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Well, I would say that I did this back in 2014. My mother already deposited all the money I need to pay for school for the year and also some allowance for my daily needs. I gambled around half of it on NBA odds. I lost that half. So I lived on really cheap food and really avoided buying anything. I even tried to avoid buying things I need like books just to save money. Was a gruesome year for me, luckily I got through. Wouldn't do that again.

How bout you guys, would you do it?

Man, that's a great risk! You should have not done it. That money wasn't yours to gamble. That money was intended for you school dude. I wouldn't do it if I was in your place. I abide by the rule gamble only what you can afford to lose. In your case, you had no right to gamble that because you cannot afford to lose that money.

What the heck, you really did that? That's epic!!! Lucky that you made it til the end. I am sure lots of diet, abstaining on gigs and night outs and of course, lots of time in the library since you've said that you can't even buy a book.

Honestly I never did that for the sake of gambling, but I once pawn my phone due to a thing that I really need to buy and I can't wait anymore and told my mother before that I left it to a friend. But I got out of that too without my parents knowing it.  :D

That's craziest thing I heard today, you have the bold, man, no doubt about it. May I ask, do you think of losing or prepare for it before you actually gamble half of your school fee? Or maybe you never really thought about losing that bet? Personally, I will never do the thing you did, but I did done some crazy shit like gamble my whole month salary and of course end up losing it all, leave me no choice then I have to lend some money from my family.

Haha I did that a few years ago when the school but I spend it when approaching the end of the month
because usually I was given money at the beginning of each month so not too disturbing my activities
I also remember some of my friends experienced the same thing with the OP  :D

Wow, buddy why would you even think about doing that. I would never even touch that money, I would let it sit back in my bank account for good. I don't think i am much of a gambler i have pretty good control  :D damn man you really did make a very wrong decision.

Definitely not. That is something I would never do. If ever you feel like you are bound to do this in the future, then ask your mom or anyone in the family to hold the funds or deposit it directly. You can get into a lot of trouble in your life if you handle money important in your life irresponsibly.

I would never risk something like that specially with funds that belong to my family or someone else. I have done this once before, but it was with the money I saved for buying something for my father. But the feeling of guilt will probably cause long term regret.

This way of gambling only the gambling addiction gamblers does this in the hope of recovering the loss. But i wont tell that i have not done i have done but not that much, i just gambled with my 1 week signature campaign payment, but next week itself i recovered it, after that i am just following the bankroll system and have fixed daily limit in sports betting and that too split betting not all in one game. This way now my ROI is very good.

Advisable you should change your bad habits gamble with school funds, friend. It was so harm you because you have to to suffer the consequences, I hope you do not repeat again. I never used the school funds to gamble because I realized it was very important. But once when I was at school I was gambling with some of my monthly pocket money, it is used for live sports betting with my friends. It was my first gambling :D

This is really pathetic that you had lost the school fees in gambling. You were misguided like gambling could never be a source for generating money and it is a way to just to spend money if you have excess.

I guess this is a nice topic so that it can spread awareness that we must avoid gambling to generate money for any reasons.

You take the big risk of loosing that money i don't used my school allowance just to gambled i will not choose not to play than risking it on the game that i can assured my winning, I don't want to get thin when i need food to eat always remember our knowledge is our treasure and we can get back what we've spend after we graduated and find a descent job.

What the h?  I will never do this thing even im addicted with gambling, I can control the money i have Im making a list of the funds I will use when im playing gambling.
If I do this thing and if my mother find out this Im surely dead to her.

By definition you should only bet whatever amount of money you can afford to lose since winning is not a sure thing in gambling, so no, I will never do it and what you did was irresponsible behavior since you must keep your gambling money and the money for your expenses always apart so you don't suffer consequences similar to what happened to you.

I never tried to gamble any money that I don't own nor money that is alloted to other things.  I always make sure that, whenever I am playing a gambling game, it is either a free money or the money that I can afford to lose without any ties to house budgets.  I never wanted to get in trouble just to have a short time entertainment.

Doing such thing is just like a suicide and i wont really do such thing and i dont want to compromise the money that is already being budgeted for my school expenses and others.If you do lost half of it you will really suffer because you let yourself do gamble on those money and you dont think about the risk would happen later on.Thats really a lesson learned for you for sure.

