I just won a THOUSAND DOLLARS!!!

They mostly thought that the money for them to but the lottery or to gamble were a small money. They did not add it through the months and years they bought it, It could have bought a small apartment maybe... They just blinded themselves on the loss and focus only on winning, which really is not a winning if they really count well...

Aye, gambling is for fools all the best urban

Well I gamble but I am a intelligent gambler. I spend something i can afford and If i win, i save the profit but continue with what i have before. And if i lose then will not try again at that time.

I don't have friends who gamble. But my mother is so fond of betting on Lotto. She would everyday bet not only one but two or more lotto tickets. Maybe she is enticed because she always wins too, though smaller amounts. She would always give me and my siblings some from it. I told her not to get so addicted to it, lest all her money will be lost. She said no, just small amount, but i know it's for everyday.

There are many ways to gamble.I have ever bought welfare lotteries and wanted to win 5000000 yuan.At first,I won over 300 yuan,so I bought more with the excitement.But after two years,I got nothing but losing several thousand yuan!If I hadn't won any at the beginning,I must have lost less later.

LOL you fooled me too :) Gambling is fun but can be dangerous. I'll share something..years ago I won over 19K on a slot machine in Nevada. I feel I have always been pretty lucky. I don't gamble a lot but once in awhile I do. I won't spend very much money gambling, but I expect to win again :) You can't win if you don't play, but you must play in moderation and responsibly. Good luck to anyone out there, and if you feel 'driven' to play, don't play.

I agree with you on this one. The ones that actually win for the most part have spent so much already. I have gamblers in my family and it has never caught on with me. I am always thinking that the numbers/cards/chips, whatever it may be are all rigged. I have played numbers a few times, and bought a few scratch offs. I have made my money back off the scratch offs plus maybe 5 extra bucks....

hi bird I had a coworker who would set down just so much money then she and her husband would go to Las Vegas. If they won fine but the moment their money was used up back home to Tustin California they would come. they won some little amounts and had fun but once the money they agreed they could spend was used up they left.thats the only way I would look at something like that.I really do not gamble as I hate losing money like that for no reason at all. I would not like to keep losing money so I just do not even bother.

I don't have any idea about those phrase of people coming from a gamble institution. They maybe telling that to emphasize that there actions is good and hide what shame being a losers...

You got me in there! Nice intro! Well, stories of gamblers uh? My grandfather is, until now. I guess its an addiction that they can't seem to resist. I guess its because of the winning that they forget their losses. Yes! You are right they don't count how much they've spent as long as they won. That's the price of sudden blackout due to happiness maybe? :)

I don't gamble and as far as I know I have no friends who do this thing too~ They re gambling with their lives actually not with their money. Gambling online or offline is the most worst job as it will never pay you yet make our life in misery. If it would it never worth as much as you invest for all this while. I can't imagine if only one people grab all that money while others get nothing. This game oppressing each member in their group. It recall me of one statement I read in an article which one of the owner of the lottery shop said that they themselves never involves in gambling because the money is not clean and safe but they get really nice and handsome benefits by selling the lottery tickets. It is funny as for me you sell or you buy that money is not clean too but it show us that even the owner know the cruelty and the mean behind this dirty game. There is also a story which a girl won millions dollars but she finished it up in just a few months and leave herself from a rich girl in one night to the poor and ordinary girl in just a few weeks or months later. This always makes me laugh and it shows that dirty money won't last longer. It is either that girl is stupid and dumb enough to manage her financial or she really not deserve to have it at all.

I really thought you won in one of the online promos, you got our curiosity, good job! Gamblers do celebrate whatever the amount they won but doesn't count their losses, maybe if they did, they will not return back. I know people who are addicts with gambling and they just realized it when they where push on the wall. I have a friend who have business here in the city and I though she was doing well. Until the time that she had told me that she doesn't have money anymore and have to get away because she owes a lot of money from people and friends. I don't know the reason until her father told me that she suspects that she lost it in gambling. Now, she was struggling hard to earn money again and to regain her reputation. Her husband was very mad at her and they have to get an annulment.

Well, most casinos earn more than the gamblers do.. that is why they have money to finance all the fancy places. Many people go to casinos to gamble to try their luck but unfortunately not all people are Lucky enough to win so some end up wasting their money in casinos and casinos earn a lot daily without doing anything :)

hi bird i thought you won a thousand dollar so i open it quickly to check how but gambling is not a way to have money my uncle and my neighbor is addicted to this game they didn't even go home because of this , why people do this maybe yes you can won but there is a negative also i watched a movie that she won so when she won he played the whole night and go home with nothing i pity to much to does who are addicted in this.

I was just about to congratulate you on winning a thousand dollars, but I really love the way you drew people into your discussion. The truth is that it is not the easiest thing to do and many people lose everything trying to win everything. I wish it was that easy, but the truth is it isn't. I don't know why people do it, but they may be desperate.

I don't know any friends who gamble in their lifetime. If people gamble, they just need to bet their money and when they win, they get more than what they had bet on the table. I guess that's how gambling entertains them.

People who gamble,always count the winnings but not the loses.I have gambler in my family,maybe it's a generation which i dont know.But i grow up seeing my grand mother gambling race horse ,while my grandfather play cash-pot and the lotto an race horse. Now it's my uncle and an aunts who do the gambling,and trust they win most of the time.I use to Gamble way back before i have my son,but when i was pregnant i stop because i start to think and save more than i spend. Some people are smart when gambling to know when to stop ,but some are addicted an don't know when to stop. I don't know if gambling is base on luck ,but a few of my uncles are very lucky when gambling.

I don't gamble too... except for lottery... Oh that is considered gambling too, right? I bet and play lottery once or thrice a year only and not every year... so I don't lose that much money from it... I know I am not lucky with those so I don't play... But I know, based on others story, gambling is addictive... and their "wanting to win" attitude push them more to gamble and play... not noticing or realizing how much money they spent already... how much money they're giving away from not stopping... and sometimes they win and feel that its their lucky day so they gamble again after winning and then end up losers...

....Hi there bird123, You are quite correct with the premise that most people who gamble will lose so much money, that if they break even when they win, it would be a good thing. People who gamble get a thrill out of chasing the money, the adrenaline is high with the chase so to speak. I know a few people who go to the casinos only playing the coin machines, but they win a lot of coins, but they will not leave, they keep inserting coins, on and on. It's an addiction with some of them and they wind up losing. I have to say you are the second person this weekend that I have read about or heard, who won a thousand dollars. The other one was a friend who went to AC and won a thousand dollars. So if things go in threes, I will hear about someone else in my circle. Congratulations on your good luck. Take care.

Whooa ... I thought you really won and I am very curious how and from where. Anyways, I had a friend from college days whom I considered as a sister. We already finished college and already working, but during that time, she kept asking/borrowing money for me. She told me for the house rent and etc etc. When I needed my money very badly and urgently she was hiding from me, until we said hurtful words from each other. There I found out from our common friend that she was getting addicted to casinos. So that's the story of my ex-friend.