eberetta1
Legend
Loyaler
I like poker, but I do bet on baseball. Love taking the -1.5 runs. I also like betting college hoops, usually around February when the college teams play each other a 2nd game. Especially if the first meet up was an away game and a win on the road and the 2nd game is a home game.
mushthebush
Rock Star
Bronze Level
I don’t like gambling and even in poker I try to rarely gamble. I only play poker because it’s such a complex game and plenty of people willing to donate their money. For the same reasons I like businesses although in business and entrepreneurship I failed 3 times already. But I will keep trying und learning until I build something that works. Only got this life.
Every other sort of gambling is a waste of time unless you find a loophole as others found in Tennis betting, the split second bet right before the referee inputs the point. But it’s team-gambling. I have not done it.
I am also a race driver, a snooker player and a table tennis player.
None of the activities I do is for pleasure (pleasure is reserved for my wife). I put 100% time and energy into everything I do and I strive for perfection.
I also dislike chess, backgammon or any card, board or mind games, but I respect and appreciate people who are good at it.
Challenge me!
Every other sort of gambling is a waste of time unless you find a loophole as others found in Tennis betting, the split second bet right before the referee inputs the point. But it’s team-gambling. I have not done it.
I am also a race driver, a snooker player and a table tennis player.
None of the activities I do is for pleasure (pleasure is reserved for my wife). I put 100% time and energy into everything I do and I strive for perfection.
I also dislike chess, backgammon or any card, board or mind games, but I respect and appreciate people who are good at it.
Challenge me!
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bioman420
Rock Star
Bronze Level
Yes besides pokerstars I also play games, ps1,2,3,4,5 whatever game you have, PuBg is also a great game that I sometimes play on the smartphone, I like all game styles, extreme sports, examples skate, bmx, snowboarding, and also football, on Pc a part of my life I played Mu online, GTA, Conterstrike and among others like Dps.
cwdignus
Carpe diem
Loyaler
Pokerpoet2
Legend
Loyaler
I don't like to think of Poker as gambling, I used to Gamble years ago in my teens and early twenties, but gave it all up before I got married, I would gamble on any Card games, Slot machines, Horse racing, Dog racing, Football games even 2 raindrops racing down a window pane, but when I got seriously involved with the Woman I was intending to spend the rest of my life with, I gave it all up.
Poker to me is a Hobby, nothing more, it is a game, I am happy playing, especially with other peoples money, and when you gamble there will always be times when you lose money, I have never lost a single penny of my own cash playing Poker!
I started playing free-rolls, then used my winnings to buy-into SnG games, and never made a single deposit on any site, so it is impossible for me to lose my own money.
People are always asking me if I am afraid that I might be addicted to Gambling? I always say "I am not addicted to gambling, Poker Yes! gambling No!" and there is a difference, Poker is like any other game, and I can play for peanuts and still enjoy the game, For me the thrill of Poker is the challenge to be number one, winning money from Poker is not what drives me to play, even if I was playing a game like Chess, the only thing I play for is the win.
When the fun Stops, STOP!
Poker to me is a Hobby, nothing more, it is a game, I am happy playing, especially with other peoples money, and when you gamble there will always be times when you lose money, I have never lost a single penny of my own cash playing Poker!
I started playing free-rolls, then used my winnings to buy-into SnG games, and never made a single deposit on any site, so it is impossible for me to lose my own money.
People are always asking me if I am afraid that I might be addicted to Gambling? I always say "I am not addicted to gambling, Poker Yes! gambling No!" and there is a difference, Poker is like any other game, and I can play for peanuts and still enjoy the game, For me the thrill of Poker is the challenge to be number one, winning money from Poker is not what drives me to play, even if I was playing a game like Chess, the only thing I play for is the win.
When the fun Stops, STOP!
uomeone
Rising Star
Bronze Level
I have always enjoyed card games and many other forms of gambling. I was introduced to horse racing at age 21 and my first ever bet was an exacta that if my recollections right was a -4 horse box costing I think was $12-$16 and I didnt watch the race run from the side but from the paddock on the big screen display outside. I was relevantly new to it but not gambling in general but couldnt see which horses made the wire so I listened for the announcement and low and behold my 2 outta 4 was there and I felt a small rush of adrenaline flow and when I heard the payout was $650.00 it was like my chest shot straight out and I grew to 10 foot tall and I began to kinda stroll casually, huge smile and my mind was churning. Cashed that tik got the hell outta there and went back the next and the next and wasnt long I was thinking I was a damn good handicapper. Until I began betting pick 6 tickets of about $120.00/ticket (and that doesnt cover hardly any extra horses and even some races you only have that 1 horse you know ) but unfortunately I have never hit a pick 6 but the consolation of 3-4 I have several times. But to get the entire 6 I just couldnt dump that kinda money out to get the coverage I needed.
I also have just recently gotten into playing slots. Not all slots though. Just the games in which I have some sort of control over that I can manipulate the final outcome of the reels and the rollout and ultimately the payout. I have select games which I know I can make serious money on and others that I know I can build my roll from next to nothing but wont get rich off of those particular games, just can get something to work with from literally a penny or 2.
But like Doyle Brunson has coined the phrase, "a chip n a chair" and that has rung true for me so many times in so many different ways from slots to poker to horse races to life in the working world of most people.
But I think everything you do in life is a gamble to some degree. Even crossing a street is a gamble as to whether you will safely make it to the other side or will you get slammed by the truck that blows through the red light while the driver has a sandwhich up to his mouth taking a bite and adjusting the radio with the other hand while steering with his knee. Oh and cant forget, those type of scenarios have odds on them too.
So everything we do in life is a gamble. It just depends on how you perceive things.
I also have just recently gotten into playing slots. Not all slots though. Just the games in which I have some sort of control over that I can manipulate the final outcome of the reels and the rollout and ultimately the payout. I have select games which I know I can make serious money on and others that I know I can build my roll from next to nothing but wont get rich off of those particular games, just can get something to work with from literally a penny or 2.
But like Doyle Brunson has coined the phrase, "a chip n a chair" and that has rung true for me so many times in so many different ways from slots to poker to horse races to life in the working world of most people.
But I think everything you do in life is a gamble to some degree. Even crossing a street is a gamble as to whether you will safely make it to the other side or will you get slammed by the truck that blows through the red light while the driver has a sandwhich up to his mouth taking a bite and adjusting the radio with the other hand while steering with his knee. Oh and cant forget, those type of scenarios have odds on them too.
So everything we do in life is a gamble. It just depends on how you perceive things.
