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This question is always on my mind since then until now. I want to know the opinion of everyone here on this platform. I know that we have all different perception about gambling, so I respect what will be your point of view about that.

But to share my opinion, I consider gambling as a threat to gamblers. Yes, there are a lot of people who find happiness in gambling if and only if they can control their selves from this, but no matter how fun can gambling gives to you, the problem is still there, the addiction on it is always there, it grows day by day. There are so many disadvantages of being so addicted in gambling, one of which is forgetting your priority, spending your time to your family and your friend, you won't be able to more productive things than losing money, to the point that even you already lose and don't have enough money to play, you will make ways, there are times that you will ask a request to your friend to give you money as debt. You should be the one who controls the gamble and don't let the gamble control you.

Sometimes i feel gambling is fun but only if i am winning my bets but surely gambling is not a threat. If you think it is threat that why you play it ? You play gambling intentionally and with your own will , so it is not a threat. A threat is something which is accidental in nature and not in control.

The main purpose of I consider is to have fun and enjoyment . But every individual is so different and since it involves money which every one wants to have maximum it has become a job or a routine form any to make as much money from it as possible . In this process they get addicted etc and this becomes a huge threat to them and to their family too because it has too many side effects too .

you can say that its a threat to you because you are one of those who have experience a negative result upon the longer you play a gambling   but its ok ,  i am not against with your point  . you already said that we are different right . some experience positive result too but i cant fully say that im only experiencing good results  because sometimes i do loose too but not too much  . i only loose spare money but i enjoyed playing the game  , so i can say that gambling is fun  and not a threat  .

It really depends on your mindset. If you tend to get addicted to things quickly, then gambling can quite easily become one of those things.

Most people don't suffer from this issue though, so it's all just good fun.

Just keep your risk down and don't play with more than you are willing to lose and you'll be fine.

^ You already found the answer to your paragraph and that was in the last sentence that I bolded above. Definitely right, we have the responsibility to control our minds and emotion in gambling. You should always remember this before influencing gambling. There's no more threat if you enjoy gambling not just for chasing money on it.

Your statement was too ironic because gamblers themselves cannot be called as "gamblers" without any sort of gambling. Maybe "Gambling as a threat to anyone involved in it". But we get the idea, yet it wasn't of a huge threat nor a threat at all. It is more of a risky hobby than a threat. But, where's the fun without risks and sacrifices? Is life not gambles us just for us to learn? Therefore, gambling is more often to be felt by most as satisfying and fun.

Better close this thread as it would only be bombarded with unnecessary opinions that was already answered even on the OP's statement.

Saying that gambling is a threat to gamblers because they might get atddicted is like saying that watching tv or playing computer games is a threat because you can get addicted.

People get addicted to almost anything: eating, drinking alcohol, smoking, narcotics, painkillers, sex. Does it mean all these things are a threat? Maybe they are if you're mentally ill and cannot control your urges but not to normal people.

Huh. Gambling only becomes a threat to people who doesn't know the word 'control.' For the most part, gbling is usually harmless and brings a lot of fun and brings a lot of money to the table and jobs for people. The addicted ones made themselves a slave to gambling and to money, that's why they can't seem to get out of it. Saying gambling is a threat to gamblers is like saying scuba gear is a threat to scuba divers which literally makes no sense. Without gambling, there wouldn't even be gamblers in the first place!

It's a psychological thing really, and depends much on the capability of the person to resist temptation to gamble hard and lose money in the process, nothing to do eith gambling simply existing in the economy.

Threat on the sense that you wont able to control gambling and yes there were lots of people who do fail on doing this one thats why they do end up on playing and getting theirselves addicted in the end of the day.Playing gambling isnt bad as long you do know on how to play with moderation and self control.Once you do saw that you are already doing some signs of addiction then better stop mid-way rather than letting yourself go through addiction and
mess out your life.Remember, that once damage was done then its already hard to break chains with it.Addiction is something that would really be hard
to remove on someone.If you dont like unfortunate things to happen in your life then better to think carefully before you do gamble and if you are an emotional type of person then better not consider gambling in the first place.

Casual gambling for fun and relaxation is probably okay. But if it grows into addiction and starts consuming your whole life, you should probably seek help and find a way to stop gambling. I happen to know several people whose lives have been literally destroyed by gambling addiction. So, I'm free to say that gambling can be the real threat in certain situations.

Gambling could be threat if we do gamble without discipline and have no goal then make it habit then surely you will get yourself in trouble in the long run. But if you do gamble for entertainment have goal and discipline surely you will avoid all the possible mess to your life and avoid addiction. I think its better to let yourself not involving to gambling as long as you can, do it just for fun but not all the time.

I mostly agree with what's been said here about gambling not being much of a threat if you manage it well, but the problem arises when people might become addicted without realizing it until the consequences of their actions start to become obvious. Seeking help can also be a very difficult task for those who are addicted to gambling, because just like with drugs, it can be hard to stop. Overall, I'd say that as long as you're gambling with the expectation that you won't be consistently making money through gambling and losses are expected as well as normal, thus you should only be gambling money you can afford to lose, then that minimizes the chances that you start the path of gambling addiction.

I agree to those people that are saying gambling is mainly for the purpose of having fun, that is true. It originated as a recreactional activity and not a money earning activity. Though I don't see it as a threat but a risk. A threat is  something that is a word I might use for terrorists or the mail bombing that is happening but in terms of gamblimg, it is a risk. The risk of being addicted to it, the risk of losing your money, the risk of being depressed, the risk of broken family. I can go on and on and there are a lot of risks you are taking when you are gambling.

The answer is pretty subjective. It really depends on the gambler.

Those who've been in the worse financial/family scenarios are more prone imo to the "threat" side of gambling. The thought of possibly earning more money than your entire family's made in a long time is sometimes just killing that "oh but what if I'll lose" feeling. It's more of a fight taking place inside your brain where addiction fights your logical thoughts.

If one has a mindset stable enough to abstain from depositing and risk more money than they should, gambling falls in the "fun" side for them. But it's pretty easy to fall back into the "threat" side because we all know the feeling you get when winning something. You'll just want more.

Definition of threat or fun depends to the affected person. If the gambler doesn't see the essence of why gambling is there and that's to be treated to have fun and have a bit of a very small amount of profit then it should be a threat.

But if the gambler sees it to be fun and stress reliever which makes him happy then it's fun. The experience that we had as we gamble is also determining what should we tell what gambling is all about. If most experiences were bad, it's a threat but if most experiences contains having fun despite of having bad experience, consider it as a fun.

It's both.

If you're of the mindset to get easily addicted to things, it's a threat. If you've got good self control and a logical mind, then it's just fun.

Just keep a cool head and it shouldn't become a problem for most people.

A threat or fun? The point on how good you can control yourself. @KrisAlex18, you actually have answered in your OP. People who can control themselves can make gambling as a fun source. While people who have less self-control will be threatened addicted to gambling. So, the question should be "how to make people can control their selves?" In my opinion, to have good self-control, someone needs to make a certain strategy such as limit their funds, limit the time to play gambling, aware of the bad impacts of excessive play, or etc.

Well, it is not that easy. I've been there, I know a lot of people that's been there, it is a hard thing to do.  As you are gambling not thinking that you will be losing but will be having fun and then the wins/losses roll in, that is when you will be making a decision that you will not believe you did. It is a risk/threat gambling, a lot of people say like it is easy to do this and to do that but they do not know how hard it is.

People must have different capabilities. People who have well self-control, they can say easy to do. While people have weak self-control, they will face big problems. Indeed, it can't be avoided that gambling has a risk but It is surely not something to make us ignoring gambling. Every gambler must learn how to control their selves unless they are in trouble.

Everything in life has pros and cons including gambling.

So it's really up to the individual, yes you might be tempted to enter the gambling world and forget all your priorities in life, but if you have the self control not to be greedy then you can't be a gambler. I have some friends who I introduced gambling, some of them didn't really like it because they have other things to do, they just play to have some fun. So it's a case-to-case basis.

Gambling can be fun but it can also be a threat once you get addicted. Some people see gambling as there way to have fun when bored like myself but I'd made sure that I have total control of myself and that I won't let myself become addicted to gambling because once addicted it will not do any good to you. The big threat for gambling is when one gets addicted because it is very hard to get out when gambling is already part of your system and it cannot only ruin your financial status but it can also ruin your family and life thus, gambling should be done in moderation.

Gambling is dangerous for newbies who have no idea of all the trap, excitement and all the depression that comes along losing a lot of money, all first timer once time or another have experienced losses on their first tries, if they have a strong character they can pass this phase and become a responsible gambler and this is where they consider gambling just for entertainment.+

I find it funny when people put blame on the gambling industry for their misfortune.  I admit that gambling enticed people to play and have fun with their gambling activities but all the decisions depend on the person himself.  Gambling is made to enable us to relax and unwind, but we tend to abuse them.  Gambling itself is harmless if we can control ourselves but it can destroy us because of our incompetence and lack of discipline.  If we find the root of this destruction of gambling addicts, it is their attitude towards gambling that destroyed them not the gambling establishment itself.  Blame ourselves for the wrong decision we had done, it is our incompetence and lack of discipline that is a threat to us.

People will have a different opinion gambling. Perhaps, you consider gambling as a threat, but the other people will not think like that. People who know how they should do with gambling will think that gambling is a way to have fun and exciting activity. They can control themselves in gambling while they can enjoy their time to play any gambling games. That people know that gambling can make them spend more money because of the loss, but they can accept that, and they can limit their time and money on gambling.

It is the combination of the two but more on threat than fun.

The fact that you are betting your money is a threat of itself. Your money is not just in the line here but also your life. Gambling destroyed a lot of lives in the past and the proof that a lot of people are having a problem with it means it is really a threat. It is fun if you are getting a profit but that also is a threat since that will make you want to earn more and more that means you are also in risk losing your profits.

I consider gambling as a way to have fun especially in the time that I have nothing to do and I cannot consider it to myself as a threat as I know how to control myself.

I always put a limitation when I am gambling in order to minimize my losses and to avoid being addicted to it but for those people who are addicted to it already then I consider it as a big threat for them. It is not that easy to avoid gambling habits especially if you are addicted to it already and your financial stability will surely be affected once you will get addicted to gambling.

