First off, not saying you should hate it or like it outright. Just saying that if you're going to invest your time throwing shade on a company that's trying to offer something to victimized people so they can have something to work with, might as well chip in and help instead of blabbering mouths and antagonizing someone who took the time and effort to help a group of people who took the initiative to help even though (and I'll ride with your idea of a marketing ploy here cause at the end of the day this is going to give them clicks) it's a marketing ploy. I'm not against people who are against this type of thing cause they see it as "the company taking advantage of a situation for profit". It grinds my gears that these people are throwing shade, saying it's wrong, and not suggesting or doing anything that they think is right in this situation, like would you have preferred if these people who have been victimized by Betnomi not get anything at the very least after getting robbed off of their hard-earned cash?

Exactly my point. People will just hate shit for the sake of hating it nowadays. Marketing ploy or not this gives Betnomi victims something to start with and they even have the choice of not opting for it if they feel like they are being taken advantage of in this situation.

Dude there's no marketing in here jesus christ they literally are just reaching out to people who have been victimized by Betnomi so they can have some sort of recompense. Jesus christ why are you guys digging into this.

It would've been a marketing ploy if the company is to force the users who have been victimized to login to their site and play games with them in order to get the bonus, instead what you get here is a "if you want this, we can give this to you for free, just reach out and we'll help you with it", you guys have been antagonizing Trustdice when there's no ill will in here. What they did is more than what you guys would ever be willing to do with the amount of money that they had. Just shut the hell up and help those that were victimized, not hate on those that are trying to help cause you think "it's a marketing ploy" like dude go read a book on marketing first and then come back here when you've realized and understood what a marketing tactic really is and how it looks like.

it's not even bribery cause it's not like the Mbappe's Dad's the one that's giving them the cash, this is pure roadside robbery extortion lols. They literally are asking you to do something for them first which in this case is pay them what I could only guess is a stupendous amount of money, before even allowing your kid to play. And the worst part is that you can't really do anything about it because the extortion mechanism is embedded within the social construct that we ourselves established. We made it so some people are higher than us in power, we forgot that not everyone could and would handle it with care and now we're dealing with the consequences of people abusing their power in the process. We can literally change people that are seated in these positions of power and extortion will keep up.

In my opinion it's got something to do with Google fetching your search data and feeding you ads that fall in that particular data set. Some people call it the algorithm. YouTube does the same thing. As for the legality of gambling, it's less about morals and religious stuff and more about the fact that in most cases gambling is abused by the impoverished, so with that in mind gambling could be legalized everywhere and it would be good and great but at the same time the poor people will suffer even more since now, not only are they left penniless, they're also dealing with a gamblnig problem they just can't get rid of. So despite the fact that gambling houses are definitely helpful in boosting a country's economy, just take Hongkong for example, it's still not something that you can just legislate willy-nilly cause people will have a problem with it.

I hate it when people discredit the good deed just cause it came from an enterprise. I've been seeing comments in here talking about how "this tactic is taking advantage of people that have lost on the Betnomi exit scam" like dude this is more than what most of you guys would do to people that lost their money in there. Nobody even offered some form of assistance when Betnomi's in the talks the past few weeks because of their shady behavior prior to them dipping and now you're discrediting the condolence bonus just because it came from an enterprise? That's just low guys.

Best we could do is offer more help to people who helped and are in need of help especially since Betnomi's got a good standing and trust network in this forum for a while until they did this, so for sure there are a lot of victims. Pass this info along, start your own campaign to help the victims, be part of the change not someone who's against it.

See you're talking about one thing and then saying another. You're literally talking about gender dynamics in gambling and how there's no disparity in your previous comment and now you're basically retracting it by saying that men dominates this space, completely against the previous post you made which doesn't even make sense cause OP's asking about what's the deal about men becoming more prone to gambling addiction than women. I gotta give props to your second post though cause now you've hit the spot and have given OP a comment that's in line with her post lol.

I've read the title and have read the post, no way I'm gonna go after you like that if I knew I was in the wrong.

Tell me, in what stretch of the imagination does this make sense when OP's asking for the reasons why men dominate the gambling space, including the demographic of people who are addicted to gambling?

