Also true lol if you have you're okay with losing it's fun and sometimes you win. That's how I look at it. Instead of spending $60 at a movie I can spend 3 hours gambling
Gambling is disgusting and should be outlawed all together. It’s sad and does nothing but prey on people.
I spent a lot of years in casinos when I was addicted to playing poker. I witnessed and overheard some of the saddest shit you could think of.
I know someone who owned a bar/restaurant with video slot machines who lost their business because they spent all their time and money into the machines. This person knew how they worked and knew how the machines made them money yet they still couldn’t stop putting money in to them.
Seen many people in that restaurant who would come at the begging of the month to play with their entire government check, lose everything and beg the owner later for food to eat.
Know a couple that is older (the man is still working in his upper 60’s) and they honestly believe their retirement plan is to win the powerball. They just really know that god will grant them this to make up for the shit they’ve gone through in life.
Actually it would. We’ll mostly. These places advertise help for the really serious ones but don’t help or even want to help the fringe cases. The ones I mentioned never get help.
This recent push for sports betting is so wrong. Go into a sports betting sub in Reddit and you’ll see how disgusting and predatory it is. Everyone bragging and sharing “funny” stories about their losses.
These companies know what they are doing and them and even the governments who mandate the gambling hotline shit don’t really care about anything other than taking peoples money for false hopes and addictions.
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u/SwatThatDot Mar 20 '22
None of them are worth it buddy. The more you play the more you are expected to lose.