I think another important factor is that social mobility is extremely difficult in these countries (compared to western ones in my experience). You hear about it all the time in countries like Japan: you're stuck with the same company forever with low prospect of salary increase/etc. So people might look at gambling as the only way to get rich.
and yes i totally agree!! there's an anime called cells at work! which, despite being a comedy, i believe does an amazing job at provinding insight on how "black comapnies" overwork their employees, if i were to put myself in the shoes on one of those employees feeling as though i was stuck there forever I believe I would also start gambling as a way to escpae the system so to speak! its truly tragic
@@klaize_you may be interested in (or you might be talking about) the spinoff series "Cells at Work: Code Black" which describes cells in a different body in a more adult setting that are subjected to even more of a terrible working environment, due to their host suffering from a number of vices such as smoking and drinking.
Macau is/was basically a money laundering front for wealthy Chinese businessmen to move money out of China. You were able to buy in with Chinese currency, but be paid out into foreign accounts in USD. China had strict controls on the amount of currency an individual was allowed to convert into foreign currency, but by gambling with very large sums of money, these wealthy individuals were able to circumvent the law.
same thing with wealthy Americans as well. US also has strict controls people moving their money. What makes you think FBi wants to look into wealthy successful people's offshore foreign accounts. lol.. Thieves ain't your typical average joe. it's the government.
@@klaize_i had a relative that my mums family had to cut off due to having paid her over 40k to fuel her gambling addiction. She sold her house, divorced her husband and sold everything to gamble. It was kinda sad to see her just gamble it all away. js as a note i’m part malaysian and that comes from my mums side
I MAKE A LIVING OUT OF GAMBLING , IF YOU BAN IT IT WILL GO UNDERGROUND , ITS HUMAN NATURE TO TRY AND WIN MORE WE WILL NOT BE SURPRESSED BY THE LEFTIE SNOWFLAKES
You can make a living gambling, just own a casino. Having an effectively infinite bankroll and playing a positive EV game against finite bankrolls will always make you money. It takes two to gamble
My mom has been working in casinos for more than 30 years and the most unhinged and dedicated people were always asians. She has multiple stories of leaving a 12 hour night shift and coming back the next night only for the same people to still be there, in the same clothes, in the same spot, at the same table.
This boggles my mind because you can easily lose so much money in 5 minutes, I can't imagine what people blow away after a full day and night. At least the table games can go up and down a bit more, but ultimately it's going to favour the house.
@benm3382 Louis Theroux did a good show on gambling in Vegas and he followed a few people that obviously lost millions in a space of a weekend etc. You should give it a watch.
i likes RnG a Number Goess Brrrrrrr,,,,, but i hate Gambling and Gacha Games, i ve better see Critical 0 Heal, Deathblow than spend money on those Gacha game and Gambling Site
The last time I gambled was 15 years ago and it was on the casino’s dime. I got a complementary slot card that had $5 on it. I ran it up to $50 and cashed out. I don’t have the “risk gene” to throw away my money at a blackjack table.
The last time I gambled was to unlock characters in the Mass Effect 3 multiplayer. It's the only loot box style monetization I ever paid for. I don't even touch Gacha games. Was it worth it? Yeah. It was Mass Effect. Cloaking and assassinating Collectors with the Geth Juggernaut homies was worth it.
Most baccarat tables in the world, including the USA, number the spots on the table where the players sit and almost all tables don't include a 4 spot because Asian gamblers won't sit there. Also, in baccarat, you deal from a shoe, which is a combination of 4-8 decks. They found that if you try to shuffle the shoe more frequently, asian gamblers will leave as they believe you messed with their "fated" cards. A lot of casino practices in the USA revolve around keeping the asian gamblers happy
Which is how Phil Ivey was able to "cheat" casinos out of tens of millions. He had an Asian accomplice which he used as bait to have casinos give them favors based on superstitions. He knew that they wouldn't find it suspicious since she's Asian and Asians are known to be superstitious especially when it comes to gambling. All the favors they asked allowed them to use a technique called edge sorting to give them the edge on the house in baccarat which is otherwise a completely luck based game.
I deal baccarat. Never heard them complain about shuffling more frequently, we always do 8 decks anyway, but they do really care about which card comes out first. They never explain why, but they act like it's so surprising every time they hear what it was.
@@brandonkellner2920 if I recall correctly this was more when looking into autoshufflers. I know the main gripe is the odds get a little worse but the asian players ' biggest gripe was the "flow' of the cards being ruined as many believe (as im sure youre familiar with) that there are "lucky shoes" or "fated shoes" and auto shuffling messes with that idea of predetermined luck and fate.
@@klaize_ There is similar in Blackjack here in the West. Almost all side games revolve around a dragon, talk about prosperity, or something similar. As well, there is a constant battle between keeping players happy and deterring card counters to shuffle deeper or shallower into the shoe. If you shuffle deeper, asian players will play for the reason the other commentor mentions, but that brings more card counters as a deeper/less frequent shuffle means it's easier to count, on the flip side, a shallow/frequent shuffle deters card counters but also the players (typically Asian) who primarily look for games that feel "lucky". This is just scratching the surface, you could likely make an entire video on the subject of Asian influence on Western casinos.
It's gotten a lot worse recently with the sports bets. In Germany I've seen more and more tipico stores open recently in almost every city. It's kind of sad and really scary to see. But genuinely nothing compared to this
Gambling is also a huge issue in India. While there is law prohibiting it on the mainland, this excludes on water. Due to this, places such as Goa are now overrun by gambling boats that make their money from people who are specifically coming to Goa to gamble, essentially making it India's version of Macau. These gambling ships (along with the tourism industry there) are also located in or near villages, so its a common sight to see multiple 5-star resorts, hotels, casino ships and mansions next to small local shops and (in some cases) poverty.
so i actually make psytrance music and i’ve got a few indian friends from that scene who have told me the same thing!! didn’t feel like i was informed enough to speak about it though!! thanks heaps for the comment!! i hope u enjoyed the video! 🙏🏻
@@klaize_ sports betting is more of a problem imo in India. because most ppl cant go to goa but betting on sports is easy and fun. i;ve seen people get addicted to it
I work in a major corporate casino and we actually have hosts who specialize in Asian player development, that's how lucrative they are. We've converted over 60% of our poker tables to Pai Gow and some of these ladies will drop 40-50k on a single Baccarat table in a single night. Not to mention the wide swath of Chinese themed slots and Chinese concert performances. They are an economic force to be reckoned with
Over here in Sweden the Social Democrats are selling subscription lottery tickets via telemarketers, on credit (illegal for other kinds of lotteries), and especially aiming for confused/demented old people who don't even realize what they were buying. They then claimed it was a "threat to democracy" when the current right government were saying they were gonna stop it...
@@aguysaid5457Nah. North America is actually doing pretty well, and it’s just one of our traits to perpetually think that the country is going to hell and things are awful now, after a past that was “better.” But it’s a good trait to constantly criticize our own country and let’s us address problems, compared to the culture of many countries, usually dictatorships, where people are supposed to deny problems and pretend everything is perfect, best in world!
@@Itried20takennames Yes and No. Mixed bag imo. Personally "I won the lottery" so to speak. Granted I had a lot of support and whatnot. A lot of people don't have opportunities. Homelessness is on the rise. Crime is also rising in Canada. Drug addiction. No one cares about these issues. They are just mentioned to grab as many votes as possible. Compare that with Europe
we call the lottery in america the "Poor people Tax" Because it's mostly the poor paycheck-to-paycheck people that buy scratch tickets or 'megamillions' lottery. And maybe if they are lucky make back 30% of what they spend. So Sad.
My favorite’s when you see a guy walk into a gas station, buy 3 packs of cigarettes and 10 lottos, then stand outside on a trash can smoking and scratching.
See now I’m wondering if I can make more money doing graphic design for scratch tickets and casino stuff and make my Scrooge Mcduck level fortune that way instead lmaooo
As an Australian who's been living in Vietnam for over 5 years, I agree with all your points. Gambling is such a destroyer of families. I live in a small fishing village, where the land value is sky rocketing due to it's location (near a popular tourist attraction) Son's are gambling away their impoverished fisherman family fortunes that are locked up in their land. Every couple of weeks you hear about yet another home being sold to a rich Hanoian because of the son's gambling debts. The vultures are circling....
When I was younger, I did some summer work at a Casino in my hometown. A small german town in Hessia. They had a shuttel service to the airport and main trainstation in the nearby large city, and the one thing I did notice, was that even though Asians were an absolut minority, they made up at least 40% of all customers. Never thought about it again until I saw this video. Amazing quality of work mate
Haha i thought i was watching a video with 6-7 digit views on a channel with 6-7 digit subs.. 5 mins into the video i saw the views and was like "yooooo wtf?" 240 subscribers lmao i dont remember the last time i saw a channel that low (besides myself). This channel will eventually blow up if he keeps it up!
the “this would be a great place to put a vpn sponsorship but i have no subscribers” was how i realized this was NOT a big youtuber. killer video man, nord will be calling soon!
