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Re: Am I a bad father for letting my daughter gamble?
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rachael9385
on 25/07/2025, 22:56:46 UTC
Without you she would definitely going into gambling, so that dont make you a bad father. The question you should be asking yourself right now is how come she got into gambling. Have she at any point see you gambling and then pick interest?

After figuring all of these then you will know your influence towards her. If she is gambling by her own will, its all good but if she is doing it because she watched you do it then you might have influenced her wrongly at that tender age.

You are asking the right questions, if she started gambling because she saw him gambling then that makes him a bad parent this is the unfiltered Truth. Even if she eventually learns how to gamble later on from peers or wherever at least she's grown enough to handle her emotions but at such a young it's bad for her mental health. If she gets obsessed with this it would be hard for her to focus on academics
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Re: Proof that gambling may ruin any career when greed takes over
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rachael9385
on 25/07/2025, 22:44:11 UTC
With the amount of money that NBA players make, it’s insane that we’re seeing these gambling scandals and insurance fraud situations. These people need to learn how to invest their money because they make plenty, so it is obviously a money management issue. I don’t think there is a dollar amount they wouldn’t spend and go broke.


It's no surprise, there are people that have been into dangerous gambling long before they became NBA stars that's just who they are. It's obvious that this athlete didn't gamble to make money but to he did it to either prove a a point or just have fun but it came with a huge cost. Some people are not just regular gamblers they are ready to put a lot on the line to satisfy their urge to gamble, this is dangerous
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Re: Have you been addicted to gambling in the past.
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rachael9385
on 25/07/2025, 22:33:33 UTC
It is best to quit when you start to see signs that it is becoming an addiction. You can notice if gambling causes anxiety, stress, or discomfort. Generally, you tend to have excessive losses, so I recommend you escape from that situation and focus on other things to change your behavior. Generally, if you stop in time, you will avoid falling into addiction and be able to play again in a controlled manner.


The problem is that it's difficult to stop on time when you are making Profit, a lot of addicted gamblers I know got hooked because they made a lot of Profit when they started gambling. Addiction doesn't start in a day, it can take days, weeks and months. When it becomes a repetitive pattern it means that your brain have gotten used to it. When you feel anxiety when you are gambling because you are scared to lose then there's a problem
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Re: Is There No Good Side Of Gambling?
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rachael9385
on 25/07/2025, 22:10:27 UTC
Gambling relieves you from stress and anxiety. Gambling is also a means of entertainment, and that's where most gamblers get it wrong by gambling for profits. The fact is that the consequence of gambling is destructive and can lead to early death. This is why addiction should be avoided by all means. If you are gambling responsible and have self-control on your gambling activities, gambling is fun.


Gambling can relief you of stress and anxiety when it's done moderately, when you gamble carelessly it can be a a source of stress and anxiety that's why it's a double edged sword. Like you said, gambling can be fun when you are in Control of your activities. Staying in control requires discipline because not everyone is capable of controlling theirself from losing control especially when losses starts coming in
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Re: Drinking vs Gambling
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rachael9385
on 25/07/2025, 18:48:18 UTC
In my country, there are billboards running gambling Ads and in the end they always say "gamble responsible". I am a little bit surprise, you haven't come across this in your own locality. Its almost everywhere.

Drinking is way dangerous than gambling too, so if people running Ads priorities responsible drinking to responsible gambling then we know the reasons why. Because of drinking many lives has been lost.



Same thoughts as mine, gambling ads are everywhere perhaps he doesn't go out much or doesn't make use of gambling sites to actually come across them. Gambling has a different mental effect from drinking but they are both deadly. Gambling addiction can lead to a lot of self destruction that may result to suicide and excessive alcohol consumption can affect your organs which may lead to death, so they are both dangerous
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Re: How can you enjoy the game when you are losing?
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rachael9385
on 25/07/2025, 18:42:02 UTC
He's probably lying when he says he plays for fun.
I'd believe someone with a lot of money if they said they played for the thrill of it, but fun isn't true.
Even when we play okey with friends, we get grumpy when we lose. If we're good at it, we whistle.
Even in this game, even though we don't win or lose money, I don't speak up when we lose.
And if there's a chance of winning or losing money involved, it's a different story.
Winning might be fun, exciting, and entertaining, but losing isn't fun.
Never...


You have a point though, I don't think there's no one that doesn't think of winning when it comes to gambling. When a bettor uses a small amount to chase a big odd, he knows that the chances of winning are very low but he's still captivated by the potential win and hopeful that he would win. Winning is in the back of everyone's mind, the only category of people that don't think about winning too much are those gamblers that are rich
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Re: If You Can’t Explain the Trade, You Shouldn’t Be in It
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rachael9385
on 25/07/2025, 18:36:12 UTC
One of the first things most newbies in crypto trading think about is how to get access to signals, whether it is following a “guru” on Telegram, or paying for so-called "sure signals." The truth is that due to the market's volatility, there is no such thing as a sure signal.

