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Damnit, this show they are playing on ESPN about gambling is [censored] horrible and they are grouping poker in with it. Kids that kill themselves because of gambling debt with sports aren't a loss, that is just natural selection. Jesus.


P.S. This thread sucks.

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you're niave to not think the same things happen with poker

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you're niave to not think the same things happen with poker

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grimstarr rocks the noose?

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oh and OP plays full ring, he's already dead on the inside

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Yes, I am most def. dead on the inside.

I did not group them together though, I was saying that they are grouping Poker with Sports Gambling and saying that both are things where people always lose all their money, when in fact neither are like that. But they treated both like they were Roulette or something.

Anyways like I said, people who cannot handle this game are just plain stupid and it is their fault. It is not ESPN or anyone else's fault but their own. It is just stupid to group all gamblers with the problem gamblers and to say all the problems would be solved by mostly idiotic measures.

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Yes, I am most def. dead on the inside.

I did not group them together though, I was saying that they are grouping Poker with Sports Gambling and saying that both are things where people always lose all their money, when in fact neither are like that. But they treated both like they were Roulette or something.

Anyways like I said, people who cannot handle this game are just plain stupid and it is their fault. It is not ESPN or anyone else's fault but their own. It is just stupid to group all gamblers with the problem gamblers and to say all the problems would be solved by mostly idiotic measures.

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you can be +EV at sports betting too...

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are you retarded you know how many people go broke from poker and sports betting way more then roulette.

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The thing is smart people who put in time and effort can beat sports betting and gambling, but most people don't fit in that category.

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i got a bit of entertainment from the piece

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i feel bad for the dudes 2 roomates. wtf

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Yes, I am most def. dead on the inside.

I did not group them together though, I was saying that they are grouping Poker with Sports Gambling and saying that both are things where people always lose all their money, when in fact neither are like that. But they treated both like they were Roulette or something.

Anyways like I said, people who cannot handle this game are just plain stupid and it is their fault. It is not ESPN or anyone else's fault but their own. It is just stupid to group all gamblers with the problem gamblers and to say all the problems would be solved by mostly idiotic measures.

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you can be +EV at sports betting too...

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You can learn to read too...

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Yes, I am most def. dead on the inside.

I did not group them together though, I was saying that they are grouping Poker with Sports Gambling and saying that both are things where people always lose all their money, when in fact neither are like that. But they treated both like they were Roulette or something.

Anyways like I said, people who cannot handle this game are just plain stupid and it is their fault. It is not ESPN or anyone else's fault but their own. It is just stupid to group all gamblers with the problem gamblers and to say all the problems would be solved by mostly idiotic measures.

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Problem gamblers gamble on anything, that includes poker. I don't see the logic in setting poker to one side.

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OP is exaggerating. The show was not that bad. College kids racking up cc debt or blowing through their parents' money gambling is a bad thing, whether you want it to be or not. They mostly focused on sportsbetting, and they never said that all gambling is problem gambling.

It would be better if they were more explicit about the fact that some people can gamble with an edge and that other people can lose responsibly, but that they didn't doesn't make the story "[censored] horrible."

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you're naive to not think the same things happen with poker

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are you retarded? you know how many people go broke from poker and sports betting? way more than roulette.

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I'm a problem gambler. I think I'm down around $200 on poker for life :P

I think I am smart enough to have an edge, but it just doesn't seem to work out.

/whine

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Yeah agreed, but those are donkeys that rack up credit cards playing 1/2..when they should be playing 10 max tables

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I can understand how they are against sports betting. It damages the games integrity since it could easily corrupt people to change the games' outcome. Though I haven't seen the article, I assume they didn't explain the part about how it ruins the integrity of the games.

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beat: reading espn.com?