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I had been gambling for years before I met with a very big accidental loss that almost killed me. It took me a lot of time to get out of the shock I got from that loss as it was all I saved for my family that I put as a bet and lose. To me, gambling had the power to drag me in death's mouth by ruining everything for me due to my own false decisions, did you have the same experiences - bitter or sweet, you would want to share? I would point it out like this:

- I started gambling
- Set goals
- Win
- Win again
- Wow, again a lot of wins and I now have enough money to pay for bills and food for 5 full years
- I don't stop there
- I play
- I lose
- I played again with bigger amount
- EV not positive any more
- Still playing
- I made a lot of bets where I lost half of all those wins
- I didn't quit
- I made a single bet where I put the remaining half
- & I lost finally, everything that I made + what I put in it that was mine
- It ruined the lifestyle we were living and I am back to 0.

Glad that you survived from a big loss and its good to learn many things from your experience. Gambling doesn't affect much of my lifestyle because I only play with moderation and I don't have much money to gamble. What I've learned from my past experience is that, being greedy in gambling can't help you earn money that's the reality i believe.

Not really, my life's really been nearly the same since I started gambling because I typically don't gamble very large amounts and I only gamble occasionally, mostly on the weekends when I do happen to gamble. I've had some decent wins over the years that I've used to pay off bills and various other expenses that I have to pay off, but nothing I would consider life-changing (that'll be from holding crypto). Just a source of entertainment  that I utilize when I'm bored at home in the end for me. I've always had good self-control so I rarely have problems with gambling too much money, but there's been times when I've slipped before.

The temptation to go after the big life changing win by risking it all on that single wager can be very strong at times. I've been so tempted many times in the past to bet big in the hope of winning big, but it never worked out that way for me. Some people are lucky or it's just meant to be for them. Life is stressful enough without me creating more debt for myself. This is why I only see gambling as a form of entertainment and never as a way to generate an income.

I'm not an intense gambler so I haven't been through any hard decision and failure in gambling though I have more experience in hardship related to life but not in gambling.

Have you recovered OP from that huge accidental loss that you've been?

Right as I might have won something that I already lost - half part of the capital. But who knows if I'd stop there or continue ahead? That again with high bets to risk more in regards to winning more?


I thank my instinct for stopping me against taking any loans to gamble. I was safe at that part and I really believe my sixth sense stopped me from creating extra problems for myself.


I didn't want to generate an income but my greed wanted me to get me and my family a lifestyle where we can live a smooth and happy life without much worries for money. This dropped me down so hard that I decided not to gamble again in my life ever.

I feel sorry for what has happened to you mate, but hey you are still alive! So you still have plenty of time to work and to be a genuine wealthy person.

Gambling did not affect me (and hopefully won't) because I've seen what gambling can do to people since I was a boy. Furthermore, no one can get rich from gambling, and even lottery winners often found immediately bankrupt, slowly bankrupt, death because of overdose, etc.

My lifestyle is pretty much the same. Only casually spent a few bucks or freerolls when I have free time. Gambling responsibly guys!

Ugh, gambling has gobbled you up, mate. That is a sad story, although you are fortunate enough to still end up whole and very able to stand up and start again from zero. I have watched more morbid news about how gamblers handle huge losses.

I love gambling, although I am not really the online type. But gambling has not affected me to the point that my lifestyle has changed because of it. I only gamble a strict amount I can easily do away with. The only weird thing about me is that I would rather get out of the gambling house lost than break-even.

I didn't set an amount and just went all in with whatever I had, though lost but gave me an experience that made me realize that gambling is not for me or may be I am not made for gambling. I broke even actually when I lost 75% of my total capital 'including wins from old bets'. The remaining part was what I started with which I made 4x of my original capital. But greed always makes you lose if you stick to it and don't control yourself. I didn't sleep for at least a week, went to a psychiatrist to make him check me, then a consultant and finally I was relieved. The days were very tough for me to be spent when you have 0 money on hands to spend for your family.

Who's made for gambling, anyway? Well, except for those genius individuals who could read cards and make the house edge look silly, we are gambling for the fun of it. It's just sad that you will have to go through all these unfortunate events to make you realize about gambling and yourself.

