Could be in any context. I do it a little on UFC fights but that’s a relatively low amount and I can afford I to lose any time I do. It seems like it’s becoming a really wide spread problem though, at least in the US. At the same time I don’t see why it should be illegal. Granted I also don’t think any drug should be illegal.

  • Soulifix@piefed.worldEnglish
    26·
    12 hours ago

    I hate it.

    I think gambling has tainted sports and is the epitome of corruption to the core. It’s very ironic that a baseball player by the name of Pete Rose, got a lifetime MLB ban for gambling, yet give it 20 some odd years later and Draft Kings is promoted which is gambling.

    It fuels addiction, it makes people throw away anything they could that they could bet with, on the off chance, which is narrow, of winning it big.

    It’s why I hate Las Vegas entirely, I hated it when poker games were nationally broadcast for a while at one point and so on.

    • Return_of_Chippy@lemmy.worldOP
      5·
      11 hours ago

      Yeah Pete Rose and anyone involved with “fixing” odds in anyway are absolutely fucked. Part of what made me ask the question is how pervasive gambling sites/apps/books ads are literally everywhere.