Gambling Your Life

[Josedinho]

Wouldn't fancy coin or dice but probably do roulette for a pretty low amount.

[boldie]

The coinflip one is a tricky one TBH..
The Dice 12mill
The roulette £3mill would cover that, I reckon.

All on the bases that you snap-die and no pain and all that sort of shit.

[mulhuzz]

at first I thought no chance of x or y, but I'd do z for sure for about £2m or so.

but then as pleno will confirm..

[ ] sure can leave the roulette table after having a winning spin

so i prolly have to either just shoot myself now (making bet somewhat neutral EV...) or pay someone about three fiddy to make sure I can only take one spin.

Unless after winning I can decide each spin whether to play for money or for life. Then we have a deal for £2m.

Fade the zero, get furious if 17 or 20 comes in without me having money on it, put entire £2m on numbers in 2nd 12, fade and play for life again. Wash, rinse, repeat.

Makes me think the expert line is just to ask more than £2m to spin first....but I guess if that was the going rate, that's what I'd do..

[gatso]

The only thing that would stop me from flipping for a million is knowing the affect it would have on my mum if i lost

but you flip worse than anyone I've ever met. you really should be asking for a lot more than a million

[RED-DOG]

What a great question. What unexpected answers.

It's a definite no to all for me.

Even if I was offered twice the money for half the risk, I wouldn't contemplate it.

I mean, consider all those countless eons of time that have passed since the big bang.

Think about the universe settling down, the billion to one chance of a planet developing and sustaining life, and then evolving into this world of countless miracles and wonders.

Contemplate holding the winning ticket for the 600 million to one sperm race.

Overcome those odds, and you get to spend a few inestimably precious decades in awe of the world around you.

Imagine losing it all on a 35/1 shot....

Not me. I don't think the money is very important anyway. A survey of lottery winners showed that after the  initial euphoria wears off, those people who were unhappy before the win are just as unhappy afterwards. 

[celtic]

Welcome to blonde red dog.

[craigbetts]

What a great question. What unexpected answers.

It's a definite no to all for me.

Even if I was offered twice the money for half the risk, I wouldn't contemplate it.

I mean, consider all those countless eons of time that have passed since the big bang.

Think about the universe settling down, the billion to one chance of a planet developing and sustaining life, and then evolving into this world of countless miracles and wonders.

Contemplate holding the winning ticket for the 600 million to one sperm race.

Overcome those odds, and you get to spend a few inestimably precious decades in awe of the world around you.

Imagine losing it all on a 35/1 shot....

Not me. I don't think the money is very important anyway. A survey of lottery winners showed that after the  initial euphoria wears off, those people who were unhappy before the win are just as unhappy afterwards. 

Fantastic post!

I know it is everyones own opinion, but if the individual was placed in a situation of death they would react sooo much differently.

[Eso Kral]

Great FIRST post IMO

[mulhuzz]

I mean, consider all those countless eons of time that have passed since the big bang.

Think about the universe settling down, the billion to one chance of a planet developing and sustaining life, and then evolving into this world of countless miracles and wonders.

Contemplate holding the winning ticket for the 600 million to one sperm race.

Overcome those odds, and you get to spend a few inestimably precious decades in awe of the world around you.

Imagine losing it all on a 35/1 shot....

yeah, but in any real sense, those events are entirely independent of each other and since you couldn't contemplate this question without having already won at those bets already, i don't think it has much rigour as a line of argument.

Unless your argument (as mine would be) was:

zomfg, I already won a billion-to-1 and a 600m-to-1 so I must be on a mfkn heater. Where do I sign up for this 35-1er that I'll obv crush? ^^

[DUNK619]

The only thing that would stop me from flipping for a million is knowing the affect it would have on my mum if i lost

but you flip worse than anyone I've ever met. you really should be asking for a lot more than a million

am i really that bad at flipping

[StuartHopkin]

Nice post Red, a great man once said;

For billions of years since the outset of time
Every single one of your ancestors has survived
Every single person on your mum and dad's side
Successfully looked after and passed on to you life.
What are the chances of that, like?
It comes to me once in a while
And everywhere I tell folk it gets the best smile.

[RED-DOG]

Nice post Red, a great man once said;

For billions of years since the outset of time
Every single one of your ancestors has survived
Every single person on your mum and dad's side
Successfully looked after and passed on to you life.
What are the chances of that, like?
It comes to me once in a while
And everywhere I tell folk it gets the best smile.

Absolutely true. All it takes is one stone-age woman with a headache and you're toast.

[Raman]

X - never.

Y - 12 million

Z - 1.5million

Has anyone watched the film 13? 

From IMDB - A naive young man assumes a dead man's identity and finds himself embroiled in an underground world of power, violence, and chance where men gamble behind closed doors on the lives of other men.

[AndrewT]

Nice post Red, a great man once said;

For billions of years since the outset of time
Every single one of your ancestors has survived
Every single person on your mum and dad's side
Successfully looked after and passed on to you life.
What are the chances of that, like?
It comes to me once in a while
And everywhere I tell folk it gets the best smile.

Us being here proves that we have thousands of generations of rungood coursing through us.

With that much luck in our genes how could we ever lose a death flip?

[tikay]

What a great question. What unexpected answers.

It's a definite no to all for me.

Even if I was offered twice the money for half the risk, I wouldn't contemplate it.

I mean, consider all those countless eons of time that have passed since the big bang.

Think about the universe settling down, the billion to one chance of a planet developing and sustaining life, and then evolving into this world of countless miracles and wonders.

Contemplate holding the winning ticket for the 600 million to one sperm race.

Overcome those odds, and you get to spend a few inestimably precious decades in awe of the world around you.

Imagine losing it all on a 35/1 shot....

Not me. I don't think the money is very important anyway. A survey of lottery winners showed that after the  initial euphoria wears off, those people who were unhappy before the win are just as unhappy afterwards. 

Love this Thread for the reason it teased Tom back - & I knew those would be his precise sentiments!