Greed will not only take away your money. A more intense one could also take away your family, your future and theirs, and even your life and sanity. Thanks god, you've made your realization earlier and handled everything from there pretty well.

By the way, how's gambling today? Have you left it for good?

I'm interested to know on what kind of game you are playing?

I'd like to know it so I know I am sharing my opinion with people which are the same page as mine, I actually gamble in sports and I'm heavily focus on this compared to other games as this one for me gives a chance to win due to the fact that it has no house edge.

yes it does affect my lifestyle but only slight and not overall  . when i gamble id eventually hook on the game and i forgot to do the more important chores in the house  but later on i can recover from the slight addiction that i feel  . we just need to think advance if what will happen to us if we continue gambling without limits  . gambling is fun and profitable also if we knew what we are doing and if it cant interfere with our personal lives

It happens to every gambler who is dedicated to gambling with no source of income but only coming from gambling or business associated with gambling, people should not rely on gambling to make a living, and should not set up a business to sustain his gambling habits, we have seen people getting their lives ruined by excessive gambling, it's ok to gamble but only with excess funds and just for enjoyment.

It did affect my life at one point. but the reason why is not because I became addicted to it but because treated it as a way of earning some extra money which I did.
although I don't win every time I gamble. gambling is still one of the reason why I was able to pay my bills. the impact gambling made in my life is that it helped me through
some though times where I could lose the apartment I'm renting but didn't because of gambling.

I think in everything that we do in life, we need to be careful and know what we are doing. It may be a simple choice, but you get to decide whether it will affect your personal life or not.

Imagine professional gambling players who are up for a challenge with their personal lives. I think it's a matter of the fact whether you are disciplined and your mindset is all it takes. Sure you get to lose a lot of money, sure you got a lot of nerves popped because you are angry, but it doesn't matter if you are going to let yourself down. You need to be strict with yourself so that you wouldn't end up regretting it. I think it could be done, but I haven't tried it myself because I can control my gambling part of me. What I can't is trading, but I'm working on it.

It is better to stay with this wise advise “only put or invest in gambling what you can afford to lose”! If we do otherwise because we want to become very rich then we should be ready to face the consequences which most time is bankrupt or even death. From the beginning, this statement is common in gambling community and that is “gambling is risk” however, very few takes this world to heart!

Fortunately, I don't have the experience as you because once I get inside of gambling, I only feel curious and want to know about gambling. In that time, I don't think about using more money to gamble because I can use a free coin to gamble. Although I already get a loss in gambling, my loss is not too higher as you, and I am glad I could still control myself to stop gambling after I get lost. I've always said to my friends that they don't have to use bigger money to gamble because the risk will bigger and they can lose everything they have.

No, I have never had such an experience. I like to bet on sports more than casino games. The biggest amount I ever invested was €200 and that was highly unusual for me. I've never had the goal to become rich from gambling as in 99% of the time it doesn't work so I have never had problems gambling away what I can't afford to lose.

What about before when you were a noob on the gambling world ? All of us will be addicted on it for the first time but eventually it will past out  . your also playing on sports , sports based gambling were enjoyable and profitable than casino ones but its strange why it didnt affect any of your lifestyle .

For me , gambling does have an impact on my lifestyle but im trying to balanced them even though its hard just because i dont want to drop gambling on my life .

Depends on how intense we are doing it if we gamble just only couple of times a week then it is not going to change anything in our life style but if we want to gamble everyday in our life just to get the feeling of gambling satisfication or to make more money then you got then it can really ruin your life just like op said.
But it is not only happening with gambling anything that is addictive we are doing much intensive which can change our lifestyle so keep the balance the lifestyle then lead a happy life.

This should be a wake up call that we should always be careful in making decisions in our life. And gambling is no exception. Yes, its quite hard to determine whether we did the right decision because we have to wait for its outcome. But at least, taking a pause and thinking not just once or twice, but many times on what decision we should make can really make a huge difference. It also pays to be analytic sometimes.

Anyway, I didn't have that kind of struggle. But it's good that you have recovered from your circumstance. I know you have learned a lot from that experience.