NO OF COURSE NOT. THIS IS TOTALLY INSANE. WHY WOULD I RISK MY CHILD CAREER FOR SOME STUPID PROFIT COME FROM CASINO ? I ONLY GAMBLE JUST FOR FUN. I HAVE TO WORK 8 HOURS PER DAY TO TAKE CARE FOR MY KIDS SO THAT THEY CAN GO TO COLLEGE AND UNIVERSITY. AND I SUGGEST PEOPLE SHOULD NOT USE THE SCHOOL FUND TO GAMBLE

If you are having a problem with gambling it is better to consult a doctor rather than gambling with the future of your child.These kind of people will ruin their family and i would not dare to do so even in my dreams.

yes i have been did it once and my parents doesn't know about that because i could double those funds by playing traditional cards indeed that was crazy things but honestly i was so fear losing all my money and fortunately i wasn't lost

first of all you should always gamble with money that you can afford to lose. it is like the first rule of gambling that everyone should know before going it. casinos should have this as warning on their first page, like what cigarette boxes have a warning about lung cancer.

also, sorry to say this but only a gambling addict loses all or even half his whole money on gambling and it shows you lack control.

although it is good that you already figured this out and apparently stopped yourself before a disaster. and that is your luck right there. from now on try to only gamble with small amounts that you can afford to lose.

I did it once too. I did a martingale on a gambling site. I multiplied my money by ten folds. Pulled out my original bankroll then played the winnings using martingale again. In the end, I just lost the winnings. But, luckily I was able to get back my school fund. So sorry for your loss OP! You should have think twice when you did it.

We have the same situation OP on which I spend a little portion of my school allowance for the whole year and luckily the amount was lost is only a 1/4 on the total amount which doesn't hurt me soo much and same as you I do save up money as much as I can in able to survive the whole year since my parents would really scolded me when they know that the money they gave is being spend on gambling that's why I suffer the consequences.

Well, I was young, wild and free at the time. I didn't know better. It's these experiences that makes us who we are today. Now, I don't gamble too much. I just play for fun and just a few dollars and faucet dusts. I wouldn't lose more than a hundred dollars any more at a time. So I would say I totally learn my lesson there. I would not like to go back to eating instant noodles on a daily basis.

Indeed, I think that the people are doing this are insane and not good in their mind, you should never do this its for your kids man..

Op has took a big risk. This happens due to addiction. I haven't been addicted similar to OP. He could have given a pause when he experienced first failure and made some other plans. Somehow he had managed to fullfil all his needs even when he is in a hard situation. He seems to be good in money management.

I wouldn't say it was an addiction. I would say it was brought about by being young and reckless. I would define an addict as one who gambles every single cent he ever gets his hands on. I think OP was able to stop when he knew he already lost half of the money. He never did try to win it back and just went on and walk away from gambling.

Thats crazy. I wont and i cant do such thing. I wouldnt prioritize gambling over school. If the money has been set into a one important thing then dont use it into another one especially gambling.

As a former shit, good thing you did that and experienced lost. If you managed to get winnings out of your risky actions then definitely you will feel the experience of being a winner. And by that you will continue you gambling life even you loss big after that since you want to feel that winning experience again.

Sometimes we really need to experience worst before our heads bumped and realized what's the wise thing to do even we are into gambling.

P.S Back in my studying days, it's really hard to spend all my school funds into anything else other than the main purpose since I know how my parents worked hard for it.

Yes, OP's incident clearly shows how he values education. But at the same time we need to think about how people are treating gambling and how much faith they are having within gambling for making better fortunes from it. Lack of awareness about gambling dangers is the prime reason for the problems of OP.

Actually it not only you there're you may find many people who ruined their life of gambling addiction.A gamblers ultimately failed there livelihood though it might possible a better life if he/she would control it.Gambling is a disorder that affects millions of people around the world.Overall should have struggled not only you even your beloved family members.So build up your awareness it might be helped you take a best decision.

It is a bad idea to gamble money for schooling in the first place.  OP is lucky that he is able to stop at halfway.  At least he still have money for important projects or at least daily budgeted allowances.

I would never have done, betting my school fund.  I always see how my parents work hard for money to the point that they need to borrow from their friends because there are 4 of us studying college at the same time.  I wasting my allowances to gambling is a no for me.

I am not that young so that I can talk about myself, and I never committed such mistake for myself.
When it comes to my child, I will definitely not do that because I can't compromise with the education and future of my child and so, I won't gamble too much, at least not my child's school fund.

Well I am not young anymore but surely any money my parents gave me for my daily spendings in high school and university I spent 70% of them in gambling through different casino. This was pocket money for me and I never regret doing such things. I used to go with the 10 Euro the minimum to play in casinos in my city and played slots there and got a lot of free drinks out of this 10 Euro. In the end was a great experience for me.

I think I would not spend my child school fund though on gambling as that is the clear example of gambling addiction. I am not addicted (yet).

What kind of lowlife gambling addiction pisses away their educafion in hopes of some quick money!? Hey moron! If you get your degree you'll make 2x+ on your salary for your lifetime. That's not a gamble. Don't be an idiot.

Oh ya, no I wouldn't gamble away money that's needed. I also wouldn't buy fucking heroine with money that I need for my dog to have surgery or to pay for Christmas presents. This is disgusting. You should be ashamed of your addiction.

