MDawg's friend not doing too well in Vegas

[MDawg]

I mentioned here
New Year's Vegas trip
my friend I met in Vegas early last year. She's from the mid-west and plays a lot of Baccarat. She is by no means rich, but she plays pretty hard given her bankroll, probably - too hard actually. She rolls into town with an average $5000. and plays at the $100. Baccarat tables.

Actually, with that bankroll she should probably be playing $25. tables, and I have told her so, but she prefers the big tables where one may touch the cards.

She has almost invariably lost. The one trip she won at, was the trip she met me at, and probably the only reason she won that time is that I forced her to leave the table once she got ahead. Her plane was leaving in a few hours and she wanted to keep playing for another hour, but I told her to get going. So, that trip she actually left with a couple thousand in her pocket. Come to think of it though, I'm not sure what she started with so for all I know she left three thousand behind but in any case she left with something versus nothing which is what she usually leaves with.

She has a terrible Vegas record. When I met her, she has lost every single trip, in the double digits.

During my October 2019, trip, she was losing as usual, but I happened to be there at the same time and had her sit at the Baccarat tables with me. Both times, both sessions with me, she won. After the second session, I placed her at a table with a young kid I have gotten to know in Vegas, who plays Baccarat daily. Not that I think this kid is any kind of special player, but on that evening they played together and she won $20,000. She ended up dumping $6000. of it the next day, on her own, due to her typical compulsive play, but went home with $14,000. Not bad!

The next trip she and I were in Vegas during some overlapping days, but she decided not to come to the casinos where I was playing, and played instead with the local kid, and she lost $8300.

She's right now back in Vegas, played the first night, and lost $4200. (she brought only $6800. with her, which means her bankroll is down to $2600. now). I've advised her to take a couple of days off, have fun, enjoy herself in Vegas, then go back, after the break, to just the $25. tables and just play for fun.

She obviously has no knack for gambling. She keeps playing until she has lost it all, each session, playing very late into the night when she is tired. As well, she hesitates, "chickens out" as she puts it, when the requisite big bet is called for.

Not everyone is cut out for gambling. You have to know, feel, when to press into the clutch. And when to ease back or leave the table entirely, when it's not happening.

Beautiful girl, nice girl, but not destined for winning at the casinos.