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Board Gambling discussion
Re: What's your view on this? Is it fun or addiction?
by
Rabata
on 21/01/2024, 11:15:43 UTC
So in weekends in my departmental WhatsApp group, we just randomly talk about soccer bets and sometimes drop a particular game and keep it open for correct score prediction to be made on it, and the first person with the correct score goes home with a data subscription, this has been going on for almost two years now and people have gotten used to it without knowing it.

This is one of the chat I just bumped into by one of us in the group chat and at this point I feel most of my friend have made it compulsory to always gamble every weekend.



Do you see this as addiction or just catching of fun?

Mind you, we just enjoy the moment and might just joke around with people making predictions based on the teams,  they love but we are mostly gamblers at our different ends.

Gambling is enjoyable within certain limits. But if someone is gambling beyond that limitation then it is not normal and it turns into addiction. And in gambling if someone tries to gamble with borrowed money or loans then I would call that a high degree of addiction. Taking a loan and gambling can make his personal life miserable and his family can also get into various complications by the loan effect. If a gambler spends 5 percent of his monthly income to enjoy gambling, it will not affect his personal life and he can manage gambling freely.