Quote from: Dickiy on December 19, 2023, 02:23:14 PM

Quote from: Lucasgabd on December 19, 2023, 12:44:12 PM

Quote from: Ever-young on December 15, 2023, 01:39:39 PM

I don't know about other gamblers but there are sometimes that I regret why I ever involved myself with gambling, usually when I make crazy loses that I didn't actually plan for. I'm not an addict but we all know that even as a responsible gambler, there are times that you'd just go off your usual gambling ways and start gambling wild, this doesn't make you an addict though. So whenever I find myself in this state and then on the process loses a huge amount, I usually start regretting the reason I learned how to gamble.

have you ever lost money you couldn't afford to loose like getting a loan to gamble or something like that?
this is probably the most dangerous behavior
otherwise your max loss will be the amount you deposit in the platform, could be bad but not so hard to avoid ruin with a bit of self control (I know that this is the tricky part)

I think 70% of most gamblers would have done something like that, or I mean using loans as an alternative when they run out of money to gamble and then going back to hope for the next session using the money from the loan, of course I would agree with your idea that this is not the best alternative when running out of money but I think this is more referring to the occurrence of many new problems that are certainly dangerous for their own lives.

If there are some of them who always can't change their point of view and approach to gambling then obviously other bad effects will follow such as experiencing a lot of pressure to stress and depression due to debt, one that can minimize everything is just self-control and some limits as you said but unfortunately it is quite difficult to be able to implement that if from the beginning they come with the wrong mindset and goals on gambling.

that's a quite high estimative, I'd guess max 25% getting to compulsive habits and doing something like that, most probably max 10%
I'd guess the majority of gamblers are occasional gamblers or people who gamble for fun but now compulsive, doing it as a play and not carrying so much.
but obviously there are the ones who get addicted to it.