Manga no Gimon Manga - Oneshot

[MangaDex]

 

[WhITelion]

Hi. Uploader here.
Author made this because they wanted to practice drawing on an LCD tablet.
I made this because I wanted to practice typesetting.

Disclaimer: Gambling may be illegal depending on your current location or nationality. Gamble responsibly.

 

[Lyncoris]

Gamble is scary ~~~

 

[lesseffective]

The true scares were the gambles we made along the way.

That, and trying to apply rational logic to manga.

 

[maxiusagi]

lmao

 

[Rozzak]

I love how the guy who bet 3 dolleru makes a face like they gonna cut his hands off but he just needa pay 33 dolleru

 

[IronHeavy]

Gambling isn't scary, just make sure you don't quit it until you win

 

[Oeconomist]

Gambling can be terrifying, but it doesn't normally work much like in the story. Normally, a gambler doesn't offer some fixed payment against just whatever an opposing party subsequently chooses to bet. If someone offered a bet of $1000 against any counter-bet, then I'd just bet 1¢ unless I thought that my opponent had selected a genuine sure thing. Instead, most gambles involve stated odds, something such as $100 at five-to-one odds, or such as $10 against ten doughnuts. Ordinarily, even when odds aren't precisely known, they are constrained.

If three people jointly offered ¥1600 against ¥10000, they'd have jointly accepted eight-to-fifty odds, and the normal payoff for each would be at those odds. So, if they won, the fellow who'd offered ¥800 would normally get that back plus ¥5000 (for a total of ¥5800), the fellow who'd offered ¥500 would get that back plus ¥3125, and the fellow who'd offered ¥300 would get the remainder.

 

[feha]

I don't see what's so confusing here. Why does Person A think it's odd his profit is lower, when his profit is still 100% of the prize-pool? Like Person B said, in terms of "favorites" he just turned B into that when he bet more than the sum of the prize-pool from ppl betting on A.

He is entirely correct that the pro-gamer Chad move here would have been to bet 1 yen on B though, yes. Although it might be implicit that you can't earn more than you bet, so matching it would have been required (it depends on who you ask - just like someone would surely say "oi, why did I only get 20%? I should have gotten 33% if we split things evenly!" just cause noone agreed on batting rules beforehand, so it wasn't explicit they would earn in proportion to their bet. And if he earns more with one ruleset he will back said ruleset...).
But while he is correct about that, why is he considering it confusing? That's fairly straightforward.

Either way, physically he can't earn more than they bet on A, simply because money can't be magic'ed out of nowhere. Unless you are an organization able to print digital money, ofc.

 

[feha]

Gambling can be terrifying, but it doesn't normally work much like in the story. Normally, a gambler doesn't offer some fixed payment against just whatever an opposing party subsequently chooses to bet. If someone offered a bet of $1000 against any counter-bet, then I'd just bet 1¢ unless I thought that my opponent had selected a genuine sure thing. Instead, most gambles involve stated odds, something such as $100 at five-to-one odds, or such as $10 against ten doughnuts. Ordinarily, even when odds aren't precisely known, they are constrained.

If three people jointly offered ¥1600 against ¥10000, they'd have jointly accepted eight-to-fifty odds, and the normal payoff for each would be at those odds. So, if they won, the fellow who'd offered ¥800 would normally get that back plus ¥5000 (for a total of ¥5800), the fellow who'd offered ¥500 would get that back plus ¥3125, and the fellow who'd offered ¥300 would get the remainder.

The reason you wouldn't bet 1 yen, is to discourage others from throwing their money into the pool too. The moment all 3 bet on A, and fourth bet 1 yen on B, the first person would then say "actually, in addition to my bet on A, I also bet 0.3 yen on b to double-dip!" (1.3 / 3 = 0.3... when you round ).

If he is absolutely certain that B will win (aka matchfixing), then the large bet is a way to near-guarantee noone bets with him forcing him to share the prize (a third of a large bet, is still a bet large enough he will lose money if A - his letter of choice - wins), while also inviting newcomers to join the coalition of A-betters raising the prize-pool.

In addition to that, there is the fact that often you can't earn more than you bet to begin with (can only double your money), regardless of odds. Simple way to let the bookie earn tons. Also/or a way to get the suckers to continue betting by letting them regain some money even at a loss.

 

[Oeconomist]

The reason you wouldn't bet 1 yen, is to discourage others from throwing their money into the pool too. The moment all 3 bet on A, and fourth bet 1 yen on B, the first person would then say "actually, in addition to my bet on A, I also bet 0.3 yen on b to double-dip!" (1.3 / 3 = 0.3... when you round ).

If he is absolutely certain that B will win (aka matchfixing), then the large bet is a way to near-guarantee noone bets with him forcing him to share the prize (a third of a large bet, is still a bet large enough he will lose money if A - his letter of choice - wins), while also inviting newcomers to join the coalition of A-betters raising the prize-pool.

In addition to that, there is the fact that often you can't earn more than you bet to begin with (can only double your money), regardless of odds. Simple way to let the bookie earn tons. Also/or a way to get the suckers to continue betting by letting them regain some money even at a loss.

Again, I was writing about how gambling is normally done. Alternatives, with odds-caps and so forth are possible, but the discussion should state any deviations from the norm.

For the parties who bet on A to be allowed a second bet but the party who bet on B not to be allowed to do so would be very weird. So you need to account for a second-bet response to a 30-ren bet if indeed bets of less than ¥1 are possible.