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“Hold'em - like life itself - has its defining moment. It's the flop. When you see the flop, you're looking at 71 percent of your hand, and the cost is only a single round of betting.”

Moments Hands Cost Percent Rounds Ems Gambling Defining Betting Defining Moments

Book:Hold'em Excellence: From Beginner to Winner

Source: Hold'em Excellence: From Beginner to Winner

“[Gambling] is a perfidious passion. ... It is bad for one to win, and bad not to win. ... it ends by setting your blood on fire, and to increase your chances of winning at any cost, your stakes increase frightfully; the desire of winning gets to be a madness. The soul gets sick; it neither sees nor hears anything. No family ties, position, nor fortune, can stand against this passion.”

Soul Ends Desire Passion Winning Chance Fire Blood Position Cost Sick Increase Madness Fortune Setting Settings Ties Gambling Stakes Family Ties

Author:Matilde Serao

“Gambling has a zero-sum economic effect in its market and, like legalizing cocaine, the socio-economic costs of legalizing gambling overwhelm the benefits”

Economic Effects Cost Benefits Gambling Zero Cocaine

Author:John Warren Kindt

“Therefore 5,000 new video gambling machines costs the economy 5,000 lost jobs each year”

Years Jobs Lost Economy Cost Machines Video Gambling

Author:John Warren Kindt

“Legalized gambling cost taxpayers $3 for every $1 in state revenue to government”

States Government Cost Gambling Revenue Taxpayers

Author:John Warren Kindt

“The social costs, and the increased tax costs due to addicted gamblers, stay behind”

Social Behinds Cost Taxes Dues Gambling

Author:John Warren Kindt

“Gambling interests hire lots of economists to do impact studies, but what you need is cost-benefit analysis, and you'll never see the industry finance those”

Needs Interest Study Industry Cost Benefits Impact Finance Analysis Gambling Economist Cost Benefit Analysis

Author:John Warren Kindt

“For every dollar of revenue generated by gambling, taxpayers must pay at least $3 in increased criminal justice costs, social welfare expenses, high regulatory costs, and increased infrastructure expenditures”

Social Justice Pay Cost Dollars Criminals Welfare Gambling Expenses Revenue Infrastructure Taxpayers Criminal Justice Expenditures Social Welfare

Author:John Warren Kindt

“While advocates of legalized gambling say it brings in revenues needed for education and other uses, it actually has led to higher taxes, loss of jobs, economic disruption of non-gambling businesses, increased crime and higher social-welfare costs”

Use Jobs Social Loss Economic Crime Needed Higher Cost Taxes Welfare Gambling Revenue Disruption Social Welfare Job Loss

Author:John Warren Kindt

“If gambling were banned, those social costs would drop, tax revenues from consumer goods would increase, and money would be pumped into the productive economic sector”

Ifs Would Be Social Economic Cost Taxes Increase Consumers Productive Gambling Goods Revenue Banned

Author:John Warren Kindt

“Your social costs, your costs to the taxpayers, are $3 for every $1 of benefits, it's not good economic development”

Social Economic Development Cost Benefits Gambling Taxpayers Economic Development

Author:John Warren Kindt

“While gambling addiction can be a social justice reason for some to ban gambling, the economic evidence suggests that the social and economic costs of gambling are $3 to the taxpayers for every $1 in benefits”

Reason Social Justice Economic Cost Benefits Evidence Social Justice Addiction Gambling Taxpayers Bans

Author:John Warren Kindt