That is maybe because you are addicted to gambling that made you loss and even include you family as bets. Lessons should be learned basing on your bad experience. You should not ba hooked or addicted to gambling because it sure will ruin you life. Just chill and do gambling as recreation to kill time.

I would admit that I'm a victim of this as well in the early days of my gambling addiction. Just like what had happened to OP, win some and then lose big time, until I'm literally 0. So of course it did affect me a lot including my lifestyle. But since I was able to snap out of my addiction and take control, even if I lose money today, if doesn't change everything, specially bringing food in the table for my family.

Let me guess, you were betting with like 80% win chance or higher when making that large single bet?

That's a typical mistake for many of us, gamblers. We think "The win chance is 80%, so I'm going to win most likely. Why not to make around $2,000 out of my $10,000? I can't be so unlucky to lose this bet!" But the thing is that you can lose even with 98% win chance. You can lose even twice or thrice in a row with that win chance (happened to me personally), and that's why you should never risk more than you can afford to lose, ever.

I guess that's worst, that's really the addiction comes out. Addiction not only comes when you are losing and want a heavy blow to get those back but sometimes it's when you're winning as well and want to get more of what you win.

If you let yourself get a vacation on your winnings probably that will not happen. If there's something to celebrate have a blast on it that's worth celebrating. Sad to know your story but remember that it isn't always late as long as you're still breathing, live life.

If you can't stop yourself from gambling even when it is having a serious adverse effect on your life, then you must have gambling addiction bro, seek help.

You should only be playing with amounts that will not adversely effect you if lost, and you shouldn't be trying to chase a win that will return all your prior losses.

If you're not having fun, why are you gambling?

I keep my expectations in check and don't overdo it.  I use gambling as more of a social activity and only use a small amount.  Undoubtedly, many people take it too far and end up sleep deprived and broke.  I think some people just have something wired in their brain that makes them become more addicted.

Reading your story apparently you were too enjoy your winning and can't control yourself and being an greed but when you spend out all of your money then you just realize it ruined your life already but based on my experience during gambling i was never change my life style and there is no different for me whether it gamble or not because usually i have particular limit to set my lost and my winning and if i had reached it then i stopped gambling and continue my normal life

Not to be harsh but people do deserve this yet they wont ever learn if they wont experience on getting broke with gambling.Greed is one of the most common reason.
You do already make money or profits but you do have always that thing on mind that you might able to get more if you tend to play again and instead of stopping and securing those wins you do tend to risk or bet it again until you lose it all and back to 0.This would be an endless cycle that's why gambling industry is a booming one.

We are both in same criteria of living now mate because after i survived gambling addiction before I get married I make sure and promised to my wife that I will only play for fun and now that’s what I’m doing

But I’m happy for OP about his survival and hope that he will make those mistakes as example for not to happen again

Because they think that gambling will save their lives but the truth is this only putting them in darkness and make their life miserable

Yeah, it is obviously going to affect your overall lifestyle. Look at someone who wins a huge amount of lottery/jackpot. The end up having a lavish lifestyle. I have even heard stories where people after winning a huge amount of money spends everything carelessly and then ends up going back to their previous lifestyle.
You should have stopped once when you had won enough. Greed took over and you ended up suffering badly. Hope you manage to recover (not through gambling though).

Not it all my friend
For me, gambling is just for fun, and with small amounts that I'm able to lose without worry or without cry
Seriously, stop gambling man, this is not good for your life, it's not to late to stop

I am not a big gambler personally but some of my colleagues I work with seem to make it a regular part of their lifes.
When there is a office pool people tend to turn sides on each other and I discover gambling can get in the way of accomplishing the actual tasks at hand
I become stressful if I have money on a sports match and it comes down to a coin flip if I will win the wager
I am lucky enough to say I am not very affected by a lifestyle that includes gambling but I do think it is a big problem in this world

In general, gambling does affect gambler's lifestyle. It affects both when gamblers win a lot as well as when gamblers lose too much. When gamblers won huge then it will bring them to spend the money into something that they have never experienced before, while when gamblers lose too much then it will bring them into situation that force them to reduce the money for daily needs especially if they lost more than what they cant afford to lose. I believe it has been suggested many times before that we should have our own limit as well as our own target.

