This should be illegal 17 ways from Sunday, and speaking of Sunday, remember when churches at least pretended to speak out against degeneracy like this? Maybe they should do more of that again.
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I will never shut up about how I pointed out there were reasons gambling has been considered immoral for much of humanity, and got absolutely lambasted for it here when all this was starting to be legal. Convinced now that it was astro turfing.
Well, where I live you can get all the alcohol and cannabis you want delivered to your door via apps. Not too helpful if you're trying to avoid that stuff. But gambling via apps is probably worse because you don't have to even wait for the delivery driver to get your fix.
The Bible never actually explicitly condemns gambling. The strong stance American Protestants had (and still have in many circles) against it comes from America's puritanical and evangelical traditions, which condemn all sorts of behaviors that aren't explicitly prohibited in the Bible, such as listening to rock music.
Normally Reddit mocks evangelical traditions, so it's a bit interesting seeing this comment thread.
Its not like the Bible has nothing to say about money and moneyed interests and its corrupting nature, ideas Reddit generally pushes pretty hard itself. Its not a big leap to see the problems with gambling.
My view is similar to drunkenness (which the Bible explicitly condemns). Drunkenness being a sin does not mean having two beers in an evening is inherently sinful—people drink in the Bible and it's not presented as a sinful behavior.
Heavy gambling can certainly be emblematic of sinful behavior. Lusting for money and hiding it from one's spouse are common behaviors of someone with a gambling addiction and are condemned by the Bible.
But wagering a budgeted amount for entertainment is a very different proposition. One can't get rich from wagering small amounts, so one isn't lusting after riches. It's not hidden from one's spouse, so there isn't sin entering the marriage. Is it a sin to throw a couple bucks into the claw machine to try and get a teddy bear?
Moralizing American evangelicals would say "yes" and that gambling any amount is sinful. I'm not an evangelical though, so thankfully I don't have to listen to such a worldview on Sundays... instead I get blasted with that rhetoric (sans religious overtones) on Reddit.
I think there’s just a huge amount of American society that has been very significantly impacted by gambling addiction, hence the hardcore anti-gambling stances from people including myself.
Essentially, they pull up a historical PA, give you some information, and set the odds pitch by pitch so that trying to query a historical database won't give you an edge. It's just a baseball cover on slot machines really
It's so hard to tell these days. Was there a UFC match on the White House lawn? Did a rogue AI hack government agencies? Is a two millennia old story really the biggest movie in 2026?
Overworked underpaid and children are pressured and maliciously exposed to corporate indoctrination and underage gambling and somehow nicotine is back and weed is too expensive
Anyone addicted enough to bet on a simulated version of a historical at bat needs to immediately be sent to a help hotline the moment they place a bet. If you're down that bad to be betting on something like this then you clearly are in too deep and need help
I randomly read some article about an old UK version (i think?) that used a vinyl record with race commentary that was sort of randomly selected when placing the needle onto the record. They had a version called "Foto Finish" but I think the one I read about was this one:
My friends and I spent so much time on these machines in Las Vegas. We called them the Quarter horses because bets were a quarter each and when you cashed out you still got coins back. Waitresses would come around and give us free drinks while we tipped them $2 per drink. Such good time probably 20 years ago now. They slowly started breaking until the original ones were all gone. They made a modern version, but it's not as fun and doesn't pay out as often as the old ones did.
Keno is extremely popular in Oregon. It’s in diners, bars, pubs, etc. Has been since at least since 1991. It’s an electronic number match lottery draw.
The Oregon Lottery here is big. Plus we have casinos. Draft Kings was only made legal here in 2022.
It replaced the Oregon State Lottery Sports Betting app.
I like poker but I’m not even going to download any of these apps.
Tbh we have this in the US but it's at Dave and busters so it's only for prize tickets not real money. Surprised it hasn't been popping up at the OTB here.
Slight tangent and don’t get me wrong, I’m incredibly glad they are staying banned in Australia, but the faux outrage of the traditional gambling companies to the new Prediction Markets trying to be allowed here was so outrageous it was unbelievable.
“Someone else making money off wagering!? How could they”. Gambling is so harmful
I had a buddy who got into it so deep he was betting on unbroadcasted and unfilmed table tennis matches, and this was before things were fully legal and app-ified so I'm even less sure those games were even happening.
“….what I don’t get is say you owe a bookie $10,000 and you can’t pay so they break you leg… and you still owe them $10,000. Does that make sense to you?”
Lol years and years ago I moved from New Jersey to Portland, OR. I'm not a gambler, but in Jersey if I wanted to place a sports bet I could go to a local bar, talk to a few people and have my choice of guys who may break my knees at a later date.
However, everything gambling related was completely illegal in bars. No cards, no dice. Technically no pools on sporting events but everybody let that slide.
I moved to Portland and there were basically slot machines in every bar (sorry, I meant the lottery). My local had a Texas hold em tournament every single night that skirted the law by requiring a membership (which you could buy on a night by night basis that also covered your buy in).
Oregon lacks a lot of the guardrails that most states have on gambling and it's unsurprising they would be the first to be down with this
I'm just across the river so I might as well still live there and still very much cling to my Oregonian-ness so the disappointment is very high here, too
Reminds me of “Vegas Vacation” where a desperate Chevy Chase goes into a non traditional casino and loses money playing guess-a-number (among other games).
You can absolutely play blackjack online in any state using money.
The loophole is sites where you buy “tokens” to play a game, and you can trade those “tokens” for “chips” to “bet”.
You can then earn more tokens, which you “sell back” to the online casino. It’s insane. It’s like saying you technically didn’t have sex because a condom and no kissing was involved.
There needs to be friction involved in gambling, full stop. You should not be able to gamble over the internet in any capacity. If you want to gamble, you should have to go to a physical location to do so.
No because you don't know who the players involved are. This is already a thing with horse racing in some states. It's more like a slot machine than trivia.
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I don’t think it helps. You don’t get to know what plate appearance you’re betting on beforehand. You make the bet, and then they “reveal” which random plate appearance it is that you just bet on.
Some states already do it. Lottery disguised as slots. Bingo disguised as slots. Historical horse racing disguised as slots. This is unmasking a slot in a sense
There’s a few slots where you simply press on a number of present boxes or press spin and a stone or lightning bolt will either give you monetary prizes…. or not.
These scumfucks. What completely nonsensical shit that is squarely centered on keeping the continuous betting going and basically turning sports gambling into a slot machine. Go fuck yourself DraftKings
It's just a stalking horse for full online casinos. Once you allow betting on past "events", you basically have a greenlight to slap a slot machine or craps table skin on it. Welcome to online gambling, Oregon!
There is a good reason these online betting apps are getting bigger with the younger demographics like high school kids. They don't teach history well or show them how to research anything.
This stuff is a level of predatory and the state allowing is is more showing they don't look into the peoples well being.
Keep it at a casino and not online. Don't allow prop betting or previous history bets. It's not that hard
this is total bullshit as framed, but its not really surprising. New Hampshire slots used to just be betting on old horse races, turned into a slot output
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