Legalizing Sports Gambling Has Turned Into A Huge Mistake (The Atlantic)

[Cynic]

at least with crypto, the “gambling” usually just consists of buying a cryptocurrency when it’s in the red and selling when it’s green.

sports betting, unless you’re exceptionally practiced in identifying winning odds, is akin to chasing unicorns.

Wait till you find out out about crypto gambling

 

[Cynic]

What's fukked up is how they have actual celebrities like Eric Andre out here making commercials and tickling peoples vulnerabilities and addictions. Look at this shyt and how it normalized sports bet addiction.



Like I'm a huge Eric Andre fan and I'm disappointed in him for signing off on this commercial.

Brazils biggest country star is hiding out in Miami over this sh!t

 

[boogers]

Kinda like how I miss the Quake gaming days where you played for the love and not for skins and lootboxes

i set up an ioquake3 server a few months back. the CPMA mod is killer

i brought it up because guess what, i got requests to bet on matches

 

[Dallas' 4 Eva]

Sick of people trying to ban shxt because a few individuals have a problem.

Grow the fukk up

 

[Bolzmark]

Not probably. The answer is clearly yes. You do what you want with that info.

Since a lot of harmful activities are legal, we should also legalize the rest. It seems to be your line of reasonning: since things are bad, we should make them worst.

Well.

There are no debates about the negative affect of gambling legalization. as I said, you do what you want with that info. You can care or don't care.

Some people don't care about the global well being of society as long as it does not directly affect them. It's a position. I don't hold it and find it absurd and immoral.

So then you MUST be for prohibiting alcohol, tobacco, fatty foods, fast cars, guns, etc? Because your thought process seems to be that if it's bad for anyone or society, then it should be banned. Everything I named is WORSE than legalized gambling, both for individuals and society. You can't have it both ways. If you think that way that's fine, I personally just find it ridiculous and an infringement on freedom.

 

[Bolzmark]

Alcohol is legal

Yes you are correct. And by his reasoning of why gambling should not have been legalized, he must also feel that alcohol should be prohibited.

 

[re'up]

So then you MUST be for prohibiting alcohol, tobacco, fatty foods, fast cars, guns, etc? Because your thought process seems to be that if it's bad for anyone or society, then it should be banned. Everything I named is WORSE than legalized gambling, both for individuals and society. You can't have it both ways. If you think that way that's fine, I personally just find it ridiculous and an infringement on freedom.

but creating public policy isn't as simple as hypocrisy or consistency. There's complex reasons why alcohol and tobacco are regulated to a degree. It's not a real solution to ban everything or nothing. That's a nonstarter.

There's also the way it's marketed. That was a major Tobacco issue for years. It took like 30 years to stop seeing cowboys on TV for Marlboro, but with things like crypto and gambling, you have Larry David and Lebron James endorsing them.

 

[KBtheKey]

Ok kool now I need those who are in the know to share with me(us) the AI programs that run player data to produce potential outcomes so some precise hypotheses can be made

 

[ConPHIdential]

Ok kool now I need those who are in the know to share with me(us) the AI programs that run player data to produce potential outcomes so some precise hypotheses can be made

This is actually in line with how people can beat the house through +EV betting. I treat the NBA season as supplemental income with a model I use around player prop unders specifically.


To the premise of this thread though those stats are wild. If you aren’t disciplined or know what you’re doing you gonna lose bread.

 

[ConPHIdential]

Sports gambling is like day trading, you don’t really need to watch anything to do it

Most sharps don’t even watch sports

One of the best responses in this thread. The pros don’t watch the games. They watch line movement amongst other things.

 

[OperationNumbNutts]

who knew that legalizing a dangerously addictive activity and making it readily accessible to the public would turn into a societal disaster?

Nice post and agree.

 

[Juven]

who knew that legalizing a dangerously addictive activity and making it readily accessible to the public would turn into a societal disaster?

hyon

 

[Amestafuu (Emeritus)]

Thank god I'm cheap. I can't work to blow money on a chance of a win. shyt retarded

God gave you free will and put you in a world full of vices and told you to have discipline and govern yourself. Gave you guidelines. Now you cry for big government to save you because you can't govern yourself. There's countries out there with not gambling no prostitution no drinking and it doesn't make the people better. They just don't do shyt out of fear. If you can't handle having freedom to try anything because of inherent weakness go to one of those places so someone can shield you from yourself.

 

[Cloutius Maximus]

Sports gambling is like day trading, you don’t really need to watch anything to do it

Most sharps don’t even watch sports

 

[Uitomy]

This is actually in line with how people can beat the house through +EV betting. I treat the NBA season as supplemental income with a model I use around player prop unders specifically.


To the premise of this thread though those stats are wild. If you aren’t disciplined or know what you’re doing you gonna lose bread.

And when it comes down to it, the model of the buisness is to make as many people lose as much money as possible, by design the buisness model is quite literally a predator. Average joes succeeding means they can't even exist, so it's basically pointless anyway