To be quite frank about it, there are way more disadvantages or cons in gambling than advantages or pros. Not only will gambling expose every single gambler to the possibility of getting addicted, it will also take away money from them or from their family. That money could have been put into better use. Another loss aside from money is time. Gamblers are often hooked into it that they forget to spend quality time with their family, work, friends, pets, and so on.

Another big reason is that out of the millions and millions of gamblers, the real winners are only a handful aside, of course, from the casinos and gambling houses. Look at how prestigious and grandiose the gambling business has become.

And so I guess the threat from gambling is very strong. There is fun, of course, but every gambler has to really find that balance, however difficult it may be. Gambling moderately is always the best way although it sure is hard to achieve.

It would be a threat on our finances seriously, because if the money involved with gambling touched our savings. There's no positive effect on our lives if we play gambling to a very worst stage. Having fun is good, but it should be in moderation to control your financial stability. As a gambler, preventing addiction must be learned beforehand to avoid sudden circumstances.

I agree gambling is threat to our financial but it is the reason why we gain profit. Also you don't need to be worry to play gamble as long as you have disicpline to yourself and have goal, you don't need to take more time in gambling, do it only for fun or if you have extra money. I know some user consider it as a threat but if you have strategy can be expect to win more money in the long run.

As you've said OP we all have different opinion,
Some would say that it is fun and there are some who would consider it as a threat,
We as a gambler doesn't really see it as a threat even though it is destroying some gambler's lives.
For me the only people who would consider it as a threat is the one who doesn't really enjoy their time while gambling.

because you have also no option but to respect all answers from different perspectives
self control always saves us,no matter in what situation even from gambling or even in relationship so that is indeed the savior of everyone.
Gambling is part of the society so the more people enters gambling is the more chances to be added as addicted.
all of the mentioned problem can happen even if gambling is not there,Liquor,drugs,womanizing and other vices that can lead to these problem som let us not specified as gambling roots of these.

If it is an uncontrolable, then it is a threat. You can weigh and reflect everytime you gamble. If it is not healthy anymore like the usual priority was left behind already, then it is no fun at all. We all gamble for two things: To gain profits and To have fun.  If it wasn't meet the two goals and has already unusual behaviors, think twice.

Honestly, I am still happy that I still managed myself from being addicted to gambling. I see to it that at the end of the day I do some self-reflections, does I gamble a lot today that it does affects my daily living or not. It helps a lot to control gambling addiction.

Although gambling is a fun but if you become addicted then it takes awful form. Specially, it's so deadly for young people, who go crazy when little things happen. Those who lose a match in gambling attempt to win the next match until he can win & thus, they become addicted. On the other hand, those who win a match they make a bigger bet in the face of happiness. Very few people have been able to quit gambling after being addicted. so, for the beginner should not gamble if you not matured enough.

Honestly yes,because the presence of gambling is attracting more people nowadays specially that economy is falling and one of the chance people has is ti earn easily without knowing that the more they are eager to win is the more chances of them losing.

i don't recommend to people entering gambling if they have chances prevent from dealing here.

except those people that can control themselves like me,that i don't need to skip gambling because i know my capacity and how i can refuse to play whenever i wanted to.

We should also keep in mind that we do gambling also because we need to earn profits (not unless if you just really intended to have fun and expected to lose)
A lot of people who gamble that have different reasons; just what everyone said, for fun or for money like they do it for living.
But, we should also be responsible for doing gambling just for fun, because it could lead to addiction or bankruptcy.

It won't be a threat if you are capable in limiting both your money and your emotions, if you are enjoying while doing some bets then it's okay but if you already wasting a lot of your time and money it's harmful and will result to addiction.
Give yourself a good assessment and try to observe your behaviors towards this activities.

That is the same.

You may have a lot of money or not, that is still a threat. Instead of focussing that money on assets or investments and stocks, you use them to gamble. Even if your career can support your vice, it can still end up as your addiction and will really eat your money. If you're not prioritizing your career, it may crumble your plans down.

This depends how you treat gambling but it can be both. You can gamble for fun if you know how to control yourself and it can also be a threat financially if you let yourself become addicted. So it all depends on your capability on how you will handle the emotions when you gamble because thats the start of the problem especially if you're losing your money. Some gamblers can refrain themselves despite of the losses but others are eager to gamble to chase back what they lost.

Think why you want to gamble and stick to it. If your reason is to earn then forget about it because its not the reliable way to grow your money.

I will share my opinion regarding this base on the "threat" part and the "fun" part.

Threat - this mostly happens when a gamblers is losing. Gambling is the reason why gamblers are becoming a threat as they can do violent things when they lost their money on it. Because of gambling, they can do bad things and worse they can rob other people too especially if they are addicted into gambling.

Fun - gambling becomes a fun when a gambler is winning the game and it is more fun if he knows when to go out and go home along with his profits. As a gambler, that is their main goal to have profits at the end of the day. Unfortunately, gamblers tend to become greedy and instead of having fun they feel regret if they lose their money.

For me, it can be both threat and fun because before you gamble, your aim is that to have fun besides of course to gain money. It will become a threat, once you can't control yourself because it will now lead to addiction. Well, there are many people who are really addicted to gambling and most of them are rich. So, I think it really depends on how people control their selves.

I consider it as a threat but only for those who couldn't control their greed because it could destroy them they have a high potential of becoming addicted to gambling.
As a gambler we should also be able to control our emotions so it wouldn't be a problem to us or our family.

depends on how we treat gambling because like what you said we have our own perception about this.

but if i am to asked?this is not a threat instead this is for fun only because i am a family centered person so i would rather spend everything in me for my family than gambling.

I don't think threat (or fun) is higher than the other so i'd say its even. I see both of them having an impact mentally good or bad and what happens is we tend to look at the bad things more than the good things making it more of a threat. I understand others saying gambling is a threat because of past experiences from those people with gambling problems but imo what makes it dead even is how each gambler have the decision to pick between the two. Fight over the mental battle after each win or losing bet to not get carried away with bad decisions.

It can only be a threat if you let it. If you don't know how to limit your self, gambling can lead to serious problems. Addiction starts slowly if you are just starting to gamble and know for your self that by the end of the day gambling is not healthy for your health and financially, you should do something about it.

I think mostly is a threat to most persons because even if you lose your first ever bet or session of play or you win it many people like to go back again.Some to recover the lost amount and some to try and win more.This is very dangerous because without one realizing this can lead to gambling addiction if the person is not careful.
This happens more compared to people who know they are gambling for fun and they know what they are doing.

thats why we must take action as early as possible because if not then we will be like many people that turned unto a gambling degen  . im one of those degens tho but not most of the times   . i can still control my self to not to gamble everyday and its hard because i visit the gambling site everyday just to chitchat only with my friends  .  for the long time i spend on a gambling site the best thing that i get aside from profits is friends  and this gems cant be paid by money  thats why i value them and i always comeback  .

If someone let gambling to control their daily activities and keep losing their financial status means they don't have control over mind but we can't blame gambling for that since no one forces them to do so,all they were doing by themselves and getting addicted to it for wrong intentions.

It’s one self discipline and control in themself which helps them to stay away from any addiction or in gambling it’s very easy to be addicted as it’s involve money and humans are greedy about it . But moment it becomes a headache for someone the fun part becomes a threat for them and then has many effects of it .

Depend on from what side people consider it but for me it could be both although i attempts to consider gambling for entertainment purposes but in the fact it's not always be fun because sometimes we can be so upset while lost and it's not fun anymore and if we thinking to recover our losses from gambling then it can be change to threat because this is early symptoms of gambling addiction

Well, know one should enjoy taking risk.
In my opinion, we should avoid making risky things fun to prevent addiction.
Don't risk what you can't afford to lose. If you must gamble, gamble on things that add value to your life or and less on things that are neither beneficial nor harmful.  
 Not a good idea to gamble on bad games or things that are bad.

^This could probably be applied in all spheres of our lives.

In my own personal opinion, gambling is a threat and at the same time for fun because you can really gamble for fun whenever you are bored at your home or if you don't have other things to do. Gambling could only be a threat to your life if you just consider gambling as a source of income or to earn money because that will be the time that you will be greedy and addicted in gambling.

you should read more articles about gambling so you'll educate yourself properly.
They said gambling is for fun since it is fur fun but we cannot erase the reality that this kind of fun is risky, and that will become a threat when you as a gambler don't know how to manage that risk when you are gambling... the solution is to become  a responsible gambler all the time, you'll then have fun all the time.

Gambling is built on human physiology. You do certain actions (hunting simulation) and get the result (prey simulation) and your brain receives endorphins. These mechanisms are described in more detail in specific scientific papers. So this is an absolutely natural (and probably useful for brain stimulation) activity.
In gambling there is nothing wrong if your hobby does not turn into a mania. But this is also true of other “stimulants” such as alcohol, coffee, and even regular sports or reading news (some people cannot tear themselves away from this).

Actually gambling is a lot of controversy arising from one's judgment of gambling, when he wins and when he loses.

1. When you win: gambling is fun spoken in the mouth and the players.
2. When you lose: gambling is threatened for your finances and for you, if you have a debt to people while gambling.

These two factors are now returned to you 'individual' in responding to them.

If you say fun is true, if you say threatening is also true, both are true.
Now you have two choices you can make.
1. If in gambling's mind it threatens you, stop, don't bet.
2. If in your mind it's fun, to get a lot of money keep playing gambling.

Now you can consider in your mind, other people only have suggestions, who do everything is your own.

This is where people should really mind on which things would really vary on what are there perceptions towards it.Gambling activity can really either be both things
which is threat or fun and you will eventually experience this along the way if you are keen towards your actions or things that do happens while you do play.
If you are a sensible type of person then you will surely notice it but if you are already addicted then you will surely neglect this until you experience big losses
and thats the time you will eventually stop.

For me gambling is fun not a threat at all.
I don't see it as a threat since I could control my gambling habits.
And I only gamble for fun and I am not one of those heavy gamblers.

I think it totally depends on the individuals, gambling can be presume to be deadly at the same time a savior to many average income earners. The way you approach it determination how you see it. Every activity has an advantage and disadvantage, sometimes the advantage could favor some individuals while others are encountered with the disadvantages especially when they're not equipped with the necessary knowledge to combat such scenario.

The fun in gambling is more than the threats when you plan effectively, don't over exceed your gambling limit just because you're trying to win back your losses. Always understand that it's isn't an assured method of earning income since your previous success doesn't guarantee future outcomes.

