Crypto Betting Platforms basically fall under two categories :

1. Centralized Crypto Betting - like Stake.com, BC.Game etc. globalize betting but pose risk in withdrawals and control of funds by the user.
2. Decentralized Crypto Betting - like Polymarket, DexWin etc. both globalize betting and let users control their funds with smart contract regulated operations.

 FIAT Betting platforms have long struggled with large dependency on payment solutions, trading solutions etc - which just makes the business expensive to expand - destroying the market for multiple sports betting tech organizations who have monopolized the industry.

What do you prefer in 2025?

I don't really believe that idea of professional gambling since gambling is a game of luck to a large extent, although sports betting has a mixture of luck and skill. If I want to force myself to accept that idea of professional gambler, I will say it's someone whose only job is gambling. As people dress up to go to work, he prepares to gamble and that is what pays his bills. He may be into other business of gambling but everything have to revolved around gambling, then we can say such a fellow is a professional gambler.

With the advent of online casinos, it's quite easy to hide your gambling life due to how most people in the society perceive gambling as a bad or sign of an irresponsible individual... In the past we had fun going to bet shops, sitting on bench and watching our match from a big screen amongst a large crowd of fellow gamblers and sport lovers.. it's fun and you get to meet different people with their own view of the game screaming their innermost expression... Now we can simply bet on our devices and no one would even know about it... Except you have a circle of friends as well who enjoys betting you can all make predictions and gamble together...

Don’t get them wrong. First of all, they’re human beings, not just players, but also business minded individuals. It’s normal to go where they think they’ll benefit the most. That’s a completely natural reaction, because even regular people will take an opportunity when it’s presented. Sports is a business, it exists because of money. There’s nothing wrong with chasing more money, especially since you can’t play forever. So while there’s a better opportunity, grab it.

You can afford to lose some. It's ok too.

It's better to go in with a budget than blow your finances. Many people don't consider this when gambling and end up losing substantial amounts at once. But consider that if you can indeed spend a certain budget on recreation each year, then yes gambling can be part of that.

Some people combine it with the free drinks at a bricks and mortar casino and consider it worth it. Spending your alcohol budget on a casino and running off with some cash potentially is nice always.

The main reason why a lot of people find it difficult to sleep after winning is because they are under a lot of anxiety. There's a type of anxiety you can feel when you are handling a certain amount of money especially if you haven't won that amount before, gambling can make you overthink about how you are going to spend or use that money. This is the reason why self control is very important as a gambler

1. Support from the government.
Countries who gamble a lot has solid laws protecting their players so gamblers in those countries can just freely gamble as much as they want without having to worry about their rights. This doesn't mean that the countries have very free and loose rules but it just means that they have clear frameworks. Some other countries have some limitations but since their rules are clear, many still gamble.

2. Bigger paychecks.
Not all rich people are gamblers but they certainly have more chances to gamble if they wanted to. According to data, the higher the income is in some countries the more people gamble in that country. Since the average citizen is earning a lot, even if they spend quite a significant amount of money in gambling this will still not cause financial doom.

Is it fair to assume that a better economy and a solid framework will make people gamble more but be addicted less?

Has any of you heard about Malik Beasley's federal investigation in a case about his possible involvement in rigging games and possibly betting on his own game as well? For those who are not familiar with him, he is an NBA player who supposed to have a good contract for the next season with the Detroit Pistons. He is not the first player in the NBA to do this though. There were several who got banned already and I think some of them had a jail time.

This is a prime example of how gambling could ruin any career if greed takes over and self discipline is mismanaged. The Detroit Pistons was reportedly ready to offer Beasley a three-year, $42 million contract and he blew it, possibly permanently if his proven guilty of this accusation.

There have been a lot of cases already about a person who got greedy in gambling and eventually got broke. So, this right here serves another lesson that we need to control ourselves when we engage into gambling. 

I assume that people come to the gambling industry as inexperienced people. And in the process of their activities, they gradually learn from their mistakes. Unfortunately, some of these mistakes are dramatic and cause us quite serious psychological trauma. As a rule, this is due to gross errors and stupid persistent beliefs that push us to the edge of the financial abyss.