So basically martingale strategy. This is nothing new and there are caveats to betting strategies like these. One of which is the fact that you should have deep pockets before even thinking of doing this cause there's no way you're winning anything in your first few rolls, and if you do it's nothing substantial. Another would be the fact that you're going to lose more than you win, and the only goal of Martingale is to make sure that you have a little over what you started with to count as a profit and to make sure your bankroll is up and running. I say you go for it if you think it works for you, cause at the end of the day it's a strategy that works in the long run provided that you have the capacity for it, but if you don't then I suggest you look into other forms of betting strat.

Exactly my thoughts, even if he adapts a different fighting stance to cover up for this fight it still wouldn't be enough given that Inoue is just leagues better than him as a fighter. If he does win this which is a big if, seeing as how everything is literally stacked against Tapales fight-wise this will not just be a massive upset in Inoue's part, this will definitely go down in the history of boxing. But oh my god does this look like a fight that Tapales cannot win even if he wanted to, which at this state isn't even something that we're guaranteed of anymore given the fact that Tapales is just not confident about winning this bout. It's gonna be another Nonito Donaire I guess lol. But I really hope they give us both a fight that we can enjoy.

I think most people misconstrue how RTP works. The fact of the matter is that it doesn't guarantee you would win, it only ever guarantees that out of all your slot sessions you should be able to get something back so you don't feel bad for yourself lols. Say we take Blood Suckers for example with a 98% RTP percentage, if you wager a $100 on this game, you're bound to get $98 back, sure along the way you may experience losses and lower payouts since every RTP if I'm not mistaken is calculated at every session, so for people out here who resets their browsers in hopes of better payouts I'm sorry but you're only making it worse for yourself.

I've played on slots with RTP and my payouts are just the same as I expected, not as much as I win with regular slots but surely enough to whatever percentage they are plotting.

The point flew across your head buddy. OP is asking us if there's something about us males that makes us gamble on a more personal level than females, seeing as we take it competitively sometimes and most of the gambling addiction cases fall in the laps of males. Sure people are now more than ever able to do whatever the fuck they want without gender stereotypes pulling them down, but the question is why of all genders do males take this thing on a more personal level.

As for OP's question, speaking for all males here, I think the reason is because we're hardwired to take things on a competitive level, life for a male even in today's standards is a never-ending competition with either other people, or yourself. With that in mind, males will take things seriously regardless of how mundane it may look from an outside perspective, which leads them to fall in situations like these where they don't even need to succumb to had they thought on a level-headed mindset. 

The best solution to people with onset gambling addiction is to redirect their focus and attention to some other things. The reason why people gamble is because they have nothing to do with their lives, or their current hobbies and interests aren't cutting it out for them anymore. it could also be due to the fact that they are pressured by outside forces like debts, money problems, and so on and so forth which leads them to resort to gambling in hopes of finding the solution there, redirecting their attention and investment into something else that would take up their time is perfect as it keeps their minds and hands off of gambling, and it replaces it with something that's more productive.

Intervening with a gambling addict is very important in the early stages to avoid bigger detriments from happening. As soon as you see a friend you know is gambling but has suddenly secluded himself and all that, you might wanna reach out and talk to them.

I mean if they did say something bigger, it might mean something right? The 5-10 bucks codes are not so bad but I'd like to hold on to their words that they'd do something bigger. And in my opinion it doesn't have to always be about Eddie since he's just a co-founder and we all know that business could operate and stuff without him, although we can also just attribute it to Eddie outright forgetting about Stake's Anniversary. I wouldn't be so sad if stuff comes out to be the usual 5-10 bucks since you can't find 10 bucks anywhere, but it would generally be disencouraging if this keeps up for long, which I don't want it to since Stake's been my favorite casino for a while now. So I'll take their word for it, but at the same time I'd stand by you and your "too see is to believe" shtick.

Anybody excited about VCT starting soon? I feel like nobody's talking about it lately on this forum when it's one of the biggest FPS games out there, and with a tournament coming up soon there should be no reason we couldn't talk about it yeah?

I'll start the discussion for anyone willing to participate lols.

We have a pretty solid roster of teams out here, new faces in the crowd too which is really exciting. My bet is on Paper Rex not because they are the best team out there or whatnot but because they are entertaining to watch, they make Valorant entertaining in a sense that they don't go for the methodical beaten path playstyle but instead focuses on outrageous plays. How about you? What's your bet?

