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I used to clean bathrooms in a casino. The amount of people sitting on the throne crying was staggering. And of course they told the toilet cleaner their sob story.
DAMN! LOLLLL!😂
Did you ever catch "unsavory activities" happening in the restrooms?
@@trentpettit6336
It is a casino bathroom, the real question is:
How much did they pay you to look the other way?
Can you please tell one or two stories?
The last 3 years the Trump Taj Mahal was open in Atlantic City, New Jersey they had slot touch screens in every bathroom stall. It sounds like a good idea until you realize how many old people and median age people forgot to flush or wipe for hours. Someone would go to take a dump and notice a giant touch screen that was a digital slot machine. They would keep playing until either they ran out of money, they remembered they were using the toilet, or eventually they would pass out and the Casino would call an ambulance.
Las Vegas tried this for a year until they realized they got to get the janitors to clean the screens. The Casino in Atlantic City also forgot to clean the screens. All Trump Casinos were shut down for tax evasion, bathroom cleanliness violations, safety violations, food poisonings, a bed bug problem that went on for 10 years, illegal immigrants used off the books, over 50 different rapes from staff in a span of 3 years, and a few minor incidents.
Ironically the 3 Casino’s that are left got bad ratings much smaller situations than all that. Tropicana’s bathroom are surprisingly cleaned once and hour and have neon colored signs to show you where the bathroom is. They never have or will have those touch screens in the bathrooms or in restaurants.
Took my son on a vacation to Las Vegas when he was about 10. This was back when Vegas was adding family friendly rides, etc. My son walked through the casino and said, "Mom, no one looks happy like they do in the commercials.". That really stuck with me.
your child is very special, he kept the ability to think by himself despite the deceiving ads. Try to make him not lose this
@@npc5983 True and well said
@@npc5983it's not special, children are curious, just that
I was at a conference at Reno and went to the casino to see what it was like. I had exactly the same reaction was your son. Not a single person looked like they were having fun. It was completely depressing. I had no desire to stay or ever come back. I also think about how much work it took me to earn my money - I can't stomach the idea of losing it for no good reason .
Dang
The 'blackjack strategy' guys always kill me. I've seen casinos where they sell those books in their gift shop, which is the ultimate racket. Pay $20 for a book to teach you how to lose your money slightly slower in the same place.
I got a gambling book for Christmas one year but I was really just wondering how to play the different games.
I remember seeing those online ads about how you can win at roulette by just doubling every time you lose and then linking to a specific online casino.
One might think that if that strategy actually worked they'd do something against that ad. And who would have even sponsored it if it did work?
The casino strategy that nobody wants to hear is "Don't gamble."
I've given it to so many people asking me how to win and they never listen.
@@omegahaxors3306 It's entertainment. You can spend $300 watching the moronic Blue Man Group, or you can spend $300 at the blackjack table. With the latter, you might walk away with some of your money, or more than what you came in with or with none of it, which is exactly what you'd leave watching the Blue Man Group with.
But no one ever complains about shows. Control your gambling. If you can't control it, find another hobby. It's entertainment, not a money making scheme.
Blackjack strategy is an L
I'm a former table games dealer and gambling addict. This is pretty accurate. Even if you play perfect basic strategy the house has a 51% edge to your 49%. And if you try counting the cards to nudge it in your favor by 1% the house will do a back off as soon as they figure it out. They HATE winners.
Yep online it's even worse with backing off. These sport books have algorithms that measure your EV (expected value) . Get too much into +EV and your limited to joke levels of allowed bets (MGM is know for pennies) . This can happen even when your net losing at said book.
Professional card counter can make a tidy sum, but they go from casino to casino to avoid attracting attention, they need to actually be smart (not just think they're smart), and casinos are increasingly employing counter measures even for that.
Depends on the house rules though. Some casinos offer stuff like surrender
There are plenty of videos from people playing the casinos system......they got banned from the casino because the casino cant win. x,D
@@jjtt248 this man has been paid by the casino industry 👆
"she didn't win cause she gambled, she won because she stopped"
I need to send this to my aunt right now who has a horrible gambling addiction
As they say "in the end the house always wins"
My favourite quote is from a book about casinos... "Remember, casinos are NOT in the business of gambling, they're in the business of making money."
Can you not? Your aunt owes my dad and he promised me a PS5. Could please wait until he breaks her knees?
maybe you should give her the russian roulette gamble...she will win very fast 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
If reasoning with an addict worked, there wouldn't be any addicts.
The only way I've ever reliably won at a casino was by playing so slowly that "free " drinks cost slightly less than in a bar 😂
Paigow is the game for drinkers. It's a slow game you push on almost every hand.
Going to casino and playing with the minimum is usually a winning move compared to other going-out options.
Club is more expensive and concerts are for sure more expensive. After all we work to get money to spend it on things - nothing wrong with casinos, just with some of the customers there
@@eljefemaximo5420 I was doing it with Texas Hold-Em. You can just sit around and never actually get in hands just getting blinded out collecting comp time and free drinks. Granted I was playing Hold-em to win, so sometimes I busted early, but most of the time when I lived in Reno, I would buy in for $120, sit there for a few hours, getting free drinks, using some of the money from the table on a massage, eat my comp meal, then head out sometimes up, sometimes bust. Overall I would say I got my money's worth from the experience.
@@raves8451 Actual card poker is different, because you are not playing against the house, you are playing against the other players. The house makes it's money from the rake. So if you are good you can, in theory, make money.
Oh boy, you sure screwed them.
I once saw a great movie on casinos - in the movie the casino manager was asked by a repoerter, "What is the house edge?" The manager answered, "The casino's edge is that the gambler thinks he is going to beat the odds." This really sums up gambling in a nutshell.
The difference is that in a plane the maths are in your favor@@Neuroburger
As someone who used to work in a casino gor 2 years this is 100% accurate. Its a sick, disgusting addiction
it is depressing how addicting it is. My uncle is a hopeless gambling addict and he ended up selling his company and home, screwing my dad over for tens of thousands on a business deal, blew hundreds of thousands he inherited (an inheritance he also partially stole from my dad), screwed his mom over for tens of thousands, and ended up neglecting his kids even though he was a single dad basically leaving them with no parents or family to depend on which ruined their lives all because he was always chasing that high of winning.
I've been addicted for years I'm on the road to recovery
I wouldn't say it's the addiction that's so disgusting, it's that we allow institutions to exist when their whole reason for being is to create and prey upon the addiction.
@@evanbarnes9984 Gambling has been a thing since casinos and gambling dens have been a thing.
The institution never created the addiction. People did that themselves, all the institution does was commercialize the experience. You can remove every casino on the planet and you'll still end up with rooms full of people playing games of chances and going broke.
“The Twilight Zone” episode,” The Fever” starring veteran actor Everett Sloan: The “one-armed bandit” keeps calling his name: “Franklin…!!Franklin…!!!”
As a gambling addict that finally saw it like it is, you’re not chasing the money, you’re chasing the high of winning.
Endorphin rush.
