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.Wow. Some of my buddies play cards together but never into the five figures (maybe a couple hundred?). That amount of money blows my mind. Who has that kind of cash to toss around?
None of these people* have the money. That is the sad part of it. They all work menial jobs making relatively little money, and I guess they get jealous of the middle class and upper class lifestyles they see on TV, and think gambling is the surefire way to get rich. In the mindset of these people, this is a perfectly logical statement: "I talked to my psychic adviser and he told me I was going to have extremely good luck this weekend. So I am going to bet big and stay in the game until I win, no matter how much I lose at first". Crazy.
The only way they can get this much money is by gambling and getting lucky. They get lucky, buy a fancy imported car, then get unlucky and have it repossessed. Luck comes and goes, and some of these people have lost all their cars, their house, and all their possessions.
* by people I don't mean to stereotype the roughly 2 billion Asian people on this planet. Just a subset of the couple hundred here in the local community that I know or know of. Had to stick that in there lest the race cards start flying again!