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Tuesday, October 10, 2006

In Denial of Gambling, $6 Million Dollar Toto.

First of all, those who know me well will know that I don't gamble, and I lived by the philosophy of "不赌就是赢家".

Even though I'm a Christian, I won't go biblical on the entry. Anyway, I used to bet Toto, scocer, play abit of DaDi during Chinese New Year, but I had since quitted knowing that God won't blessed me finanically through those avenues. Enough of that.

Anyway. So I came across this article dated 3rd October 06 titled "Mahjong, 4-D not gambling but recreation says 1 in 2" I was like what the? I means, I think society had greyed this whole gambling thingy. What is gambling anyway.

From dictionary.com, gambling means

gam‧ble
–verb (used without object)
1. to play at any game of chance for money or other stakes.
2. to stake or risk money, or anything of value, on the outcome of something involving chance: to gamble on a toss of the dice.
–verb (used with object)
3. to lose or squander by betting (usually fol. by away): He gambled all his hard-earned money away in one night.
4. to wager or risk (money or something else of value): to gamble one's freedom.
5. to take a chance on; venture; risk: I'm gambling that our new store will be a success.
–noun
6. any matter or thing involving risk or hazardous uncertainty.
7. a venture in a game of chance for stakes, esp. for high stakes.

I want to focus on the word/phrase "Play at any game of Chance".
So which game is a game of Chance? to me 4-D and Toto, Horse-betting, Slots, Sports Betting are.

Mahjong, Mmnnnnn, just as long as you play little, but I not into it anyway. A whopping 52% of chinese says that gambling is nothign wrong? Wasted money on chances? Geezz.

81% says that it's ok to gamble once in a while as long as it is not done excessively. Ya Rite, how excessive is excessive. How to you draw the line? hahahahah.

To say, I don't condemn anyone who gamble, it's their lifestyle, who am I to judge yea? I just like to give my 2 cents worth.

Today's Article on this

All the best to everyone
Lupin Tan.
Out.

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