It asap to have you handle the situation while your taking your investment into gambling industry. If you considered gambling asha entertainment alone there is no problem for you.
The people who ever being greedy and unable to control the emotion when they are facing the loss are not fit for the the gambling field.

I will never allow myself having in that scenario because being a father of 3 every single centavo is very precious because I earned that in hard ways for my family
My wife and children’s are my treasure so risking that king of money will be the most and very desperate thing I can do in my life.
Yeah I gamble sometimes but not to the extent that my family will suffer,no will not do the same way

What I believe gambling effecting overall lifestyle on most of gamblers. Because when you lost financially then obviously it will effect on overall lifestyle. If you are very very rich then it would not effect on your lifestyle but I believe 90% gamblers isn't very rich. Sometimes gamblers gain lot but due to greedy behaviour they loss again. And unfortunately its repeating continuously and eventually they become to Zero.

I have a bitter experience too. It's been a long time ago and it was on offline gambling. I lost a lot and fell into a big debt that I could not handle by myself. In the end my family whose pay off my debt. Since then, I no longer the risk money that will cause problems if I lose it. Now I only use a little money for gambling purposes. Frankly, after that incident, I stopped gambling for a relatively long period of time until I met gambling sites with cryptocurrency.

Yes, I have gone through those times because in the end or now I am no longer dependent on gambling. In the past, lifestyle gambling will indeed change, regardless of what we get from gambling, if it wins, of course it will make us feel comfortable with life that seems to be fulfilled from the income obtained from gambling. But when the losses are obtained, the lifestyle will be more difficult with a lot of debt everywhere. That is a story that at least I experienced in the past.

I dont know why people do really end up on considering gambling as an option for them to reach out a convenient lifestyle.Yes it can give out big amounts on an instant way but this also give outs the negative ones which makes you experience being poor instead on getting rich.There are other options or paths to take rather than using gambling to fulfill your dreams.

Oh awst sorry for your loss and go out of control yourself and you forget set limitation because your mind goal focus to get win huge.
Of course I admit gambling have an effect to change my lifestyle because gambling give for me an happiness while i am playing and sometimes gambling give extra money if i got win but I always put margin control myself to avoid mistakes decision and losse all money in my pocket.

Not at all.

I just started gambling out of curiosity and lucky for me, I didn't get addicted into it and I can control myself. I will gamble when I feel that I want too and vice versa. I know that there are some here that has changed their lifestyle and spend most of the time gambling and got lost.

Of course, there is an impact, you cannot go on having a great lifestyle buying all the things that you want and at the same time losing a lot of money from gambling, and you can buy all you want to travel to a place you've dreamed of if you won a big amount of money, it does have an impact.

If you are using the money that needs to be used for paying bills or needs to be used for buying the things on gambling then it will change your lifestyle into upsside down.Remember you need to go for gambling only if you have spare money to spend for the entertainment.

Perhaps, we need to allocate some money for playing gambling, so we don't change the amount of money to paying bills. But no matter you play gambling or not, your lifestyle will change, and it cost more money if you want to follow the new trends. But it is better if you can limit the funds you use for gambling because the losing money will make you desperate in a long time, especially if you lose too big money. By limiting the money, you will have more money to be saved for another thing.

Not only the gambler's lifestyle is affected. The sad truth is that, those people around him are also affected. Especially when the gambler is already addicted. When he wins, he craves for more; when he loses, he gets depressed. The tendency, he forgets the things and persons that matter more. That's why self-control is very necessary in gambling so that when things go wrong, at least one is still able to minimize  the loss instead of maximizing them.

it certainly will have an impact when you lose a large number, or win in large numbers. but, as long as I play gambling, I always lose, and that of course has a bad impact on my life. that might happen mostly to people around me. for now, I choose to monitor this, and see the effects that occur on people.

You should stop gambling, you are not have fun when you always loss every time you gamble, just focus your time in other things because gambling is not good for you. Gambling is suppose to be fun and even if we lose most of the time but at least we will experience some winning moment.

