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Hi, i have a question for my gambler's buddies as i'm perplexed by this. I have a friend who really wishes to gamble, but he is not allowed to because his uncle lost his entire assets and some million's and his grandfather to lost another million or so (they're filthy rich). So due to this facts he is barred from gambling, they believe he'll loose money to, they're stopping him on past incidents and i'm really tired of explaining them they're wrong, what do you'll think, anyone else faces such issues?

I'm not facing this situation but what makes him such in a haste that he wants to gamble? Is that necessary? if he really wishes to gamble then he can go somewhere where no one recognized him to gamble. (i.e casino - physical or online) His relatives are of course scared on the same fate that he can be. How old is your friend? is he on the right age?

Don't bother their problem, maybe their family is not really good in gambling so maybe it is okay for your friend not to gamble so he will not making another loss for their family. It is not also good that you push your friend to an activity that is no assurance that he will really win. You all both know that gambling is just a matter of luck and if you don't have luck you will not gain profit in gambling.

I think the best way to deal with this problem is to stay away from it, they have a good reason to forbid your friend from gambling, and they forbid gambling because they dont want to repeat the same history, if you keep convince them wrong and in the end they lost a lot of money, then you will be blamed

I don't know but about my past in gambling its too worst l lost my husband because of gambling. Because it's not we always win the game. There are times we go home loser. But l have to go home with needs if my children. So in short lm lending money for the next capital and foe my kids. Until l've got a lot of debts. Hiding in any place where they can't find me because people are looking at me for my payment. Until me and my husband  separated.So l  can't forget about my experience in gambling.

How old is the person you're talking about? If he's an adult, I don't really see how his family could really stop him from gambling with his own money.
It's understandable though that they're trying to prevent him make the same mistakes as his uncle, but if he's older than 21 they can't.

I'm not really sure if an addictive personality is hereditary, but I've found one source that says it is.
So he might be smart to abstain from gambling.

Source:
http://learn.genetics.utah.edu/content/addiction/genes/

In the end, it's really up to him if he want to roll the dice on becoming addicted or not, seems like he would have an increased chance of that happening.

I am not a big lover of gambling because my dad lost his valuable assets while gambling and other addictions so it keeps aware or away from gambling.But the online gambling is a best way for me to gamble but I am very conscious with my limits of betting while gambling and keeping time limit too stay away from addiction.

There is a good chance it can be inheritable. And personally, it's a bit curious a person who had an uncle in a desastrous situation like that, and now is wanting to gamble too... Why is this young enchanted for gambling knowing it was very harmful for his family?

At first point it can be his own decision to gamble or not, but it's necessary to keep in mind that if he is an addicted person the problem won't be only his, but the whole family will suffer again... To not be radical, a family member could go with him to a casino or stay with him during an online casino game, observing his behavior until reaching to the conclusion he is safe to play by himself or not.

Well if it's in their blood, its probably going to continue or be passed on in some way. Those uncles that he has perhaps got too addicted to gambling that he didn't control himself and continues to think that he was still a lot of money, but those amounts are hard to come by, especially if you don't have a business or something.

They didn’t loose that amont in just 1day is seems like they are addict on gambling. You have to agree on that, because in the first place they already experienced it, and imagine you have a lot of money yet you ended up nothing. Why still encourage your friend to do gambling, this should not be tolerated because gambling is too risky specially when you do this for a living so learn from the expert who loose big money in the casinos.

It would be wise if he listens to his family and doesn't gamble at all, there is nothing to prove that what happened to his uncle or grandfather might or might not happen to him but to be on the safe side, It would be okay if he doesn't and end up following what seems to be a family trend.

What is the sense of encouraging your friend from doing gambling? Even you explained already to the family of your friend you still can’t convinced them because they experienced a lot i think compared to you. Just listen to them and you will not loose much money. Don’t pass the greed to people who you really care for.

If you are helping him explain to them that they are wrong, you had better just give him your own money to gamble with then see how it goes. This is a family who not only have evidence based on hearsay, but witnessed it first hand and I am sure your friend must have met one or two of the people reference is being made and there is no amount of explanation you will do that will make the family change their mind.

If he is bent on gambling, just tell him to go make his own money, gamble with it, make tons of more money then come back to shame his family on how wrong they are by banning him from gambling. Its that simple.

Don't stand between your friend and his relatives or you'll be the one who will be in trouble and receive the consequences. Don't explain anything if there's a tie between relatives, you don't put yourself any among of them. Been into that the same situation but not with gambling and in the end, I blamed myself trying to help others.

Tell him to tell them to fuck off and then to go on a week-long trip to Las Vegas having fun like it's his last day on Earth  ;D

The reason behind that isue is the luckyness because they believed in the bad aura that you have when your relatives have misfurtune in gambling. So that they could'nt allow that kind of terrible thing to enter because they believed that they may lose all because of you and you are the only one to be blame for. Thats what the reason and also they would not want to be with you because you have a misfutune that be enherit to your relatives. For me i think that its not true maybe we have some reason except of that.

I don't see how anyone can stop him for doing what he wants to do if he is 18+, as it is not your family you really should stay out of it.
Yes but not in gambling. When two are fighting it is best to step aside ;)

They may very well be right in restricting him from gambling. They've seen first hand how gambling can drain a person's money so they're restriction comes from a valid point. It can also be a general lesson not only for your friend but anyone who's trying to gamble

If someone is forbidding you from gambling, believe me he is sincere with you. We should learn from others or at least pay a little attention to their words, especially close ones because they are the people who feel more pain by watching you in trouble. And for those who have friends persuading them to play gambling, I really pity such guys and I hope they find a good rather intelligent company soon.

I didn't even expect that addictive personality can be passed on into younger generations.The actions been made by his family isn't bad at all because they are just preventing to lose up even more money not only on money matter but also they are really avoiding on getting addicted because it is much more a serious problem if this thing attached to yourself but I do believe that it is really just matter on ones personality if you do able yourself got hooked into it. No one can able to control yourself no matter how hard they would try to avoid.

I think you should stay away from his problem because that is his not yours. It is your duty to back him up, but do not waste your time convincing his parents they are on the wrong foot. Believe me, they will never be convinced because parents in general think they always are right.

Plus, I do not understand why your friend wants to gamble so bad. It is really a waste of time and money. Instead, convince your friend to stop gambling and fulfill his time with various activities.

Due to their past experiences they are aware of the possible consequences that might happen to your friend and so he should take that advise from them and forget about gambling. There an alternative ways if he just want to have fun, they are just afraid your friend commit the same mistakes that probably they wish didnt do.

