"YOU CAN BE ANYBODY YOU WANT."

I'm not a big gambler. I do have the odd flutter from time to time. For example I put NZD$10 on the New Zealand cricket team to beat the Indian team in the semi-finals of the World Cup in 2019. That was a nice win.

Occasionally I punt on the horses or dogs. That is fun.

Admittedly I have no idea what is happening at a casino. I don't understand any of the games. About the only game I had any idea of what I was doing was at the Crown Casino in Melbourne, it was called The Big Wheel or something like that. Lets just say it was fun and no harm was done to anyone.

For some reason a couple of my favourite movies are ones about gambling.

Rounders is about professional poker players who travel around looking for poker games. I don't know why I enjoy it because I don't know anything about poker but I do.

The second movie which was released in 2008 is called 21. It is based on a gambling group from the Massachusetts (that is difficult to spell) Institute of Technology who basically cleaned out some casinos if that is possible.

I have watched 21 a couple of times and what I like about it is the following line from the movie:

"In Vegas you can be anybody you want."

I think this is good advice for the situational extrovert. Many people like to give the advice that you should be yourself, which is well meaning but pretty crap advice.

I recommend that on occasions you play a character. If it is a networking event for example, you might need to do that. If you are trying to attract a member of the opposite sex then I wouldn't advise it because it will come back and bite you in the arse in the long term when he or she realises that you are not who you are when you were at that soiree.

You can be anybody you want but remember it is only for a short time.

Good luck.