Any kind of gambling.

  • TotallyNotSpez@lemmy.world
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    1 hour ago

    I once lost ~15k during a high-stakes poker tournament. Had another buy in and won it all back with a big plus (3rd place).

    I rarely play for money, but when I do, I play hard like a sledgehammer to your ankles.

    There’s a reason why none of my friends want to play poker with me, even if it’s just a fun game for like 10 €.

    I learned from some of the best. I only run a fun game once a year on New Year’s Eve these days. Like, 5 € and you’re in for a fun hour or so.

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        29 minutes ago

        The weird thing, though, is the fact that I keep my usual money and my poker bankroll money very separately.

        The gambling money is for just that: Gambling fun. Even in case it’d ever run dry, I’d never touch my normal life bank account with a ten-feet-pole-stick.

        Maybe that’s the secret behind ‘healthy’ gambling? Idk…

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    2 hours ago

    Say a hundred bucks? I sincerely hate losing money, so if I gamble, it’s always with a very limited amount of money, and once it’s gone, it’s gone.

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      How could you not know when your son’s bday is? And why would you bet on it?

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    Actual gambling (in actual Las Vegas): around $10.

    Stock market: Considerably more. (But not recently) We were doing quite well there until we weren’t.

  • ∟⊔⊤∦∣≶@lemmy.nz
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    Proud to say I’ve never used a pokie machine, but I’ve lost money on things that could be labelled ‘gambling.’ I was doing quite well on the stockmarket, I had a bunch of shares that were just about to push me significantly into the green, but then trump shat all over it. I lost about $100 USD in the end, which isn’t too bad.

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    0$ the only time I’ve ever been in a casino is when I was on a road trip with my family, we stopped there there because we thought it might be a cool way of starting the road trip trying a machine or two, but they made a huge stink about my sister trying to use the bathroom without showing her ID despite the bathroom being literally two steps from the checkpoint station. The experience really put a damper on being there, so we decided just to leave without actually using any machines.

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    3 hours ago

    Guessing by the kind of people who use lemmy, probably not from conventional casino or lottery, but stocks/crypto or, less likely, gacha game.

    Lost some money from stock myself.

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    I guess around €50 for a poker tournament + re-buy. Not including drinks.