napoleons casino in hull / winning the sandwitch lottery.
I had a housemate in my second year of uni, who loved a bit of a flutter.

a good night for him was to stay till dawn on the card tables on free buffet night with our mutual Geordie friend.

One morning I was mulling how best to spend the day while sipping at my breakfast Heineken when the back door burst open. "howay! Its fookin Christmas the dee, pet!" Housemate and Geordie had returned each holding two bulging bin bags.

Free bread! After stopping off for a breakfast subway, had talked the guy behind the counter into giving them four sacks full of subways finest baguettes.

stuffing ourselves with free food, a thought occurred to me. "why did you shell out for a subway when they have free food at the casino?"

-"I was feeling flushed, I won sixty quid tonight"

I offered my heartfelt congratulations at my friend coming into a weeks worth of drinking coupons. Knowing that he often came home empty handed I asked how much he had gone out with.

One hundred and fifty quid, he beamed. "so.. you lost ninety pounds last night?" I questioned. Nah mate I put my last five on the roulette and won sixty notes. Foolishly I tried to reason with him. "but surely if you came out with 150 and came back with sixty then overall your 90 down". I was shot with a look that seemed to imply that I was crazy, "but I won sixty quid on the table". "after spending over twice that amount?"

This went on for a bit, before my housemate snapped "for gods sake willenium, I won sixty quid on the roulette, now shut up and eat your free Italian herb and cheese bread".

I gave up trying to explain after that, but six weeks later when he dropped out of his economics course i felt that I had won the argument ina roundabout sort of way.
( willenium Fist bump for verification, Sun 10 May 2009, 23:47, 1 reply)

well there's a bit of logic there (sort of)
One of the most important rules I've always held about gambling is you should make a top budget and stick to it. Regard your limit as the cost of your entertainment.

So if he's treating the 150 quid he went with as money he was going to spend to have fun playing, then he's sort of right in that he came out 60 quid better than he'd planned to.

Much in the same way that if I spend a session on the fruity and finish only a couple of quid down, I've actually done alright, because I've had 30 mins of flashing lights and odds-defying 12s when I go low on an 11 ;).
( bluemeat has been best of all the animals since, Mon 11 May 2009, 16:36, closed)