Better to do other activites with your friend instead of proving them wrong about gambling. You might be put in a hard situation if you interfere in their stance.

For me i would suggest no to try it, you know they have bad history in gambling they losses huge amount of money not only 1 family member experience that but 2, i feel that their family has no luck in gambling much better to find alternative way to make them self entertain and used his money in other method that he can able to earn much better income.

That's true , besides as long as he is old enough to being responsible on whatever he wanted , you cannot do much with that fact but give some suggestion is necessary.
Everyone with this similar cases won't let their family member to do the same mistake.
for sure you are the only  one who can decide , but yeaa it has an effect to change your decision.

Well the elders who have lost in Gambling will never want their siblings or anyone close to them lose or face such difficulties which they have experienced. They are right in one sense but thing may not be same for every person.

Perhaps your friend luck is better than his uncle and he can be a millionaire in short time, but there is no grantee . Risk of losing still resides.

Everything is in your mind, that's means when you think of negative things ( like, I cannot win , I'm a loser ) then it will adversely affect your destiny and the same is true for gambling. Moreover, Of course, the fate of a family member ( in gambling) does not affect other individuals . but the problem that many people imitate their family members in many things, especially in negative things .

Furthermore, It is very important to deal with the truth and for example, if you lose a big amount of money in gambling, You must accept this loss and deal with this problem, learn from this experience and start over, then the financial loss will be compensated with substantial profits.

Yes that negative think may turn you a loser forever, in doing gambling you must have a positive energy or having a good vibes.
If you don't have these things much better to stop gambling or else you may lose all your money.

Frankly speaking gambling is not good to us, why do we need to gambled our money besides, we all both know that gambling is 99% risky.
Does your family past incidents effect you?.. That's a case to case basis you may gambled even they did not know, or you may gambled at some gambling site that they don't know. There's many way if you want not just because of your past family do.

the gambling effect will be perceived by every people because some people consider gambling will always bring bad influence for people and their families and i think his family was fear he would be the next victim from negative effect from gambling and this is normal that if his family does not allowed him to gamble but if he still insist to gamble i think there is no problem regarding that because he still able to gamble unnoticed by his family use cryptocurrencies

Stopping him would be completely meaningless if the mind is already fixed on having the motivation on playing gambling then no matter how they hold or advised that person he would definitely play gambling no matter what since there are lots of ways which you can able to play without even their awareness which means the only thing that can stop himself on playing is on his mind decision where if he would be sensible to see possible scenarios happen when he do try to engage.

You should never expect to have a steady income, a continuous profit from gambling, that's the matter. When you expect nothing but to play a game and just to get unexpected huge rewards at some point you might would be fine to gamble no matter what was happened to other people in the past, just keep in mind to stick on what you've planned.

If it is real life gambling that you are trting to convince them to let him do it, than they have a point, i know that he is free to do what he wants and his luck won't be like his uncle, but family comes first if they don't want him to do it they probably have reasons, but if it is online gambling he could easily do it without them knowing he could buy bitcoin or any other cryptocurrency and put them in an online cassno, and they won't even know about it.

What happens to families does not have to happen to other family members, everyone's gambling skills are so different and now gambling is so familiar and comfortable online, I'm sure everyone has strong speculation and just needs refinement, if it is strictly forbidden by family, play without them knowing, but do not get caught up with something you can not control, at least you know the limits and ethics of your own gambling.

It may have some financial as well as psychological effect on your family, but still if you have quit gambling for ever then it is good for you. You need to start a good and profitable business wich can also help you to stop gamblng for ever, because once you become addicted to gamboling then it iwll really be too much hard to stop gamblng for ever.

I don't have such problems because I haven't had any problems with gambling and none of my family members had. I can relate to this in a way because I had some addicts in my family, mostly alcoholics, and this made the rest of them really watchful and scared of any excessive drinking on my part. The only way to battle this is to keep your gambling a secret because they will never stop worrying otr trying to stop you.

if this issue were right,i favored the situation as this point helped your friend get away from trouble,though gambling was made for fun,to enjoy and treasure the moment given us on betting win or lose,most of the gamblers becomes addicted and sooner turns into greedy that no one can stop them even their family.so i think your friend must be lucky.in time he will realize those things that saved him

The good thing I think is that even if my family and my relatives have all been taking part and playing various gambling games I still can honestly say that there is no gambling problem in me and my family. Though my immediate family would like to practice caution against these games and would rather have me invest on other skall ventures than play

Scenarios like this shouldn't be a trauma on anyone, something like this should be take as a lesson, because if you are not going to learn from your mistakes and keep on insisting what you should not do will just lead you to madness and you will continue losing a huge amount of money in gambling. I knoe that there are some people out there who are making a lot of money in gambling but this doesn't mean that it could be also happen to us if we tried gambling.

Take this mistake in a good way, instead of worrying on how to win all back what you have lost in gambling, think of another way where it is more safe than gambling that you know you could earn money most of the time.

Even if you have had issues with your family in the past regarding gambling addiction i don't think its should negatively affect the way you think or approach gambling because chances are that your relative might have been doing the wrong things and gambling without plan or psychology and was thus thrashed into addiction or something worse but you can have a different approach and get things done in gambling the way you want it and not what family history tells you. With the introduction of bitcoin i think you can be guaranteed anonymity and so if you keep it from your family it will be great too.

So they are rich enough and doesn't want to lose more with gambling? They don't want your buddy to gamble, why they mind it if its not their money, is your friend that old enough or still a young lad?
Don't protect your buddy or explain anything to his family, you are out of the family circle so don't try to interfere with their decision. Help your friend to understand why his relatives are talking that way because they don't want history repeat itself.
I'm not in this situation.

Even how many times you keep on telling them that I'm sure they will never believed you since they have their trauma already. And in my own opinion as I am an observer I have many seen gamblers ends in losing their money in a million or their properties because of gambling. So how come that gambling is good? Where's the good effect from bitcoin? So better for him to be bared from gambling because his parents know what is good for him.

If they have past issues about gambling in the past,maybe you should stop it,if you cannot manage it and be responsible in your finances or family obligations even though you are playing gambling.It is based on your decisions and there are some issues that lots of millionaires loose their money because of getting addicted in gambling.

Same with my part too.Most of my family are really hard drinkers so eventually they are called addicts on liquors already.But when it comes to gambling,the only person i knew is my father but he's not addict on it.So i would not hide to my family already if i gamble occassionally,i'll just seek an advice from my father how to deal with it.After all i'll only gamble primarily for fun and not making it as a living.