Obvously not, that is just freaking insane. When you are given money to do something for free, you should not gamble it in a damn casino, and it still aplies to the market casino, you should have used it for its initial purpose. Studying within itself is an investment in yourself. Of course, studying and working sucks when there are people making tons of money on the internet, but I have always failed to set up a website or whatever and get money, so im stuck with a god damn job.

Whatchu talkin bout?   Doctas don't treat gamblin' addiction.  Especially after this fool done went an' gambled away his school money.  You lucky yo parents didn't bust a 3rd semester abortion on yo stupid ass.

I was very sincere with my schooling and did not think about to do any thing like that and so now I am happy so I will never like to gamble even with my child's school funds. I will not like to destroy someone life for the sometime entertainment of me.

I'm glad that everything is behind you now, but honestly this is crazy thing to do, and I would never do something like that, not even in my wildest dreams.
I like to gamble, but I know how much I can spend, and I never go over that, and I never borrow money to have for gambling.

No, I wouldn't. It's so irresponsible and desnecessary... Money for children school belong to them, adults must respect what belongs to the children.
Their future is very important to be wasted for an adult on a fast gambling game. Money for gambling is that money is remaining after you pay and save everything you have to during the month.

I did this too way back 2012 when I was still in college and I spent 25% of my total fund for paying my tuition fee. Since I am that active with e-sports  betting because I was once a Dota player. Unfortunately, what happened is I lost that amount and that's why I stopped studying by that year because the cashier doesn't want to accept my payment unless I will pay in full.  :'(

I think its a bad idea to gamble anyone's school funds(need not be just your child's). Always remember that you should only gamble the money you can afford to lose. So thats not something that you could afford to lose. Education is one of the most important factors that could make one's life a lil easier in the future. Just gamble with some spare money but not with something that would be a basic necessity.

I would never gamble money that is set aside for something that is important like your child's school fund. People just need to control them self's when it comes to gambling by setting aside an amount each week they want to gamble with and stick to it. And never chase losses because people tend to lose even more by doing so.

I would not even think of doing that, school funds are school funds, I do not ever gamble if I have limited or low amounts of money or have only money for food and school funds. I only gamble if I have more than enough money for spending(which I never have).

Now I have completed my education and that thing came for the first time to my mind so I never gambled with my school fees and as I do not have any child so for the time being I cannot say that what will I do at that time when I will have a child as no one can predict the future.

Hehe...I did it in the past when I was 16. Each months my father always give me the money for my school fund but I used it to gamble and to have fun with my friends. I did it for about six months before my father realized that I never give those money to the school. My father got very angry and didnt trust me anymore when dealing with my school fund.

Lots of students are doing what OP did. They spend all the money intended for tuition fees by partying or gambling. Afterwards, if they need to pay,they create fake projects to ask for more money from their parents. Not a good thing to do but it happens.

an addicted gambler will do anything to gamble even it's your family fund
they always make the situation worse as an addiction will never ended good
to avoid something dangerous like this people have to realize early
go for consult if it's necessary.

Well for we are just the same when i was in high school that instead of using my allowance from school buying pencil ball instead of use my allowance i just keep it and soon ill gamble playing a card game or gamble with my friends and play game like tekken this game honestly is addicted before that you can bet if you can win to them or not..
I am same avoiding buying a food so i choose to buy cheap foods just to fill my stomach..
That right now i realize that thing and i am now a father that i hope that it will not be the same as what i did before..

If I will take risk with my school funds and if I lost them then I will be removed from the school by the administration that is why I cannot think to take any risk with the funds of my school and other point is that mostly my parents conduct that duty for me to submit my school fees etc.

no I won't do such a thing, gamble is supposed to be fun and only gamble with the extra money you got, I won't gamble with the money I need to spend and I won't jeopardize my future only for gambling, and nobody should do that,don't ruin your future because of gambling, you need to become a smart gambler

I have never experienced that and never will because I don't want to risk anything that is not mine to begin with. I think your mom worked hard for that money and you just gambled half of it. It's good that you managed to work it out and somehow lived.

Does your mom know about it?

Back when I was new in gambling, I think of gambling for the future of my family and that includes gambling for the education of my children, but I have never come to a point that I will risk the money for the education of my children. I feel like, if I do that it's like I am robbing them and eventually might ruin their future because of the stupid decision I will make.

Thats not a smart move mate. Its like you gamble your future. Whats done is done. You shouldnt throw away that money because its for your future. Your parents worked hard just to give you that money. You just throw it away just like that. Its a stupid move and selfish. Your lucky because you have money to pay for your school fees because a lot of people dont have a chance to enter school.

