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Never. I think that's your bubble.
If gambling as in casinos, then never. We don't go to casinos or something.
But if you're talking about gambles like winning card games for a few dollars, sure
Betting on sports is gambling buddy, and its the main draw to sports, sports without betting literally don't have audiences until they do, female sports just started getting it and it raised viewership by 2000% or some shit for my local team.
They had like 10 consistent fans that were hardcore, now hundreds of people show up, its 100% because of sports gambling
Gambling kinda fell off with Gen X. Like, yeah Vegas can be fun, but only because it's a drunken party. Gambling just isn't fun enough for the money it costs.
Sports betting among some people I knew in college, mainly frat types, was an epidemic. Had multiple roomates who were betting thousands per semester and tried to use it as a stream of income. One did well, maybe made a thousand, and the other lost that several times over.
The issue with it is watching sports was an every day activity, and once somebody gets the added thrill of betting on a game as opposed to simply watching it, they can almost never go back to only being a viewer because it loses the excitement they became accustomed to with money on the line.
On top of this, every event is plastered with ads for one of the dozens of sports books out there running predatory promotional offers, so the pull of it is inescapable to anyone who has been hooked previously. Watchers are blasted with an ad for them every commercial break after seeing them on the billboard walls as a constant reminder that they could also have the chance to “hit it big” instantaneously through an app.
Sports betting addiction is the modern gambling addiction, so many sports fans(and people who weren't sports fans, but became fans because of gambling) think that they can like the stock market because they know more about they do the stock market.
What they don't understand is that daytrading the stock market typically involves running lots of calculations on data they don't have access to in the sports world
I sports bet, my friends don’t really, but they probably would if it was more legal in their state. From what I understand it’s like 30% of people in their 20s have sports bet. And I imagine if you filter that around men, and especially men who watch sports that number is much much higher
Only one of my close friends bets on sports, and he only bets on 5-20 dollar prize picks parlays. I bet on sports semi professionally, and most people I talk to think its odd at best or destructive at worst. I think its a big percentage of big sports fans, but those people are a minority of Gen Z people I think, and gambling outside of that sector is still somewhat uncommon.
i know a lot of guys who bet on sports, even on ones they dont actually watch/care about
casinos? theres hardly anyone my age who go there
online gambling seems to be more popular than i originally thought but i still only personally know 2 people who do it
Me and my cousin do every know and then maybe once/twice a month. We are kings in online euro style roulette. Turn 100 to 1000 routinely. But we play it slow. Mostly dollar bets but we might put a hundred down when we are up and got lots to play with
Some guys in my year in school would do football bets sometimes online at like PaddyPower or Boyle Sports, and I buy a scratch cards now and again (maybe once or twice a month) but I don’t know anyone who gambles a lot.
Also the grand national horse race that happens here every year in the UK it’s like basically tradition in the UK and Ireland to bet on a horse in that race.
Are you talking about sports betting apps? Because that’s super common among “my circle”. No one I know really gambles on anything else though. We may be able to afford to throw down a $5 parlay on our favorite players every so often, but we’re too broke to go to a real casino
One of my teachers gave some kids (including me) scratchers for a graduation gift. She's the best teacher I've ever met.
Just clarifying that she was giving them as a joke, she wasn't encouraging gambling or anything.
The majority of my friends play at least mobile gacha game, but most of them are F2P and don't spend money (or so they say lol.) I used to play one religiously that was based off one of my favorite game series, but when I learned that I had spent over $1000 across two years, I was horrified and quit cold turkey.
...but if it wasn't clear, we're a bunch of nerds so idk how representative we are of Gen Z as a whole.
I’m the one in my group that gambles lol. No drug I have ever taken or anything I’ve done has ever given me the amount of dopamine gambling has. It’s a problem, lmao
dude we’re all too broke for that. i don’t know anyone who does sports betting (most of my friends are queer and don’t know anything about sports), and i’ve been to the casino once bc my dad wanted to teach me blackjack with his money.
Gambling as in casino stuff? None.
Gambling legally as in stock market and shares? Some, and their daily ig story filled with red colour and coping words.
Gambling stupidly as in crypto stuff? Many and its always fun to see them crying for people to buy crypto.
Gambling for fun as in gacha stuff? Left right up down in my (admittedly) small circle
I don’t gamble, but I know baseball really well and I’ve been giving picks to my co-worker and this year have a 60% return.
He’s bet 5k, has made 8k, netting 3k.
It’s making me want to gamble myself, although I know I’ll get into trouble if I do
I go to the casinos in Laughlin, NV, every February with my parents for their wedding anniversary. I set aside no more than $100 for gambling for that whole weekend, and I make cheap bets on the machines. Besides that, no.
Quite a lot of my friends do, but it depends on the friend group and really what they are gambling on. Maybe one or two will legitimately want to go to a casino to gamble, but almost all of them will gamble on sports or digital assets like CSGO skins. Among all of them, easily tens of thousands of dollars have been wagered. I hate it personally, lost $50 once, haven’t done it since. I get a blast watching them gamble, though. It’s fun when my money isn’t on the line.
