If you enjoy a beer every now and then, keep your money at home if you are going to do your drinking in a casino. I’m serious. Clean out your handbag, your billfold, and keep all cash, credit cards and checks out of the casino. Pack only the money you expect to use on alcohol, tipping and only the pocket change you intend to squander and keep the remainder behind.
Pessimistic? Not by any means. Just realistic. You might have a success after a intoxicated evening out with your friends and be blessed enough to hook a long roll at a smokin craps game. Keep that story because it is as brief as it gets if you continuously consume alcohol and wager. The pair simply don’t go well together.
Leaving your money back at the hotel might be a little dramatic, but preventative measures for excessive behavior is required. If you gamble to win, then don’t consume alcohol and play. If you like to burn your $$$$ without a worry, then consume all the free alcohol your stomach can handle, but don’t pack plastic credit and checkbooks to toss into the mix of chasing squanderings after your dead drunk self throws away all the cash!
Let me to carry this one step further. Don’t consume alcohol and then go on the internet to bet in your favorite online casino either. I love to cocktail from the comfort of my domicile, but since I am hooked up through Neteller, Firepay and keep plastic credit in close proximity, I can’t consume alcohol and gamble.
What’s the reason? Even though I don’t drink to excess, when I consume alcohol, it is certainly enough to blur my judgment. I gamble, so I do not consume alcohol when gambling. If you are a drinker, do not gamble when you do. When mixed, both create a dangerous, and costly, cocktail.