The Mugs world of Betting.

[markc123]

Is there anyone else that likes a good flutter? whether it'd be on the horses or football or w.e ?

I love to bet on the football, and do it every week - im not stupid about it though, i don't spend more than a tenner a week, and never bet if i can't afford it.

Was just wondering what anyones biggest win was if they bet?

Last season i won £550 of a £1 11team accumulator, was well chuffed....since then only won the odd £20 £50 and a £90 here and there.

Mark.

 

[MDJ]

I do the Irish lottery, one of my sparks has won £600 11 times this year on it, I have won----------um nothing haha, but keep perserveering.

 

[tidyboiler]

My father-in-law goes to Las Vegas every year, and loses far more than he makes. If you ask him how he did, he always answers "I broke even" aka I lost shedloads. :alucard:

 

[wade88]

I rarely make bets on anything other than the odd fight or when the Grand National comes about. But you have to drag me kicking and screaming out a casino.

I have never walked away down on money (touch wood) and usually when playing roulette will quadruple my money. Slow and steady always, never get drunk in there either.

 

[tidyboiler]

Well my FIL used to go straight from work to the betting quarter in Brum. He would spend all night on the roulette wheel and walk away when he'd spent all his wages. Mugs game if you ask me. :freak:

 

[markc123]

you been drunk and been in a casino ..... is literally the casino owners wet dream.

Quadruple your money? you may aswell give up the electricians game then mate, we're on pence to what you're probably racking-in you professional gambler!

 

[john999uk]

The only winners are the casino owners and the bookies. The games are always stacked in the houses favour.

 

[markc123]

Agreed.

I don't bet that often, and hardly ever in a casino anymore. Just do the odd football bet for the excitement, don't mind loosing the odd £1 here and there....

....sections list at William Hill a few weeks ago, i picked 14teams for an accumulator, put a £1 on and woulda won £2580 if it came in....they all came in apart from 1....celtic DREW 1-1 when i had them to win at home to arbroath in the scottish cup.....arbroath are like 3leagues below and they scored in the 87th minute, i was deverstated.

 

[sjhall]

My good mate who lives 2 mins from me gave up a good job working for Mersey tunnel ( maintenance spark) to play poker full time, he does ok, house paid etc ... not bad for 33. His name is Allan Peers for anyone interested, he's all over Google when you type his name in.

As for me, just the races really, but my mate really want to teach me to play poker.

 

[Paul.M]

I used to go to the casino a few times a week until they moved out all the table and put machines there instead! Looks like a penny arcade slot machine place now which I dont play on.

Been to Vegas once and I was only down $80 after 5 days, I spent more on food and that was really cheap lol.

Go to the horses 2 or 3 times a year but yet I dont go into a bookies, mates think I'm strange lol. Best single win I had was years ago whilst sat in the pub watching C4 racing with the betting lads that I go to the races with a horse came up on screen at 50-1. Me and another bloke stopped what we were doing and looked at each other in disbelieve. "did'nt we win money on that horse a few months ago at York?" Yes we did and we could not work out why the bookies have it at 50-1. So we thought it was worth a little bet and both of us put on £5 each way on it via a mate with phone account with Hills. It came home 3 lengths clear!!!. Biggest win on the horses was at the track just over £400 on one race and after the day was done I picked 4 out of 7 winners and came away with over £800.

Biggest win in the casino was on a game called Pair Plus (3 card poker kind of). For those of you that know the game you will be able to work out my winnings. Played the max £100 on the Play box and £100 on the Pair Plus box and I got three 8's

 

[shagbite]

can't be bothered with the horses - bores me to death. i used to have a bet on the footy until i realised it was impossible to win anything - the bloody draw always cocks it up for you. seriously, it looks so easy on paper but, you could put a treble on, with man u, rangers and celtic all to win - and it wouldn't come in. one of them would always cock it up for you. plus the odds are rubbish.

the bandits that have roulette on them should be banned. i've seen my mate throw £150 spins. your money's gone in a breath.


i like a bet on the boxing - especially when amir khan's getting his a**e kicked. i won 270 quid when danny garcia gave him a hiding.

