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Message: [QUOTE="JimmyS1985, post: 1825428, member: 85198"] My earliest experience with someone with a gambling addiction didn't involve a casino or lotto tickets, scratch offs, or sports gambling. It was my childhood friend, and his was poke'mon cards. These little cards, some of them you could see them being sold on ebay for $30-$50. The packs were expensive, around $5 and you got 10 cards, one of them a halofoil card that was more valuable than the rest, although sometimes they weren't worth much anyways, despite the fancy background. Anyways, he would do the dumbest stuff, he would spend all his money, hes in 8th grade at the time, and spent around $400 or so on poke'mon cards. When he ran out of money, he sold his N64 for half what he paid for it, then missed having a video game system, and bought a brand new one for $200 just a month later, an entirely avoidable $100 loss. And then he would try to get people to feel sorry for him when all he did was get shit cards (although once he got a Charizard which was a $45 card at the time) He later discovered drugs, was instantly addicted to them and worked his way up to becoming a heroin and crack addict, and going to prison. I heard he also got into gambling when he turned 21 but I quit hanging around with him because he was such a loser. What I like about poker is since there isn't a house edge, I guess you could say you take a calculated risk when you put your chips out there, and you've got 3 of a kind and you hope that your opponent doesn't have a full house. I guess its a form of gambling, but if you take good calculated risks over a long term trend and play opponents who take bad calculated risks, hypothetically you should make money. Still a form of gambling, but atleast your not playing against the house. I laugh whenever I see roulette strategy tips, I dont know about you guys but I find roulette strategy people to be hilarious. [/QUOTE]

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