Well at least he learned from it. Gambling has indeed destroyed lives, good thing for OP he didn't lose everything and he was still able to pay for school. He was young and stupid, we all have been there. I've had my fair share of loses in gambling. I would advise young ones too to stay away from it unless you want lose money and gain heart aches.

You sir, are a degenerate gambler (or were). I laugh, but not laughing at you. I laugh because I myself have been there, not as crazy as your story, but bad enough. I am still a degenerate gambler, but not Legendary status degenerate gambler. Way back when I was younger, I used to use money that was supposed to be for food and other real life needs to gamble. It was my own money that I earned, but still bad. I remember having to make do with ramen noodles and peanut butter sandwiches, lol. So sad.

Anyway, I've learned to keep my gambling bankroll separate from my real life bankroll. I don't have any kids, but I would never, at least I hope I would never ever gamble with any of my kid's school fund or any funds for my kids.

if you really don't have the money savings yourself lebih baik tidak berjudi, if you gamble with school fund or borrowed money it will worsen your situation. I'll never do that

Experience really tells us on what is right, when we are young we are too aggressive because we want to experiment ways to win in gambling and unfortunately we failed in the end, I know we can lose but the value of lessons is very important as it will help us grow as a person and not just in gambling but in real life as well. We just prove something that not everything we want is right for us, and you have to give up things to live a normal life everyone is hoping.

Actually, i am not a teenager, and also i am doing a good job in a big brand. But i think you must be surprised that before 2 years, i never and ever see and play gambling, and now i became gambler because of crypto currency. When i know about the bitcoin and other than crypto currencies and i did work with them, than gambling was one of them, which give me fun and excitement, So that's why i want to play it again and i am here. Otherwise, I've no big surprised story.

Nope, I didn't do that, and also, I can't... When I am still studying, I only do that during my graduation at high school, I have a money that time from my savings, but it is not enough and I really really want to bought a guitar for my self, so I decided that when my parents give me the contribution for that graduation rights, I will use it to complete my money to purchase that guitar... Then the day came and I bought that guitar, then after a day, my parents buy me a guitar so I have 2 guitars and I have to sold the other one and my parents already know that I didn't pay the money they gave me... But still, they pay it again... I could consider it as a great adventure of my life, that I can't forget until now...  :)

I cant do that even im desperate but i wouldnt do such things i can gamble money that i think spare with my actual needs its not a good thing to gamble the money thats belongs to such important matter be very careful and always think with the outcome results and posibility to lose.

I have seen enough reason why I would not just from your story . There are things in this world that we must prioritize first and obvioulsly we must prioritize our studies over gambling . I have already finished my studies and don't have a children yet but gambling your child's school fund is far more worse than gambling yours cause someones life depends on it . Yes you can endure a thrifty life cause it is a responsibility you must do because of your decision but your child can't and moreover your child did not do anything to deserve that . SO DEFINITELY NO

Its a tough one for me, I wouldn't know how to offer a good advice because I have gambled half my monthly income before and I did win. On a normal circumstances I wouldn't dare do that but I was so pressed to service a loan and that made me take that crazy decision and it paid off so you've got to decide for yourself and listen to your inner self and you'd be able to make the correct decision.

This is a wrong way to gamble never used money that is needed for something important because if anything goes wrong and you lose you will create another problem for yourself. Only gamble your extra money. As for the topic no i will not used my or my child's school or any important funds.

wow that is the worst thing, to gamble your child's school fund, it is still bad to do what OP did and gamble and lose all your own funds but the worst is when you gamble other people's money even if it is your own children. and sadly this happens a lot among gambling addicts who look for any source of money for their gambling, hopefully we don't see many of them around here.

NO, I wouldn't do such thing, it is just gambling, doing stuff like that in gambling is not just worth it. Instead of risking my money in that which is already saved up for something, I would rather spend it to some important things like buying projects for school, buying books and so on and for foods. I'm not crazy enough like you to do that, my mom would kill me because it is not that easy to earn money and I am just going to spend it on gambling? No way, I value my life lol.

I wouldn't gamble ANY money that I have put away to save up. Especially if it would be the money I saved for my children. These funds can go away within SECONDS if you got a bad day. Gambling is known for meaning loss in the long run.. Why would I do this to my children?! I mean I would rather keep that money and give it to them later than trying to double the amount and losing all...

Dumbest idea to do, lol. Luckily, you could passed through that moment even though laboriously.
We know the chance to win on sports betting higher but sometimes it tricky if team that in match are and many people lose, I don't recommend for anyone to do the same thing except you're ready to deal with the consequences.
I just play for fun and don't have intended to throw so much money on gambling, play safe man.

