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Gambling Thread

Discussion in 'Anything goes' started by Songbird, Oct 18, 2013.

  1. Batman

    Batman Well-Known Member

    When I was at the sports book yesterday putting in my football bets, a guy at the kiosk printed out a ticket that looked like a CVS receipt. It must have been eight or nine legs. Last week, I was making small talk with a guy while we were waiting in line at the cashier and he mentioned playing "$20 parlays."
    I just don't get it. Don't they realize how impossible those are to hit?
    I always have one or two three-leggers every week, and will mix in the occasional four-leg, but normally as $5 throwaway bets and never more than $10. A lot of times those are the bets I put down to give me something to watch in one of the TV windows, like the late games tonight when I didn't particularly love any of those games but still wanted some interest in them.
     
  2. Webster

    Webster Well-Known Member

    I do every risk free bet I can on DK, even the 4+ leg SGPs or the live bets, because I am going to bet 5-9 NFL and EPL games a weekend so it’s 2 bites at the apple
     
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  3. Cosmo

    Cosmo Well-Known Member

    I made my favorite bet today. Rice-UConn when it was 3-0 early in the third quarter. Took over 23.5. UConn takes a 17-3 lead on a field goal with maybe four minutes left. Rice returns the ensuing kickoff for a TD. I only won $9.50 or so but who cares. So sick.
     
  4. exmediahack

    exmediahack Well-Known Member

    So I've got spring tuition coming up in January. $3600.

    11 days ago, I got a $100 deposit bonus from one of the books. Deposit $500, get $100. This wasn't a free bet. This was $100.

    I decided that, each day, I would try and grow this by 25%. Either take a -400 to win or do a parlay of "bridge jumpers" to reach -400.

    Today's Serie A games both had a goal, so my -410 parlay paid off. Now we're at $1455. (On Saturday, Texas and Penn State ML parlay paid off. On Sunday, Chiefs ML with a goal in the Bayern game won.

    I just need FOUR more days of this to reach $3650 -- the cost of spring tuition.

    The challenge is now trying to get money down.
    For Wednesday: Udinese-Venezia OVER 0.5 goals & Atalanta-Monza O1.5 goals at -400. Let's go.
     
  5. swingline

    swingline Well-Known Member

    Even though @exmediahack, gave me (and us) a tutorial, I’m too dumb to understand all the plays and jargon.

    Online gambling comes up for a vote next week, but I don’t trust the gaming industry info that says it will pour millions into schools and teacher salaries.

    I’ll probably vote against it. I like blackjack at the casino once or twice a year (or less) much better anyway, and without @exmediahack holding my hand, I wouldn’t know what the hell I was doing.
     
  6. exmediahack

    exmediahack Well-Known Member

    Online gambling is a Scrooge on society. I don’t think it should be allowed.

    Sports betting, obviously, I am good with but it never brings in the public revenue supporters say it will vs how many financial lives it destroys.
     
  7. MileHigh

    MileHigh Moderator Staff Member

    We've had table games in Colorado since the early 1990s. Really low-stakes stuff. $5 minimum and $5 maximum. You saw some obvious bad stuff on tables. Only in three rundown, former mining towns.

    In 2008, they voted in upping table limits to $100. Again, no big deal. Same three towns.

    In 2019, sports gambling was approved, narrowly. Started at the height of the pandemic in March 2020. 99% is online.

    A year later, another statewide vote raised the table games stakes and added other games, if approved by the three towns. Of course they did.

    We have a tight tax increase limit in this state. All tax increases must be voter-approved. And sports gambling has been raking in the cash. But the taxes it brings in has a cap. So there is a proposition on our ballot that casinos/sports books give back the excess money to the state to the intended beneficiaries (mostly water projects; a big deal here). It will pass.

    And I will say the water projects have GREATLY improved thanks to sports gambling.

    That said. I'm partially with @ex that it's a scrooge on society, but he's about to pay off another tuition payment. I go up there. Probably too much. But I'm also a let-people-do-what-they-want kind of person.
     
  8. TheSportsPredictor

    TheSportsPredictor Well-Known Member

    Don’t know if it’s new, but a friend just told me about Bally Sports app. Bet $25 on something and they give you six $25 bonus bets. I won on an 8/1 first basket bet with the first $25 and am 2/3 on the bonus bets. Already taken them for about $245 if I don’t win any of the rest.
     
  9. poindexter

    poindexter Well-Known Member

    A scrooge on society?
    First time I thought it was a typo.

    You guys mean 'scourge', right?
     
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  10. justgladtobehere

    justgladtobehere Well-Known Member

    'Scrooge on society ' is a perfectly cromulent term from now on for me
     
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  11. swingline

    swingline Well-Known Member

    I should note that it’s online sports betting we’ll be voting on. At least, I think so.
     
  12. exmediahack

    exmediahack Well-Known Member

    I did the Blackhawk tour in early 2022 on my “bonus tour” where I cleared out all the Colorado bonuses. That was rather depressing. Scenic but depressing.
     
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