Owning Mahowny

I suppose I've never really had enough money to gamble without having to worry, it seems more like an activity for crazy rich folk who don't have to fret about breaking the bank.

It must still be strange to bet millions of dollars on improbable outcomes and unfavourable odds, to think what else you could have done with the money never entering into the equation.

If you bet that kind of money and win you would have an insane amount of cash, and if you stopped playing you could do so much more than you were able to do when you first started out.

It seems that people keep playing and playing however no matter how much they win or lose, the wild thrill of the opulent status effectively driving them to fiscal oblivion. 

With money to burn it's unfortunate but not as crushing if you're extremely wealthy, not as crushing as when people take their hard earned wages and throw it away on feverish chance.

The thought of never working again no doubt inspiring many a gambler, but if you wind up having to work so much more isn't the difficult situation awkwardly compounded?

There's Kipling's quote about gambling where the gambler bets an insane amount of money, and loses and walks away just as contented as when he started playing.

That kind of mindset would be incredible perhaps that's what he really meant, that there's no need for money or riches as long as you're confident in your abilities. 

Yet there's confidence in your own skill along with the dependence of your growing family, which may be less enamoured should you lose ye olde life savings. 

It's counterproductive to discuss gloom and doom like a freakin' Jinxy McJinxerson, there is still the allure the enticing chance the miraculous dreams the daring reverie. 

I have a hard time watching when characters like Mahowny just won't leave the table though, and sit back while the lavish winnings slowly fade then disappear.

It's always sad to see when you intently focus on what could have wildly been, that seems to be the lifestyle though totally a peculiar way to live.

At times I wonder what the owners of the casinos do with all those insane riches.

It must get boring having so much to spend.

If you don't risk everything.

From time to time.