Do your husbands gamble on sports?

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You can’t lose if you don’t play.

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Just out of curiosity, how many women use these platforms? Between gambling and OF, sounds like men are the suckers.
Something about a fool and his money soon being parted.

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Anonymous wrote:My husband bets small amounts (less than $50 total) most weeks on a single sport that he knows well and for which he conducts research and modeling.

Is he an addict? Because to me, it sounds more like a hobby, and in inexpensive one at that.

FWIW, in the 4 years since it became legal, between winning bets and maximizing the bonuses/promotional offers that apps offer, he is up more than $1,000 (he tracks his bets meticulously and willingly shares the spreadsheets with me).

Wow that loser spends all that time to net 1k. What a hero

It’s a hobby you complete moron. Its gives watching the game a little more fun.

The previous poster is not the moron. Gambling regularly is an addiction. Of course, addicts are in denial and lie to cover up their addiction. Just like alcoholics hiding liquor bottles.

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Anonymous wrote:Yes. All the time but super small bets.
He keeps $200 in his account and works that.
When we cross state lines he can’t bet and is disappointed.

That is actually distressing; he's jonesing for his fix or that first beer. The fact he even notices that he “can’t bet”, when you are doing something else entirely since you left the state, AND voices it to you?

Bingo. It’s all he’s thinking about. He doesn’t want to be with you

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Anonymous wrote:Just out of curiosity, how many women use these platforms? Between gambling and OF, sounds like men are the suckers.
Something about a fool and his money soon being parted.

Women definitely use them, but studies say they bet less. Also something like 92% of OF purchasers are married men. So yes... I believe you are correct they are just suckers.

https://www.cnn.com/2025/08/23/business/sports-gambling-risk-young-men
https://www.fdu.edu/news/fdu-poll-finds-online-betting-leads-to-problems-for-young-men/

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Anonymous wrote:My husband bets small amounts (less than $50 total) most weeks on a single sport that he knows well and for which he conducts research and modeling.

Is he an addict? Because to me, it sounds more like a hobby, and in inexpensive one at that.

FWIW, in the 4 years since it became legal, between winning bets and maximizing the bonuses/promotional offers that apps offer, he is up more than $1,000 (he tracks his bets meticulously and willingly shares the spreadsheets with me).

Wow that loser spends all that time to net 1k. What a hero

It’s a hobby you complete moron. Its gives watching the game a little more fun.

The previous poster is not the moron. Gambling regularly is an addiction. Of course, addicts are in denial and lie to cover up their addiction. Just like alcoholics hiding liquor bottles.

Addiction: a compulsive, chronic, physiological or psychological need for a habit-forming substance, behavior, or activity having harmful physical, psychological, or social effects and typically causing well-defined symptoms (such as anxiety, irritability, tremors, or nausea) upon withdrawal or abstinence

If it doesn't have harmful effects or cause adverse symptoms, it's not an addiction. It's a hobby.

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This is as good a place as any:

Signs and symptoms of compulsive gambling (gambling disorder) can include:

Being preoccupied with gambling, such as constantly planning gambling activities and how to get more gambling money
Needing to gamble with increasing amounts of money to get the same thrill
Trying to control, cut back or stop gambling, without success
Feeling restless or irritable when you try to cut down on gambling
Gambling to escape problems or relieve feelings of helplessness, guilt, anxiety or depression
Trying to get back lost money by gambling more (chasing losses)
Lying to family members or others to hide the extent of your gambling
Risking or losing important relationships, a job, or school or work opportunities because of gambling
Asking others to bail you out of financial trouble because you gambled money away
Most casual gamblers stop when losing or set a limit on how much they're willing to lose. But people with a compulsive gambling problem are compelled to keep playing to recover their money — a pattern that becomes increasingly destructive over time. Some people may turn to theft or fraud to get gambling money.

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Anonymous wrote:My husband bets small amounts (less than $50 total) most weeks on a single sport that he knows well and for which he conducts research and modeling.

Is he an addict? Because to me, it sounds more like a hobby, and in inexpensive one at that.

FWIW, in the 4 years since it became legal, between winning bets and maximizing the bonuses/promotional offers that apps offer, he is up more than $1,000 (he tracks his bets meticulously and willingly shares the spreadsheets with me).

Wow that loser spends all that time to net 1k. What a hero

It’s a hobby you complete moron. Its gives watching the game a little more fun.

The previous poster is not the moron. Gambling regularly is an addiction. Of course, addicts are in denial and lie to cover up their addiction. Just like alcoholics hiding liquor bottles.

Addiction: a compulsive, chronic, physiological or psychological need for a habit-forming substance, behavior, or activity having harmful physical, psychological, or social effects and typically causing well-defined symptoms (such as anxiety, irritability, tremors, or nausea) upon withdrawal or abstinence

If it doesn't have harmful effects or cause adverse symptoms, it's not an addiction. It's a hobby.

I'm fully aware. I'll stand by what I said. It's a very slippery slope, and too many people become gambling addicts who spend much of their time thinking about it, researching stats and favored teams to win by how much of a margin, hiding their losses from family members, etc. Not a healthy "hobby."

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Anonymous wrote:My husband bets small amounts (less than $50 total) most weeks on a single sport that he knows well and for which he conducts research and modeling.