@@ltmundy1164 if I could bottle that feeling up, I would lol
@@playdiscgolf1546: Chasing that first rush wave. And this is how the addiction begins...
@@ltmundy1164feed the machines
I can't believe anybody even feels that way about gambling.
You DON'T win. The odds are FUCKED. It's the dumbest bet you can make.
They don't even make the odds kind of ok to throw money at.
This isn't comedy, this is education.
This is telling people they can blame all their bad decisions on somebody else.
@@bowlinglefty at what point in the video does it say that people losing money there have no responsibility for their loss? It just points at exploitation based on creating addiction
@@bowlinglefty Not anymore, because if you saw this whole thing and went gambling anyways the responsibility is back on you.
@@tomlxyz The video is full of it. No clocks so you don't know what time it is. (nobody owns a watch or a smart phone). The type of music, flashing lights, free drinks, you name it. The addiction is created by the weakness in the mind of the addicted. It's all blamed on the casino even by your admission. Everyone is free to quit at anytime. No one is tied down and forced to play against their will.
@@bowlingleftyThere’s no _explicit_ force, yes. Obviously no one at a casino is holding a gun to your head or threatening your family or yelling at you or whatever else can be considered explicit. What casinos use are _implicit_ forces to encourage more spending and more playtime. Many of the tricks pointed out by the video are exactly that. Places like those are notorious for their utilization of psychological phenomena. Hell, you can even find parallels in video games that have RNG-based loot as their main reward source. Destiny, Division, World of Warcraft, Borderlands, etc. are good examples.
I was with a friend at an event at Atlantic City - he wasn't gambling. When someone asked him why he wasn't he responded "because I know how math works".
He is a smart man.
You play for the variance, not the expected value.
@@Trephining
So playing to lose ?
I miss when the casinos had all their waitresses in tight sexy outfits... so no reason to visit the casinos today.
He should have responded, "because I like my money."
The times I gamble I set a budget and expect to lose all of it. Makes it feel real nice when I actually leave with more money than I came in and I don't lose more than I'm willing to. Of course, I don't have the personality where I want "just one more hand, one more spin, one more pull of the lever." I see it the same as getting ripped off buying cheap tourist crap when on vacation, it's a part of the experience.
My aunt won 5K on a scratch ticket. It was the worst thing that could have ever happened to her. After that she would gamble away her entire paycheck as soon as she got it, bills be dammed. It was so sad watching my uncle living and dealing with this. He loved her till the end but she distroyed them financially.
It only takes one time. I'm sorry for what happened. I was just glad I won $127 in a Daily 3 drawing once, but I never part with more than $30.
That wouldnt work on me. I’m completely against gambling. If I ever won 5k I’d take that money and run with it. The lottery and casinos would never see me again. But for me to win I’d have to gamble in the first place, which I don’t do. It’s an ingenious system that seeks out the exact type of person susceptible to being hooked.
@@FatherManus if you’re completely against gambling, how can you win 5k. Well if you’re a vicar, then you’re full of crap anyway.
@@raynarks If you actually read the whole comment you’d know I said that already. And my name is a reference to Bloodborne.
@@FatherManusSmart choice. If you won 5k, you won 5k. Don go chasing for more because we all know playing in casinos don't make you win.
When I was 21 I went to Vegas, I remember losing quite a lot in one casino in particular, over the space of hours but the moment I actually won something they wanted to see ID.
every single thing in a casino is designed to extract as much money from you as possible
They were probably preparing to ban you. They are legally required to ID you to give you chips. Past that they ask for ID so they can add you to a list. Never give the casino your ID at that stage. Call the police.
I'm reminded of the person who won on a slot machine, and was told by the casino that the machine malfunctioned and they then refused to pay anything.
Yeah for tax purposes dude....
One thing he didn't menton: If you do manage to consistently win (not easy, but it can be done), we'll kick you out.
This one was a little more depressing than others. I love it.
Cool vest and tie Roger!🎰🃏🎲♥️♦️♣️♠️
Hopefully people watch this and learn gambling isn’t a good idea
The only ones I'm depressed by are the ones that apply to my life. Finally, he releases one that's not about me!
yea, but this one is 100% up to you, you have the power to avoid this
A lot of people say working at a casino is the most depressing job ever and the casino employees are the biggest losers at the gambling.
I was born and raised in Nevada, spending much of my childhood surrounded by flashy slot machines, free buffets, & cocktail waitresses, and let me tell you: this video is 100% true.
Same. In my rural city, there was no question about if gambling should be legal and if it was morally sound. It paid for our programs and reduced taxes, and it was all on the backs of the slot zombies.
@@Neuroburger At least when I grew up around there, Boomtown was still around. Although Nevada has been getting to be a lot more kid friendly, with kid friendly places to leave your kids while you gamble. Boomtown had a massive arcade, and it was a popular place to go to birthday parties. The casinos really knew how to hook us at a young age.
Its Honest Ads, after all.
And the sad part is nothing is free in Vegas anymore. It’s even worse.
I always liked my dad's system. He viewed gambling like paying for entertainment, like a theme park or a movie. His money to spend went in his right pocket. His winnings went in his left pocket. When his right pocket was empty, he cashed out. I personally don't gamble unless I'm gifted a scratch off. Any winnings I keep. That's *my* system. Never went bust yet!
not taking risk ? what's the point of gambling than mate
@@unrefusableoffer4412 taking profits duh!
@@unrefusableoffer4412no one I know wants to play cards with me :(
Scratching a gifted scratch off is not gambling at all. You have no risk invested
Tbh being gifted a scratch off ticket is like the worst gift you can give someone. Like seriously, buy me a box of Mac and cheese if you're going to be that way.
I worked overnight maintenance at a casino. And this is so accurate except the fact no one OFFICIALLY dies at the casino. They die in ambulance just off property
I get your point. But I have done ambulance work. Nobody dies in an ambulance, they die at the hospital. Even if the patient is unresponsive with no heartbeat and has totally bled out, we will continue doing some kind of care so the patient will officially die at the hospital.
@@LucidDreamer54321semantics and wordplay.
@OddZodd Hello Troll. How is the trolling going?
@@LucidDreamer54321 How is that trolling? They seem to just be agreeing with what both of you wrote.
@glatt1817 Crawl back under your bridge and try to think of something useful to do with your life.
I remember going to a Casino for the first time with my cousin, his girlfriend and two of his friends. I went and played slots with $20, I was still learning the machine when I accidentally pressed Max Bet and it bet $20 (I was at like $22 or something). I ended up hitting I believe it was $240. I didn't change stakes or anything just kept playing. I was happy I won and I paid for dinner for all of us, I made everyone give me $20 so we could tip the server really well and we spent my ticket that was around $250 or so. We go outside after dinner and my cousin who's complaining about being down like $50 says to this guy standing in the heated smoking area (that's how much money they have, heated smoking areas lol) "Hey man you winning tonight?" and the guy said "Down a bit" while staring aimlessly at the floor. My cousin said "How much? I'm down $50 I'm pissed". He shouldn't have asked that but he was drinking so his filter wasn't exactly there and the guy didn't even look up and said quietly "12 or 13 thousand". You could hear a pin drop. He looked like he was a defeated man who was gonna go home and tell his wife he lost the house. You could tell it was a lot to him. My cousin never mentioned that $50 he lost again.
