Any kind of gambling.
Mostly a dollar or so with lottery tickets. Had a work thing where they gave us a seed and blew that. Never more than a hundred and I can years without doing gambling of any kind. Oh someone suggested stocks. I have 401k and ira. They sorta gain and lose all the time.
I’ve been to Vegas once. I played 4 quarters in slots and on my last one, I won $1.25.
I stopped while I was ahead.
I spent 2 years doing casino revenue audits. The amount of money the high rollers would loose in one night was disgusting, we are talking 7 figures.
What blows my mind the most is how the math works out in the long run. A $1 slot machine could have a $100,000 prize but you would have to play it 200,000 time to hit the jack pot. You don’t play against the house, you just give them your money.
0, gambling doesn’t fire off any feel-good chemicals for me, so I don’t do it
I tried slot machines in Vegas. Even themed ones for properties like Back to the Future were the single most boring experience I’ve ever had.
You’d think they would see mobile games and come up with a fun way to lose money, but they are just a chore.
I cannot conceive how people sit at those things. At least poker is a fun game. Never played it for money though.
I bet that I could ride a bike (MC), and lost my ability to walk properly.
Does that count? I don’t like to gamble unless my life is somehow in the pot. Money is boring.
Edit: I see that the title literally says money… so I guess the hospital bills.
There’s a good reason ER docs call them “donorcycles” 😬
~£50,000 overnight fucking around with meme stocks. Good times. 2021 was a wild year.
💎🙌🚀🌚
OMG! And that is pounds? Worth more that US dollars. I think you won the question. Well, lost, technically.
Yes pounds sterling, gambled on the finest American clinical-stage biopharma for that sweet sweet volatility.
Damn son!
One hundred whole dollars. Played texas hold’em at a casino in Canada when I was 18. $100 buy-in.
Sat down at the table, got dealt in, first hand was suited king queen, ended up with a flush, another guy at the table took me all in and it took me a loooong time to call. Soon as I hit that pot I started bullying the other players with my chip count. Then a guy came over and told me I had to move over to the higher-rollers table.
First hand I’m dealt there? suited ace king. What comes up on the flop? an ace and a king. I slow play the hand, whats the river? another king. I’ve got a full fucking boat, kings over aces. I go all-in. The only other guy playin calls. I flip mine over, proud. He flips his over, pocket aces. Dude had a full boat aces over kings. Sonofabitch. Left the table, sat outside, called my Dad.
c’est la vie. Haven’t gambled since.
That’s some Rounders-type shit
Pocket aces was literally the only hand that could have beaten you. The odds were in your favor, I’d have done the same thing.
Yeah, I was like “welp, that was some bullshit.” and left lol
stocks /trade should count too. funny how some of the people in wsb are degens, the most recent post i saw someone useing thier 401k for stocks.
What’s a 401k?
a retirement account in the usa, in lieu of pensions.
Ok, thx 👍
So it’s basically the same thing as pensions, but you have access to it your whole life?
except you have to put money into with your paycheck.
The same thing as with european pension. You don’t get money for free, it gets removed from your paycheck everytime you receive it
depends on how you look at it. If you remove it before retirement you pay a penalty along with the taxes.
Only gamabled for one night.
Told my self "$50 for a couple hours of entertainment? That’s fair if you ONLY spend that much. (Here its ~$18 for a cinema ticket. So ~$30 for a movie night for 1)
Didn’t expect to win. Just treat it as a cash for entertainemt transaction, and I can walk away guilt free.
Think (well, HOPE) I walked away with $200 in the negative. 1 small $10 win leads to one more round, leads to oops, I spent to much. (What I remember, that was only the money on chips, not the drinks.) Never again
Forgot to add. Spent the next 2 nights at the hotel mad at myself. " if I had $200 now, I could buy X, Y or Z, not throw it away on that 2 moments of “yes, that’s my card”
If you don’t count investing.
$2, on a lottery ticket; most I have won is $78. Overall have at least broken even, i think, I don’t buy them often, just once had a winning streak of $2, $5, $20, then the $78, all on the same numbers that came from a fortune in fortune cookie I got twice in a row in two different cities that said
“Battle the enemy as long as there is life.”
If you count investing, 17k, my 401k was halved in a crash at the same time I was laid off from my first real job.
Does stock market count?
$20. On my birthday and when I get a raise, I buy a handful of lottery tickets.
I lost 10000 Euros playing online casinos
If it’s any consolation you probably won this thread!
in one day?
Yes.
I sincerely hope that was disposable income.
I put $200 into a 50/50 raffle every quarter for a local donor run radio station. Haven’t won yet :p
I never bet more than $20, so $20.
