I think it depends on each person's interests. I currently prefer slot gambling, where winning is purely based on luck, as there's no need for strategy or anything else that forces the brain to think. I just wait for a good spin and win. However, even so, I don't get bored of playing it over and over again, unless the game lasts long enough, then I get bored. But the option I do other than stop playing is sometimes I turn to games that are not the type of gambling.

I’m gonna have to say neither. Gambling is not a big opportunity for one to make money but it also doesn’t exactly mean that it will leave people addicted immediately and their lives will be ruined. It still depends on the person how they can use gambling in their life whether it is to entertain themselves or to ruin themselves?

I have a coworker whom I consider my best friend, and yes, we both enjoy gambling, but even so, I prefer to gamble alone. Even when I'm with him and I want to gamble, I do it alone without showing it because I'm more comfortable gambling alone, after all. But I always tell him about the results, and my friend does the same.
Something I like to do with my friend is remind each other not to overdo it when gambling, because we have other activities to attend to as well.

Before you start gambling, the first thing you should do is ask yourself whether your intention for gambling is simply to seek entertainment or to seek profit, hoping to get rich quickly?
This is important, so try as much as possible to lower your expectations before entering gambling. Have a basic understanding of the impact of profits and losses in gambling. Once you have that, then when you experience a loss, it won't be a significant problem, and when you get a win, consider it a bonus.

In gambling in general and in sports betting in particular, bankroll management is very important. It is really important because it helps to avoid financial disaster. But if you play not only for fun and thrills, then we should also remember about strategy. Many people implicitly try to replace strategy with bankroll management. But I think you will agree with me. We forget about strategies all the time. Bankroll management is not a strategy. Bankroll management only helps you not to lose your bankroll immediately. You will lose your bankroll gradually, slowly, but still you will not avoid losing your entire bankroll, because most likely you do not want to know anything about strategies or even replace them with bankroll management.
Do you agree with me? Or do you think that bankroll management is a strategy?

so aside from gambling responsibly, will you agree that we should disclose our gambling habits or is it not the business of our spouses? does gambling really have the capacity to break up a marriage or a family?

"Taking risks responsibly" is an interesting phrase. We cannot avoid risk, and we cannot not take risks either. But excessive and stupid risk is not needed, it only brings us closer to failure. In the end, a smart player must choose a certain balance. This is how the phrase "responsible risk" is born. It may sound funny, because when you take risks, you put yourself at the mercy of the elements, you become dependent on luck. However, by adjusting many parameters of your risk, you can make it responsible. Here we can see an analogy with "responsible gaming" and a "responsible player" who knows that he is taking a risk, he does it consciously and he manages his risk as much as possible in order to reduce the risk of adverse consequences, minimize it and increase the probability of success. Do you like the phrase "responsible risk"? What meaning do you put into this concept? Is your risk responsible? How many players, in your opinion, have responsible risk?

As a general dynamic, I'd like to know what you do when you're not gambling. I mean, I don't expect you to tell me about your life. The question is more focused on: What activity you do is above gambling? I mean, something you prioritize in your life more than gambling, or what you like to do. What would make you stop watching the Champions League final, for example?

There’s a popular saying that birds of a feather flock together. Does this apply to your gambling experience? What I mean is, do you have more gambling friends with whom you can share your earnings or strategy, or do you prefer to be on your own, not telling anyone that you gamble?

Recently I noticed that some casinos offer an option they call 'play for fun' and 'real play', which are also the same things as 'demo mode' and 'real funded account play mode'.

Now my question for the casinos which label demo mode playing as 'fun' is, does it mean that those who place bets with real money are not having fun and are just after chasing for a chance to increase their staked money, or what?

Demo is meant to learn how the game works while giving you that gambling experience and entertainment, but referring to it as 'fun play alone' makes real bettors, to me, fall under the category of desperate gamblers.

I know of someone who is so addicted in gambling.who spend his time and all his money in gambling.
Which he is finding difficult to stop or control, irrespective of the consequences that surrounds it, such as relationship issues,lack of finance and emotional breakdown,many people go through so many risks just to be able to fund that lifestyle and majority of them are using gambling as there day to day activities (they make it their job) this set of people or person can loss friends, family and relationship.
Because all there focuses are on gambling, when you come across this kind of people. "all you need is to counsel them" because it's beneficial

Let me explain the thread title. I know a lot of us here would say we should be gambling for fun, but in reality most people don’t gamble just for fun, they do it mainly for profit. Even if they lose, they keep coming back because they hope to eventually become profitable in gambling.

But what if people stop aiming for profit and gamble only for fun, what do you think would be the impact on the gambling industry?

Will we still see it growing or will the industry shrink?

Always learn something new no matter the condition, even if you lose, win or have both, life is not as we thought sometimes in gambling, we can't be doing something that is not right and expect from it the best output, in gambling, we should know that it's a must to lose and we often go in loss than to win whenever we are playing a bet, the reason why that we should endeavor to always have fun and make it our priority each time we are gambling, no matter the condition for winning or losing.

It is correct that gambling affects a lot of excitement whether it is winning or losing. Both types whether winning or losing on gambling create excitement and it may turn into physical issues. It may affect me too much when I gamble and only for that reason do I often stop gambling. Even when I win in gambling it makes me addicted and I lose attraction of my daily offline tasks also along with my physical condition it may affect my mental condition too.

A lot of new gamblers sees it as a do or die affair if they don't win their games and that is why they turn out to be more addicted in gambling because they keep on chasing their losses and ends up becoming a liability/ burden to their families, now the question is must you gamble to make money?

Cockfighting is extremely popular in my country, the Philippines. In fact, it's a multi-billion peso industry, and if it were to be shut down, many ordinary citizens would be affected. It's said that cockfighting existed even before the Spanish conquest, which is why I believe it's deeply embedded in our culture and tradition, making it difficult to simply put an end to it.

Although many people say that cockfighting is cruel to animals, setting that issue aside and focusing on the event itself, I find it incredibly thrilling. The matches can be highly addictive—especially if you have a genuine passion for these birds.

Your thoughts?

I know a lot of post has been made in this gambling board and I don't know if such has been created, but what I want to say is a situation that happened to a close friend

My friend is a gambler, a serious one for that matter. Some days ago he asked me to borrow him money to gamble and I told him not to borrow money to gamble but gamble with what he can afford to lose but he refused. Instead he went ahead to borrow from another person to pay back with interest, gues what?
He loss the game and now he is owing Capital and interest together that will surely be paid now he keeps blaming me that If I had given the loan to him, that he would have just owe me the capital without interest.

>>>>Now the question remain that Is it good to take loan to gamble?
 

scatter game or this gambling game in the philippines that the government had to intervene in between because it was getting very popular and many citizens are gett addicted

some said that it’s because the philippines is a poor country and that’s why they get addicted easily but is it possible that most gamblers who got addicted are old people past retirement and have nothing else to do anymore?