It will be nice if people are explain the worst first when they try to do something risky but eventually the decision is made by himself since the gambler already mature and rational enough to think the best for his life.
It's always be a circle of life because gambling always exist and attract every people in this world except you're live in the "jungle"

It really doesn't affect my gambling game because my mom is not disproving my gambing game. In fact whenever I won a pot, my mom and dad are very happy. So I think that it is healthy for me to gamble. Although sometimes I wins a lot, sometimes I don't. So it is just a self regulation.

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Seeking advice isn't bad but on general speak even yourself awareness would already know on what you must do since you are already aware on the possible cases that would happen if you do let your self fall into gambling addiction. We do all have vices or addiction into a particular thing but there are things that should really be avoided since from the start because possibilities on wrecking you and messing your entire life is there.If we don't like to suffer such consequences then we should really be responsible with our actions.

What do you mean by past incident? What do you mean is a family matter? Or a financial problem in the family? Of course the past will definitely affect us all. Whether it's a family issue or a financial problem. For example my family, a lot of family problems arising from financial problems, one of which is home. Until now my family still lives in my grandparents' house, and I do not have my own house yet. So many problems arose with my cousin. And also there was my cousin who had gone bankruptcy business, so I got scared if told to work with him.

In my family, no one was involved with gambling but I do gamble sometimes for fun. I do not think having someone in the family in past as gambler makes any difference. It is obvious that the other family members will stop your friend from gambling. He can play on casinos where no money is involved. Another option is to hide these activities from families but it requires certain conditions to be fulfilled.

If your friend's family banned your friend on gambling then that means he/she is still dependent on them? Because if not, he/she is free to visit any casino and gamble. But past family experiences served as a lesson to remember that gambling is for entertainment purposes and avoid risking money you cannot afford to lose.

I agree, just let them do what they want and you will never be blamed if there will be a problem if you force them to convince and do what you want. Stay away from that issue and just do what you want, that is not really your problem.

Yes of course. My father would always tell me we need not go elsewhere to seek real-life situations but look into our family backyard first. With this, I learnt how crucial it is to start something on your own when you are already being stopped just by the idea of it because negative things have had happened concerning the same endeavor/interest in the past. As for me, things may not have worked well in the past but it is never controlling of what things will be in the future. You can never say never especially when you know you are so passionate about something. Say for example in gambling, when you know it makes you happy and fulfilled, regardless of what it brought about the situation of others, you will STILL find a way to it. There is no stopping you. Thus, even if your family's past incidents affect you subconsciously, it will not hinder you from gambling when you know it is something that definitely keeps you in full circle.  

Who do you mean they’re wrong, the family who had experience of losing millions? I doubt they are wrong for warning an unexperienced person to refrain from gambling because he might experience the same. And may i know what do you want to prove to your friend that you are right and they are wrong for discouraging him?

it's really inspiring especially that you feel like you are really in a family. There are some families that are not like that and just let their children go on their own. I think it's different but they would end up the same way in the long run for your family to be supportive no matter what. I like how family support each other especially when someone is really down.

There some are family like that who is looking to your future they did not want you to involved gambling in your life because they know that gambling turns you nothing. Maybe they have done in gambling and they see that maybe it is the cause some gamblers turns to addiction.

Yes it's really nice to have that family who did not left you when you are down, and who guides you in a right way not to teach you more in gambling. How i wish i had that kind of family but unfortunately my father was early left us.

That's really heartbreaking and more importantly, I feel you. I just recently lost my father and it's really different now compared when he is still around. I know that he is in a better place now and I think he's protecting me from gambling in a way so I don't get addicted.  :o

and I think we can learn from many members here experience so we can know that no matter we are addicted to gambling, we still have a family which still supporting us. I am sure that our family will protect us so we can prevent to become addicted gambling and they will do everything that they can to help us to solve our problem in gambling.

My mother always tells me that I need to gamble to earn any money. She says that it is better for me to remain poor than to become rich by gambling. I know that we can have difference of opinion but it is nice to have someone concerned about your life.

Yes your family will always care about you. They have good life experience and know about the result that one can get from gambling and that is the reason that they prevent your from playing gambling.  But i think if you still cannot quit gambling specially if you are addicted. So you need to set a limit for yourself and through this way you can at least prevent yourself from a big lost. But most of the people even having limit for playing gambling but still they cannot prevent themselves and for most of the time the exceed their gambling limit. I think its important not to exceed the limit that you have selected for yourself.

It can really be hard to explain your side to those who value beliefs that are being passed on from generation to generation that even certain situations that happend to a relative can also be reflected on your own life. I do believe that having a family history of losing big bucks in the casino cannot be passed on. The reason why they experienced such events is because of their own choices. I guess the family of your friend would have a hard time comprehending this since they have a certain belief that they truly live by. Maybe you can tell them to have an open mind and that some things aren't connected or simply say that their family is not cursed. It's all about self control.

My family past incidents doesn't affect me from gambling but my religion do,because gambling is like a sin in my religion so sometimes I am afraid to do gambling but not always.But I am not a full time gambler so I think it is okay to gamble sometimes but not always.

Addiction of gambling is not a big issue because if people gable and get good experience they will like bitcoin gambling and people bet and get profit; if you have any family trust issue with bitcoin then you will have to consult with them so that they wilt hell you the good and bad of Gambling not all people are able to have profit from gambling, so if we will learn before we get in gambling is will prevent us to have any kid of serious lose as learning from other people experience is the best experience.

Yes when people become addicted they also get some good experience and their experience can make them perfect. They know they ways how to play gambling in a safe mood and therefore their addiction never remain as problem for them, but they can continue playing gambling in a good and smooth way. I have so many people who are playing gambling for years, but still they never feel to stop or quit gambling.

My father was a gambler so I would think I take after him. He did only bet on the cities small lottery with buying $2 tickets at a time. But then it grew to $10 and then finally to $50 a week on lotto.
You do see it as a small problem but then it grows into a larger one if they are doing it day after day after day.

Eventually it moved on to the land based casinos.
So yes, it did affect me and my family with him doing this cause it took off the food of our dinner table with him spending it at the casino all day long.

I did start to go to the casinos as well when I was of age.
So I did take after him.
But I do not go there anymore after losing my entire paycheck one day.
I said I had it and vowed never to be drawn into that life style ever again. :-[

Yes it really affects my past because l live with my grandmother l grow up without my parents on my side through all the years because they have their own family. It's really feels l solve myself alone. Even my grandma is there it can't compare of parents. I'm looking also for the presence of my parent's especially when lm in trouble.

