On line gambling.

[conny]

Don't know if this has been covered before but do any of you take part in this?
If so what do you play? Bingo, roulette, spins, football results, horses? etc

I never gamble after a very bad experience in the early 70's when we used to have a bookies runner in work. I buy the odd lottery ticket and if we go the seaside I'll spend up to £5 on those 2p shuffle boards machines but thats my limit.

If you do gamble do you set yourself a limit and stick to it or do you chase your losses?
If you win big do you increase your stake to try for more or do you 'walk away'?

 

[Dork Lard]

No'1 son likes a flutter on the gee gees but tends to stick to low amount accumulators.

I suspect he bets much more on the football. He knows my thoughts on the subject.

 

[diy_fun_uk]

The only gambling I do is Lotto every Wed and Sat, EuroMillions when the jackpot is in excess of £80 million and I sometimes do Set for Life. Yeah yeah, I know there's more chance of bumping into the pope when walking backwards than winning big, but hey, in it to win it and all that.

I'm pleased I don't have an addictive nature because all jokes aside, getting hooked on something like gambling is only going to end one way ... badly.

 

[securespark]

I used to smoke and drink like a chimney and fish respectively.

I gave up smoking in 1994 and drinking, well I can't actually remember, but it has been absolutely yonks. Possibly as early as 2006.

I do sometimes buy lottery tickets. Usually if the Euro jackpot is large.

But that's it.

 

[jeds]

Mug's game, but certain people lose control and it blights their lives. For them it's not a game, it's the same as a disease.

 

[Harry Bloomfield]

I have never gambled, ordinary life itself is as much of a gambles as I am prepared to take, it's a fools game.

 

[Trazor]

The main causes of getting into debt...

1) Gambling.

2) Alcohol.

3) Leaving a light on.

 

[Mottie]

Used to have the odd bet on the Grand National and sometimes get a lottery ticket but apart from that, the only time I gamble properly, or what I call gamble, in the last 10 years or so is when we've been on a cruise and gone in the ships casino. Just the roulette mainly but we may go in there say, 4 or 5 times on a 2 week cruise and buy twenty quids worth of chips. I won nearly £200 once and bravely called it a day but generally, my £20 is gone in less that 20 minutes and it does get a bit boring. Our first time in a proper casino was when we were coming home by boat from South Africa in 1982. I was losing on the Blackjack table and I gave Mrs Mottie my last couple of chips to try her luck and she only went and won £80 on the roulette table - a tidy sum back then and paid for a fair few drinks on that cruise.

 

[ajstoneservices]

When I was a youngster working in Hanwell West London There was a bookmaker office across the road. He smoked huge lardies and drove a roller while his customers smoked cigarettes' and walked. I couldn't tell you how to make a bet.

 

[Harry Bloomfield]

When I was a youngster working in Hanwell West London There was a bookmaker office across the road. He smoked huge lardies and drove a roller while his customers smoked cigarettes' and walked. I couldn't tell you how to make a bet.

That says it all really - the only ones to win, are the bookies. Keep on donating your hard earned.

 

[Deleted member 18243]

Just a look at the calibre of people that loiter in betting shops and casinos will tell you all you need to know about gambling.

 

[denso13]

Just a look at the calibre of people that loiter in betting shops and casinos

Just who are you to judge on the calibre of people you don't know?

 

[Old Salt]

Knew a guy won £3.5k at a casino in the Bahamas one night, went back the next night lost it, and a further £500! This was in 1971 so a fair chunk of cash.

 

[Harry Bloomfield]

Knew a guy won £3.5k at a casino in the Bahamas one night, went back the next night lost it, and a further £500! This was in 1971 so a fair chunk of cash.

Sometimes you win (very rarely), mostly you loose.

 

[Deleted member 18243]

Just who are you to judge on the calibre of people you don't know?

If I see somebody doing something wrong I point it out, as is quite normal and natural. I do understand sadly though, that the post-Blair generation doesn't believe that people do wrong and that we should all be "non-judgemental".