Gambling...

[imamartian]

why is gambling do popular?

usually if you put your chip down on 7 on the roullette, it aint gonna land on 7....

the odds are computed to make the bookie money...

So why do people bother? i have never placed a bet in a bookies .... never will...

but i do play the lottery..


Why is gambling so clever?

 

[cantaloup63]

Maybe, just maybe

 

[imamartian]

uh oh !!!

 

[cantaloup63]

in it to win ut

 

[imamartian]

in it to win ut

give over ffs !! you know the maths better than anyone?..... err seeing as you're a darts referee?

 

[Space cat]

why is gambling do popular?

Probably because we're an opportunist species and the urge to 'take a chance' is in our DNA.

Having said that, I'm not one for gambling, even if the odds seem favourable - which they rarely are. I've made a fortune on the lottery just by not playing it. Every time the numbers 1 2 3 4 5 6 don't come up I make a pound. OK, there have been times when I've 'lost' nine pounds but, on average, it's been win, win, win all the way.

 

[RedHerring2]

I occasionally spend an evening in the casino. I enjoy the evening, win or lose. Obviously I prefer to win. I set myself a limit and when it's gone I stop, or I stop when I think I've won enough and my luck is going to change.

I see it like this;
If I go out with my mates, taxi, drinks, meal, taxi, etc it will cost me at least £100 for the evening, maybe more, which could end up with me going home, not very late, possibly very drunk, having eaten a meal that I really didn't need.
If I lose £100 in the casino, I go home, very late, having enjoyed the evening, with a few drinks, possibly met new friends, etc.
I might just go home, very late, with £100 or more and still enjoyed the evening even more so.

But I'm wary of the roulette table. If I play I only play on the red/black, high/low, odds/evens. Maybe the three dozens. But I only play one round and go back to the other tables.

 

[PrenticeBoyofDerry]

I like a flutter myself, at one point it was not unheard of me to put what I considered at the time, large sums of money on the horses.
My aim was purely to win money, you do get a kick out of picking the winner but I was only interested in financial gain.
You need to be controlled and never chasing.
Don't bet as much as I once did, still have the odd punt.
Enjoy the day out at the races, that is one of my pleasures in life and will have a few calculated bets.
I don't see a problem in having a bet, providing the bet doesn't cause you a problem!

 

[Inky Pete]

why is gambling do popular?

usually if you put your chip down on 7 on the roullette, it aint gonna land on 7....

the odds are computed to make the bookie money...

So why do people bother? i have never placed a bet in a bookies .... never will...

but i do play the lottery..


Why is gambling so clever?

Roulette gives you MUCH better odds than the lottery!

In Roulette, the house only beats the whole table when the ball lands on the 0 (or 00, if there is one).

In the lottery half of the stake is taken straight away to go to the "good causes" like expenses-paid junkets for Seb Coe, or top flight barristers for ****** and illegal immigrants.

Only half of the money you stake even makes it into the prize fund, so you're on a loser before the numbers are even drawn!

 

[cantaloup63]

Roulette gives you MUCH better odds than the lottery!

In the lottery half of the stake is taken straight away to go to the "good causes" like expenses-paid junkets for Seb Coe, or top flight barristers for ****** and illegal immigrants.

Only half of the money you stake even makes it into the prize fund, so you're on a loser before the numbers are even drawn!

As a shareholder in the company that has sole rights to creating the "Lottery Funded" hoardings, I do very well out of the charitable side. We only charge £750000000000000000000000000 per sign, which means that there is still £0.000000000000001 to be given to the project in question. That's why your gambling on the lottery is a dead cert for me

 

[raebhoop]

Roulette gives you MUCH better odds than the lottery!

In Roulette, the house only beats the whole table when the ball lands on the 0 (or 00, if there is one).

In the lottery half of the stake is taken straight away to go to the "good causes" like expenses-paid junkets for Seb Coe, or top flight barristers for ****** and illegal immigrants.

Only half of the money you stake even makes it into the prize fund, so you're on a loser before the numbers are even drawn!

That's a very cynical attitude....Thanks to Tony Blairs' continental licencing hours, I was sat at a pavement cafe at midnight enjoying a glass of wine and reading the Churchill papers.
Earlier at the Royal Opera House with a group of Peruvian guinea pig farmers we were discussing how poorly off we would all be on the council estate without the help from the lottery.

 

[Bodgeitandleggit]

I do enjoy a flutter when I go the races, a crowd of us usually go to a few meetings throughout the year and enjoy a little gamble and if I lose its part of the day which I enjoy but if I win its a bonus, used to have a go on the lottery but havent for a while

 

[Space cat]

If you like lotteries, see if you have a local charity that runs its own. We 'contribute' to the St Oswald's Hospice lottery every week.

PS: We actually won once - about ten years ago.

PPS: I hope this doesn't get pulled as advertising.

 

[Susiejb]

Excellent idea SC.....

I always play euro millions when its about 10 zillion pounds ..... which is quite ridiculous because if I won even a small amount I would be happy.....but somehow the extra large jackpot has this huge attraction.

I once put a hundred pounds on Bruno to beat Mike Tyson.....my hubby has never forgiven me

 

[matt1e]

If you like lotteries, see if you have a local charity that runs its own. We 'contribute' to the St Oswald's Hospice lottery every week.

PS: We actually won once - about ten years ago.

PPS: I hope this doesn't get pulled as advertising.

I used to go to the school opposite! and that was built by our rugby pitch
the collingwood clinic was there in them days too before the whole site was engulfed by the NR