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Topic
Board Gambling discussion
Re: How gambling addiction develops
by
Derekfunds
on 28/05/2025, 11:05:04 UTC
Sooner or later, they will addicted to gambling. Once that is happen, they will ruin everything they have and even their life.

Each gambling addicted is different. Being gambling addicted isnt something uncurbable and does not mean that everyone will ruin their lives with 100% probability. I think everyone who has tried gambling at least several times are already addicted, because they return to gambling anyway. We have different forms of addiction, someone return and gamble daily, someone on special occasions, someone gamble once each month. But that does not mean we all are moving towards ruining lives.
I won't call returning to gamble part of addiction, we always want to return back to anything that keeps us entertained. Addiction is about unnecessary and uncontrollable act of gambling, it has to always give painful repercussions. If i gamble everyday without being untouched with how much i spend on it, i am not an addict where as i begin using funds meant to care for my expenses or taking deep risk just for profits sake then that is addiction.

But you are addicted, if you have gambled yesterday and return today. However this is a light or harmless form of addiction. Call hobby or passion as an addiction as well. I call an addiction a process, an activity you want to repeat again and you repeat it. «Unnecessary and uncontrollable act of gambling» I would name as reckless gambling instead.

You are right in your definition but gambling yesterday and return back today to gamble doesn't possibly or necessarily mean an addict because some people gamble for fun and may be the fun they had yesterday was amazing and they might want to have such fun again. Let me take my self for example now, if I gamble today and I make a lots of profit from the gamble and if there are games I feel I can predict somehow or teams I am familiar with I will still come back to gamble but I always make sure to save like 80-90% of the profit I made the other time so that I don't waste them up and sometimes I still do make another profit when I came back to gamble so it depends.