I have said it many times before, to me it's a fun activity I engage in from time to time. I don't have a gambler's mindset and I am not an addict in any way.
I don't consider it to be a threat. It is only a threat to minors and minors shouldn't be allowed to gamble in any way. For everyone else, enjoy the ride. If you get addicted, admit it and seek help.     

Well, as for me,

It depends on every individual. There are a few people who can actually play only for "fun" and there are some who are playing to "win" and to have some instant money. It only becomes a threat if that fun activity will soon after becomes an addiction.

It is quite easy to play and win a little in gambling, it is quite easy to win allot when yo have allot of funds to bet, and it is easy to lose as well in gambling. That is why many people tends to be addicted in playing because of the "easy money" scheme of it to cycle money based from our luck. We might not notice but from time to time that we play, we miss the opportunity of spending time with other productive stuffs and we get addicted to it. What's bad is when we get addicted but we tend to experience more loss than wins, so to make sure we are playing well, it is not that playing/gambling that we should take care of (quit), but being addicted to it. And there are many ways to do it. Just plain and simple, spend time with recreational activities, play video games, work hard, and love our family.

Gambling should be satisfying and entertaining, it isn't a threat unless you just let yourself end up on a situation wherein it affects your life negatively. It is one of the specific reason why gamblers must set their own limitation to keep themselves away from addiction. It is our responsibility as a gambler to ensure that it won't make our life miserable, it  is the reason why self-discipline is a must because it will make you analyze which is the best and right thing to do. Gambling can possibly lead to threat if you continue on gambling without even realizing how it makes an impact on your way of living.

It will be always depending on the gambler on how he will see his situation when playing gambling, Addiction is a threat but if you control yourself and do some limitation I'm sure a gambler won't arrive at the stage that gambling is harmful to him.

I was an addict on gambling before and I can consider it as a threat because of the negative impacts that come to my life, but as of now, I am on the rehabilitation of stopping and controlling myself on playing gambling I can consider it fun when I play. Don't get me wrong, I play gambling by controlling my emotions and by limiting my wager on each session I play games.

Gambling is fun to those winning and a threat to gamblers. That's how the cycle is. You can never win the house. Only few wins and majority are losing. So winners are enjoying it because of their strategy while it's frustrate losers with threat and many can't quit.

            This depends from person to person, and yes I actually agree with you about controlling your decisions while betting. Your decision may not be a threat for now but sooner or later it will be a big deal not only for you but also for your family if you have one. Well just like what they usually say "play for fun" and " bet what you can afford to lose".

Gabling starts when you think that it is a fun activity.
That's how all people see it in the beginning but as you gamble and gamble more and you start losing money then this activity becomes a thread due to the factor that might make you lose a lot of money in the end which is not actually fun.

At first, you will realize gambling is for fun, but once you experienced winning a lot of money in gambling that will be the time you will realize if gambling is really a threat or fun for you because you might have changes in your attitude while playing in gambling that you always seek just to play gambling whether it is for entertainment or to earn money.

Like everyone says, it all depends on how you play and how much you play and how much you have. If you are a rich person gambling with small amount of money that won't hurt you, it is a total fun that won't hurt you, hell people who are wealthy enough increase that wagering into buying teams, that is the ultimate gambling.

However, if you do not have too much money and you insist on gambling with the money you do not have that is a threat. I have met with a guy who had 70 thousand dollars in debt to a sportsbook/casino (which is wrong by the casino, if dude doesn't have the money for it, do not let him gamble) all because he took out loans from them to keep gambling, now that is as threat as it comes. However there are also tons of billionaires who love to gamble for few million dollars a day and that is nothing to them, less than their savings interest income.

1.) Agree. It makes no sense to endanger yourself in this case.
2.) Hmm ... I think it should be divided.
If we want to have fun and a little adrenaline, then we pay money (we are ready to lose it).
If we want to get a lot of money, then it is probably better to work hard or do business. Gambling is not a place where they can be earned (by playing).
Although there is always a chance  ::)

The answer depends on us. We start gambling with a reason for us to enjoy but what we're not monitoring is ourselves. While we're enjoying too much on playing and the idea of winning money, we're slowly forgetting to control ourselves. We started with fun and it will just become a threat if it becomes too much.

It's not really the idea of whether gambling is good or bad, it's our self-control. If we just know how to limit ourselves, we won't see gambling as a threat. Not everyone will agree with me but for me, gambling is just for fun. In my case, I don't see gambling as a threat to me because I know how to control myself and I don't spend so much time on gambling. But I'm also aware of how gambling can destroy us so I try to only set limits because I don't want to cause a problem.

Any kind of addiction is harmful for you. Its like you can enjoy drinking and have fun but when you start alcohol abusing, it becomes a "threat". It starts to interfere with your life and you will usually start to suffer. The same thing goes for gambling, as long as you are in control and do not become addicted to it, its just all fun. But when gambling addiction hits in, it becomes a threat to your life since you will start suffering badly in the long run.

I simply cannot see the point of Gambling being a threat to anyone. Its just a platform its just a place where someone could bet, unless there are some scumbags out there that doesn't want you to win.
Gambling might be a tool or a Cause but it is not really a  threat, IMO.

I believe that gambling is a thing that should be banned everywhere.

Gambling adversely affects people.
Of course, not at all, someone can enjoy it without falling into dependence, but most people who are addicted to gambling are sick to one degree or another.

This is used by casinos and platforms with gambling, as well as with bets and so on.
Their main customers are people who have a gambling addiction, so gambling should be prohibited.

It should, most people think about it.

How many dollars he spends in gambling every month, for example $ 1000, if he starts a business / business with that much capital, maybe it can increase by half of it or maybe more if the business is advanced.

That's what human names are always there are other parties who incite to plunge into gambling.
The worst part is that most people bet, when they lose a bet, they run out of $ 1000, and tomorrow they play again, winning $ 100 is fun enough for an addict, even though he has lost $ 1000, he doesn't realize it.

"Human nature can not be changed by others, if he himself does not want to change it".

You aren't so open about of opportunity and businesses, gambling is part of the business where it involves money just like how we do the trading. Both are almost the same in theory when handling money because it is a game for people who do know how to play. You are just so narrow minded about of the gambling industry, just look on the other side, gambling is being taxed by the government too. It is crucial to the economy of the country.

I was very lucky to be able to get out of gambling addiction 5 years ago (at that time I rarely went home and even always spent my money at the gambling table)), after experiencing a lot of loss in gambling I realized that I was married and was just starting to become a husband. I thought I was very lucky to have a wife who was understanding of me (not angry to me even though I was a gambler)..  learn to control yourself in playing gambling, manage your time and your money because after all the family at home is very important compared to gambling.

It only becomes a threat if you treat it as a daily routine in your life. If you gamble everyday and prioritize it over your responsibilities then, in the long run, it will cause you something bad on yourself or your family.
Gambling is not just all about addiction and wasting lots of money on it. Some people relieve their stress by gambling, some even choose gambling as their career.
In the end, you always have control if you will get addicted or not.

I don't think so.

All of the people already know what gambling is and we all know that it is not a fun activity but a way to earn some money. You would always hear people saying they could try their luck in gambling to earn some money. You could read some of these articles I read in the past talking about what gambling is and how people are getting addicted or hooked with it.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-the-brain-gets-addicted-to-gambling/
http://theconversation.com/designed-to-deceive-how-gambling-distorts-reality-and-hooks-your-brain-91052

Some gamblers cannot accept when they lose in the gambling games, and they will continue to playing gambling to recover their losses. But if they win the games, they will feel that playing gambling is one activity that has an exciting moment and of course, they can have fun inside the games.

We know that gambling will have to lose and win, and we need to understand that we need to accept the risk of gambling. So if you feel that gambling is a threat, you don't have to play gambling, and you should stay away from gambling. But if you think that playing gambling is one of the fun things, you can play gambling anytime without thinking that gambling is a threat.

That's right you have to choose wisely between the two, if you can control yourself then good thing will reflect to your activities while if you will engaged that much surely it will ruined your life as the balanced will be failing since many addicted gamblers become broke after dealing with this habit. Assess yourself and make sure that you are still good in taking your side.

it is both of them to be exact,
Gambling is fun when you are winning but it could be threat when we couldn't control it.
There are people who got addicted to it when they taste the great pleasure of winning on gambling,
Specially when they won a big money from it,
Once they started gambling and have a taste of it they would always think that they could do it again so even when they are losing a lot they wouldn't care because in their mind they could just easily gain it back.

100% true!
Even if you do not do business and save money in a bank (or invest in cryptocurrency), then the accumulated amount will become huge over time. While the money spent on gambling will not give anything but a one-time adrenaline rush.

For me, i believe gambling should be fun for every gamblers out there. You re expected to enjoy your gambles, either its a win or a loss.

Never get emotionally engaged with your bets, that you feel angry when a game losses.

Whenever you realize that gambling is a threat to your peace ? happiness ? and general livelihood. Its time to take a break away from gambling.

It does depend on the gambler. Self-control is a must. If you would let greed consume you, you will surely get addicted into it. Gambling is like a gun. If you won't make use of it with responsibility, it will be a threat to other people and as well to yourself but if you would have full control of it, things would be fine, which is the same with gambling that could be profitable, source of enjoyment and such with proper usage.
It can be a platform in a way that gambling is addictive to some people who are frustrated to be rich in an instant. Actually it is an addictive activity in the first place. The brain would want the gambler to play more and more as they are experiencing a win, due to the rewarding system which is a bit of a conditioning to an individual.
That is why proper self regulation should be prioritized by the gamblers more than earning profit. I do tend to set limit of amount I can afford losing on that day that I would gamble to not be consumed of such activity.

If gambling is done for fun then its a threat , if we do gambling correctly knowing risks then everything is good , short answer but its true

Playing a gambling can both cause of threat and having fum

For the threat because you can lose your money because gambling is one of the dangerous ways so it will be easy for your money to gone if you are very careless using it while playing.

While having fun is happiness we know if we are stress or any bad day that we had once we play we enjoy it and and make double happiness if that day you gonna win more money in gambling.

The two choice is depends to you on how you handle and control yoursels if you not want a bad outcome don't play  if you are not risk taker but if you are ready to lose and to win money gambling is for you .

It is actually both. The moment you started playing gambling, you are already threatening yourself while having fun, the threat is losing, and of course the fun part is when you are winning, you are also enjoying. But, the thing is that sometimes, we are missing the threatening part of it, since it is getting block up by the joy we are experiencing whenever we play gambling.


