I’ve never been into gambling because I’ve looked at the odds. I think it’s only people who think they’ll get “lucky” that waste their money on it. Just use the word gambling rather than betting. For some people it’s a terrible addiction and costs them their futures.
The only time I’ve done any kind of gambling really is back when I cared about Counter Strike more. First, you bet with skins, not money, and I never put much money in. Second, you could actually play it smart because gamblers are stupid. If there’s a team that’s popular, a lot of people will bet on them, and you’ll sometimes get some crazy odds, like an 80+% chance of them winning. In reality, most games are close to 50/50, or they wouldn’t be competing with each other. If you find these games where the odds were broken by dumb gamblers, you could actually win.
With that said, gambling requires money to be lost. The company couldn’t make a profit if people were winning money, on average. They also aren’t just making a profit. They’re making a large profit, and spending a shit ton of money on advertising. Once you take that into account you have to recognize that the players are losing an incredible amount of money to the company.
I was at work one time, and a coworker won $500 on a scratch ticket. I expressed I was jealous when I was working with his buddy later that day. He said, “don’t be, he spends more than that on it a month, he didn’t even break even”.
I’ve never been into gambling because I’ve looked at the odds. I think it’s only people who think they’ll get “lucky” that waste their money on it. Just use the word gambling rather than betting. For some people it’s a terrible addiction and costs them their futures.
The only time I’ve done any kind of gambling really is back when I cared about Counter Strike more. First, you bet with skins, not money, and I never put much money in. Second, you could actually play it smart because gamblers are stupid. If there’s a team that’s popular, a lot of people will bet on them, and you’ll sometimes get some crazy odds, like an 80+% chance of them winning. In reality, most games are close to 50/50, or they wouldn’t be competing with each other. If you find these games where the odds were broken by dumb gamblers, you could actually win.
With that said, gambling requires money to be lost. The company couldn’t make a profit if people were winning money, on average. They also aren’t just making a profit. They’re making a large profit, and spending a shit ton of money on advertising. Once you take that into account you have to recognize that the players are losing an incredible amount of money to the company.
I was at work one time, and a coworker won $500 on a scratch ticket. I expressed I was jealous when I was working with his buddy later that day. He said, “don’t be, he spends more than that on it a month, he didn’t even break even”.