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Guy in front of me this morning bet $5 on Tigers for the 1st 5 innings. $5 at -150. Why even bet?
 
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At least he only lost 5 bucks lol.

On a side note, first couple times I was in Vegas, couldn't believe how many ten and twenty dollar bettors there were. I'm not necessarily knocking it, just surprised. And they cheer the loudest too.
 

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Whats the difference in that vs betting $5 on a hand of black jack?
 

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True story, few years ago, the year the cardinals won the world series. They were playing a weekday day game. Carpenter was pitching, he was real high -200ish something. 3 younger guys sitting in front of me. Game ends, cardinals win, the 3 of them were high fiving each other. So of course im nosey, I walk down to the counter, the kid had 20 bucks on the cardinals. he won 7 bucks, layed 20 to win 7.
 

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At least blackjack you get even money back, he wasn't even getting odds, he put out 5 to win 3 bucks
 

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Maybe thats all he could afford....Lot's of degenerates in Vegas.
 

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i don't mind it. there are big bettors and there are small bettors.....$5 to you is worthy of toilet paper in a sticky situation....to others it might be 5 meals.

I was in vegas a few months ago and put in a $400 bet...they guy started talking nicer and gave me a bunch of drink vouchers and everything.....i can only imagine how it would be if i was a real high roller dropping $4,000 or even $40,000.
 

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fwiw, i have gone busto many times over my life....had to take months off at a time.

when i get back into it i will bet $25-$50 at a time....and it feels just as exciting as a $500 6 months before....
 

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fwiw, i have gone busto many times over my life....had to take months off at a time.

when i get back into it i will bet $25-$50 at a time....and it feels just as exciting as a $500 6 months before....

Agreed, but $5 to win $3? Unless I only had $5 to my name and I really needed $8 to buy something I wanted (bottle of vodka?) then I don't get this. However this very well may be the case...
 

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some guys will bet just to bet, so they can say they did it. I know a few like that who will spread $20 - $40 over 5 games. $5 here $10 if they are feeling good about the line. And then they go home telling the story of "oh yea we placed some bets on the games, drank some beers had a great time!" I would always give them a hard time about doing that, but their logic was I am going to watch the game anyway and I am not a big gambler but I will just put something on it for the fun of it. It had nothing to do with their income or whats affordable
 

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some guys will bet just to bet, so they can say they did it. I know a few like that who will spread $20 - $40 over 5 games. $5 here $10 if they are feeling good about the line. And then they go home telling the story of "oh yea we placed some bets on the games, drank some beers had a great time!" I would always give them a hard time about doing that, but their logic was I am going to watch the game anyway and I am not a big gambler but I will just put something on it for the fun of it. It had nothing to do with their income or whats affordable

That's even lamer.

Putting in a bet for an amount of money that's meaningless to you just to say you bet? Wow.

If I'm ever that dude shoot me in the head.
 

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What's wrong with only betting 5$? Some people don't take it as serious and would like to have an interest in the game and don't have a ton of money to gamble with.

And why do you have no business gambling if you only can bet 5$ a game? Some people prefer to spend money on other things and don't want to allocate all their money to gambling. I bet 10$ a game and just follow people on the site and have a good time doing it. I have a decent chunk of money saved up but just don't think betting is the best use of my money.
 

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