Hello. I personally live in Macau. I am very happy that Macau, as my hometown, is increasingly recognized by overseas people. Sadly, however, the mainstream often suggests that Macau is for gambling, and no one is to blame. It even has a name called ‘Eastern Las Vegas’. To me, it is more than a gambling city. This is also an ancient city full of historical and cultural heritage. I hope that more people come here to travel as to enjoy the sites, the history and the cuisines rather than going to the casinos. ❤
Worked at a Casino for 7 years, always boggled my mind how the most fiscal and responsible region of the world has such vice. Most of its based in cultural superstitions about luck and things in my experience
I think part of it is culture, but I am inclined to believe there must be certain personality traits that favor this kind of disorder. That personality trait might be influenced by culture too. All in all the end result is what you see.
Favored addictions can vary by region, culture, and time. Alcoholism and cigarette smoking has gone down in the West while obesity has skyrocketed. In East Asia, smoking is still huge as is gambling, but you don't see a lot of alcoholics or obese people. The most common addictions today will take a few decades to kill you. Heroin can kill you in a single use, but a pint of Ben & Jerry's, an hour at a blackjack table, or workaholic compulsions can distract you from all your painful thoughts for quite a long time without killing you.
Gambling large sums of money come and go. It’s hard to get that with average jobs especially in young age. Maybe stock trading is way better than gambling if people need to gamble they should at least play video poker.
Las Vegas is the only city in the US that I've seen that accepts Chinese debt and credit cards and even has Chinese bank branches. The Chinese population in the US is not very big and hardly anyone speaks the language, yet Las Vegas heavily caters to them. I started to notice this happening around 2008ish, every time I go back I see more and more Chinese, a lot of Chinese people like to get married in Vegas as well and its not uncommon to seen a whole wedding party gambling in full dress.
@@klaize_ I don't personally gamble, but I like going to Las Vegas, and I go a lot. It was pretty weird that Suddenly everything was in Chinese, they've got money to spend so Vegas is going to cater to them.
hey yes! i will admit i left out the statistic that despite only 7.9% of Australians have a gambling problem, compared to the 23% over there, Australians by far lose the most on average to gambling and mainly only due to the pokies!
The only thing that blows my mind about all of this is they do this leveling of gambling in a area thats much less regulated and ripe for scams. Its so strange to me because from my experience asians tend to be naturally suspicious of each other due to the normalized scamming culture to the point people dont trust the stock market or many other investments avenues. I wonder what makes them trust these shady casinos over everything else.
yo that’s actually a super interesting observation, i hadn’t actually thought of that!!! but if i put myself in the shoes of someone who has a gambling addiction i would say part of that reason is the perception one has of control over the outcome! perhaps these gamblers who are superstitious believe that by doing certain actions they can win more however things like investing in the stock market is ultimately more objective on how well a company performs which would be out of the persons control
I believe that is because a casino woild really quickly be found about about scamming and word would get around. Better to keep a clean image of your business and still earn a bunch of money. Even underground casinos and betting operations in usa (so called mafia) was usually very fair when it came to paying put the winnings
@@valikadilnik4368 I was more referring to Macao when I made that observation where NONE of that exists. If this was the US you would be absolutely correct, but corruption runs deep in Macao and high rollers especially anyone foreign easily can lose their shirt from shady casino scams with 0 protections to get anything back
@@klaize_thank you for that insight that actually makes alot of sense now that I think about it, as superstition and perceived control often trumps logic even if it's really obviously suspicious. Very good video and I can't wait to see more about what you have to say about different things you definitely earned a sub from me keep up the good work!
i sometimes hesitate to watch video essays with low views because so many times its an ai voice or such horrible editing that i cant sit through it, but i am so glad i clicked on this video. really interesting while being great quality content!! :)
I live in Korea. Let me help. Lots and lots of lots of laws here. Some of them, as with gambling and prostitution, are just totally meaningless. If it can be concealed beneath the surface, it simply doesn't exist.
I have noticed Korean laws only matter when it's convenient. For example, weed is illegal in Korea, but blue lotus, is legal. Or tattoo parlors are everywhere, especially by military bases.
It's very true how Asian culture believes strongly in luck as a character attribute, rather than the Western concept of luck, which is more about happenstance i.e. being at the right place at the right time.
Asians use math and can budget. I’m sure they can get a hold of money easier than other minorities. Of Course they should try stock trading instead of casinos but maybe they can read slot mathematics book to win more maybe.
I used feng shui techniques to arrange my home office and desk. It really cuts down on the clutter and makes for a comfortable and welcoming space. I asked Chat GPT to help and it gave me a simple formula I can use in any room. Harmonious would be the word I would use to describe the way my office looks now.
The two casinos in my state both have Asian Gaming divisions. This is an entire department dedicated solely to developing relationships with Asian gamblers. This video gives a lot of insight to WHY I see so many Asian gamblers.
I’m Asian and when I was in Vegas, my ancestors were calling me to the casinos. I felt that itch. That urge. That shove. But I managed to fight it off. Good thing I only gamble on booster packs.
I felt the urge to buy Pokémon booster packs today, but I was able to fight it off. That’s only because it wasn’t one of the the sets that I want to buy though, if there was a paldean fates booster bundle I would’ve definitely bought it
@@klaize_ I thank you for covering this but you should really distance yourself from that whole element, there are way better and just as exicitng thing to do with some time investment in social stuff or even on just yourself, get that right mindset you maybe dreamt of (:
It's the obsessive compulsive personality trait that many Asians exhibit. It's a matter of what that's channeled to, be it work, videogames, or gambling. Notice how Asians are also big smokers too.
I haven't watched your video yet, but in my opinion based on observations after years in East Asia (mainly Japan and Korea), there are several reasons: - People are OBSESSED with money. They want to get it quick. - They are not really taught critical or long term thinking, they are taught to listen and follow hierarchy (that's also why cults are rampants in those two countries). - They want quick results because they are used to everything happening quickly. They have no patience. - Some people have really big egos (especially in China and Korea), even if the stereotype for Asians in general is to be humble, they only pretend to be to save face. They think that they won't get addicted and that they'll be able to control themselves, that bad results are for others, not them. - there is a big genetic component for addiction and many people already have an addictive personnality. Alcoholism is normalized and treated as a non issue in many families (especially in Korea). - There is so much pressure, rage/anger from work and living in a hyper competitive society and they try to appease it with quick dopamine hits, not thinking about the long term consequences.
Brother. I know that people are glazing you in the comments and talking about how good this video is. But holy mother of christ, this is an IMMENSELY high quality video, the type that I could absolutely see being on a million+ subscriber channel. Keep it pushing, I want to see you with a million one day.
I was just playing Poker at the Casino and told my friends. "I don't wanna sound racist, but on my way to the poker room, I always see 90% of people at the roulette tables and blackjack tables being Asian, why is that?". Then I come home and this video is in my frontpage! Thank you klaize and thank you whoever is constantly monitoring my conversations! :D
Finally, somebody talks about this. I was a dealer in my home country for a few years. I’d say 50% of our guests were Chinese ( despite being less than 1% of the population). But to be honest, I’ve always preferred Asian guests, they were not cursing my mother if they lost… or at least I didn’t understand it 😅 We had an insider joke that, when you spin on an empty table at 4am, there is a pretty high chance that a Chinese guy appears out of nowhere with a Gucci bag on his side that has infinity bank notes in it and starts to play table maximums. Also, there were the Asian guys or women who never played but only sat in the chair. They were the loan sharks. Let’s say that a lot of regulars stopped attending after and around Lunar New Year, when debts are supposed to be payed back. So, overall, Asian people do have a gambling problem but as well have the mentality to not be afraid to start over. I always enjoyed playing with/against them!
Even though I'd say video essays and this style of informative/documentary-esque content is in a saturated market, it's always very cool to see small channels upload videos of the same caliber. Glad the algorithm's picking this one up.
Keep it going brudda! This is a great video, I’m afraid of what gambling will do to everyone within the next 5 years. Especially with sports betting being allowed more and more
I realise one of Singapore's only successful TV dramas is about gambling (The Unbeatables), which was made even before casinos were first legalised in Singapore
I'm a mongoloid and I had a serious obsession in my youth with hitting the mystery box in Cod zombies over and over again, I couldn't make it past round 7 because I was so obsessed with the box.
Another great video! While not explicitly discussed in this video, many mobile gacha games now have a pity or guaranteed system thanks to the monkeygate incident (in granblue fantasy) which has somewhat alimorates the previously bottomless pit that people have to throw their money into. Gacha games are still a very predatory system though
and it explains why someone would hide their gambling problem. Very reckless law considering how the elderly lose their mental clarity with age but are still allowed to make decisions that can ruin the entire family.
amazing video brother you WILL get to 1 million subscribers, keep these stories up and your EDGE is sharing your deep knowledge about asia that few people know about in american societies
omg ty ty!! i hope to get there one day hahah, and i appreciate the kind words, im glad u were able to learn and take something from my video!!! i actually learnt a lot whilst making this as well HA
I traveled in asia for almost a year and i already felt like there might be an issue with gambling. What surprised me the most was especially in countries like taiwan, china, japan and south korea the big arcades (not only to play games but win stuff), halls full of claw machines or mystery egg machine with really expensive things to win like a ps5 and there were always kids hanging out there for quite some time spending quite some money. I tried it myself once or twice for the experience but it adds up quickly so i let it be. I guess that there it’s sort of an open secret cuz like u said 1 in 5 asians have an addiction. Even if you can’t just go to a casino it’s crazy how other stuff pops up. Thank you for this amazing video I’ve actually thought about this topic a lot especially while being there
thank you so much for your kind words and also for sharing your story! And yeah it’s really crazy isn’t it?!! those are arcades almost act as a gateway into it
Wtf how do you have less then 500 subs, this is better made then some 500k sub videos, definitely looking forward to your future videos here, its going to be fun to see!
