Online gambling

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I have never gambled with money at a casino, or anywhere else, besides playing cards with my friends for coins when a kid. I have been reading up on blackjack a bit, how to improve your odds against the house, and what rules are better suited to the players. Just wonder if anyone in the house has much participated in it, and what your luck might have been? There are still legality issues, but it appears that online gambling will only continue to grow in the future. I don't have money to toss away currently, but admit to being curious about it, wonder what people's experiences are?

I'm not clear on how internet gambling is regulated, if at all? It seems like the sites could be unfair and tilt the games in favor of the house, but I don't know if that is the case.

Thanks!
 
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Wow, no gamblers? I know its a lowly filthy terrible thing to do, but someone once said that gambling is a principle inherent in nature....and it is possible to win..
 
Jay, pick a number between 1 and 25. If you get it right, I will send you $5.00

If you get it wrong, you must send me $100.00

Now of course, I get to tell you if you are right or wrong.

Wanna gamble?
 
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Even though I trust you implicitly, Dennis, that doesn't seem so attractive a deal. Do I get a bonus to begin playing? Some of the online sites give that, trying to hook you in with their money, so to speak.

Probably a successful gambler has to be able to accept losing some of the time. Over here the only forms of legal gambling are horses, bicycle races, boat races, and pachinko. The online stuff seems to confuse the authorities, they don't know how to respond to it. There is a movement about to offer casino type gambling, but also strong opposition. No doubt that it does raise revenue, which is needed if it could be government operated. Oh, also a lottery, a couple times a year. One argument I hear is that a public that has little gambling experience, will lose their minds if it suddenly becomes available. I dunno.... The Japanese are big savers....notorious really, which doesn't help the economy one bit. People are very paranoid about not having enough money if something were to happen. The fact is that something is happening all the time these days, but lots of money people take to their graves. Then the kids fight over it and end up hating each other.

I don't see anything implicitly wrong with gambling, but no doubt that it does ruin lives without the control aspect. Tree work is a form of gambling, it would seem.

I have a friend that regularly bets on the horses, having developed a system. Winning ten grand a month is not unusual for him.
 
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I just wonder how you can be sure that online gambling is legit? Enough people do it, so it must be?
 
Try to find a table you can play anchor on(I take it there are a few players on the virtual table). That would be the last man dealt. Stick with a solid plan. Don't take a hit on anything 12 or over. Try to have the dealer break (pull more than 21) by not taking the high card from the play.
 
Sometimes in the morning we stop off at the gas station on the way to the jobsite. My co-worker Mike buys lottery tickets, sometimes he wins but usually he loses. I buy a donut and every time I get a donut. The odds are incredible.
 
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Counting cards seems like something to help your advantage, knowing if there are still a lot of face cards left, or few, to alter the strategy. A reason that one or two deck games favors the player over more decks. There is the rule where the dealer hits on a soft 17 or not, which effects the odds. Games vary. A lot to learn if someone wanted to get into it. No doubt that you can indeed improve your odds with study.
 
very limited gambling in my life although I did do a 4 day stint in Vegas a number of years ago. practiced blackjack before I went, didnt do to bad in person and stuck to farting around on the 5 and 25 cent slots near the casino entrances. went down with $500 to burn and I think I came back with about $300 after all was told. not bad. I wasnt expecting to win much and I ate fantastically while I was there. Plus the free booze whilest gambling, that was a nice bonus. lol, I remember going with my gf at the time, she was a bit of a quiet gal, ended up waiting each night till she fell asleep in the hotel room around 11pm, then I would quietly get dressed and go down to the casino till 3 or 4 and return to the room for a couple hours sleep before our trip to a massive buffet breakfast. :D
 
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The casinos will give free rooms and food to the people that win over a certain amount. They want their money back. Some gamblers have free suites available in lots of casinos. Maybe free food is a given, never been to Vegas.
 
they lure with cheap rooms and food, they win when you pump money into slots or other games, I read that blackjack was the ONLY game that you can increase your odds of winning by skill and judgement, so it became my game. :) Still paying my mortgage though, guess it only worked out so much.
 
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Blackjack might be the only game where the odds are closer to fifty fifty if you know something. Knowing when to double up or not, lots of nuances.
 
Ok.. Just playing like I used to, looks like a single deck though, on that site trainer. 150 hands. Left the table with $111 above my start with 42% wins. Not too shabby. Dealer hard to bust on single deck.
 
I gambled once.

Fell out of the tree and broke my back.

That cured me.
 
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Stephen, you can select the number of decks at that trainer before you begin. I cleared a thousand in about thirty minutes with fifty dollar bets, then gave it all back with one hundred dollar bets.
 
I had about 400.00 on 200 hands.. not shabby.
I will try it again with more decks later.
I used to love to play it in Vegas. I would take a set amount of money "to lose" and once gone, stop. If I came out with money I would buy something nice for the woman I was with at the time or treat myself or take it home if I was single.
I had relationships with 2 women that had gambling problems. After I found out what they were doing with our hard earned money I left them. Since then, I have a bad taste for gambling.
 
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