 

[wade88]

you been drunk and been in a casino ..... is literally the casino owners wet dream.

Quadruple your money? you may aswell give up the electricians game then mate, we're on pence to what you're probably racking-in you professional gambler!

Ah yea but thats the thing. I play small money. You wont ever catch me putting serious cash down in a Casino, or on any "un-secure" so to speak "investment" haha. I literally might go into a casino with £40-50 maximum. Play with that money, when (if) i make back over £40-50 i put it back in my pocket, then just play on my winnings and never touch my original cash again. If i run out of chips from the winnings, then i just go home...or find somewhere else still open selling beer!

End of the day, the key to not being a total mug and spending all your income on gambling, is just exercising a little self control and looking at gambling a different way. Those who try to make a life's wage from it, or claim to be "professional" gamblers, are destined to lose, chasing that big win will simply result in severe debt, lets not forget casinos, fruit machines or any gambling mechanisms are not designed to lose.

If your perception of gambling is just a little fun with the odd throw away £20 here or there because youve worked hard that month and feel like a little fun, then you can't go wrong IMO.

I find it horrifying however, even as a young bloke who really shouldn't get too hung up on the morality of such things maybe, but all these companies now, encouraging gambling from your mobile in so many different forms. Roulette on the go, fruities while you wait for a bus, mobile scratch cards etc, in this current financial climate, encourage people who probably are quite susceptible to a little gentle persuasion and who usually definitely cant afford it, i feel is pretty immoral. Surely efforts to PREVENT that sort of thing should be in effect, not the reverse.

 

[lockhes]

have the odd footy bet never won been 1 team off loads of times

won on a fruit machine in bookies got £500 jackpot from £10

just got in to poker won £25and a silver coin so far but mrs isnt happy about me playing though lol

 

[EoinConway]

Seen this race result on Wednesday past, i remember someone on here flagging this horse up months ago

1[SUP]st[/SUP] (5)		5 Electrician	T J Pitt	4	8-12	S W Kelly	10/1
Chased leader, led 3f out, ridden and edged right from over 1f out, hung badly right well inside final furlong, just held on, all out opened 12/1
2[SUP]nd[/SUP] (7)	s.h	3 Paphos	S C Williams	6	9-0	A Kirby	6/4
Chased leading trio, ridden 4f out, soon went 3rd, went 2nd over 2f out, strong challenge inside final furlong, every chance when carried right well inside final furlong, just failed opened 9/4
3[SUP]rd[/SUP] (4)	2	2 One Way Or Another (AUS)	P D Evans	10	9-0 t	Kirsty Milczarek	5/4f
Steadied start, took keen hold and held up in rear, headway to 3rd 2f out, ridden over 1f out, one pace and no impression when hung right well inside final furlong

 

[markc123]

A horse called Electrician at 12/1 ...i never bet on the horses, apart from the national but woulda probably done that if id seen it, as im weird like that. I bet on balabriggs on the national a couple of years ago because i'd just got back from Bala in wales...and it won haha won like £150.

Asif it won, Electrician....go on my son!

 

[Benjamiin]

I love a few quid on the footie every week, goals galore is my bet of choice, i spend a measly 3 quid a weekend on the footie, because its far more exciting than buying a euro millions and a lucky dip on a saturday!! And more chance of winning!

 

[markc123]

I haven't done goals galore in a while, literally always 1 or 2 teams off and its sooo annoying

 

[shagbite]

the lottery provides us with a great example of how stupid the human race really is.

if i saw a horse priced at 150/1, common sense would ensure that i stayed well clear of it - no way is that old nag gonna win, would be my thinking.

yet every week, i willingly part company with my money, thinking that i'm in with a chance of landing a lottery jackpot. the odds for lotto and euromillions are 14,000,000/1 and 76,000,000/1 respectively.


i've had the same 6 lotto numbers since it started in 1994. i have an account with the national lottery and they take £8 a month out of my bank account so i can play these numbers. i win about £10 every 2 years. that's a £10 win for every £208 gambled and, i have never had more than 3 of these numbers come up in a draw. but, i'm stuck with them - they're burnt into my memory. i could never stop gambling on them.

on top of this, i'll gladly stump-up a few quid on lucky dips - rising exponentially with the size of the jackpot.



stupidity, desparation or both?