My word
Nice story
As a former club host, even 13k is NOTHING. Nothing. I regularly saw 6 digit losses, and a large cluster of 7 figures each night. It was insane. The stories I could tell
@@ConnerHallthose people gamble for fun dude, not for high
That’s what it’s about. Treat it like a night out at the bar, with a chance to pay for the night.
There is one trick to win in a casino that no gambler will ever tell you about.
That's to own the casino.
Well, you can work as a dealer in a casino and make money in tokes and hourly pay. My profession is table games dealer. If you don't have the money to own a casino, some casinos have stock that can be bought. I sold stock with the " LVS " ticker and made a profit.
You could easily do this. Caesar's Entertainment and MGM Resorts trade on the Nasdaq and NYSE respectively. There are others as well, but those are the two biggest. They've been on a bit of a roller coaster the last five years, but still safer than going into one of their casinos.
Unless your name is Trump 😀
@@jenji66583 times, just like his marriages. First, second, America.
My dad invested in a casino in Iowa, and left it to me when he died. I wanted out, but the way the ownership was set up, everyone in the partnership had to sell or no one did. Thankfully the business sold to a Las Vegas company and we all made a lot of money, but it still feels a little, um, weird. (Not enough to not keep the money, but enough to feel like I hurt someone in the process.)
I remember when I went to Vegas, I went to play a game of BlackJack, paid 25 dollars for a game, and wound up winning triple my money back. As soon as I got the chips, the Dealer looked at me and said “you should leave the table right now and cash that in”. And I wound up doing exactly that.
W dealer
I really hope they didn't fire him because of that
So you did win. It is possible.
@@NoHomerS yes go out and try with ur life savings
@@NoHomerS almost impossible to lose
Roger for President.
He can be Vermin Supreme's running mate.
If presidents were honest
at least he'd bring back the respect of the elderly
He probably is already.
He's like Trump and Biden combined.
I used to deal cards professionally at a California Casino. Gambling rots peoples personalities even more intensely than hardcore drug use. People lose all their integrity, honesty, kindness and become pathetic opportunists with no self-control...it was soul-crushing to see
As someone who's becoming chemically dependent on a few drugs I'll tell you _psychological_ addiction is worse than any drug. You can quit a drug and the worst of the withdraws will be gone in days, maybe weeks, but that psychological addiction never really leaves. Even many AA, NA, or similar groups will tell you its not so much the addiction thats hard to fix so much as its the reason that person became addicted since typically people abuse drugs due to something wrong in their lives. If you're drinking due to stress and become an alcoholic you can kick the booze and have it out of your system after awhile but if you cant figure out how to solve the psychological addicition and figure out how to cope with stress effectively without booze then every time you get stressed you're going to feel that need to drink. With gambling though there is no drug they're addicted to though, it's pure psychological addiction.
@@arthas640That's conflating different things. The psychological aspect is much more varied and complex than that. I also wouldn't pay much attention to groups like AA. They're designed to turn their meetings into a new crutch and they lie to people about addiction.
@@arthas640Yep, as an addict (not using) I always say addiction is like a weed (not cannabis, but regular weed) because if you just quit your addiction and don't figure out the underlying reasons you started using, that's like cutting a weed from the stem and not the roots, so it will grow back even throught concrete.
The weed is the addicition in itself and the roots are the underlying issues, that caused you to use/gamble/whatever your addiction is.
I lived in Nevada and saw first hand the consequences of addictions. There was no escape from it in that state, there were billboards, commercials, the most prominent buildings were casinos, many formal events were hosted in the resorts. If you're going to live by a casino make sure you enjoy the tax cuts by never gambling.
And you were part of the problem
Reason why I truly admire General Lazaro Cardenas.
"No gambling. Casinos shall be illegal. We need to take people out of their poverties, not keep them trapped in them."
People have no idea how brutal gambling addiction is. I think it's far worse than alcoholism, more like heroin addiction.
Didn't Zedillo legalize casinos again?
Well at the end of the day it’s still an individuals choice, boycott casinos by simply not going to them.
I'm a Casino Security Supervisor. This is DEAD ASS ACCURATE. The amount of people who sit at the machines so long they soil themselves is staggering.
AYO WTF 😂😂😂
I saw one last week. Yes it is real
😢
OMG! 😧
I'm a slot supervisor in a casino and I can definitely say: This is accurate AS HELL 😆😆
And there you are thinking, "Hey! It's a living!" Not that I'm blaming you since you only work there.
I worked at a casino for 17 years. As a casino dealer and I can say. YES everything stated in this video, is true and accurate.
To think this came out as Powerball and Mega-Millions is at a yearly high.
@@mikemann1960
Funny thing, fun fact: you stand a better chance at winning the Powerball or MEGA million. Then winning big at a casino.
@marvingreen583 I bet.😂
Mr Burns said after he built his casino “I created the perfect business, people swarm in, empty their pockets, and scuttle off”
😂😂😂
Mr. Bruns: Excellent 😬
A great "Simpsons" reference ❤
Worked surveillance at a little casino in the middle of nowhere. Had this guy come in to the blackjack tables and stick around for nearly 2 hours. Manager on Duty told us to go back and verify how many times he'd hit the ATM. 6 times. After a few more minutes he went to the ATM again, and the MOD asked him to go to the office. They talked for a while, and we listened in. MOD identified the guy had a gambling problem: He was down $18,000. Worried the guy might not even be gambling with his own money at this point, the MOD requested he would leave. Guy tried to beg for a line of credit before they told him if he didn't leave, they would trespass him. I still think of that guy to this day and hope he got help.
The last thing the casino tells you before they take your money. “Good Luck!” 😂😂
In this digital age, the slot machines operate off a card rather than coins. That card lets the casino track your gambling habits, so when you've lost enough that you would normally quit, they get an alert and send a complimentary drink or a ticket to a show to get you to stay, and lose more.
And the roulette tables are rigged magnetically and/or electronically (if it is machine operated).
@@stevecooper7883 That's highly unlikely, they do actually have legal rules for gambling... Especially for anything fully automated. It's also just not worth it in general for a casino, they'll always win in the end anyway. I think everyone forgets that for every "I won $10,000" there is an equal "Oh my god I've lost my entire life savings!".
Actually, code has been written for the machines telling it how much to pay out and how often. If you don't believe ask a coder!
Nope the RNG is just set to a return % example if the machine is set to 90% return it'll win 10 cents put of every dollar in the long run or entire lifespan of the machine there's no set amount or how frequent that would be unnecessary
@@stevecooper7883no. Casinos don't cheat, because they don't have to. They have the odds on every bet.
For every 1 person that tells you they won money at a casino, there are 9 more that are too ashamed to admit they are bad at math.
