GAMBLING: WINNING OR LOSING?

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GAMBLING: WINNING OR LOSING?
A San Andreas News article
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Author: Jose Seiei
Date: July 12, 2020

Tags: Gambling, Feature, Survey
Disclaimer: This is a feature article based on facts.


Gambling


Are you wondering how Gambling helps some of the citizens of Los Santos in their daily living? How can they survive and continue on gambling despite of their losing streaks in gambling? Gambling has been part of the daily lives of some of the workaholics and gambling addicts even before the Los Santos Casino has been built. According to the latest survey conducted by the San Andreas Institute of Statistics (SAIS), roughly 40% of the citizens gamble at least once a week.

Visiting Casino


In the latest survey conducted by the SAN News agency, 9 out of 10 of the citizens surveyed confirmed that they visit the casino at least once a day. Most of the interviewees stated that they totally experience multiple emotions while they're doing some gambling whether it's be small or large in their bets - Happiness, Excitement, Disappointment and other emotions that they don't experience when they are working.

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The Pie Graph of How Often the Gamblers Visit the Casino
It is also implied that the more frequently they visit the casino, the more money they are about to win or lose. And a lot of the gamblers nowadays have their official radio frequency for them to contact each other just to gamble whether inside the casino or outside the casino.

Winning or Losing cash


How are you actually winning the casino? It is by subtracting your winnings to your losses. In the continuation of the survey, a great part of the gamblers usually won $5000 - $10000, according to them they tend to bet on low budget because they only gamble to support their financial needs in no time. However, the luckiest of the lucky, For every 10 gamblers fighting for their money, only 3 of them actually won more than $100,000 and it is actually on half a million dollars betting.

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The table shows the winnings of the interviewees in Casino
How about the losses of the gamblers? Despite winning of more than $100,000 it is also have the highest risks of losing them all in an instant when your opponent doubles the previous bet. According to the data, 35% of the interviewees actually lose more than $100,000 just in gambling. Pretty large amount of money for the newcomers in the city but still small for the large-time citizens and highest-paid citizens who own large lards, private houses and islands.

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The losses of the interviewees in Casino

Government's Losses on Gambling


While you are winning in various gambling, like inside the casino - the safest place to gamble as it the sole place of the government allows you to gamble legally, outside the casino or the illegal gambling and the all-famous "2 dice" or "2x dice". In the given graph presented by the SAIS on the money gains by different gambling sites on the previous year, it is shown that on some months, Illegal Gambling became one of the known gambling sites in Los Santos due to high percentage of commission inside the Casino.

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The graph of money generated by the Casino, 2 Dice and Illegal Gambling
During the months of February and July, Illegal Gambling has spread like a wildfire because of the financial crisis in the Los Santos that despite the citizens got their money doubled, it added to the burden of the Government where it doesn't have any money left to support the Government-affiliated department such as Los Santos Police Department and the Los Santos Fire and Medical Department.


Conclusion



Life is like a gambling, you may win, you may lose. But no matter how hard life it gets, all you must do is have a strategy, learn when to fight and when to retreat because no matter the result may be. Gambling could lead you to poverty or to luxury.



Credits


I would like to give thanks to everyone who answered my survey posted a few weeks ago. It really helped me to create this article. Thank you very much!
The graphs have been made inside by a specialized SAN News member.
Proofread and edited by Luke Marcello.
 
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I work at the casino, I earn at least 1 million a day. Or more! Depends, trying my luck out. Currently at 8M.
 
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