I am not sure about that, because even if you have some control, you can't control the gambling site itself for you to avoid losing your money, there is no fun in that, that being said, it is already a threat to us since money is important and our goal is to double it up by playing in gambling, not losing it.

Yeah both of that can happen but the most likely to happen for some gamblers is the first one because of their greediness. Although there are some gamblers who are enjoying also even though they lost a lot of money, most of them feel the opposite.

Controlling yourself is the first thing that a gambler must have if they really want to gamble and spend more time on it. One thing more is that, if you see gambling as a way to have some fun and a stress reliever then it is ok if you lost your money. What is important is you enjoyed.

It ofcourse depends in how you take it. Not everyone views gambling the same way, for some, it's a hope of earning some money or doubling their holdings. For some, it's a fun way to utilize their money. Whatever people may say, profit are always the center of attraction for gamblers. The difference is some are going for a number or nothing while some stay on their course even if they win a bit or lose.

Gambling can be a threat and also a set of fun but it depends on how you will be able to control it. There are a lot of people who are playing or gambling is just because they are making friends or they are getting more friends and connections on different terms and also there are people who are intent to be it as a threat because they are being addicted on it and that's the bad part of it because if you have been addicted on it that would be the start that it will became threat for you and for your family as well.

Gambling is meant for fun and enjoyment, it becomes threat when it becomes obsession. Gambling is never a threat for gamblers it is way for a gambler to relax and enjoy his day. Addiction is everywhere, you cannot associate it only with gambling. Yes, people get destroyed because of addiction, it is self control and discipline that can help you to stop becoming an addict.

Gambling is really meant for fun and to earn money or else to gamble your money, but the thing is do you have been able to controlled it? Gambling was made for those people who want to spent sometime to relax and have fun or to entertain theirselves but lately it becomes addiction in which almost all of the people who are just seeking it as a fun on the first time they eventually sees it as a addiction and that's why ut becomes a threat for them. It is really hard to controlled it but you need to, for your safety measures also.

To which you would need to check your self to see a glimpse of who you will be in case you will jump in to the gambling world. You can't just put the blame on an already established business model that you became a customer of. Much better to assess yourself and see for it what will you end up. Sometimes you just need reality checks to find out that you've been doing something wrong and it oftentimes happen to gamblers. They have these shower thoughts full of what ifs and if onlys. They think they could've done somthing better about a loss or a defeat. But the damage has been dealt. And it'll be up for them how they will deal with it.

It is really a threat if you did not control yourslef because threat is on how you play and how much money you spend or ready to lose.

It is fun because they have players who wants to play gambling because for them it is really relaxing that makes them happy when they play gambling games. But better to think still that they have threat to your money that possible to lose once mistake that you done.

Yes, definitely. Self-control is something needed in every sector of life. Not only for playing gambling, but it is also needed for all other sectors. Regarding to gambling, even if it is hard but it is not impossible to have. You just need to make yourself aware of the advantage and disadvantages of gambling (positive & negative sides). And you also need to consider everything necessary in your life such as family, a career in your real-life jobs, and your social life. In addition, yes, it is indeed so important for safety both for you and your closest people.  

You have got an answer by your statement here. Yeah namely 'control' how addictive you are to gambling if you have a good control you will never bothersome someone else that closest to you.

But when you can't control yourself to gambling, you won't happy to face yourself live, I am sure about. Because that we face is money and as you may know money is very sensitive for all human being.

So, my perpective is you are free to say gambling is a threat or a place to make you fun. Because these things will be felt by you when you can control yourself to facing it.

It depends on the person. It's a threat to persons with addictive personalities that see gambling as a way to generate an income, but it's fun for people who gamble for entertainment & within reason and know when to stop.

Yes, that depends on each person. People will think that gambling is a threat when they are trying to play gambling, and they get into deep of gambling, but then they realize that they can become addicted to gambling. They will try to stop gambling, and they will never go to gambling places because they know the risk.

People who think that playing gambling is for fun are people who are already playing gambling, they know the consequences inside the gambling games, they can control themselves, and they can stop gambling anytime. They don't think that gambling is a threat, but they feel that gambling is a way to have fun and enjoy every gambling game. That people can accept if they lose because, in gambling, the option will be a win or lose.

Why is that? The reason that it is even a threat is because of us gamblers. We are mainly focussing on getting a profit than have fun. We can't even blame gambling for that since we all know how it always go when we humans hold unto something.

Well, it really is a threat since most of the gamblers right now sees gambling as another source of income. That is their main reason why they are gambling, to generate income in a quick and easy way which is wrong. If you really want to have income, work hard and work smart and don't gamble.

Only few sees gambling like this. Most of them don't know when to stop and even they lose their money, they will find a way to get some money.

This was a basic principle in starting gambling, as a player  you should be responsible to your behaviour so that you can avoid such addiction. Setting a limitations can surely discipline your game time and save you from creating debt. We should keep in mind that Gambling is just for fun and should not result to addiction.

I strongly agree with you especially with the last sentence. In addition to that, we should not treat gambling as a way to make profit because it is not. It is designed to take money from you so if you want to gamble then it should just be purely for fun though we should guard ourselves with addiction even if your mindset doesn't mind the profit because having fun in gambling is a strong force to be addicted and that's just no in gambling tho.

if you are playing for the first time it's a threat because you are facing a situation where you will have to decide on how you are going to react as a gambler and this is not easy for new gambler, but once you overcome this and you build a character and you are in control on how you gamble, then it become fun.

That's correct, first time gamblers normally loses easily but but if we are gambling for fun only, I think there's less threat or risk because we will eventually stop when the ran out of money, that's people normally do when they try to have fun.

Threat is quite very serious word being use here, meaning it could destroy our lives, and we gamblers don't want to experience that, so we have to ensure we are at the sound mind and we have proper discipline when we are gambling, that's how to reduce the risk.

Nahhh, it will always be a threat if your initiative is to win some money when gambling, and it is going to be fun if you want it to be fun and have fun playing. I usually go out with my friends and have a bonding time with them while gambling, or I will just invite them at my house and play some cards that is gambling and having fun. But if I wanna make it a threat I will go online alone and play hoping that I would win some money.

It is going to depend on you if you want gambling to be threat or fun, just be responsible gambler all the time.

If the person or player knows how to discipline herself she can reasonably play gamble because even if she have money but still she cannot control herself at the end she will be addicted. First of all we play gamble just for fun and to become stress free so make sure to limit yourself if something happens like you lose your money because of it. Prepare a certain amount that you can afford to lose and dont ever use debt just to play again.

Gambling can be a threat or fun depending on the discipline of the user. As a gambler we should play responsible and we should know it from the beggining. A lot of people become addicted because they tend to chase money they do not realize that they are ending up as an addict. Worse thing is that they use debt just to play and this was not a good thing to do. You can gamble if you have a budget but you dont have it is better to work and earn money.

absolutely true mate, nowadays gambling is a threat for me. Since i cant stop the urge to test my method of winning at options and trading. I already tries demo account on many days, but when it comes to real account, everything changes. But for the last week, i made huge mistake, i get back to my blackjack mode at another casino, and it seems 2 deck strategy drag me down to the bottom. After that, since i lost my portion of my money i keep that in mind to step back from that casino ( hopefully my last visit to that site ).

We have the same feeling, I am also a person who play gambling because I want to win the game, but whenever I lose the game I feel so sad, and because of that feeling, I consider myself that the only reason why I am gamble is because of earning and not fun because I can find fun in many other things such as my friends, family, partner in life.

But on the other side, I can say that gambling is a threat. Why? Because there are a lot of gamblers in this virtual and real-world who are already addicted to it, they forget to prioritize things or to do something more productive than playing in the casino. Some gamblers, when they are losing the game, they keep on betting and hoping that they can get back the money that has failed, then the worst thing on that is gamblers might get a significant debt to others and may lose everything they have.

On that reason, I can say that it can be a threat for a person who is so addicted to gambling, in a way that they cannot already control themselves from gambling.

It's much better to use spare money and not to allow you to go deeper to the point that you'll going to barrow money or to do something not usual just to please your gambling activities. Gambling will be fun if you understand the risk, since there's  always potential that it can hurt your budgets and most of your savings will be taking away from you if you got addicted to this business.

Indeed, it all depends on the characteristic of a person; if he has a great control on his mind, I doubt that he can consider gambling as a threat we are all cannot considered gambling as a threat if we know how to control ourselves if we know when to stop, if we do not forget to do some valuable things and if we do not forget our responsibilities as a son/ daughter, father/mother, friends.

It is much better when we are considering the gambling as entertainment and fun, to the point that we will not get mad when we are losing the game, but that is really impossible, I do not believe to all those persons who say that they cannot feel sad if they lose the game. It is impossible. Money is the main reason why we are gambling, because if we only want fun, then there are so many things that we can do to have that, we can get that from our friends, family and partners, these things that we are not required to lose our money to have fun.

And to add also, it depends on the person's priorities in life. It will be a threat, if for example he is using the money for his basic needs in gambling. He should know better that taking this money in gambling will put him in a worst situation. And if he can take that risk, it is his decision but the repercussion might be detrimental not only to him but for those individuals that are depending on him. And on the other note, gambling is fun if you are using your extra money without pressure of gaining it back. And you are only playing, for the sake of entertainment and for you, winning is just a bonus.

Gambling was designed or invented to entertain us but it may remain the same when gamblers do it with discipline. When they cross their limits, gambling must turn as a threat to their happier life. It is really unfortunate, an activity is becoming complete upside down based on our activities.

I believe everything in our life is no different from gambling; when we do at limits and within prescribed way of safe gambling then definitely gambling will be a fun activity. Gambling needs to be handled with utmost care but most gamblers do fail here due to excitements which makes gambling as a threat.

The answer for this question would be more likely depend on the financial status of a certain gambler. If he has a lot of money and reserve, it is easier to derive from it that they are more likely playing just only for the sake of fun from the thrill and excitement but, I would not say that all of rich people play only for fun because it is unlikely that they wanted to gamble for the sake of increasing their money more. On the other side, people who are less stable in income and have no extra money to gamble with are more likely to feel more risk of losing their entire wealth over gambling, they would mostly play for the sake of income from gambling and earn money or profit for their living.

