QUOTE(Clubber Lang 2 @ Apr 27 2007, 08:04 PM)

There is just so much wrong with this post I don't know where to start. You are exactly the type of person bookies target.
If you lose, you're not losing 200, you're losing 1500. Trust me, it's real money. You're buying into the idea that it's not real money. It's the main reason why casinos invented chips ... to make you think it's not really money.
And if you win, you're gonna buy a watch???
In that case, I'd like to place a bet with you ... if De La Hoya wins, I'll pay you $1. If Mayweather wins, you owe me $1,000,000. Deal?
Yeah man I am gonna get me a watch, what the hell is wrong with that? People can't buy nice watches? It's supply and demand, the main principles of business, Tag is in business because there is a demand for it, and not by just me but by others, so the idea of buying an expensive watch, no matter how outrageous the idea is to you, is not a one in a million concept.
Furthermore, I have been betting on fights for a long time, and I am financially okay right now where I can afford to lose some cash for entertainment. I have friends who work for online gambling companies so the concept of you trying to lecture me on the concept of gambling is useless, yeah I am quite aware of that fact that the money that is on wager is 1500.
Finally, what's with the last statement? Of course I calculate the risk/rewards when I am making a bet, the point I was trying to make was that no matter how good the odds are I won't bet on it if I think the fighter will lose, and I actually think DLH will win this fight and hence the bet, not because of the +165 odds.
Try taking down the condescending attitue.