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To enjoy your gambling experience, you must control your gambling experience, which means setting — and sticking to — a budget. Whether you’re taking a weekend backpacking tour in a nearby state park or a once-in-a-lifetime cruise on the Queen Mary II, you decide what you’re willing — or can afford — to spend, and then you make your plans. The same goes for a gambling getaway. First, budget for the transportation to your destination, your hotel and food expenses, entertainment tickets, and sightseeing excursions — and how much you plan to spend on gambling.

If your main priority is to retain all your money, the best suggestion is not to gamble at all. Assuming you don’t want to hear that bit of wisdom, the next-best suggestion is to firmly decide — before you enter the doors of the casino — how much you’re willing to spend (translation: lose).

Casinos are fantastic places where you can check reality at the door. Gambling should be a fun experience, a chance to get away from your daily stress and enjoy the escape that risk and winning can bring. But when the lines between reality and fantasy blur, when you buy into the dream and forget the budget, you can run into problems, and your money can quickly head south.

This section helps you predetermine exactly how much money you’re willing to spend on your gambling venture. You also discover how to stick to your budget and avoid the kind of fun the casino wants to have — at your expense.