44 Times Casino Workers Saw Something Crazy Or Just Very Sad

Former a****t five years clean here since 01/01/2020. I once had two doctor’s appointments in the same day (one was for my knee and the other was just a routine check up) but they were spaced out between three hours. Since I wasn’t at work that day, I drove 60 miles to the casino only to lose $700 in that timeframe. I did however make my second appointment so that was a plus.

I worked as a dealer years ago in California. One night a guy came in with $800 to high limit, and started betting $100 a hand on blackjack. He was pressing hard and was up $250,000 in a few hours. He truly believed it was divine intervention and he was invincible, he got greedy, and lost everything back. He left down $800 after about 8 hours.

I have a friend who once made it big and made $50k in an evening.

When I went gambling with him he lost $10k, and this was a regular thing. Always chasing the dragon.

The only gamble I made that night was the questionable grilled cheese they made me.

I worked in the cage at the time, guy came up and withdrew 10k from his checking and went out and played. Came back 30 minutes later and did it again. Another 30 minutes and did it again. Came back a fourth time and then started doing cash advances against his credit cards. Goes through all of them over the next 5-6 hours. Right before my shift ends he’s at my window going through every card in is wallet, all of them are declining and he asks if we offer credit. Which thank god we didn’t. All together he probably lost a bit more than 120k in a night. Not the most I’ve seen but he clearly couldn’t afford to lose that much.

Worked in a casino for nearly 10years. What do you deem a bad loss? I dealt to a wealthy Chinese guy. He lost 12 million barely a dint in his account. Dealt to a lady who lost a 1000 bucks and it was pretty much her whole bank account but she didn't seem fussed. There's always a few that stick out though, a guy was winning about 9 million at the end of my shift. I went home and came back, when I got back he had lost all of it plus another 15 million and was transferring more when I got there as his lucky dealer. I was in fact no longer lucky.

Worked in the industry for twenty years. The worse addiction I saw was a woman, probably in her late thirties who sold a boat she didn’t own, twice, to two different people.

This same person also was in charge of a Girl Scout fund for a trip that was planned. When the time came there was no money in the fund.

"Friend" of mine lost around 1m PLN (~$246k). In ONE poker game. He gambled his house, literally he brought his notarial papers.

Ive seen big losses to about 100k, but the one that sticked out to me the most was a guy who started betting 50 a hand on blackjack, lost, came back and put up another 200-500 a hand while he is shaking. He went to the atm 3 times. The last 500 he lost, as I was about to grab the chip, he held his 500 in green in the bet. I had to tell him to let go. I think he was down 10,000 that night and looks like his life saving. Never saw him again after. .

Not a casino worker, and not one that I witnessed personally, however I used to work for an online/phone sports betting company.

One guy was betting on a big soccer game. His team were winning convincingly (3-0) with 80 minutes out of 90 played. He’d just sold his house and had the cash sitting in his account (a couple of hundred grand). The odds were pretty poor, but he saw an opportunity to gain a few more quid, it was a sure thing, right? Except the opposing team scored 4 goals in the last 10 mins plus injury time and won 3-4.

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So Indian casinos were sort of a new thing back in the mid 1990’s. Not any locals knew the rules of gambling so they were like Babes in the Woods.  

Well one busy Saturday night some wannabe local redneck hotshot rolled in with his wife in his big fancy pickup, and all their friends, and had a pretty good evening. They won a couple grand on the newbie blackjack tables. House DGAF because the whole batch spent like $5000 on food and booze.  

Next weekend—Same batch rolls in and because they’re all s****y bombed drunk, they must’ve blown $25,000 —possibly each.

They all got their spanking, lessons learned, and never came back. Worst hangover ever waking up that you just threw away $25,000 in 1995 dollars…except the wife.  

The wife of Mayor McCheese started showing up nearly every night. At first, she’d just get sloppy, lose a bunch of money at blackjack. But after time, all the fancy rings started to disappear one by one leaving a tan line. Then her expensive diamond/emerald earrings vanished. Her big expensive necklaces went too. Right before the end, her wedding band was gone.  She had pawned every pawned off every bit of everything like a single stupid blackjack was somehow going to lead her to riches, which she already had before she ruined her life. 

About two weeks after that, she lost her a*s at the tables again, and went up to the ATM to get more cash.  The ATM seized her credit card and she collapsed in a sobbing screaming heap. She had pawned every piece of jewelry she owned, wrecked her marriage, maxed out all of her credit cards, and was bankrupt. The casino? Security dragged her a*s outside to her car, where tribal cops were sitting waiting to pull her back out for trying to start a car like shitface drunk.  

The definition of White Trash is Finacilly, Morally and Intellectually bankrupt.

Don’t gamble, kids. .

I'm not a casino worker however I worked at a gas station that sold scratch tickets.