You have done a lot of things and gambled with a plan.That is good but I think you are single as a married person has no time to keep that focused on gambling because the physical time simply isn't enough and it will impact your life negatively,your family life.

Will that affect our lifestyle especially when are addicted to gambling. Not only the time spend into our family but also in our job.
Basically, this is a common thing to happen when we fall into gambling and could it best if we help ourself before it getting worse.

You need discipline to be able to manage your time effectively, being a gambler having a family and a job is not a problem as long as you know your priorities and you know how to control yourself.

I know gambling is risky and some people does not want to take risk as they are seeing worst possibilities that could happen if they will stick with gambling, but that's them, we have our own choice and we make our own destiny.

As for me, gambling is fan as long as you are always in control.

Gambling, you can control it, or gambling can control you. It`s not good when you don`t have control over your actions, that`s not good in any case, especially in gambling. If you don`t control yourself you can lose a lot of money, with losing a lot of money many other problems will appear. A proper bankroll manager isn`t good just for gambling, you need to know how to take care of your money, your incomes, and your expenses. Bankroll management is essential if you are a gambler, trader, investor, and before you get into the fire with big amounts try to learn more about bankroll management.
Gambling doesn`t affect my lifestyle in a negative way, cause I never spent more than I can afford to lose. Gambling is entertainment, I win and lose, I have fun doing all that. If I notice that gambling starts to affect my life in a negative way, I would think about leaving it for good.

To me the effect hasn't be that negative as I haven't loss to the extend I'll have to regret gambling in the first place. I'm not the type that engage in gambling regular although that doesn't mean I hate it. I gamble for the fun and don't see it as a source of income, I guess people get affected negatively because they consider gambling as a source of income and get attached, resulting to gamble addiction. Considering my losses and my gains, my experience will be tagged positive (sweet).

That's would be too unrealistic if we try to think that we can make gambling as our source of income, even those people who are good in gambling does not all think that way. It's a hard mission and based on percentage that most of us loses in the long run, that's like an impossible mission.

Good for you because only few gamblers are having a profit in gambling, regardless of the time period.

Even when I was a beginner I never had such addictions. I used to go for 2-3 months without gambling when I was busy and then when I got bored I bet on sports every day of the week. As easy as I started it I also ended it. 

I've definitely experienced times where I gambled more than I should have, but not in a way that it changed my lifestyle.
What I did when that happened, was take a break from gambling for a couple of months, which seemed to work out quite alright.

Now I just stick to my budget and do not gamble on certain days.

Yeah, most of the time it doesn't cross my mind even when i'm bored. I guess gambling roots itself on just certain kind of people, not everyone. And though we can say that many people are putting gambling high in their priorities, not all of them are willing to compromise the more important things like family and career.

I would try to follow your strategy, if that works for you, maybe it would work for me too.
I have experience the same, betting more than I should have, but I can't be too discipline to have a break for at least a month, even weeks, I can't.
Maybe a day or 2 would do but that's the maximum, maybe I'm just easily get tempted as most of time are spent in front of my computer.

So far i've been playing for more than a year and i haven't been fallen to that kind of situation just like you OP. I am just playing gambling because i want to entertain myself and i like to socialize a little since my kind of work is kind of stressful. I always set my bankroll specifically gambling only whether i win or lose as long as i am contented with the company.

Sometimes it's hard to control once you felt that you aren't satisfied with what the result due to the unlucky days but i just take a deep breath and i call it a day.

You had win so many times and yet you came back to win more? That i way too greedy of you, if i were in your case I would've quit already and think of another business that could make your money survive for a decade, even not multiplying at least cycling in more than a decade paying your bills and giving you enough food. Well people are different, maybe you have your reason on why you still came back to gamble you winnings.

How you gamble and its results will have a direct impact on your lifestyle unless you are filthy rich and you can control your gambling habit, if you don't know how to control yourself, your lifestyle will be in ruin,  what you will allocate to your lifestyle will now be allocated to your gambling.

That would make you a failure in the long run, you don't follow the rules which is to gamble what you can afford to lose.
Gambling should not even be part of your lifestyle as it's just part of your entertainment and you don't fully focus on it as we know how expensive this kind of entertainment, at risky as well because we have a chance to win and that will get us tempted along the way.

