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.
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.
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.
$20
That was my absolute limit to waste on gambling, the very few times I went to a casino. In 2000 I went to a “riverboat” casino in Lawerenceburg, IN to play slots and ended up winning $250. Which put me at a net positive for all the gambling I’ve ever done.
That was the last time I ever walked into a casino.
I quit at 5 euros, lost it within a minute at slots and was done lmao.
Real life money? 0
Video game money? Highest was ~1e57 (Balatro)
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.
0, gambling doesn’t fire off any feel-good chemicals for me, so I don’t do it
I tried slot machines in Vegas. Even themed ones for properties like Back to the Future were the single most boring experience I’ve ever had.
You’d think they would see mobile games and come up with a fun way to lose money, but they are just a chore.
I cannot conceive how people sit at those things. At least poker is a fun game. Never played it for money though.
$3. Lived in Reno for decades. Would take a buck and go play the penny slots to get free drinks and get plastered with buddies.
This is the only way to beat the house.
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” 😬
~£50,000 overnight fucking around with meme stocks. Good times. 2021 was a wild year.
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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!
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.
I set a $ limit. When it’s gone, it’s gone.
$100.
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. Sonofaremoved. Left the table, sat outside, called my Dad.
c’est la vie. Haven’t gambled since.
That’s some Rounders-type shit
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
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OMG! We might have a winner. Well… for the question. That is a ton of money to lose.
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That’s definitely the way to do it.
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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.
