Gambling

Just out of curiosity how many people here gamble, and how often?

I play texas hold 'em with mates fairly often (<3 world poker tour) but its always pretty low bets and more for laughs and bragging rights than money. Though some friends I know can easily blow a couple of hundred in a single night at the casino or at the races.

hmmmm i do every so often.. not big.. like "0 $ 20 here or there..

hardly ever, if i go to the casino i use my card thing which has 10 free bucks on it. i use that and thats it.

i went out for a card night not too long ago with eater and phoenix_inferno at neo's place it was fun and i won :)
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yeh i play hold em with mates aswell, and sometimes 5 card draw. We play different tho. everyone throw in 5-10 bucks and the person with the most chip's by a certain time (say 2am) wins the lot. Once ina while ill play on paradise poker, to get a few tactics going, but thats about it.

I gamble only around 50 bucks at crown, maybe once or twice a year. current earning so far total around 900-1100 bucks. I usually play the big wheel. Ive played carabian (spelling) poker before, and won, but ive only played a hand. Youve gotta put in a 10 buck ante, and you can only beat double your ante. while if you dont have a rank higher than a pair you lose to the casino. so odds are shithouse.

Evrytime I go to work, I take a big gamble. I kid you not

I don't gamble. I'm waiting until I'm rich enough not to care about the odds.

Quote from El Presidente:
I don't gamble. I'm waiting until I'm rich enough not to care about the odds.

Heh would be nice huh :)

Don't gamble with money. Alcohol on the other hand...

Biggest casino I know is the stock market... I almost paid for 500 shares @ Au$28.75 three months ago and now the stocks are selling at Au$24.90

bl gunzee ;(

can be a real bitch like that, heh

:) i do every 3rd weekend ill go casino have a few play pokies roulette have really good fun and i normally win but we all have our loosin streaks to :)

playing the stock market short term is pointless unless you are a broker - they get better information than just reading the afr. Long-term you cant really lose, just pick a bank or a big retailer.

I have heard that playing the Currency Exchange can be quite profitable.

Even less predictable than short-term stock market trading afaik. Only worth it if you got alot of money to put into it. But yeah high risk = high return.

I use to play the pokies once about a fortnight (only really every time I was at a club or RSL) a few months ago, but realized it could've been an addiction and stopped.

tard, yeah.. blue-chip companies for teh win ;)

I bought a few shares with some bluechips a couple of years ago (not telstra though :) ) and i'd made a few hundred bucks from it.

Yeah, I gamble......woot !!

Dogs, horses, trots, casino & gotta love online sportsbetting :D

I usually only do it when I get shitfaced though :)

That's gotta help the judgement :P.

i wonder if investing into iraqi dollars now, in a few years maybe theyll be worth more?

Maybe. Seems to me to be a whole heap of risk though - you'd be hoping on some pretty damn good returns.

Theres alot of tax on Monetary conversions though, which makes it alot less attractive than it did say, 10 years ago.

bout once a yearly quarter, was in sydney over the weekend so went to star city. decided to fork out $30, lost 20 on roulette, then won $40 on blackjack, so was $20 up for the night

lol cow $20 up nice work.... :)

No matter how much you win by the end of the night there’s always only one winner out of gambling. "The House wins"

I dunno if anyones ever tried it but taking $500 to casino and try and win i ended up walking out "500 richer :D bought my new pc

A very nice piece of luck there Korny!

Makes you one of the rare-ish winners who keep everyone else hoping they can have the same experience.

Nah Korny had no luck he's friend was working as cashier that night & hand him some money. :)

'sif he can Scam.
He was in the carpark offering hand-jobs for chips!

lol yeh I guess so Milenko well you did tell me he's hands were cold & rather big :)

But silky smoooth!

strange thing is apparently i have very soft hands :| so im told by girls LOL they seem to like it ;)

Ewwwwwwwww

How did you trolls turn my perfectly good thread about gambling into korny giving handjobs? :D

nfi how it happen :|

rofl

Its a talent.