I remember wasting a lot of time back in the day trying to become a professional starcraft:bw gamer. It was when e-sports where still very underground in the west and you were labelled a weirdo/nerd for even implying making a living off competitive gaming was a viable idea. I realized it was a waste of time. It's simply impossible to outcompete those damn asians. The south koreans are the best at those games and they get tons of resources to train all day.

i don't think that i will do this because the school fund is most important than to do gamble and we should not use the school fund for any reason except for buying some foods because we need food for our life. its too dangerous if we risk the school fund and i hope you don't have to do this again in future.

Better not to gamble when you're still school since mostly child / teenager only act based on their rage
For example : if they win, they will keep betting more and more but when they lose , they will chase the lose until they get profit again  ( even they insist to ask money for their parent with rush ! )

You took a big risk, man, but fortunately for you it worked out for the better but even if you are very good at playing cards, I suppose you mean poker, you must understand not even the best players win every time so if possible avoid that in the future.

I wouldn't it is not worth it. After hearing you story I certainly will never do that. It will depress you and you will blame yourself and oh no ! It is just dreadful ! I feel bad for you but I am glad it is over. Please never ever do that again ? It really is the best for you. Goodluck with life I hope you well.

i think only bad addicted people can do so. to me i play gambling with my extra money, and i never your my important money that i reserve for some business or for any other thing.

in fact, I would never do that if I were you. it is a very big risk, and it can affect your life. before gambling, you'd better think about things that could happen in the future, because if you do not do that, it will be very difficult for you to live the days, when you lose. but, there is always hope. you should start collecting the money in a way that truly benefits, such as start looking for bitcoin, trading, investment, and others.

I know that feeling of yours with my Dota-Dota 2 experience but it seems that it is not really for me because my parents are blaming me now for addicted to it. And if not just because of it I was able to graduate earlier and I don't have to stop. But I am already on the competitive scene by that time but because of that incident I realize that the money that was being gave by my parents to me for my school fees came from their hard work. That's why I decided to quit 2015.

Lol it's a young wild problems. We are all did it when we was young. But now, just gamble with the money on your pocket, not your wife's pocket.

For me, giving money or using money to your child is like an long term investment. You are investing your money for the good future of that child. Thats what most parents do. But gambling that fund, that guy has a problem. It can be used to other good things than in gambling. Just  think what will that poor child feel? It will broke his/her heart. That the worst.

It is wrong to sacrifice someone or your future only for gambling, school fund is very important for future without education you will have difficulty to find proper job, you only should gamble with spare money, gambling is supposed to be an entertainment not for you to destroy your future

i've already done this too when i was on college and i would say it is worth it too try mostly for first timer but this is too risky if you're going to gamble your tuition fee. but im a lucky kid back on days. because i've literally make it double in a poker games in the house party that's why i never regret anything because i didnt lose my tuition fee in fact i used my winnings to buy a new laptop :D

That's how gamblers think, we are too positive that we forget to think the other side of the coin, you are lucky you win but whatever you say it is still not right to gamble what is intended for your education, it would be a little acceptable if you work for that money but if you are just relying from your parents, maybe we have to think that we are being unfair to them. We have to recognize their effort and value the money they gave to us.

Nope I would never do this and I think this is even crazy if you do this, if you are doing this you are most likely addicted to gambling in my eyes this is just not good at all.

Hell no! although it may be bit enticing to think that you can double any money you have if you have good odds in gambling, i still won't risk it especially if it's for something as important as my child's education. that's a good lesson for you though dude and you're a bit fortunate as well that you were able to save for the losses. but yeah for me, it would be about priorities and gambling is in no way high above that list.

No, I will never use school fund for gambling. Only dumb people use them. I think most of the people here is to conscious enough to realize what is good for their family and themselves. Using school fund can easily terminate a family in a second. I only use some extra bucks I got from doing survey to gamble, that's it

that is a huge risk man, gambling is a game of luck, and to try luck, you need to have scheduled yourself to avoid unnecessary risk. But for me I can never gamble with my school fund.

I am a very interested in psychology of gamblers. So I want to ask you serious question: what would you do if instead of losing half of your money you won?
Would you stop then grab money and call it a good day? I am more inclined to say that you would gamble until a loss, to push boundaries of your luck.

I wouldn't do it no. Gambling with your school fund is stupid but if anybody does it with money that's supposed to be for their child's school fund then they're disgusting.

At the time I was a stupid college kid so I don't know. I initially profited in my first few weeks. I remember earning $30 a day from my activities. But then it all turned sour in the middle and it turn really ugly by the end. I was betting $30 on each game on straights of NBA odds. In the first few weeks I was doing really good with three game parlays which really profited. I thought I was invincible after the first week. Then I lost most of the games every week and the winnings disappeared and I incurred loses instead.

I had the same experience with you. it is a tremendous challenge. we are required to play gambling. but we like the unobstructed wall so great. it is an adrenaline rush in playing gambling. ;D

yes indeed, its only make us to stolen that money for our pleasure which is not right to do. if you still have heart in yourself, then i am sure that you don't want to do this. beside that, while we use that money, we can not play with good as the money is not our money and i think is just make us to get loss.

