What type of gambler are you?

Some of you know that I went away over the weekend to Atlantic City for my birthday. We had a BLAST!!! It was so nice to get away, it seems like it's been forever. And I LOVE to gamble, so this was great.

My husband and I have two different outlooks on gambling though. For me, it's entertainment value only. I only take with me as much money as I know I'm not coming home with. For my husband, it's a total waste of money. Well, normally, I have a "limit" and I stick to it, but this time I took a little extra - I scraped together as much extra money as I could out of our budget and took it all. It wouldn't hurt us if we left it all there, so I wasn't too worried. And my husband knows I wont take more than we can afford so he was cool with it too.

Well, when we first get up there, he was playing the slots and won $60 right off the bat. He cashes it out and that's what he's taking home. As soon as he wins anything, it's going home with us. Well, I'm not much for slots and my $20 went really fast. So it was time to move over to the craps table. When I play craps, any $25 chip I win, goes into my husbands pocket. When the dice are friendly, I'll lose track of what I've given him. For a while, the dice were VERY friendly. I knew I had given him more than the $100 I started with. So we were ahead. If it were up to him, we'd put aside the amount we brought and take that home, only spending the money that we had won.

We had taken $500 and at that point had $700 so he'd say take the $500 back home and play the rest of the weekend on the $200. Well, I say I've only spent $150, I brought $500 to spend, I have $350 left to spend. Since I have the original money, that's normally what we do, but we also have a good time joking about what we "should" do with it.

After we ate dinner, we went back to my craps table and HAD A BLAST!! And I handed over a lot of $25 chips to my husband, but I also put a lot of money down there too, so we only came out a little bit ahead. But it was fun:)

So, the next day we did pretty good early on - at one point I ran out of my chips and my husband gave me a couple of the winnings so I could play a little longer. Well, things went pretty bad so we went to eat. After lunch, it was worse!!! We went through a couple hundred in no time at all. We got back down to the original $500 plus a little and called it a day. On the way out, I said (not entirely joking) how about $100 more before we go? He said no way! He would have been happy NOT playing the last few hundred and keeping that in his pockets!

But, we had a blast! It was about $150 for hotel, food and gas for the weekend and all the "gambling" money's going back into the bank!

Are you more like me - play it all - or more like my husband - keep it all?