Gambling has got the potential to make make a big change in one's life. This can be positive as well negative. Users who are lucky will have the positive impact of gambling and the users who are unlucky, greed and spend without limits and analyzing about the strategies will get their life affected negatively experiencing loss.

What kind of gambling did you make the continuous wins if I may ask? Was it a probability or skill based gambling?

I guess you risk too much or gamble with what you can't afford to lose hence the going "back to zero".

Besides, I do not think it's OK to see gambling as a source of income.

Gambling can only affect your overall lifestyle if you let it do, gambling affects the mind, no doubt but that's if you let the desire to always win and get rich through gambling sink deep into your mind.
If you want to control your gambling habits, you must take it as a form of sport, you can either win or lose, and since there is an option of loss, you must curtail how much you put into it.
I am a gambler, but I effectively control my gambling habits, thus it hasn't been able to affect my overall lifestyle in any way.

First and foremost, I would like to extend my gratitude for getting out of the cycle of gambling. You have made a leap forward towards a successful and peaceful life. Gambling, if not, is considered one of the most deceiving ways of earning money. It starts when you start winning your first bet and the addiction you get makes everything uncontrollable from that point.

Most gamblers that I know personally have fallen and succumb to addiction. Unfortunately, they still are trapped in the illusion of gambling but I always support them in the best way I could. You have made the right decision and with that, I hope you become an inspiration to people who are having difficulties from removing this dangerous addiction/habit.

With the way gambling has been elaborated in the OP which many players go through then gambling will make your lifestyle very difficult and boring because you will be a broke gambler chasing your loses and bad social skills.

Calling it a day thing would really be hard to be followed by most gamblers yet they would continue to chase up loses.Reactions or actions will depend on how you do look towards gambling.

If you do play for the sake of making money then actions like this would be definitely followed but when you do play for sake of entertainment then you wont really end up on having this situation.

Gambling has known to destroy a lot of families and we all know that. Not only your family but your own self at first. If a gambler doesn't know how to hold himself in front of gambling games, he will probably end up broke and have a messy life. So as we can see, gambling has really impact on gambler's life but as for me, since I am not a regular gambler, it doesn't affect my lifestyle.

Please clarify, what was your goals? As I understood, it was profit and this is the biggest mistake which you did. Gambling isn't for profit, maybe my words are now late for you but I and a lot of people have repeated that. I was gambling but it didn't affect my lifestyle because I was getting fun, excitement and adrenaline from it, knew where to stop and when to continue which you failed sadly. At least you learned on your mistake, on very hard example but believe me, a lot of people still can't learn on hardest moments.

Almost all of the families where the breadwinner is a gambler is destroyed, that's what i've seen. The good thing for me is that i see to it that i won't end up like the others. I'm a gambler online/offline and experienced rough ride on life too due to it but instead of whining about it, i took it as a lesson and make some ways on how to improve my gambling ways as not to affect my lifestyle. I know nobody became rich on gambling alone but just don't know why people is being drag into it.

@OP, sorry for your experience and thank you for sharing it here as many could relate and will take precaution not to fall on that same fate.

This is real, gambling when done without self control the destruction caused is very big. Just for an understanding if an user has lost $10 in gambling, and on the consecutive match he'll place $20 to get back the loss as well the winning profit for the match. This needs to be understood and spend. Once on loss getting out of control takes place often. User should be take time and spend, so it might help in identifying the mistakes too.

You will have to know as much as you will learn you will be able to achieve your goal of using gambling. Reality is that gambling has the guts to make our life gioid it allows us so much to earn only with miner effort. Gambling made my life good I use it as an additional source of earning and helps me to use my spare time as constructively

Those are the basic things we have to remember otherwise, we will end up in huge loss through the gambling. In the beginning, everything seems to be very efficient but once we are addictive we might start losing money through gambling. That's why we shouldn't be addictive to gambling, we should always with the small amounts of money and it should affect our lifestyle.

