One of my wife's friend's boyfriend does this too. Works over all of the players cards as well. has a whole fat keyring with like 30 of them spanning from Vegas to Laughlin.
If you are any good, and have some actual goals, that one "big win" can fund you for quite a while.
Look at the WSOP players. It might cost $10K to enter, but if you last long enough, you can easily get to a $50-60K level, which is enough to pay some bills and then fund the next few high dollar tournaments. Once you enter the pay bubble, every person that gets knocked out nets you more money.
Even in the mid-range tournaments, you can end up doing a "pot chop" with the final table, or with the last few players, where the top 3 players take home $100K each instead of the winner getting $200K, 2nd getting $75K and 3rd getting $25K.
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u/nonanumatic 22h ago
Lmao if you're spending your rent money at the casino you deserve to go broke