Quote from: Lannakosa on July 31, 2024, 03:24:57 PM

Quote from: Dewi Aries on July 31, 2024, 02:47:15 PM

Maybe I would say that you are discussing two types of gamblers here, where the first is those gamblers who have entered a cycle of addiction so that it is always difficult for them to stop in any situation, win or lose. And the second is the gamblers who from the beginning have understood what and how gambling really is so that they know what to do in every situation such as stopping at the right time, especially taking a break when experiencing defeat.

I think we can judge which is better of the two types of gamblers, and clearly the second is much more recommended, or what is meant is being a gambler who understands in general what gambling is and how winning and losing work is something that is more recommended for a gambler to have, because only by having this proper understanding will we avoid various significant negative impacts.

In fact, with gambling, everything is almost the same as with trading, where a small percentage of players remain with a profit, different sources claim differently, on average from 3 to 5%, in fact, this is not much. But I think that there are significantly fewer professional gamblers than traders, and I think that players risk less money than traders, because the risks are also different.

In your example, both the first and second should understand the danger that is in gambling, if their goal was to double the deposit and withdraw the profit, and in the end the player only gets losses, then it seems to me that with proper risk management it is difficult to get addicted, most likely the player will simply stop playing, when he will lose part of his deposit. There is no point in continuing if instead of doubling, he received a significant reduction.

Yes, it's almost the same, and the similarity is probably gambling and trading are both activities that involve money, opportunities and risks, both cannot be predicted 100% accurately, especially gambling outside of games of chance, but in terms of risk and opportunity, of course gambling is much greater than trading, and I also believe what you said that professional gambling is much less than traders, this is none other than because gambling is an activity that is very unlikely to be learned, unlike trading where profit depends on the skills and knowledge you have.

However, overall, responsible gambling by only treating gambling in moderation and away from excessive elements is always recommended as I exemplified earlier, but yes, there are always some gamblers who always make winning the main goal or priority in their involvement in gambling, I don't know what the cause is, but the only reasonable reason is because they don't know that in fact this goal will only lead them to various significant disasters, when the game actually causes more losses then it is clear that it should be stopped, but it's not that easy to stop when they are unable to account for the losses they experience.