Occassionally I'll buy a powerball ticket...2 if the pot is high. I've won $7 on it once, but that's been about it. If I'm lucky, I'll get...a number. Maybe 2.

I might try some blackjack sometime in a casino, if I ever actually have money that consists of more than $5 in my pocket.

I'm not much a fan of gambling, mostly because I think I have bad luck (with lottery stuff) or bad skill (games like poker and the like). I rather like having more money than less, so I usually avoid it.

I bought a scratch ticket when I was 18 just cuz I could, and that's been about the extent of what I do. I think I've bought maybe 5 tickets in total (mostly when my friends and I were feeling dumb) and I never play games for money, so overall I suppose I'm fairly safe about it.

I refuse to gamble. My father became and still is hopelessly addicted to it, and it's ruined enough for me to see that it's not for me. Both of us have addictive personalities, so I know that if I started I'd be just as bad as he's become. Since I live in the south in Louisiana, gambing and casinos are all over the place on the Gulf and near the Mississippi. I'm surrounded by it, but I've never felt the urge to want to go there.

I gamble once in a blue moon because quite frankly I cant afford to lose what I got. :P

The most I've spent is money on powerball tickets or the Georgia Lottery when the pot gets really high.

The couple people who know me here in real life know of the streak I had at a casino for over $10,000 over many nights, all of which was spent pretty quick on stuff I needed (piano, payments, etc). I gamble only with what I can afford to lose, and I didn't have a problem with the risk. It's a game, and as long as you're having fun, win or lose be safe with your money and there's no problem.

I like to gamble on video games and such, but I don't really feel an urge to in real life. I might just once go to the casino with like 20-30 bucks, but that's just because I'm 18 now and I can. I think the biggest reason I haven't yet is that I don't have a job and no steady income. So, maybe once I get a job.

Sass, MA state scratch tickets really do pay out decently well though. I had a stretch for a while where I was really bad playing those, spending maybe $10 at lunch. I stopped that when money became a bigger issue than it was.

Besides, I play poker now. Things aren't as random in poker and there's the issue of what you can and can't control. I've made money on online poker, not a lot, but some. It's more than I can say for the scratch tickets.

I don't play the lottery that often. You always hear of the hard times people have win they win the Powerball; especially the old man in WV.

I think if you're responsible, get a lawyer and a financial adviser, you have a better chance of haveing the money stay w/you longer and not going bankrupt.

Yea, it comes and goes I notice. Depending on how fat the bank account is, I'll spend up to $50 a whack.

Its just really sucky winnings. I never really want to do the $10 or $5 tickets - I almost ALWAYS bite at the $2 ones.

For once, I won something reasonably substantial. And no one will cash my ticket. ;_;

Yea, see, I would play poker, but I have a feeling I would become a lot more ADDICTED to that because I know in the back of my head its not all a matter of chance. It gets a lot harder to walk away from.

How does that online poker shit work? How do they make money? Do they take a portion of your winnings or somethign? Is there a lot of money to be made? I'd consider checking it out if I knew more about it. Maybe you can help me out, Nova. ^_^

I love gambling, although I can still limit myself. I usually have 2 20-euro bets a month that are sure to genereate me some profit, and a 30-euro bet that's a bit risky, but so far it has earned me quite a lot of money (500 euros when the new pope was elected, others are usually around 100 euros).

I am not the type to go to a casino though, since I wouldn't be able to stop there. Whenever we play poker with a bunch of friends, I really can't stop, so I don't want to think what would happen in an actual casino.

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Normaly I dont gramble, I dont like the idea to loose my money for nothing.
I prefer to save this money for later.
But it hapens I play lotto with friends just for the fun, but it is very rare.

I'll gamble, sure, but I don't think wasting your time on hoping to win big is worth the risk. Winning is so low a chance, I think it's a waste of time to spend so much money when your odds of winning is lower than getting struck by lightning.