Is he an addict? Because to me, it sounds more like a hobby, and in inexpensive one at that.

FWIW, in the 4 years since it became legal, between winning bets and maximizing the bonuses/promotional offers that apps offer, he is up more than $1,000 (he tracks his bets meticulously and willingly shares the spreadsheets with me).

I guess there are worse hobbies (hello DCUM!) but it’s a level of mental investment that could become problematic.

Do you have access to all the accounts, his credit report, etc?

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Anonymous wrote:Yes, he’s very good at it. He nets $3k - $5k each week.

What a loser you allow it

Allow it? He’s a grown man. He’s won six-figures. After building a large balance across apps he now transfers weekly winnings into a joint account. He’s playing with their money now. I don’t understand gambling, but I understand that our account balance keeps growing. You do you.

This is not true. No one actually makes money from gambling in the long run. The margins taken are too high.

Also anyone actually making $3K-$5K per week consistently gets their max bet capped at a ridiculously low amount by the sportsbook almost immediately. They're not in the business of losing money and there is nothing stopping them from getting rid of the customers they don't want.

More likely is that the husband is only telling the wife about the wins and hiding the losses.

This isn’t necessarily true. Capping is based on several metrics. If you carry a $20,000+ balance on your DraftKings account you could bet it all on an NFL moneyline. Serious gamblers spread their bets across several apps to minimize the risk of capped bets. No app wants to lose a bettor with tens of thousands of dollars in their bank that could be wagered with a click.

You're confusing "$3k-$5K swing per week" with "consistently winning $3K-$5K per week."

If you've got $20K in your account and you're making multiple $1-2K bets, winning some and losing some, you're an app's dream customer because statistically you'll lose a little more than you win but probably not lose enough to make you quit. But that's not "making $3K-$5K consistently," that's having $3k-$5k in wins but slightly more in losses and losing a few hundred or thousand a week over the long term.

If you're profiting $3K-$5K per week consistently, as in withdrawing $3K-$5K in profit every week for multiple weeks, you're getting capped or banned real quick. And that's not something the casual bettor can even do, which is why there's virtually no chance this guy is actually winning $3K-$5K per week and is almost certainly lying to his wife. The only way to consistently win large sums week after week is wagering huge sums on arbitrage betting, (which will definitely get you capped or banned) to have inside info, (which hubby definitely doesn't have) or to have Sam Rothstein-level aptitude and spend hours a day making spreadsheets, which will also get you capped or banned eventually, it'll just take them a little longer to catch on.

I know lots of people that do well betting and nobody has gotten capped. DraftKings isn’t worried about 5 k a week as they are making millions a month.

You know lots of people who *say* they do well, and apparently you're as gullible as that dude's wife.

$3-5K profit per week is ~$200,000 per year. If it were actually possible for a casual bettor to consistently clear $200K a year nobody would be working actual jobs and DraftKings would be out of business. People like you are exactly the suckers sportsbooks rely on. Nobody beats the house long term.

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Anonymous wrote:This is as good a place as any:

Signs and symptoms of compulsive gambling (gambling disorder) can include:

Being preoccupied with gambling, such as constantly planning gambling activities and how to get more gambling money
Needing to gamble with increasing amounts of money to get the same thrill
Trying to control, cut back or stop gambling, without success
Feeling restless or irritable when you try to cut down on gambling
Gambling to escape problems or relieve feelings of helplessness, guilt, anxiety or depression
Trying to get back lost money by gambling more (chasing losses)
Lying to family members or others to hide the extent of your gambling
Risking or losing important relationships, a job, or school or work opportunities because of gambling
Asking others to bail you out of financial trouble because you gambled money away
Most casual gamblers stop when losing or set a limit on how much they're willing to lose. But people with a compulsive gambling problem are compelled to keep playing to recover their money — a pattern that becomes increasingly destructive over time. Some people may turn to theft or fraud to get gambling money.

+1 Thank you for your post

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Anonymous wrote:My husband bet $20,000 on Ohio State to beat Penn State. It will pay out $21,300.

It will pay out $1,300 after you take out your $20,000

I understand that. People wonder how my husband makes thousands a week.

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Anonymous wrote:My husband bet $20,000 on Ohio State to beat Penn State. It will pay out $21,300.

It will pay out $1,300 after you take out your $20,000

I understand that. People wonder how my husband makes thousands a week.

Wait they know he makes $1000s a week gambling, or the tells them he made $1000s and leaves it up as a mystery?

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Anonymous wrote:My husband bet $20,000 on Ohio State to beat Penn State. It will pay out $21,300.

It will pay out $1,300 after you take out your $20,000

I understand that. People wonder how my husband makes thousands a week.

That’s a pretty unsophisticated bet to put down $20k. But I assume you are multi millionaires from tech sales or something?

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Anonymous wrote:My husband bet $20,000 on Ohio State to beat Penn State. It will pay out $21,300.

It will pay out $1,300 after you take out your $20,000

I understand that. People wonder how my husband makes thousands a week.

That’s a pretty unsophisticated bet to put down $20k. But I assume you are multi millionaires from tech sales or something?

My husband calls it a 6.5% return on investment in 6 days.