• Ghostalmedia
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    366 months ago

    Attend a gamblers anonymous meeting and you’ll meet a lot of people who have lost more than 100%

    • MacN'CheezusOP
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      6 months ago

      That’s because they were gambling with other people’s money.

      If you only bet with what you can afford to lose, that’s never going to happen.

      • @maniclucky@lemmy.world
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        156 months ago

        Woof that slope is slippery. The trick is measuring what you can afford, and a lot of people aren’t great at measuring that.

        • @MaoZedongers@lemmy.today
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          See if I only bet 90% of every paycheck I still have 10% left over for lottery tickets

          If I lose the 90%, I just gotta win the lottery…

  • @demonquark@lemmy.ml
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    176 months ago

    Theoretically you can lose more than 100%. If you first win 2000% and then lose everything, you’ve technically lost 2100% of your starting capital.

      • @LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world
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        46 months ago

        The mind of a gambling addict is a sick sick mind. I’d like to think that if I came out 2000% richer, I would hold and walk away and be happy with that.

        but gambling addicts come up with all these rationalizations like you mentioned. rationalizations that make them keep gambling No matter how much they’ve won or lost and they are never satisfied.

  • @itslilith
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    I strongly think that OP is trolling ITT, but if someone seriously thinks this is an argument for gambling, I recommend checking out some introductory stochastics concepts, starting with expectation values

    • @Ihnivid@feddit.de
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      6 months ago

      Yeah, but I know this totally legit roulette system, the math absolutely checks out!^^^assuming there’s no betting limit and I have infinite money^^^

  • IninewCrow
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    36 months ago

    You miss all of the shots you don’t take

    - St Gretzky, Patron saint of sports gambling

  • @markr@lemmy.world
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    36 months ago

    Leg breaking was invented to handle the idiots who were in to their bookies for way more than 100%.