Did Alan really say he was considering living in casinos via free and discounted rooms?

Well, there's a couple of interesting angles on this. First, I guess phone apps allow you to bet sports and such without being in the casinos, but actually playing table games or slots is not available via apps. Second, trading in an apartment for living out of hotels suggests that the person may want to apply their apartment costs to the gambling. That would be bad. If things are okay financially, why not just keep the apartment and live out of hotels anyway? The apartment can't cost that much. Third, there is that notoriety angle. If you're living in casinos, it's the Cheers line, "Everybody knows your name." You feel like somebody as opposed to nobody. Of course, that "some" in "somebody" comes at a cost.

I have a little experience with this, as back in my 20's and maybe a year or two in my 30's, sometimes I bounced from casino to casino during football seasons. In my 20's, I couldn't afford to have both an apartment and do the bouncing. Plus, month-to-month leases were no fun to negotiate and were often a little raggedy. So I'd use every discount known to man and move from place to place. I remember in the early 80's, one season I stayed at the El Cortez or the downtown Holiday Inn/Fitzgeralds or the Cal during the week and shifted to the Gold Spike some weekends. I remember discounted rooms at the Imperial Palace occasionally being on the rotation. My gig was football betting. I didn't play slots or video poker or table games unless I was exploiting coupons back then. So I wasn't tempted to blow money on these other things; I never had a problem saying no.

Doing the same thing now at my age (and Alan is a few years older), I would find it fun at first, then it would probably pretty quickly transition into tiring.

My guess is that, if Alan tries it, he'll quit after a couple of months.