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Food_Library333 t1_jby0a4x wrote

Reply to comment by nogzila in Absence of Online Sports Betting in VT by Allemaengel

I hope we never get it. I lived in Vegas for 15 years and watched people throw their lives away with gambling. Just sad.

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nogzila t1_jbym5rk wrote

It’s terrible they start it out small then it becomes this all encompassing thing with ads everywhere , online play , in every store and then kiosks for it.

They also tune it to be addicting and research how to get you to pay more .

It’s so alluring to think you could solve all your problems by hitting a million or more but the odds are so bad it’s unlikely even if you played everyday you would ever win anything g like that .

The human brain has trouble understanding the kind of numbers in those odds and how bad it really is.

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random_vermonter t1_jbynrl2 wrote

I knew a guy locally that won the Megabucks twice. This was back in the 90s though.

I grew up watching my parents waste so much money on scratch tickets, lottery tickets and casino visits. They should have saved for college instead.

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