Quote from: daarul50 on May 04, 2019, 08:04:56 PM

Quote from: TheCoinGrabber on May 04, 2019, 04:06:52 PM

A common trend I see here in Gambling Discussion are people making threads complaining how they lost money, etc while playing. I bet they were not complaining while they were winning.

There's only on way to prevent gambling going out of hand and it also applies to other areas of life... Create a budget AND stick to it.

Set a monthly limit, a fund for everything entertainment-related. Use that up within a month or not, it gets topped up monthly and that's the only money you can use for gambling.

I have been doing this for years. By making a special budget for gambling, from that moment I did not feel the slightest loss even though I lost in gambling because the budget was indeed provided and prepared to be lost. Then, when I lost the gamble I did not regret it because the lost money did not interfere with other economies.

It only really becomes a problem once it starts taking more and more money that is needed for some other things.

Seems most people would really like to have a limit on the max gambling money, it's just they have a hard time sticking to the budget. I suppose they can minimize the likelihood of dipping into money reserved for something else by immediately making that money unavailable for gambling (auto-deduct payment for utilities, etc).

I remember someone saying "If you are afraid of falling, then don't place yourself in a position where you would fall".