Comment on Anon plays poker

Kusimulkku@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• petersr@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Almost as if this was made up.

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  • riodoro1@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    You really think someone would do that? Just go on the internet and tell lies?

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  • echodot@feddit.uk ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Also the buy in was apparently $5 but winnings are in euros

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    • Kolanaki@yiffit.net ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      He specifically said “bucks” which had me wondering if they even use that slang across the pond.

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      • derfl007@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        It happens when people’s primary sources for learning English are american tv shows

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      • ShortFuse@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I believe the term is Eurobucks.

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      • TonyTonyChopper@mander.xyz ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Quid in the UK, Euro elsewhere

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  • Kusimulkku@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Yes that’s what I was hinting at

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    • Crashumbc@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      While it almost certainly made up. We would sometimes play black jack…

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      • Kusimulkku@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        For money? Would be awesome for whoever was the “house”

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• SuddenDownpour@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  There’s a sizable minority of male zoomers into gambling in some countries, tightly related to the proliferation of small casinos in working-class neighbourhoods through a historical period where typical socialization spaces have been getting dismantled. I met a guy whose friend group’s main activity for socialization was going to gambling and his life was pretty much a mess, roughly around the same as the guy from the green text.

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  • Socsa@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    This started with grey-market online poker in the early 2000s. In by big lecture classes, there would always be a dozen or so people just playing online poker, and I knew lots of people who got so sucked into it they dropped out of school

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  • Kusimulkku@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I guess this could be possible, but I’m just thinking how weird it be to host such event and be the house in blackjack because the house always has the advantage. It’s not really a group game like regular five card poker or hold’em would be

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    • decisivelyhoodnoises@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Lol You’re overthinking it. People organizing such nights among friends are not officially hosting the event and are not always play as the house. The person who plays as the house is rotating

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      • Kusimulkku@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I’ve never just had that played in such nights because of the house issue.

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  • KeenFlame@feddit.nu ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Who gambles a house favoured game with pals

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