This is a crazy phenomenon. I remember the first time my husband went to the casino with me he nudged me and asked " why are there so many asians here? Its like every asian in the city has come in here". I just told him thats how it is at casinos and i didnt know why they gambled like that, they just do.
What a great insightful video. It really hit home with me. I know so many people that are described in the video. I also feel sad that alot of the the factors of the gambling addict also apply to myself. I'll definitely be sharing this video with alot of peers. Again, thank you for making this.
@@hrpslots hey! thank you so much for such a kind comment. I’m glad that you were able to relate to this video on a personal level. I hope you are able to cut back on your addictions! And thank you for watching :)
Getting a like notification on this comment as I’m debating on topping off for Vyn’s birthday card in TOT feels like actual divine intervention. Acceptance. Unattached . Enlightened.
ahhh whoops, i actually got information image from a CBR (clearly not very reliable) that claimed it was a pay to win game. haven’t actually played it myself. thanks for the heads up tho 🫡 www.cbr.com/free-pay-to-win-games/
Several years ago I was in Atlantic City on a Thanksgiving Day. A Chinese man on the BlackJack table said he owns a restaurant which he opens 364 Days a year. He closes only on the Thanksgiving Day because no one eats out on that Day. He made it a tradition to come to Atlantic City on Thanksgiving Day every year.
I worked in a casino in Alberta, and they have this VSE Voluntary Self Exclusion program, where you can sign up to have yourself barred from casinos. Asians only make up about 5% of our population, but they were about 80% of the faces in that program. At the time I also liked to gamble a fair bit, so i'd do trips to city. A lot of the time I'd recognize faces from the program, usually they were dealers, sometimes people playing so I'd report them.
@@Syvern. as somebody that has seen AI generated stuff I can see with certainty that that image was AI. I mean it’s not like some artist genuinely just randomly made up a flag when there was two that were legit flags.
This is a great video! I was starting to wonder why Baccarat is sooooo popular when its literally just a rigged coinflip, or why like 80% of slot machines are ethnically themed. Thank you for answering these questions!
Man this hits home hard in colorado when you go to a casino there is sooo many Asians. Never seen so many Asian folk in one place in Colorado sept for a casino. Realest stereotype ever asians love gambling
Great video on a topic I often wondered about. Used to work in the US federal government with China as a focus of our work. Began trying to learn about Chinese and Chinese-American cultures and kept noticing a lot of gambling stories coming up. Tried finding articles or videos to explain its prevalence and none were as satisfying as this vid. Great work.
Hi Klaize, I'm glad I stumbled across your channel because I can shed light on this issue as a psychiatrist. I see quite a few patients with substance and gambling addiction, and I give them the same spiel every time. I think you have covered the cultural side of gambling quite well. Still, I'll go ahead and add that superstition and magical thinking are ubiquitous in all cultures that lead to all sorts of irrational behaviour, not just those observed in Asian cultures. Our brains are exceedingly good at something called 'pattern recognition'. We can sensitize ourselves to an environmental pattern, eventually turning it into a 'gut feeling'. Take Pavlov's dogs, for example. Pavlov managed to induce salivation in his dogs by ringing a bell even though they were not presented with food. That is because his dogs have learned to associate bell sounds with food without actually knowing why. A superstition is our way of trying to explain the inexplicable, and superstitions are everywhere you mentioned (i.e. in numbers, in colours, furniture arrangements, in religion, palm reading, tarot cards, astrology, you name it). These pattern recognitions eventually turn into a 'gut feeling', an inexplicable feeling the brain conjures up when it detects a pattern, even though the pattern has no rhyme or reason. Pattern recognition is vital for survival, so our ancestors can learn to avoid certain things. It involves high-speed information processing, often too fast for the rational brain to keep up, to make consequential decisions, like avoiding stepping on a snake. Doctors, for example, rely on these feelings to avoid missing a sinister diagnosis. That said, although these gut feelings can protect us from harm, they can also embolden us to take risks, especially if the gut feeling feels positive. This eventually became our lexicon with the concept of 'luck'. Most people will tell you that luck is a feeling. Depending on the day, they can feel particularly lucky or unlucky, but they can never explain why because their pattern recognition is too quick for the logical brain to understand. Gambling addiction, specifically, relies heavily on this pattern recognition to generate a feeling of luck. But what sustains it is something called intermittent reward or intermittent reinforcement. Imagine being paid a salary to roll dice every day, and your salary depends on how many rolls you can make rather than what you roll. In this case, your incentive is to roll more often rather than to roll a specific score. This is the job of a professional dice roller. All that is needed to turn a professional dice roller into a gambler is to base his salary not on how often he rolls but on what he rolls. Not only do you activate his pattern recognition pathways in his brain, you will also sensitize his dopaminergic system. Because winning amassivee prize in 1/100 attempts is a gamble (which is very exciting), but winning a small prize 99/100 attempts feels like an office job. You can often find this pattern of intermittent reward in abusive relationships as well. Women remain in abusive marriages because their husbands are sometimes lovely but other times violent. The same can be said with abusive parents, bosses, friends, cults, etc. But there are also other emotional baggage that factors into it as well, such as shame, trauma, safety, etc. We used to believe that the best way to deal with any addiction is to maintain abstinence because it extinguishes the dopamine pathway. That is still largely true, but failure rates are pretty high simply because addictive behaviours are often subconscious, which are, by definition, impossible to modify. A novel way around the problem is to extinguish or dampen the reward from the behaviour. There is a drug called naltrexone that I often prescribe for alcoholics, and it works by encouraging people to drink while taking the medication. Naltrexone dampens the reward from alcohol, so the brain eventually gets bored of it. If you are creative enough, perhaps you can devise a novel way to solve gambling addiction, too. In the end, the best way to stop an addiction is to turn it into an office job.
oh wow, thank you so much for such a insightful comment, i had to sit down to properly read this and it was 100% worth it! i know i only touched on the surface level of a lot of issues and it definitely stems a lot deeper than what i covered!! i honestly never expected this video to reach so many people so it’s really really cool seeing someone in your line of work to deals with this day to day make the effort to bring more light to this issue!! thanks again for watching!! glad you enjoyed the video 🤝🤝
My dude, I was all hyped to kick off my UA-cam show, but after seeing your high-quality video with, like, 100 views… I’m reconsidering life decisions. If this masterpiece is getting slept on, I might as well start a podcast for my cat.
Although if you look at his channel his 3 long form videos all got uploaded 2 days ago so I'm guessing he recorded these for another platform and only got started on YT recently? Anyway, I agree this has phenomenal research, writing and editing for the number of subs he has at the moment.
@@xcw4934 oh i recorded all of these prior but not for another platform! the youtuber matpat said in an interview that every channel he launches, he launches with 5 videos, 5 sounded too much for me to make for a channel im not sure will succeed so i went with 3 HAHAHA
Posting your first video 6 days ago, and it already being this popular is very impressive. I saw your other video has over 100k views too. Good work man. Wish you the best.
When someone dyes in here, in the Philippines, it is very common pastime to gamble with family in the wake of the funeral. Some even hold wakes longer just to gamble illegally.
You have great music choice with that mystery dungeon music 👀 I love that commentary UA-camrs will use mystery dungeon music, it shows how high quality that music is haha
@@klaize_ I’m obsessed with this game! I know it’s a spin off but it’s like they poured their heart and soul into that game, I haven’t experienced a pokemon game with the same love as that one in a long long time
7.8k subs for a video like this? Bro I thought u had at least 500k even closer to 1 million. I had to check when u wanted plug a sponsor for a vpn but you said you had none. I didn’t believe you You kept me engaged and intrigued to learn more about why asians have a gambling problem. Keep up the work I wanna be able to comment in a year and say I subbed when he had 7k subs
My father was a semi-pro poker player. However, his greatest talent was being able to walk away from the table when he knew he would go on a potential losing streak. He said he probably literally hundreds of lives destroyed over a poker table by people who just could not walk away. This video was really well made and informative. Look forward to seeing you rise bud, subscription earned 😊
Genshin addict here. Spend 500AUD over 4 years but that nothing compared to the time lost. It's objectively become a worse game due to many obvious factors but the sweet memories from the first couple of months still entice me during the months when I quit. The loneliness + anime girls/reptile brain shit + lack of direction in life + stubbornness to tackle these issues on my own probably lead to this. Keep in mind I think I'm easily above average guy, private school, height, gym, was smart in high school (dropped off a cliff in uni 59 wam cuz don't wan't to care as much as I did before). But yeah great video. Probably not just Asians who suffer from this. The biggest issue is probably the lack of direction in life. I have no interest in money but anything I do have interest in, I lack the discipline to get there because it feels like it'll take too long and too much delayed gratification. In the meantime instant gratification just takes over and boom the weekend is gone. It's hard to get a proper direction in life when you food + shelter wise well off, and there's so many things I want to fix in this world I don't even know where to start whilst at the same time so many amazing advancements being made using knowledge rightfully gatekeeped since most of it took decades and generations and it wouldn't be fair or beneficial for me to suddenly be taught it so I can braindead copy their ideas. Forgot to add. Great vid. Came to me right after I spent the last 4 days doom scrolling and playing genshin's new update and gambling on the gacha. Didn't spend but probs spend 20 hours + grinding the game for primos. At this point I no longer plan to wish for new characters as I'm very satisfied with my account and I've managed to curb the addiction to once a week on fridays (this friday i went crazy cuz new update) but yeah, the time though. What's worse is that Genshin is objectively worse and the gameplay is now autoclicking through dialogue to finish a meaningless event just for more primogems to gamble for kazuha. Also youtube is probs my worse addiction. Insta surprisingly is no where near as addicting as youtube for me and is very easy to forget if I'm focused on studying etc.