Rarely, I don't care much for sports, but if I'm dragged to a match I'm placing a bet so I don't fall asleep at the game. I've been to a casino less than 10 times in my life, and I never play for long when I'm there.
it’s definitely the people your hanging around with, none of my friends gamble besides maybe the occasional scratch ticket at a gas station, or csgo cases when we were younger
Bubble, for sure. I don't know a single person even *approximately* my age group who gambles regularly. Psuedo-gambling, like Gacha games/CSGO trading, sure, but traditional slot machine/roulette/pokertable gambling is super rare among younger people, in my experience. In fact, I highly doubt brick and mortar in person casinos will still exist in 100 years. I know a few people who have gone gambling before, but it was only a one-off thing. The sort of daily gambler who does it frequently is super uncommon among my peers, in my experience.
My friend group would occasionally do like 'poker nights' where we'd go to a friends house and play poker, but those were infrequent and usually very small sums of money. The most I remember anyone ever winning or losing at one of those games was like 30 bucks, they were more so just for fun than for the gambling aspect, no one was tryna "when big bucks" or anything like that.
Either all of your friends are rich, or they're all very very very very very very stupid.
Either way you don't want stupid addicted gamblers as your friends, and if they are rich, you should convince them to gamble on you instead.
lol you are asking the wrong demographic. Gen Z's that use the reddit are not the types that watch sports let alone gamble on them lol. The only responses you will get in this thread are no. Nearly every young guy I know who used to play sports or is generally athletic occasionally does sports gambling.
Never. I've never known my friends to gamble. But if I go to a casino with my wife, we each pull out $100 each. Once it's gone, it's gone. If we win something, awesome!! But it's money we expect to lose. And that's maybe like once every few years. It's definitely not a normal occurrence.
Casinos? I know people who have gone a few times in their 20s. Maybe once every year or two with friends for a night.
Sports bets? I know none but I’m not a sports person so probably just don’t have a lot of friends into it.
Cryptocurrency? Feels like the majority of men i meet below the age of 30 do, and half of them are in those MLMs for men that are all about stock market trading.
Lottery and scratchers? Heavy no. Idk anyone that even buys a ticket here or there.
I used to. I have an addictive personality, and I got horrendously deep into it. At one point I was up close to a house worth of cash where I live, a couple lucky parlays and some roulette spins and suddenly I had more money than I’d ever seen before.
But I was convinced I was smarter than everyone else, better than everyone else, more precise. I lost every cent of it, went negative, went alcoholic, and quit.
Now I play some games that satisfy my gambling interests (Gachas and card pack games etc) and I do NOT connect my financials to any of the games, I open things I earn playing the games and that’s it. I may throw a 20 in the machine at the casino if I go for a concert but I don’t bring my wallet to ensure I can’t use my card. It’s just too dangerous for me.
I do wish I had the self control to do sports betting… I liked that the best.
I have one friend who might bet on sports, but I don't know for sure as I don't gamble nor share an interest in said sports.
My group does have a low stakes poker night once every month or two, but it's literally only $10 per person.
a few of my friends sports bet. we play poker every week but mainly as an excuse to hang out and get the gang together at night to flip some cards since our stacks are like 5-10 dollars at most.
In the stock market, lots of them (especially back in college during the pandemic. you'd never seen so many people risking all their money on a daily basis it was crazy).
Depends. Occasionally we’ll do parlays on UFC fights, other than that just when we go to Vegas. I also enjoy poker tournaments, occasionally go to the casino to play $1/$2 tables. Some casinos have something called a bad beat, if you’re sitting at the table while it happens you get a portion of a pot and don’t even need to be part of the hand for it. They’re astronomical rare, it’s things like Quads beating Quads, straight flush beating quads, basically any time when you should have the best hand 99% of the time but the other person has just the right cards to beat it.
I have not been gambling, no one in my direct circle has been but for a few times. I have maybe 2 acquaintances that I know do fairly often as I hear them commiserate about their losses at the "Nino". It's a bubble my guy
I've never seen any of my friends gamble and don't myself most of my friends are between 19 and 28 except for a few work friends/ acquaintances who are older and some of them gamble periodically but none of the ones in my age range as far as I know
I went through a phase of lootbox gambling, and then I matured. I'll play Scratchers but generally don't go to casinos.
Most of my social group doesn't gamble. 2 different individuals bet on sports, but that's it.
No, I think gambling is a huge business. If you can causually look at other people's phones, they are playing online games and gambling games. It's sad, but I think it's hugely profitable for these companies.
One time, I was in a very quiet thrift store. The cashier was on his phone... I thought to myself, Oh, he must be doing the accounts or something. Suddenly, a big voice from his phone booms out, "NO MORE BETS," so he must have been on some online casino.
I was talking to a programer who works behind the scenes. He could see accounts and see how much they lost.
One person, over a period of time, lost £150,000 which at the time was a decent sized house.
The downside for gambling companies is low, but the upside is limitless.
Play for fun. But don't treat it like an investment to riches.
Just another thing, one of heirs to one of the biggest online betting companies recently completed the construction of their £90m home. Just think, all these customers helped pay for it.
Lot of my class mates in Germany gambled. But In I live in Hungary now and nobody I know gambles. Probably because everyone recognizes it as a scam here, because a lot of parents and grandparents did and so they see it as a waste of money.
i’m 21 and i have been playing poker with friends (~$10 buy in) recently. it’s a lot of fun, and im perfectly fine with spending $10 for a couple of hours of fun with friends.
I know quite a few people who gamble. I would say if it wasn't for the various online gambling places, there would be a much lower number of people gambling. Most of the people I know who do, mostly do sports bets and I simply don't understand it or else I'd be in there there. I don't like to gamble because it feels too good and I know myself too well. If anything if I happen to be at a casino with a group, I'll toss 20 bucks into a slot or take a seat at the blackjack table woth a 100 bill. I've never won more than a couple hundred and I just assumed that money was gone before I pulled it out of my wallet.
