I put down a few bucks on the horses on the first Saturday in May, but it seems like online sports betting is just specifically designed to screw people out of all their money as fast as possible.
I guess…change my mind? Or don’t.
Edit: I wasn’t asking anyone to convince me to gamble, I was curious who the hell actually throws money in a black hole and wanted to hear their perspective. Thanks for the downvotes.
All gambling is designed to screw people out of their money as fast as possible.
Look, I know you’ll not want to hear this, but it’s not actually about screwing people as fast as possible at all. I have family in Vegas and used to live close to the Nevada border, with a few card game dealer neighbors. Casinos, to me, are where retirees throw away money to subsidize my buffet trip. I don’t understand people that play slots. In 2003 I won $13 at my second pull at some slots and never touched one again.
But casinos are truly evil in that they tease you perfectly. You win just enough to keep you hooked, but you do win. People winning keeps the dream of you winning going. They gladly comp you drinks and used to comp shit food which feels like a win. But casinos, at least, are not systematically invulnerable. May partner and I spent maybe 4 hours going between 4 or 5 casinos playing roulette once because she had never been to the Strip. We started with $20 I planned to lose, got a few comped drinks at Slots-o-Fun, never made some huge win but my partner and I had a fun time for less than the price of a movie in terms of value/time.
But, I’m also not addicted, and I never bet more than I plan to lose.
Seems like an efficient way to take the fun out of watching sports to me personally. The whole sportsbook thing is less of a novelty to people like me from the UK though; we’ve already been through the cycle of the adverts becoming so obnoxious that there is a consumer backlash and regulation ends up getting tightened again.
No, I dont and won’t use them. The worst part about these apps is that I now question the legitimacy of sports. I am not confident that the athletes are able to resist the temptation to throw a game.
Setting up a website, paying for an admin, bandwidth only to hand money to you makes no sense.
It’s specifically designed to give you the rush of gambling. Dream about winning big, the excitement of doing your analysis deciding who to bet on, you bouncing on your couch when you’re watching, the rush when you get it right.
You would not expect me to build a rollercoaster and then give you money to ride on it?
I did, put $20 in to bet on the superbowl one year and won. I made a bunch of NBA bets until the end of the season and won a lot of them as well. I made $300 and took $200 out. I played some more with the $100, went up and down but ultimately lost it. Still overall gain of $180 was fine by me! My friends all love to use it as well, but they are way more into sports than I am. They do the whole fantasy leagues and stuff.
I have no issue with gambling, but if you are not a responsible person you should absolutely stay away. I grew up playing poker with friends so thats why I always enjoyed it.
Seeing all the comments I feel like I am completely different from everyone else here lol.
Yeah - I don’t generally gamble outside of 1 day a year, plus raffles don’t count and I go in for them once in a while. I’m up maybe $800 over my lifetime.
I would bet you $5 that if i asked about crypto, a much larger percentage of people here would tell me about how they made some money and it’s certainly not gambling.
Well, online sports betting is specifically designed to screw people out of all their money as fast as possible.
Betting is like burning money and highly addictive.
I don’t find gambling interesting in any way, and I rarely follow any sports at all so I guess it’s not a surprise that I don’t even know the sites you just mentioned.
