My first full time job was for Ameristar Casino Council Bluffs. I can say this: see all that fancy stuff? They built it with your money. They don’t need more of it.

The ATM is the most manipulative machine on the casino floor.

$10 fee to withdraw $20? That’s 50%! Better bump it up to $40 so you get a better deal. And while you’re at it, $60 sounds even safer.

Knowing this ahead of time, you might hit a branch ATM on the way, but now you’ve just moved the dilemma: How much is enough to make sure you don’t pay a single fee?

Hard to correctly anticipate if you’re going as a group and don’t know how long you’ll spend on the floor or what games they like to play etc.

So once again you’re incentivized to overestimate and load up on cash. And if you do end up going to the ATM despite this, you better believe you’re gonna “make it worth it” even more than before.