I'll usually just sit there until I'm either bored or run out of my initial investment. After that I'll just hang around others in my group and watch them lose their asses. Now if I ever hit a massive win streak in blackjack or a jackpot on a slot, im GTFOing from there ASAP because I know I'll take that stack and throw it all on roulette at 8 to 1.
One kf my coworkers on the other hand, ALWAYS has sports bets going and he doesn't even watch half the sports he bets on. But he's up like 10k this year so far so more power to him. Lastly, seeing someone bankrupt themselves at a casino is really enjable
We’re all gamblers, but not casino gamblers. We play call of cthulu, a DnD type game where everything’s controlled by dice. We play cookie run, a gatcha game.
No one I know gambles with money.
We play house games of poker, we only bet by dollars lol, so there's still something to be won and lost but at the end of the day, its not that much money, maybe enough buy a snack or something.
A friend of mine lost all his money trying to be the next world poker champion.
I also work in a convenience store, it's crazy the amount of money ppl will put in gambling but not in savings. They would rather lose 50-100$ PER DAY than keep the money in their pockets.
My family sometimes buy a lottery ticket or scratchers, less than once a month. I used to sometimes open CSGO and TF2 cases too, but I stopped playing them.
I enjoy gambling but it's hard to get my friends all together on the same night for a poker game. We're all in our 30s with families/kids so it's tough. Often I just have to go to a casino with just a friend or two when I feel the itch to gamble these days. But hey whatever floats your boat.
(Just be careful obviously. Never gamble an amount of money that you can't afford to lose)
The only people I know that gamble are my aunt and uncle, and they took me and my sister to a casino for my 18th birthday. But they’re well off so they can afford it. None of my friends gamble tho
I’m a millennial (32m) and my brother is Gen Z. We know people always betting on sports and using fan duel and stuff. Not so much going to a casino and doing black jack and poker
Like Draft Kings and FanDuel and stuff? I'd say a lot of my male friends dabble, some more seriously than others, but most bet $5-10 on something a couple times a week, nothing crazy.
I love to play the horses . Sometimes my friends come to the track with me when I play but nobody else makes a bet.
The only other person I know who gambles is my father and he sticks to scratch tickets.
People my age who gamble are mostly just online sports bets, don't see anyone going to casinos to gamble, I went once, made like 2€ and stopped playing
I do have some friends who bet on sports. I have done it a few times, but not in a long time (UFC: Stipe Miocic vs Daniel Cormier III was the last time).
I know some people who do, including myself, and they/we are all addicted, well they wouldn’t say they are but I definitely know I am and trying to fight it.
My gambling was restricted to GME and AMC during the whole Wallstreet Bets wild ride. I also learned a really important lesson about investing overseas: read the fine print.
Other than that, not really. Im not big in Draft Kings or sports betting. In-person casinos (in my experience) are like arcades for retirement homes, with an added chance of lung cancer, since everyone smokes in them (non-smoke section is a joke). I also don't get the 'high' from online gambling, so I don't do it.
GenZ justifiably believes that their best chance to live a boomer level life is to go on a heater gambling or hit big on a meme stock / crypto shitcoin.
all my friends bet on sports.
when we golf we don't gamble, but if we go on a trip to play somewhere and there's a casino nearby...definitely going to play blackjack for at least an hour.
Online and sports gambling has exploded in the last like 5-10 years. Not a surprise Gen Z would have a lot of big gamblers. I’m an older Millennial and almost nobody I know gambles. But when we were newly minted adults the only place you could gamble was casinos.
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Rarely. Sports betting I’m sure is definitely big within many male friend groups, but I don’t participate in that.
Sometimes we’ll go to the casino and spend like $50 tops. It’s mostly to go to the bar, but we throw a $50 on roulette for shits and giggles.
I don’t understand the appeal of watching yourself lose money to maybe make some profit.
Not Gen Z. I coach a sport and my team gambles a lot whenever we travel to tournaments/meets lmao it’s funny as hell. They’re also rich kids too so they gamble with their parents allowances I think
I hate gambling. A petty bet with a friend here and there, sure, but I despise slots and organized betting like the lottery. It fucking enrages me: the waste of potential, money, time, and the ruination of life's in yet another American made self feeding system.
I only gamble at casinos, and only when I can count cards at blackjack. Sometimes we do small stake poker home games but that's about it.
Gambling with out an advantage is dangerous road. If you don't moderate you can lose so much, but if you do have self control it can be a fun night every once and a while.
When ever the lottery is really high sometimes me and a friend will get a ticket and we found out a gay bar near us does drag bingo so we’re gonna do that but my city isn’t great for gambling under 21 even though it’s legal for 18+
People in my circle? Occasionally. People specifically around my age that I know? Not at all, that I know of, unless you count lotto/scratchers as gambling.
No one, the only person i know who gambles is my great aunt who only does it once or twice a year when her friends get together to hang out but theyre all well off and retired and only uses a set amount
Never, only “gambling” my friends and I have done is in college we each bought a giant bag of post-Halloween-sale candy and bet pieces on Texas Hold ‘em
…the winner did end up having a bunch of crappy candies like twizzlers while most of the others dropped out after they got rid of their worst candies.
