If you are a
normal recreational punter, Smartgambler advises against gambling.
The odds are stacked against you. Occasional recreation for affordable stakes
is fine, but gambling must be recognised as a losing proposition unless you
are prepared to research your chosen area or get information from experts.
According to the July 2002 Australian Bureau of Statistics report, Australians
are gambling away about $13.8 billion per year. This is far too much! Gambling
in Australia has risen by about 20% in the past three years and judging from
the staggering losses, average I.Q.s must have fallen by the same amount.
If
you do want to punt,
Smartgambler will show you how to
bet to win.
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philosophy
This
was nicely summed up by one of our AFL package clients.
'Personally
I adopt a gambling philosophy similar to that supported by blackjack expert
Arnold Snyder. He calls it the "Zen of Blackjack" and it basically
states that winning or losing is not important, in fact it's completely irrelevant.
All that matters is making perfect bets and playing perfect hands, time after
time after time.
Alternatively you could use the train of thought popular in sales, where they
work the numbers and consider that every call is making them money, whether
they get rejected or not. They know that over time, they'll earn $X per call,
therefore every phone call is worth $X. Similarly, every positive expectation
bet you make is earning you money, win or lose.'
Don
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Shame
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Australia
has more than 20% of the world's poker machines.
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This form of gambling offers pathetic payout percentages to the player.
(Around 90%)
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About
42c in every pokies dollar taken is estimated to come from problem gamblers.
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Poker
machines account for almost two thirds ($8.7 billion) of annual gambling
losses.
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Victorian
players alone lost $7.1 million a day in the 2001 - 2002 financial year.
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The
biggest gambling addicts in Australia are revenue hungry governments,
pocketing $4.4 billion in gambling taxes in the 2001 - 2002 financial
year.
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