I've been gambling since the age of 12. Horses, dogs, dice, roulette, you name it.
Of course I gamble, to make the games interesting. But five hundred dollars a game, tops. Or sometimes a thousand. No heart attack bets.
Diving into Internet speculation is like playing with the devil. It's tempting, of course.
I played Vegas at the age of 16 years old, in 1959.
I was bankrolling the games, vetting the players, extending the credit. My life was really stressful.
I went broke after sophomore year, gambled away all my money, sold some guns, turned $750 into $10,000, flew to Vegas, turned ten thou into $187,000.
He was a degenerate gambler. That is, a man who gambled simply to gamble and must lose. As a hero who goes to war must die. Show me a gambler and I'll show you a loser, show me a hero and I'll show you a corpse.
I live in Las Vegas and I like my money, but I don't gamble, but I said to my wife I want to put a $100,000 on Shogun.