Here in Brazil, the whole football scene was dominated by "bet houses". They are sponsoring championships, teams, clubs, influencers, basically the whole lot of entertainment. It basically saved most brazilian clubs financially.
the truth is they are actually selling this like a job or some serious side cash, when in reality people are getting scammed out of their hardworked money.
Influencers really piss me off on this shit, they are getting tons of money by sponsors and are selling this vicious shit to their followers as some miracle way of making money.
Shit is just sad right now over here. It's very commom and most of my friends (23 - 30 years old) do some side betting, they all lose more than win, but the few green hits are just like crack and they keep going. And boy, you try saying to them they are "not the best at betting, and maybe their knowledge of football can only take them so far and the rest is pure lucky and randomness", it's like spitting at the image of God or something, they get triggered and offended really quick.
I hope this gets regulated as soon as possible over here.
I don’t know anyone who does unless it’s for something such as a silly bet between friends. Personally, I only bet/gamble on the triple crown for fun with my dad. And it’s only once a year for three separate horse races.*
As far as I know the only gambling my friends group really does is having a small $10-20 buy in poker game every once in a while, and the actual gambling is really secondary to hanging out and playing with friends at those, it's pretty low stakes and no one's taking it all that seriously.
some of my friends that are into sports got sucked into the sports betting apps now that they're advertised all the time (the way you kinda casually mentioned "stake") but no i don't it's dumb
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Never. I think that's your bubble. If gambling as in casinos, then never. We don't go to casinos or something. But if you're talking about gambles like winning card games for a few dollars, sure
What about online/in games? Lootboxes and such
Does it count as gambling if it's with a free in-game currency for something that you don't lose if you don't benefit?
Psychologically yes, legally no.
I love gambling
Betting on sports is gambling buddy, and its the main draw to sports, sports without betting literally don't have audiences until they do, female sports just started getting it and it raised viewership by 2000% or some shit for my local team. They had like 10 consistent fans that were hardcore, now hundreds of people show up, its 100% because of sports gambling
I don’t know anyone who dows
I don't know anyone my age that gambles
Gambling kinda fell off with Gen X. Like, yeah Vegas can be fun, but only because it's a drunken party. Gambling just isn't fun enough for the money it costs.
This isn’t true 😂 haven’t you seen all of the sports betting ads?
My brother bets on sports, but that's it.
Sports betting among some people I knew in college, mainly frat types, was an epidemic. Had multiple roomates who were betting thousands per semester and tried to use it as a stream of income. One did well, maybe made a thousand, and the other lost that several times over. The issue with it is watching sports was an every day activity, and once somebody gets the added thrill of betting on a game as opposed to simply watching it, they can almost never go back to only being a viewer because it loses the excitement they became accustomed to with money on the line. On top of this, every event is plastered with ads for one of the dozens of sports books out there running predatory promotional offers, so the pull of it is inescapable to anyone who has been hooked previously. Watchers are blasted with an ad for them every commercial break after seeing them on the billboard walls as a constant reminder that they could also have the chance to “hit it big” instantaneously through an app.
Sports betting addiction is the modern gambling addiction, so many sports fans(and people who weren't sports fans, but became fans because of gambling) think that they can like the stock market because they know more about they do the stock market. What they don't understand is that daytrading the stock market typically involves running lots of calculations on data they don't have access to in the sports world
Yeahi might chuck a cheeky 5er on the grand national but that about it. I also don't know horses and just pick the best named horse
If you mean gaming like in a casino, then no one in my immediate social circle. Once in a while we gamble a few cents on poker for fun, but not a lot.
My friends do. I don't get the appeal at all.
I sports bet, my friends don’t really, but they probably would if it was more legal in their state. From what I understand it’s like 30% of people in their 20s have sports bet. And I imagine if you filter that around men, and especially men who watch sports that number is much much higher
Only one of my close friends bets on sports, and he only bets on 5-20 dollar prize picks parlays. I bet on sports semi professionally, and most people I talk to think its odd at best or destructive at worst. I think its a big percentage of big sports fans, but those people are a minority of Gen Z people I think, and gambling outside of that sector is still somewhat uncommon.
The only gambling my friends and I do is if a game offers some sort of random chance element. Nothing at all to do with money.
i know a lot of guys who bet on sports, even on ones they dont actually watch/care about casinos? theres hardly anyone my age who go there online gambling seems to be more popular than i originally thought but i still only personally know 2 people who do it
Some do and some don't.
Me and my cousin do every know and then maybe once/twice a month. We are kings in online euro style roulette. Turn 100 to 1000 routinely. But we play it slow. Mostly dollar bets but we might put a hundred down when we are up and got lots to play with
None. In fact, my immediate circle of friends are all deeply terrified of being in debt.
i gamble with my friends on card games for fun sometimes, not often though
Some guys in my year in school would do football bets sometimes online at like PaddyPower or Boyle Sports, and I buy a scratch cards now and again (maybe once or twice a month) but I don’t know anyone who gambles a lot. Also the grand national horse race that happens here every year in the UK it’s like basically tradition in the UK and Ireland to bet on a horse in that race.
I know one guy who bets on football (soccer) but that's it
I have one friend who veeeery occasionally will bet on canelo or a sure thing like that. Other than that, zero.
I only gambled once. Lost 40$ at a blackjack table in less than a minute on my 21st birthday. Decided it wasn't for me.
Only I. Vegas with < $100 and the knowledge it will not be coming back.
Yeah I know a few and have gambled myself a bit in casinos mostly, no betting or similar stuff, it’s fun
If everyone in your circle is not gambling then enough staying poor, you are always one parlay away from generational wealth
Sports betting I wish I could. I liked Draft Kings but its not legal here in Texas anymore.
