{"id":49354,"date":"2023-05-07T08:04:16","date_gmt":"2023-05-07T13:04:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=49354"},"modified":"2023-05-11T08:04:25","modified_gmt":"2023-05-11T13:04:25","slug":"i-think-im-done-gambling-for-a-while","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=49354","title":{"rendered":"I think I\u2019m done gambling for a while"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"I took a whirlwind, 24-hour trip to Las Vegas this past weekend, primarily to bear witness to one of my closest friends getting married.\u00a0 I deliberately made the trip short, because I\u2019m stingy with my PTO at work, mythical wife couldn\u2019t come with me, and frankly there\u2019s nothing good to come out of me having too much time in Las Vegas.\u00a0 I\u2019m already uncomfortable in my financial life these days, and trips like Vegas can be colossal hazards to anyone\u2019s personal finances.<\/span><\/p>\n

Still, short as the trip was, I made sure to tackle some of the things that I missed out on during my last trip during Labor Day, like hitting up Ellis Island, and visiting Sayulita\u2019s, where I needed to try for myself one of the monster big ass burritos that I\u2019d seen from their social media presence.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

And let me tell you something about this burrito pictured here, it was without question the largest burrito I\u2019ve ever encountered in my life, and this wasn\u2019t the biggest one on their menu too.\u00a0 I waffled on the idea of going there, since I was still full from the post-wedding dinner that I got to indulge in, but I knew that if I didn\u2019t go there, I\u2019d be left with no real other food options except the one Shake Shack in <\/span>McCarron<\/span> Harry Reid which would be slammed packed from other travelers left with no other option, plus I would just simply regret not going when I was already in the city.\u00a0 So I went, and even thought it was $20 after tax and tip, it definitely is more than $20 worth of food.<\/span><\/p>\n

I wasn\u2019t hungry at the time, but I ate a quarter of it before my flight, because I didn\u2019t want to get hungry mid-redeye flight, and be that asshole unwrapping a monster burrito on an airplane and letting its aroma get all over the place.\u00a0 After I got home and took a little bit of a recovery nap, I ate 3\/4 of what was left before I felt like I was going to burst, and later in the day, I finished it off, and then I literally didn\u2019t have to eat again for the rest of the day.<\/span><\/p>\n

And it was fantastic, and every bit worth the trip off the beaten tourist path to go try them out.\u00a0 Would definitely drop them a five-star rating on Yelp if I weren\u2019t low-key salty about them not making me Elite status again for 2023.<\/span><\/p>\n

But anyway, to get to the point of the title of this post, I think I\u2019m done gambling for a while.\u00a0 Not solely because I didn\u2019t have a particularly good gambling trip in the small opportunities I had to gamble (<\/span>I got pretty decimated, so much for wedding luck<\/em>), it\u2019s just that I frankly don\u2019t have the bankrolls or the means to build the bankrolls I\u2019d need in order to gamble as I\u2019d like to in Las Vegas anymore.<\/span><\/p>\n

I used to be able to stretch $500 to last a whole weekend in the past, but that amount barely kept me in the game for a single day this past trip.\u00a0 Table minimums have risen across the entire Strip, and pretty much at no point does a table drop beneath a $15 minimum at any casino I\u2019ve been to, from Harrah\u2019s to <\/span>Bally\u2019s<\/span> Horseshoe to Cosmopolitan to the Venetian.\u00a0 And after like, noon, those \u201clow\u201d limits vanish and it\u2019s basically $25 minimums anywhere and everywhere from there on.<\/span><\/p>\n

Nice, manageable $10 minimums are an extinct relic on the Strip now, and that means a $100 buy in here or there just doesn\u2019t last as long as they used to, not to mention that even at a $15 minimum, they\u2019re harder to manage and round off to nice increments of hundos, and obviously such is done deliberately to more expediently part money away from us gambling schmucks in the first place.<\/span><\/p>\n

Lower, more appealing to my broke ass limits are still available, off-Strip and places like Ellis Island, but other than my brother, it\u2019s hard to convince anyone at all to go to Ellis Island with me.\u00a0 I think I\u2019ve talked about the place so much it\u2019s to the point where people want to deliberately shun it just to troll me, that and the fact that for whatever reason, people just can\u2019t seem to want to ever wander off the Strip in the first place.<\/span><\/p>\n

The bottom line is that it\u2019s gotten to the point where I can\u2019t really afford to gamble in Las Vegas anymore.\u00a0 At least at this juncture of my life, where nearly all of my earnings goes towards my kids and bills and there\u2019s practically nothing left for me to do anything.\u00a0 But it\u2019s still a little demoralizing, because I really do enjoy gambling and being in Las Vegas, but aside from rising minimums and my cash flow not rising commensurate to keep up, the place has changed a lot since the days in which I\u2019d make 3-4 trips a year, and after this past trip, I think I can safely say that my itch to Vegas it up in all applicable ways, is kind of gone.<\/span><\/p>\n

But never say never, who knows how things will change in the passage of time.\u00a0 Maybe I\u2019ll make more money one day, and not all of it is hoovered up by responsibilities, or maybe but not likely Vegas will drop their minimums and bank on getting more action.\u00a0 Or maybe I\u2019ll come across some more gambling videos with supposed unbeatable, low-risk grind methods in roulette or craps that will reignite the itch.\u00a0 Until then, we\u2019ll see how long it takes for me to get back out there next.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I took a whirlwind, 24-hour trip to Las Vegas this past weekend, primarily to bear witness to one of my closest friends getting married.\u00a0 I deliberately made the trip short, because I\u2019m stingy with my PTO at work, mythical wife couldn\u2019t come with me, and frankly there\u2019s nothing good to come out of me having … Continue reading I think I\u2019m done gambling for a while<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[79,56,152,83,133,52,65],"class_list":["post-49354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brog","tag-cashmoney","tag-food","tag-gambling","tag-observations","tag-old-man","tag-owned","tag-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49354"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49354\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49356,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49354\/revisions\/49356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}