2010
08.05

Betting-The Dream of America

[ English ]

Is not that what betting is all about. You are usually hopeful that you just can receive one thing for nothing, or at least extremely little. Don’t you recall what your mom advised you? You cannot receive a thing for nothing. That’s what my mom told me, and I have found out since then that she was totally right. I feel Wilson Mizner stated it finest, when he mentioned, "Gambling: The certain way of obtaining absolutely nothing for something." Actually, at the end of the day, that’s it…..correct?

In the good state of Montana they have these great small equipments, known as keno machines. These keno machines are everywhere, and the places that these equipment reside are called "gambling establishments". I place casinos is quotes because they are not gambling establishments like you consider of gambling houses. You’ll find no table casino game or slot machines, just video poker and keno machines. In any case, I managed to obtain myself roped in to the dream of winning a couple hundred dollars in a sitting. The next point I knew I was heading back to these machines virtually daily. After a couple of months of this I recognized that no one definitely wins. Oh positive, you might win $50 here and there, except over the a period of time your just feeding the equipments five dollar bills like they were candy.

I was able to check myself and I don’t even go into the "casinos" any more. I have met folks who truthfully almost lost everything they have playing the ridiculous keno machines. The issue that gets me about this type of gambling will be the fact that gambling establishments will advertise about the radio that they have an eighty-five per cent payback rate. This will be the rate because it is mandated by law. A 85 per-cent payback rate sounds wonderful, except when you believe about it this simply means that in case you put $1 into the machines it gives 85 cents back . That is how it works. Just consider of it as a reverse ATM. When I started thinking of betting in these terms, I stopped.

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