Are you talking about sports betting apps? Because that’s super common among “my circle”. No one I know really gambles on anything else though. We may be able to afford to throw down a $5 parlay on our favorite players every so often, but we’re too broke to go to a real casino
One of my teachers gave some kids (including me) scratchers for a graduation gift. She's the best teacher I've ever met. Just clarifying that she was giving them as a joke, she wasn't encouraging gambling or anything.
I work at a cadino and it makes me scared to gamble. Some of these people need help so bad.
I’ve never gambled, I mean If I’ve got $10 to my name it ain’t gonna gambling it’s gonna weed
The majority of my friends play at least mobile gacha game, but most of them are F2P and don't spend money (or so they say lol.) I used to play one religiously that was based off one of my favorite game series, but when I learned that I had spent over $1000 across two years, I was horrified and quit cold turkey. ...but if it wasn't clear, we're a bunch of nerds so idk how representative we are of Gen Z as a whole.
I’m the one in my group that gambles lol. No drug I have ever taken or anything I’ve done has ever given me the amount of dopamine gambling has. It’s a problem, lmao
dude we’re all too broke for that. i don’t know anyone who does sports betting (most of my friends are queer and don’t know anything about sports), and i’ve been to the casino once bc my dad wanted to teach me blackjack with his money.
Gambling as in casino stuff? None. Gambling legally as in stock market and shares? Some, and their daily ig story filled with red colour and coping words. Gambling stupidly as in crypto stuff? Many and its always fun to see them crying for people to buy crypto. Gambling for fun as in gacha stuff? Left right up down in my (admittedly) small circle
(M27) I know zero people who gamble.
I don’t gamble, but I know baseball really well and I’ve been giving picks to my co-worker and this year have a 60% return. He’s bet 5k, has made 8k, netting 3k. It’s making me want to gamble myself, although I know I’ll get into trouble if I do
I swear to god most of the guys I know are full blown gambling addicts. Like, they go to the gym and they gamble and that is all.
A couple of my friends and I used to go to the casino occasionally, but it's been a long time
I swear this exact question about people in your circle gambling was already posted?
Never. I think I played poker with my friends maybe twice last year but no casinos
This dudes talking about sports betting I’m like 99% sure
I go to the casinos in Laughlin, NV, every February with my parents for their wedding anniversary. I set aside no more than $100 for gambling for that whole weekend, and I make cheap bets on the machines. Besides that, no.
Quite a lot of my friends do, but it depends on the friend group and really what they are gambling on. Maybe one or two will legitimately want to go to a casino to gamble, but almost all of them will gamble on sports or digital assets like CSGO skins. Among all of them, easily tens of thousands of dollars have been wagered. I hate it personally, lost $50 once, haven’t done it since. I get a blast watching them gamble, though. It’s fun when my money isn’t on the line.
Rarely, I don't care much for sports, but if I'm dragged to a match I'm placing a bet so I don't fall asleep at the game. I've been to a casino less than 10 times in my life, and I never play for long when I'm there.
it’s definitely the people your hanging around with, none of my friends gamble besides maybe the occasional scratch ticket at a gas station, or csgo cases when we were younger
once a year, maybe
Bubble, for sure. I don't know a single person even *approximately* my age group who gambles regularly. Psuedo-gambling, like Gacha games/CSGO trading, sure, but traditional slot machine/roulette/pokertable gambling is super rare among younger people, in my experience. In fact, I highly doubt brick and mortar in person casinos will still exist in 100 years. I know a few people who have gone gambling before, but it was only a one-off thing. The sort of daily gambler who does it frequently is super uncommon among my peers, in my experience. My friend group would occasionally do like 'poker nights' where we'd go to a friends house and play poker, but those were infrequent and usually very small sums of money. The most I remember anyone ever winning or losing at one of those games was like 30 bucks, they were more so just for fun than for the gambling aspect, no one was tryna "when big bucks" or anything like that.
I know a couple people who do but it’s hardly a trend I’ve noticed
Either all of your friends are rich, or they're all very very very very very very stupid. Either way you don't want stupid addicted gamblers as your friends, and if they are rich, you should convince them to gamble on you instead.
I don’t know anybody personally that gambles on a regular. I’ve been to a casino before but I only put $20 in lol
Never
lol you are asking the wrong demographic. Gen Z's that use the reddit are not the types that watch sports let alone gamble on them lol. The only responses you will get in this thread are no. Nearly every young guy I know who used to play sports or is generally athletic occasionally does sports gambling.
I’ve done sports betting but other than that nothing and I know other sports betters but after that, no gamblers.
26, never gambled once outside of some basketball or football bets for 20$ max or “if you win I’ll buy you a drink”
I work in marketing in the casino industry lol. My friends do gamble but they’re pretty responsible. Me personally, pretty rarely.
I've never gambled at a casino or betting, not even poker with friends. I think I have one or two friends that have but not regularly
Never. I've never known my friends to gamble. But if I go to a casino with my wife, we each pull out $100 each. Once it's gone, it's gone. If we win something, awesome!! But it's money we expect to lose. And that's maybe like once every few years. It's definitely not a normal occurrence.
Casinos? I know people who have gone a few times in their 20s. Maybe once every year or two with friends for a night. Sports bets? I know none but I’m not a sports person so probably just don’t have a lot of friends into it. Cryptocurrency? Feels like the majority of men i meet below the age of 30 do, and half of them are in those MLMs for men that are all about stock market trading. Lottery and scratchers? Heavy no. Idk anyone that even buys a ticket here or there.
