Yesterday I spent the day sitting frozen in front of the computer screen, not gambling online, but watching my savings from the past few years going down the drain. It was traumatic. True, some of that money had been made in split seconds – the drop of a little white ivory ball onto the right number on a roulette wheel; the last click to spin the reels on a fruit machine to win a giant sized jackpot. Some of that money had been made carefully and painstakingly by working hard and collecting my salary at the end of the month and some of that money had been made by sheer toil and sweat-dripping hard work. 

But it was all my money and I watch it fizzling away slowly and surely, leaving me where I was ten or more years ago. And I didn’t gamble it on the stock exchange trying to double it overnight - I invested it in banks with big names knowing they would look after mine while they watched over their own zillions. All gone. What’s more, my great hobby, gambling online is badly hit as well. I only gambled with ‘spare’ money, money that I could afford to lose, money that I had ear-marked for losing. That is my gambling philosophy – and strangely enough, I believe it is one of the keys to winning.

When you are desperate to win every time, every spin, every throw of the dice, you are setting yourself up to lose. But when you are in the online casino, feet up on the desk, one ear tuned to a great piece of music playing on the sound system, and a glass of great whisky in your hand, hell, who cares if you win or lose? That’s when you win!

So I am going to treat this stock exchange fiasco as it deserves to be treated – with utter disdain. I am going back into the online casino with full abandon and I am going to gamble as though tomorrow is not coming – which it may not, if the economists and politicians have their way.

Where are those $100 roulette chips? Put one on my birthday for me, please. 23. I’ll be waiting here while you spin the wheel.

Posted on: November 18, 2008

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