Well, I am like that too, I only feel happiness in gambling when I am winning the game if I don't win the game I get mad, and the worst thing is I cannot even control myself, to the point that I cannot limit myself from betting because I am still hoping that I can turn back the money that I have lost. That is what we called gambling as a threat because sometimes, because of suffering, we cannot realize that we are doing a wrong thing, and even we know that it is incorrect, we do not do something to stop it.
We cannot think it as a threat, we do not care anymore to the things around us because we are only focused on gambling, that is really addictive, to the point that you already forget to do more valuable things than gambling and the worst thing aside of losing our money in betting is we can also lose our relationship to our friends, family, partners and other people around us. In order for you to not define gambling as a threat, do not become addicted to it, set it as entertainment and joy.

i disagree on this one Mate,because most of those who are starting gambling thinks they wanna try to double the money or at least against the table and that is what a beginners Mindset.
you will lose a lot if you are a type of person that cannot Hold the feelings and desire in which always looking for wins and not accepting the reality in gambling.

So if we have a lot of money, we can enjoy the gambling game rather than people who don't have a lot of money? I don't think so because we can feel fun or enjoy the game is about how we can manage the money. It is not related to the amount of money that we have, or we used to play gambling. When you can control how much money you will use to playing gambling, I am sure you can enjoy gambling games, and you can have fun too, like the other rich people.

People who cannot manage their money in gambling will not get the fun thing, and they cannot enjoy gambling games because they will try to win, which is not easy to do that. They can risk their money, and even if that person has a lot of money, they can use all of their money without limit.

If you gamble a bit on a casual basis then everything is fine, but there is a small path between fun and addiction. Many people start betting low amounts for fun, but when they start loosing money, the put more and more money in to get their buy-in back. You should always play responsible and look at the dangers of online gambling. But keeping this in mind, gambling isn't more dangerous than drinking alcohol or smoking cigarettes.

You're right but not totally in my opinion.
Yes it can be seen as a waste of time, but watching TV isn't a waste of time too? Talking on social medias about random useless topics isn't a waste of time too?
Trading is a kind of gambling but if you always lose money by trading why institutional big money corporates are trading?

IMHO, gambling can be both a threat or fun - based on how you take it. If you take gambling too seriously, I think it's not less than a threat as it'll become a stress on your mind and a passion to gamble will always be on top of your mind, while on the other hand if you take this thing lightly, I don't think that it's less than a fun way to cheer up yourself and you'll also not put money you can't afford to lose. But in any case, getting under debts to gamble should not be done at any cost because you are risking your lender's money and that isn't considered something you can afford to lose.

Actually, It depends on the situation. It will be always for fun if your intention is just to have fun or to be entertained.
It will become a threat in your life if you take it as a profit-making and continue the process even if you're losing.

That's why control must apply, especially on these kinds of things where the money is on the line. Therefore, gambling can be fun sometimes and will be a threat always, depends on your action towards it.

Like what everyone said, gambling could be your sweetest death lol ;D. If you will not watch your step then hou might be drown on debts. Nevertheless, you can do sometbing to avoid this and the most effective way I think of is treating gambling not so seriously. I mean don't make it as a career, just play for the excitement and hope small returns. Don't ever expect that you can be a millionaire from betting, I know there are stories with samekind of scenario but c'mon! That's not the fate of each one of us lol. Play - Enjoy - Earn - Repeat, but stop don't forget to change "Repeat" to "Go home" when you already losing what you can't afford.

If you can't dream of becoming millionaire by gambling there is no point in playing. If people gamble it's mostly because it's their only way to get a chance of becoming rich. I agree there are few chances of becoming millionaire by playing games of chance because of the law of probabilities on the long run but some games are not totally random.The games where you play against other people are not fully random in general. Betting is also not wholly random. So because of your skills it's possible to win money by gambling in reality.

Really? Do you get into rehabilitation because of playing the computer? Duo you get in recovery because of eating and drinking? Do not take it practically, and some people considered gambling as a threat because it has a harmful effect on it. Some people cannot control their mind because of gambling, there are times that they get a significant debt because of lending money to play gambling, and that is really bad. The worst thing is they may lose all their properties and money because they don't have something to offer in return to their loans. Can't you feel it as a threat if it is slowly taking out all of your properties and money without realizing it because you are only focusing on gambling?
Drinking, eating, playing computer, watching TV, etc. are significantly different from gambling

No more debate, because of this gambling is a threat. In real life people always have priority and should catch it before too late, can't be undone. If someone says they can manage time and control emotion, that is non sense. As long bonus deposit still exist they will use and try it, soon or later addicted will become their part of life. Leave gambling for your future and family, it's worth to be done.

It is a choice as for me, because gambling was originally made to let us or to have some fun, however, it also become the reason why people becomes greedy which is the main reason why it is considered as a threat. I know it is hard to control being greedy, but if you really want to stop or avoid getting addicted, you can as long as it is your choice.

everything that Over is bad even gambling,smoking or liquor(aside from illegal drugs) because we will lose either money or health on those vises .

so there is nothing to compete in which is more bad what important here is our control and respect for our self and life.

Never bet more than you are willing to lose. The house edge is there for the casino to make money. They games are for entertainment. If you hit a good run and you can't control yourself you will most definitely give it back to the house in the long run. Gamble responsibly, or you will lose your last shirt.

Threats and something fun in gambling is basically a choice if you can realize it, you already know that when gamblers don't have control then in the end gambling for them is a threat. Indeed, cases like this will be difficult to realize because even new gamblers will eventually become addicted to gambling, because new players have at least a very high emotion to continue gambling without realizing the time to stop. So I guess gambling is a choice, when you have a good mindset then gamble or not, I don't think it will cause any threat to your life.

gambling is a threat for people that doesn't have self-control, its fun for the people that only play to consume free time. Just always gamble what you can afford to lose, No one wins the house.

If you have won in gambling then the greed will be there must be able to control ourselves so as not to fall into the losses you experience, remember we must have good principles we gamble just to be happy not to seek profit because it will be difficult to do and we better gamble when there is cold money or at dusk and weekends then this will be suitable for luck.
Many people are mistaken about gambling they are too ambitious to want to continue to profit even though the victory gambling is very thin.

In my conclusion, it depends upon the person.

if you're a beginner you will find gambling as a stress reliver, or for fun or pass time(Case 1) . It will give you entertainment that may lead to addiction(Case 2). When you're already addicted and you cannot control yourself not to gamble, I say it is now harmful to you(case 3). It already affects the way you think. The worst case is that when you losses you may experience depression, migraine, distress, and other anxiety-related problems. Gambling becomes a threat both to your physical and mental health.

But a if a person can control himself at case 2, case 3 will be impossible already

It is not just a threat for them.

There are a lot of threats that gambling can do even to people who play it for fun. As long as they are gambling, it is a threat to them. No one knows what will happen but they can still end addicted to gambling.

Exactly, the most important thing is still standing from the perspective of users when they engage in gambling, they are expecting a dream of financial improvement or they want a natural joy after the stress of work. And as you say, the financial desire in gambling will be a wrong thought and the consequences for mistakes are a threat to income, a big financial loophole can be made from gambling but if we start gambling just to ease the mental stress, joy will be overwhelming, but should not be subjective when the threat and fun in gambling change very quickly

It is true, even if you play only for fun, you will still getting addicted.
It is only a matter of time when you get addicted. But all gamblers will be the same in the end. Gambling is a threat due to its psychological effect it gives to a person, it makes a gambler to play deeper even how hard he tries to control himself.

You only get addicted once you're gambling with your savings and money that you might need. But if your gambling only your extra cash then you wont get emotionally unstable to just throw your whole savings, to get back what you've lost.

Most people tend to look at gambling as a one way ticket to get rich but its really not. It's just another way to blow off some steam.

I think for cases 1 and 2 it can be overcome but if it has been physically attacked it will be difficult to do and difficult to prevent.
For beginners, it's better to avoid gambling or do it on a day when you're happy because if you do it when you're stressed, then when playing gambling will be chaotic, the risk of losing will be very large because with high emotional.
The second case, if you are already addicted, then it is better to be able to control yourself, don't take too much greed, if you have won out of the ordinary, then you need to stop for a moment and do the money as best as you can, not using everything to gamble again is not good.

yups,but the reality is there mate,at the beginning they are just betting smaller amount and try to enjoy the game,but as days passed by and the intensity goes high?people come to bet more and more without realizing they are becoming addicted and that is what we must prevent to happen.
in this we are both in the same boat,Gambling must be treated as Fun activities and not a easy gateway to become richer.

You know what's the problem here, man? The addiction and not the gambling itself. Well, we could do worst things outside gambling world, we can even commit crime just to obtain such stuff we badly want, and it is because of the greedy behavior we have, it is the addiction that ate us, and made us blinded to do the right action. Can be overcome? Yes. A lot of people already did that here. Tell you, someone here in the forum even made gambling a job though, interesting it is. So, the threat here, IMO, is not about gambling at all, it is about someone's behavior that made him a different kind person.

I definitely agree that gambling is fun and yes, it could be a big threat to an individual once it is starting to get addicted to it. But, I think, it can be controlled IF that individual has a discipline and that person knows that it can stop on playing. And also, I think it is important to seek help to have precaution on playing and not having too much risk financially and physically, just to be specific. In my experience on gambling, on my first games, I always tried to do ALL-IN, I tried taking risk on my money but when I hit rock bottom, I tried to get some advice on my friends and also gradually gambling. Now, I know what to do and how to play my money very well while also having fun.

Losing control while gambling is what makes it a threat when you do not how to stop and when to stop, this will make gambling a threat but if you can schedule your gambling activity and you only use money that is allocated for gambling only, this is fun and you will enjoy, winning or losing the game.

It is not the thing, that is only my opinion, we are all different, we all have different mind, unconventional thinking and different perception in life, So the topic that you have read is only my perception about gambling, I can say it as a threat as well as being fun and the reasons are already stated above. I don't want to change my topic about this because I know that some of the gamblers there have their own opinion too, there are different definition, on how they will define gambling as threat and fun to them, that question that you created about "how to make people can control themselves" are already posted, I have read about that thing before, and the primary way for you to control or limit yourself from gambling, is to think and appreciate those people around you, especially your friends, family and partner in life, you should consider them, you should think what they may feel when you get addicted on gambling.