They remember the wins more than the losses. My Dad wasted a ton on scratch off tickets. He can rattle off a list of times he won a few hundred dollars and he even got 15 grand once.
But he was spending around $200 a week on tickets at the peak and if he wins he spends some of the winnings again immediately. Probably spent 4 to 5 times as much as his lifetime winnings, conservatively.
I worked at a casino installing new entertainment systems. While there i saw people relieving themself at the machines and not miss a beat, people being stretchered out and one man even jumped off the top story of the parking garage. This video is very accurate.
Every time my friends or coworkers invite me to the casino I just say "Sure, I'll go. If you give me some money to gamble with then I will go. Obviously I care enough about my own money not to gamble it away." Surprisingly it actually works sometimes. I had a friend give me 50 bucks to come with her. Naturally I lost all of it, but at least it wasn't my money. 😅
@@heavyhead2k139 next time by some weed, and cocaine and gamble... its a cool rush haha
This is the best idea I've heard
The only times I have "gambled" is with other folks' money. Said the same thing... if you give me some cash to play with, I will join you...😂 it's not my thing, though. I am glad for that.
@@monicaspector2388 That's the best way to be. Gambling is such a foolish past time.
I work in a casino. There's no better way to stir you away from the urge to gamble, than to work in such an establishment. The same people, the amount of money they lose, their sob stories afterwards, the way they can't sleep at night cause they think of all the money they lost, but you see them again the next day. Lately, the amount of young people that come is particularly worrying. Remember, you'll never win in the long run. And also, casinos get particularly busy when the economy is bad, and now casinos are especially busy.
My brother worked for a big liquor company. He said when times are bad, their most expensive brands do very well. People will splurge for a luxury when they are down, so they will buy a $200 bottle of tequila rather than face their grim reality.
@@smiddywesson2703 It's exactly like that and it boggles my mind how both gambling and alcohol are legal when they're the leading factor to so many people ruining their lives...
@@smiddywesson2703 nothing wrong with that. I have a box of Cuban Cohibas for when things are either 1)amazingly good or 2)horribly bad. I'm the same way with my high end scotch...the stuff is either for tremendous victories or a stage 4 cancer diagnosis. No different than when someone gets the death penalty and gets one last meal, or in front of the shooting squad with their final cigarette.
Casino Security for 25 years, had a gambler trying to borrow money off of me, I said lady if I had the money I wouldn't be here
I'll bet you could tell some stories
@@mattm7798I'm security as well and in the past 2 weeks I had to deal with a murderer hiding from the cops there, a s**ual assualt, regular assualt, drug use, an OD, someone with mental illness screaming about how we stole her baby, and an attempted robbery. The people trying to borrow money from us is super common (once a month or more). I had a relatively good looking 19 year old girl offer me uhh adult favours if I told her how to win on a slot machine. People always ask "Where are the lucky machines" I say every time "Well the ATMs pay out the most". What really makes me cry is seeing the grandmothers dragging in their 18 year old grandchild and telling them how to "win" a slot machine or when 18 year olds "win" an easy $750 and leave thinking "Damn I could do this all the time" knowing full well I'll be signing them up for the SE program in about a month
@@thecommunistdoggo1008 So, a quiet week then...
@@chrisantoniou4366 Nah I'm Canadian and work at a relatively good casino (the average age of our clients has got to be 50) this was a very busy week for us.
@@thecommunistdoggo1008
Your casino sounds like fun. I'm also security and I think the most exciting things that happened this week were: I had a medical for mild anaphylaxis and a restriction violation from a very cooperative and polite meth head.
My uncle used to help promote a shuttle service that would take seniors down to a casino out near San Diego. Basically his job was to fill seats on the bus, and he made decent money on that gig. But one day, a man approached him and told him what had happened to his family. His retired father, who was a regular passenger on the shuttle, had become a gambling addict and ruined his finances, as well as the credit of his adult children. The guilt ate at my uncle and he ended up quitting.
I worked as a Club Host for one of (if not that very casino) and let me tell you, they got off easy. I heard a story that ended in a double suicide. Two generations lost between a grandfather and son. And that was just one of many over 6 months. It's a terrible business when it goes unnoticed
its fine the boomers monopolized and pissed away our future why should i feel bad about them gambling theirs away? we need more gambling aimed specifically at that generation lmao.
How did he ruin his adult kids credit? Sounds like they were enabling him into debt.
Probably Barona.
@@Juncboks They could have used their credit as a minor.
Worked at a casino for 5 years. I had never seen such a realm of despair and excitement as if it was an elders scroll dlc
“Need something?”
No way, Shivering Isles REAL
I went gambling in a casino once with friends when i turned 21. The moment i was up 400 ie double what i started with, i cashed out and warched my friends continue playing for hours like a lame'o. At least i made money and i never gambled again.
I have rarely gambled but my mom was an addict and would spend 1000 to win 400 and consider it a win. I've personally have over 1600 in actual winnings do to the fact I never gamble and got lucky the few times I did biggest payout 500 bucks most scratch tickets were in bday cards but the fast play with my last dollar did get me my 500. Glad I don't enjoy the habit.
One of the most intoxicating feelings when gambling is the just one more hand syndrome, or it's cousing "ok i'm just going to play until I break even"
@@mattm7798Pernicious. If you lose 50 percent of your money, you need to make 100% return just to break even.
The worst thing that can happen to someone is for them to walk into a casino for the first time and win a jackpot. Boom they are ruined for life. I don't gamble because I'm not stupid, but anybody can become addicted if they play enough times.
I gamble in casinos and also play the horses. This ad is really true. Unlike most gamblers I keep records on every event or day I gamble. Like Roger says you will win sometimes, after all we have to make you feel like it’s possible. But every year when I add up my win and losses I usually have a loss for the year. While I gamble regularly I don’t over do it and if I win a reasonable amount I quit and go home. Same thing if I have a loosing day, I set loss limits and if I hit that number I quit and go home. So if you enjoy the Roger Casino experience just budget a certain amount of money you are willing to lose and enjoy the experience and maybe on some days you will win enough to fell good about it! See you next time sucker.
I remember the first time I walked through a casino and saw the old folks at the video slots. They all has their player's club cards in the machine with a cord attached to their shirt pocket. It looked like something out of Ray Bradbury. As if the slot machine was powering their pacemaker. They lived as long as they kept playing.
Hey, a reference one of my favorite books!
@@LVRuggerever read down and out in London?
@@liammadden7572 not yet. Just added to my list. Thanks!
My late grandfathers gambling addiction is the reason my dads whole family lived on welfare, has emotional and hoarding issues, and why my direct family had to build from the ground up paycheck to paycheck. My dad came from nothing and was shown nothing (he was the youngest child). Generational trauma that I’ve been trying to break as of late.