Well said!
I think it is more of a mental thing. My family has always been able to prioritize things in life. My father smoked for many years. The day my mother got pregnant he stopped smoking and has never smoked a cigarette ever since. He doesn't believe or accept such addictions and I kind of inherited that way of thinking. Even though he smoked, for whatever reason, he was able to give it up over night. I gamble when I feel like it but I can also not gamble whenever I want to.

 

This should be the kind of attitude every gambler has.
When we are in control, there is no risk that gambling will affect our lifestyle and there is no chance we will get addicted.

It shows how smart we are if we have control because we didn't allow our emotion to dictate our mind and knowing how gambling gives mix emotions, without control this would not be entertaining anymore.

I have been gambling for over 3 years now and I can say that nothing has really changed, I think this is because I entered into gambling with the right motive. I didn’t come into gambling to make money but rather than having fun and this is exactly what I have got since I started. There are challenging times, maybe when I lose more than I expected but not really that bad because I only play what I am able to afford to lose.

Back to the OP's post, how could you play a game that rendered you reckless? I am sorry to ask, what exactly were you thinking about and how why did you allow yourself get to that point. If you are honest, I believe you would admit that you became greedy at a point because gambling for me is the most interesting game I have ever seen and it makes a players life even better.

OK, I will share when I am 18 years old I am addicted to gambling, just like you the difference is I am still single and not married, but yes it is still bad, I lost my job and all my salary was spent on gambling.
actually you can win if you are not greedy or you can control your emotions.
don't expect too much, because this is just a game of luck.

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well, i think we must learn from this guy ;D, when im starting gamble i was 18 years old, greedy cant control emotion and careless.
that god think dont think gamble can finish your finansial problem because its just lucky game.
recently im play again and can control my emotions.

Frankly speaking it does because most of my lifestyle are not shifted toward a life style of a gambler. There are things that actually I was not doing before I venture into the world of gambling but since I have joined the gamblers community, I have seen more.changes around based on the gambling life and also on my general life.

The change you have in your life is it positive or negative? I think many of us are suffering loses and few are really making a good life in gambling and therefore we can notice a change of lifestyle by the way we live. I almost get depressed when I lose 0.02btc last week Saturday through dice and since then little thing makes me unhappy. Gambling is a game and we must do it for fun if we want a positive change in habits and lifestyle.

The style varies from person to person, The side effects of a gambler's life can not be accurately described. If you are subjected to a severe defeat, It will make you think again to recover your loss, Your life will be rather difficult and you will suffer fatigue and fatigue.This is one of the effects that you can be exposed to.

I don’t think it’s about the game but about the player, like he mentioned, it was his false decision that led to he’s mischief.  Maybe we should focus on knowing the strategy that got the guy wrecked because the fastest way to go broke in gambling is by using some unacceptable strategies.

The whole story looks very strange to me because I can imagine how a player suffered so much on a game that is meant to be fun and entertaining. It’s quite a sympathetic story I must say and if you have to advice anyone I think you should teach them to focus on gambling for fun than on getting money since this now looks like an impossibility in gambling.

I've seen some people who do fall on this category which most of them trying to chase up their losses even if their bankroll would suffer at the end of the day. Most of them i've seen are gone now maybe they were on a rehabilitation center for gambling addict or somewhere in the street losing everything just because they had lost their self-control while gambling.

Positive and good kind of addiction is not bad I think gambling has ability to make our life good but we will have to give it a chance by gambling well. Never be hurry to win and don’t take wrong way to make profit. It has given me a chance to spend time constructively and make money in my spare time of day.

Such is the bad effect in gambling. If we have become addicts, sacrifice or do anything for gambling. Sooner or later you will get used to the bad things in playing gambling. If you can't control it, it will greatly affect your daily life.

Yeah right, most of us gamble because of money, actually they are not chasing defeat but rather chasing their money. And that doesn't happen when they lose, but when they win they still pursue it because they will still chase the money even if they win.

There may only be 1: 100 people who play gambling for entertainment and the rest are only for the pursuit of money. Sure enough, when a gamble for entertainment they will enjoy it more when gambling, because their minds will not be mixed emotions and tensions.

