Originally Posted by mickeycrimm View Post
The thing about gambling for a living is its a grind. If you are doing it right its boring as hell. Its boring because you are always playing within the means of your bankroll. The risk of ruin is somewhere between slim and none.
I am a big Albert Brooks fan. Just seeing that guy now cracks me up. So one of my favorites was a movie from the 70's or 80s's, Lost in America. Anyone remember the 'Nest Egg Principal'? (clip below). I have always thought of a bankroll as the nest egg. As long as you have the bankroll (nest egg), you can go on, and overcome negative variance. The bankroll or nest egg = future income. And you protect the bankroll (nest egg) by always playing to the smallest risk of ruin, like mickey said, between slim and none is good.

So in the clip, the wife, Julie Haggerty, woke up in the middle of the night in Las Vegas and gambled away the nest egg.

https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q...tail&FORM=VIRE