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It's called entertainment sweetie, look it up.

Seriously I live near AC and go down a few times a year. Always have a blast. Usually there is awesome food, service and music going on as well. Gambling is exciting and fun, that's why I do it. It's no worse than blowing money on concert tickets or impulse amazon shopping.

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Sure, if you can go once in a while, having a good understanding about how much money you will lose and can keep yourself from losing more trying to get it back, good for you. But the casino’s bread & butter are the people who show up every day.

That would not be true (at least in Las Vegas). For one, the vast majority of customers of Strip casinos are tourists. For another, a casino's quarterly results can be significantly influenced by a small handful of players -- if a player is particularly lucky at baccarat, for example, the swing can be millions of dollars.

Source: industry knowledge & https://www.billionairegambler.com/2011/07/worlds-biggest-ca... (look at the Adnan Khashoggi entry).

The first sentence describes most people who go to casinos, though. And the second sentence might be correct, I don't think it's something you can just assert without a source.

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