Would you quit gambling if......................
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August 2nd, 2012 at 12:07:17 PM
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You are presented with the chance to make a bet for $500,000 profit.
The bet will cost you NOTHING to make.
You have a 75% chance of winning the bet.
However, if you accept the bet, you agree, win or lose, you will never enter into another wager in your life.
The bet will cost you NOTHING to make.
You have a 75% chance of winning the bet.
However, if you accept the bet, you agree, win or lose, you will never enter into another wager in your life.
Always borrow money from a pessimist; They don't expect to get paid back !
Be yourself and speak your thoughts. Those who matter won't mind, and those that mind, don't matter!
August 2nd, 2012 at 12:11:58 PM
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>I would not make the bet period.
I gamble for entertainment, it's really not so much about the money. So I would not make the bet.
I gamble for entertainment, it's really not so much about the money. So I would not make the bet.
the next time Dame Fortune toys with your heart, your soul and your wallet, raise your glass and praise her thus: Thanks for nothing, you cold-hearted, evil, damnable, nefarious, low-life, malicious monster from Hell! She is, after all, stone deaf. ... Arnold Snyder
August 2nd, 2012 at 12:15:42 PM
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Depends what do you mean by gambling. DO you mean just casino gambling? Do you mean not playing the lottery? Do you mean no office NCAA, Super Bowl pools? Do you mean no friendly wagers/heists on the next Packers/Bears game?
A flute with no holes is not a flute, a donut with no holes is a danish
August 2nd, 2012 at 12:17:01 PM
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Driving on the express way is gambling. Having a savings account is a gamble.
August 2nd, 2012 at 12:21:08 PM
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$500k would be great for me - I would find another hobby!
August 2nd, 2012 at 12:29:49 PM
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This is one of those douchebag questions that make you want to slap the person asking it. Sounds like something a parent would do to try and engineer their child.
(I mean that in a smartass, friendly, way - honestly)
(I mean that in a smartass, friendly, way - honestly)
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August 2nd, 2012 at 12:34:20 PM
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I don't gamble so I guess I could make the bet.
Many people, especially ignorant people, want to punish you for speaking the truth. - Mahatma Ghandi
August 2nd, 2012 at 12:38:21 PM
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The question might make more sense if the stipulaton were that you could never make another bet again only if you won, otherwise the amount of the prize is irrelevant.
For me, like odiousgambit said, it's not about money. It makes no difference to me if the stakes are dollars, points, or M&Ms, I play for the excitement of the game.
For me, like odiousgambit said, it's not about money. It makes no difference to me if the stakes are dollars, points, or M&Ms, I play for the excitement of the game.
August 2nd, 2012 at 1:17:48 PM
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Ditto.Quote: tsmithFor me, like odiousgambit said, it's not about money. It makes no difference to me if the stakes are dollars, points, or M&Ms, I play for the excitement of the game.
One of my greatest gambling achievements was at a lunch-time poker game at work, playing with two other people, for nickels. And by nickels, I mean five cents. The pot had less than a dollar in it, but I managed to bluff two people out of it. They were violating all the rules, talking about what they had, and what they thought I had. And yet, they both still folded.
I invented a few casino games. Info:
http://www.DaveMillerGaming.com/
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August 2nd, 2012 at 2:05:18 PM
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Quote: ahiromuThis is one of those douchebag questions that make you want to slap the person asking it. Sounds like something a parent would do to try and engineer their child.
(I mean that in a smartass, friendly, way - honestly)
lol. I understand your comment, so let me try and explain why I created the poll.
There is always a lot of chatter about making a bet with a low HE, or making a bet that gives you the best chance of winning. While I don't like to give away money and like to win, I really enjoy the adrenaline rush from an unresolved bet. I want to win, I like to win, but I play to play.
That got me to wondering how many others on this board share that same feeling, that is less about the money, and more about the action.
I was trying to ask the question, without getting too personal with the amount. I don't want to know what your 'amount' is.
I'm sure you've heard the old joke,
Man to woman, "will you have sex with me for $100?"
Woman, "Hell No"
Man, "Would you have sex with me for $1,000,000?"
Woman, "Probably"
Man, "Well, now that we have established what you are, all we need to do now is negotiate the price."
Always borrow money from a pessimist; They don't expect to get paid back !
Be yourself and speak your thoughts. Those who matter won't mind, and those that mind, don't matter!
August 2nd, 2012 at 2:08:39 PM
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Quote: tsmithThe question might make more sense if the stipulaton were that you could never make another bet again only if you won, otherwise the amount of the prize is irrelevant.
For me, like odiousgambit said, it's not about money. It makes no difference to me if the stakes are dollars, points, or M&Ms, I play for the excitement of the game.
If I just gave you 500K to never make another bet, that would say you are in it for the money.
But, would you still agree to the deal, if you weren't positive you were going to get the money? One FINAL bet for the junkie ;-)
Always borrow money from a pessimist; They don't expect to get paid back !
Be yourself and speak your thoughts. Those who matter won't mind, and those that mind, don't matter!
August 2nd, 2012 at 2:10:57 PM
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Quote: 1BBI don't gamble so I guess I could make the bet.
Ahh, I really must be more careful with my words. Replace gamble with 'make or accept a bet'. And yes, this still includes a bet where you are 100% a winner.
Always borrow money from a pessimist; They don't expect to get paid back !
Be yourself and speak your thoughts. Those who matter won't mind, and those that mind, don't matter!
August 2nd, 2012 at 2:15:43 PM
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Quote: Gabes22Depends what do you mean by gambling. DO you mean just casino gambling? Do you mean not playing the lottery? Do you mean no office NCAA, Super Bowl pools? Do you mean no friendly wagers/heists on the next Packers/Bears game?
