> This isn't a couple hundred bucks over a weekend in vegas we're talking about, it's peoples' life savings or retirement accounts or childrens' college funds.

> This isn't a couple hundred bucks over a weekend in vegas we're talking about, it's peoples' life savings or retirement accounts or childrens' college funds. You think people had never lost their life savings in casinos or lotteries? I can walk into a casino and bet $5K on every roulette roll. I personally know people who lost $30-40K in Atlantic City casinos.