The gambling system especially sports betting works in a way that as a game plays the value of the stake keeps increasing and what may appear to be what the gambler can afford to lose may rise and become what he can no longer afford to lose and this becomes a source of concern for the gambler if he losses the bet. In fact, if a gambler accumulates the total of what he thinks he can afford to lose he would know that he is losing what he cannot afford to lose. I think that any penny spent on gambling is a money the gambler have decided to sacrifice with the hope of getting a bigger amount and not because he can afford to lose it.
What's your position on this thought?
I totally disagree with the very point you just gave above, because their is a distinctive difference of what people can afford to lose. Because when we are talking about staking what you as a gamblers can afford to lose, it doesn't mean totalling the cummulative amount that gambler must have lost in the past while gambling, but rather what it meant is staking an amount you know as a gambler and at that moment you can willingly and freely afford to lose without been affected, either financially or mentally. Because let's take for example you work in an office and you monthly salary is $200. Will you be able to gamble that whole $200 at once or gamble just $10? Which will you be able to afford to lose?