I sadly surveyed the mob scene all around me and instantly, painfully decided to just write it off. Recovering the chip would have necessitated causing an uproar in the casino. They would have had to call in security guards to halt the moving mob of people and to clear the immense crowd in the aisle to make the space for me so I could look for my chip. Five hundred dollars is a lot of money for anyone to lose but, in this situation, it wasn't worth the grief. If I could go back and do it again, I'd make the same decision. My consolation was imagining the thrill someone in the casino experienced when he or she found my $500 chip. I hope it was some poor slob who never even found a $5 bill in his life.

My next move was to go back to the seat I had just vacated to try to win back the lost purple chip. And I did! But I lost it back gambling at the tables at the next casino.
Call it a fluke, a coincidence, or a freak occurrence, but here's what happened when 1 arrived in Las Vegas with a girl who had never been there before. She was eager to explore Circus Circus.

So there we were, strolling the sideshow exhibits, where we were amused by a cute little monkey attraction. I handed the little fellow in the cage a five-dollar token, whereupon he went into a cute little dance, and then handed me a card with a fortune. My fortune that day? "Go home. Today's not your lucky day."
We should have followed the monkey's sage advice and hightailed it out of town on the next plane. Not only did I lose my proverbial shirt on that ill-fated Vegas trip, but my pants and underwear went along too.

If you spend enough time in casinos you'll have your share of flukes and blunders. Some work in your favor, some don't. Chalk it up to casino adventure and take it all in stride.
In Atlantic City, Trump Plaza was another story. When the old bus terminal was still in operation, the closest casino was Trump Plaza. Every time my wife Stella and I went for a day at the seashore (we never stayed overnight) my standard-order-of-procedure was to meander over to the Boardwalk entrance of the Plaza. While Stella sunned herself on a bench outside, I'd make my initial foray inside, with a modest goal of winning a hundred dollars of "mad money" for her. Maybe it was my fresh enthusiasm in hitting the first casino of the day, or perhaps it was my mega-positive attitude, but damned if I didn't return to Stella on the Boardwalk most of the time with Donald Trump's money.

Sure, there were times The Donald nailed me, some of which I blame solely on myself.
Now pay attention while I teach you a lesson I learned the hard, expensive way. Never, but never gamble when you're in an ugly mood. If you are mad at somebody or something, in a temper tantrum or a blind rage, you're not in control of all your faculties. You risk doing damn foolish things at the tables, which I invariable did when I was in such an ugly mood.
If you're engulfed in some sour situation, do yourself a favor and go to the movies or take a long walk on the boardwalk, just steer clear of the table games! If there isn't a movie house close by, or it's too rainy to promenade on the boardwalk, then cut your losses by playing the nickel slot machine. Yes, Atlantic City casinos have nickel slots. I believe these were originally mandated by the Casino Control Commission to make sure that the Little People— the Low Rollers—can gamble and have a little fun there, too.

Let me tell you about one fiasco. In Atlantic City—coming off an ongoing argument that had started in our apartment and continued onto the bus and all the way up to Stella's Boardwalk bench in front of the Plaza—I charged into the casino in a murderous mood. Gambling with real money, I had a lethal combination that spells guaranteed financial disaster. This time it was really "mad" money, but the term took on an entirely different meaning. In my blind rage I literally pissed away more than $6,000 of my bankroll, a staggering loss that I couldn't overcome at the other casinos. Let me spell it out for you one more time: NEVER GAMBLE WHEN YOU'RE IN A BAD MOOD.

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