Addressing gambling addiction affordably is crucial. Online forums and community groups offer accessible support, while low-cost counseling services and helplines provide assistance. Educational campaigns about responsible gambling raise awareness inexpensively. Implementing self-exclusion programs at casinos and online platforms allows voluntary access restriction. Combining these affordable strategies creates a supportive environment without significant financial burdens.

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wow, I didn't know that
quite interesting
as some say, the house always win, but I like these movies and stories of people who can find an edge and win big over the house too, be it by luck or by finding an edge...

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Short and precise but it's true, if you win a lot is celebrating with you but when you lose, you'll find yourself alone, and most of the time you are
really putting blame to someone, unlike when you win where most of the time you always wanted to take the credit.

It's always the sentiment where in gambling it's not that easy journey, most of the time you will lose a lot and you will find someone to be blame
for such mistake that you did, instead of keeping it by yourself and look for a better way to accept that mistake and move forward.

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If he is disqualified from running, then he has two options - either support one of his proxies like Ivanka Trump, or kick start yet another resurrection. The second option is quite risky for him, so in all probability he will settle for the first option. But the issue is that GOP establishment may not support Trump's choice. They would rather go for Nikki Haley or Ron DeSantis. And Haley's campaign has so far attracted some of the largest GOP donors, such as Stanley Druckenmiller and Ken Langone. What concerns me is that Democrat leaning donors such as Reid Hoffman have started funding Haley's campaign, just in order to block Trump from getting GOP nomination.

If I could I would. The backend software runs Exahashes worth of hashrate, and finds BTC blocks everyday. Of course you have to take my word for it, and I wish you didn't but I think I have built enough reputation around here that im not some bad actor. Unfortunately to be able to provide a product like this I had to make some compromises I did not want, but we weighed those to be worth being able to get a product like this out to market.

Of course the more successful this product is, the less compromises we have to make...would love to port the firmware over to cgminer and hopefully we can get there soon.

Apollo BTC Standard Software/Instructions


If your purchased an Apollo BTC Standard USB controlled version please find the software binaries for your system and instructions below:

https://github.com/jstefanop/Apollo-Miner-Binaries/releases/

This is the ONLY place you should download these binaries from. If that changes this post will be updated.

Detailed instructions are on the GitHub and inside the start scripts. As noted in the pre-order this is command-line based software and only intended for more advanced users. Support for the software is limited and initial binaries are for Windows and 64 Bit x86 and ARM based Linux systems.


This software is only for users that do not have a Full Package/Node version. Please follow the instructions above in the first post on how to hook up your standard unit to your Apollo Full Package unit for a plug and play experience.

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There's no fun on free or demo mode which we know that there's no way that you can lose and there's no way that you could really be able to win up money and this is why people would really be not interested and this is why its not really that shocking that people would really be that sticking into those games on which it does really give out that kind of opportunity or chance
for them to make money and this is why they would really be dealing into those games which does have that real balances. Its true that there's no fun when it comes on dealing
up with something that you cant win or something that doesnt give any value. Yes, its fun on some point but it would just simply vanish on some few rolls.

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I don't really believe on being addicted forever by one use.

There's also the difference between behavioral addiction and chemical, quite different when you make something a habit than when your body could breakdown due to stop of using one substance
long term heroin users, as an example, can't simply stop using it out of nowhere otherwise they breakdown, at least I saw something about it in the past

regarding using cannabis once,
what if you use it once a week? what about alcohol? a drink a day is ok?

the subject of frequency of use varies a lot from person to person and is quite subjective as well
connects with genetics, behavior, culture, resistance to each substance or how it affects you

quite interesting.

Haley has now solidified her position as the no.2 in Republican nomination race. But what will actually happen in the unlikely scenario of Trump banned from participating in the POTUS election of 2024? Is he going to put his weight behind Haley? That is very unlikely as on previous occasions he has spoken against her. But with DeSantis and Ramaswamy trailing in the polls, Haley is the second-most probable candidate for GOP nomination, according to sportsbooks such as Stake. And many of the polls have shown Haley with a bigger lead against Biden, when compared to Trump.

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The point is to be consistent because it is impossible to restrain yourself from being greedy when you win, usually people will feel dissatisfied with a small win but if you feel satisfied with a small win it indicates you are a responsible gambler so you know when to gamble and when. You have to stop gambling, of course as a gambler you have to be able to control your greed.

It's true what you say, don't expect to win millions of dollars, let alone chase it, at least winning a little is more than enough, not always the dealer will be easy to beat, everything requires extraordinary luck, always enjoy the slightest win, as long as it is consistent, of course it will feel good to be able to win, even though We know that sometimes there are more losses than wins, there's no harm in enjoying the victory and stopping playing 

The first thing is,  why should I blame another person for my gambling loses when I don't share my winnings with them, some time why some gamblers fall into this kind of troubles is because of they inability to speculate and predicts the games themselves there by relying on third party to make games selection for them,  and those in this category can easily be known,  since they're always playing the blames games all the time.