I’m so sorry 💗
You're all troopers, keep going
My dad gambled at the Luxor when it first opened and he had a good win streak, so they thought he was a millionaire so they gave him free rooms and service for 2 years but he didnt really care about gambling so he took advantage of the free 2 years without pitching a single dime. They figured him out a little bit later but it was already too late and in the end, he actually robbed the casino in the end with pride and i have nothing but respect and an applause for it 😂
It's not theft if you robb the robbers. Hail to the guy, he's doing Batman 's work
@@NihilistAlienpaid by addicts
@@peepothefrog4331 It‘s not paid by addicts, it‘s paid by the casino. Do you think the casino would have stopped taking addicts‘ life savings if his dad didn‘t use the room?
@@peepothefrog4331the addicts are going to give money to the casino either way
Your dad is a closet gambler. Known lots of them. Watch out
Worked surveillance for a casino in northern WI, I've seen someone go from up 5K on the blackjack table to losing it all and going to check-cashing to get three 1K cash advances from his credit card... and lost that all too. The way they kept sending free drinks his way when he was winning was almost criminal. Apparently drunk players are not as good at playing as sober ones.
And alcohol lowers people's inhibition, so they are more likely to make impulsive decisions to continue gambling.
@@JeremiahLOsborne Here in Germany it's illegal to consume alcohol in a gambling arcade, casinos are however allowed to serve alcohol, but when you're drunk you're actually not allowed to even enter either a gambling arcade or a casino and the staff has to make sure that drunk people don't gamble there. Gambling is more heavily regulated here than it's in the US, considering that even claw machines and ticket games are considered gambling.
@@MyRegardsToTheDodoTell that to Chief Runs with Aces, they would lose most of their advantage if alcohol was banned
They sent him alcohol to make him feel more comfortable while giving away his money
@@MyRegardsToTheDodo
I am so glad I don’t live in Germany.
My grandma was addicted to gambling. Lost all of her savings, home and health. Once she was on social security she’d pay her rent and gamble the rest. The shuttles from old folks homes to the casinos should be illegal.
Absolutely !
Where I live (Adelaide, South Australia) it is slot machines. Everywhere !
Where the pubs & clubs had bands & dances, there are now machines. (AC/DC started playing gigs at our local pub)
If you want to get out of the house for a break, the only thing to do is go play the slots. There's nothing else !
And think about it, if you or I started a website, that contained an electronic game or not, and stated: "deposit $0.50 to $5.00 (is the range here); you *might* win $50 - $5,000; you might not," we would be charged with running a scam.
My grandparents looked forward to their bus trips to Atlantic City. They saw people, entertainment, good food, and felt more alive than sitting around reading the newspaper or watching tv. They did nickel slots, and were happy when they won $10, and weren’t upset if they lost $50. Worth it for the day out having fun.
It’s only when people spend past their “comfortable loss amount” that things go south. For me, my limit was $20. I didn’t mind losing $20 at a casino, but not a cent more. Lost it in 20 seconds at a roulette table on a single spin - then went on with the rest of my weekend, not gambling. (The hotel stay, meals, and shows however… well, that was over $1,000 “lost”. But vacations with good food and entertainment aren’t free!)
@@stephen3164 We had the same system here for a while, it was all quite wholesome & a bit of (relatively) harmless fun.
But the system turned up the heat, slowly and steadily. Our pensioners used to go to those towns on the border of a state.
But then slots (pokies or cardies we call them) were legalized,
and over a period of about 25 years, the machines got hungrier & hungrier, more crafty & addictive, people threw all their budgets at these horrible machines that just took, & took, and took.
And everything that Roger says: no windows, no clocks, somnambulistic muzak, not even the nibbles & drinks anymore (after covid).
It’s good she didn’t give up on hitting the jackpot…100% of people quit before there next big win
there are some old people who invested in casinos, do you think about them??? 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
I remember when the largest casino on the East Coast opened. I went in one day bought $40 worth of $1 tokens and sat down at one of the slot machines. After a couple of hours I had three and a half cups full of token but I remember it really didn't seem like real money because they were only tokens. I kept playing until I was down to one and a half cups and decided to leave. When I cashed them in I had over a hundred and thirty dollars then realized that if I had left with the three and a half cups I'd had over $800. Never went back after that.
Swallowing your pride and leaving when you're ahead is the only way to really beat a casino. But they are masters at making you stay as long as possible.
Literally what happened to me.i went in with 5 bucks. I kept winning roulette, beginners luck or something, because I was just randomly picking spots and boom, winning every time! I got up to about $120 and moved on to a different game, the slots! Immediately lost $20....but figured I'm up a hundred, let me play all of it....I won $1000....but for some reason, it didn't seem like real money, it seemed like game points because it was digital.i kept playing,lowering my wage to a dollar, lost a bit but won more til I was up to 1500....so genius me, decided to play max wager....I was playing for about a half hour and still around 1500.... When all of a sudden I started losing. Over and over. Lowered the wage, and still lost!!! I lost every roll for the next 50 slots!!!! So I cashed out at 450 and left! It felt so rigged, I will never do slots again but I'll def do roulette occasionally with 5 bucks!
As a casino dealer, I told many players after they hit something on the tables where the cash desk is, but guess how many followed my advice… addiction and greediness for more overtakes
I work at a famous casino and this is so so true lol. Vegas wasn’t built by winners folks. 😂
What surprised me tho is building a casino isn't a money printing factory. There are plenty of casinos that do lose money, not necessary from people winning tho lol
@@mattm7798 Depends on the a area (Atlantic City is a loser). Las Vegas casinos generally make money. Occasionally they run into problems with extravagant projects (non casino related) that cause them to lose money, but generally if the management knows what they are doing, they can make money. Speaking of extravagant projects, time will tell if this Sphere set to open in a few months will generate any money. It may be the casino has to subsidize it.
Do Casinos cheat in BlackJack or Poker?
@@harryharry9602 Depends how you define the word cheat. Casinos will, for example, kick you out if you play blackjack too well (aka counting cards).
@@mattm7798Losing money running a casino actually makes you a business genius and qualifed to run for president. Apparently.
"She won because she stopped" truer words were never spoken
One of the most depressing places in the world is around the ATM machines between 2am and 3am in a casino. I was just in vegas and I sat there watching a stream of people go to the ATM trying desperately to overdraw and hit their withdraw limits, one after another, all desperately trying to chase their gambling addiction.
I watched my mom go down this rabbit hole, it was hard. And that's an understatement with many upsetting stories behind it. So many traps in this world, don't let this be one of them for you.
There's the guy that knows the mathematically correct way to play every possible blackjack hand, and Roger states that the casino still has the advantage, True! It's called basic strategy, and if played perfectly the house has roughly a 05% advantage. They are still going to get your money, It just takes longer. And casinos have time. All it takes to bankrupt you. Then he mentions card counting. That is the ONLY way a player can ever get an advantage on the house, but it requires playing perfect basic strategy, perfect counting, perfect money management, and perfect knowledge of a few deviations. It also takes hundreds of hours and thousands of hands of brain bending play for the math to work out, with painful losing streaks along the way. If you can do that, you're called an "AP" ( Advantage Player ) Casinos don't like APs, because they don't tolerate winners, and when surveillance realizes they have an AP in the house, will invite ( it's not really an "invitation" ) you to leave. As Roger says, many casinos beat APs with continuous shuffle machines, That ruins card counting immediately. Those crystal palaces are not built on winners. They are monuments to losers.
