RealGamblingGuy

Winning at gambling isn’t always about the money — and once I accepted that, everything changed.

Chasing losses is the single most expensive habit in gambling, and I know because I’ve done it repeatedly.

I hit a royal flush on video poker and it was one of the strangest, most surreal moments I’ve ever had in a casino.

Every time you sit down to gamble, you’re paying an invisible entrance fee — and most people have no idea how much it actually is.

Losing £800 in two hours is entirely possible when you make the decisions I made that night.

I lost £1,247 gambling last year, and I know that exact figure because I wrote every single session down.

Variance will beat you more often than the house edge will, and most gamblers never even know it exists.

I won £4,200 in a single night at the casino and somehow managed to leave with less money than I arrived with.

Keno is probably the worst bet in the casino, and yet I still play it sometimes.

Side bets in blackjack are almost always a bad deal, but there are moments when I still place them anyway.