Topic: Gambling in QC (Read 4986 times)

~~Oilman~~ · « **on:** 29 Jan 2015, 19:12 »

It occurs to me that I have never seen anyone gambling in QC, especially playing poker.

Is it cold in here? · « **Reply #1 on:** 29 Jan 2015, 19:19 »

Hmm!

The only thing I can remember is the reverse strip poker game.

Zebediah · « **Reply #2 on:** 29 Jan 2015, 19:38 »

If you want the complete story on gambling in Massachusetts, here are the relevant laws.

Basically we have a state lottery and a couple of horse tracks. A few casinos have been authorized but are not yet built. Dog racing was legal until 2010 but is now banned. Other than that, gambling isn't legal, but things like poker games among friends usually won't bring the police down on you (especially if you invite them to play).

~~Oilman~~ · « **Reply #3 on:** 29 Jan 2015, 20:30 »

I was mainly thinking of poker. I suppose because most of the Americans I know come from the South or SW, it seems to be a habit with them. A lot of them seem to attend minor fundamentalist churches, too.

Is it cold in here? · « **Reply #4 on:** 29 Jan 2015, 20:53 »

What age range? Somehow I don't associate it with younger people like the cast members.

Carl-E · « **Reply #5 on:** 29 Jan 2015, 21:02 »

My baby brother has hosted a floating poker game on the cape (Cape Cod, MA) for over 10 years. There are usually 2 - 3 tables of 8 players each. Many of the players are younger than him (he just turned 40). So it started before he was 30, and most of the other players were about his age - some of the older ones have dropped out and several younger ones have joined in.

This sort of thing happens everywhere, though.

pwhodges · « **Reply #6 on:** 30 Jan 2015, 02:08 »

I don't think I know anyone in real life that gambles, either, so it doesn't strike me as odd.

hedgie · « **Reply #7 on:** 30 Jan 2015, 02:36 »

Yeah, the closest I get to real gambling is playing dice in the pub, until they stopped that since people started betting too much and management decided to crack down. 'Tis a pity since it was an easy way to fund my drinking, since most people don't have a grasp of basic statistics.

Pilchard123 · « **Reply #8 on:** 30 Jan 2015, 02:43 »

Some friends and I used to play poker at in the common room (I guess that's what you'd call it) at college. We rarely (if ever - I didn't do it myself but it might have happened when I wasn't around) played for money, preferring to use cards from an obviously separate deck.

Penquin47 · « **Reply #9 on:** 30 Jan 2015, 23:54 »

Closest I've ever really been to gambling is NCAA tournament pools or Super Bowl bets. I know poker night is a thing for some people, but I've never actually known people IRL who DO it.

Zebediah · « **Reply #10 on:** 31 Jan 2015, 05:30 »

I knew a guy who made a regular thing out of poker night. He actually paid for a year of college that way. He put it down on his tax return as "mathematics tutoring".

My brother-in-law has told me stories about some seriously high-stakes poker games that went on when he was in the USAF. He never did them because he couldn't afford to blow his entire monthly paycheck on poker. There were lower-stakes games that he and most of the other airmen played to pass the time, though.

Apart from that poker has never been a big deal for people I know.

Carl-E · « **Reply #11 on:** 31 Jan 2015, 10:41 »

Quote from: Zebediah on 31 Jan 2015, 05:30

I knew a guy who made a regular thing out of poker night. He actually paid for a year of college that way. He put it down on his tax return as "mathematics tutoring".

I was told by one of my mathematics professors at Purdue that the weekly poker game he attended was called the "Statistical Redistribution Seminar".

Rghfrgl · « **Reply #12 on:** 31 Jan 2015, 10:52 »

Card counting Hanners put the casinos out of business right before the strip started.

Kugai · « **Reply #13 on:** 31 Jan 2015, 14:36 »

More likely AI's with the same moral code as Pintsize.

Carl-E · « **Reply #14 on:** 02 Feb 2015, 06:50 »

Ooooh, now there's a case for legitimate AI discrimination.

"Sorry, your kind isn't allowed to gamble here!"

themacnut · « **Reply #15 on:** 02 Feb 2015, 21:49 »

Most people I know in my social circle gamble at least once in a while, but then again there are about 4 casinos within about 30-45 minutes driving time plus there's Atlantic City, the East Coast gambling mecca, about 1.5 hours or so away. So it's an easy distraction.

With no casinos in the area and the main gambling being the lottery and horse race betting, I can see why the QC cast doesn't gamble. Or if they do, it's practically a non-event like buying a lottery ticket. I'll bet Jeph doesn't gamble either.

gprimr1 · « **Reply #16 on:** 04 Feb 2015, 06:40 »

None of the characters, except possibly Jimbo, strike me as the type to have a kitchen table poker game.

Zebediah · « **Reply #17 on:** 04 Feb 2015, 07:29 »

Steve tried having a kitchen table poker game, but it kept getting interrupted by ninjas.

Emperor Norton · « **Reply #18 on:** 04 Feb 2015, 13:29 »

Quote from: gprimr1 on 04 Feb 2015, 06:40

None of the characters, except possibly Jimbo, strike me as the type to have a kitchen table poker game.

Jimbo, Pintsize, and Steve. They just need a fourth player.

Actually, that could be a pretty amusing comic or two.

Carl-E · « **Reply #19 on:** 04 Feb 2015, 14:38 »

The linux AnthroPC, PT410X.

Every poker game has a guy like that.

Orkboy · « **Reply #20 on:** 04 Feb 2015, 22:49 »

Quote from: Zebediah on 04 Feb 2015, 07:29

Steve tried having a kitchen table poker game, but it kept getting interrupted by ninjas.

Did they play for fruit loops?

cesium133 · « **Reply #21 on:** 05 Feb 2015, 06:50 »

Quote from: Carl-E on 04 Feb 2015, 14:38

The linux AnthroPC, PT410X.

Every poker game has a guy like that.

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