Really difficult decision vs Spantard

[outragous76]

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[Dubai]

I have no problems taking the casinos money.

[Dubai]

Casinos arent like normal shops where you pay for a product. They are out to take you for every penny you have with no remorse, and they even tell you off for cheering when you win, limit your bets when you want to break out and basically do everything in their power to be against you.

[Eso Kral]

I know Dave (Milligan) in real life and he seems trustworthy enough but I wouldnt leave him alone with my Wife or Mcdonalds!!

Good time for a staking thread Milligan!

[AndrewT]

I have no problems taking the casinos money.

Someone phone Dubai and tell him Pete Linton's hacked his account.

[millidonk]

I know Dave (Milligan) in real life and he seems trustworthy enough but I wouldnt leave him alone with my Wife or Mcdonalds!!

Good time for a staking thread Milligan!

Lolz. tyty I think.. Wife defo not! but tbf you would probs be safe if it was a fillet of fish or something else that doesn't belong on the menu.

Dubai is a fellow Robin Hood.

[Dubai]

Ha. Seriously tho, if its the casinos money, pocket the 500 and give it to charity. Robin Hood would be proud

[RED-DOG]

Casinos arent like normal shops where you pay for a product. They are out to take you for every penny you have with no remorse, and they even tell you off for cheering when you win, limit your bets when you want to break out and basically do everything in their power to be against you.

I don't think casino's or casino owners & shareholders are bad or dishonest people by definition. On the contrary, I think they are just the same as any other people in any other business.

Casino's restrict themselves to taking your money by legal means. If you overpaid them, you could reasonably expect them to point it out, not pocket the difference, and if you turned your back on your pile of £500 chips, you certainly wouldn't expect them to take one.

I played Luton Grosvenor after an absence of several months. As soon as I entered the building, the door staff asked me to go to the cash desk.

When I got there, they handed me £30 that I had accidentally overpaid on my last visit.

[Dubai]

Its something thats been debated for ages, every old school gambler i know always says they would happily pocket the casinos cash, and most non gamblers say they wouldnt.

[Simon Galloway]

Surely only people who are golden in life can think giving it back is the nut line?

Maybe this is why they are golden.

[RED-DOG]

Its something thats been debated for ages, every old school gambler i know always says they would happily pocket the casinos cash, and most non gamblers say they wouldnt.

Well that's definitely not the case in my experience.

[Honeybadger]

Its something thats been debated for ages, every old school gambler i know always says they would happily pocket the casinos cash, and most non gamblers say they wouldnt.

A large percentage of old school gamblers are scumbags. Stroke pullers, cheats, bullies, angle shooters, con-men, criminals. Or just grumpy and mean-spirited.

There is an argument for taking the big evil corporations money if a casino overpays you. I don't personally agree with that argument, but whatever. However, the majority of old school guys would also choose not to point out that you had the winning hand if the cards were tabled and the pot was mistakenly being pushed to them. They are not Robin Hood characters fighting against the corrupt and greedy system. They are out for themselves (which is fine) and have very few scruples about fucking others over to get their money (which is not fine).

This does not apply to every old school player. There are some good guys too. But the gambling world attracts more than its usual share of scumbags, and it also turns a lot of good guys into scumbags eventually. When you meet an old timer who has lived in that world for 30 years and is STILL an absolute stand up guy, then you have found a true good un. But unfortunately even the ones who started off good have very often been poisoned in some way by the gambling world in which they have lived.

[Dubai]

Good post, most of which is very true. I would still take the monkey and give it to the nearest tramp

[Claw75]

my financial situation atm is absolutely dire, so it's kind of an irrelevant situation as I wouldn't be anywhere near a casino.

however, if i was, even with a couple of hundred euros being an amount that would be immensely helpful to me right now it wouldn't even enter my mind for a split second to pocket it, whether it was a mistake by a casino employee or not.

[PaintingByNumbers]

So, is the OP adding English = thief to our list of assumptions?