Gambling

[Pumbaah1]

How many of you guys have gambled and if you have what the biggest amount of money (or something else) that you won/lost? My biggest won is 200euros that i've gotten couple times.

[rich198]

the most i won was couple of quid in a game of pool

[FlipMode]

I won £75 in a pub fruit machine .. My friend was playing it first and put in about 20 first, then I won with like 5, lol so I split it with him. I hate gambling... You can't win. No matter how you look at it, the machines / house have still made more in the end, and thus they have won. Fruit / slot machines only pay out a certain amount when so much has gone in first for example: even if you double your money. You're still taking someone else's + that machine has still made them a profit. And the same applies to most over forms of gambling.. Unless it's a straight pot luck thing like "hey I roll a 4, you give me 10 pounds" or "Bet you a fiver you can't hit that guy with your paper ball from here."

It's all smoke and mirrors, and it has been known for ages: think a machine is designed to loose a company money, or that a Casino is there to give away all it's money? Nope, it's all there to make them money and it always will.. Every time without fail. Because it's all done by pre set percentages. That said, putting in the odd few quid and Noel Edmands telling me I had 45 pounds in my box was kinda cool.