Really should have known better

You know those times you decide to do something, and a little voice voice of reason inside you says, this will not  end well ?

Like handing over a tenner to a street performer doing the old 3-cup shuffle trick thinking, no way his hands are quicker than my eyes. Easy money!

Or betting the house on a penny mining stock thinking, at 7 cents a share, a world class resource and apparently competent management, there’s just so much upside and yet so little downside. What could possibly go wrong! That was when GFC stood for one thing only… Geelong Football Club. A few months later it was universally understood to mean something quite different. A few years later one of the former directors of said penny stock was convicted and jailed for breaches of the Corporations Law. More criminal than competent. But this is probably a topic for another post or even another weblog altogether.

Today I can add another should have known better moment to the very long list now in the archives.

It started with a visit to a favourite casino with intent to play live dealer games. It ended with my account about $100 lighter without having played a single game of live dealer anything.

The culprit…a progressive slot game called Hall of Gods.

What sucked me in was an in-your-face message after logging in telling me that this jackpot was now over $10.3 million and rising!

Voice of reason: That number is completely irrelevant. You will never win it

Voice of stupidity (read with a Homer esc accent): I know. But it’s still a very big number

Not only did I chew through $100 in next to no time time at all. I had very little idea what was going on.

I was winning regularly. I know this because lines were flashing and victory music was playing with monotonous regularity. But most wins were less than the cost of the spin (is a net loss a win?).

Didn’t even get to play a single bonus round, which is when you get a crack at the jackpot.

Oh yeah, that’s when you really get a good shot at the $10 million.

Shut up Homer.