My family had face the same incident too. My father was a gambler when I was at grade school. We had a comfortable life way back then. We had a big house built in a hectare lot. We can have want we want and eat what we to eat because father has lots of money. But, when the luck is not on his side and addicted to gambling, we slowly lost everything we had. I was able to witnessed how was the gambling affected our family and even me. I am now very cautious in betting and making sure that I might not get addicted into it.

No,Any of my family circumstances doesn't affect me from the gambling like family situations,because if I want to gamble I will and never look for anyone's permission.
But most of the players are still continue to gamble if their family is in bad financial situation,maybe in the thought that they can increase it by winning a jackpot on someday but it is a bad idea.

It's really a very big mistake when we are leaning to gambling in terms of getting instant fortune, gambling should be taken as a source of short time
enjoyment and nothing should be greater than that, we also need to consider our financial capability as gambling really affecting this factor in our life
if we do have spare money then we are good to go, not risking our saving for our family needs would allow you to enjoy your stay without any problem
quitting and thinking of others opinion.

It doesn't effect me, but I can learn and aware from their experience for my future. I hope it will happen again in me.
For gambling we must can control our emotional and set the budget for play the gambling. If not will lose much money.
So that the important and simple things before do gambling.

That's a good thing for you to do especially that you could control yourself with it. The past is really for experiences and you have no other sources of knowledge than that. I agree with you that you need to control your emotions in gambling and it would be a better experience with that.

The wisest person is who learns from the mistakes and experience of others, who observes, listen to others and think before taking a step. Even if there was no one in the family who has suffered due to gambling in the past, still my suggestion would be to stay away from this game.

It is very addictive and destructive. Many people have lost their lives due to this by attempting suicide. Like you said, better to not get involved into it.

I disagree that gambling addiction is not a big issue.  And there is no good experience once you are addicted in gambling.  All your controls, moderations, will be nothing since, when you are addicted all you care about is how you can play the game without thinking any circumstances that might happen.  Gambling moderation is the way to go, learn, observe and control your self.  Learn to manage your cashflows in a casino. 

Actually even not the family past incidents will affect us, if your neighbor loses witnessed by you or your parents, they will definitely tell you to avoid gambling.  It is the experienced by the people around us that have effect on us not only our family past experience.

If you are enough the make the money more than your enjoyment on real time. You have to check the your complete asset before you go to invest on betting or other gambling options. You said that people going to commit suicide also sometime but the fact they are completely loose all the money they enjoyed and that takes his decision to like that.
Keep stay when you loose your initial investment also when the time you started onwards.

But to me i also think that addiction is not such a big issue. To me i think the big issue is that how you are playing gambling. And the issue is that either you have control over your emotions or not. If you are addicted to gambling and still if you have good control over your emotions no doubt that you can play gambling in a good way and it will never effect you so much.

It always grows. It has a way of enticing you to put more and more. The truth is that human mind is naturally greedy and it takes a lot of discipline and principles to be able to control those greed impulses. You are already in the lifestyle really, just that you are being wise about yours and trying as much as possible to learn from the mistakes of the older generation so you won't make the same. However, you still need to be very careful as long as you are in the world, and see every of your actions like you are just having fun to help place your mind exactly where it needs to be.

Ya it surely affect them to involve in gambling. If any of the family member is died at low age due to drug or alcohol addiction means, the children in their family will not use to take the alcohol or drugs.Like wise,if any of the gambler family member lost their property or asset in gambling, the gambler will not ready to participate in gambling.

If ever I am part of the family of your friend then I would suggest not to gamble too. They already lose millions because of it but if your friend still wanted to try gambling then he can try it using his own money not from his family so that if ever he lose his money then his family cannot say that he wasted their assets. Your friend would eventually realize too the importance of money if he works hard to earn it and then gamble.

Gambling is not bad if it is money you can afford to lose but if it is for your needs then definitely there is something wrong with it. Your friend can just try gambling through crypto since this can be done anonymously and if ever he won then he can show to his family that not every one can be a loser but if he lose, then he would just prove to his family that they are right.

influence in addiction mostly inherited by their family memberor closes one if this addiction helped them to live a life,just for example those addict that became a drug pushers.if this is theyre bread and butter,the family will be the next to handle this business as theyre become dependent unto this

Yes my family past affect me, it's the the way that I become strong because l have to be matured inspite of the circumstances passes by l have to face it.l grow up with my grandmother no parents.Problems makes me strong, l look for my parents that they should be on my side in times l need them. But l don't have choice but to stand up alone. My grandma support me financially but emotionally l can't tell her all about me. So l just keep on my own until l recover.

I would surely stop him if someone in my family had lost his assets in such i would make sure he doesn't end up like him.

They are correct gambling isn't any form of investment it is based on pure luck if you have a chance to earn money there is a chance to lose also , i might allow him to gamble occasionally

I think you have missed a “don’t” in your statement because it took me two minutes to understand this statement as this is a vague statement without one don’t. Still yes, your mother is saying it so true. It is quite better to be poor than to be rich by gambling. Because this is unlawful in our society and you don’t need to get indulged into this harmful game that can make you unhealthy.

It’s obvious that if the friend of mine is banned from going out to casinos means that he is dependent on his parents that’s why he cannot come to the casino to continue gambling even if he likes the most. But I think it is good for him not someone else because at that age, he would be not so mature to understand the side effects of anything but later on when he will remember these thing, he would thank God that his parents saved his life before it became like a prison.

You are right maybe tell to his friend that gambling is need a luck to win and much better tell him that gambling is not good especially that his history are losing all their money. Tell him to stop gambling than he can lost also everything he has.

Yes, in a way seeing a part of my family getting addicted to gambling. Hearing a female family member rant that his husband or partner is spending most of his time with friends and betting on cockfighting. He may also do it in a way, that slowly he may be choosing obssessively and that creates a negative impression on excessive gambling and that is effective to me

Giving advices specially to your friend might able to convince him or not on playing gambling but it would really be worth a try since we do have already the idea on the possible things might happen ahead on playing too much gambling but if he do insist on playing or proceeding and taking aside all of your advices then its his choice as long we wont be blamed because we did already tell him on the possible things might be experienced.

What your friends' family do in my opinion is true. They do not want their family members to suffer the same fate as them, in regards with gambling. You should tell your friends to follow his family's suggestions.

Actually gambling not suit for everyone, but you have lesson from your family member's past bad experience of gambling. So same here in this thread asking us. But i aware you that everyone has his own luck and different luck, it is not fact that everyone will be fail in gambling.

