January 13, 2008...4:27 pm
No limit to online betting’s strangeness
I’ve been looking at more online gambling sites — and it’s a strange, strange world.
There’s basketball betting, baseball betting and football betting, sure — but did you realize you can bet on Snooker? Also handball and darts, apparently.
I’ve never even seen “Hurling” — but apparently you can bet on this, online.
I guess there are some people who will bet on anything.
When I was a kid, I spent some summers with my father — which is to say, I spent a lot of time in my grandmother’s bar in New York. There was a guy there who would bet on coin tosses, spinning bottle caps - anything you could put money on. And it wasn’t about the money — he’d bet quarters and he seemed to be well enough off. There’s just some visceral thrill in games of chance, particularly if you’re risking something, however small.
Add that tot he Internet and it certainly gets weird.
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January 17, 2008 at 9:00 pm
Fun dumb bets while watching others:
Which bird will fly away first?
Who will drink from their beer first?
Who wrote the song playing on the radio?
And so on.
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