Definitely it would mean any casino game, sports book, and all forms of lottery.
Would allowing friendly wagers where neither party presumably has an edge change your answer?
Always borrow money from a pessimist; They don't expect to get paid back !
Be yourself and speak your thoughts. Those who matter won't mind, and those that mind, don't matter!
August 2nd, 2012 at 2:19:37 PM
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If I accepted the bet, and won......
I still wouldn't tip the dealer.
I still wouldn't tip the dealer.
"I am a man devoured by the passion for gambling." --Dostoevsky, 1871
August 2nd, 2012 at 2:30:19 PM
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Quote: MakingBookIf I accepted the bet, and won......
I still wouldn't tip the dealer.
Post of the day!!!
Many people, especially ignorant people, want to punish you for speaking the truth. - Mahatma Ghandi
August 2nd, 2012 at 2:48:47 PM
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I will take the $500,000 and quit gambling for life.................except Craps. :-)
Craps is the most "Jekyll and Hyde" casino game ever invented!
August 2nd, 2012 at 2:57:18 PM
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Then give me $1000,000 for my personal dice setting lessons. Afterwards you can shoot craps without breaking your gambling oath.
All of my students now make positive investments at the crap table.
All of my students now make positive investments at the crap table.
August 2nd, 2012 at 5:27:55 PM
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I would take the $500,000. I think I could live without making a money wager again. if it includes "bets" where I am gambling on a dice result in a board game, playing fantasy football or friendly handshake wagers... forget it.
"Then you can admire the real gambler, who has neither eaten, slept, thought nor lived, he has so smarted under the scourge of his martingale, so suffered on the rack of his desire for a coup at trente-et-quarante" - Honore de Balzac, 1829
August 2nd, 2012 at 6:14:47 PM
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Couldn't do it because my whole retirement account is built out of stocks and mutual funds. But if I were to do it, and won the bet, I would then fall back on the classic AP defense, "when I'm at the tables, I'm NOT gambling."
Heard it years ago but forgot it. Great joke; thanks for reminding me about it.
Quote: RaleighCrapsI'm sure you've heard the old joke,
Man to woman, "will you have sex with me for $100?"
Woman, "Hell No"
Man, "Would you have sex with me for $1,000,000?"
Woman, "Probably"
Man, "Well, now that we have established what you are, all we need to do now is negotiate the price."
Heard it years ago but forgot it. Great joke; thanks for reminding me about it.
August 2nd, 2012 at 7:46:41 PM
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Define "BET".
Some people need to reimagine their thinking.
August 2nd, 2012 at 7:47:58 PM
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Quote: MakingBookIf I accepted the bet, and won......
I still wouldn't tip the dealer.
Winnah, Winnah, Cheekin Dinnah!! +1
Some people need to reimagine their thinking.
August 2nd, 2012 at 7:50:09 PM
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Quote: RaleighCrapsYou are presented with the chance to make a bet for $500,000 profit.
The bet will cost you NOTHING to make.
You have a 75% chance of winning the bet.
However, if you accept the bet, you agree, win or lose, you will never enter into another wager in your life.
That's another wager discluding the present wager requiring you to agree never to make another wager, right? Otherwise, I kind of smell an automatic loss here.
If the answer to the above question is, "Yes," then, sure, I'd make the bet. My EV on the bet is $375,000, and the EV on the rest of my gambling throughout my life will be < whatever the amount I wager in total is, so yeah, one last hurrah for the big money!!!
Ideally it would be a perfect deck of 52 from a CSM, or something, first card off the top, if it's not a Spade, you win!
https://wizardofvegas.com/forum/off-topic/gripes/11182-pet-peeves/120/#post815219
August 2nd, 2012 at 9:23:11 PM
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"Dice, verily, are armed with goads and driving-hooks, deceiving and tormenting, causing grievous woe." -Rig Veda 10.34.4
August 2nd, 2012 at 9:32:00 PM
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What is this "gambling" you speak of?
Gambling calls to me...like this ~> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Nap37mNSmQ
August 2nd, 2012 at 9:56:52 PM
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First off, this scenario is giving me a definite "evil genie" vibe, where I go out to get insurance or a bond and wind up denied.
But honestly, if you were to ask me what I would do with all that money, what I'd probably do is invest it (there's that evil genie again) and gamble what I could spare of the dividends. It's like when sports stars making millions are caught taking bribes - I just don't see the point.
But honestly, if you were to ask me what I would do with all that money, what I'd probably do is invest it (there's that evil genie again) and gamble what I could spare of the dividends. It's like when sports stars making millions are caught taking bribes - I just don't see the point.
The trick to poker is learning not to beat yourself up for your mistakes too much, and certainly not too little, but just the right amount.
August 3rd, 2012 at 12:05:30 AM
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Still wouldn't tip the dealer. Hmmm...... I think I've dealt to you.......
August 3rd, 2012 at 12:15:52 PM
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Quote: 1BBI don't gamble so I guess I could make the bet.
The exact wording was "never enter into another wager." Whether you consider it "gambling" or not, advantage play still involves entering into wagers, so I think making this bet would preclude all future advantage play as well as recreational -EV gambling. Not that I'm the poll author or anything...
"So drink gamble eat f***, because one day you will be dust." -ontariodealer
August 3rd, 2012 at 2:00:59 PM
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Quote: AcesAndEightsThe exact wording was "never enter into another wager." Whether you consider it "gambling" or not, advantage play still involves entering into wagers, so I think making this bet would preclude all future advantage play as well as recreational -EV gambling. Not that I'm the poll author or anything...
I was going by the title of the thread which contains the words quit gambling.
Many people, especially ignorant people, want to punish you for speaking the truth. - Mahatma Ghandi