Signals are simply just the conclusions of someone else's analysis, and just like any other analysis it is not 100% certain. And relying fully on someone else's signals without backing it up with your own research is synonymous with betting your funds on another person's thought process, without even knowing how they arrived there

My final words: Being a trader simply means "being a student of the market."  You must learn to research, analyze, and then to build your own strategies and adjust them when necessary. This doesn’t mean you can’t learn from others, or that one shouldn't make use of signal. Rather the newbies should note this - signals should only be used as a tool to complement your thinking, not replace it.  
Meaning that before hopping onto a particular signal/ signals, you should already have a personal strategy or signal on ground which will then be used to compare with the signal you got to know if you are right on track.

I met someone few years ago that told me that he was a trader and showed me some of his orders and how they were successful so I decided to meet up with him to share some ideas. I started out by showing him that trend lines that I did over the weekend and I was the only one talking. Even when I asked him some little details he couldn't really place his words correctly, then he opened up and told me that he only copies trade of others, it was disappointing
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Re: Pertaining to leadership roles, do family financial background have much effect?
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rachael9385
on 25/07/2025, 18:30:48 UTC


‎Do top leaders or presidents of countries or big corporations and businesses do better economically because they were brought up from a rich family background with wealthy parents or from a poor family background with poor parents?
‎ Or better put, does the financial status of ones family background, that is, does one being born and brought up by rich or poor parents, have a lot to do with how well they do later in life when they attain leadership roles in big corporations and businesses or become the president of a country?


Family background when it comes to leadership roles might not be necessary but it can also contribute to the leaders personal qualities. it's not really an important fact because most leaders of different countries are not from families with a good financial background. A lot of times your own personal experiences is what defines you and not the family you were born into or you came from. It's a matter of investing in yourself
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Re: No Amount is Affordable in Gambling
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rachael9385
on 25/07/2025, 18:02:51 UTC
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?


This makes a lot of sense, every gamblers aim is to win even when small stakes are being placed.  Everyone has an amount of money that they can afford to lose for that moment but when you compound those losses accumulatively to know how much you have lost overtime it might not be pleasant because it's going to be a significant amount of money. Although not everyone gambles to chase profit
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Re: Is it still gambling if you're sure you're going to win?
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rachael9385
on 25/07/2025, 15:44:10 UTC
There are event you can predict on that even though it's not 💯 guaranteed that you're going to win,  a level of certainty makes you think that you're surely going to win.

The downside of that feeling is that you might become over confident to use a big amount in the game since you're to a large extent certain that you're going to win.

Can we still say we are gambling if the event is something we are at least 90% sure that we are going to win?


Here's the thing, no matter how sure you think an option is in gambling there's still a possibility that this can turn against your prediction that you think is hundred percent accurate. This is a game of probability, things change within a second and minute, so to answer your question, yes it is still gambling. Just because you are sure of it doesn't actually mean that you can't end up losing. Gambling is very tricky
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Re: Procrastination of your Bitcoin investment
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rachael9385
on 25/07/2025, 15:37:31 UTC
The reason for procrastination are just excuses and laziness. Anything that you want to accomplish will be done the moment you get up and start working towards it.  A lot of people give some reasons about not being able to invest in Bitcoin and one of those reason is not having that required capital to start up the investment. The more you keep waiting to have a huge amount of money you might not end up investing. If you can take aside 20 to 30 percent of what you earn either on weekly or monthly basis to buy Bitcoin, you don't need a huge amount first, just keep on doing this gradually and before you know it you'd have something very substantial. Procrastination is the beginning of failure so learn to cut out giving excuses
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Re: What is your point of no return?
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rachael9385
on 25/07/2025, 15:30:45 UTC
As the questions says, when do you stop? your point of no return?

a. at least double your money, then stop
b. you only stop when you have lost all your bankroll money and then blame the casino?
c. or you are a superstitions gambler, when you have signs like losing 3 straight in a row, then you quit because you know that you're having a bad luck
d. you stop when you are at least break even

I didn't include chasing your losses as obviously you might to continue.

My limit is when I have lost my bankroll, this is is a sign for me to quit because if I don't it's going to end in disaster. I always have a fixed for the month and once it's completely exhausted I just stop immediately because at that point my emotions might make me start thinking of touching the money in my Bank account to start chasing my losses. This is a limit that I don't break and it has helped to keep me in check
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Re: If you had infinite money, would you still gamble?
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rachael9385
on 24/07/2025, 22:54:03 UTC
Definitely, I will use martingale strategy because I know, in the end I will win!



If you are focused on winning with an infinite bankroll then what's the point lol? Remember you have an infinite amount of money, it' means that no matter how much you gamble with it would be inexhaustible, then is there any need in gambling to make profit? At such point you should just gamble for the thrill, you can make use of the martingale strategy a hundred times but this isn't going to affect you in any way
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Re: Which is more addicting?
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rachael9385
on 24/07/2025, 22:48:25 UTC
Addiction happens in whatever games, what we call Addiction is an uncontrollable urge for something, and an addict, does that thing he is addicted to consistently, so it doesn't matter which game, addictions can come from whatever games be it slot, dice, sport betting and the rest.

Addiction is about the state of mind of the addict and not what he addicted to, a gambling addict can play several gambling game2all fuelled by his addictions.

