Sarah Koenig

She didn't, and in fact ended up losing hundreds of thousands more.

Another call also stands out for her, from a host in Illinois.

By early 2006, Bachman says her nearly $1 million inheritance was gone.

She'd spent a few hundred thousand buying a house, and the rest in just two years, poof, playing blackjack all over the country.

Even so, in March of that year, she and her husband went out to Indiana.

She thinks she probably played what she describes as conservatively, around $400 a hand.

They were drinking.

She says the drinks were strong.

Her husband went up to bed, but she gambled all night and into the next morning.

At some point, she signed the six counterchecks for $125,000.

This time, because she knew she didn't have the money, she was frantic.

If this level of cheerful relentlessness sounds far-fetched, well, here's a voicemail from Caesars, Indiana, the same casino she owed $125,000 to.

It's from Bachman's answering machine.

The Kentucky Derby was in May.

Bachman had been wiped out, remember, back in March.

Looking back at it all, she knows she did this to herself, that she's responsible.

But Bachman also thinks the casinos knew what she was doing better than she did, that they sat back and watched it happen.

That's why she sued.

Because of the terms of the settlement Bachmann and Caesars eventually worked out, the company wasn't at liberty to talk about the details of her case.

In a statement, a spokesperson from Caesars Entertainment wrote, "...there are many specific points we would contest, but we are unable to do so at this point."