Because of the optical nightmare of kicking patrons out for winning, casinos have developed a new strategy for card counting.
First they have the dealers count cards as well, and if they notice advantage playing, they change the way they deal. You won't even notice them doing this because you'll be too busy counting, but needless to say your trick will stop working, and because it's impossible to tell between a losing streak and your advantage just being gone, you'll be there until you lose it all. Because advantage players have extremely high confidence, higher-than-average risk tolerance and usually buy higher-than-average amounts of chips, they'll stick around a lot longer and spent a lot more making the casino a lot of money.
@omegahaxors3306 so what is this new invisible deal you're speaking of? As a counter and a card mechanic, you peaked my interest. I'm aware of mid shoe shuffles, extremely shallow cuts, flat bets, and back offs. But without cheating by dealing seconds or bottom dealing (hard to do in a shoe game), idk of "new deals"
@@moglie431 Shut up, debate dork. Not going to read the rest of your comment if that's what you're leading it with, because in real life you'd be on the floor by then anyway.
I suppose the problem with this mathematical casino geniuses is, if if you have figured out a system you’d need a ton of cash to lose before the profit (might) come in. You’re not going to win every hand, you could lose big for the first hour or two.
@@notmenotme614 it's pay to play and you're right, you need deep pockets to even attempt this.
The most simple and effective argument is "If any gamblers actually made money here, how is this casino not only in business but can afford lavish decorations, free food, comping you alcohol, and free rooms for high rollers?"
Past that it's statistically impossible for you to win if you play a lot. Every game has greater than 50% for the house and the law of large numbers kicks in as you play more games. You're literally more and more likely to lose money the more you play.
But my mommy says I’m special, so I know I can beat the odds.
this gets amplified by the fact that people will eventually start doubling down regardless on if they are winning or losing. On a winning streak, double your bet and quadruple that money. Losing, double your bet and make it back. Either way it just accelerates how fast/much money you will lose.
Like the movie casino, stated. You will never beat the house, cause. Your money and your pockets aren't deep and long enough. Not deeper or longer than the casinos.
Polymatter showed that profit margins for casino games are tiny % of money passing through
So they rely on sheer volume, 3% of $1M is nice
Even if someone is lucky, only the house benefit from the big numbers.
This is why in Portugal, by law, all casinos here make you sign a waiver before you enter stating in all caps: I hereby agree that financial loss is highly probable with participation in gambling activities. The casino holds no liability against financial loss resulting in gambling activities
I won at gambling for a long time, card counting blackjack, did it as my main income for a few months when I was out of a job. I had a fixed bankroll and cashed out everything above that amount frequently. It worked fine until I 'worked' while drunk; lost the entire bankroll, but had enough sense to call it quits. Even considering the lost bankroll I came out on top, but for the time I had spent I earned little more than minimum wage.
Sure
Bro, I 100% believe that happened
I’ll take things that never happened for $600 Alex.
As a former casino employee and Texas Holdem aficionado you’d hear more believable stories from men in prison.
I used to work as a bartender for a casino. This is highly accurate, and why I stopped working there.
This job is not for empath peoples
I worked at a casino for about five years. The company treated its employees very well. Between the gambling addicts, the RIDICULOUS rituals of rubbing the machines, and all the old people blowing through their retirement I was done. This video is accurate as can be... Never again.
*its employees
its = possessive
it's = it + is
@@mousermind your comment was 100% irrelevant and unwarranted. Just because you've got a sad life doesn't mean you need to shit on others. Have a 'blessed' day.
Oh man the machine rubbing gets me every time haha. That and people screaming when they win on a minimum bet like they just won the Powerball
@@JustinHuddlestonIsAwesome You do realize that some people actually appreciate and learn from grammar corrections, right? Some people on the internet are using english as a 2nd language, and find this sort of thing useful. You don't have to get your knickers in a twist and shit on anyone who provides a polite grammer correction... especially when their corrections were not directed at you.
Also, "Your" should be capitalized when it's at the start of a sentence.
@@robotnoir5299 No. Unless someone is asking for advice or correction it is generally unwarranted when communicating in an unprofessional environment aka, the internet.
What’s worse is their not legally required to pay you if you hit the jackpot on the slots 🤦🏾♂️ the couple cases I’ve seen of this were deemed a “machine malfunction” by the casino staff and they won in court
I remember chit chatting with a blackjack dealer in the wee hours of the morning and he said "you seem like a nice guy, do you want some advice?" I said "sure" and then he said my best bet would be to leave.
This was really a damn good one! Mark your line "Wow, you got a plate of crab out of us and a whisky sour that was just lemonade. Boy, you sure screwed us over" was some damn good writing! As always Jack you were great!
Who's jack?
@@hm5758 Roger Horton is played by the actor Jack Hunter.
They list the credits in the description now.
CAST:
Roger Horton: Jack Hunter
Woman: Britt Migs
Man: Brian Morabito
They must have edited the description as I was pretty sure Mark Hill wrote this episode when I looked at the description. Might have been an error on their part.
Forgot to mention the crab was rancid and the whiskey had bugs floating in the bottle...
i was playing blackjack next to a guy wearing a hat that had a fake dog turd on the top. It read sh#@head. He made a pass at the dealer. She said "no thanks ive had all the sh#@heads i want for a life time"
At 4:40, the blackjack player hit on a hard 19. LOL.
As a recovering addict, myself being a physician i can say that we truly chase th BIG WIN thing onnthe screen and the music that goes along. A strategy in use is taking my ipad and put headphones and watch a series on streaming while playing, it diminishes the anxiety
Ben Franklin said " the safest way to double your money is to fold it in half and put it into your pocket"
As a blackjack dealer of many years... You guys absolutely nailed it. Soup to nuts. Bravo Roger... As always.
Except the part about blackjack. The number of decks or the method of shuffling doesn't matter when counting cards.
@@samharris246 they're talking about continuous automatic shufflers. Which make it impossible to count cards if used properly.
The real winners are the employees (at most).
He was wrong about the roulette wheel being equal to GTO blackjack. GTO black jack gives the casino a .5% advantage vs a roulette wheel where the casino has close to a 3.5% advantage. If you want to make money at a casino either don’t go there or play the 1 game where the casinos only stake is a rake which would be poker. Ofc you need to be a well versed solid poker player to do that and the casino has to offer poker as well.
@@michaelsmith2157 I don't think they meant GTO blackjack ev vs Roulette ev. I think they meant that a player with some BS made up system would save money playing Roulette. Just because it's slower. Which is absolutely true btw. 😂
And I think the point of the video was "don't play against the house". Not which game is optimal. But good job on the house edge flex 😉
We had a neighbor that would catch a free bus that boarded just a few blocks from our neighborhood and go to the local Indian casino about 40 minutes away. Her family didn't know how bad things were until they found out she had managed take out another mortgage on the home they had owned since the mid 80s, and even though they had been about 30 years and housing prices had more doubled in that time, they had zero equity in the home and in fact were so underwater that the home went into foreclosure and they just walked away.
