• Gambling-The American Promise

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    Is not that what gambling is all about. You are always hopeful which you can obtain one thing for nothing, or at the very least incredibly little. Don’t you recall what your mom advised you? You can not get anything for nothing. That’s what my mom told me, and I’ve discovered out since then that she was completely right. I consider Wilson Mizner stated it greatest, when he stated, "Gambling: The certain way of acquiring practically nothing for something." Truly, at the end of the day, that’s it…..right?

    In the good state of Montana they have these wonderful small devices, known as keno machines. These keno equipment are everywhere, and the places that these machines reside are called "casinos". I put gambling dens is quotes because they aren’t gambling houses like you consider of betting houses. You can find no table game or slot machine game machines, just video poker and keno machines. In any case, I managed to have myself roped in to the dream of winning a few hundred bucks in a sitting. The next point I knew I was going back to these products nearly daily. After a few months of this I recognized that no one really wins. Oh certain, you may win fifty dollars here and there, except over the a period of time your just feeding the products 5 dollar bills like they were candy.

    I managed to look at myself and I don’t even go into the "gambling establishments" any more. I’ve met individuals who truthfully pretty much lost everything they’ve playing the ridiculous keno machines. The issue that gets me about this type of betting could be the fact that casinos will advertise for the radio that they have an eighty-five % payback rate. This may be the rate because it’s mandated by law. A 85 % payback rate sounds wonderful, except when you imagine about it this merely means that if you put 1 dollar into the machines it gives 85 cents back . That is how it works. Just believe of it as a reverse ATM. When I started thinking of gambling in these terms, I stopped.

    I suppose that’s my goal with this article. To have you to realize which you genuinely can’t win, no matter what other folks tell you. As Doc Holiday mentioned in Tombstone, "The odds are all for the house." That and only that may be the only reason there’s even a place on this planet called Sin City. Because the odds are all within the casino.

     August 4th, 2010  Ryan   No comments

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