Gambling and casinos

[ZenHedonist]

I'm from Nevada. Lived here all my life. We don't have a state income tax because of taxes on gambling, so the casinos have a lot of power and influence.

Casinos and gambling used to be a big deal for Boomers. My question is do Millennials and Zoomers (or anyone else really) care about going to casinos and gambling? Even if you had the money, like Boomers did during the heyday of casinos, would you be interested in spending time and money in a casino? My opinion is that casinos and gambling as they exist now will become extinct.

What say you?

 

[AmberCutie]

I like playing the animated penny or nickel slots because it feels like playing a mini arcade game with the possibility of getting real world reward. But ultimately when I play those my main goal is to get the little bonus mini games for the fun and entertainment of it. I don't go into a casino expecting to come out positive. It's all about the entertainment factor.

I've been too shy to play any of the actual tables. No matter what I always feel like I don't know what I'm doing, and my social anxieties make me heavily overthink anything I say or do at a table. Nobody wants to see me stress-sweat in that capacity.

 

[MarieElise]

I like Casinos. Now that I have kids they don't play a huge role in my life, but I used to enjoy date weekends at the Casino. I was more into the amenities than the gambling, but I slowly got into the gambling. As a woman, I would not go alone, because I read all about Joran Van Der Sloot and other similar stories. But I like going w a guy, staying over, and making it a date.

I am pretty sure the guy I used to go with is dead now. He was young, but did a lot of wild things, and got himself in trouble with the wrong people.
Unfortunately, his long-term GF after I dumped him is dead now too (she and I were friends). So, yeah, moderation.

But as long as the other amenities (ie pool, rooms, food) are good, I'm totally in. However, I would stop going if my date started getting too into it. Just a fun pastime/ something novel to do once in a while, nothing more. I've always actually secretly wanted to get into the card tables, but I would not have the confidence until I was a little better at cards. Maybe once a month a weekend at a Casino would be fun, but not every weekend. That would get old and boring.

 

[Marceline]

I absolutely love gambling. Blackjack has always been my absolute favorite way to gamble. I actually love table games. I like to play slots and video poker in bars, but table games are so much more interactive and I've always had fun getting along with everyone else at the table.

When I was still a bartender, after my Thursday night shifts I'd usually go gambling with some coworkers. I'd also just randomly go if I was bored. The casino I used to gamble at was a bit smaller, so most of the graveyard shift blackjack dealers and the bartender knew who I was from how often I frequented it. Which was a good thing, because I made an ass out of myself more than a few times when I got too drunk and the dealers/bartender never got me in trouble or kicked out. I have a ton of ridiculous stories from my gambling days.

I rarely gamble anymore because it's not nearly as much fun now that I don't drink like I used to, plus I'm a lot more responsible with my money now than I used to be. However, I am planning on going gambling in a few weeks when my best friend comes into town. Her husband is a pretty big gambler and they go to Vegas just about every other month it seems.

I doubt that casinos will ever cease to exist. I know a lot of people in their 20's and 30's who like to gamble. And trust me when I say that I know firsthand just how crowded casinos can get with younger crowds on almost every weekend, especially pre-covid. Sure, most of the top tier gamblers are older or in the "boomer" age category, but there's definitely younger big spenders, especially within the Asian gambling community (which I'm not sure about other places, but where I'm at it's a pretty big community).

Also, my mom and step-dad go gambling fairly often and usually stay at one of the casino hotels once a month since they get rooms comped, and my mom constantly brings up how packed the casinos have been getting even with covid restrictions.

 

[CheeseMoon]

This is to notify you we are officially offended.
Love, Generation X.




(Edit: casinos and gambling are outlawed here, so I have no real input ...)

 

[MDouble00]

I don't mind casinos. I've never won, but the first thing I do is go to the roulette table and throw $5 down some random number. I have had fun with slots, but I don't play them all that often. But, I'm usually more okay with blowing some money in several rounds of slots where I can maybe win back my money or just enough to keep buying drinks off small wins. One weekend in Vegas I played nothing but slots and it bought pretty every beer I drank in the Casinos.