No, I didn't gamble my school funds and I really can not do that. I value every cents given to me and most especially the tuition fees. Every time I have it in a semester before the exam period, I immediately pay it on the school cashier. I don't want to waste the hard works of my parents just to earn them money and to provide my needs.

When i did study, than i have no awareness about gambling, even i didn't play it, when i have finished my study. Actually, i have no interest on gambling, because my friends and my family members didn't have interest on gambling, they thought about gambling very bad thinking, that's why i always avoid it. But last one and half year, when i know about bitcoin than first time, i did dice game, i really enjoy it. So step wise, i started to play gambling.

I would not put my future in risk just to have some fun or greed if ever I had some extra maybe I could enjoy it in some gambling site but I would never gamble my funds specially if it's for my future

I wouldn't do that on a normal circumstance but situations/circumstances can make you take weird decisions sometimes.

its too crazy to use our school fund because we can not pay our school and we don't have to do this as there are should be another way to gamble for your own money but if you still use your school fund then i think you are an addicting in gambling and you should need to meet an psychiatrist to help you to solve your problem.

Hell no. I'd be out of my mind if i do that. Not everyone would be able to manage to save up the amount that you've lost in gambling so you were a bit fortunate there. But if it was me and my kid's education would be compromised i won't even consider anything close to gambling. There are things that are much much more important than our wants and we must always make sure we know our priorities and not to give in to personal urges especially if it's our kid's future that's on the line

i think only non sense people can think that, i think those people who are addicted to gambling and having no source of money in invest in gambling can use such strategy to collect money using unfair means and invest in gambling.

I disagree this is not a matter of age, there are responsible people and irresponsible people, there is nothing wrong with gambling but to gamble to the point you begin to sacrifice important things for you and your family then we are probably looking at someone with a problem.

Never ever. It would be the last I would do. I have a rule for myself that goes like this: Never gamble with money you can not afford to lose. And the school funds of the children is definetly something which I can not afford to lose. And it is absolutly irresponsible in my honest opinion.

One of the student problems and I have a same experienced back then with just a different story.

Back in my college days, Im really a gamer enthusiast especially the classic Dota 1 and Counter Strike. After acquiring my full tuition, I decided to gamble some of them hoping to earn more. I did this many times and my stats is pretty good. My team experienced loss but overall we have more wins so didn't have an encountered problem about money shorting. Good thing.

Now that Im a working man now I realized now how worth the hard earned money is so I will not tolerate that kind of activity to my apprentices that I will encounter.

I would never bet my school funds,its just disrespectful to parents and you are most likely going to lose it all. Good thing you stoped when you lost 50% and you managed to go through that year,you learned your lesson.

I ever spent my college fund which effected so bad for my education.
I won't do the same mistake twice, moreover use my children school funds, never ever. ;D
My gambling funds is separated from any other, so I always gambling and lose of course but not affected my life a lot, just another spending on gambling sites.

As much as I am addicted to gambling i don't think that i would ever gamble away such important funds, especially if the funds are not there for myself in the first place, but are my childrens'.

However if they are short anyway on their school funds, I would go for it :P

wtf . man you've been through a very risky situation and it''s very difficult to be in the situation where you only a limited budget but it's good that you made your last budget to be suitable for your needs for that year ;D and good thing that you've learned from that mistake and you've decided to never do it again . I am also a student so I understand how is it hard for you to fit the budget you have although you already know that it could be insufficient .

I don't think so, I would always put education first before gambling or any other addiction or vices that I might have. Education is just something that you're going to need once you're an adult to survive. It would be really hard for you to keep up with all the expenses most especially if you live in the city when you're not a degree holder. You will be forced to either move to the province or to work like a dog.

Reading all of the replies here I mostly see everyone doesn't want to do it. Even me I won't even do that because your parents will lose trust on you if they found out that you gambled the money that they gave you.

Yup, everyone will surely think like that and even the parents would give something a bad thing to us if caught gambling. But we should know that not all parents do it all. Because there are some parents who have different ideas to his gambling. And most of them are people who did not matter to the people they care about. But we never think gambling is the answer to all that we want, because if only have to choose the trading or gambling. I would prefer trading. Because trading is better than gambling.

This is important, gambling is a decision and there is nothing wrong with playing the games but when you are young and still lack maturity is best to avoid it then when you get older and are more mature you can take an informed choice about gambling.

If you are making good money with competitive gaming I would say that you should continue playing, but if you aren't a top player at age 20 then just forget about it because it's a waste of time. Also the thing with competitive gaming is the games don't last much, they always switch to whatever new games are trendy instead of playing the same game for 10+ years like they used to do with starcraft before the new starcraft 2 was released which btw looks like it was shit compared to the classic bw.

