Is Gambling A Good Way To Make Money Fast?
by admin on November 6th, 2010
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Gambling is a way to get money fast. The question is, does gambling really teach you what you need to know about how to make money?
If you want to get money fast by gambling, you have to beat the odds. Walk through a Las Vegas casino and you will see people mechanically feeding slot machines, hoping for a payoff, motivated by a combination of greed and hope.
Las Vegas dangles before people the promise of winning lots of money. Money is both the price of playing and the tangible reward for winning. But the real game is much deeper.
How The Gambling Game Is Stacked Against You
Unless people are hopelessly naïve, they know that the house wins most of the time. The slot machines and the poker tables and the roulette wheels make tangible the eternal human hope to win against the odds.
Watching people in casinos reminds me of college psychology classes about conditioned behavior. Rats, mice, and pigeons can be conditioned to trip levers again and again as long as they get a reward once in a while.
People sitting in front of slot machines behave the same way. Gamblers mechanically feed coins into the slots, and pull the lever, again and again. When someone wins, lights flash, special music plays, and coins clatter. The human lab rats pulling levers on nearby slot machine see the lights, hear the music, and hear the clattering coins, and think, “Maybe I’m next.”
If no one ever won in Las Vegas, the casinos would close down. But the casinos fix the odds so that people win often enough to keep the hope alive and keep pulling the levers, waiting for the payoff.
If you go to Las Vegas and look around you, you’ll know that it took more than a few pennies and quarters to build these monuments to excess in the desert. The casinos on the Las Vegas Strip are massive creations of glitter, gaudy colors, glimmering lights, and the constant ding-ding-dinging of slot machines. All you need to do is to look at the size of these casinos to know one irrefutable truth. Each casino makes much more money than it pays out in winnings.
What Gambling Cannot Teach You About How To Make Money
Gambling has some inherent limitations as a way to teach anyone how to make money.
The most important limitation is that whether you win money or lose money is not really up to you. You might win. More likely, you will lose. As a method for getting money, gambling depends upon chance, luck, and computer programs designed to give the lion’s share of the money to the casino.
When it comes to playing the odds, gamblers hope to beat the house at its own game. You increase your own odds to make money when you become the house and play your own moneymaking game through your own efforts rather than waiting for luck.
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