When I discuss the wide range of gambling and betting with friends who are not on the forum, I often notice their flawed thinking. If it were just once, I would not have given it a thought but when their flawed thinking about gambling comes up over and over again it makes me torn between wanting to help them change the way they think or just leaving them to continue with such thinking until some major gambling experience happens and changes it for them. Some type of this flawed thinking is borrowing money from loan apps to gamble thinking that when they win they will pay back the loan and its interest and keep the rest for themselves. They call this gambling, with other people's money. Another flawed thinking is their belief that paid between groups will make them become millionaires faster than if they are not in the paid group. There are others like this.
Yes, there are some people who don’t care to take any risks. I will say it is not only on your side that this is happening but everywhere. There are a lot of people out there taking loans to gamble, and at the end of the day, they still lose and suffer to pay back the loans. After they repay, if they see another opportunity, they still gamble because they keep hoping it will happen as they plan.
I also have one friend who is a furniture maker. Some people always pay this friend 90% of the money for their work upfront, but what he always does is take risks and gamble with the money, expecting to double it through betting. If I can still remember, this is the third time my friend has been arrested. I have warned him several times, but he doesn’t give me a listening ear.
In fact, the last thing he did was take out a loan and use it for betting, and he still lost. The funny part is that the game he bet on had just 1.6 odds. He staked $500 aiming to get a 60% gain, but he still lost. Gambling is not something we should risk money on if we can’t afford to lose it, and I will never advise borrowing money to gamble.