Are you strictly a gambler or do you gamble and entertain yourself?

Just wondering who is strictly a gambler, meaning you go to the casino to gamble and that's it. Of course you eat and maybe sleep if overnight but just the necessities.

Or, do you do the entertainment thing, enjoying various foods, entertainment (shows and other venues), pool/cabanas/spa, as well as shop, sightsee, etc??

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Just wondering who is strictly a gambler, meaning you go to the casino to gamble and that's it. Of course you eat and maybe sleep if overnight but just the necessities.

Or, do you do the entertainment thing, enjoying various foods, entertainment (shows and other venues), pool/cabanas/spa, as well as shop, sightsee, etc??

Gambling is the main attraction, but I try to get my money's worth by taking in all they have to offer.

Gambling is the main attraction, but when I go to Vegas but I can't do it all day. I spend a day off the strip, by either going to Hoover Dam, Red Rock, Valley of Fire, or perhaps a round of golf. I try to schedule at least one extravagant dinner. The last time I was there I ate at Carnevino, which was absolutely fabulous. I also try to see one show. Pool and spa is something I don't plan for but I might go to the pool, never the spa.

In Vegas, it's definitely an all-around experience. I can't afford to gamble all day. We see one show a trip minimum, often 2. Also my g/f would kill me if I gambled all day...lol

I used to be strictly a gambler. I'm not AP either so it was actually gambling. Then I started going with my wife and now we see shows and eat nice dinners. The gambling certainly decreased which is good. I actually enjoy doing other things now. We've rode all the stratosphere rides, watched the bellagio water shows, got dessert at jean phillipes, seen the mirage volcano and secret garden, gold and silver pawn shop.... On our next trip we plan on going to the top of the Eiffel Tower and maybe take a gondola boat ride at Venetian. Maybe even check out the high roller if I can find a discount

We do both. Even on an overnight to Borgata, if there are free comedy club tickets we'll take them. Time spent laughing is better than time spent losing.

No I am not a gambler.
I go on the casino ship every 2 weeks but I buy the cruise from the casino at about 20% of the going cash purchase price.
I bet Roulette $10 on zero ( single zero here) and $180 on red and black. I lose $10 every round but get 0.34 points. With 10 points I get a free cruise night.
Sometimes if time permits I play Baccarat. I get more points so pay less but have to put up with the variance.

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I go on the casino ship every 2 weeks but I buy the cruise from the casino at about 20% of the going cash purchase price.
I bet Roulette $10 on zero ( single zero here) and $180 on red and black. I lose $10 every round but get 0.34 points. With 10 points I get a free cruise night.

So you get a "free" cruise night after intentionally losing $300...

Even if you are strictly gambling, you need breaks now & then. Mental and physical ones. Taking in a show, shopping, hitting the firing range, tanning at the pool, or just people watching with a drink are all good ways to reset yourself and get it the proper frame for your next stop at the tables.

That being said, I'm a low roller and don't get to Vegas but once every few years, so for me, each trip there needs to incorporate as much of it as possible.

Now when I'm at the local casinos here in STL, I tend to be much more about strictly gambling, as I'm usually solo, and there's no novelty here like there is in LV.

Quote: Deck007

No I am not a gambler.
I go on the casino ship every 2 weeks but I buy the cruise from the casino at about 20% of the going cash purchase price.
I bet Roulette $10 on zero ( single zero here) and $180 on red and black. I lose $10 every round but get 0.34 points. With 10 points I get a free cruise night.
Sometimes if time permits I play Baccarat. I get more points so pay less but have to put up with the variance.

The cruise costs $1500 per night? That's absurd.

Gamble and eat, if I understand the question correctly. Wait a minute, what do you mean "entertain yourself", like urinating in a glass under the table and then placing it back on the table? Nope, don't do that either.

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So you get a "free" cruise night after intentionally losing $300...

That is a funny way of putting it. I am not "intentionally losing $300...".

I am buying the cruise which otherwise would cost 5 times more.

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The cruise costs $1500 per night? That's absurd.

It is not absurd if it not in US$ but some other currency.

Here in America, we use something called FREEDOM UNITS. Not pesos, yen, pounds, we use dollars.

Quote: RS

Here in America, we use something called FREEDOM UNITS. Not pesos, yen, pounds, we use dollars.

MURIKA, F YEAH!

I usually dye my money in red white and blue so they are worth more.

Quote: RS

Here in America, we use something called FREEDOM UNITS.

I think we should move to change the dollar to this.

Hilarious.

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Just wondering who is strictly a gambler, meaning you go to the casino to gamble and that's it. Of course you eat and maybe sleep if overnight but just the necessities.

Or, do you do the entertainment thing, enjoying various foods, entertainment (shows and other venues), pool/cabanas/spa, as well as shop, sightsee, etc??

I think most people have what mathematicians refer to as Central Tendencies. We fall a bit in the middle of those two extremes. And I think most casinos want customers who fall somewhat in the middle too.

Sure, there is the Original Imperial Palace builder who gambled by building his casino atop the county's flood drainage canal and who was so obsessive about wanting Real Gamblers that he decreed "No bathtubs, Showers only". He did not want those who took relaxing baths, he wanted those who got up, showered, and hit the casino running! In reality casinos know they have to cater to a variety of gamblers in some sort of unpredictable ebb and flow. That is why casinos offer Early Bird specials as well as Late Night specials. Music and soft chairs in the lounge are to induce people to stay in the casino longer, just as the music and "free" coffee in a supermarket is designed to lure you into leisurely shopping.

In all poker rooms the rest rooms offer a wide variety of personal hygiene products to accommodate the binge poker players who can't be dragged away from the table. All casinos have lobby "drug stores" that sell razors, deodorants, perfumes, antiperspirants, breath mints, etc. Some items are priced and wrapped real fancy, some items are plain and simple and cheap.

Slot machines were originally an accommodation to the wives of Craps Players. Then Reno and Vegas started seeing the light. Bingo was never envisioned as a money maker until casinos hit upon the Odd Hours Only formula to cater to the cheapskates during Odd Hours and Squeeze them for all they've got during the Even Hours by putting banks of slot machines nearby.

Casinos know that its often the wives who want a show and a fancy restaurant while the husbands just want to drink and gamble and feed at the trough (buffet). Ain't no one who builds a gym in a casino to make a profit on the gym. They want the physically fit hard driving exercise nuts because they have money. They build spas to pamper the wives who spend that money.

I'm not much for shows, but often get dragged to one or two in Vegas. I'm surely not one for noisy pheremone filled night clubs with loud bands and absurd prices and hordes of drunken revelers. I go to the quieter jazz trio down in the two drink minimum place. Movies? Bowling? Maybe but I don't really have such things at the top of my list.

I like to play craps to wake up and get the free morning coffee, then I often hit the Starbucks for something fancy and a pastry or two that I carry up to the room by 8:00am at which time I put them next to the telephone where the aromas will surely help to awaken the sleepyhead. Eventually we would hit the casino for real and after a few hours meet for lunch and "hand shaking" (passing various bill/chips surrepitiously so as not too attract the attention of thieves). With most of the women with whom I've gone to Vegas I tried to impose the rule that they pay for lunch since their dilly dallying cost me so much time; that rule has never worked though.

Eventually it comes to late night and that is when the casino is hyper and everyone in it is hyper. Limits are higher average bets are far higher speed is intense and that is the really fun time. Some women have gambled the night away and many men routinely do it, but I've never gambled much past 3:00am.

We all have various culinary adventures or adventures with new cocktails but mostly its a trip for gambling.