Man if i were you never take risk when you had something to pay it will broke you life for sure how if you family knows what you are doing then you are probably going to stop going to school if you want money then why don't you tell your parents they will understand you than using that for illegal thing and using it for illegal activities.

There is a lot of people out there that is really reckless about their investing. It is a bad sign that you would invest something as important as a money given by your parents for a particular goal which is paying your education. I think this is a sign of early addiction to gambling with money.
I mean sometimes taking a risk is worth it, but you can't risk big amounts. Like risking 20 dollars back then to buy 100 BTC would have been a good idea if you felt like it, because its a reasonable risk.

i also do not play with the fund of my children reserve for their education,  i even do not play with the money reserve for my daily expenses, i only play gambling with my pocket money that i can easy bare if i lose it.

This is the right approach to it since we must keep our gambling money and our expenses money apart so there is no temptation to use our expenses money in gambling that way if you run out of money in your gambling account you will stop playing and do something else.

I did it a few years ago, for Greece won on 2004 Europe cup final againts Portugal, but im lucky that my school fund being double because of Greece won that match, after that i never bet/gambling with my personal expense fund..

That is the best thing to do. I wouldn't use my savings, my salary to gamble and surely I wouldn't use my children school fund to gamble. Their future is much more important than an unpredictable gambling game. Who do it is risking all the life of a child in 1 minute sometimes, if the player gets a long lose streak. Everything is gone in a fast gambling game. Total crazy who do this kind of thing.

Even it is a true experience, I like to suggest you not to share this here after as it might temp other new gamblers to risk their committed money into gambling. I mean to say we do not set wrong example for the new innocent gamblers. Because that might lead to big disasters indirectly.

ofcourse not whos parents gonna use their childs fund on gambling ? do you want your child to suffer on hugryness and other possibility that actually could happen if you use your childs fund on gambling.. much better if im gonna work all day long as long as my child wont suffer hungryness.. i admit that im a gambler but my gambling skills wont go too far and to happen this kind of situation..

No, because we can screw our future but damage our childs future its insane, i wont take any risk with the money that belongs to the childs, in fact i just risk sometimes a few satoshis, and those is from my earnings online, i dont use fiat to buy bitcoin, and i wont do that now, its too expensive for me already.

I wont risk that money and i would not play the money that are being reserved for my education no matter what. People do have normal thinking or mind would definitely do the same thing and i could say for those people that would able to touch and spend the money for school they are too dumb enough or stupid enough to waste those money just for gambling.

Well i think every responsible person wouldn't even think about gambling with your child's education. something as important as this should be left to chances and must be put to priority. for me even the earnings that i get from bitcoin, i try to save it for future use much more now that the price is surging. gambling is not at the same level of importance as education and bottom line is we need to make sure that important things doesn't get compromised in any way by unnecessary spending.

Yes, these type of sharing definitely will be misleading many new gamblers.

Actually I do not find the purpose of this discussion whether to warn about the dangers of gambling or just to share others experience in similar incidents. Anyway we need to learn some new lessons from others experience, that is more important.

The forum is a place to share our experiences since his response was on topic and does not include criminal acts or anything then I think it is fair for him to share what he did and what he learned, I think he got lucky but fortunately he realizes that himself and has stop doing those reckless bets anymore.

Agree he is just sharing what his experience before.. not all people are win in gambling but some people are actually making a good profit in gambling.. we have different experience and i think those experience can help you to prove that gambling is not a good way or source of earnings .
Gambling is made only to give entertainment like other said just bet you can afford to lose..

but i am not in favour of this statement that bitcoin is for entertainment only, i think gambling is formed for making money only and you cannot find any fun and entertainment in gambling if you are not putting money in gambling.

Definitely not.. in my opinion this would cause a big problem for you when you lose. I only use my personal or extra funds when gambling and that's it win or lose that's fine with me since I play smart and know to control myself and feelings towards gambling.

As i have read he didnt said that bitcoin is for entertainment only. He said gambling and you said it wrong and i do agree with his statements that gambling is really for entertainment and no one really forces you to play and as you said playing gambling does really need money in able to play.Risking money that is already lend for your education is not an ideal thing and i wouldnt do such thing too.

In my recollection I never do that but I really like to to gamble use my pocket money all I do for extra money, certainly there for pleasure that i get every monday for talking with my friend before school or in school break time.

Using school fund is the most idiot idea a man can think about. Those money is for the future career, for your kids, for your future, too. If you use all of the school fund, you will definitely be punished. Gambling is only for entertaining so do not screw up everything just because you do not have money to join a casino

Yeah. This is a move by people who are already addicted on gambling. There is no future on gambling. As above mentioned, this is a insane decision for a parent because he/she didn't consider the future. The only way to stop this addiction is to have a psychology consultation or seek a religious advice. Religious advice works on me. :)

This is happening sometimes for those who are addicted in gambling and for those who weak minded. for me i can not gamble my money for career of my 3 child and that is why i hardly save more bitcoins and save partial of my salary into bitcoin because i want to have a business someday that can bring me to be rich and my child has money for their collage..

