[bwind22]

I saw a story on the news Sunday morning that made me, as a gambler, want to puke. I'll try to summarize as best I can....

There's a guy with a gambling addiction and he ends up in way over his head. I'm talking WAY over. As in, this guy has like 5 or 6 million in gambling debts built up and it's all starting to catch up with him. Anyways, he finds a bank in Vegas that cashed a bad check he wrote for a quarter of a million dollars and what does he do but hit the tables, of course, trying to win himself out of debt.

The amazing thing is that he actually DID it. He ran his $250,000 all the way up to close to $9 million on the black jack tables. (9 million was enough to cover all of his debts and still leave him in excess of 2 million dollars left over.)

But, as you might assume based on the fact that he let himself get this far into debt to begin with, this guy wasn't very bright. Nor did he know when to quit because in the SAME NIGHT that he won 9 million, he lost every penny of it back to the very same blackjack table!!! Yep, he was a millionaire for all of about two hours, now he's back to being buried in debt so deep that he'll never climb out.

What an idiot. I'll tell you right now, if I ever get ahead even 1 million at the casino, I'll call it a day and take the wife out for a drink.