It is not paranoia if people are really out to get you, and you floppy shoe fucks sure have proven that.
You believing people "are really out to get you" is a product of your own paranoia. Regardless, there's a million ways to handle a bet where you would never sacrifice your legal well-being if you were interested, not that it was ever an issue for 1 second.
Yeah, I am sure your continual manufacturing of narratives about me here all around the forum have nothing to do with it, or your swarm of red nose clan members. I don't gamble. Is that good enough for you little girl?
I mean plus like, what prosecutor is going to go after the people betting among themselves? That's pretty much unheard of when it comes to small recreational people. They're going to go after the people using setting up gambling clubs and rings, and the people running big programs like this. No one cares (AT ALL) about the little people that are doing casual gambling.
I personally know people who have lost everything due to a related incident. It is just a matter of you having something they want. Ever heard of civil asset forfeiture? No prosecution needed. For some one studying finance you are pretty ignorant about how much destruction can be caused with the totalitarian financial regulations that exist in the US.