But if you see a self-grounded game spectator and speculator you will know and at some point be able to point to the fact that no game is a sure game and at some point,  no matter the accuracy of your predictions you must still rely on luck to win.

In fact the only contender to win the next copa america is Argentina aside of the internal turmoil, because Brazil is another big internal turmoil and also they are gonna miss Neymar for this cup and this team has showed they dont have the strenght of another ones.

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Yep, although some people think that they can earn money regularly through gambling, in fact gambling is about leisure, as you rightly said, and it's very stupid to think that you really can earn some good money from this activity. We earn money from our job and it's not worth it to risk losing your job because of doing something for our entertainment like gambling.

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Is a decision you took yourself. Even if the predictions are made for you by some sites, friends or neighbors, both you have a final decision either to stake it or not. So if you later stake it and lose, there isn't any reason blaming your lose on anyone or the predictor. Gambling can be a lose or a win for anyone and which ever comes your way should be accepted.

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So far I haven't really been able to see any gamblers who have successfully won every bet or have very big chance of winning every bet because they use breakthroughs developed by AI.
I know that some gamblers still believe that AI is an intelligent technology that has many uses for its users and they think that AI is truly superior intelligence, but they forget that AI is just kind of human-made system.
I myself always think that whatever is created by humans, no matter how great it is and what advantages it has, there will always be something that is much smarter and much superior, one of which is the working system that gambling sites have.
Gambling sites are built as businesses and of course they have various methods or have quite lot of great people who can always outperform whatever intelligence the gambler uses to increase their chances of winning, the casino will always be ahead of the gamblers.
If gamblers succeed in doing this then I sure many gambling sites will go bankrupt because their customers win more, but in reality there is nothing that perfect in the struggle.
The algorithms and how gambling works are not as easy as one might imagine, everything has been designed so complicatedly to make it difficult for gamblers to win every bet.
I think believing in your own abilities will be much better and increase your self-confidence, making it possible to be able to make luck more often.

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You could have won bigger!
That’s the sort of idea or notion that dishes out loses yo gamblers.

Believe me, you won just what you deserve no question and you took a bet out of what will give you pease of mind except, your telling me your a huge stake gambler of which, $10 doesn’t make that mark really but, it’s worth something to kick the category.

You gambled on an unsure event and like every other bet or gamble, if you lost, you would have thanked your friend but now that you won, you’re kicking yourself. If you were sure that you would win, I don’t think not having to sell just the amount of coin equivalent yo $10 would have been an option. After all, you could have bought even $50 worth of it back should you have won.

So, you won and the best thing with you now is just yo enjoy your win.

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Brazil started the tournament quite well. They literally destroyed Bolivia, with a margin of 5-1, and in this match both Neymar and Rodrygo scored two goals each. In the second match they defeated Peru by a margin of 1-0. Then Neymar got injured and things went downhill for Brazil. First a draw against Venezuela, and then consecutive defeats against Uruguay, Colombia and Argentina. Now the tournament will resume only after 9 months and they have enough time to regroup and undergo introspection. And by then, the new coach will also join them.

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Gambling is something we all do for one reason or the other, for some it's entertainment and for the others it's a form or means of generating money for their use whichever it is we all are still gambling but then you can't measure addiction by the time we we allocate for gambling alone, some addicts don't spend much time but they make sure to gamble everyday.

An addict who hasn't turned chronic yet and has got other levels of engagement usually don't gamble for long but they will make sure to gamble every day nonstop meanwhile the obvious addict who probably don't have other forms of engagement and probably spends all their time gambling will na look much like like the addict more than the other but they are both addicted with slight difference if the other gambling addict has nothing else to keep him busy and away from gambling often it's very likely they will look like the obvious gambler.

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Yes I agree with your idea that gambling is more than just a fun game, there is something they are after and maybe we can already conclude here that they are after a return on the money they put in, or I mean wanting a bigger amount than the capital money they brought. On the other hand, if they're just there for the fun of it then aren't there plenty of other things they can do without the possibility of risk such as playing online games for example? Obviously, and gambling is someone's choice to pursue something that is basically not easy to achieve.

As you said that if fun is the main priority then I think people will prefer to gamble on a demo account which certainly does not require real money capital and only requires free time, so your assumption is quite reasonable in my opinion and it can be a strong reason why people come to gamble.

You're right speaking on experience, gambling at work make you lose total concentration by affecting you emotionally and mentally depends if you winning or losing. Let me say around last year a friend of mine was lecturing at a school and he also gambling (match prediction) When the game he found that the time he place bet on loss, and that moment he was about to start his next class so seeing those losses affected him behaviourally and he didn't perform well because he was not being concentrated any more

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AI can actually get prediction gurus and Tipster jobless as they can analyze and process large amount of data and create a model with backtesting.
They have no emotion or bias and they don't miss any things. They have already been in use both on making plans on game or predicting the game and overall results. Their use is on increase because of their relative success. And to add to that, they are still in their early phase, they can do wonders as the models mature.
The place where the AI might still lose is common understanding and new type of development of events that has larger effect that can skew the model.