genshin is so fun but it’s just not worth it at the end of the day. thanks heaps for the comment, i hope ur able to turn ur life around for the better! it’s a bit random but i suggest watching an anime called “welcome to the NHK” it might hit home for you
As someone who spent every waking hour grinding league and rainbow six for like 7 years. It is possible to pivot away from your gaming addiction. Start lessening the hours and be aware that you're not having fun, and you shouldn't be torturing yourself. Even when I stopped league and rainbow six, all I did was move on to a different game, but it's easier to forget about the new game than a game you've played for over 4 years.
Find something meaningful to work toward, maybe something you’ve been interested in. Get a bonsai tree or like… learn to cook more and more complicated meals. Go to the gym and have a goal. Sounds like you’re missing something meaningful to work towards. So try and find something to “fake it till you make it” with. It’ll help your mental health
Really well put together video. I love the use of the pokemon mystery dungeon music. Aside from that you've done a real good job at highlighting the problems with gambling in Asia with plenty of statistics with sources
A friend of mine grew up in one Asian immigrant community, and she said her neighborhood was riddled with illegal gambling dens back in the ‘70s. Many of them held rigged “numbers” games such as the one in the X-Files “Hell Money” episode. By the ‘80s, the police finally started busting up the gambling dens and arresting the ringleaders of these rackets.
I think another important factor is that social mobility is extremely difficult in these countries (compared to western ones in my experience). You hear about it all the time in countries like Japan: you're stuck with the same company forever with low prospect of salary increase/etc. So people might look at gambling as the only way to get rich.
hi ummm firstly, i'm a big fan
sion one trick here, loved ur vid on everything wrong with sion
and yes i totally agree!! there's an anime called cells at work! which, despite being a comedy, i believe does an amazing job at provinding insight on how "black comapnies" overwork their employees, if i were to put myself in the shoes on one of those employees feeling as though i was stuck there forever I believe I would also start gambling as a way to escpae the system so to speak! its truly tragic
@@klaize_you may be interested in (or you might be talking about) the spinoff series "Cells at Work: Code Black" which describes cells in a different body in a more adult setting that are subjected to even more of a terrible working environment, due to their host suffering from a number of vices such as smoking and drinking.
Bro make a editing tutorial haha
Asians are smart enought to know that 90% of gambling addicts quit right before they are about to hit it big
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I am Asian and I can confirm that is true.
This is a recycled comment. Congrats, you like attention.
What's the point of digging a well if you don't dig deep.
Macau is/was basically a money laundering front for wealthy Chinese businessmen to move money out of China. You were able to buy in with Chinese currency, but be paid out into foreign accounts in USD. China had strict controls on the amount of currency an individual was allowed to convert into foreign currency, but by gambling with very large sums of money, these wealthy individuals were able to circumvent the law.
Yep. I've always believe these are the real purpose of gambling.
Las Vegas was built by Italian Mafia.
Yep. Money laundering is the biggest problem in China and probably many countries
Same case with Singapore for SEA mafias
same thing with wealthy Americans as well. US also has strict controls people moving their money. What makes you think FBi wants to look into wealthy successful people's offshore foreign accounts. lol.. Thieves ain't your typical average joe. it's the government.
the illusion that you can "make a living out of gambling" has ruined countless lives.
yeah 100% agree is pretty terrifying
@@klaize_i had a relative that my mums family had to cut off due to having paid her over 40k to fuel her gambling addiction. She sold her house, divorced her husband and sold everything to gamble. It was kinda sad to see her just gamble it all away. js as a note i’m part malaysian and that comes from my mums side
I know a few poker players and i played for a few years as a kid as a living but it aint easy or fun tbh
I MAKE A LIVING OUT OF GAMBLING , IF YOU BAN IT IT WILL GO UNDERGROUND , ITS HUMAN NATURE TO TRY AND WIN MORE WE WILL NOT BE SURPRESSED BY THE LEFTIE SNOWFLAKES
You can make a living gambling, just own a casino. Having an effectively infinite bankroll and playing a positive EV game against finite bankrolls will always make you money. It takes two to gamble
My mom has been working in casinos for more than 30 years and the most unhinged and dedicated people were always asians. She has multiple stories of leaving a 12 hour night shift and coming back the next night only for the same people to still be there, in the same clothes, in the same spot, at the same table.
Do we just prefer indoor, sit down activity? Sudden gamer death usually involves young asian male gamers too.
Plus they never tip the dealers and they take gambling wayyyyy too seriously…u should be there to have fun as ur more than likely gonna lose
This boggles my mind because you can easily lose so much money in 5 minutes, I can't imagine what people blow away after a full day and night. At least the table games can go up and down a bit more, but ultimately it's going to favour the house.
@benm3382 Louis Theroux did a good show on gambling in Vegas and he followed a few people that obviously lost millions in a space of a weekend etc. You should give it a watch.
@@pewpewlazers5702and what's so wrong with that?
I prove I'm better. It's stressful, but I've won
I don't like gambling, i hate losing. I rather waste my money at a video game arcade
I waste my money on Jordan retro sneakers lol. I only gamble a little.
i likes RnG a Number Goess Brrrrrrr,,,,, but i hate Gambling and Gacha Games, i ve better see Critical 0 Heal, Deathblow than spend money on those Gacha game and Gambling Site
The last time I gambled was 15 years ago and it was on the casino’s dime. I got a complementary slot card that had $5 on it. I ran it up to $50 and cashed out. I don’t have the “risk gene” to throw away my money at a blackjack table.
@@irpanfauzi1160 gacha is gambling too, I just grind instead of paying.
The last time I gambled was to unlock characters in the Mass Effect 3 multiplayer. It's the only loot box style monetization I ever paid for. I don't even touch Gacha games.
Was it worth it? Yeah. It was Mass Effect. Cloaking and assassinating Collectors with the Geth Juggernaut homies was worth it.
Most baccarat tables in the world, including the USA, number the spots on the table where the players sit and almost all tables don't include a 4 spot because Asian gamblers won't sit there. Also, in baccarat, you deal from a shoe, which is a combination of 4-8 decks. They found that if you try to shuffle the shoe more frequently, asian gamblers will leave as they believe you messed with their "fated" cards. A lot of casino practices in the USA revolve around keeping the asian gamblers happy
oh really i actually didn’t know that at all! thanks for the comment!
Which is how Phil Ivey was able to "cheat" casinos out of tens of millions.
He had an Asian accomplice which he used as bait to have casinos give them favors based on superstitions.
He knew that they wouldn't find it suspicious since she's Asian and Asians are known to be superstitious especially when it comes to gambling.
All the favors they asked allowed them to use a technique called edge sorting to give them the edge on the house in baccarat which is otherwise a completely luck based game.
I deal baccarat. Never heard them complain about shuffling more frequently, we always do 8 decks anyway, but they do really care about which card comes out first. They never explain why, but they act like it's so surprising every time they hear what it was.
@@brandonkellner2920 if I recall correctly this was more when looking into autoshufflers. I know the main gripe is the odds get a little worse but the asian players ' biggest gripe was the "flow' of the cards being ruined as many believe (as im sure youre familiar with) that there are "lucky shoes" or "fated shoes" and auto shuffling messes with that idea of predetermined luck and fate.
@@klaize_ There is similar in Blackjack here in the West. Almost all side games revolve around a dragon, talk about prosperity, or something similar. As well, there is a constant battle between keeping players happy and deterring card counters to shuffle deeper or shallower into the shoe. If you shuffle deeper, asian players will play for the reason the other commentor mentions, but that brings more card counters as a deeper/less frequent shuffle means it's easier to count, on the flip side, a shallow/frequent shuffle deters card counters but also the players (typically Asian) who primarily look for games that feel "lucky". This is just scratching the surface, you could likely make an entire video on the subject of Asian influence on Western casinos.
i love when UA-cam recommends me a high quality video from a small channel
thank you!!! i’m glad u found this video interesting 🙏🏻🙏🏻
Same, thank you Klaize!
great comment as usual Claire. you're my hero
I was about to write the same comment! Great entertaining video
@@JustRival5 thank you!!
Looks like your 'Luck stat' has gone way up because the algorithm is recommending this video.
thank you!!
