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A confessional thread appeared on “Nandemo Jikkyo G” (a 5ch live-commentary board) after a poster admitted to losing big two days in a row at pachinko — ¥69,000 one day, ¥95,000 the next. The poster confessed to feeling “done with this” and even “wanting to die,” while explaining a habit of only playing machines they personally like, and a tendency to raise their bets when trying to win back losses. When they described losing ¥90,000 in three hours, some commenters did the math on the maximum number of balls that can be fired per minute and suspected the figure was exaggerated, while other hardened veterans came forward with their own tales of losing ¥120,000 or even ¥300,000. The discussion ended up being less about the exact amounts lost and more about how to deal with gambling itself.
What people said
and it said someone lost ¥90,000 in three hours, I was shocked
That's not entertainment anymore
Sounds fake
With pachinko you can only fire 100 balls a minute, so even firing nonstop for 180 minutes that's 18,000 balls — ¥72,000 should be the max you could lose
I lose about ¥10,000 every 30 minutes
¥90,000 in three hours? What kind of play style is that
No, I want to die
Help me
I want my Ren-tan (a cutesy nickname, likely for a character or mascot)
If you focus on reset-hunting or grinding "ena" (an energy-gauge/pity system in some slot games), you can still enjoy it without too much damage
I've got zero motivation for anything but my favorite machines
Playing a machine I'm not into feels as painful as work
Re: #31
I've got no composure left at all
Liar 🤥
Re: #34
Yeah
It's supposed to be a stress reliever after all
Liar 🤥
Re: #39
That's how I start out, but once I start losing I end up raising the stakes
That's plausible if it's slots
Maybe so
Re: #42
Slots these days can burn through more than 30 spins per ¥1,000, after all
Lottery's payout rate is 45%
Smart-slots (at setting 1) payout rate is 97%
It's actually the easiest one to enjoy
The annoying part about public gambling (horse racing etc.) is having to go to the ticket window in person
Buying lottery tickets is basically idiotic
Pretty sure that math is wrong
Try horse racing or boat racing
It gets brutal
No upper limit is scary
You end up betting bigger trying to turn things around
No thanks 😖
Re: #58
I want to win it back
Playing the ¥4 or ¥20-per-ball machines means you actually want to win (you want the money)
If you want to win, all you can do is stack up small efforts
There's no one-shot comeback in pachinko
Let's withdraw it next time
No way
Re: #62
I'm not doing Ta-kun (nickname for a specific machine)
Too scary
What really got to me was hating myself for even briefly, out of desperation, thinking about robbery or snatch theft
I felt so pathetic for even considering crime that I cried and prostrated myself apologizing at a shrine at night
That's not pachinko's fault, that's on you
I feel you
Even then they'd probably only run the bare minimum, but the variety machines have their nails set so stingy they're unplayable garbage
Fair point
They only run the main/flagship machines
Re: #67
No thanks
Don't want to put in the effort
Can't do it
I'm mentally done
What I can't forgive about pachinko is instantly dropping out of LT mode
For some reason it keeps bailing out of LT right away, so I've been going to the parlor way less lately
That's an emptiness you never feel with pachinko
If you play the Konosuba machine, you'll experience that at least 50 times a day
I went through that a ton on the Kizuna machine — sometimes it's one game too early instead
Background and Key Points of This Discussion
Pachinko and pachislot machines are regulated under Japan’s Adult Entertainment Business Law, which sets an upper limit on how many balls can be fired per minute. In the thread, some commenters did the math based on that limit and questioned the truth of the poster’s claim of losing ¥90,000 in three hours. It’s worth noting that actual payout rates vary widely depending on the machine, its setting, and how the parlor adjusts the nails, and the comparison figures for horse racing and lotteries that came up in the thread were just participants’ subjective impressions, not necessarily matching official statistics. Meanwhile, many comments drew a distinction between “playing for fun without caring about winning” and “seriously trying to win,” while the original poster confessed to being unable to break free from a losing pattern of raising bets while trying to win back losses — a struggle that’s hard to write off as just a funny story.
※This article is composed from excerpts and a summary of the 5ch (Nandemo Jikkyo G) thread “Lost ¥69,000 at the pachinko parlor, then ¥95,000 the next day.”
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