I was doing a 3-11pm shift on a Friday and about 9:00 pm this guy comes In all hyped up that he got paid and wanted to buy some 10 dollar scratchers. Not a problem I say and go to grab 5 of the 10$ tickets he asked for. He stops me before I can get them out and says "No, I want to pick I have a system with the numbers", Cue my eye roll and exasperated internal sigh as these guys take forever.

5 minutes later he is rung up and heads not out of the store, no, no. To the ticket stand at the back to scratch them. He comes back 10 minutes later wants me to check them for him, so I do, I can't recall if he won anything or not on these five. But if he did it wasn't enough. He goes for round two of the same thing 5 more 10 dollar tickets same hyped up energy same process of picking and scratching.

This continues for an hour and a half all the while he is getting more and more anxious and as his hype was replaced with this deranged fear. The process became faster as he started panicking and picking faster and faster as he spiraled down a pit and I was talking to him telling him that it's okay to stop and no one is guaranteed to win and there is no system after the second round to deaf ears.

In total he bought all our 10 dollar scratchers but 1 lost and lost about 600$, I got to listen to him call his girlfriend and explain he lost the rent money and hear her yell at him knowing exactly what happened. I got to listen to him call his boss legit crying asking for help. It was sad any time I feel like gambling I think of that guy and I make another choice. S**t ruins lives for people who can't control it.

I know a guy, a friend of a friend, that has an awful gambling problem that cost him his marriage. Prior to that years ago we were both invited to the common friend’s bachelor party in Atlantic City. He had s**t credit back then and was strictly a cash and carry guy. He brought $2000 cash with him to cover his half of the room he was splitting, meals and drinks, and gambling. We were walking through the casino to check in and he peeled off from the group. He showed up at the check in desk and said “I just lost all my money on roulette. Can you guys cover me for the weekend?” Apparently he had a “feeling” while walking past a roulette table and threw all his money on red and lost. We were 3 hours from home and faced with supporting this leech for 2 days. The guys who knew him well had seen s**t like this from him before and basically told him he’d get basic food and a place to sleep. No steaks, no booze, and most importantly, no gambling money. He was so pissed off that he called his dad and made him drive to Atlantic City to pick him up.

My wife works for a casino.

One of their high rollers is known for losing obscene amounts of money.

So far, due to all his losses, the casino has gifted him a brand new Bentley Continental, a 71 Hemi Cuda that had been meticulously restored, two different Escalades (including a brand new Blackwing last year), and a Lucid Air.

He loses a *LOT* of money to that casino in order for them to buy him cars like that. And there are others who get the same treatment.

Not a casino worker, I did watch an elderly man get frustrated at the blackjack table, bet several hundred on one last hand, lose, then get up and punch himself in the face while yelling F**k over and over.

I was horrified,my friend was horrified, the dealer sighed and said "he does that" 🤷‍♂️.

I used to work at a bank. One day, a regular customer came in and robbed the bank with a note. The teller (who knew him and had greeted him by name) thought it was a joke, but it wasn't. After he left and the police were there, they checked his transaction history and saw that he was regularly overdrawn by charges from a local casino. Police went to the casino and arrested him there.

According to the security training we received every year, gambling is the second most common reason for people to rob banks.

Worked in a casino restaurant in my 20s. I’d finish my shift walk through the casino to my car. When walking back through in the morning I’d see the same people wearing the same clothes on the same machines. Only difference it’s coffee with their cigarettes now instead of soda.

I was a slot attendant the person who pay out jackpots to players a man told me he couldn’t go home because he spent his mortgage money there and his wife will k**l him.

I live in NV so there’s casinos and slot machines literally everywhere. I was walking to a restaurant inside this casino near my place when I saw this guy crying at the slots, like full on wailing, pounding at the machine begging for his money back. Threw himself on the floor yelling a woman’s name, security had to drag him out of there. It wasn’t even funny, just really sad. I lost my appetite and left shortly afterwards.

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S**cide i guess is thing at casinos. The go in with a plan to k**l themselves, gamble all their money away and end it in their room.

Worked in Finance at a Casino. We had access to everyone's lifetime win (it's always called win) and I ran a query one day to sort players with over $100,000 in life time winnings and it was 300 or so players, mostly blackjack and baccarat players. Did it for people with over $100,000 in life time losses. Over 4,000.

So casinos budget based on theoretical win (theo for short) and it's an estimate of how much a player will lose on every trip. It's insanely accurate. Like by 10 trips we have a pretty good idea of what type of player you are and will market to you accordingly to bump you to that next level. Oh you lose on average $350 a trip, I bet free meals will get you to $500. And it does. Those players cards? They track everything. So we know that you spend $350 a trip but you get comped $200, leaving a profit of only $150 a trip...well that's going to drop your comps down a level so your expenses drop. Daily reports would come out with people who's expenses >= Average Daily Theo.

Casinos, if you can handle the guilt, are a great place if you love analytics. I miss it that portion of it but I have a conscience and explicitly marketing to fresh off the boat Asians left me with a bad taste in my mouth and I left after less than a year. I saw people lose $10m a year and this was a local regional casino in Upstate NY.