Is anyone here who has the cash and the credit to turn off casinos lights? I mean the power to bet 1k+ a hand at BJ,45 a spin etc.
I bet the casino max on BJ as a matter of course.
My biggest one hand bet on BJ was 7,500 ($14,000). Lost!!
My betting is still based on bonuses. I now generate big bonuses. When someone gives me a match bonus of 1500 I will bet big .
When I first started playing with bonuses I bet appropriate to the bonus (5 - 10 etc). I used to gamble at dozens of casinos every month. I don't like gambling and get no thrill from it. It was just the money.
When I had built up a decent pot of money I bet bigger, to get the WR over swifter.
This caused the bonus offers to increase and a virtuous circle was born!
I was poor as a child but have been reasonably well off for most of my adult life, good career, good investments, child privately educated etc. Not ultra rich but comfortable.
Yes, I suppose I am considered a high roller and I have turned over many millions of pounds in this year alone.
I get huge bonus offers and lots of other VIP goodies as a result. (10,000 World Cup trip in June for example)
A casino will sponsor a match for my football team, in my name, in the next few weeks. ( That's twice in a year!)
Since the World Cup trip I am up about 20,000, even though I have taken some big hits in the last few weeks.
I only play 3 casinos now and this is going to reduce to just one in the next few weeks.
Why? One casino used to offer me about 600 a month but has offered me nothing for the last 2 months. Another was offering me about 1500 a month but has only offered about 700 a month for the last couple of months. If the big offers dry up I will retire and will not look back.
The last few years have been extraordinary. I knew when I started I would win money assuming fair play and willpower.
However, I am so bored I know I am near the end of this part of my life.
Lets be honest, gambling ruins many lives and society would be better off without it.
So KK, you can be a "high roller" if you want to be, you know how to do it, but I can assure you that it will not transform your life.
Live for life, not gambling. I got 100 times more satisfaction from my daughter winning a place at Oxford to read Law than from winning 15,000 in a session of gambling!
Mitch
"Win don't gamble"
( I repeat my original handle because this could be my last post on the forum)