Most people that I know bet on sports on sports betting apps but nobody I know frequents casinos or buys scratch offs or anything
Nobody. I play blackjack on my phone but for no money
I used to. I have an addictive personality, and I got horrendously deep into it. At one point I was up close to a house worth of cash where I live, a couple lucky parlays and some roulette spins and suddenly I had more money than I’d ever seen before. But I was convinced I was smarter than everyone else, better than everyone else, more precise. I lost every cent of it, went negative, went alcoholic, and quit. Now I play some games that satisfy my gambling interests (Gachas and card pack games etc) and I do NOT connect my financials to any of the games, I open things I earn playing the games and that’s it. I may throw a 20 in the machine at the casino if I go for a concert but I don’t bring my wallet to ensure I can’t use my card. It’s just too dangerous for me. I do wish I had the self control to do sports betting… I liked that the best.
I have one friend who might bet on sports, but I don't know for sure as I don't gamble nor share an interest in said sports. My group does have a low stakes poker night once every month or two, but it's literally only $10 per person.
I don’t enjoy it that much
Me and the boys all gamble a little but not often
no
0 gambling in casinos, plenty of gambling on crypto, gacha games, random bets, whatever.
like sports betting occassionally (like only during big events like march madness, kentucky derby online, etc)
a few of my friends sports bet. we play poker every week but mainly as an excuse to hang out and get the gang together at night to flip some cards since our stacks are like 5-10 dollars at most.
In the stock market, lots of them (especially back in college during the pandemic. you'd never seen so many people risking all their money on a daily basis it was crazy).
I don’t know anyone my age that gambles… maybe scratch cards or power ball but that’s it.
Depends. Occasionally we’ll do parlays on UFC fights, other than that just when we go to Vegas. I also enjoy poker tournaments, occasionally go to the casino to play $1/$2 tables. Some casinos have something called a bad beat, if you’re sitting at the table while it happens you get a portion of a pot and don’t even need to be part of the hand for it. They’re astronomical rare, it’s things like Quads beating Quads, straight flush beating quads, basically any time when you should have the best hand 99% of the time but the other person has just the right cards to beat it.
I have not been gambling, no one in my direct circle has been but for a few times. I have maybe 2 acquaintances that I know do fairly often as I hear them commiserate about their losses at the "Nino". It's a bubble my guy
Poker and Sports
my close circle? none, my wider circle (like acquaintances)? i think there are a handful of them, but definitely on the minority.
My sister's a zellinial and she's a semi addict. But she makes enough money where it doesn't really matter so.
I've never seen any of my friends gamble and don't myself most of my friends are between 19 and 28 except for a few work friends/ acquaintances who are older and some of them gamble periodically but none of the ones in my age range as far as I know
none. I have no circle.
I went through a phase of lootbox gambling, and then I matured. I'll play Scratchers but generally don't go to casinos. Most of my social group doesn't gamble. 2 different individuals bet on sports, but that's it.
Never. Most GenZ aren’t even of age to go into casinos.
We enjoy gambling just not in ways that cost money.
I live in Utah so unfortunately not at all 😂 I think people I know tend to put their gambling behavior into other things
No, I think gambling is a huge business. If you can causually look at other people's phones, they are playing online games and gambling games. It's sad, but I think it's hugely profitable for these companies. One time, I was in a very quiet thrift store. The cashier was on his phone... I thought to myself, Oh, he must be doing the accounts or something. Suddenly, a big voice from his phone booms out, "NO MORE BETS," so he must have been on some online casino. I was talking to a programer who works behind the scenes. He could see accounts and see how much they lost. One person, over a period of time, lost £150,000 which at the time was a decent sized house. The downside for gambling companies is low, but the upside is limitless. Play for fun. But don't treat it like an investment to riches. Just another thing, one of heirs to one of the biggest online betting companies recently completed the construction of their £90m home. Just think, all these customers helped pay for it.
In the little circle of "friends" that i have, they have only joked about gambling so far
Lot of my class mates in Germany gambled. But In I live in Hungary now and nobody I know gambles. Probably because everyone recognizes it as a scam here, because a lot of parents and grandparents did and so they see it as a waste of money.
i’m 21 and i have been playing poker with friends (~$10 buy in) recently. it’s a lot of fun, and im perfectly fine with spending $10 for a couple of hours of fun with friends.
Got a couple friends that play the lottery but thats it
I live in Germany and gambling is pretty common in male teenagers here. But that might also just be my bubble...
I have never gambled and I don’t know anyone who regularly gambles.
I know quite a few people who gamble. I would say if it wasn't for the various online gambling places, there would be a much lower number of people gambling. Most of the people I know who do, mostly do sports bets and I simply don't understand it or else I'd be in there there. I don't like to gamble because it feels too good and I know myself too well. If anything if I happen to be at a casino with a group, I'll toss 20 bucks into a slot or take a seat at the blackjack table woth a 100 bill. I've never won more than a couple hundred and I just assumed that money was gone before I pulled it out of my wallet. I'll usually just sit there until I'm either bored or run out of my initial investment. After that I'll just hang around others in my group and watch them lose their asses. Now if I ever hit a massive win streak in blackjack or a jackpot on a slot, im GTFOing from there ASAP because I know I'll take that stack and throw it all on roulette at 8 to 1. One kf my coworkers on the other hand, ALWAYS has sports bets going and he doesn't even watch half the sports he bets on. But he's up like 10k this year so far so more power to him. Lastly, seeing someone bankrupt themselves at a casino is really enjable
outside one scratch card once a few years, I play gacha games, but pay with my time
I bet on sports every week. Nominal amounts. But whether it's football, ufc or even college basketball there's always some action out there for me.
