Could you cope?

[Juspar Emvan]

A local radio station is running a competition, win a trip to Las Vegas for a weekend.

Sounds cool.

The big deal is that at some point, you walk up to a black jack table, and bet a cool $10,000 on a single hand.

There is a minute chance you will walk away with $25, 000, a small chance you get $20,000, a huge chance you get $0.

How would you go if you saw that $10,000 just dissapear in front of your eyes?

 

[bluntforcemama]

you better not be gambling again.

 

[*bratcat*]

I could do it...

 

[Juspar Emvan]

You hold $10,000 in cash in your hand, you feel it, smell it, hell if you're so inclined you can probably taste it. Feel the power of ten thousand dollars. Now let it go, drop it on the table, and expect to loose it all.

 

[Gilly Bean]

I thnk I could do it. Hell, if I win, fabulous. If I don't, wasn't my money, anyway. Winning would be to much of a temptation, I think.


Gilly Bean

 

[OUTSIDER]

It's easy you don't focus on what you've lost but what you've gained.

So you lost $10,000...well it was never your money to begin with so no need to worry there.

You got a free trip to Vegas....well some people never get to Vegas, and for free to....you've won already !

You get a great memory to keep forever.

 

[nasty]

I agree with you all

If it wasn't your money to begin with, it's no lose.

 

[Adoratrice]

Wait.....do you have the option of taking the 10 grand and calling it quits or do you have to place a bet and take your chances?

 

[Bob Peale]

I don't think I'd have a problem. It's really not much different than buying a car, or a house, or investing in the stock market. You'd like to think that you've made a sound investment, but their exists the possibility that your car will get totalled or property values will decline or your stock will devalue (I actually had 300 shares of a stock last year that went from $300 a share to $25 a share in one one week).

Similarly, for some people, it's also like buying an engagement ring - occasionally the woman DOES say no...

 

[Shy Tall Guy]

How would you go if you saw that $10,000 just dissapear in front of your eyes?

Hey - I can bet with other people's money quite easily. That is what I assume the deal is - they provide the seed money.

I have bet money of rougly that amount - but not in gambling such as experienced at Las Vegas; I've bet more than that on the stock market, I've bet almost that much on my stock options (in a company that is currently struggling and recently laid me off). Maybe not quite the same thing, but I am probably going to have to wait several years to see if the stock is worth something or worthless.

I have been to Las Vegas a number of times on business, and I think I spent all of $2 (if that) on gambling - it just holds little fascination for me; I need some faster feedback than is usually given in the casinos. I need better odds than given there.

STG

 

[Shelby]

A local radio station is running a competition, win a trip to Las Vegas for a weekend.

Sounds cool.

The big deal is that at some point, you walk up to a black jack table, and bet a cool $10,000 on a single hand.

There is a minute chance you will walk away with $25, 000, a small chance you get $20,000, a huge chance you get $0.

How would you go if you saw that $10,000 just dissapear in front of your eyes?

N'est pas problem. It comes, it goes. Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose. It's like life 101. Get married, have kids, buy the minivan or gamble 10,000 dollars.