More Questions Than Answers

24 October 2023

By Frank Scoblete

More Questions Than Answers

Okay, I love to play in the casinos, I do. I’ve had many years where my wife, the Beautiful AP, and I spent over 130 days in casinos throughout the country. But I am not fully able to understand why people play the way they play. Shouldn’t a part of casino play focus on saving money from the house edge? I think it should; do you?

Some questions:

• Why do some players bet more and more when the losses will be more and more as well? What would make that scenario fun?
• Why do players increase their bets when they have had a short lucky streak when the house edge works against that extra money too?
• Do some players lose their sense of reality when they are playing games?
• Why do many players tend to play faster and faster the longer they are on a machine or at a table game?
• What causes such a desire for length and a fast speed of play?
• Is it more fun to actually play fast when that is exactly what the casinos want?
• Why do players seem to do themselves in when the casinos almost never do themselves in?
• Are players unaware that comps are based on the potential losses of the player over time and not some inherent goodness of such players?
• Players earn comps by showing the casino how much they are willing to lose. That’s the formula.
• Do casino executives wake up in the morning wondering why they did what they did at the games the night before as some players often do?
• Why do some players think that spending seemingly endless nights of play and forgetting how much they have lost is a good thing?
• Is losing one’s bearing and losing one’s money a good thing?

Here are some answers:

Much of casino gambling is based on anticipation of possible wins. We look forward to our trip to the casino and when we enter the Temples of Chance our hearts are beating with hope and a strong desire that today, that tonight will be our day and our night.

Many players will start off in a relaxed fashion but soon they begin the process of speeding up their play and of increasing the size of their bets. Anticipation has now become the gas pedal and the more the player plays, the more the player wants to play. It seems the anticipation is winning, as opposed to the actual results of the game.

Losing players often spend more time at the games than winning players.

The bottom line for me is to play a controlled game, a relaxed game, and to be aware at all times of what it is you are doing and accomplishing or failing to accomplish.

You’ve earned the money with which you play so treat that money with respect.

All the best in and out of the casinos!

Frank Scoblete’s web site is www.frankscoblete.com. His books are available at Amazon.com, Barnes and Noble, Kindle, e-books, libraries and book stores.