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Never once in my life have I felt the appeal of gambling.
All I needed to learn is that statistically, the house comes out ahead, and that was that.
A friend once insisted on dragging me out to a casino, and I came up with a hare-brained plan for blackjack (since it has the best odds of victory). I decided to double my bet every time until I won. But only up to as much money as I was willing to lose, because there’s a low chance for this strategy to go poorly very quickly.
I made enough money to pay for the entire trip, and then I never gambled again for the rest of my life. So that’s my story of how I came out ahead.
Gambling is like alcohol, some is fun but you need to learn your limits.
If you go into gambling thinking ‘I’m gonna make 100 dollars!’ you’re gambling wrong. If you go into gambling thinking ‘I’m gonna spend 100 dollars.’ you’re gambling correctly.
That’s exactly how I treated my trip. “This trip is going to cost 400 dollars and not a penny more.” The fact that it didn’t was just a happy coincidence.
The only gambling I do is buying lottery tickets when I’m having the worst urges to kill myself. A little trick to wait just a bit longer. “You can wait until you get the results, it’s only couple days”, and then the worst urge manages to pass in that time. It’s pretty pathetic
I stopped smoking weed during the week so that I had something to look forward to on the weekends. It’s pretty pathetic
not pathetic imo. whatever gets you through the week and allows you to keep surviving is perfectly valid!
Nah, you hold on to whatever hope you have. Stay with us
doing what you need to in order to keep on surviving is the opposite of pathetic. it takes a lot of courage to keep persisting despite the horrors of our world
I think that’s actually a pretty neat trick. So long as not winning doesn’t feel even more crushing.
I feel the same way with benedryl in that I think of all this shit, fuck shot, but I don’t look at it cuz that illegal in my places, so I just think in darkness as the benedryl make happening better tho my gemson doesnt get hard anymore…
getting ads
Can’t relate.
…and you can, too, lemmy users!
I’ve found you can make anyone your suster in your head when the need arises as I do rise to top the thot
You get ads?
I make ass, reel good ads to, like this one! All the curious soles want to cum to my island, not associated wit other well-know islands
you watch ads?
I am this person. How anyone could be interested is beyond me.
Boomers with too much time amd money, cos they could afford to retire at 50 and still have enough money to waste on stupid things
I was going to ignore this but God I really hate the ignorance in this statement. I’m genx. Gambling affects everyone. There are plenty of kids and teenagers and christ that’s who’s being targeted.
Yeah - the old, retired people wasting money on slots is definitely a thing, but another side of the market are people who are desperate and don’t see any way of elevating themselves out of poverty except to win big.
And gambling companies are 100% willing to take advantage of those people and take whatever they have.
Yeah boomer hate is in vogue, we would have thought only boomers would get distracted from class wars by gen wars.
Exactly, they’re trying to get the new generations as interested as the ones on the way out. It’s addictive and now there’s algorithms to make you ‘win’ just enough to stay hooked. That combined with being able to gamble on more than stocks, there’s bound to be a huge shift either direction.
I think it’s because it’s much more visible in boomers as they’re more likely to be gambling in casinos whereas I’d bet (ha) the majority of betting is online these days.
Go into any casino and see what the age distribution is, in my experience the majority are boomers.
I never knew gamlering like some but I know it is in my brain, as when I ate out of garbage in homeless i was like “each one is scratch offer” and so it was like tickets evety time I look in can
The most risk I ever take with my money is an indexed investment fund and even that feels a bit much at the moment.
I feel a simlar way in that when the police are always taking it in itself, watching, seeting me up, and so I have to walk through the minefield exploding below when I walk pass the middle school I live here next to on everyday. Soneyime multiple time a day. It such!
wrong text on the picture. that one should read: “getting 200+ gambling ads daily while having the gambling gene and not gambling anyway.”
The picture that goes with the original text would be someone not even noticing the bullets flying and missing.
It’s showing how it feels not how it is. It likely doesn’t feel that good having to constantly resist an urge like that.
Also, the oblivious guy being missed by everything would be the ad blocker, not the non-gambler.
I probably dont have the gene, but I dont feel cool for not clicking an ad. What I mostly feel is rage that the promotions are so obviously geared towards getting the potentially addicted to try it by offering $100’s of free (bonus) bets.
And at the end they have the audacity to mention a helpline.
I’m pretty sure they’re legally required to display the helpline. No idea how the requirement has survived the current U.S. admin so far, but if these companies had their way, their victims would not be getting help
If the helpline hurt their bottom line, they’d have found a way around it by now.
Probably because Trump’s current casino of choice is Polymarket.
If you know the basics of probability theory, you can calculate the expected value in most of the games. For roulette with two zeros, the expected value of your win is 95% of your bet, so it doesn’t make any sense.
If you want positive return gambling, then you have to wait and that’s no fun.
Your finances should be as boring as possible.
If you want fun, there are some pretty great hobbies, video games, books, movies, animation, and other media and pastimes out there that cost less than gambling.
If you want a positive return on gambling, you have to own the casino.
But if I buy shares in the casino, then I still have to wait for a return!
I was down in winter once and decided I’d try out the whole gambling thing. Put 50 into some website and lost it all on a shit game.
Why do people get addicted to that? I experienced no joy and the outcome was exactly what I expected.
The good sites will give you a little bit of your money back so it doesn’t seem like complete bull shit and have a lot of “near misses” too.
It can also prey on desperate people who might not usually try gambling but maybe feel like it’s their best option at the time.
I won a tiny bit on the first game (like £10 up maybe) but at no point did I believe that a game of odds would possibly allow me to win anything meaningful.
I would equate the experience to burning a £50 note.
But if you’re even the slightest bit aware of statistics, near misses are exactly the same as complete misses. Seems strange that anyone educated falls for it. Desperation I can understand, especially these days when traditional ways of building wealth are almost as bad as just leaving cash under your mattress.
stupid, the answer is stupid
at least my gambling comes with animated titty first!
People are dumb animals.
I tried the online poker thing a little bit. With friends IRL it’s fun but online it’s boring. People work it like it’s their job.
I tried an IRL casino once, won a bunch of money on the first machine and I was thinking I’m done, but had to wait for my friends so I kept doubling a small bet on black on roulette. It landed on red 9 times in a row. It’s all a scam
The Martingale system is the definitive example of gambler’s fallacy. There’s definitely a “smart” way to gamble, but it generally requires games with a skill element, which casinos specifically avoid for this reason.
Sometimes I’m scrolling through Twitch.tv and come across the virtual casina category. Always some streams with people doing some random slot machine game and raving about it. I understand nothing about it.
I’ve heard a lot of the times the odds are stacked in the streamers favour. It’s worth the hit for the casino to get people to join.
They’re also generally not playing with their own money.
I bet I dont have this gene
You don’t have funny gene too.
Wanna bet?
I see you’re good at recycling.
It feels very sadening and worrying about the current state of society.
Our lack of solidarity with sick people?
