I spent yesterday afternoon at a casino playing single-deck pitch (my favorite) and coming away with $50 more than I started with. And had fun too, which was the point.
There was a woman playing at my table who appeared to understand the basics of blackjack but was subjected to unsolicited comments and advice from her friends who hovered around her. One man, probably not her husband, kept thrusting a twenty-dollar bill at her, wanting her to make a bet for him. Finally she asked the dealer to change the twenty, she bet the four red chips, and lost. He wanted to do it again, she didn't, he was insistent, and she finally ended it by leaving the table.
I have had people try to give me money to gamble for them, which I agreed to do only once. A very nice senior citizen friend of ours asked my partner and me to play $20 for her at the blackjack table on one of our gambling trips. I made a point of designating four five-dollar chips as hers to fulfill my mission. If I remember right, I lost the whole twenty on five bets.
We felt so bad that when we saw her next, we told her we had doubled her money and gave her $40.
So, I refuse to do that now, because there's something even worse than losing someone's money. Think of the guilt I'd have to live with if I won $25,000 on their ten bucks.
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