First of all, this is risk management and money management. The second is probably unsystematic play. Let me make a reservation that I do not mean casinos, as well as people playing "for fun". I mean sports betting.
So, how much did your mistakes cost? Did they cause you a serious psychological blow? What were your mistakes, did you learn from these mistakes and do you apply this knowledge in practice now? Were these mistakes simply painful, dramatic or catastrophic?

As a gambler, have you ever felt this kind of mentality? That is, let's say in sports betting, wherein you bet on the long shot or a huge underdog but at the back of your mind, you thought that you will not win, but there is still small hope inside of you that this could be a life changing and so you go and bet with your close eyes. And this could be just you are relying on your luck and nothing more and that it could also be bad for us gamblers in the long run. But then again, we love to take risk and so maybe there will be some of us who might be already have this in mind as a kind of "strategy" and they could have won money already. Are you that type of gambler that has kind of mentality? It could be that is obviously flawed in the beginning so there could be gamblers that are now willing, or maybe as I have said, we might have been using it already but we just didn't know.

I'm making this post as a light Atalanta fan after learning a few days ago that Mateo Retegui has decided to leave for Saudi Arabia to get more money.

I don't want to generalise but I think that money, seen as an end, as a good, is the ruin

Money is useful, let's be clear, it is useful for everyone but to think that it is the goal to be pursued by overlooking people or honor and loyalty is something squalid
What do you think about football?

We are used to say that a gambler should gamble with an amount he can afford to lose but in the actual sense do we think there is any amount a gambler can afford to lose? When a gambler places a stake what he sees is not the stake but the potential win. This is why when he does not win he panics regardless of how little the stake is and he will always mention the potential win rather than the stake as the amount lost. 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?

Is been responsible with gambling all it takes to be a professional gambler or someone needs to win in the process many times already to be considered a professional gambler?

I have always win less, no reason to lie but I get curious when I see gambling related posts online about people pointing to some gamblers calling them professional and the only vital point of this all is because they won many times in their own way.

What is a been qualified as a professional gambler in your own world? The winning part or the responsible part of trying to avoid addiction is all.

That's a big reason why slots is more addictive, there's no other way, it's just that players and gamblers focus more on one activity because of taste, some like slots more and others like sports betting, I think that's where the difference can be made, but I think both activities when practiced without control cause addiction.

Happiness is priceless. People gamble and lose money from it but the thrill and enjoyment they get can't be replaced by other activities that others do.

It's the same as other hobbies where some may seen as a waste of money. Each of us has that hobby that we are willing to spend money in exchange for pleasure.

What's important is you spend responsibly in a way that it doesn't compromise your life and personal responsibilities.

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I have played around 14.5 k free rolls but till now, no big prize has been won. I was wondering if I play 20k rolls, is the prize of 200 $ guaranteed?
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I agree with your point. Unfortunately, 99% of players, including myself, do not even bother to check the terms and conditions. People check the terms and conditions only when they become victims and suddenly the casino quotes a line from the terms and conditions page. I myself just do a few checks like, deposit bonus conditions such as wagering requirement, I also check if they allow players from my country and that is all.

I am okay with the standard casino rules. As for casino reputation, I don't think a casino could do anything if a player Choose to violate their rules and later complains about it. It is the players' fault, and they should be responsible for their own mistake, right?

The Truth be told, gambling results are quietly unknown to us as a gambler regardless of the level of skills that you think you have developed over the time, you can't predict what the outcome of a game will be and that is why we need to do everything possible to remain in a position where we can acknowledge the place of luck in whatever games that we play.

If you're talking about waiting for an actual price surge to happen during the current situation, then that should mean that Shuffle should have a banner year for consecutive years so that the buy backs also increase, no?

Shuffle is doing very well considering that it's a new casino trying to take its share of the crypto gambling market. Give it time. Casinos, as well as exchanges, are the most profitable businesses in crypto. There's more opportunities to grow.

Apart from x account is there any other places they may decides to share their information? I mean opensea, I think they should have other communication center where they could be conveying information across to their community than only x profile.
However, about BNB I also got the notification on my most of my trading app and this almost wanting to make me to regret while I haven't or didn't even have little portion of BNB on stash.