Staking.
I lost 4B so far.
I would do the x2 thing, and I'd rarely lose. I ended up making hundreds of million over a few weeks. This happened before Bot Nuke, when gold was 0.4/M if anyone's wondering.
One day, I had RL issues, and I thought getting max cash would brighten up my day. At this point, I had 1.9B. I lent Lucster 400M, he kept delaying when he'd pay me. I eventually couldn't wait and wanted max cash. I staked, and lost around 6 in a row, several close fights. Lucster paid up the next day -.-
I quit at that point. I came back, bought an account with 500M on it. I'd stake every now and then, I did some dunging, I eventually got around 800M+. I kept a log and I made 200M from staking. I lost it all, with several REALLY close fights. There was this one guy that beat me 3 times in a row, it was weird how I could barely hit him in the beginning in ALL 3 fights, but 2 ended with him red barred.
So I buy 1B off Arcus, I decide to quit gambling. All I wanted was a phat (Purp in this case) and decent gear.
But there was this feeling that I lost too much, and I wanted to win some back. I was eventually down to 400M. The next day, after a lot of staking, I finally managed to break even and back to 1B. Before doing so, I lost a few stakes and ended up winning 2 Pernix Chaps and a small cashpile. I didn't know Pernix was crashing. If I lost that stake, I'd have been cleaned again. Pernix sold for around 50M under mid. I staked 500M+, and Pchaps sold for 210M each and he added 10M to the stake. So I basically won 430M. I was still down, frustrated. I decided to stake again and I was eventually up 200M. I managed to buy a yellow partyhat and gear that I wanted.
RL issues came up, me feeling like exploding, I wanted a green phat. I got cleaned. My last fight which was a 630M stake. I found it odd how my opponent was waiting for a big stake, and he raised my stake by over 5M. He hit A LOT, and he said "I should've gone for that 7B stake". That means he was on a losing streak or hitting a ton of 0s. I was winning by around 200hp till he hit 4-5 100s in a row. I still got back, and I was red barred and he had around 150 hp. I was hitting, and he hit 0s. I eventually got him to below 40hp. I hit 2 0s and he hits 49 (I think) to ko me.