# Back to Reality: What is the most you have ever LOST at a casino?? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 31, 2000, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/back-to-reality-what-is-the-most-you-have-ever-lost-at-a-casino/31485 "2000-08-31T14:13:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Bear\_Nenno](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bear_nenno/32/3358_2.png) [@Bear\_Nenno](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bear_Nenno)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2000, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/back-to-reality-what-is-the-most-you-have-ever-lost-at-a-casino/31485/1 "2000-08-31T14:13:54Z")
OK after reading the recent thread about winnings at casinos, it would seem that a casino is a wonderful magical place where it is so easy to win big bucks. So where are the real people who LOSE at the casino. Please tell me that I am not the only one!! The most I have ever lost was $80. 'Course, I only came with $80. It was a night cruise casino thing just for fun. 80 bucks is all I could afford to lose. I pretty much figured I would. My roommate actually won money, but not too much. Definitely not the thousands being bragged about in the other thread. OK losers, I want to hear about the big loses in your life- when you put the deed to the house on black and the ball stopped on red. What is the most you have ever lost on a trip to the casinos? And what is the most you have ever lost on ONE bet? ---
**Author:** ![missbunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/76d3ee/32.png) [@missbunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/missbunny)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2000, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/back-to-reality-what-is-the-most-you-have-ever-lost-at-a-casino/31485/2 "2000-08-31T14:35:30Z")
50 FF, at the casino in Monte Carlo. At today’s exchange rate, that’s about $6.95. ---
**Author:** ![Aglarond](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c77e96/32.png) [@Aglarond](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aglarond)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2000, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/back-to-reality-what-is-the-most-you-have-ever-lost-at-a-casino/31485/3 "2000-08-31T14:36:15Z")
The most I ever lost on one bet was $150. I’ve never lost money overall, though. ---
**Author:** ![Balance](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ccd318/32.png) [@Balance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Balance)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2000, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/back-to-reality-what-is-the-most-you-have-ever-lost-at-a-casino/31485/4 "2000-08-31T14:47:54Z")
The most I’ve ever lost in one trip to a casino is $20. Lifetime, I’m ahead by about $2000–that’s in about 8 years of occasional gambling. No big money, but I did pay the rent with my winnings a few times in college. I lost $100 on one blackjack bet once, but I was about $200 ahead at the time. I never go to a casino with the expectation of winning–I go for entertainment, with a set amount of cash that I’m willing to lose (in college, it was $20). If I lose that stake, I quit. ---
**Author:** ![thinksnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thinksnow/32/2849_2.png) [@thinksnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thinksnow)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2000, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/back-to-reality-what-is-the-most-you-have-ever-lost-at-a-casino/31485/5 "2000-08-31T15:06:09Z")
about $300 over the course of 2 days/nights The recommendation of never, _ **ever** _ take more than you can afford to lose is ab-O-so-lutely correct. I look at as the cost of entertainment. Now-a-days i sponser a monthly poker night at my place. Nickle ante, quarter max bet. No one loses more than $10 over the course of the night so no one walks away mad. ---
**Author:** ![Sealemon88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c68b51/32.png) [@Sealemon88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sealemon88)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2000, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/back-to-reality-what-is-the-most-you-have-ever-lost-at-a-casino/31485/6 "2000-08-31T15:13:55Z")
about $40. The most on one bet? Probabbly $10. Yup, I’m a big gambler. Yup. ---
**Author:** ![THespos](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8c91f0/32.png) [@THespos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/THespos)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2000, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/back-to-reality-what-is-the-most-you-have-ever-lost-at-a-casino/31485/7 "2000-08-31T15:49:56Z")
At one point at Dover Downs, I was down over $700 on slots, but I hit the $1,000 jackpot TWICE and ended up leaving with over $1,200 at the end of the day. ---
**Author:** ![BoBettie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4af34b/32.png) [@BoBettie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BoBettie)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2000, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/back-to-reality-what-is-the-most-you-have-ever-lost-at-a-casino/31485/8 "2000-08-31T15:54:41Z")
I think the most in one trip is probobly $300 (that I brought expressly to gamble with). Generally speaking, I’m an even player. I win some, I lose some. Zette \*\*PSST! BEAR! Did ya ever get your pants? ---
**Author:** ![Zakalwe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zakalwe/32/270_2.png) [@Zakalwe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zakalwe)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2000, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/back-to-reality-what-is-the-most-you-have-ever-lost-at-a-casino/31485/9 "2000-08-31T16:03:56Z")
Hmmm, in one visit or one trip? The most over an entire trip is $80 (over five nights, I drank WAAAAAY more than that, so I actually came out ahead). In one night it’s $400 ($350 of that was winnings from the prior night). Single bet was about $200 (spread to hell and gone over a craps table). grem ---