Damn, in Europe it leans far more heavily towards sports betting. I thought it was bad, but compared to what you've shown here it's minor.
same in brazil. we have influencers promoting this bs as investment, not to mention the physical billboards and public tv promotion lol
The balkans has a crazy problem with betting/gambling.
It's gotten a lot worse recently with the sports bets. In Germany I've seen more and more tipico stores open recently in almost every city. It's kind of sad and really scary to see. But genuinely nothing compared to this
i'm from Germany and sports betting is crazy here
@@5naf6 Tbh it's kinda seen in Germany as an stupidity tax, at least in my socio demographic
Gambling is also a huge issue in India. While there is law prohibiting it on the mainland, this excludes on water. Due to this, places such as Goa are now overrun by gambling boats that make their money from people who are specifically coming to Goa to gamble, essentially making it India's version of Macau. These gambling ships (along with the tourism industry there) are also located in or near villages, so its a common sight to see multiple 5-star resorts, hotels, casino ships and mansions next to small local shops and (in some cases) poverty.
so i actually make psytrance music and i’ve got a few indian friends from that scene who have told me the same thing!! didn’t feel like i was informed enough to speak about it though!! thanks heaps for the comment!! i hope u enjoyed the video! 🙏🏻
Interesting that both gambling capitals are former Portuguese territories.
@@silikeiteinteresting, right?
@@klaize_ sports betting is more of a problem imo in India. because most ppl cant go to goa but betting on sports is easy and fun. i;ve seen people get addicted to it
Indians aren't Asian
I work in a casino, and our casino is 60%+ Asians.
that’s a lot haha thanks for the comment
Same here, many of them older women too from what I’ve noticed
I work in a major corporate casino and we actually have hosts who specialize in Asian player development, that's how lucrative they are. We've converted over 60% of our poker tables to Pai Gow and some of these ladies will drop 40-50k on a single Baccarat table in a single night. Not to mention the wide swath of Chinese themed slots and Chinese concert performances. They are an economic force to be reckoned with
Over here in Canada we have a real gambling addiction problem. Governments are addicted to the huge revenues they make from lottery tickets
Oh god, when they first legalized single event sports betting and online sports gambling the ads were all over the bloody place.
Over here in Sweden the Social Democrats are selling subscription lottery tickets via telemarketers, on credit (illegal for other kinds of lotteries), and especially aiming for confused/demented old people who don't even realize what they were buying.
They then claimed it was a "threat to democracy" when the current right government were saying they were gonna stop it...
I mean it's the only viable investment currently in Canada 😹
@@aguysaid5457Nah. North America is actually doing pretty well, and it’s just one of our traits to perpetually think that the country is going to hell and things are awful now, after a past that was “better.”
But it’s a good trait to constantly criticize our own country and let’s us address problems, compared to the culture of many countries, usually dictatorships, where people are supposed to deny problems and pretend everything is perfect, best in world!
@@Itried20takennames Yes and No. Mixed bag imo. Personally "I won the lottery" so to speak. Granted I had a lot of support and whatnot. A lot of people don't have opportunities. Homelessness is on the rise. Crime is also rising in Canada. Drug addiction. No one cares about these issues. They are just mentioned to grab as many votes as possible. Compare that with Europe
we call the lottery in america the "Poor people Tax" Because it's mostly the poor paycheck-to-paycheck people that buy scratch tickets or 'megamillions' lottery. And maybe if they are lucky make back 30% of what they spend. So Sad.
same in australia! it's really heart breaking to see minimum wage workers throw away like half their weekly salary on tickets and scratchies
My favorite’s when you see a guy walk into a gas station, buy 3 packs of cigarettes and 10 lottos, then stand outside on a trash can smoking and scratching.
@@kurskfirebrand4494brutal
To keep the poor poor and work the rest of life.
See now I’m wondering if I can make more money doing graphic design for scratch tickets and casino stuff and make my Scrooge Mcduck level fortune that way instead lmaooo
As an Australian who's been living in Vietnam for over 5 years, I agree with all your points. Gambling is such a destroyer of families. I live in a small fishing village, where the land value is sky rocketing due to it's location (near a popular tourist attraction) Son's are gambling away their impoverished fisherman family fortunes that are locked up in their land. Every couple of weeks you hear about yet another home being sold to a rich Hanoian because of the son's gambling debts. The vultures are circling....
it really is quite sad to see! i'm glad my video resonated with you on a personal level! thanks for commenting!
I WAS SO SUPPRISED WHEN I SAW THE SUB COUNT COMPARED TO THE QUALITY OF THE VIDEO WOW
You realy deserve more!
you’re too nice!! i’m glad u enjoyed the video! thank you again for watching 🙏🏻
+1
@@61percentodicarica thank you
When I was younger, I did some summer work at a Casino in my hometown. A small german town in Hessia. They had a shuttel service to the airport and main trainstation in the nearby large city, and the one thing I did notice, was that even though Asians were an absolut minority, they made up at least 40% of all customers.
Never thought about it again until I saw this video. Amazing quality of work mate
it’s actually insane right?!!! thanks heaps for the comment! i hope u enjoyed the video!! 🙏🏻
This video has the quality of a 100k+ subscriber account, respect ill sub man. Keep making videos.
thank you so much!! i will 🥹
Haha i thought i was watching a video with 6-7 digit views on a channel with 6-7 digit subs.. 5 mins into the video i saw the views and was like "yooooo wtf?" 240 subscribers lmao i dont remember the last time i saw a channel that low (besides myself). This channel will eventually blow up if he keeps it up!
@@matttzzz2 you’re too kind 😭😭
Keep it up, you are destined to hit it with this kind of quality… That comment is on point…
@@matttzzz2I didn’t even notice until the sponsorship comment
the “this would be a great place to put a vpn sponsorship but i have no subscribers” was how i realized this was NOT a big youtuber. killer video man, nord will be calling soon!
HAHAHHAHA i hope sooooo 🥹
thank you so much!!
@@klaize_ yea sounded really cute, earned a sub just for that (and the unironical pro-worth made vid)
Hello. I personally live in Macau. I am very happy that Macau, as my hometown, is increasingly recognized by overseas people. Sadly, however, the mainstream often suggests that Macau is for gambling, and no one is to blame. It even has a name called ‘Eastern Las Vegas’. To me, it is more than a gambling city. This is also an ancient city full of historical and cultural heritage. I hope that more people come here to travel as to enjoy the sites, the history and the cuisines rather than going to the casinos. ❤
Worked at a Casino for 7 years, always boggled my mind how the most fiscal and responsible region of the world has such vice. Most of its based in cultural superstitions about luck and things in my experience
for some reason they always think statistics doesnt apply to them haha
I think part of it is culture, but I am inclined to believe there must be certain personality traits that favor this kind of disorder. That personality trait might be influenced by culture too. All in all the end result is what you see.
@@klaize_ 99% of gamblers quit just before making the big win ;)
Favored addictions can vary by region, culture, and time. Alcoholism and cigarette smoking has gone down in the West while obesity has skyrocketed. In East Asia, smoking is still huge as is gambling, but you don't see a lot of alcoholics or obese people.
The most common addictions today will take a few decades to kill you. Heroin can kill you in a single use, but a pint of Ben & Jerry's, an hour at a blackjack table, or workaholic compulsions can distract you from all your painful thoughts for quite a long time without killing you.
Gambling large sums of money come and go. It’s hard to get that with average jobs especially in young age. Maybe stock trading is way better than gambling if people need to gamble they should at least play video poker.
This channel is destined to grow pretty quickly with solid research and production behind it, nice work mate!
thank you so much! i really appreciate it!
Las Vegas is the only city in the US that I've seen that accepts Chinese debt and credit cards and even has Chinese bank branches. The Chinese population in the US is not very big and hardly anyone speaks the language, yet Las Vegas heavily caters to them. I started to notice this happening around 2008ish, every time I go back I see more and more Chinese, a lot of Chinese people like to get married in Vegas as well and its not uncommon to seen a whole wedding party gambling in full dress.
broo i’ve been there once, it is the real china town 😭
@@klaize_ I don't personally gamble, but I like going to Las Vegas, and I go a lot. It was pretty weird that Suddenly everything was in Chinese, they've got money to spend so Vegas is going to cater to them.
Funny I've never seen even one Chinese, perhaps you are out of date. 2008 is way gone.
this guy really came outta nowhere with great production value and got 300k views on his first video. rock on man
thank you so much! i really appreciate it 🙏🏻🙏🏻
will defs be more videos to come in the near future!
It's the fast money. Outside of gambling, Asians tend to be cautious and slow builders. Seeing money pile up so quickly is a rush.
wait till he realises Australians gamble away on average $1000 per person each year (more per capita than any other country)
hey yes! i will admit i left out the statistic that despite only 7.9% of Australians have a gambling problem, compared to the 23% over there, Australians by far lose the most on average to gambling and mainly only due to the pokies!
what's the median tho?
@@klaize_ but is that because those people gamble a lot of money, or because they have a small % of rich people who gamble a lot?
@@unturned6066 no, it's their poors that gamble
Unfortunately many people have fallen into the trap of thinking they can make a living off gambling, poker, slots, horses etc.
