I don't understand gambling in Las Vegas

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Personally, I like poker.

Gambling will be always popular as long as humanity exists, that’s a fact. Gambling games evolve as IT technologies develop, nowadays online gambling industry is worth billions dollars.

There will always be the allure of quick riches that will bring people to the table, no matter the odds. Even outside of Vegas, there are state lotteries (which bring the concept of "The House Always Wins" to a whole new level) and for those too sophisticated for the Vegas Strip, there is Wall Street where 97% of the average day trader loses money (and most who make money earn less than a McDonalds or Walmart employee in a given year).

Alot of Vegas is the lights and glitter and once they have you in the casino, they will go anything to get you to stay.

In Vegas, there are games where you can lose less (Blackjack and Craps when done right) but those games are not advertised as much as the games where the house can skin you alive (including slots).

This thread stopped eight years ago, before you above two revived it. Just hope that you two realize that.

But yes... I never got the appeal of it either.

Vegas and Atlantic City would go out of business if the odds weren't stacked against the gambler. In the long run the house always wins otherwise the house would go out of business.

My parents have been to Las Vegas a couple of times, but they really aren't into gambling. They play poker with their friends sometimes, but only for a few coins.

I find buying blind bag toys is enough of a gamble as it is. Although you can sell characters already opened for a crazy amount of cash on Ebay.

I was still living in Las Vegas back in 2011.

Gambling in Las Vegas is a fraudulent scheme that takes all your money. Because of this, it is almost impossible to make money on such games. All you have to do is hope for luck.

There is no "fraud" involved; you bets your money and you takes your chances, knowing full well that the odds favor the House.  Anyone who expects to strike it big in Vegas is either hopelessly naïve, deliberately dishonest, or a very well-practiced card player.

Most gamblers like to come to Las Vegas because they can immerse themselves in the atmosphere of gambling and be in the company of like-minded people.

Just before the pandemic hit our little midwestern county seat burg lost its Dairy Queen because the owner got addicted to gambling.
I don't recall if it was gambling at the local casino "boat", or online, or elsewhere, or mix-and-match.

But his problem took away some local jobs here in town.

And you know how it is with local jobs, a few here, a few there, they all add up.

As if on cue ...
And although lottery tickets are not Las Vegas ...

BuzzFeed
People Who Won The Lottery Are Sharing How Their Lives Actually Changed For The Worse, And It's So, So Dark
Tue, May 31, 2022, 1:48 PM·7 min read
Winning the lottery might seem like a dream come true but for some people, winning big changed their lives for the worse.
https://news.yahoo.com/people-won-lotte ... 12635.html
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We recently asked the BuzzFeed Community to tell us why they regretted winning the lottery and they shared how their — or someone else's — win turned into a nightmare. Here are the surprising results:

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Gambling defies logic. The odds are always in the casinos favour. So why play in the first place? I can understand parting with a token amount of money that you can afford to lose for the fun of playing a lottery, but not to spend more than a trivial amount on it.

There are lots of gambling adverts on the TV now in the UK and I understand more and more people are getting addicted to gambling. Such ads used to be banned. They should be again.

They say that the house always wins. Casinos make tons of money unless they're run by Trump, then they go bankrupt The only gambling I ever do is in video-games where I'm not spending real money. I don't get the appeal of losing real money. I never been to Vegas but almost nothing about it sounds appealing to me. I find it funny to watch shows where people go there & get into major trouble doing crazy stupid sh!t like in the movie The Hangover & I also like hearing stories from people who've been there & gotten into trouble. But I have NO desire to do any of that except I liked the idea of getting married to a stranger there when I was single

The family that ran the store chain mom worked for were into Atlantic City. Mom concluded it was something about entrepreneurs. Recreational gambling steals your nerves in taking risks- so indulging may help make you a tough risk taker in business. So that might be an upside to going to casinos.

One of the captains on "the Deadliest Catch" liked going to Vegas. And running an Alaskan crab boat is a high risk, but high payoff, profession- demanding a gambling mentality.

One of the few ways gambling pays is the dividend on the bookmakers shares.