I disagree with you. It seems to me that when we start something new, we get a lot of positive emotions due to fresh impressions and some hopes. But after we become experienced (especially in gambling), then the hopes mostly disappear  ;D

Gambling could be both of what you asked, it can be threat and also fun. Threat when you lose everything in gambling and you have become addicted but you can also gambling for fun if you only playing rarely and just kill times only

Indeed, there are some persons that considered gambling as fun. It happens because we are all different from each other. We have all different perceptions of life. Gambling will only become a threat when someone is already addicted to it because if you get addicted to any gambling site, then it may destroy your life. You won't be able to do some productive things because gambling is the only thing you want to do, but I am sure that if you can control yourself and your mind even you are always gambling, then it is impossible that you will be addicted on it. The thing is we should stop gambling when we feel that it slowly destroy us.

Some people think that gambling is threat because they always lose everytime they gamble. And some think its for fun because they gamble only to enjoy and some they gamble to forget their problems. So there are 2 different people in gambling one think that gambling is threat the one is think gambling is for fun.

Now that is what we need when there is free time and cold money, so it is not a problem to gamble because it can be used to have fun and seek good luck on a good day, while those who are addicted will lose all of them, especially from your savings money will run out because they continue to play gambling no stopping.
So do well and do your time as much as possible not to gamble for every moment.

Gambling is not a threat and will never be a threat. People calling gambling as a financial threat is an idiot because gambling is a personal choice of yours, what threat must be is the greediness and broken mindset. Threat is far from risk, risking is having the potential to loss on which the gambling instance will fall onto. Gambling is fun yeah, but sometimes there are moment that fun isn't there at all, risking is fun but seeing it losing is not. Gambling is not for everyone, what is for everybody is just entertainment playing. As everyone says " Just roll what you are afford to lose", there's nothing of threat in that.

I think this is a very superficial argument. Gambling is a problem when you cannot live without them. If you really need to gamble in order to feel good, then this really can be called a problem.
A healthy person, free from any addictions, is able to stay in a good mood both physically and psychologically, without any additional factors.

I am just stating my opinion about gambling mate, We are all different, we have different perception and definition in life, well, I have seen so many people that are already destroyed their life because of gambling, so what do you call about that thing? It is a threat to them—especially those people who lost their properties and most of their money because of gambling. So if you do not see gambling as a threat for you, then that is good, but do not say that it is not a threat because how can you say about those people that lost everything because of it? Please do not make yourself as a basis of everything. We are all different.

Not all of them though.

We can't really say that all of the people that are gambling will be addicted to gambling. It is a threat to them since the possibility of them getting addicted to gambling is there as long as they are gambling. I know a lot of people that are gambling and I can say that there is a chance that they will not be addicted but it will not be the same to all of us .

It shows that both can be the reason for all of us.

The threat comes if the results are all negative and it's fun if you see the moment you gamble as having fun or whether you are losing, you're having fun still.

You are right in your thoughts about the fact that you cannot compare everyone with yourself. But there is one nuance, each person can talk about something only through the prism of his own experience.
Thus, when we talk about any things and objects, events and phenomena, we always pass them through the filter of our own perception.

Thus, we are always subjective and always talk about ourselves even when we mean other people. These are the principles of the brain.

The problem is not that simple as you might see it from the outside world, being a gambler myself let me explain you why I am saying that. You say that if we have greed about something we would do even crime for it, but that's not how gambling starts.
Most of us including me when we first get into gambling it feels like an easy opportunity to earn some extra money just because we feel confident about our luck and picks, let me make it very CLEAR, I am talking about sports betting here.

Now the problem is once you loose money in gambling you start loosing more to recover and soon you are into debts even before you realize and that's when you are bound to do wrong/criminal activities because you just need the money to pay debts.

It's like you wanted to buy a car but won't kill someone to buy it, but you gamble and think you can win enough and then you loose more and more then forget the car then you have to commit something wrong to just pay off debts.

Completely agree with the first part of the post because it's a threat once you start loosing control over your gambling and it becomes an addiction once you know you are into problem gambling but yet cannot stop yourself.

I would disagree though on the other part as gambling can never be fun because gambling can only be fun when you are winning, no matter how controlled a gambler we are but when we loose we all feel stressed because let's be honest the initial thought was to make some money now even if we know we haven't lost too much but then loosing any amount can't be fun at least not for me.

Gambling is one of the best things we need to do right now if we are looking for fun because some of the people it satisfied their desires to play cards, pokers and more and many people getting addicted on this and some of them want to play with extra profit too. Still, it does not fast as we know because there are a lot of processes needed before we can get a lot of knowledge in a specific game. First, we need to find out which game is suitable for us and next focus on that game if you want or explore more. After that, you need to take some time to study well and get a lot of information you can use to into your future games if you think you are ready now you can play into gambling casino or online gambling that some of them are supporting the use of cryptocurrency know. It is fun if you think you can will all of your games and get a lot of money but always make sure you monitored your self and aware how many you win or lose because sometimes getting greedy makes to push to losing and having a mistake but sometimes being confident and optimistic can help you to earn more profit. It depends on the player how they manage to play to win more profit and getting fun or lose and be a threat of having to lose a lot of money.

If are out of control then how could it will be fun for us? It's depressing if  we are on that state since everyday we are bothered on how or where we can get the funds to gamble and it will never be fun really if we see we are continuously losing, but if we are there with controlled amount then maybe we can say that we are ok for that thing.

It simply is related to self-control. Those who have control over their greed and they know what amount of money actually they can spend on gambling are the ones who enjoy playing this game. Those who have sole objective of gambling to make money are the ones who often get addicted and frustrated.

Gambling is actually a massive financial threat and anyone calling facts can't be called as an idiot. yes it's our choice as gamblers whether to gamble or not but only in the starting similar to smoking, drinking they are not threats according to you? Since we are the one who decides if we want to smoke or not? Life doesn't work like that mate.

Once you are into addiction you won't know why you are gambling and how deep a hole you are digging, I request you at least visit a few videos including the one I mentioned about gambling addiction.

Just please for once have a look at this video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7AN3VLLlkdI) and you will realize how big a thread gambling is and how it must be taken seriously.
I am someone who takes gambling articles/videos very seriously and you will be moved by Justyn's story.

In my opinion, it all depends on whether a passion for gambling hurts every single person and people around him.
The main problem is that the object inside the system is not capable of adequately assessing its position and the circumstances in which it is located.
Thus, a person with a predilection for gambling is far from always able to objectively assess the problem if it exists.
So, to the last he can consider that there is no problem and continue to adversely affect himself and others.

In regards to being a threat, I'd compare gambling to sugary drinks, such as Coca-Cola, for instance. Yes, it's a threat when you are overusing it, but, also, it can brighten up your life when used moderately. Should all people stay away from sugary beverages because it is very harmful for some of them? No. The same applies to gambling. But awareness should always be there. People must fully understand the risks.

Gambling is fun until you start gambling a lot of money.
If you start doing that then this becomes a thread for your health and your relatives because you don't risk your own money but also your family's money.

If someone gambles with all his/her money without thinking about the risks, it means he/she is a stupid gambler. Every gambler needs good self-control to not doing a stupid thing. There are many cases that gamblers trapped in loan/debt due to weak self-control. Finally, he/she never wins the gambling unless got more and more loan/debt. 

Then you need to have control over yourself because that will be the only way to prevent you from spending a lot of money. You can have fun in gambling, but you must remember that gambling can also become a threat when you can not limit yourself so you should know when enough is enough. We don't need to risk our money especially if that money is for our family, but the fact is some people cannot resist themselves in gambling and keep trying to playing gambling because they want to feel more winning.

Gambling could become a threat only if we don't know how to deal with it right. It was made for fun and entertainment but most people see it as a shortcut to getting rich and to being successful. If we'll not know how to control our emotions towards it, it will be the one to control us instead. It's just a matter of self-discipline because if we'll focus too much on gambling and if we'll rely our necessities on it, it will surely destroy us and it could also take away everything that we have.

AGREE

I guess only few as when they experience losing, they'll not think of becoming rich in gambling.
Most people IMO are just gamble to enjoy and winning is just  bonus them.


It should not be an IF since it's a must that everyone before they start gambling should be knowledgeable of the game and its risk, and they are matured enough in managing themselves.

Agree. If someone you love got already involved in with the money you lose then this could be a threat not just only for you but also for your family. They will be come obsessed to gamble more money they have. They must control themselves before the problem becomes bigger, and they can't manage themselves before can commit a crime.

Nobody wants to lose money and as you said, we will feel frustrated if we don’t have money to gamble and recover losses. After losing a bet, people usually tend to gamble more with an urge of recovering losses whereas this actually further worsens the situation. Simply gamble for a limited time to avoid all this mess.   

thats a good idea . setting a time for playing a gambling can limit us for getting addicted . no matter what amount you lost or win but as soon as your time limit expires you should quit on that asap . this strat is also used by pro gamblers ,pro gamblers that i see on youtube and on twitch.  see ? if pro gamblers can limit thier selves then why cannot we ? we that are only regular gamblers  . i know its hard to stop once we win or loose but we cant have both  . on gambling we can only pick one side so that we can stop

for other hardcore gamblers or those who consider gambling as an opportunity to earn some profit, I am sure they consider gambling as a threat but also a way of earning money.
but basing in my own experience gambling is fun. for me as a casual gambler that has some extra pennies to waste. gambling is a form of hobby that gives me comfort and keeps
my thoughts away from work that usually stresses me out and helps me clear my thought and continue my work after I finished gambling( I am a freelancer thus the reason why I
can gamble anytime I want). but I can't say that other casual gamblers feel the same.

Gambling can easily be both threat and fun.
It varies upon the person playing and how to take his gambling session in his life. Gambling is fun that's already given but only if you are winning, some gamblers when they lose they go on rage mode trying to recover their losses and this is where gambling becomes a threat.
Gambling will just only be a threat if you get addicted to it and if you don't have self discipline, gambling is fun if you have total control about it and it is not ruining your life.

To be honest, not all of them are being addicted to gambling.

I do also want to earn money from gambling, and again, to be honest, that is one of the purposes why I am gambling; all of us are dreaming of winning something from gambling. It really depends on the gambler himself since if he really is a responsible human being, he will never let himself be addicted to gambling, he knows when to stop and he knows that no matter what happens, gambling will never be a source of income and you are just having fun.

It's really is wishful thinking, thinking that you can make an income out of it and there lies the danger and become a threat when you keep on thinking that there is money to be made in gambling and the fun stop when you think that you can cheat the house and your win can extended if you play it right, which will prove wrong eventually.

