Comment on The Online Gambling Epidemic [28:03]

Winged_Hussar@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

The section on parlays really rang true for me. Our Fantasy football friend group has multiple guys who will post just insane 6+ leg parlays and say stuff like “Damn, I was so close!”

They justify it because it’s only a few dollars, but would pay out a ton. Feels no different than scratchers to me.

It also got so bad with people only posting their wins that there’s a ‘rule’ now that you have to post the bet when you make it, not after it hits.

Like Drew, I lost ~$50 a few years back and haven’t touched it since. But I’ve seen more and more friends get into it.

I’m just waiting for the eventual “refer a friend bonus and get $x in free bets” to be posted on our chat.

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