It was very sad as there was also a language barrier involved, these were older people, and she and her husband were both diagnosed with Alzheimers disease around the same time. One of their adult children also lived in the home, and was oblivious to the whole situation.
I'm a blackjack dealer, this is 100% accurate.
Oh yeah.... that happens almost automatically at a Casino. You win some and you wind up staying put. I realized when I was in Vegas how quickly that can become addicting so I stopped myself and went back to my room or out to the Strip to act like a tourist.
When I went to AC after 2 hours I was up by $20, less than 15 minutes later I was down by $20
Yeah, I'm convinced they make the hotel rooms worse than normal hotel rooms to get you back down to the casino...i just haven't figured out how they're worse.
Steven! How many people you think are Arizonans on the strip? - umm, idk, how many? - none! only tourists live on the strip!
@@mattm7798 Probably drier AC air, less comfortable beds, chairs, and linen. Allowing of smoking in rooms, lack of proper cleaning so you can smell the regret and loss! Oh, and compact design so instead of feeling spoiled you feel in jail!
I once heard a former professional poker player say "Being a professional poker player is one of the most miserable jobs there is. It's the only job where you can bust your ass for 8 hours a day, making all the right choices and doing everything perfectly with no mistakes, and still end the day with less money than when you started."
Yeah, a professional gambler is just that, a professional. They have to boil a game to it's most basic mathematical facts. That said, good poker players know alot more than just what makes a good hand of poker and when to bet and not to. They have the ability to read people and their tells.
@@mattm7798 To be fair, the context where I heard that quote was when the former professional poker player was giving advice to some friends playing online poker, so reading tells wasn't really a factor. He also mentioned that people who make a living in online poker often play several hands at the same time for efficiency, and the online poker sites are constantly vigilant for people using bots to play an inhuman number of games simultaneously, and those two things came together once in a situation where a poker website sent representatives to a guy's house to confirm that he really was able to play 20 games of poker at once. The response from the reps was basically "Yeah, this guy's got six monitors and is somehow tracking 20 games at once, he's a complete madlad."
Learning "tells" doesn't make you immune from variance. Extreme example, but imagine your opponent is going all-in every hand for $1000 preflop and literally showing you their cards. You see their cards and decide to only call when your hand has at least 70% equity. It's still possible for you to lose 10 all-ins in a row and be down $10k, despite literally seeing your opponent's cards and making the perfect decisions.
Yep. And to stay in that life long enough to see significant gains, they have to be among the best at their stakes, or at least among the people they play (otherwise, nothing else will enable them to make a living off poker), accept losing days like that happen, consistently play bad players, plan out their bankroll to have a big enough safety net, and trust the math to work out in the long term.
Professional poker player here. It’s extremely hard to play poker for a living! It’s odd hours, constant money flowing in and out, and the game continually gets tougher every year. Not only do you have to have the technical skills but also the soft skills that go along with it(emotional control, money management, healthy lifestyle and good game section). It’s really only worth it if you truly love the game and if you make over six figures anything less it is a miserable career.
Roger is SO right! In the early 70's I played blackjack for a living. The games were crazy good ... single decks at every casino dealing 3/4 before shuffling. The Dunes had a double deck game where every card was dealt ... but no one played because the single decks were so good. I used to love going from casino to casino and checking out the BJ variants. After being bared from 19 casinos, I decided to get a job. Now, it sickens me to see the beyond unbeatable BJ games offered. Just 5 years ago, many casinos offered Full Pay Deuces Wild slots were if you played perfectly you had a (high variance) 1.09% edge on the house. Amazingly some actually had a sign atop the machines that advertised just that. No longer ... now the Casinos want all your money ... as quickly as possible 😢
They are so greedy they cannot abide any winners at all.
I work at a casino, and the old lady shaking a turd out of her pant leg literally happened here, though it's not as shocking and unexpected as you'd expect when you know the kind of people that frequent casinos
Yuck 🤢!!
you're frighteningly honest, roger, and i'm grateful for it.
Nobody can put a smille on my face and then wipe it clean off a half a second later the way Roger does
Casinos are the perfect subject to teach statistics class. So many applications of them show how the house applies their edge in all the games guaranteeing the house to keep a cut of every bet placed.
Can confirm, I used to work at a casino and we had old folks just die at the slot machines. Many of them wore adult diapers and theyd shit and piss themselves too. Crazy 'good luck' rituals like bringing their chips in the bathroom and splashing piss on them (im not joking). People of ages between 30-85 (they dont last much longer than that) just blowing all of their retirement and life savings chasing the 1 big win after 20 straight losses. Leaving their kids in hot cars in the parking lot for hours only to be arrested for child abuse and then back at the casino a few months later.
Stay away.
Please never stop making these video, they are awesome!!!
I worked at a slot joint for a while and the crackheads were always the ones with the greatest systems
As someone who works at a casino this is so accurate. There was a guy who shot himself in the parking garage last month. Everyone was told to keep it hush hush.
In Vegas in 1980, I put one quarter in one slot machine one time. I lost. My entire gambling history.
There are 2 ways to make money gambling; own a casino or write a book telling others how to win at casino games.
Owning gaming stocks doesn't necessarily guarantee profits. Ask any shareholders in Trump Entertainment.
@@ltmundy1164 I was about to say. But then everyone else thinks he has a great, business mind. Stable genius...
Or poker. GTO poker makes money long term.
@@frankpinmtl: NJ gaming commission intern during college years. Well ahead of his 'Art of the Deal' years; long before he overbid for Taj Mahal against Merv Griffin.
Not if everyone else is playing gto then you are all losing to the rake
I've always hated casinos. Been called a lot of not nice things because of that. TY for the validation. Next time I'm told I'm weird because I don't want to go to the boat I'm going to show that person this video.
W opinion
I work in a casino and I hate them. I never would set foot in one outside of my working hours. Although they would be better if they didn't allow smoking (I live in Las Vegas). Luckily I don't have to be on the floor the whole time. Smokers are obnoxious who think it's socially acceptable to throw lit cigarettes on the floor or let their smoke go in your direction.
I've always hated them also.. never been called not nice things for it though. Probably because I only hang with people that get it. Maybe change your social circle?
w opinion
everyone claims to be a freethinker until you actually freely think and go against every freethinkers preconceived thoughts
It's honestly scary that such a thing not only exists but is perfectly legal in many areas of the world.
It's better depending on where it is
@@jayandrews4807cute, they got you too
@@jayandrews4807or worse
Better for it to be legal and regulated. Prohibition just forces people to go underground.
@@dalastdon2574 > Regulated
HAHAHAHAHA
"The house always wins." is one of those few figures of speech, that are actually true.
I know how to beat a casino!
Have an anxiety disorder and be an introvert, dislike loud noises and crowds and flashing lights.
I never gamble, because the experience is wholly unpleasant! :D
Literally the only way to win is to not play.
