

In the end of course, I'll give it all back to the casinos, with interest.

As will we all.

Well, I've never been in a *big* win situation, but the times I've come out a few hundred ahead, I've gone shopping with some of it. I look at buying something I need/want with my winnings as locking up my winnings, I can't put a new pair of shoes on the table and lose them. Just for the record, my house is paid for, one of my vehicles is paid for, and a good win would pay off my other one, so not a lot of bills to cover with a big win.

7. Bail Jerry Logan out of jail. Again.

Quote: EvenBob

7. Bail Jerry Logan out of jail. Again.

Bob, Bob, Bob... why would you waste good money after bad?