# Friday night, $2,000 at the casino **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 27, 2025, 6:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/friday-night-2-000-at-the-casino/1017555 "2025-04-27T06:39:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 8
**Author:** ![MW\_Degen\_Gamblr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ec9cab/32.png) [@MW\_Degen\_Gamblr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MW_Degen_Gamblr)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2025, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/friday-night-2-000-at-the-casino/1017555/141 "2025-04-29T18:53:25Z")
> [@Beckdawrek](#): > > Hey, the claw games can be AP’d.(if I understand AP) > > According to some dude on YouTube. Probably so. I just don’t give a damn about a plooshie that looks like a budgerigar. ---
**Author:** ![MW\_Degen\_Gamblr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ec9cab/32.png) [@MW\_Degen\_Gamblr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MW_Degen_Gamblr)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2025, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/friday-night-2-000-at-the-casino/1017555/142 "2025-04-29T19:01:36Z")
I have not even touched on “multi carding” or “comp hustling” yet. Slots are designed by computer nerds. Your casino’s “Platinum card”? Those are designed by the promotions department. Glitches galore! ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2025, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/friday-night-2-000-at-the-casino/1017555/143 "2025-04-29T19:02:55Z")
Aww. Come on. We all need a stuffed toy. I used to grab them for my old rat terrier. Til I had to have about 20lbs of fluff surgically removed from her gut. My grandsons always want me to get Pokemon cards out of one particular claw machine. I generally just buy them a packet. It’s cheaper. ---
**Author:** ![MW\_Degen\_Gamblr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ec9cab/32.png) [@MW\_Degen\_Gamblr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MW_Degen_Gamblr)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2025, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/friday-night-2-000-at-the-casino/1017555/144 "2025-04-29T19:04:43Z")
Do any of those claw machines have 1990s beanie babies? If so, I’m in! I don’t want those damn things, but I can sell them. ---
**Author:** ![Saint\_Cad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saint_cad/32/18907_2.png) [@Saint\_Cad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Cad)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2025, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/friday-night-2-000-at-the-casino/1017555/145 "2025-04-29T19:04:52Z")
> [@Beckdawrek](#): > > I used to grab them for my old rat terrier. You had a ratty?! I love them. If I ever get a rat-terrier plushie out of a claw machine I’m sending it to you. Speaking of that, have you ever seen the movie _Strayz_? ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2025, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/friday-night-2-000-at-the-casino/1017555/146 "2025-04-29T19:11:12Z")
Love the Ratties. I have had a couple. My old girl lived to age 23. Smartest dog I ever owned. @MW_Degen_Gamblr , who you gonna sell Beanie babies to? Everyone I know has a closet full. I have the Princess Diana one. I thought it was valuable. Nah. I gave it to the kids to play with just like all those damn worthless Cabbage patch dolls. Boxes and all. Nobody got disposable cash for that. ---
**Author:** ![Saint\_Cad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saint_cad/32/18907_2.png) [@Saint\_Cad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Cad)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2025, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/friday-night-2-000-at-the-casino/1017555/147 "2025-04-29T19:18:21Z")
I dated a woman who had to buy beanie babies for her cat because he would steal hers and make his own collection. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2025, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/friday-night-2-000-at-the-casino/1017555/148 "2025-04-29T19:37:23Z")
We’ve had BB disembowments, by live animals(including kids). Which is, at least, a year long clean up process. I can walk down the hall to this day and find a BB bead. ---
**Author:** ![Eric1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/3bc359/32.png) [@Eric1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eric1)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2025, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/friday-night-2-000-at-the-casino/1017555/149 "2025-04-29T19:46:45Z")
I’ve always wondered if people who go to casinos habitually get an anticipatory rush of hormones when they walk thru the door. My uncle shoots craps at a casino; he said it doesn’t happen until the dice have rolled a few times. I think it’s dopamine that he really gets the rush from at the table there. ---
**Author:** ![SuntanLotion](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/suntanlotion/32/16165_2.png) [@SuntanLotion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SuntanLotion)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2025, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/friday-night-2-000-at-the-casino/1017555/150 "2025-04-29T20:00:52Z")
OP, can you stop? What would happen if you did? ---
**Author:** ![wguy123](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wguy123/32/3161_2.png) [@wguy123](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wguy123)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2025, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/friday-night-2-000-at-the-casino/1017555/151 "2025-04-29T21:24:37Z")
> [@SuntanLotion](#): > > What would happen if you did? More Benjamins in his wallet. ---