I had never been in a situation like this since all of my family members are not into gambling,but maybe for vices like being alcoholic.They always warn me not to drink too much everytime there are occassions i attended.But in your case,do not make it as a major problem.Let your friend follow his family's suggestions and advices because they are just thinking for his own good.

I do agree, but everyone think gambling is for them :D me included lol.  But the bitter truth is, if we failed to control ourselves or take lesson from the people around us, we will failed to see what is waiting for us at the end when we become addicted to gambling.  That is why, there should be an effect when there is incidents around us especially within family/relative members have a failed result because of gambling.  We do not need to experience stuff to learn, we can set other experience as example.

It is not my thing to talk about religion stuff or judge someone on it because I don’t hold the right to do so but I have one believe that if someone is follower of any particular religion, he should abide by its rules. I am not criticizing you and you also are not a gambling addict but my sincere advice is to not get involved into betting if your religion prohibits it. Apart from this, gambling is just a wastage of money and time so better staying away from it.

Playing gambling is not a good thing, you will only experience a bad thing and your life will be destroyed if you keep trying to do gambling game. Believe that gambling is not the right choice. With any purpose like to seek entertainment or to get a job then gambling is the wrong thing. Many people have experienced bad things and destruction in their lives when getting to know Gambling. We must learn from the various circumstances that exist because then we can know what is good and not for the life we have.

The problem is so many people start by having some pretty good luck from the start, and then rather than pulling out a little, they get greedy over time and feel they can even put in more and then win more, until they start running out of luck. Where the craziness starts from is trying to recover, and then they lose it. Anyone who already experienced a family's past incident like this will always know better and will always caution themselves to take note of those mistakes or to not even gamble at all.

Yes i am also, have uncle addict in gambling. From what was originally a millionaire is now a rough-handed worker in an iron factory. When i tried to gamble, he rebuked me. He said: "I saving you, doesn't want to fall poor like me and enough me, not my nephew."

It is good to learn from other's experience but it is still your own choice whether to gamble or not after looking the fact of your uncle. As long as you can control yourself, gambling would never make you poor. Someone get into poorness because of gambling means that he/she could not control and manage him/herself while gambling. There is one key to avoid the worst thing "KNOW YOUR LIMIT".

A pretty huge one and the main reason a lot of people get addicted. If gambling will make everyone a fortune, how on earth are the casino owners and gambling site owners making their money and living large. It still baffles me if some people really do not think or they just end up allowing their greedy self to take full control of them. Anyone looking for an income would be better off doing something else, if they cannot cope with the idea of losing all their funds.

They would cope up with the idea of losing their funds but as you can see, it would really be hurtful knowing that you could lose the money. They would come to that point where they have already lost. The control is part of the success that can make you not addicted to gambling. It's not going to be easy to quit if you are already addicted to gambling, but the where you use the money is more important.

This is the perfect example of how gambling can destroy the dreams or your present scenario and make your future in a dark. This happens when you do gamble for money and now for entertainment and enjoy the game. If people understood the difference between the 2 things it will be more valuable for them to gamble at times only.

It is pretty good you have a way to control your greed. Emotion is normal, but when that impulse comes up, it is easy to say one should control. A lot of people attack you when you say they should take gambling as fun and never gamble with what they cannot afford to lose which balls down to what you mentioned about having a gambling budget and once you are done with it, walk away and also have a target for winning and apply the same rule. Anyone who cannot imagine they can lose everything should better just disappear than get them engaged.

I dont have this kind of experience but i know a family of gamblers who’ve lost a lot. From riches to rags i call it. If ever i encounter the same situation i would encourage my friend to avoid gambling at all. Experience is the best teacher and he doesnt have to repeat the same mistakes his parends and grand parents did. The proof is visible.

Exactly, if our family or other-ones which we like him, if he has bad experience of gambling just like in the thread, his uncle have lost his all assets because of gambling, then definitely we have a lesson and think about gambling that is bad way.
But on the other hand, if anyone in our family who become rich from gambling, then definitely we will think that gambling is a easiest and superb way to get money easily and become rich. SO, it is depend on our experience which we get from gambling. 

It all depends on past experiences whether good or bad.Of course if it's really bad,it should be avoided not to happen again.I have not experienced like this but to tell you honestly,gambling does not sounds good in my family even if my father has always been in a cock fighting game.But good to know he is not really making it as a serious one,he just go along with his friends whenever they invite him,or sometimes go alone without really much money on hand.

I believe it does not matter whether you gamble to make profit or gamble to have fun.  What matters is how you control yourself while playing.  Indeed it is the moderation and self discipline that matters.  having full control of yourself during the game will difinitely saves us from being addicted to gambling.  Though I believe previous family incident have nothing to do or effect wether you will have control to yourself or not.

Past family incidents would somehow give you some impressions or thoughts which can possible be applied on how you do treat out gambling on how you do engage with it and as you said all things should be on moderation specially on handling out yourself towards gambling.We do know the effects if we do let ourselves on too much engagement with it will surely put us on negative situations.

Will in im not faces this kind of situation or experience in my entire life  of being probihited to due such gambling games,such like  your friends but, my advise of that is better that he never test  to do a gambling and still continue to be barred,than you will regrets in your entire life,why should you  learn how to gamble,because for me  gambling is like an addiction and temptation that always pop up your mind,therefore before you regret dont just try it even a little just like this saying"prevention is better than cure".

Those kinds of issues really does affect the current decision of a family. With the situation you have given, the issue involves such amount that is very important- millions, so we can not remove the fact they they will be afraid to happen that again. Next, instances like that may happen again. As the saying goes, the history repeats itself.

Nobody in my family have ever lost big amount in gambling so there is no any kind of ban on gambling, we are not filthy rich so everybody in our family are just chasing for money to have brighter future and all of they afraid to try gambling including myself.

If your buddy have cash lying around which other family members don't have any idea about than he can still gamble and loss all of it.  ;D

I think you friends family is afraid that he will end up like his uncle and grandfather. What happened to them served as a learning experience to them so much as they want they dont want any family member to involve in gambling ever which is very understandable.

I think anyhow on gambling., it depends on the luck of each people, and I think that of course the luck will not be the same as the previous people, including the people in our family, who had suffered losses.
But anyway I think that can be a learning material for the next in a gambling, and doing better than the experience that's already known. If it's happen to me., if it's had already a fatal effect, I think it's better to do something else/another efforts than gamble.

Well, families which drug problems are usually pretty strict with everything so I can assume it's the same with gambling.
One son gambles everything he has, and others are not allowed to bet 1$ in a coffee shop.

