Just can't get into gambling. Never have put a single coin into a machine in Manitoba. Fully supportive of the voluntary taxation aspect since I'm able to opt out.
I've done a bit in Vegas, nickel and quarter slots only and set myself a limit. It was fine and sort of fun, more drinks coming my way at the quarter slots obviously, but I ended up with nothing.
The thing that kills me is when I talk to people that have been to Vegas, nobody ever loses. I have a decent background in statistics and have never thought of the Vegas casinos as charitable, so somebody is lying.
vbookie here is about as much gambling as I do. Sometimes I'm good at it but inevitably I'm humbled and back to where I am now at 50 vcash. I think I got up to around 8000 at one point this past NHL season. I don't take big odds on vbookie either, generally gambling with the odds - baby steps. And yet I end the season sitting at 50 (or having lost 90% of my vcash overall). That's illustrative to me.
About the only gambling I'll do is lotto max when it gets to 50 Million. Yes, I know the odds don't change when the jackpot gets bigger (well, they do in the sense that the likelihood of sharing the jackpot minimally increases due to more tickets sold, but overall nada). But it's fun to think of what that 50 mill would buy so it's 'worth' the $5 spent. That too though is voluntary taxation.
