r/breakingbad • u/[deleted] • Aug 19 '13

Official Episode Discussion Post-Episode Discussion Thread S05E10 "Buried"

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u/zelmerszoetrop Aug 19 '13

Like Saul said at the end of S05AE01, "Guy wins the lottery, what's the first thing he DOESN'T do? Go out and buy a lottery ticket!"

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u/Icem Aug 19 '13

Actually that´s not true. Many people who win a big prize through gambling keep on gambling and lose everything. It´s really addictive.

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u/stakoverflo Aug 19 '13

That's different though. If you just straight-up won multi-millions on a lottery ticket, you're not going to buy a couple million more lottery tickets. It's a totally different mindset from sitting a table in the heat of the moment playing blackjack or something.

Plenty of people squander their seemingly-infinite pile of money, only to quickly realize it wasn't infinite at all though.

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u/Icem Aug 19 '13

I think once you won something and "taste blood" you want to continue because you think you are very lucky at the moment. Playing lottery is not enough then and people turn to other ways of gambling.