A gambler can be addicted to any one of these games mentioned but do you think that being addicted to a certain type of game is more destructive compared to the other? Personally, I think that being addicted to some casino games can be more destructive compared to when it's a sports games, not everyone might agree to this thought but that's what I think. They are all addictions but the rate at which they are affected is different
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Re: What is the best way to gamble?
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rachael9385
on 24/07/2025, 22:43:11 UTC
Every gambler has their own method, but at the end of the day, what matters is winning, and of course, enjoying the game.

But we shouldn’t focus only on the rewards. There’s always a big risk on the other side. It’s really up to you whether you want to play it slow and steady or go for that one-time big win. In the end, it’s not you who controls the outcome - it’s your luck.

No doubts winning is the main priority of most gamblers this is why they end up being addicted along the line and of course everyone has their different ways of which they tend to gamble but what matters most is that you're being able to manage every risks that comes with it and control your habits.

Most gamblers end up chasing wins that's why they get addicted that's right, this is why it's better to stop aiming to win as a gambler not because winning is bad but because it's a distracting thought and it's capable of clouding your decisions and might probably make you do the wrong things. Gamble with that Intension of having fun and not make money, it's just about having a different mental approach
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Re: Secret to success of long term betting.
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rachael9385
on 24/07/2025, 19:36:17 UTC
I don't believe there is a strategy to win and profit in the long term with betting. As has been said in many discussions, everything that involves betting is based on luck. It is not like a business strategy, or even like the strategy of a football team, for example, which in both cases can bring a favorable result. In betting, we only depend on luck, we cannot deceive ourselves in this matter.

It is true that if we control our impulses and manage our bankroll correctly, we can make a profit and even be consistent, but there is no secret to success, it is only luck or bad luck.

Even betting strategies are not hundred percent, if you don't apply risk management alongside with your strategy you are going to lose more in the long run more than what you win from it. Long term wins are not guaranteed when it comes to betting, the worst mistake anyone can make is try to use their strategies to create a source of income but they end up losing as a result of this. Long-term success isn't guaranteed
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Re: Does your luck shines brighter most with a particular casino?
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rachael9385
on 24/07/2025, 19:17:19 UTC
I have gambled on four casinos before I came to this forum and I have gambled on more than 5 casinos since when I have been on this forum. Only what I noticed has been that I am losing on all the gambling sites unless I win and I am no more using the casino to gamble. But in as much that I continue to use the casino to gamble, I will later lose. It gets to the point that I knew no casino is manipulating among them because they are just the same thing when it comes to me losing.

It's just tough luck and it has nothing to do with the casino. This might get frustrating when you are losing constantly but what you need to do at that point is to take a break instead of trying to gamble on another casino.  Gambling is all about luck and timing, you can get lucky at anytime using any casino, most people think that casinos manipulate gamblers to losing but that's not the case, it's just a game of probability
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Re: Why some countries gamble more than the others?
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rachael9385
on 24/07/2025, 19:06:12 UTC
How religious the country is will also determine their gambling habits. It doesn't matter how wealthy the people over there are or how vibrant their economy is, if the country has more religious population their gambling activities will be extremely low compared with countries that doesn't care much about religion. So this should also be put into consideration when deciding why some countries gambles more than others.

You are right, In a lot of Islam dominated countries gambling doesn't seem to be something that's done by a lot of people because of their religion. This is the reason why some countries gamble more than others. But in a country where religion reduces gambling activities there are people that would still gamble, just like I said it's only reduced it can't be stopped because some people love doing it
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Re: Why don't the rich people get addicted easily?
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rachael9385
on 24/07/2025, 18:32:10 UTC
I have seen exactly this somewhere before that the rich people are less addicted to gambling. I think this is because they are gambling not to make money, unlike someone that is not rich. I have seen people that are not rich going to a betting shop before betting on parley with little amount of money like $1 for odds of over 10 to 1000x. They will keep doing this and they will keep losing. Rich men will not think like this because they will likely not expect luck like people that are not rich. Also rich people have sources of income that is right for them which will let them not think of gambling as one.

This is actually a fact, although there are rich people that are addicted to gambling but they can't be compared to the percentage of poor people that are addicted and the reason is because rich people don't chase wins or Profit when gambling, they just do it to entertain themselves. Poor people on the other hand get more addicted to Gambling because they try to make it a source of income or a way to get rich
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Re: Is There No Good Side Of Gambling?
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rachael9385
on 24/07/2025, 18:16:14 UTC
No that’s not true. Gambling has many positive sides.

Smoking and drinking alcohol are also harmful but as long as you don’t overdo them, they won’t destroy you.

Same with gambling.

Like the other bad habits I mentioned, as long as you are in control and having fun, gambling is no different than watching a movie at a theater.

It is full of entertainment if you ask me.


Anything done moderately cannot cause any harm or negative effects. Everything has a good and bad side but it all depends on what you allow to take over. Things like gambling, drinking, smoking and even something that's non harmful like eating can be harmful when they are done without discipline. Gambling can be a source of entertainment and it can also be something very disastrous If you don't do it responsibly.