Any kind of gambling.
Mostly a dollar or so with lottery tickets. Had a work thing where they gave us a seed and blew that. Never more than a hundred and I can years without doing gambling of any kind. Oh someone suggested stocks. I have 401k and ira. They sorta gain and lose all the time.
I’ve been to Vegas once. I played 4 quarters in slots and on my last one, I won $1.25.
I stopped while I was ahead.
stocks /trade should count too. funny how some of the people in wsb are degens, the most recent post i saw someone useing thier 401k for stocks.
What’s a 401k?
a retirement account in the usa, in lieu of pensions.
Ok, thx 👍
So it’s basically the same thing as pensions, but you have access to it your whole life?
except you have to put money into with your paycheck.
The same thing as with european pension. You don’t get money for free, it gets removed from your paycheck everytime you receive it
depends on how you look at it. If you remove it before retirement you pay a penalty along with the taxes.
I bet that I could ride a bike (MC), and lost my ability to walk properly.
Does that count? I don’t like to gamble unless my life is somehow in the pot. Money is boring.
Edit: I see that the title literally says money… so I guess the hospital bills.
There’s a good reason ER docs call them “donorcycles” 😬
Only gamabled for one night.
Told my self "$50 for a couple hours of entertainment? That’s fair if you ONLY spend that much. (Here its ~$18 for a cinema ticket. So ~$30 for a movie night for 1)
Didn’t expect to win. Just treat it as a cash for entertainemt transaction, and I can walk away guilt free.
Think (well, HOPE) I walked away with $200 in the negative. 1 small $10 win leads to one more round, leads to oops, I spent to much. (What I remember, that was only the money on chips, not the drinks.) Never again
Forgot to add. Spent the next 2 nights at the hotel mad at myself. " if I had $200 now, I could buy X, Y or Z, not throw it away on that 2 moments of “yes, that’s my card”
~£50,000 overnight fucking around with meme stocks. Good times. 2021 was a wild year.
💎🙌🚀🌚
OMG! And that is pounds? Worth more that US dollars. I think you won the question. Well, lost, technically.
Yes pounds sterling, gambled on the finest American clinical-stage biopharma for that sweet sweet volatility.
Damn son!
Does the stock market qualify as gambling?
Yes but we need to know how much leverage you had as well. For science.
TQQQ or GTFO!
Not really. 3x is too crazy for me
Sort of. It’s more of a scam for rich people to get richer. They let little people pretend it’s a fair game.
If you think stocks are only for rich people you’re actually financially illiterate.
that’s not what they said
I say it does!
Day trading may qualify as gambling. Buying and holding for long time should not.
Totally agree. Day trading is basically sports betting for finance people.
I spent 2 years doing casino revenue audits. The amount of money the high rollers would loose in one night was disgusting, we are talking 7 figures.
What blows my mind the most is how the math works out in the long run. A $1 slot machine could have a $100,000 prize but you would have to play it 200,000 time to hit the jack pot. You don’t play against the house, you just give them your money.
Does my 401k count?
Why, how much did you lose with it? How did you do it?
Was mainly making a cynical joke. That said, my 401k probably does represent the largest gain or loss I’ve had in a week or month; probably even a day, given how wildly the markets can sometimes fluctuate.
Sure, but daily changes in account value are not money lost. Sry for being too serious but there’s something about characterizing responsible financial planning as gambling that annoys me.
Say a hundred bucks? I sincerely hate losing money, so if I gamble, it’s always with a very limited amount of money, and once it’s gone, it’s gone.
Yeah same. Once I visited Niagara falls with my bro and we were kind of into poker at the time so we each took 100$ and went to the casino. Got fleeced by a texan looking old guy with a cowboy hat then we went back to our hotel lol. I have many vices but apparently gambling isn’t one of them.
I should check my old steam cs:go opening cases for birthday back in school.
One hundred whole dollars. Played texas hold’em at a casino in Canada when I was 18. $100 buy-in.
Sat down at the table, got dealt in, first hand was suited king queen, ended up with a flush, another guy at the table took me all in and it took me a loooong time to call. Soon as I hit that pot I started bullying the other players with my chip count. Then a guy came over and told me I had to move over to the higher-rollers table.
First hand I’m dealt there? suited ace king. What comes up on the flop? an ace and a king. I slow play the hand, whats the river? another king. I’ve got a full fucking boat, kings over aces. I go all-in. The only other guy playin calls. I flip mine over, proud. He flips his over, pocket aces. Dude had a full boat aces over kings. Sonofabitch. Left the table, sat outside, called my Dad.
c’est la vie. Haven’t gambled since.
Pocket aces was literally the only hand that could have beaten you. The odds were in your favor, I’d have done the same thing.
Yeah, I was like “welp, that was some bullshit.” and left lol
That’s some Rounders-type shit
I set a $ limit. When it’s gone, it’s gone.
$100.
Lost like $200 on my Son’s bday. He did quite well though!
How could you not know when your son’s bday is? And why would you bet on it?
40€
It was a poker tournament with friends, 10€ buy-in.
I got drunk and bought in another 3 times, then lost it again from making dumb drunk bets.I never gamble with serious money cause I know how it would end. I’m susceptible to addictions.
