Are you a gambler?

So... How many of you gamble?

Personally. Once a week i put £1 on a football accumulator, which is where you guess the results of serveral games. If they're all right you win. I've been doing this about a year and i usually bet on about 8-14 games. Once i won £200 guessing the correct result in 8 games, and one other time i won 4 Grand!! guessing the correct result in 16 games.

HIGH ROLLER (betting large amounts regularly)	5
Gambler. (betting an average sum of money maybe once or twice a week)	2
Low stakes (betting a small amount of money once ot twice a week	8
Occasionally gamble (1/2 times a month)	4
Very rarely gamble.	18
Dont gamble.	43

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handsignals

10 years ago

I take a gamble every time I get a kebab from the Paki shop.

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- Anonymous Post Author
  
  10 years ago
  
  High roller then
  
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Shackleford96

10 years ago

A friend and I used to gamble for pennies. Stupid, yes, but it got kind of bad after a while. We even started gambling for nickels!

*gasp

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Hugh*Janus

10 years ago

I spend about $2000-3000 a year

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- White___October
  
  10 years ago
  
  Jesus, that's a lot of money.
  
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GreenIsNotACreativeColour

10 years ago

I just dont see the appeal.

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thegypsysailor

10 years ago

I've always been a pretty successful casino gambler, but I quit when I'm ahead. On one occasion I spent 3 days gambling on $20.00 in Reno; free food, drinks and a comped room, but in the end left with nothing; a really fun 3 days on the casino's nickle. Another time I paid for my second wedding, the rings, the hotel and chapel, which was kinda cool.
But mostly I'll play until I make enough to have a meal at a nice restaurant with a couple of drinks, then it's outa there!

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Sog

10 years ago

Once or twice a year I go to the casino and put moderate amounts of time/money into the poker tables. I don't really consider it gambling - more of a game of skill - but I guess technically it is still gambling.

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White___October

10 years ago

I never gamble. The way I see gambling is that you may occasionally win sometimes, but in the end you'll always lose more than you win.

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Anonymous Post Author

10 years ago

Won another £120 Saturday :D

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- White___October
  
  10 years ago
  
  Nice, how much did you pay for your tickets? Not just for the winning ticket, but for all tickets you bought?
  
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  - Anonymous Post Author
    
    10 years ago
    
    Not a clue
    
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    - White___October
      
      10 years ago
      
      Then you don't have a clue how much you really won either. Or maybe if you spent more than 120 pounds on tickets you only reduced your loss.
      
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      - Anonymous Post Author
        
        10 years ago
        
        I Spent £5 on that particular bet
        
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Gamzeee

10 years ago

I am a gambler in many things not just money and in games.

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[email protected]

10 years ago

HELL YEAH!

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Avant-Garde

10 years ago

No. But when I was a kid, the adults did buy scratch off lottery tickets and I would sometimes be given one. I believe they stopped because I made a mistake on the Bingo one.

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[Old Memory]

10 years ago

Yeah, many heaps.

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RomeoDeMontague

10 years ago

Not yet... but I was thinking of hitting some casinos lately. I love blackjack.

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thatchickyouhate

10 years ago

couple times a year, large amounts.

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ScooterNyne

10 years ago

Hustle > gamble

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PureLikeSnow

10 years ago

I don't gamble, unless you count scratch-its as gambling. Even then I purchase them seldom.

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smallboobies:(

10 years ago

No.

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NotStrangeBird

10 years ago

I'll usually bet over technical issues when I know I'm right. I'll gamble playing pool. I'll make bets with friends about baseball.

None of these bets are ever more than 20 bucks or so and I have NO understanding of the appeal of casinos. I just don't get it. They're there to take your money, the house always wins eventually.

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- Sog
  
  10 years ago
  
  It's true that with millions of people coming through their doors the casino will always reap a healthy profit. The games are designed to do that.
  
  But any single lucky person can come out a winner as well. Just because "the house always wins" doesn't mean that everyone else is always the loser.
  
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  - NotStrangeBird
    
    10 years ago
    
    Yes, I understand that. Casinos would be out of business if nobody ever won.
    
    The longer one plays, the worse their overall odds are.
    
    I watched many co-workers go to casinos and when I asked the next day it seemed like they ALL won. I think they forgot about all the money they dropped trying to win.
    
    My casino experiences involve spending 2 bucks on the slots (I never win) and then drinking for free the rest of the night.
    
    Guaranteed winner there.
    
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    - Sog
      
      10 years ago
      
      It's not true that the longer you stay, the worse your odds are. Your odds are always the same, although you are right in that they are mostly stacked against you.
      
      What is true is that the variance decreases the longer that you stay. A long stay will allow you a more accurate prediction of how much you lose based on the odds, but of course nothing is ever a certainty.
      
      The most important rule of probability is that previous results do not impact future ones. If you win the jackpot right out of the gate on the first pull, your next pull has just as much chance of winning the jackpot a second time as the first (assuming the game is not rigged). It's true that it is extremely improbable to win the jackpot twice in a row, but winning on the first try only means that you are that much closer to achieving that reality, not that the second pull must have lower odds to "even things out".
      
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      - NotStrangeBird
        
        10 years ago
        
        Hey, one other thought on this...
        
        "The most important rule of probability is that previous results do not impact future ones"
        
        This is true except for traditional blackjack with a fixed shoe of cards. I'm sure we've all heard of card counting, this gives the player a few percent advantage over the house.
        
        One must gamble very large amounts of money to make this advantage lucrative and like you say, for a short amount of time played the variance is too large. One must continue playing to make the advantage work out.
        
        By the time this does work out, the player will probably be thrown out the door.
        
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      - NotStrangeBird
        
        10 years ago
        
        Yes, you are correct and I am wrong. The odds are fixed and yet if you win a jackpot on your first pull, you'd better run.
        
        Over a long enough period of time, the odds will catch up and the player will lose the house percentage, 2-25% based on the game palyed.
        
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