Believe me addicted gamblers can always come with even worse ideas than that, I remember seeing one particularly distressed gambler and I asked why he was in that state, and he said he just lost his months salary in the casino and was wondering how he was going to pay for rent that month.

what are you doing it is a bad thing, I never gambling with my fund school, i use pocket money or private money. eventhough gambling is bad activity

That's awful and it is the reality that addicted gamblers can attain to do anything they want just to sustain their gambling addiction. And we can't deny that there are people who are experiencing this type of addiction and they are making gambling as their first priority. So for me, they are idiots of idiots but addicted gamblers will always be addicted whether they use school funds or their fund for the whole year.

True, they can even wager their wife just to play gambling.  

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/kanpur/Man-loses-wife-as-stake-in-IPL-gambling/articleshow/52480224.cms

Sad but true?  Gambling addicts never care.  All they have in mind is to feel that high feeling brought to them by wagering a huge amount to win a bigger stake.

Not the addicted people but the nonsense people can do that.
We can see such kind of problems in the most backward countries, where there is no standard of life. Where the education rate is very low and people are spending life like animals, but in civilize countries such kind of issues can occurred very rarely.

Only the uneducated people to do like this of non-sense. Yup, the backwards countries and uneducated village people, can use their personal money and play gambling. These people will not play online gambling, and they will not go real casino also. They play with their friends, and for some worst games, they do betting. This type of betting will spoil his life as well as his family life.

A gambler will do whatever it takes just to sustain his gambling addiction and even using a school fund is not going to be able to stop him from accomplishing and satisfying himself in gambling. And there are even worst thing than this just like what others are saying, they can even worst than this using school fund for gambling.

Thats what inside the mind of an addict doing everything just to satisfied what he wanted to be done and even stealing or lending so basically if we are talking with gambling addicts  it cant be escape they will use any resources that they have just to fill in what they wanted and satisfied their lust.

As a student, of course i would not gamble my school fund. If i would do it then my studies will definitely be ruined and my parents will get very angry at me. Even if we have so much money or just myself only i would not still gamble it because i know that nothing good will happen if i gamble.

It depends on myself if i think there's 75% chance to win ,i will gamble.my money if im not so sure with it i do not gamble it .I experience also that situation sadly i don't recover the money that i've lose So the alternative way that i do is to sell my personal things like mobile phone,laptop and jewelries .A good lesson not to take risk if not so sure will be the result.

Sadly that 75% chance to win does not ensure you a win, there's no certain in gambling for sure that's why it's called gambling because it's a game of chance, and putting in gambling your child's school fund is simply violating the basic principle of gambling which is not to gamble what you cannot afford to lose. It's your kid's future you are gambling, think wisely.

Unfortunately this is common behavior in my country, since nobody actually care how old kids are when they are placing bets. Kids don't care for that money because they know if they lose it their parents will give them money again. So sad.
And person who bets child's school funds is obviously addicted and doesn't care about his children at all, not just their school funds.

Unfortunately religious advice does not work for the majority of people since now people are losing their faith more and more in this new technological era and therapy can be very costly especially if we take into account addicted gamblers will not have a lot of money due to the nature of their addiction.

You know, a lot of college student have done that with varying degrees of success and failure.  It's not really a good idea to take this route at such an early stage in one's educational development because the skills to become a successful gambler have not been attained for most at this stage.  Get a degree in mathematics or engineering, then try your hand at gambling on a professional level.

This is not new you can hear lot of stories more then this interesting about how they started to play gambling and then lost everything after that they are realizing the mistake they have done it. That is why it is told that play with what if you lose should not affect your and your family life.

It's clearly a sign of being irresponsible person, everyone has its own story in their worst experience in gambling and I believe it's one of the worst mistake that a gambler has ever did, you cannot gamble the future of your kids, without the funds they cannot continue with their studies and it has been said many times that education is very important and that's the only thing that cannot be stolen from us.

That's really a dangerous behavior in your country. I think the bookies just doesn't care where the money comes from, they all think about profit. That's the cause of fail parenting right now. I believe that if you're a parent and your kid is starting to rebel in some weird way that you don't know about, that's just failure. You didn't fail in supporting your child; you failed in the upbringing of your child.

True, people should be avoiding wasting their child's funds or their own student fund in gambling. We can't really blame the bookies, they are a business and their business is not about preventing people from losing money. Their business is to accept bets and be the house of the sports book. Bookies will not care about where the funds came from or if that was the last penny the gambler has.