I don't think I've ever inspired anyone to make a movie and the one you're making a reference to I've never heard of. All I'm doing is relaying a story the way it was told to me. The guy could have been full of it but I pulled his record and it led me to believe that he was telling the truth. Feel free to look him up, Raymond Harrison. He's got nothing to hide and I don't know why people keep pulling my post down.

Had a buddy who is no longer with us who had a serious problem, he gambled on dang near everything from college to pros.
Saw him at work one day and asked him what was going on, he said hiding from his bookies.

Went to Vegas several times in the 70's and 80's and always came home broke, part of it was I was drunk & or high the whole time, other part was i sucked at gambling.
Have not been back since.

I know a lady that was a custodian at our university before she retired...she always bragged about when she'd win, but she'd always tell us about her losses, too. She would usually go up $10,000/yr. Funny thing was, she would take $1500 of her money and if she lost, her husband covered it. If she won, and she won $4000+ many times over the years, she wouldn't share it with him. Crazy lady. They have been married 45 years, so I guess he loves her or something.

Gambling addiction is just like most. The euphoria changes the brain chemistry and they keep chasing the high...it's sad and I've seen it destroy many lives.

My dad died in January of this year. He was dirt poor. Every single thing that he owned in the entire world fit into the truck of the rental car I was using, with room to spare for my luggage. The reason he was dirt poor was his gambling addiction. For the last few years of his life, my brother and I would send him $300-$500 per month for food & necessities because he had blown his "extra" money (ie what was left from his SSA payment after he paid his rent) at the local casino. I didn't begrudge the money we were sending him, as he certainly had to spend far more than that helping both of us in our early adult lives. But it was sad to see that he ended life with nothing because of that addiction.

Likewise, I'm assisting a client right now with the estate of the deceased spouse who was a compulsive gambler. Few things are as much fun for a widow/er as to get a notice from the IRS for income tax due on some obscene amount of gambling "winnings" that we know went right back into the slot machines. This is on top of the deceased spouse being broke and in debt at the time of death.

Gambling tends to drive people into unspportable debt, which is a recipe for a lifetime of misery.

I hate gambling. Small amounts seem like a waste of time and betting enough to where it matters seems foolish. I like staying at casinos when I travel but I have stayed at them a week before and not gambled a single penny.

Great buffet's though!

The key to gambling is to never sit down at the table with more money than you are willing to lose. The real key to gambling is to never sit down at the table in the first place.

The amount of poor folks who hang out at the local gas stations (small town east Texas) buying scratch offs is absolutely mind boggling.

Exactly the same for me...including the Grandfather, Lol.

I like to gamble. When I lived in OK I was at Riverwind probably 2 weekends a month playing poker. I won more than I lost, but since we moved back to DFW and kids came along I haven't been much the last several years. Now it's just mostly when we go on vacation and there's a casino where we are staying. I just take what I'm willing to lose and chalk it up to the cost of entertainment. I've never really been into slots, just table games and poker where I feel like there's at least some strategy involved.

One of my best friends has a brother that plays cards at the casinos across from Burkburnet. For the last 2 years he has had to add over 50K to his earnings on his wages from his regular job due to his card winnings. He started his own company with his winnings and I saw him a week ago, he said he has been so busy with his new company he hasn’t been to the casinos this year.

I've only played the slots once. As a young troop in Germany back in the 90s, I went over to the post bowling alley for some dinner and had 5 or 6 nickels in my pocket. I HATE nickels, so I went over to the nickel machine to try to lose them. However, I couldn't lose. By the time my order was ready, I had turned those nickels into $20, cashed out, and went back to the barracks.

Overseas U.S. clubs or MWR facilities usually have some type of slot machines or even a room full of slots. During the same tour in Germany, I got put on detail to go help the guy from the Area Support Group who goes around and collects all the money from the slots. We pulled about $14k of quarters out of each club, and I learned those machines only give out 6% of what they take in. It ain't no non-profit ministry.

We had nickel slots at the nco club in Panama. Fun times.

Wifeypoo never wins unless she doubles down and drinks like a sailor.

Las Vegas must be going broke. Everyone I meet that has been tells me how much they win and how good they are at it.

I ain't much on gamblin, I would rather blow my money on guns, beer and big chicks.

Pffft! That's nothing. I've been married for 56 years and it's a gamble every time I open my mouth.

I LOVE to gamble. Cards, slots, horses, it doesn’t matter what.
So I usually stay home.

Those casino's don't look the way they do because they lose.

A buddy of mine had a serious problem for years and started going to GA. He got clean and recently celebrated 22 years out of action.

He had all kinds of stories about the folks at the meetings.

One well to do lady was addicted to scratch offs. Apparently, there are scratch offs for 20, 50, 100 bucks. She came in one night to the meeting all shook up. She had spent the families' mortgage money, grocery money and the kid's tuition to the private school they attended on scratch offs. She swore off them that night but he said he never saw her again.

Scratch offs.

My wife loves playing penny and nickel slots, and seldom loses very much. I am the opposite, and will only donate $20 bucks to one slot and quit. The cheapest and slowest way to lose money in the casino is playing $1 KENO games. You still get free drinks, and watch all the sports on multiple TV's, and the air is generally less smoky.