The gambling funds should be separate from daily expenses. Even some gamblers live in overconfidence mood and they think feeding the family with X percent of the turnover amount shouldn't be a big deal for punters with a great experience. Risking the big amounts is another level of stupidity if there is no way back. Logic is not the only the controller of the whole process, being a human means the emotions affect all made decisions.

Based from your words, there are a lots of different opinions or self explanations regarding to this business. People who have such control and good
understanding of this hobby can treat it out to be entertained and nothing else, they are willing to move forward after they've satisfied the needs
inside them and forget about the results, while for some, treating this venue as source of income by using their skills also being considered.

Threat -for you if you treat Gambling as a Source of Income to earn more quick Money and also if you become addicted to gambling because you could lose all the money you have and also this will ruined your life because you can't control your self to gamble.

Fun- is when you treat Gambling as a time wasting and for fun only,  If you have control to your self and know your limitations .

For me, it's both if you cannot treat it as fun all the time then there is a threat that it could become a vice and that vice is a big threat to your pocket and to your relationship with your family because you are going to spend more time and money just to keep up playing because it stopped being fun and you want to make money out of it.

So long as you keep your greed under control and don't start betting amounts you can't afford to lose, then gambling isn't a threat.

In reality, it's only a threat for those with even very low will power, or extreme risk takers that don't know when to call it quits. As such, anybody who has either of these two personality types should probably avoid gambling, as this is an industry where self control is an absolute must.

With that said, it might not be something that is entirely possible to control, since it appears to have a genetic basis: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/10/191009131740.htm

It has happened a lot including my friends in my area playing gambling as the main breadwinner and wanting fast money with gambling profit, so what will happen they lose control of themselves so that their savings are used to play gambling he feels sorry after losing all of it.


It's better to play gambling when there is free time and the most appropriate is the weekend where we are on vacation working.

It depends on the users or gambler itself me personally I don't find it as a threat and I consider it as fun, the excitement of every card, dice or sports result from time to time however if a person find the gambling as he's hope or a source of income this will become a threat since they will risk their money hoping on getting more and if they would lose they wanted to win it back again and win more.

While the other gamblers see the gambling as a place of entertainment and even though they lose they are in controlled of their money since all they want is the entertainment. If we lose, we lose and we accept it since we know the risk and we are ready to lose a certain amount of cryptocurrency or money.

I never believe this thing that people gamble for the sake of fun only. Even in seeking fun, a part of them wants money, it becomes happy by the very idea of being rewarded in the form of money. So yes everyone gambles for money and we shall gamble smartly in order to save ourselves from losses and meet success.

Gambling should always be fun. If you see that gambling is taking control over your life then is a threath to.your phisical wellbeing. This often goes to addiction and many don't recognize that.
Everyone wants to make money with gambling and that is fine but you have to know yourself and know your limits. Aa long as you enjoy and you don't endanger your financial situation and your health gambling is a positive thing.

I will explain on both sides because gambling can be a threat of a fun for the gamblers.

Threat - Gambling will be a threat when you got addicted into it and you are doing bad things that you are not doing when you aren't addicted into it. Gambling will be a threat to gamblers if they can't control themselves and their minds thinks only gambling. It will be a threat when they spend most of their time and money into it which can lead to nothing TBH.

Fun - Simple as this. Gambling will be a fun for gamblers if they are happy doing it and they know when to stop if they lose their money that is allocated for gambling only.

We have to do this because we are responsible, we are not gambling to be rich although its possible because we will just only lose more and more money.
This could be a shortcut to financial success but we are taking a very big risk here, and everyone is not willing to do that and some does not even know they are already taking a big risk without seeing it, that is due to addiction.

It pretty much fit me, I am gambling for fun right now although that ambition to make money and be successful is still their.
But you are right, limitation is very important as that would limit the risk also.

Gambling it will become threat to us if we are losing control using and spending our money to the gambling.
It will turn into fun if we enjoy playing gambling because they ahve times it is one of my stress reliever.
I believe we chose when gambling become threat or fun but we need to prevent a threat to our money when we are playing.

Mainly, the threat to people isn't gambling itself, it is their own decision making that makes such a wonderful industry of gambling becomes negative. How? Most of the people are getting addicted just because they earn a little. Some other person can see gambling as their way of showing others how rich they are, which turns out to their funds getting lost because of playing too much and betting big amount at once.

I could say, gambling do really induces a positive experience if you only bet something you could afford to lose, when in case you have too much of a cryptocurrency that you think isn't worth the investment, then gamble it. Try to test your luck without thinking that you might lose something important.

Well, If I am to answer the subject "Is gambling a threat or fun?", it weighs more on the fun side as I know in myself that I can control my funds, and I am not betting amounts exceeding my limitation alloted to gambling.

Yes it will become a threat because some people when playing gambling they cannot control their emotions. It should be treated for entertainment and we should have discipline during playing gambling. That’s what we have to do to make things right to avoid gambling a threat and lose our money.

I believe almost 80 percent of gambling community is either addicted or use it as an earning source. I do know few firends of mine who have been utilising most of their salary to feed their addiction.


I use is it to pass time and I am not gambling everyday as I am too pre occupied with my work. I believe you can also if you choose to work more than sit and gamble.

have you ever met people who live only out of gambling and nothing else?
are there people like that or not?

It will depends on the person, there's are people who are addicted to a lot os stuff like drinking, gambling, drugs etc
Some people can gambling without lose control, like me, so FOR ME it's just a hobby that I know how much I can gamble and nothing more, if I won, great, If I lose ok too

The own person have to know if he or she is weak to control their emotions in gamble, so this subject is more complex than we can discuss here, it's on the side of psychology

What do you mean, mate? Not really sure that I get the point of this statement. Can you explain it a bit longer?  :-\
In my opinion, fun or not will depend on how someone's perception of playing gambling. If he feels that gambling is one of the sources to get entertainment, so he will be fun in gambling. While if he thinks too seriously and assumes that gambling is only for money, then it will hard for him to enjoy and have fun in gambling.

Maybe it means choosing to gamble for fun if you can make gambling just entertainment, and when you make gambling for a source of income then maybe it is a threat because you will continue to gamble until eventually it will only threaten your money. But apart from these two factors, I think the threat in gambling will always be there, because gambling is only for fun or even making gambling as a source of income can still be done without threatening your money if you have good control.

Well said mate, If everything is under your control then gambling wouldn't be threat for you, if you can still control yourself form gambling then it would not harm yourself, it will be only fun for you, if you are only considering it as your entertainment, or if you don't bet so much money, knowing that it would be a low chance to win the game,

Once you became addicted in gambling it can destroy your life, you won't be more productive in everything. What you should do to prevent that thing is, you should know how to limit yourself, you should bring only limited amount of your money, so you won't be able to bet so much money, do not be so addicted on it because there is no good things about gambling, if it controls you.

Gambling is a kind of quick income of profits in the world, but it is difficult for us to win everyday in gambling because it is a 50:50 percent if you lose or win in once gambling. Setting gambling as threat or fun will depends on you perspective and past experience, if for you playing gambling is lucky, because you've earned more profits. But there are some instances, that gambling is a threat, because many gamblers wants to recover they're lose assets by just playing again and again, so that they wouldn't controlled themselves in playing gambling and it reflects to us, as a threat.
 

It's a very subjective question. It can be threat if you are like constantly gambling when you have important bills to pay or like you don't earn very much yet you can't get rid of expensive gambling. Gambling should always be treated as "expense" as in long run you can never win, hence, basically you shouldn't consider it as a way to make more money as it's really not a profession.

That's an interesting research, only I'm afraid it can serve as an excuse for not fighting their addiction for some addicted gamblers. Many of us are genetically predisposed to many bad things, such as obesity, promiscuity, alcoholism etc. The key is to find strength within yourself to challenge those predispositions, and, in fact, many brave people succeed in that. It is much more interesting to be one of them, than to be of the whining losers blaming genetics for their failure.

Well, the correct answer for your question is both. Gambling can be fun or threat to yourself or to others and also fun for yourself and the others. Gambling can result in theif and also selling personal stuff just to have money for gambling. I'm sure you know what I mean. My answer is either a threat or fun that really depends on the person being a gambler.

exactly:
balance is the key.

remember that we can even die of drinking too much water.

so, even water could be in a balance between health and being a threat.

At the first place, I think gambling is created for fun and at the same time to earn money. I think it can only harm if you become addicted to it. Like what what they say, "too much is bad". You also become greedy because money involve and that is what is want. Let us just be disciplined enough and must set a limit to ourselves when it comes to gambling

It depends on your level if you play within your means and with the time that you allocated then it's just for fun, but if you play all day or all night and you have to spend a lot of money to the point that you loan money to loan sharks and your friends then this it's beome a big threat for you.

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earning money and earning unpredictable rwards really mess with dopamine systems on the brain
it's something to be alert about and always aware.
definitely.

But if they spend a lot of time on gambling with a good income then that is not a threat, right? Because even though we spend a lot of time in gambling it does not guarantee that gambling is a threat if we have good control, because with a longer duration in playing gambling it depends on the strategy and also the capital owned, and by having good control of course it's is a skill that allows you to spend more time in gambling because you can manage things well.

I think that the border between threat and fun is hairs breadth, one day you are having fun then the next day you are addicted. I consider gambling as a threat because this is is just an elaborate ruse for the businessmans to get the consumers money. You might be having fun, but that is because you are playing with your friends but when you are not playing with friends then you will lose track of how long you have been playing so I consider it a threat.

That will be either of the 2 depend on how you treat this habit.

If you gamble to have fun  then there will no threat at all but if you play to make a living then that is a threat automatically because you are risking your life and you family in games that has no assurance of winning instead this is mostly for losing.

So think what you want in gambling and push your life to betterment and enjoy gambling for fun not for desperation.

Playing together with friends doesn't guarantee your safety. It's not unheard of that friends are encouraging each other to gamble more, or to make higher stakes.

I suggest to count on yourself only, when dealing with this sensitive matter. You yourself can be that friend, in the best sense of the word, who helps others to not turn their gambling into disaster, but you can't count on others to do the same.

It depends on the gamblers themselves.

It can be a fun for them if they know how to control themselves, have discipline and know how to stop if you need too. On the other hand, it can be a threat for the gambler if they don't know how and when to stop especially if they are losing too much money.

For me, instead of deciding if gambling is a threat or fun it would be better to just stop gambling at all :D.

