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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Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 9 months ago
A friend’s poker party had blackjack? Sounds weird
SuddenDownpour@sh.itjust.works 9 months ago
Socsa@sh.itjust.works 9 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
Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 9 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
decisivelyhoodnoises@sh.itjust.works 9 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
Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 9 months ago
I’ve never just had that played in such nights because of the house issue.
KeenFlame@feddit.nu 9 months ago
Who gambles a house favoured game with pals
petersr@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Almost as if this was made up.
riodoro1@lemmy.world 9 months ago
You really think someone would do that? Just go on the internet and tell lies?
echodot@feddit.uk 9 months ago
Also the buy in was apparently $5 but winnings are in euros
Kolanaki@yiffit.net 9 months ago
He specifically said “bucks” which had me wondering if they even use that slang across the pond.
derfl007@lemmy.world 9 months ago
It happens when people’s primary sources for learning English are american tv shows
ShortFuse@lemmy.world 9 months ago
I believe the term is Eurobucks.
TonyTonyChopper@mander.xyz 9 months ago
Quid in the UK, Euro elsewhere
Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 9 months ago
Yes that’s what I was hinting at
Crashumbc@lemmy.world 9 months ago
While it almost certainly made up. We would sometimes play black jack…
Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 9 months ago
For money? Would be awesome for whoever was the “house”