Gambling is a very destructive game and if someone has put such a restriction like not gamble even one dollar in the coffee shop, then it is for his own betterment. Even if one dollar is not very big amount and losing it would hardly effect the guy but this can develop a temptation in the player and he might come back to play more. This is how everything starts. Then after few games, he will become an addict and start losing big amounts.

This happens very rarely, because today we might loss through gambling and the same will not happen with our future generations. But with the person mentioned in the Op has a serious loss from his people who were much attached. If that's the case surely I too will get suggestions not to get into gambling quoting the previous losses.

You are right for once but a person must keep one thing in his mind that his luck and destiny is totally from every other person even if that individual is his flesh and blood. We all have different stories and different paths. Besides, gambling is a disaster most of the time so even if a close one became rich through gambling, there is no need to generalize it by looking at only one case. Gambling is just useless and we must stay away from it.

Yes there are incidents in my family affects me because of gambling. Because my family is a history of gambler. When my husband addicted on gambling he almost lost our family until our relationship destroy already because of gambling. That's the reason why I my house is a broken home now.

I think that it is wrong because there is nothing can prove that your friend will continue to lose his money just like his uncle. He can learn from their mistake. Experience gives a man strength to survive for many years. I believe that from their mistake, your friend will become stronger and smarter and he will be able to earn some good money from casinos

Maybe we think that if something happened to someone it can pass to us like we will have the same fate from each other, but for me it isn't. We all have different fate that we need to take, it's not just about gambling but in generally speaking and it's up to us what path do we take. So if your elders loss their fortune in gambling like maybe they're emotions and greed eats them then it must be a lesson learned for you so you can take precautionary measures to not end like them.

Better to avoid all such situations is to avoid the gambling if you play for money. It lead to all type of addiction as mostly people do not have a self control which is the major cause of concern and thus it can lead to worry for everyone in their family.

Well if all that has happened to members of his family, i really think he should really learn something from that so that he doesn't go through the same trend as well. It may not be a family trait but i don't think he should make the same mistake that others in the family have already made.

It was the right thing, his uncle had said the best thing because he knew that gambling could ruin a person's life. There is plenty of evidence in the world that can show that gambling is a very bad thing to do. Maybe I would say that when we say gambling game is an entertainment then I will support, but when someone thinks that gambling game only aims to get a job and income then I do not really agree. Gambling will only destroy a person's life with a tremendous addiction and will be difficult to stop.

Of course, the past events of the family will have an impact on the current generation, it is normal, as I can judge them by the fact that past events of my family have influenced me, just as I believe every event of every family has an impact on their current generation, As a result, I think that every incident of the family is gone in the past, it has come to the fore in the present generation, I have found many evidence, as if the parents have done business in the past, then the next generation does exactly that, but in the past If parents are gambling, then,The next generation becomes gambling,

So I want to say that the past events in the family have an impact on the current generation as it has affected me.

I think, even if someone is playing for seeking fun, he should avoid this game because it is very addictive and moreover, everyone wants to have as much fun as possible. I have seen people spending hours in gambling just because they enjoy the game but that does not kill the fact that they all lose money whenever lose a game. That is why, this is just a ridiculous game and it takes away a lot of money plus time.

Yes, my grandfather was an addict and he ended up screwing himself in his mid-age before finally giving up to the grave recently. Anytime I think about his story, it makes me wonder how people would use their own hands to inflict suffering on themselves when life already gave them the best.

This man was very wealthy, had a lot of businesses, built houses and even married several wives, but just decided to ruin all he had with a self-infliction from gambling and sold everything at the end before living his old age from hand to mouth. Tell me how such an experience would not make someone like me think twice before gambling at all.

Honestly, you really just said it all. The fact is that a lot of people over imagine seeing themselves getting a good result from gambling without remembering the fact that the casino owners make money from them failing and their getting screwed. We cannot blame them as it is their business model and when entering to gamble we do accept all their norms even withing take time to know them.

For example, this guy’s uncle wrecked himself only to make the casino owner richer and that is what most addicts always end up doing. Best is to always learning self-control or not even gamble at all.

Gambling is basically nothing but just a cheating to your own self. Where people cheat themselves that the money they are losing is very small in front of the pleasure they get from it. I think it sometimes adds a little rationalization. Though it is not a good practice but people who are into it will never listen to it.
Like as said the family don't want the boy to gamble because they know the consequences better as they have experienced it earlier with the other family members. But a gambler friend want to drag him to it despite his family will. It is addiction and of such a high level that you want all the people around you to be involved within it for your sake.

Yes I agree, he must listen coming from experience gambler who do really wanted not to experience the same situation again. If I were him I must follow and never make a decisions into gambling because others got addicted because of this feeling urge to play. Much better to get rid of this gambling since other members of his family loses a lot of assets, so he should not do the same incidents again and it might affect the person.

this problem is very hard for me, they have removed some of their resources to gamble for a long time, do not understand what he wants, it may be too addicted to gamble, only you remain sure not to repeat again as before, always give feedback positive, being firm in doing something good for you, because it's so hard just talking to him to stop.

I wouldn't think gambling as cheating yourself.  If that so then, watching movies, going for a picnic and outing or socializing with friends and spending an amount of money on a resto bar is also cheating yourself.  In order to have entertainment, one must spend.  You cannot have an entertainment or fun if you do not wish to spend money.  Another example is giving a gift to our love ones, it gives us happiness but we still have to spend money.  I guess it all goes down to self control and moderation if we want to have a good and entertaining experience in gambling and not get addicted to it.

I think that is okay. For me, you can still live a happy life without gambling. If they are rich, then I can't see any reason why he needs to gamble. Middle or lower class people prefer to gamble because of the possibility of getting a high stake that can get them rich. He was not part of that,obviously. So its better for him not to gamble. As a friend, you should do the same. There are a lot of things that you can do better than gambling. You guys already have the money, enjoy it and be free from gambling stress.

It is normal to read the effects of past events in the family because a person starts growing up in an environment from the earliest times. The effect of this environment will come in. It is a normal matter, but after growing up, he must realize that the family's influence should be divided into two parts, such as good and bad. He will try to retain the points and try to get out of the bad aspects, because the actions of parents and cats come in the family, the effects of those tasks fall naturally on the next generation,

I wonder how someone would have something good going for them and then all of a sudden will carelessly and greedily lose it all. I feel if you work hard for your money and you are not looking for money in the wrong places, you should not even fall for stuffs like this.

From a millionaire to a rough handed worker is really a crazy one for anyone to easily learn from to know gambling is just one crazy path to take for those who are thinking it would make it increase their wealth.

