Originally posted on 07/30/2012:

you're probably not going to find a 70k/yr job in vegas right now (or possibly any job)

let's say your girlfriend makes 20k/year. combined that's 90,000/year or almost 2k/week - there's no way to consistently make that much money betting and you'll probably end up broke and separated from your girlfriend. i'm not saying that would be a bad thing (no girlfriend nagging and no job are probably good things), just pointing out the most likely scenario