Well, I smiled when was reading your post. Because I also experienced this kind of scenario while I am in gambling. Well, as you notice that the word I bolded above you should always remember. Indeed, you did not apply that while you are in climax because all wanted to have is a massive profit which is you should have a limitation and should know when to stop. I noticed that continue playing will makes you a big chance to lose and better to have a break and come back when your mind gets a refresh.

The good effect that I only see in gambling is that you can be entertained and it can be your stress reliever.

Most of the times, gambling is always bad for the gamblers. They always lose and if they win, they will become greedy until they lose all of their money. Losing your money in gambling can lead to depression and it can change your lifestyle since you are depressed. Better if you not gamble anymore.

If you will focus your time in gambling, that might result to a stressful life, we understand that we are losers in the long run but still we enjoy gambling because sometimes we can be lucky and win some amount of money that we can enjoy.

As for me, when I loss, I just don't count it anymore and I just tell to myself that loss is the amount I have to pay to be entertainment.
If we have that kind of mentality, we will never get addicted and gambling will not negatively affect our lifestyle.

Yes, gambling result also change your mood. If you won in gambling you will feel entertained and happy for the rest of the day.
In case of loss, you will be stressed and sad depending upon the amount you lost in gambling and it will definitely effect your other acts in life which normally does not link to gambling like your behavior with your spouse and kids etc.

None of us is immune to mistakes. Sometimes we are greedy and unable to control ourselves, and we lose more than we can afford to lose in those cases. But the key is making those cases happen as rare as possible. If you can do that most of the time, and you lose control only once in a year, you are okay to gamble imo. The only thing that you should never do is borrowing money to gamble. That's unacceptable in any circumstances.

In short, gambling can affect your life negatively, but not more often than once in a year. If you see this happening more often, you should probably seek help of some kind to stop this activity.

Gambling is good way to earn and to make our life. So those who says gambling is just fun for them are not lucky. It is good to enjoy while you are gambling but considering gambling as fun is not good thinking at all. I am thankful to gambling as it changed my life and has given me good life style that’s why I never stop to gamble.

Gambling can definitely affect our lifestyle, there are two possibilities in gambling you will either have an abundant lifestyle or broke lifestyle. Everyone knows gambling is more on luck well ofcourse depending on the game, so if you are a wise gambler then that means you have a better self control and has a good strategy in spending your winning while if you are a greedy gamblers then you’ll end up getting broke like losing almost everything.

Maybe you were lucky today when you play gambling because you think you could earn from it but in the long run, you will end up chasing your losses again and again. Gambling supposed to be for fun only for once and do not consider yourself staying one of those casinos too much because that's would be the time you will start to feel the regret slowly.

Although some people may not really feel it yet because they do have huge money on their bankrolls(probably rich) and they can spend anytime and anywhere they like.

It surely affects our lifestyle if you are really into gambling. If you live because of gambling activities, that's where your overall lifestyle is truly affected by gambling. But if you only gamble once in a while, then I would say, it has no significant impact on your life. And as for me, I only gamble whenever I have extra cash to spare with, so I guess, it doesn't really affect my overall lifestyle.

That's is fact and I agree wise gambler have an self control greedy isn't not advisable because possible to become addicting and change lifestyle into broke. to avoid this scenario we must treat gambling as play for just fun not to treat it for source of income and always set greed control.

Gambling will only affect your overall lifestyle if you gamble without limitation or you treat gambling as your way to earn decent money. If you experience to win you will get tempted to try your luck again until you wont notice you already became addicted. So before you gamble learn how to control and dont be greedy.

As for me I dont gamble often, I just play everytime im bored or I have spare time. Gambling for me is a way to entertain myself and not for the purpose that I want to earn therefore it has no big impact in my life.

It will affect pur overall lifestyle as it changes your way of life, greed will most likely going to change you in very common situations. Addiction and other negative aspects will have to ruin your life. Some people might manage their addiction but eventually cannot withstand beigt greed unto betting with huge amount of money.

Gambling changes my life before, I become more greed and I become more selfish, and mostly I buy expensive things to impress other players. Well, that was long time ago and I’ve already moved on, back to my normal life and live more happy. Gambling makes me a better person because of so many failures, don’t fall on greed forever.