**Author:** ![divemaster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/divemaster/32/78_2.png) [@divemaster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/divemaster)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2000, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/back-to-reality-what-is-the-most-you-have-ever-lost-at-a-casino/31485/10 "2000-08-31T16:11:57Z")
$1200 in a weekend. Real bad run at the Hold 'em table. One bet? I was whacked a couple of times for about $300; craps with full odds can do that to you (to be fair, I only increase my bets to that amount if previous bets have paid off for me, so I wasn’t actually in the hole $300). Every once in a while 3 splits at black jack with double-downs on all will come back to whack you. Especially frustrating when the dealer shows a six, and then draws to hit 21. ---
**Author:** ![Odieman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/a87d85/32.png) [@Odieman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Odieman)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2000, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/back-to-reality-what-is-the-most-you-have-ever-lost-at-a-casino/31485/11 "2000-08-31T16:12:41Z")
Uhhh…50 cents. Sorry, I’m not much of a gambler and casinos bore me pretty fast. I guess the casinos inVegas won’t be offering me any free trips ;). Keith ---
**Author:** ![wring](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/838e76/32.png) [@wring](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wring)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2000, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/back-to-reality-what-is-the-most-you-have-ever-lost-at-a-casino/31485/12 "2000-08-31T16:17:57Z")
most I’ve lost is exactly the same as the most I’ve won. Zero. Gambling is one vice that has \*\* never \*\* interested me in the slightest. taking the fifth (as it were) on any other vices… ---
**Author:** ![aenea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c68b51/32.png) [@aenea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aenea)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2000, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/back-to-reality-what-is-the-most-you-have-ever-lost-at-a-casino/31485/13 "2000-08-31T16:24:58Z")
Well I look at my gambling wins and losses on a per trip basis. Plus I am a strictly slots person anymore, I lose even worse at the tables. The worst gambling trip for me so far has been when I lost $600 in one night and a little more the next night. Not one win. ☹ But the last few trips I have taken (RENO BABY!) have been much better! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Falcon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/49beb7/32.png) [@Falcon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Falcon)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2000, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/back-to-reality-what-is-the-most-you-have-ever-lost-at-a-casino/31485/14 "2000-08-31T16:27:47Z")
I’m like Balance…I go in with a set amount of money I’m willing to lose. When it’s gone, I’m done. Most I’ve ever lost was $40. That was my limit. ---
**Author:** ![Michi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c37758/32.png) [@Michi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Michi)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2000, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/back-to-reality-what-is-the-most-you-have-ever-lost-at-a-casino/31485/15 "2000-08-31T16:32:33Z")
I have gambled ONE time. Lost 20 bucks, all at once. Never had the urge to try again, even though my friends won a few hundred each that same night. ---
**Author:** ![Jester](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jester/32/8223_2.png) [@Jester](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jester)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2000, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/back-to-reality-what-is-the-most-you-have-ever-lost-at-a-casino/31485/16 "2000-08-31T18:34:33Z")
Sorry to do this, but since I can’t gamble (legally, at least, \) I thought I’d just enlighten you with a Simpson’s quote: Drunken Island Native: “How can Ace be 1 AND 11? What kind of God would allow that?” Again, my apologies. ---
**Author:** ![CnoteChris](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/278dde/32.png) [@CnoteChris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CnoteChris)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2000, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/back-to-reality-what-is-the-most-you-have-ever-lost-at-a-casino/31485/17 "2000-08-31T19:30:05Z")
$650.00 in three hours. 18 yrs. old at the time and thought I knew how to play BlackJack. Wrong. ---
**Author:** ![BurnMeUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/91b2a8/32.png) [@BurnMeUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BurnMeUp)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2000, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/back-to-reality-what-is-the-most-you-have-ever-lost-at-a-casino/31485/18 "2000-08-31T19:42:34Z")
The most was $350 over 4 days in vegas… i keptr winning enough to keep me afloat and full of comp. drinks. I figures that’s not bad for 4 days. ---
**Author:** ![HeyHomie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/heyhomie/32/207_2.png) [@HeyHomie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HeyHomie)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2000, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/back-to-reality-what-is-the-most-you-have-ever-lost-at-a-casino/31485/19 "2000-08-31T20:47:26Z")
One Trip: 50 (on my very first trip to a casino, no less) One Bet: .75 (3 quarters; again on my very first trip) ---
**Author:** ![OpalCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8edcca/32.png) [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2000, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/back-to-reality-what-is-the-most-you-have-ever-lost-at-a-casino/31485/20 "2000-08-31T23:54:07Z")
About $10 in Vegas. Slot machines. I don’t enjoy gambling, but I was in Vegas and I was bored. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/back-to-reality-what-is-the-most-you-have-ever-lost-at-a-casino/31485.md?page=2)