The only thing that blows my mind about all of this is they do this leveling of gambling in a area thats much less regulated and ripe for scams. Its so strange to me because from my experience asians tend to be naturally suspicious of each other due to the normalized scamming culture to the point people dont trust the stock market or many other investments avenues. I wonder what makes them trust these shady casinos over everything else.
yo that’s actually a super interesting observation, i hadn’t actually thought of that!!! but if i put myself in the shoes of someone who has a gambling addiction i would say part of that reason is the perception one has of control over the outcome! perhaps these gamblers who are superstitious believe that by doing certain actions they can win more however things like investing in the stock market is ultimately more objective on how well a company performs which would be out of the persons control
I believe that is because a casino woild really quickly be found about about scamming and word would get around. Better to keep a clean image of your business and still earn a bunch of money. Even underground casinos and betting operations in usa (so called mafia) was usually very fair when it came to paying put the winnings
@@valikadilnik4368 I was more referring to Macao when I made that observation where NONE of that exists. If this was the US you would be absolutely correct, but corruption runs deep in Macao and high rollers especially anyone foreign easily can lose their shirt from shady casino scams with 0 protections to get anything back
@@klaize_thank you for that insight that actually makes alot of sense now that I think about it, as superstition and perceived control often trumps logic even if it's really obviously suspicious. Very good video and I can't wait to see more about what you have to say about different things you definitely earned a sub from me keep up the good work!
i sometimes hesitate to watch video essays with low views because so many times its an ai voice or such horrible editing that i cant sit through it, but i am so glad i clicked on this video. really interesting while being great quality content!! :)
thanks so much!!! AHHHH those ai voice ones are so annoying hahha running the platform
I live in Korea. Let me help.
Lots and lots of lots of laws here. Some of them, as with gambling and prostitution, are just totally meaningless. If it can be concealed beneath the surface, it simply doesn't exist.
I have noticed Korean laws only matter when it's convenient. For example, weed is illegal in Korea, but blue lotus, is legal. Or tattoo parlors are everywhere, especially by military bases.
It's very true how Asian culture believes strongly in luck as a character attribute, rather than the Western concept of luck, which is more about happenstance i.e. being at the right place at the right time.
oh yeah, very interesting thanks for the comment!
Which is interesting because in the west many still do believe some are just more lucky then others
Asians use math and can budget. I’m sure they can get a hold of money easier than other minorities. Of Course they should try stock trading instead of casinos but maybe they can read slot mathematics book to win more maybe.
I used feng shui techniques to arrange my home office and desk. It really cuts down on the clutter and makes for a comfortable and welcoming space. I asked Chat GPT to help and it gave me a simple formula I can use in any room. Harmonious would be the word I would use to describe the way my office looks now.
The two casinos in my state both have Asian Gaming divisions. This is an entire department dedicated solely to developing relationships with Asian gamblers. This video gives a lot of insight to WHY I see so many Asian gamblers.
wait whattt that’s crazy, glad my video gave u some insight on it!
let me guess....connecticut
I work at a casino in Canada, this video is criminally accurate based off what I've seen. First VPN sponsorship for Klaize gets my business.
oh damnnnnn i hope i get a sponsorship one day!!!
and thanks again for watching and for your comment 🙏🏻
It’s because they are washing money :)
Which casino, I live near a couple here. Niagara Falls
I’m Asian and when I was in Vegas, my ancestors were calling me to the casinos. I felt that itch. That urge. That shove. But I managed to fight it off.
Good thing I only gamble on booster packs.
I felt the urge to buy Pokémon booster packs today, but I was able to fight it off. That’s only because it wasn’t one of the the sets that I want to buy though, if there was a paldean fates booster bundle I would’ve definitely bought it
HAHHAHAHA THE AMOUNT I HAVE SPENT TRYING TO PULL A VMAX PIKACHU 😵💫😵💫
@@klaize_ I thank you for covering this but you should really distance yourself from that whole element, there are way better and just as exicitng thing to do with some time investment in social stuff or even on just yourself, get that right mindset you maybe dreamt of (:
It's the obsessive compulsive personality trait that many Asians exhibit. It's a matter of what that's channeled to, be it work, videogames, or gambling. Notice how Asians are also big smokers too.
Better than gambling at least the odds and collective bargaining will bring wealth eventually.
I haven't watched your video yet, but in my opinion based on observations after years in East Asia (mainly Japan and Korea), there are several reasons:
- People are OBSESSED with money. They want to get it quick.
- They are not really taught critical or long term thinking, they are taught to listen and follow hierarchy (that's also why cults are rampants in those two countries).
- They want quick results because they are used to everything happening quickly. They have no patience.
- Some people have really big egos (especially in China and Korea), even if the stereotype for Asians in general is to be humble, they only pretend to be to save face. They think that they won't get addicted and that they'll be able to control themselves, that bad results are for others, not them.
- there is a big genetic component for addiction and many people already have an addictive personnality. Alcoholism is normalized and treated as a non issue in many families (especially in Korea).
- There is so much pressure, rage/anger from work and living in a hyper competitive society and they try to appease it with quick dopamine hits, not thinking about the long term consequences.
great points!! thanks
Brother. I know that people are glazing you in the comments and talking about how good this video is. But holy mother of christ, this is an IMMENSELY high quality video, the type that I could absolutely see being on a million+ subscriber channel.
Keep it pushing, I want to see you with a million one day.
yoooo thank you so much HAHHAHAH
the glazing part LOLLLLL
I was just playing Poker at the Casino and told my friends. "I don't wanna sound racist, but on my way to the poker room, I always see 90% of people at the roulette tables and blackjack tables being Asian, why is that?". Then I come home and this video is in my frontpage! Thank you klaize and thank you whoever is constantly monitoring my conversations! :D
did u win?
lol in Canada they wash laundered money through casino :)
Why ‘I don’t wanna sound racist’? What is racist about that question?
how'd u go, u win big or?
and thank you so much! i really appreciate it! glad youtube WAS listening HAHA
Finally, somebody talks about this. I was a dealer in my home country for a few years. I’d say 50% of our guests were Chinese ( despite being less than 1% of the population). But to be honest, I’ve always preferred Asian guests, they were not cursing my mother if they lost… or at least I didn’t understand it 😅
We had an insider joke that, when you spin on an empty table at 4am, there is a pretty high chance that a Chinese guy appears out of nowhere with a Gucci bag on his side that has infinity bank notes in it and starts to play table maximums.
Also, there were the Asian guys or women who never played but only sat in the chair. They were the loan sharks. Let’s say that a lot of regulars stopped attending after and around Lunar New Year, when debts are supposed to be payed back.
So, overall, Asian people do have a gambling problem but as well have the mentality to not be afraid to start over. I always enjoyed playing with/against them!
oh wow that’s super interesting, you must have even more crazy stories from what you’ve seen being a dealer!!
“A Gucci bag in his side which had infinite notes in it”. The most accurate discription
I'm with you. I'm also a dealer and Asian players are far less likely to berate you.
Even though I'd say video essays and this style of informative/documentary-esque content is in a saturated market, it's always very cool to see small channels upload videos of the same caliber. Glad the algorithm's picking this one up.
thanks for the kind words!
Dude this was a fantastic watch, the quality is on par with that of bigger channels. Good work dude keep it up!
thank you so much!!
I don't know why this popped up on my UA-cam but I am glad. Very well researched and reasoned. You have a talent . Keep up the good work.
thank you!! i’m glad you enjoyed the video!!
Keep it going brudda! This is a great video, I’m afraid of what gambling will do to everyone within the next 5 years. Especially with sports betting being allowed more and more
oh yeah for sure! it’s crazy especially people my age, gen z, starting to get into it having been influenced by streamers doing it
I’ve lived all over and no one competes with the Chinese when it comes to gambling and chain smoking, they take that sh*t serious af
it's pretty insane!
Man don’t get me started with the chain smoking I was a security an man literally every other min they was smoking oh man I have a couple stories 😂
I go to the casino everyday almost for sports betting and I see Asians up there losing all their savings
First off, great vid man keep up the good work you'll definitely hit 100k in no time and second pokemon mystery dungeon ost is so goated 🔥🔥
thanks for the kind words! and yessss i know, i wan legit replaying it whilst working on this video HAHA
@@klaize_ I just recently played explorers of time for the first time and that was a magical experience
@@acostusdrinksmilk5417 I CRIED WHEN I FIRST PLAYED IT WHEN I WAS LIKE 7
I realise one of Singapore's only successful TV dramas is about gambling (The Unbeatables), which was made even before casinos were first legalised in Singapore
oh interesting! shows how popular it is i guess!
Australian here: Asia hasn't got shit on us. we're the nation of losers.
friday night is indeed pokies night for the old folks hey
Eastern Europe aswell.
Bit of a skill issue isn’t it mate?
We're all losers, don't worry
Giving you a sub, this was an awesome review! Excited to be one of your first 100 subs, you got this brother!!
thank you again for watching and i really appreciate the sub!! 🙏🏻🙏🏻
@@klaize_ looking forward to the future content, you have a nice style.