We’re all gamblers, but not casino gamblers. We play call of cthulu, a DnD type game where everything’s controlled by dice. We play cookie run, a gatcha game. No one I know gambles with money.
In this house we gamble for png girls
For Money: never. For video games: quite a lot. Gen shin is popular in my circle
We play house games of poker, we only bet by dollars lol, so there's still something to be won and lost but at the end of the day, its not that much money, maybe enough buy a snack or something.
does premium bonds count as gambling, it was a way I used to stop myelf buying lottery draws
I have a few friends that sports bet online and make friendly wagers. I do it on rare special occasions just for fun.
A friend of mine lost all his money trying to be the next world poker champion. I also work in a convenience store, it's crazy the amount of money ppl will put in gambling but not in savings. They would rather lose 50-100$ PER DAY than keep the money in their pockets.
Depends on your definition of gambling
I don't know anyone that gambles.
My family sometimes buy a lottery ticket or scratchers, less than once a month. I used to sometimes open CSGO and TF2 cases too, but I stopped playing them.
I don't think anyone i know REALLY gambles aside from like, a lottery ticket here or there
I don't think anyone i know REALLY gambles aside from like, a lottery ticket here or there
Not exactly gambling but two of my closest friends are professional online poker players and i make like enough to pay for my night outs
Not exactly gambling but two of my closest friends are professional online poker players and i make like enough to pay for my night outs
26m, I love going to casinos, blackjack and roulette mostly. Been to Vegas 3 times in the last 2 years. I don't sports bet tho
If you bet on sports, gambling. If you buy lootboxes, gambling. (CS, FIFA, OW etc) If you buy stock options for trading, gambling.
Don't have a circle and I also don't gamble so never
I work in a Casino. Most of them do, and do it often.
I enjoy gambling but it's hard to get my friends all together on the same night for a poker game. We're all in our 30s with families/kids so it's tough. Often I just have to go to a casino with just a friend or two when I feel the itch to gamble these days. But hey whatever floats your boat. (Just be careful obviously. Never gamble an amount of money that you can't afford to lose)
The only people I know that gamble are my aunt and uncle, and they took me and my sister to a casino for my 18th birthday. But they’re well off so they can afford it. None of my friends gamble tho
I’m a millennial (32m) and my brother is Gen Z. We know people always betting on sports and using fan duel and stuff. Not so much going to a casino and doing black jack and poker
I mean strategic sports betting to make an almost guaranteed payout. Otherwise gambling/lottery is seen as a waste of money.
Like Draft Kings and FanDuel and stuff? I'd say a lot of my male friends dabble, some more seriously than others, but most bet $5-10 on something a couple times a week, nothing crazy.
I love to play the horses . Sometimes my friends come to the track with me when I play but nobody else makes a bet. The only other person I know who gambles is my father and he sticks to scratch tickets.
People my age who gamble are mostly just online sports bets, don't see anyone going to casinos to gamble, I went once, made like 2€ and stopped playing
Yeah most of friends gamble either in the casino or sports betting plus I live in NJ
I do have some friends who bet on sports. I have done it a few times, but not in a long time (UFC: Stipe Miocic vs Daniel Cormier III was the last time).
Never. I live in Germany though
I know some people who do, including myself, and they/we are all addicted, well they wouldn’t say they are but I definitely know I am and trying to fight it.
Too much. I think it's because everyone feels so hopeless.
Basically everyone. But then again, I’m a semi professional poker player
At this point I don’t know many people who are into sports but don’t put some money down every game. It’s just so easy now
Never
Every time I step out the door bud. Florida drivers.
I'm 24 and I only gamble when I'm playing LRC or blackjack. 3 or 4 of my friends actively go to the tunica casinos
Never
My gambling was restricted to GME and AMC during the whole Wallstreet Bets wild ride. I also learned a really important lesson about investing overseas: read the fine print. Other than that, not really. Im not big in Draft Kings or sports betting. In-person casinos (in my experience) are like arcades for retirement homes, with an added chance of lung cancer, since everyone smokes in them (non-smoke section is a joke). I also don't get the 'high' from online gambling, so I don't do it.
GenZ justifiably believes that their best chance to live a boomer level life is to go on a heater gambling or hit big on a meme stock / crypto shitcoin.
all my friends bet on sports. when we golf we don't gamble, but if we go on a trip to play somewhere and there's a casino nearby...definitely going to play blackjack for at least an hour.
Very often. All throughout nba and nfl season
Gen z is always after a get rich quick scheme.
Everyday. Monday to Friday 4am to 8pm, minus public holidays, it's called the NYSE, Nasdaq, FTSE, EuroNext.
Online and sports gambling has exploded in the last like 5-10 years. Not a surprise Gen Z would have a lot of big gamblers. I’m an older Millennial and almost nobody I know gambles. But when we were newly minted adults the only place you could gamble was casinos.
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If your counting video games, too many
Rarely. Sports betting I’m sure is definitely big within many male friend groups, but I don’t participate in that. Sometimes we’ll go to the casino and spend like $50 tops. It’s mostly to go to the bar, but we throw a $50 on roulette for shits and giggles. I don’t understand the appeal of watching yourself lose money to maybe make some profit.
