Com'on BHR, it's Back it and Jack it, get the lingo right
Darn. And after all the Effort that I have put in to be the best Gambling Linguinomist in the country.
This better to chase a dream, than to have said I wish I had. JMHO
I see what you did there Bruce. You did a take off on, "Its is better to have loved and lost than to have never loved at all".
With Rhea, it was like Base Jumping without a parachute. Or at the very least, with an umbrella. There is no question about it, yer going down, just a little slower.
It wasn't a matter of IF, it was a matter of When.
Rhea had Tunnel vision and wasn't going to listen to anyone's advice.
Rhea was only going to listen to those that were telling her what she wanted to hear, and even then, the ones that coached her and tried to at least give her a little advice on Life on the Road and Gambling properly, well, we can see how well she took heed of that. Maybe she would at least be doing
better or have her head out of the water.
Obvious to all that she is a degenerate gambler. She convinced herself that she was cured and used pool as a guise to continue her habit.
Gene obviously wasted his time and money on her.