I wouldnt call them addicted,I would call them dedicated
that’s definitely a way to put it HA
I once knew a guy who was really dedicated to heroin
determined
goal-oriented
@@broidkanymore-zc4lt Keep your dream alive
I'm a mongoloid and I had a serious obsession in my youth with hitting the mystery box in Cod zombies over and over again, I couldn't make it past round 7 because I was so obsessed with the box.
just give me the ray gun mk2 plssssssss 😭🙏🏻
Another great video! While not explicitly discussed in this video, many mobile gacha games now have a pity or guaranteed system thanks to the monkeygate incident (in granblue fantasy) which has somewhat alimorates the previously bottomless pit that people have to throw their money into. Gacha games are still a very predatory system though
thank you!!!
Inheriting debt is crazzyyyyy, that just makes the guilt of losing at gambling even worse
and it explains why someone would hide their gambling problem. Very reckless law considering how the elderly lose their mental clarity with age but are still allowed to make decisions that can ruin the entire family.
@@1queijocas great pointtttt
Your video is gonna pop off bro. Remember me when it does 🙏🏽
I HOPE SO 🥹🥹🥹
Wanna bet?
Kinda crazy watching a new channel pop off live.
That’s actually wild you predicted that
@@Sam-ph1fk your reply came up in my notifications, and I am actually shocked that this comment predicted it so early on hahaha
amazing video brother you WILL get to 1 million subscribers, keep these stories up and your EDGE is sharing your deep knowledge about asia that few people know about in american societies
omg ty ty!! i hope to get there one day hahah, and i appreciate the kind words, im glad u were able to learn and take something from my video!!! i actually learnt a lot whilst making this as well HA
I traveled in asia for almost a year and i already felt like there might be an issue with gambling. What surprised me the most was especially in countries like taiwan, china, japan and south korea the big arcades (not only to play games but win stuff), halls full of claw machines or mystery egg machine with really expensive things to win like a ps5 and there were always kids hanging out there for quite some time spending quite some money. I tried it myself once or twice for the experience but it adds up quickly so i let it be. I guess that there it’s sort of an open secret cuz like u said 1 in 5 asians have an addiction. Even if you can’t just go to a casino it’s crazy how other stuff pops up. Thank you for this amazing video I’ve actually thought about this topic a lot especially while being there
thank you so much for your kind words and also for sharing your story! And yeah it’s really crazy isn’t it?!! those are arcades almost act as a gateway into it
"If you're eating right now, I hope you're having a wonderful meal"☺You're a good guy and have great content, keep it up!
thank you so much! i really appreciate it!
Wtf how do you have less then 500 subs, this is better made then some 500k sub videos, definitely looking forward to your future videos here, its going to be fun to see!
ahhh i just started this channel 2 days ago haha, i really appreciate ur words of encouragement!! thanks again for watching and comment as well!!
You will definitely have the "luck factor" doing videos like this. Well explained and very informative
thank you so much!! i really appreciate it!
This is a crazy phenomenon. I remember the first time my husband went to the casino with me he nudged me and asked " why are there so many asians here? Its like every asian in the city has come in here".
I just told him thats how it is at casinos and i didnt know why they gambled like that, they just do.
What a great insightful video. It really hit home with me. I know so many people that are described in the video. I also feel sad that alot of the the factors of the gambling addict also apply to myself. I'll definitely be sharing this video with alot of peers. Again, thank you for making this.
@@hrpslots hey! thank you so much for such a kind comment. I’m glad that you were able to relate to this video on a personal level. I hope you are able to cut back on your addictions! And thank you for watching :)
0:21 It was most likely a bunch of asians😂😂😂
HAHHAHAH
Asians = Chinese!
Raycist
@@klaize_ raycist
me: pressed that I struggle to stop rolling gachas
Buddhist monks: hmmm poker
Me: Oh I am enlightened. I am the Buddha of Gacha Game Players
HAHAHHAHAHAH
Getting a like notification on this comment as I’m debating on topping off for Vyn’s birthday card in TOT feels like actual divine intervention. Acceptance. Unattached . Enlightened.
@@KatrissaBallet LOLLLLLLL
13:41 bit of an error here, Warframe has no Lootboxs.
ahhh whoops, i actually got information image from a CBR (clearly not very reliable) that claimed it was a pay to win game. haven’t actually played it myself. thanks for the heads up tho 🫡
www.cbr.com/free-pay-to-win-games/
I just came here to comment that lol
Warframe is a f2p game that's so good it makes you want to spend money on it, but you never actually have to
Several years ago I was in Atlantic City on a Thanksgiving Day. A Chinese man on the BlackJack table said he owns a restaurant which he opens 364 Days a year. He closes only on the Thanksgiving Day because no one eats out on that Day. He made it a tradition to come to Atlantic City on Thanksgiving Day every year.
Always happy to find a new Aussie youtuber
oh much love! thank you!
I worked in a casino in Alberta, and they have this VSE Voluntary Self Exclusion program, where you can sign up to have yourself barred from casinos. Asians only make up about 5% of our population, but they were about 80% of the faces in that program. At the time I also liked to gamble a fair bit, so i'd do trips to city. A lot of the time I'd recognize faces from the program, usually they were dealers, sometimes people playing so I'd report them.
honestly thanks for doing that, you've probably helped many people by doing so! cheers for the comment!
15:27 Ah yes. The four countries that ban gambling: China, Sideways Iran, Blue Turkey and ???
ahhhh i couldn’t find any stock footage for it and i will admit chatgpt did not give me the greatest image HA
Russian Liberia?
That image is definitely Ai
@@hypocritehaterofficial3283I don't think so.
@@Syvern. as somebody that has seen AI generated stuff I can see with certainty that that image was AI. I mean it’s not like some artist genuinely just randomly made up a flag when there was two that were legit flags.
Ain't no way you're exposing me
HAHAHAH
This is a great video! I was starting to wonder why Baccarat is sooooo popular when its literally just a rigged coinflip, or why like 80% of slot machines are ethnically themed. Thank you for answering these questions!
thank you for ur kind words! i’m glad my video helped answer ur questions :)
For a first video this really high quality, look forward to to seeing more
@@robobuddy5745 thank you so much! i really appreciate it!
In a society where you might not have much control of your life, gambilng gives you the illusion of control.
this!!!
Man this hits home hard in colorado when you go to a casino there is sooo many Asians. Never seen so many Asian folk in one place in Colorado sept for a casino. Realest stereotype ever asians love gambling
oh wow that’s so interesting! thanks for sharing!! colorado is such a beautiful place btw! been there once on a holiday haha
Blackhawk, Colorado is sooo beautiful
Native Americans look Asian too.
“But I have no subscribers so please subscribe”
Haha, very funny jo-
8 THOUSAND SUBS WITH THIS LEVEL OF QUALITY?
thank you so much I really didn’t expect this video to blow up!!!
Great video on a topic I often wondered about. Used to work in the US federal government with China as a focus of our work. Began trying to learn about Chinese and Chinese-American cultures and kept noticing a lot of gambling stories coming up. Tried finding articles or videos to explain its prevalence and none were as satisfying as this vid. Great work.
thank you for the kind words!!
Now that WAS a great spot for a VPN ad, I subscribed and hope you get some sponsors soon. Great video, I like your style.
thank you so much! hahahha
3:09 Amazing easter egg, gold old days getting pinged out.
the jungler when i steal their red buff 💪
Take a shot every time he says Asian's
gonna be drunk real quick
subbed and belled. lets get this man a vpn sponsor.
yo you’re such a king. Thanks heaps for that I really appreciated
I'm truly amazed by your video production, I thought you were like a milly sub on youtube. Hats off for such an amazing video, keep making more.
thank you so much! i really appreciate it!
Hi Klaize, I'm glad I stumbled across your channel because I can shed light on this issue as a psychiatrist. I see quite a few patients with substance and gambling addiction, and I give them the same spiel every time.
I think you have covered the cultural side of gambling quite well. Still, I'll go ahead and add that superstition and magical thinking are ubiquitous in all cultures that lead to all sorts of irrational behaviour, not just those observed in Asian cultures. Our brains are exceedingly good at something called 'pattern recognition'. We can sensitize ourselves to an environmental pattern, eventually turning it into a 'gut feeling'. Take Pavlov's dogs, for example. Pavlov managed to induce salivation in his dogs by ringing a bell even though they were not presented with food. That is because his dogs have learned to associate bell sounds with food without actually knowing why. A superstition is our way of trying to explain the inexplicable, and superstitions are everywhere you mentioned (i.e. in numbers, in colours, furniture arrangements, in religion, palm reading, tarot cards, astrology, you name it).
These pattern recognitions eventually turn into a 'gut feeling', an inexplicable feeling the brain conjures up when it detects a pattern, even though the pattern has no rhyme or reason. Pattern recognition is vital for survival, so our ancestors can learn to avoid certain things. It involves high-speed information processing, often too fast for the rational brain to keep up, to make consequential decisions, like avoiding stepping on a snake. Doctors, for example, rely on these feelings to avoid missing a sinister diagnosis.
That said, although these gut feelings can protect us from harm, they can also embolden us to take risks, especially if the gut feeling feels positive. This eventually became our lexicon with the concept of 'luck'. Most people will tell you that luck is a feeling. Depending on the day, they can feel particularly lucky or unlucky, but they can never explain why because their pattern recognition is too quick for the logical brain to understand.