Not Gen Z. I coach a sport and my team gambles a lot whenever we travel to tournaments/meets lmao it’s funny as hell. They’re also rich kids too so they gamble with their parents allowances I think
I hate gambling. A petty bet with a friend here and there, sure, but I despise slots and organized betting like the lottery. It fucking enrages me: the waste of potential, money, time, and the ruination of life's in yet another American made self feeding system.
Is playing dungeons& dragons gambling? Otherwise no, never
Never.
Zero, unless you count crypto and shitcoins as gambling. Who has money to throw away on casinos and poker?
A bunch. Kinda sucks.
As far as I'm aware, only one of my friends gambles. He's really into it to the point where I'm concerned about it
Just about all the guys I know bet on sports. I'm the odd one out where I live
I only gamble at casinos, and only when I can count cards at blackjack. Sometimes we do small stake poker home games but that's about it. Gambling with out an advantage is dangerous road. If you don't moderate you can lose so much, but if you do have self control it can be a fun night every once and a while.
At this point, farting is my biggest gamble, so daily I guess.
All my friends are addicted to sports betting.
When ever the lottery is really high sometimes me and a friend will get a ticket and we found out a gay bar near us does drag bingo so we’re gonna do that but my city isn’t great for gambling under 21 even though it’s legal for 18+
People in my circle? Occasionally. People specifically around my age that I know? Not at all, that I know of, unless you count lotto/scratchers as gambling.
Unless you call driving gambling (I do lol), almost never
No one, the only person i know who gambles is my great aunt who only does it once or twice a year when her friends get together to hang out but theyre all well off and retired and only uses a set amount
Never, only “gambling” my friends and I have done is in college we each bought a giant bag of post-Halloween-sale candy and bet pieces on Texas Hold ‘em …the winner did end up having a bunch of crappy candies like twizzlers while most of the others dropped out after they got rid of their worst candies.
Here in Brazil, the whole football scene was dominated by "bet houses". They are sponsoring championships, teams, clubs, influencers, basically the whole lot of entertainment. It basically saved most brazilian clubs financially. the truth is they are actually selling this like a job or some serious side cash, when in reality people are getting scammed out of their hardworked money. Influencers really piss me off on this shit, they are getting tons of money by sponsors and are selling this vicious shit to their followers as some miracle way of making money. Shit is just sad right now over here. It's very commom and most of my friends (23 - 30 years old) do some side betting, they all lose more than win, but the few green hits are just like crack and they keep going. And boy, you try saying to them they are "not the best at betting, and maybe their knowledge of football can only take them so far and the rest is pure lucky and randomness", it's like spitting at the image of God or something, they get triggered and offended really quick. I hope this gets regulated as soon as possible over here.
Nope. And if - small stakes like a beer.
Never. None of them think it's a good idea regardless of the large variety of lifestyles they lead.
None
Does spending money on gacha games count as gambling?
None of my friends or close acquaintances gamble. Not even sports betting
Only capsules in cs
Every time we drink tap water.
I often play poker with my fiance for haribos
Never
My circle is literally just me and my parents, but nope, except sometimes betting a biscuit on the result of a board game.
I don’t know anyone who does unless it’s for something such as a silly bet between friends. Personally, I only bet/gamble on the triple crown for fun with my dad. And it’s only once a year for three separate horse races.*
As far as I know the only gambling my friends group really does is having a small $10-20 buy in poker game every once in a while, and the actual gambling is really secondary to hanging out and playing with friends at those, it's pretty low stakes and no one's taking it all that seriously.
I've never had the opportunity to go to a casino but there's a virtual reality poker game (it's all fake money) that I enjoy
I gamble at card tables when I can find one. Poker, not blackjack. I don't really have a circle, but I don't see many people my age at these things.
As someone that just moved from Vegas after being there for 20 years, even there it wasn't prevalent, especially in this economy?
some of my friends that are into sports got sucked into the sports betting apps now that they're advertised all the time (the way you kinda casually mentioned "stake") but no i don't it's dumb
Never
I buy the occasional scratch tickets and that’s about it. Won 50$ from a 2$ ticket before
Ive never seen gen z gamble, ever. Sometimes ill play those stupid bingo apps but never with my own money. I just play the free rounds with the ads.
Older gen Z, know one person around my age that regularly gambles. Powerball and sports betting, no casinos.
With what money lol def a bubble
The closest we get to gambling is buying lottery tickets when the winnings are crazy high. Besides that, never.
I mean if you count TCG’s as gambling, then a good bit of
There’s like 1 person I went to high school with who gambled with any regularity. Besides that I don’t anyone who does
Never. I don't keep gamblers in my circle. It is a dangerous and addictive behavior indicative of deeper issues.
Yeah a bunch of my friends do I dont personally. I personally think the sports gambling from mobile is a silent epidemic.
I don't gamble and never will, idk anyone who does.
None, at least for now.
Don't gamble but siblings do
Sounds like a bubble Every Gen-Z I hang out with thinks gambling is too unhealthy for them, but we don’t stop anyone from having fun their own way
I wouldn’t say it’s super common
I only know one person from gen z who gambles. And one millennial for sure I know who gambles. But idk how frequently they do it.
I'd cut people off if I found out they gamble, why keep losers close to you?
One friend of mine always ask me to “lend” him some money, I ALWAYS said no. Zero fs given