I like blackjack, but I'm bad about not leaving when I'm up and ultimately just feel disappointed that I blew the cash that I did. I've never been a big fan of poker, but have wasted some dollars in a video poker machine sitting at a bar.

I like betting on games and love that sports betting is getting legalized in more states here in the US. Though I'm probably never going to stop with the online sportsbooks. In the similar aspect to sports betting, I also enjoy throwing some money into the DFS games on Draft Kings.

I haven't been ballsy enough to do it, but a few of my boys are really into playing options with Stocks.

And for science I'm a millennial born in 1984.

 

[Poker_Babe]

Casinos aren't going anywhere! Here in California, they are about the only form of entertainment (outside of the house) that has survived the Covid. Can't go to the movie theater, but you can go to the casinos. Even if they made it illegal, there will still be an "internet cafe" to go spend your money or some other underground gambling. It's a vice that's been around almost as long as the world's oldest profession.

 

[InAweOfCB]

I'm from Nevada. Lived here all my life. We don't have a state income tax because of taxes on gambling, so the casinos have a lot of power and influence.

Casinos and gambling used to be a big deal for Boomers. My question is do Millennials and Zoomers (or anyone else really) care about going to casinos and gambling? Even if you had the money, like Boomers did during the heyday of casinos, would you be interested in spending time and money in a casino? My opinion is that casinos and gambling as they exist now will become extinct.

What say you?

That sounds far-fetched. "Gambling" is more popular than ever in the present. It has just taken different forms, which has spread the take out among so many other avenues for gambling.


Nothing is better for gambling than desperate times, and Covid has brought desperate times to a whole lot of people.

 

[NotYou]

Personally, I have never been to a real casino or anything remotely close, such as a Bookies.
However, I was (am?) a big addict. I became addicted very much through online gambling on bookie websites. I used to do something called Matched Betting which was amazing and I was earning fantastic money, but in one single day I won not 1, not 2 but about 4 "mini" jackpots on casino slots (and by "mini" I mean about £4,000 - £6,000 each jackpot, and ever since that day I was addicted, looking for the next "bigger jackpot" and that buzz. Of course, I spiralled into a deep depression and eventually did get help, I downloaded software that would not allow me onto bookie sites (and the only way to remove the software from my pc was to use another software and code which they would not provide me for at least 1 year). This worked, the year passed and then I was able to ban myself from ALL bookies, bingo (yes also, they can be good money), casinos, etc online.

My biggest problem, or well, sort of was the fact online it doesn't seem "real". In most places, casinos, for example, "convert" money to their own coins or tokens or you know, so then it doesn't have that same look or feel, your mind somewhat plays tricks on you.

Multiple times after winning that £20k+ I sat there and gambled it ALL (all but a few hundred) and luckily won it all back from big bonuses. That was a gut-wrenching feeling to experience, almost losing all that money from being stupid. But I always tried to tell myself "oh well, it's money you didn't have so win more, lose it all, no matter" instead of "hey I could buy some great things, pay lots of bills, etc" with it...

My point here is, mine was digital, all digital. I never had, never have and never will step foot in a regular casino or bookie.

And with more and more games with "loot boxes" and all other similar things (console games AND mobile ones - Zynga is a HUGE culprit for this for mobile games at making you gamble to progress etc - look for a game called Empires and Puzzles - PURE gambling). it's so much easier for people to access gambling, so "real" casinos and bookies may stop existing, but online, they never will. Here in the UK, gambling is actually very big, Horses, Football, to name 2 big things that have multiple events each year and draw in huge crowds and money.


Due to how easy it is these days, I am confident there are so many people out there addicted who don't even know. Even people playing the lottery each week because "I must play this week it's my week"..

So yeah, online gambling will always exist and that will not go away - and the motto is retarded "when the fun stops, stop" - no shit sherlock, but I am addicted, I'm not in it for the fun, doh! lol
(This is also a reason why when I am tipping a model, i try not to spend all my tokens in one night/day/show, I tip some to my alt account so I can save it, otherwise, I get into that similar kind of feeling with having the money/tokens - i know it's not the same, but it's hard to explain, unfortunately)