Chapter 52 51. Why are Chinese people so good at gambling?

Street scams do a lot of harm, but compared to those underground casinos of some size, they are nothing more than small-scale scams.For some years, modified gambling stalls and copycat casinos once existed in every city. These underground casinos used various legitimate businesses as guises.These casinos don't have to worry about the source of customers. No matter how secret the casino is, there are always gamblers who give money to their door.And foreign gambling companies are also optimistic about China's huge market, but the national policy does not allow it.These gambling companies have tried their best to open casinos in neighboring countries in order to attract Chinese people to gamble. For example, Emperor Casino opened in North Korea, Genting Casino on the border of Myanmar, and Vietnam and other countries have opened casinos one after another.The local government strictly prohibits locals from entering these casinos.And the gamblers in these casinos, including the staff of the casinos, are almost all Chinese.

Gambling is legal in some countries and locals are not prohibited from participating.But if you enter any one, you will find that most of the gamblers are Chinese. Almost all casinos, large and small, around the world have Chinese as the main source of customers. In the past few years, China has introduced many policies to restrict citizens from traveling abroad to gamble.The surrounding casinos closed down one after another, and more than 80 casinos closed their doors.Boldly assume that if Chinese people stop gambling, almost all casinos in the world will be closed.It is universally recognized that the Chinese are fond of gambling.I feel pity for these gambling Chinese.They know too little about gambling.In my eyes, they are nothing more than a group of winners and lambs in the eyes of cheaters and casino operators.

In all the casinos, the Chinese gamblers spend huge sums of money often amazed foreigners. Many people may be thinking about this question: Why are Chinese people so good at gambling? First of all, the social environment makes it easy for Chinese people to get in touch with gambling.In China, mahjong has entered thousands of households, and the entertainment, communication, daily entertainment, and visiting relatives and friends of the Chinese people are often full of happiness.When playing mahjong, if you don't bring a lottery head, you always feel that there is something missing.I have been exposed to it since I was a child, and when I grow up, I will inherit and carry forward "leprosy".Especially after work, you have to socialize and entertain, how can you not play mahjong?

People who play mahjong will comfort themselves like this: it's just for entertainment.But many people who lose in mahjong often feel unwilling, after all, what they lose is their hard-earned money.Therefore, those who lose want to make money, and those who win want to win.Almost every gambler started playing mahjong and gradually became addicted to gambling. Secondly, the psychology of getting rich overnight is at work.The myth of getting rich overnight is the most talked about, and it is something that many people are fascinated by.Over the years, too many myths of getting rich overnight have been propagated by the media, and everyone fantasizes that they are the protagonists of miracles.And they often forget that what makes a miracle a miracle is that the probability of occurrence is almost zero.And gambling will make people think that it is the best way to get rich overnight.

Take the lottery as an example. The lottery has achieved the dream of how many people get rich overnight. The media often report these lucky people hard: today this one won 5 million, and tomorrow that one won 20 million.These stimulate people's nerves all the time.And those who invested huge sums of money to buy lottery tickets, those who bought hundreds of thousands of millions of lottery tickets without winning a small prize each time, became dark under the lights, and no one could see.Everyone only saw the one or two lucky ones out of hundreds of millions.The power of role models is infinite, always encouraging everyone who buys a lottery ticket, making them mistakenly think that they can win a big prize one day.

Based on this psychology, many people expect to achieve the goal of getting rich overnight through gambling.Because in their view, gambling is a very fair game of chance.However, the rules of the casino game determine that you will not become the lucky one who gets rich overnight, because all the gambling games in the casino have been repeatedly demonstrated. These game rules determine that there is only one winner, and that is the casino. People who have no access to formal casinos have devoted themselves to underground gambling with the dream of getting rich overnight.However, domestic underground casinos lack supervision and are full of various frauds, scams, cheats, all of which are doomed to get rich overnight is just a fantasy bubble. In this fantasy bubble, there are various serious consequences hidden, which may be huge debts. , Wives and children are separated, and even the little life has to be involved.

Again, fantasy can be earned for nothing.Most gamblers are unwilling to work hard to get paid for their labor. They are either afraid of hard work, or they cannot recognize the reality. They have seen or heard that someone has won money through gambling, or they have won a small amount of money by chance. , I thought I had found a way to get rich, so I plunged into it.But they may never know how other people win their money, and they may never understand that the little money they won was just someone else's bait.The thousands of tricks and tricks in gambling may not be known to them in a lifetime of gambling, or they may not be able to face it.People are often so sad.

Finally, there are those who fall into the quagmire of gambling out of spiritual emptiness or thrill-seeking.Now people's living standard is high and their income is rich, but their spirit is empty.With spare cash in hand, I always want to find some excitement.Gambling has become the best way for these people to seek excitement. Such people are typical of being full.Some housewives in the countryside buy some Mark Six lottery tickets during the slack season to pass the boring time.After three or five times, I became fascinated, and since then I have fallen into it and cannot extricate myself.In the past, in the countryside, people greeted each other with the colloquial phrase: "Have you eaten?" But now?The greeting for people to meet becomes: "Is there a special code?" People who are addicted to these gambling methods are all spiritually empty people.The Mark Six lottery made them feel that their lives were brighter, but it also made their pockets drier.

Corruption accounts for a large proportion of thrill-seeking gamblers.Look at those officials who have gambled in Macau in the past few years. They often lose tens of millions without even blinking their eyes.They just ate enough, dressed luxuriously, and played everything they should have played, so they went to the casino to seek excitement, and gambled recklessly with money from the country or money from others. A cheater would never spend a lot of money on big bets, and I, or a cheater like Tokuko, would definitely not do such a stupid thing.People around me reminded that gambling is dangerous, but there are still people who take risks. It can be seen that gambling can swallow people's reason.A relative of Tokuko who used to be in a high position is an example.