Treat all winnings as YOUR hard-earned money

Nowhere is it written-in the U.S. Constitution, the Talmud or the Nevada Revised Statutes-that the money you win at any neon carpet joint is still the property of the casino. Treat all winnings, Norma, as YOUR hard-earned money.

Dear Mark,
Why does my husband sneer at my slot play? This from someone who loses a whole lot more at the crap table. Mary P.

Even though many table game players look down on slot players, take heart, Mary, and please share this gambling yarn with your spouse.
There once was a crap shooter whose wife, a slot player, approached her spouse on a crap game informing him that she needed more money to play slots. "What happened to the $100 I gave you?" he asked? When she replied, "I lost it," he criticized her for playing slots. "Well I've been playing for three hours and I'm having lots of fun," she said. "You've been playing craps for three hours. How much have you lost?"
"I'm down a few thousand," he said, "but I know how to gamble!"
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Dear Mark,
Is there a difference between Gambler's Ruin and Gambler's Fallacy? If there is, which affects the gambler more? Norm S.