I think people give more importance to money from gambling rather than the pleasure coming from gambling because if they really are playing gambling for fun, they can play by putting little amounts of bets but they have in their mind that we have to earn lots of money from this gaming trend and this is the only reason they play by putting huge amounts of bets. No one will let his children to play gambling whether he has faced it in his life or not.

If i were you i will not meddle. Your friend’s parents and grand parents are right in warning and preventing him from following the same path. Experience is the best teacher, has their experience of losing not been enough for your friend not to believe them? If he wants to have the same fate it is his choice.

True story and why most gambler do able to experience bad consequences because of such act. Aiming for profits on the very first time while we are playing gambling could really push us to bet bigger amounts.We do risk bigger because we put it on our minds that we might able to win even more bigger.If luck sat on our side then making profits would be easy almost in an instant and as a parent i would never tend to show my siblings that i do play gambling,we do know the risk and this is why i dont like for them to follow.

Your friend's family is totally right and lets say they have their point they are just thinking for your friends good and they don't want to happen to him also.
Okay let's back to your question ,No I never faced that such issues and I am not addicted in gambling but if I gamble my family don't mind it or get mad they let me play since I don't asked money to them.

yeah, it is good for him that his family member reminds him to not gamble because his uncle and his grandfather have lost their money. actually, this will makes him think that he doesn't have to gamble and better do another thing. learn from his uncle and his grandfather mistake and don't make the same experience like them.

I think my family doesn't know if I am a gamble or not because I use my own money but I know that playing gambling cannot make me get the money and I only lost the money. so I decided to not gamble too often and even if I playing gambling, I do not spend a big money.

True, it is always great to have our love ones care for us, especially when it comes to gambling.  It is always good to have someone reminding us of what is good and what is not.  With regards to family experience, I can say they always remind me not to lose myself when I am playing gambling games since they had an experience regarding people who have gone broke because of losing control especially on betting or playing gambling games. 

Gambling might cause the relationships to get broke especially when the one doesn't want to have such activity. It will only be good if they enjoy both the activity, if they both know their limits then there will be no problem. If it will refer for what the common practice family influence in a way they go away from it due to the experiences.

There is a saying goes, “if the mistake is repeated, it doesn’t become mistake anymore rather a sin”. So if someone goes in gambling even he has seen some alarming situations that his family have been in, he is doing a sin. Best thing for a gambler is to know as soon as possible that how bad it is for him. How evil this thing is creating and making his wealth useless and worthless within no time.

mistake of peter. Is not a mistake of paul..but since their family is vulnerable about what had happen in the past maybe they were just preventing him from making the same mistakes that i believe is beneficial to your friend,imagine he is safe from this addicting vises..as we know year after year the incident of crime that cause by gambling addiction is getting worst,if im not mistaken in the Philippines theres a case when a gambling addict burned the casino befoe killing him self resulting to dearh of many people..your friend is one lucky guy

People continuously keep repeating this type of mistakes which leads to become a gambling addictive and ruins their career and also their family life. As they would like to gamble every time, will lose the money so will borrow from others and may not even return the money.

That's normal, his family loves him to keep him out of trouble in the future due to gambling.
If he has a good strategy and a bit of luck then he can have many advantages of gambling, but if it is otherwise he will just lose his money. Even if he becomes addicted to gambling it will add new problems.

People mostly gambling with the bitcoins or other crypto currencies not a poor people. Because of they have the high amount of bitcoins only they go with the gambling investment else they would go to invest on the any gambling site at all.
None of the gamblers will not inform to the family if they make the profit or loose the money with it.
If you already loose the big money you need to stay away from the gambling completely.

Gamblers should care about their family and they should not avoid this fact that family is the most important part of life. Without your family support, you cannot do anything in life. If what is meant to meet the basic needs of your family is getting invested into gambling, you are definitely doing a sin. Is you are unable to come out of this situation, go and consult some professional psychologist.

that's what many gamblers should be, "gamble as long as nobody you hurt" most of us gamble regardless of the situation, ignoring the family's need to gamble is a very silly act .. we have to adjust the needs and wants, if we have to meet the needs in the family, we can only be allowed to spend some money to gamble, and remember something in gambling "do not harm anyone"

Yes it really affects me my past incidents in gambling. It's really difficult to be addicted in gambling because you might lost you're family as well.This situation affects me until now l can't move on.

Why will your future be affected by the past of your past relatives? That should never be the case as that would mean that you can no longer do anything for yourself if the past dictates you. If you think about it, what if one of your great grandfathers lost money in a vending machine, will that mean you should never ever use a vending machine since your past relatives was a victim of a vending machine? That is just illogical to do.

It really happens with the people, especially at that time of life when everything is going well because at that of life, the people are thinking that everything is going well and by thinking this they take a step which is wrong but according to their point of view, that is for more security purpose and the consequences of taking that step come very soon in front of them in some disastrous shape which they can’t afford.

I don't face such thing as this one but I can understand the lesson that he needs to stop or else he may face the same consequence and experience.

You have to move on or else you will be chase up by that situation that you are facing. Better to lose money rather than to lose your loved ones because of gambling.

They are only trying to protect him, while there is nothing wrong with gambling occasionally and as a way to get some recreation if there is a past history in the family of losing a substantial amount of money with gambling then I think it's normal that his family is worried for him, in fact I do think that it will be a bad idea for him to gamble at all since he is more likely to repeat the very same mistakes.

If you forbid something to a kid then kid will find that even more attractive. Forbidding anything will have contra effects in most situations.
I believe people hear many bad stories about gambling generally, sometimes with family members involved, that's always makes situation more complicated.
I'm not affected by any of this stories because I started to gamble with sports betting with friends from soccer, more seriously gambling came after. I build my way alone, and I know how to handle with gambling. Its something you need to learn. When we are about that its important for very life aspect you can think off, you need to know how to handle with good and bad times, and to not let something to lead you in crash or disaster of any kind. Gambling is special because you can climb fast, but you can fall even faster, don't fool yourself its like that in everything just time for climbing and falling is different.
Learn kids how to control their emotions and how to properly decide what is good and what is bad, if you try with forbidding kids will try to find a way to skip your bans and to try that sweet forbidden things.

Biggest loss in gambling when we have lost everything like assets, this situation come when we have become addicted and in this time, no one convince them, because it is very hard to convince the addicted gambler. For me, addicted gambler is like a disease patient and he has a last stage, where he will die and useless. When we can't learn from our bad experience then it means we do mistake every time in our life. So, it is happened with him, because he couldn't learn from his gambling bad experience.

