Do you like a bet?
 

Do you bet?

I bet on horse races mainly, the Derby and the Grand National. Will also have the occasional flutter on various things.

Grand national, golf and big footy

won big on the world cup

love cheltenham

I grew up with people who like a bet, my brother and my late best friend are/were gambling addicts. So I was always around that scene. I'm quite easy though, It's not a big deal to me. I used to like a Saturday football bet but I never won very much so I don't do it as often these days.

we used to have the Pools man come round each week

remember him?

Ah yes my dad used to do the pools. He'd let me have a go as well, pick teams etc.

Yes, my dad used to do that when I was a kid. The pools coupon and spot the ball.

Coupon man used to come every Thursday night.

Only on slots and never more than a tenner. I have actually won quite a lot so well happy :cheer2:

loved that every week

yep Thursdays here too

I only really play the lottery and euro millions when I can be bothered

https://classicpools.thepools.com/classicpools

I keep meaning to sign up for this.

:amazed:

OOh i knew someone who won the pools and spot the ball !! loadsa money ~ lost the bloody lot to 'friends' and loans ! we had to actually raise the money for his funeral. as he was penniless and also outcast from his very wealthy family.

That's sad Jax. God bless him.

I've got the blown up photo of him fron his funeral above my lav so i think of 'The Beatle' every day. He was a legend in his own lunchbreak :joker:

last bet i did was trump to win the election in 2016, so, the bookies don't make their money from me :laugh:

They brought back the Football Pools game in WHSmith stores for about a year but no one ever played it and it got swiftly canned. The odds on it are terrible in honesty

I don't bother with betting much as I've never been any good at it, only times I will now are for golf majors or big horse races

Mug's game. If you genuinely enjoy it then consider it paying for a recreational activity - over the long term no one makes any money.

I similarly only bet on "novelties" and one off events. I did have money on Trump, and there was the infamous £10 at 33/1 on Helen Wood :flutter:. I've won a bit on a few Big Brother seasons and a couple of X Factor seasons. It's only worth it if you can get good odds on an upcoming "dark horse" (my best X factor win was Little Mix, for example, who were way out at 8/1 half way through the live shows). No point betting on an odds on favourite.

Although I lumped onto Gary Bussey BB at 8/13 :umm2:. I considered that one basically free money though, he was never going to lose.

But yeah. MUG'S GAME! But adds a bit of excitement on reality telly finale nights :joker:.

Nah, not really

No, I don't bet. I mean, I do the lottery every once in a while and have taken part in sweepstakes... but I don't really bet on sports. It worries me that every second advert on TV is a gambling ad... Bingo, slots... Accas... they're trying to normalise betting, suggesting that you can't really enjoy the match without having some money on it.

Addition to gambling is serious and when they try to cover their arse with ridiculous adverts, like "gamble responsibly..." and "when it stops being fun, stop". It's like saying to an alcoholic, don't get drunk, just have a couple.

Only lottery and the Irish lottery on a Saturday.

It's dangerous if you have an addictive personality, lots of people have gambling addictions

I do the Lottery now and again...and the Grand National.

Not only that, it's like a bar manager saying to an alcoholic "don't get drunk, just have a couple" and then taking all of the bar staff in a room in the back for a hushed chat on how to get away with making sure he actually still drinks as much as ever. Grim.

I won £80 from a £2 bet yesterday.

That's how they get'ya Parmy!

I once went into a bookies in Glasgow with a pal on a night out (when I worked in one so extra-specially disliked being in them) and he was hammering £20 notes into the roulette... I was getting bored so I stuck £5 in the machine next to him and did 5 spins on "Rainbow Riches" ... ... won the £250 silver pot :shrug:.

I can see how things like that get people hooked on these games. But when you've watched people play them all day every day for years, you know it's just dumb luck and wins like that are rare!

I'm not really a betting person, but sometimes I feel like a flutter when I rightly predict outcomes of TV shows...but I never have.

I do genuinely think it can be sort of fun for things like that and is probably the "safer" form of gambling, since you can't exactly start losing your house on making one bet on a reality TV show every few months. And for us who are into these things like on this forum you can get some genuine no-brainers at high odds if you're right on top of it - a good example, in the final BB series, Lewis was MASSIVE favourite when he was kicked out, but for a few hours after he was removed you could still get something like 6/1 on Cameron, who was basically a guaranteed win after Lewis was removed due to inherited votes. The bookies caught up eventually but like I said, it was a couple of hours after the TiBB news broke about him being removed...

Then again maybe it's like a "gateway drug". Don't gamble, kids!

I can see the fun in a little flutter, I feel like I might aswell have put bets on with most of IAC ...as I more or less predicted most of the winners :rolleyes: .

But gambling can be easily addictive for some.

i'm just thankful i don't have a gambling problem which is amazing really given how addicted i was to computer games at one stage in my life

Gambling is a very specific sort of "high" that's almost the opposite of "gaming high" ... gaming high is about the reward cycle of doing something well and progressing - gambling high is basically all about the "letting go" ... people don't get a thrill out of it when they're actively placing the bet, the thrill comes when the "event" (be that a race, football game, or roulette spin) has commenced and the money is on the line, and there's NOTHING that the gambler can do to affect the outcome at that point. They just have to wait and hope, and get the "up" of it going their way when it does.

No. Just scratchcards sometimes and I've played the lottery.

No ,I only do the lottery when I think about it.

This is how the Alcohol industry really operates. South Park put it perfectly in their little ad :joker: Same as gambling companies offering free bets, like a drug dealer giving you your first gram of coke for free.

It's like an ad for Tate's "hustler's university".

:joker:

There was a woman on the news defending him last night, she had a "tate's girl" tattoo on her arm :hehe:

Euro Millions

I do

In USA one $2
ticket holder one over
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