The gamble of a lifetime. Man sells his business for $30k to bet a parlay on the college football championship and....

[CrazyTrader55]

You should never bet due to your emotions. That happens a lot in sports betting. Surely your team can't possibly lose or fail to cover the spread.


Reminds of this poor single mother who used every dollar she had to buy $300 worth of lottery tickets when the jackpot was really high. She honestly thought that she had come up with an original idea that if you bought that many tickets then you were sure to win. After losing she started a gofundme page because she had no money to feed her kids, pay rent, or anything else. Can't remember how the gofundme thing worked out but I don't think many people had much sympathy for her stupidity.

The lottery is the biggest scam ever.

 

[Unkotare]

The lottery is the biggest scam ever.

The STUPID tax.

 

[CrazyTrader55]

Stay in your fuckin' lane then.

I used the wrong words. You certainly have the right to oppose gambling.

What gambling opponents and alcohol opponents and Muslims and big government advocates do not have, is the right to tell law abiding citizens how to live their lives.

 

[hadit]

The STUPID tax.

You could probably replace the income tax with a $1 billion/month lottery drawing. Of course, the already wealthy would opt out of paying taxes altogether because they don't play the lottery, and that would enrage the usual suspects.

 

[IM2]

@ Meister. I'm thinking more of a Libertarian/independent type. Democrats don't think outside the box.

@ Peter... Maybe. The guy looks older, and perhaps near retirement age. Maybe he figured, what the heck, worst case he can get a job for a few years and then collect social security.

You guys sure do lie about Democrats.

 

[IM2]

Calm down.

This fellow wasn't an addict. Gambling addicts don't start businesses from the ground up like he did. He didn't need any help from Nanny Government to run his life. He made a risk / reward decision that didn't work out.

Gambling addicts sit around and play on line poker or table games -- Which I agree with you shouldn't exist.

And don't forget the LOTTERY - biggest scam of all.

But live casinos (lots of jobs!) and sports betting and fantasy sports (I play these) should definitely be legal.

Ye they do. When I lived in Portland and worked for a homeless agency, I met a guy who started busines, bbuit it from the ground up an lost it due to his addiction to gambling.

 

[Unkotare]

You guys sure do lie about Democrats.

Blue Man Group is on again!

 

[wamose]

All this talk got me wound up for some gambling, so I think I'll head down to AC tomorrow. 5 times tier credits, comped rooms, comped food, free gifts. I know, my gambling will pay for all those perks, but that's what I like to do. I look forward to the perks more than the possibility of winning. I really don't need to win but I don't like to lose too much either, so that might be why I don't freak out and get addicted. Too cheap. Or maybe I'm just lucky. So, all you guys have fun the next two days because I will, celebrating #75.

 

[initforme]

Democrats don’t own businesses. They just suck the life out of them with their ridiculous wage demands.

Hilarious.

 

[Lesh]

MSN

^^.... loses. I have to give this guy the credit for having the guts to risk his life on a payout of $150k, if it hit, he had life changing money. Unfortunately he won only 1 of the 2 bets he had to win, to get the payout, as Miami lost the game. Now he will have to start over.

What an idiot.

And $150K is hardly life changing

 

[wamose]

Maybe he got the business via some good old-fashioned Minnesota, Somalian fraud. All he needs to do is snag another fraudulent grant and viola, he's back.