Gambling addiction, specifically, relies heavily on this pattern recognition to generate a feeling of luck. But what sustains it is something called intermittent reward or intermittent reinforcement.
Imagine being paid a salary to roll dice every day, and your salary depends on how many rolls you can make rather than what you roll. In this case, your incentive is to roll more often rather than to roll a specific score. This is the job of a professional dice roller. All that is needed to turn a professional dice roller into a gambler is to base his salary not on how often he rolls but on what he rolls. Not only do you activate his pattern recognition pathways in his brain, you will also sensitize his dopaminergic system. Because winning amassivee prize in 1/100 attempts is a gamble (which is very exciting), but winning a small prize 99/100 attempts feels like an office job.
You can often find this pattern of intermittent reward in abusive relationships as well. Women remain in abusive marriages because their husbands are sometimes lovely but other times violent. The same can be said with abusive parents, bosses, friends, cults, etc. But there are also other emotional baggage that factors into it as well, such as shame, trauma, safety, etc.
We used to believe that the best way to deal with any addiction is to maintain abstinence because it extinguishes the dopamine pathway. That is still largely true, but failure rates are pretty high simply because addictive behaviours are often subconscious, which are, by definition, impossible to modify. A novel way around the problem is to extinguish or dampen the reward from the behaviour. There is a drug called naltrexone that I often prescribe for alcoholics, and it works by encouraging people to drink while taking the medication. Naltrexone dampens the reward from alcohol, so the brain eventually gets bored of it. If you are creative enough, perhaps you can devise a novel way to solve gambling addiction, too.
In the end, the best way to stop an addiction is to turn it into an office job.
oh wow, thank you so much for such a insightful comment, i had to sit down to properly read this and it was 100% worth it! i know i only touched on the surface level of a lot of issues and it definitely stems a lot deeper than what i covered!! i honestly never expected this video to reach so many people so it’s really really cool seeing someone in your line of work to deals with this day to day make the effort to bring more light to this issue!! thanks again for watching!! glad you enjoyed the video 🤝🤝
My dude, I was all hyped to kick off my UA-cam show, but after seeing your high-quality video with, like, 100 views… I’m reconsidering life decisions. If this masterpiece is getting slept on, I might as well start a podcast for my cat.
AHHHHH noo you should start a channel regardless!! do it for yourself not just for views haha also a cat podcast would be pretty fun to watch HA
Although if you look at his channel his 3 long form videos all got uploaded 2 days ago so I'm guessing he recorded these for another platform and only got started on YT recently? Anyway, I agree this has phenomenal research, writing and editing for the number of subs he has at the moment.
Just don't put all ur eggs in one basket. Get a job for main income n do this on the side. U will make it. There's lots of ppl out in the world
@@xcw4934 oh i recorded all of these prior but not for another platform! the youtuber matpat said in an interview that every channel he launches, he launches with 5 videos, 5 sounded too much for me to make for a channel im not sure will succeed so i went with 3 HAHAHA
@@anamamer2600 of course! thanks for the advice
UA-cam this is the kind of content I want to see.
i'm glad that this is being shown to u than haha ty for the comment!
4:28 respect
ahhahah
Damaged decrease
Posting your first video 6 days ago, and it already being this popular is very impressive. I saw your other video has over 100k views too. Good work man. Wish you the best.
thank you so much!!! i really appreciate it
This is a well put together video! I like the vocal waves being displayed behind you. Keep it up
thank you so much!! i really appreciate it! and glad u noticed haha
When someone dyes in here, in the Philippines, it is very common pastime to gamble with family in the wake of the funeral. Some even hold wakes longer just to gamble illegally.
hahahha that’s so interesting!! thanks for the comment!
Yes, this includes daytrading.
buy high sell low 🤭
You have great music choice with that mystery dungeon music 👀 I love that commentary UA-camrs will use mystery dungeon music, it shows how high quality that music is haha
It’s just such a good game as well, I just hate the fact I’m currently stuck on zero isle north HAHAHAH
@@klaize_ I’m obsessed with this game! I know it’s a spin off but it’s like they poured their heart and soul into that game, I haven’t experienced a pokemon game with the same love as that one in a long long time
7.8k subs for a video like this?
Bro I thought u had at least 500k even closer to 1 million. I had to check when u wanted plug a sponsor for a vpn but you said you had none. I didn’t believe you
You kept me engaged and intrigued to learn more about why asians have a gambling problem. Keep up the work I wanna be able to comment in a year and say I subbed when he had 7k subs
ahhh you’re too kind!!!!! thanks for this i appreciate it 🙏🏻
The countries with the most restrictive gambling laws have the worst gambling addicts. Forceful restriction exacerbates mental addictions.
kind of ironic hey! sort of reminds me of the US failing war on drugs
Or huge problems trigger huge solutions.
To be fair, the US was fighting the US in the war on drugs.
Prove that
My father was a semi-pro poker player. However, his greatest talent was being able to walk away from the table when he knew he would go on a potential losing streak. He said he probably literally hundreds of lives destroyed over a poker table by people who just could not walk away.
This video was really well made and informative. Look forward to seeing you rise bud, subscription earned 😊
I’m glad your father was strong enough to walk away and knowing when to stop! Thanks heaps for the sub, I’m glad you enjoyed the video
Asian: "If u call gonna be all over baby" 😎
Me: ".......I call, I play the board" 👁👄👁
HAHAHHAH
AK no good, ay-yah!
It's good luck to not believe in luck
hahahah true
No wayyy you’re at 11k now !! Congrats bro 🎉
@@PayKay 10 days ago you commented “Your video is gonna pop off bro. Remember me when it does”
i remembered 🤝😭
Great video my guy
Thank You!
Genshin addict here. Spend 500AUD over 4 years but that nothing compared to the time lost. It's objectively become a worse game due to many obvious factors but the sweet memories from the first couple of months still entice me during the months when I quit. The loneliness + anime girls/reptile brain shit + lack of direction in life + stubbornness to tackle these issues on my own probably lead to this. Keep in mind I think I'm easily above average guy, private school, height, gym, was smart in high school (dropped off a cliff in uni 59 wam cuz don't wan't to care as much as I did before). But yeah great video. Probably not just Asians who suffer from this. The biggest issue is probably the lack of direction in life. I have no interest in money but anything I do have interest in, I lack the discipline to get there because it feels like it'll take too long and too much delayed gratification. In the meantime instant gratification just takes over and boom the weekend is gone. It's hard to get a proper direction in life when you food + shelter wise well off, and there's so many things I want to fix in this world I don't even know where to start whilst at the same time so many amazing advancements being made using knowledge rightfully gatekeeped since most of it took decades and generations and it wouldn't be fair or beneficial for me to suddenly be taught it so I can braindead copy their ideas.
Forgot to add. Great vid. Came to me right after I spent the last 4 days doom scrolling and playing genshin's new update and gambling on the gacha. Didn't spend but probs spend 20 hours + grinding the game for primos. At this point I no longer plan to wish for new characters as I'm very satisfied with my account and I've managed to curb the addiction to once a week on fridays (this friday i went crazy cuz new update) but yeah, the time though. What's worse is that Genshin is objectively worse and the gameplay is now autoclicking through dialogue to finish a meaningless event just for more primogems to gamble for kazuha. Also youtube is probs my worse addiction. Insta surprisingly is no where near as addicting as youtube for me and is very easy to forget if I'm focused on studying etc.
genshin is so fun but it’s just not worth it at the end of the day. thanks heaps for the comment, i hope ur able to turn ur life around for the better!
it’s a bit random but i suggest watching an anime called “welcome to the NHK” it might hit home for you
As someone who spent every waking hour grinding league and rainbow six for like 7 years. It is possible to pivot away from your gaming addiction. Start lessening the hours and be aware that you're not having fun, and you shouldn't be torturing yourself.
Even when I stopped league and rainbow six, all I did was move on to a different game, but it's easier to forget about the new game than a game you've played for over 4 years.
Find something meaningful to work toward, maybe something you’ve been interested in. Get a bonsai tree or like… learn to cook more and more complicated meals. Go to the gym and have a goal.
Sounds like you’re missing something meaningful to work towards. So try and find something to “fake it till you make it” with. It’ll help your mental health
Make your bed, scrub.
That explains Genshin Impact.
how TF did you know I was eating?!
psychic bro 🔮
Really well put together video. I love the use of the pokemon mystery dungeon music. Aside from that you've done a real good job at highlighting the problems with gambling in Asia with plenty of statistics with sources
thank you so much! i really appreciate it!
A friend of mine grew up in one Asian immigrant community, and she said her neighborhood was riddled with illegal gambling dens back in the ‘70s. Many of them held rigged “numbers” games such as the one in the X-Files “Hell Money” episode. By the ‘80s, the police finally started busting up the gambling dens and arresting the ringleaders of these rackets.
2:00 Veilstone city theme from Pokemon DPPt?!
yes, I have spent so many hours gambling in that city on Pokémon diamond as a 6 year old HAHAHHAHA
@@klaize_ You made my day, bro
i'm so glad to hear that!!!
wtf you have 26 sub I thought you have over 500k minimum
ahhhhh no way!!!! thank you 🙏🏻