I see people start gambling for entertainment but later on they forget it and play gambling with full of risk. You are right if we play gambling without taking the risk then gambling definitely become us only for enjoyment. But some family members have ban to their kids becasue they have some bad experience from gambling. So it is normal thing, just like Why we advice to others, don't take big risk in gambling?
Because we all know that gambling in a minute destroy us so every senior family members care us, that's why they ban on us to play gambling.
But i have one solution of it that play online bitcoin gambling, no one can judge in your family that you are playing gambling or not. Like me, i am playing bitcoin online gambling but my family doesn't know about it.

Well one of the most foolish mistakes one can make is to disregard the lessons of past experiences whether it's yours or it's other people's. Especially when it's about gambling where it can be a make or break experience in your life.

Are there any reasons prior to why he wants to gamble? I mean, from the information you provided it proved that he still owns tons of assets despite his grandfather losing some cash. Is it a form of entertainment for him? Does it provide refuge or does gambling cushion him from feeling depress? I am also confused to this ambiguity and quite perplexed.
In adherence to those things that I mentioned, gambling can never be profitable in the long-run. It would only aggravate his situation since he might let his frustrations take over his decision making skills. Tell your friend to NOT gamble and to focus on the things that are paramount to their family's success rather than resorting to a method that may lead to his downfall.

His friend is a good person and teaches that gambling is a bad thing. The fact playing gambling is a bad and unhelpful act. We all know that playing gambling has a bad impact on our lives, one of the worst points is that we get a bad addiction, and that addiction will make us not think well. Believe that when you decide to play gambling then you have agreed to enter the ruin of your life. You will destroy your life when you have tried to believe in the gambling game.

I agree, once we are involve to gambling it was not easy to stop it. As the time passed by it was like gambling controlling us and getting our attention to give on it. It can really destroy one realtionship like family, so if you dont want to destroy your family better to stop it and do your best for it. Family over money must you need to
Put in your mind.

A yes and no. Yes, since our family is a generation of Gamblers from our great grandfather to our generation. Well, a number of our relatives became so addicted to gambling that costs there family, work, business, relationship, and life. So our elders tend to limit us to gamble and tons of advise were handed to us. No, given the fact that we are prone to addiction I still chose or decide to gamble anyway for the sake of acceptance.

It is one thing to want to gamble for fun and it is another thing to want to gamble for the money. Those who are ready to see it as fun always end up knowing their limit and those who see it otherwise will absolutely never know their limit no matter how.

If he cannot learn from his uncle's mistake on how he ended up screwing up himself with his gambling issue, I wonder who else he is going to end up learning from. If gamblers start learning their lessons from others then the suffering rate of gamblers may get slow down. It is not possible for anyone to learn from the first day of gambling. But must get practice to learn afterwards at least.

When you see your uncle and your grandfather lose everything by gambling, do you still want to gamble? If you still want to gamble, please gamble but you should be prepared if if you fail and end up like your uncle and grandfather. When you are forbidden to gamble by your family, you can still gamble in secret, but you must accept the consequences if you get caught.

My family does not experienced that kind of incidents. Actually your friends family has the valid reason why your friends they dont want him to play as you can see his family experienced failure and even got broke because of losing in gambling. Just give him a piece of advice to divert gambling into sports so he won't think or feel the eagerness to gamble so the incidents that happened to his uncle and grand father won't happen to him.

That's definitely a sight that you won't want to see especially if you are close to your father, uncle or anyone who you respect. I think you should be prepared for everything, not just in gambling. There are a lot of things to consider especially if you have managed to create your own way to gamble, probably strategies.

My family doesn't really care at all if I'll gamble, they just let me gamble. I'm grown up and they are just supporting me with what I do. What's good here is that I'm the only one that gambles in our family so my parents are good with it and there's no past bad experience from gambling.

No, it doesn't affect me and i think it will only depend on every individual if they will accept the truth since all happenings in our life is a god's plan, like me I have  experience getting in dark but it doesn't affect me by doing unfavorable things for I know in the end I will the one who suffer the consequences, so always be positive because a positive will give less chance in getting in compromise situation.

If you do not forbid it anyway and keep quiet about it, the kid will still find it attractive if he or she wants to. However, it is better to forbid it in a wise way than not to forbid it at all. A lot of people have forbidden things without even explaining why it is wrong. Paint a very bad picture of what gambling does to a kid, and you will surprise it would never leave their head for the rest of their life.

I remember how my dad used to tell me how my granddad ruined his life from being a wealthy man to a pauper as a result of gambling. That shit stuck. Gambling itself is not usually the problem anyway, it is always us and most times, those who are greedy naturally are always the ones who usually end up falling into the trap of addiction when it comes to gambling.

Family past incidents will always play an effect in the minds of those who may want to consider gambling since they could have seen some family members that gambling has had an adverse effect on before and hence use that in their own decision making when it comes to gambling.

This even happens in different families that if the elders lost everything in gambling, they often advice their juniors not to involve in gambling ever. Really if anyone have been to this stage where he once had everything and now he is just zero status person, such people always advice others to keep themselves away from gambling. They know it better that it is nothing but a trap.

My explanation about this,that gambling is not like a disease  that incurable,so there is nothing wrong in gambling as long you know your limits of when you should stop to play the games,and you know how to divide  your time of your family and to your habits or recreation of yourself,in other words you know how to control yourself,so that  you would not become addicted in gambling so that you dont be like your uncle become lossing of his entire asset.

It's a good example, where you can make this as a basis on what will be the possibilities if you will engage yourself inside this activity, we can easily say
that knowing how to control and setting up limitations will allow us to avoid such things, but considering the numbers of addicted gamblers, its really
not that easy so better to always look beyond and those possible outcome of your actions, experience of someone can give us some light in order not
to do the same mistake.

When family members do hide such incidents for the reason of shame or not encouraging then new generation of people get fail to make use of those incidents. I am saying this because my father hides his many frustrating gambling incidents. If he would have shared then that might have given me a change.

It is better to learn from the mistakes of others instead of trying out everything by your own and those who really follow this way are clever ones.A gambler must have limits but every individual has a different nature and some people are not very good at controlling their urge for any pleasure. Instead of getting impressed be a calm gambler, one must focus on is it possible to have a nature like him.

You people haven’t done anything wrong here because you people have got gambling as a generation gift. But one thing here which I would oppose here is that no matter if you have generation of gamblers but still you people can easily change your way of living with gambling and if you people don’t change, then this is your mistake and you people would have to face the consequences of gambling in your future.