@@AlexParkYT Yes. Also I'll take the plate of crab without shame.
@@JetstreamGW As you should.
Bonus points if you have borderline OCD, accidentally buy more food then you can eat, and then the only way you can justify throwing it away is to tell yourself that you were going to gamble with it instead and leave.
I'm allergic to cigarette smoke. Causes severe sinus inflammation in me. And casinos won't go no smoking, because losing a customer to a cigarette break is much more common than people like me.
Good one. Now do the sequel: If investing in the stock market was honest
The video we need
insert "stock market" where "casino" is, ditch the food parts and oh add the allure of being able to lose your money from the comfort of your home.
You'll be competing with major banks and men like Warren Buffet who've got advanced algorithms and teams of analysts at their disposal, but you've got an even chance of winning.
The stock market is totally different they don't have any bright distracting lights ( electronic stock ticker) or pavlovian anticipation manipulation tools (like a starting 🔔) oh... wait they do. Never mind!
@@rocksfire4390 and the goofy mascots like the ftx guy and shkreli
As an avid poker player, so I have spent too much time in the casino. I wasn’t prepared for the horrifically accurate call out of old people wetting themselves at the slots
LOL "We still made a killing tonight". That phrase sounds savage right after a slot-machine lady passed away.
"Wow, you got a plate of crab out of us and a whisky sour that was just lemonade. Boy, you sure screwed us over"
Of all the Honest Ads I have watched, somehow this line is the most evil
As a college student the promos casinos run were great. Free buffet and $40 of matched bets which we would use on craps pooling our money to average 1:1 return. We'd then not spend a penny more and go to one of the many comfortable places to do homework while waiting the remainder of the 4hr for the bus back.
That plate of crab and whisky sour is the best way to win at a casino.
@@COASTER1921 and then some of the college students who take advantage of this become addicted to gambling and lose everything later in life and the casino still wins and it only cost them some free food xD
@@franchstar1 Yes, absolutely agreed. This is definitely why they were perfectly okay with us doing homework in the casino and taking up a fair amount of space on their busses despite them knowing our usual routine at the casino. As far as I know none of us gamble at all now that there are fewer promos without being tied to the cards (we're also all engineers so plenty good at math).
That's why I always order a bottle or can of beer when at a casino. they don't get watered down.
Won $75 at slots in Vegas spent about $8 to get it so only won around $67 I just stopped while I was ahead. Friends didn't lost a few hundred a piece. Some casinos even give you 5-$20 on a card just to get started lol
6:25 Roger: "Play Red 19, you can't lose. Also, verbal contracts are not legally binding contracts in this state, so I can verbally make any BS promise to you. 😆"
I used to work at a casino as a guard. I've seen death more death in that one year in casino security than I have in my 2 in the military
You know, these are usually a bit over exaggerated, but this was pretty spot on. Especially the explanation of why there's no windows, clocks or actual music in casinos.
That last one stuck out to me, as every casino I've ever been to (including the one I worked at for 3 years) has played actual licensed music, although it wasn't particularly loud. I picked up on something of a schedule for them, too: classic rock or country (region depending) to appeal to the older clientele in the morning/early afternoon hours, and then Top 40 in the evening and overnight once the clientele got a little younger
I think a lot of this is changing, my casino plays actual music 24/7, has windows, structures their slot machines in straight lines, no mazes, restrictive bar serving to prevent or limit intoxication of the guests. All these changes to keep customers who have a lot more options.
Phone on vibrating timers is the only way I know how to put fking cards down and go home... if you couldn't bring phones ino a casino I could easily be gambling for literal days
They don’t design casinos like that anymore. Some renovated ones in Vegas have a bunch of windows. The casinos I frequent all have music playing.
If you stuck around longer u might win
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You know that jackpot is like two spins away, you can't stop now or somebody else will get it. Then all the money you spent will have been for nothing.
You've been here 6 hours, the machine HAS to pay out eventually and you're probably so close!
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I gambled once when i turned 21. I walked in, had a drink, and ended up losing 200 bucks in about 30 minutes. I havent been back in 20 years.
I remember the wife and I did a bus trip to AC for the day when in our 20s. She did good, we left with a gain. But the biggest thing I remember was waiting in between the doors for our bus. Listening to people talking, talking about having lost the whole check till next month, the rent is gone, stuff like that. I come to the thinking that of a whole bus of people it may only be one or two won, and a few break even maybe if lucky.
"What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas", and what is mostly happening is YOUR money!
I know someone who works in a casino and that bit about patrons literally shitting on the game floor actually happened once. What the person didn't realize is that there are cameras all over the casino so she was caught on camera and it was pretty obvious she didn't have any underwear on under her dress because of how she managed to shit on the floor without anyone noticing.
My cousin used to work as a bartender at casino. She saw people peeing and shitting at the slot machines.
Many years ago I saw a Chinese man wet himself at the bookies in the UK
They should call that Casino the Taj Mahal.
The greatest gambler I ever heard of was Chico Marx. He would bet on horses, fights,sports games, poker or any other game. He would bet you on which of two birds would fly off the power line first. But never in a casino. "Never bet against the odds" , he said. When asked how much money he had lost by gambling over the years , he said, "Whatever Harpo has in the bank, that's how much I've lost !
As a former blackjack dealer. Mostly accurate. Except card counting isnt negated by automatic shufflers
Gambler: I know how to count cards.
Casino: *J Jonah Jameson laugh*
"She won because she stopped." Exactly. My grandfather never stopped. He would go into a casino with two or three grand and, at some point, he would often be up a grand, but he would always keep going until he lost it all.
I used to think it was cool that my grandfather was a "high roller" and was well-known to the casinos in Lake Tahoe. That was before he retired and social security became his only income. He had a lot of money at one point and he gave it all to casinos before he died. He sold his house and gave all of the money he got for it to casinos.
He was living off of his social security (which he would have gambled away as soon as he received it if my mother hadn't taken control of it) in a crappy subsidized apartment for low-income and disabled people when he finally died. He had become a massive burden to his family all because he would rather give his money to casinos than spend it on useful things or leave something for his family.
Music to the ears of any vp for casino operations: Let. It. Ride.
99% of gamblers quit before they win big.
@@voxamplifier3335 No, they don't. They just keep on playing, so even if they win big, they lose it all again.
A fool and his money are soon parted.
Well he better hope he got right with THE JUDGE of all men!!!!
One of the most stressful vacation experiences I've ever had was trying to get the fuck out of Cesar's Palace in Las Vegas. Every person we asked pointed us a different direction and we ended up doing circles. Took about an hour to get out of there.... at least we could smoke a cigar inside though!
All but certainly a deliberate effort to keep you inside.
Yeah I totally agree with that, I was in Vegas last week for the first time. And it’s like a massive maze to get out of the casino floor, it’s pretty deliberate that they do that.
My probability professor was a consultant for a casino and it turns out they have strict regulations on the expected value of your winnings for each game they have. It's always at least slightly negative, if not very negative.