Think before you Jump??

I am writing this complaint after one of my close friends killed himself. I know people who have worked for Poker Bet (pokerbet.co.za) and other similar gambling institutions and the phycological models that they use to induce gamblers to lose large amounts of money. Here are a few points I want to raise when you get involved with these types of people.

1) False advertising: People in the poker movies and on YouTube create the idea that professional poker players exist and they make money doing such activities. Therefore, you too can make money playing poker. People gamble because they believe that they can win money doing it. This falsify is generally false. Most people loss a lot of time and money on gambling. Gambling is a zero-sum game.

No one will ever pay you money to spend all night playing games on the internet. Poker Bet spend a lot of money on their website and advertising. That money has to come from somewhere.

You are a customer. Not a professional poker player. The idea that professional gamblers even exit might very well be false.

2) Gambling is addictive: People in the poker movies and on YouTube encourage you to play as much poker as possible in order to get better at it. The problem with this is the more you play the more likely you are to get addicted. Intense and long periods of gambling will cause addiction.

3) Stick to real poker games with humans:

You are not playing humans on these poker site you are playing algorithms. The algorithms are designed to encourage high risk, high intense behavior. At first you win only to loss. And due to risk aversion, you keep gambling because with a false belief that you can win and can improve.

If you want to gamble then you should do it with humans that you can beat. Not with algorithms designed to replicate phycological models of actual gambling addiction.