Humorous follow-up to this: I stayed at the same hotel at the same lounge on the way back. I was doing alright playing some boomer slot machine (very few lines, low payouts, just the basic 'fruit machine' symbols, bells and 7s and fruit and shit) and I heard the glorious clarion call of the new Price Is Right branded VLTs behind me.
Side note: this is the first time that I've seen a slot machine that tries to cash in on a modern revival of an old IP that uses the NEW imagery. Like when the Gal Godot "Wonder Woman" movie came out, there was a new batch of WW slot machines, but they used the Lynda Carter / 1970s iconography. Same with Kristen Stewart's forgettable Charlie's Angels re-re-re-re-boot, the Johnny Depp "Willy Wonka" movie, etc.
Anyways. Long story short, I went near to the felt for my $100 limit, but hit some crazy 5 minute bonus round and cashed out $280 and change, and *I swear*, the four people who gathered around me (who NOW had something to say!) were literally calling me crazy for "cashing out when the machine was hot!"
Like, I think I can give competent odds-based advice on gambling, even though there are many far better and smarter people than me, and time has shown I'm a middling talent in poker at best.
But when it comes to "mythology-based" gambling advice, like the kind the crusty old timers give to people 1/4 their age, there's one thing I've figured out that these kids need to learn:
I know where the 'cash out' button is, and I'm not afraid to use it
As a fairly crusty old-timer.