**Author:** ![MW\_Degen\_Gamblr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ec9cab/32.png) [@MW\_Degen\_Gamblr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MW_Degen_Gamblr)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2025, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/friday-night-2-000-at-the-casino/1017555/152 "2025-04-29T21:31:56Z")
> [@SuntanLotion](#): > > OP, can you stop? What would happen if you did? I will lose my room comps. ---
**Author:** ![MW\_Degen\_Gamblr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ec9cab/32.png) [@MW\_Degen\_Gamblr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MW_Degen_Gamblr)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2025, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/friday-night-2-000-at-the-casino/1017555/153 "2025-04-29T21:33:38Z")
> [@Eric1](#): > > I’ve always wondered if people who go to casinos habitually get an anticipatory rush of hormones when they walk thru the door. My uncle shoots craps at a casino; he said it doesn’t happen until the dice have rolled a few times. I think it’s dopamine that he really gets the rush from at the table there. No. I feel dread. Casinos are boring. I don’t get the dopamine hit until after a big win. ---
**Author:** ![SuntanLotion](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/suntanlotion/32/16165_2.png) [@SuntanLotion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SuntanLotion)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2025, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/friday-night-2-000-at-the-casino/1017555/154 "2025-04-29T21:38:00Z")
> [@MW\_Degen\_Gamblr](#): > > > [@SuntanLotion](#): > > > > OP, can you stop? What would happen if you did? > > I will lose my room comps. Thats bad? ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2025, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/friday-night-2-000-at-the-casino/1017555/155 "2025-04-29T21:45:22Z")
Some people look at it this way, some people look at it the other way…and I looked at your first post and your rationalizations in your subsequent posts and realized why casinos make money. ---
**Author:** ![MW\_Degen\_Gamblr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ec9cab/32.png) [@MW\_Degen\_Gamblr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MW_Degen_Gamblr)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2025, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/friday-night-2-000-at-the-casino/1017555/156 "2025-04-29T21:54:06Z")
> [@SuntanLotion](#): > > > [@MW\_Degen\_Gamblr](#): > > > > > [@SuntanLotion](#): > > > > > > OP, can you stop? What would happen if you did? > > > > I will lose my room comps. > > Thats bad? I think living out in the streets, in my parents basement, or in an apartment with three roommates are bad things. Plus, I have housekeeping, pool access, and an exercise room at the hotel. Sometimes I get rooms with a two person hot tub. I might be as high as the 16th floor sometimes.I hate elevators, but once Im up there it’s fun looking down and being able to see the landscape for miles. I don’t have to close my curtains. I can dance naked if I want to. I can masturbate while watching the sunrise. ---
**Author:** ![zimaane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/a3d4f5/32.png) [@zimaane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zimaane)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2025, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/friday-night-2-000-at-the-casino/1017555/157 "2025-04-29T22:03:17Z")
First. maybe a little too much information there Second. are you saying that you don’t actually have a fixed residence and rely on comped rooms form casinos for shelter? I’m not asking to be judgmental, but I would find it fascinating if true Third, can you cite any actual casino regulation that requires games to be in a positive EV payout mode and make it visible? That would go some ways to validating your claims ---
**Author:** ![Eric1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/3bc359/32.png) [@Eric1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eric1)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2025, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/friday-night-2-000-at-the-casino/1017555/158 "2025-04-29T22:03:21Z")
Dread is interesting. I’ve had financial worries but never one when I thought I could correct it with one positive break. I’ve honestly just never had that expectation. My parents didn’t instill that expectation in me growing up for better or probably worse. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2025, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/friday-night-2-000-at-the-casino/1017555/159 "2025-04-29T22:03:49Z")
What would happen if you moved in Moms basement and saved the money? After a while you’ll be able to, someday, purchase a home with amenities that fit your needs. Like most adults do? You don’t seem very old. I think you have time. You gotta realize this is not a sustainable for longterm housing. Do you have a plan B.? ---
**Author:** ![Saint\_Cad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saint_cad/32/18907_2.png) [@Saint\_Cad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Cad)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2025, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/friday-night-2-000-at-the-casino/1017555/160 "2025-04-30T16:17:02Z")
> [@zimaane](#): > > Second. are you saying that you don’t actually have a fixed residence and rely on comped rooms form casinos for shelter? I’m not asking to be judgmental, but I would find it fascinating if true Again, exactly how much money have you lost over the past 12 months? Is it enough to pay for your own place? Do you even know exactly how much you’ve won or lose? Do you track it in a spreadsheet or notebook? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/friday-night-2-000-at-the-casino/1017555.md?page=7) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/friday-night-2-000-at-the-casino/1017555.md?page=9)