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Sys32768 t1_iulrr9w wrote

The religious finding is interesting. I wonder if this is underpinned by a belief that the gambler will be taken care of by the guiding hand of the deity?

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tjblue t1_iulx7bg wrote

My first thought was they are both engaging in magical thinking.

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sdfgh23456 t1_ium229t wrote

I would also speculate that gambling is seen as more acceptable than other addictions in many religious circles. Hell, a lot of churches even regularly hold raffles and some even have bingo nights.

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SnooPuppers1978 t1_ium035d wrote

If you don't believe in anything supernatural there's no way you can justify making bets on e-sports in terms of thinking you can make money considering the odds.

Only way you could justify is if you found a flaw to use for arbitrage, if you build an algorithm that was somehow much more intelligent than betting system's own, you had extremely deep knowledge of the teams playing or you were participating in fraud for one team to lose on purpose.

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AlternativePool5618 t1_iumh52g wrote

I think that people are just very bad with statistics. It goes something like ‘well somebody has to win, may as well be me. ‘

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Taco_Champ t1_iumdj1y wrote

I see it as some kind of release valve on other suppressed vices. And as I tell my kids, church is for suckers. And suckers will make sucker bets.

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