 

[markc123]

Both probably, but i agree you can't ever stop playing them now...because the moment you do, sod's law and lifes way of being a bitch is that they'll then come up

 

[wade88]

Despite your maths on the odds being well off Shag as none of us have the time, mental capacity, or simply aren't rain mans younger brother...we all play the lottery because no matter how awful the odds are, how far fetched the likelihood that we might win is....the sheer thought of sitting on a 200ft luxury cruiser, floating around the carribean whilst being fed grapes by an array of barely (if at all) dressed 19-25 year old lady deck hands, whilst simultaneously having the 15 minute lotion top up before each round of musical bikinis takes place, is just too much to pass up on.

We dont bet on 150/1 horses, because winning enough back, to earn said luxury boat with multiple hot women, would require us putting around 500 large down on that horse, to earn the £75 million jackpot equivalent. Now that just seems like an unreasonable amount of wedge, to put down on a 3 legged donkey

 

[shagbite]

Despite your maths on the odds being well off

Shag as none of us have the time, mental capacity, or simply aren't rain mans younger brother...we all play the lottery because no matter how awful the odds are, how far fetched the likelihood that we might win is....the sheer thought of sitting on a 200ft luxury cruiser, floating around the carribean whilst being fed grapes by an array of barely (if at all) dressed 19-25 year old lady deck hands, whilst simultaneously having the 15 minute lotion top up before each round of musical bikinis takes place, is just too much to pass up on.

We dont bet on 150/1 horses, because winning enough back, to earn said luxury boat with multiple hot women, would require us putting around 500 large down on that horse, to earn the £75 million jackpot equivalent. Now that just seems like an unreasonable amount of wedge, to put down on a 3 legged donkey

hahahaha, of course i'm not wrong!

obviously, the odds for the average joe are around 116,000,000/1. but i was referring to MY odds of winning, based on the amount i spend on the bloody thing each week.

that's my story and i'm sticking to it!

 

[sparkless]

what are the odds of that then

 

[grantr37]

I find it horrifying however, even as a young bloke who really shouldn't get too hung up on the morality of such things maybe, but all these companies now, encouraging gambling from your mobile in so many different forms. Roulette on the go, fruities while you wait for a bus, mobile scratch cards etc, in this current financial climate, encourage people who probably are quite susceptible to a little gentle persuasion and who usually definitely cant afford it, i feel is pretty immoral. Surely efforts to PREVENT that sort of thing should be in effect, not the reverse.

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spot on, even the states banned it, that's when they all moved out and set up shop in EU tax havens then started aggressive marketing on the TV and internet here...they got kicked in over there and limped over here to look for the weakest people to bet online and play phone games with their meager funds...if any of the hundreds/thousands of people in ownership of these firms set foot stateside they will end up in an orange uniform...

 

[JC94]

Digging up a thread from last year, but fancied sharing (mainly to help get over it). Had this accumulator on for the last week, middlesborough 1-1 Barnsley at 89 minutes, the rest all winning, 90th minute goal by middlesborough sets me off cheering thinking i've just won a load of money. To then find out millwall equalize in the 90th minute (30 seconds after) against QPR. Life changing money for me, never mind though, it's all fun and games... :banghead:

 

[thekingiam]

don't bet on horses or sport, like gamblers though biggest win 500 quid biggest loss about 3 grand over 2 months including beer

 

[thekingiam]

won the lottery first week it started, a tenner! since then only done it about 3 times so i am up about 6 quid not many people can say that.:shades_smile:

 

[dan86]

I don't play the lottery.used to.won the thunderball a few times and that was it.
I'm much more of a fan of the casino. don't get as much time as I once did, but when I go, I usually go large and spend a mini fortune. rarely lose too much in all honesty.won a good amount over the years.

 

[7029 dave]

Have a punt on the lotto lucky dip.