I think it's for high rollers who spend 10,000 bucks on the daily when they gamble. Nothing wrong with it as long as they're not gambling with their life savings or whatnot. So this bonus while measly, would still sound great to them since you're not going to find 1000 bucks anywhere lol. Even if for a fraction of the total money you've spent with them in a whole week. Plus these bonuses are nothing but a gimmick really, and this one right here is in my opinion nothing but a status symbol or a badge for stake gamblers like us that we can flaunt and stuff cause there's no way in hell we'd spend a million dollars in a week just for gambling, we either had to be exceptionally rich or just outright stupid either way we get the 1 grand lmao.

Not to shit on anyone's favorite casinos but why the heck is FortuneJack demanding users to withdraw at least 150 bucks? What about the signature campaign members? I've heard good things about them and for one they have one of the longest running campaigns in this forum but that seriously concerned me lol cause they issue the highest minimum withdrawal limits out of every gambling site out there. That's 3+ weeks of signature campaign salaries already lol. At the very least it's good that they don't issue withdrawal fees but between the industry standard of at least 2 bucks it's not really that much.

Thanks for the list OP, opened my eyes a bit on some casinos out there especially with how they issue withdrawals and stuff.

Nope. Provably fair games are randomized regardless of the inputs that were placed upon it prior to the bet resolving. Wagers, bets, and other things shouldn't affect how you win when you're playing on a provably fair game since it only affects how much you're going to lose/win, not the percentage of games that you will win. At the end of the day, this is all just heuristics and biases placed upon our pattern-loving brains that we could put two and two together like this where you're correlating these two things. Keep in mind that correlation doesn't always mean causation, and in this case this just proves it since outcomes are calculated in random and there's no way unless it's something that the gambling site imposed in which case they are dumb cause once people catches up to this they'd lose money.

Most of the time, parents who think like these (Gambling isn't a fair and true vocation, so you shouldn't be earning shit from it is also at the same time haters of trading, investing and other stuff that doesn't involve you working 9-5. I've had relatives like that who always judged me since I work in cryptocurrency and I rarely ever go out so they think I'm unemployed but now that they see the fruits of my labor they wish they can get in on it. I don't blame OP for keeping another lie on top of another lie cause at the end of the day, had these parents been more supportive of their children it wouldn't come to a point where their kid is afraid/embarrassed to share his aspirations, successes, and dreams with them.

Throwing the religion topic out of the window since gambling is strictly prohibited in most sacred texts, I believe that it's what you do with your money that makes it evil or good, not how you obtained them at least in some situations like you winning big on a gamble.

You can say that, but you also have to keep in mind that he's not that dedicated when it comes to training and preparing for fights, not to mention that he's taken a break which may have made him rusty over time but I still believe he'd put up a great fight, especially against KSI who never really had a dedicated boxing training as much as athletes do, maybe not even at the level of training that Jake Paul's subjecting himself these days. Still, I think Tommy's experience is more than enough to cover him for this fight, and given the fact that this is just a YouTuber boxing event and not really a title event it's making me think that none of them will take this as seriously as they would if honor is on the line.

That could be true to some but in my opinion this is something that really happens in the real world, especially in local casinos with limited prize pots, people wouldn't to share the pot with someone else so they make up insane superstitions to derail the conversation, when what you really want is to keep your bets to yourself so that if you win, you get to own the pot to yourself. In massive online casinos like Stake.com this doesn't really happen since first and foremost we're a community right there, and another would be the fact that there's just no point in keeping your bets to yourself since prize pots are relatively larger in online casinos due to the sheer amount of active players at any given day.

That's the caveat to these kind of events, you're never sure what type of performance enhancing drugs they are taking and even if they set up an official board of legal PEDs to use you can't be certain that these athlete's not going to take illegal ones, since they are all doping anyway so what difference would it make if they don't use illegal ones, and even if they did call out people who are found to use banned PEDs what are they going to do? Punish them? They literally set up an olympics where doping is legal and now they are punishing people cause the dopes they use are not what they want, let that sink in.

This is why I'm so against these types of tournaments, they don't uphold the values and the principles that they derived their rendition of their tournament from, and it's already controversial and even more convoluted that these stuff is a headache just talking about.