Why Gamble

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Why Gamble

For centuries, people have indulged in different types of gambling: poker, horse races, bingo, lottery, and slot machines. Gambling has seduced any and almost everyone. Before the legal age of race admittance, those younger make monetary bets on football. Gambling is even more prevalent today than it was yesterday with the added attraction of online betting. Gambling was suppressed in the 1920's as a result of Prohibition and because of this will forever lure people into its taboo trap. Gambling as sport is hard to resist because it offers immediate gratification. Not only is there a chance that you may quadruple the amount of money that you lay down, a literal payoff, but there is also a feeling of hope, an alternate limbo between reality and fantasy that can be translated into a sort of mental payoff.

An opportunity?

It couldn't be all about the money, the odds of winning the lottery are lesser than the odds of someone being struck by lightning. If you bought 100 tickets a week your entire adult life, from the age of 18 to 75, you'd have a 1 percent chance of winning the lottery. Now, a number of psychological studies have been done which indicate that the desire to play the lottery has more to do with the inability or unconcern of a person to calculate the total sum of their own money over time spent of these dollar tickets. The hope and fantastic feeling they receive is worth more than the dollar they give the 7-11 clerk at that time.

Entertainment and easy money

A game called mahjong was first introduced to me at the age of ten. My family members seemed very fond of the game where small amounts of money were either won or loss among the four players. I always considered gambling as a form of entertainment that is played occasionally with family and friends. Although a card game can be fun by itself, the excitement is amplified when money or any type of wager is involved. The thrill from gambling may be one of the reasons why...