Nah, gambling is no real thread, Coronavirus is.

Jokes apart, as usual always exercise caution with things that can be addicting
and yes, gambling canbe addicting.

Being a person we all have different perspective in life. Yes agree it depends upon the person if it will be threat or fun for him / her . Why stick to gambling when it is not beneficial at all ? Gambling does not require us to put all of what we have. Instead,put all what we can afford to lose and do not be so greedy. It is not bad to play. The thing is, do not be so greedy.

That's human nature, being greedy when opportunity knocks in. It is easy to say but once you are eaten by the system, it is hard to get out. So before things get nasty, you need to decide for yourself which path will you take. The fun or the threat? It all depends on you because no one else will help you but yourself.

It is both but it really depends on the person how you handle things, It is fun when you are winning or just betting some small amount just a few bucks there is no risk. But it is a threat when you are really engage or addicted to it and can't control yourself, even spending funds for your family to gambling it is not really good, If you are already in that situation I hope you can overcome it, be responsible in what you do.

When it came to human nature, we will feel greedy, especially if we can win on those games. No matter what, we want to make another winning by playing more because we think, "Ah, my lucky time coming, why I don't play one more time?"

Almost every gambler has been feeling, and we know that if we win, the greediness will become bigger, so that depends on us, how we treat gambling itself. If we think that gambling is to have fun, then we can stop gambling anytime, and we realize that winning is a bonus for us because we are having fun inside the games.

Bro at that point, you are addicted and you don't need to choose between a threat or fun since neither of it describes the state that you are in. I can say that all of the bets that you are doing for fun or not, it is a threat. A threat because you are putting your money and yourself and that money into risk and you being addicted to gambling. It will always be a threat since no one knows what might happen if you continue what you are doing.

You can't really get an only one answer because each person has different opinions and experience when it comes to gambling for some of us here, including me prefers gambling as a way to relax and to have fun with the idle money that we have especially with this quarantine. It's a way to get of boredom but for some it literally destroyed their very lives.

Gambling can either be a threat and fun to oneself. It just depends on how you view it, how much you allot time to it, and how much you take control of it. Gambling is a form of entertainment to some and it's their way of having a fun time, chilling and just playing. For me it can be both depending on the person doing it.

Gambling can be a threat to someone's life if

1. You didn't put a limitation and boundary on how far you can gamble upon. This is one of the major point i see why gambling can become a threat. Most people don't know where to draw the line. They don't know when to continue and stop and were driven by their emotions and needs disregarding their rational thoughts resulting to unfortunate events.

2. It becomes an addiction. When someone didn't put a limitation, this is one of the result. Majority of their money, energy, and time goes in gambling. They would risk almost everything they have just to feed their need to gamble which is very theatening and a very serious matter that should be immediately addressed.

3. No time for other things. Since you become addicted to it, almost all of your time will be consumed by it resulting to less quality time for loved ones and even for yourself. You won't have enough time to grow and improve yourself physically, emotionally, mentally, and spiritually because you spend most of you time in casinos or online gambling sites.

It can also be a form of entertainment or just for fun if you know your limits. You know when to play gambling and does not go overboard what you set for yourself. I think this is the general point for gambling to be just for fun. If you want to have a good time, play wisely and balance things out. You make sure that you're able to do your daily routine and work. Gambling must not negatively affect your life and lifestyle as well if you do this just for fun only.

It might be depending on the person, we know that there are different types of people in other people gambling might be all about just entertainment or fun but for others, it might be just all about profit.

I don't think gambling is a threat to us, Yes we are putting our money or investment into risk by playing it in gambling but at the same time you might win the game and double your investment, Also at any moment you could stop gambling if you wanted, they said you are addicted and you cannot stop to gamble? Maybe you cant? At this point maybe the problem is you and not gambling itself. Being greedy to profit or maybe it was just entertainment to you obviously if it is already going to affect you, family, you might already being selfish and the problem is you.

True that balance is the key but greed is what makes people go out of way. And since gambling involves money and people think it is very easy and quick way to make money from it this is where many gets addicted to it and in process of making huge money, they lose out a lot of money. Unless people who have self-control and can resist, they are in a good position to quit any time else it would be difficult for people to exit. So those who play for fun will always be fun for them else it can even become threat for people who just play for money.

 

Gambling should be played with caution and you are right it is very addictive. I have attended the casino as entertainment to share with friends and I have not gone to waste my money because I am in control, not gambling controls me.

The case here is that, if we are winning, we don't think something bad through it. Even though we win too much and play too much, we are still considering that as an act of professional gambling. But looking at the other side, if one is gambling and then he losses, people call him addict, even himself, but in the first place, a person who is winning too much who plays the same amount of games compared to those who lost and being affected negatively.

The lesson here is look at the brighter side of gambling, do not care about your losses, and do not think about being addict, as it limits our opportunity to be positive in playing. What is better to do is to set limitation for our losses and play infinitely while we are winning.

Good for you because you have the control of yourself when it comes to gambling. Most of the gamblers out there are the opposite of it and that is the reason why they are getting addicted into it.

If you will go to a casino with your friends, it would be better if you don't get any money at all and just watch them gambling and don't tempt to go back in that casino alone and try to gamble too because some of the watchers in a casino goes back the next day and they will try to gamble too and they will try what the gamblers are feeling while gambling. Controlling yourself in gambling is very hard to obtain but if you have it, it can increase your chance in winning because you when to continue and when to stop in gambling.

Yes for the country or place who experiencing quarantine playing gambling can give to us joy and happiness because in our situation we stay at home so of course we need to do something to not to be bored.

It is really fun for the players who can manage his own money and it turn into threat once a player are really addicted and they are very greedy to play and to earn money.

We can make a choice what happens to us so if we do not want to lose money just control yourself and once you lose the money that you play on the specific day don't add because instead of having fun a player can lose a lot of money .

Because I like to play gambling, I have entered several sites. And gambling is fun in personal experience, because by gambling I can make money with the victory that I experienced. Although sometimes losing more than winning, it's really fun.

It is fun betting but I'm afraid losing is not funny. If you're enjoying in placing your bets and eventually will be replaced by sadness because you lost, don't you think it is pointless? having a seconds of happiness that will vanished into thin air after those seconds, I mean, I'd rather bet it on something more important like starting your own business, cause without a doubt, that'll give you the real happiness because the income is really good.

I have a friend who is addicted in both gambling and alcohol, but luckily he survived, he listened to our advices and he is now an entrepreneur, it all depends whether we want it seriously or not. The change begins in ourselves.

Gambling should be fun for the first place, that is my opinion. Therefore you should know your limits which you shouldn't cross. Once you step out towards addiction that is very dangerous path and then gambling becomes a threat.
Of course that losing isn't fun but that is also part of gambling and you should accept it that way, of course in the range that you can afford to lose

This is a kind of fun that is risky, but we should not put ourselves into risk because we are gambling to enjoy and win at the same time, but we have to accept the reality that even if we try really hard, winning most of the time is only for the casinos, so let us easily accept when we lose.

I have experience being addictive and I don't want to see other people getting addicted too because it's not easy, it could be a threat to destroy your life and you'll also become a threat to people around you as addiction if serious cold lead to a person of committing crime, of course I'm just talking of the worse case scenario, but this is possible.

Losing is not funny only when you wager too much. Otherwise it is just a fun experience. If you keep your bets small, you'll get the satisfaction of gambling and maybe winning some money too. The key is being not too greedy.

If you think your income from your job is low and you start gambling because of that, it is not a good idea.

If that money that is being used in gambling is your budget for your family, then it's not fun I think, it's an ultimate loss. But if you're just taking it as entertainment then it can't be a threat. The purpose of gambling in your life depends on your actions and how you will take it. Just play because you need to play, not because you need to earn and I agree to what @mindrust said, let's not be greedy 'cause we all know that gambling is not a good of way of making profits.

It depends on what type of games you're playing.
If you play poker or sport betting for example you'll not systematically lose money. If you have good skills for them, you can even win money.

Gambling is fun yet could be a threat. Indeed, gambling is fun and entertaining but unfortunately, gambling could only be harmless if one knows how to control it and have self-discipline. To be fair let's also look on a positive side of gambling, improves social skills, decision making efficiency, and improves focus and ability which we may think it's fun because all of these are the things we are gaining in casino but we see these positive sides because we are winning, how about when we are losing? That is where negatives and threats approaching. Gambling effects is depending on the people who are doing it, if they will exhibit addictive behavior or have build great self-control. But most of the time, it's a threat that leading to addiction and cause many problems from financial losses and mental to physical health.

Maybe, if we have money and time management, self-control, self-discipline, knows the chances of winning and losing, recognizes gambling as fun and knows how to stop, Gambling will be harmless and will not be labelled as threat.

Depends also what cards you get because yes poker or other games needs skills before you win because they have many combination and a player to learn about different techniques on how to win.

But trully that once a player is addicted is many of them are forget what they need to do first or their priority because the only need they think is play gambling and using more money even that is use for their needs they still playing that become threat to you and family of the player.

Definitely because it's up to the gambler on how they will handle themselves, there are responsible but we can't deny that there are also people who can't learn from their mistakes and they don't know they are already destroying their life because of gambling.

However, we can't blame gambling for that, we need to blame the gambler.

Just like a criminal kill someone with a gun, we don't blame the gun but the criminal.

Gambling is really entertaining plus the fact that there's a money involve makes it more exciting. However not all gamblers are treating it the way it supposed to be because some people are playing to double their money or to become rich. Gambling can be a good way to entertain ourselves but it can also ruin someone's lives if the particular gambler became addicted.

Agree, basically it all depends on the gamblers themselves about what and how they use gambling, because even though they make gambling as a source of income but on the one hand they have good control and management, of course things like this will not make gambling a threat to his life. I think, as long as they can play or gamble by being aware of all the risks, it will be fine because they are prepared with bad risks that may occur, but when they have the awareness, of course they will also have good control and know when to stop when lose and also win.

It's not a plush as we don't call it gambling if there is no money involve, you risk your money and your could either win or lose, there is a risk.

To expect or to hope to become rich is not a bad thing, but gamblers needs to understand that it's not easy as they think, they need to be realistic and beat the percentage that only few of the gambler who aim to be rich became successful.

Choosing the game is vital, if you are fan with sports, you do sports betting and your aim is to grow by improving your skills and consider it as your passion, that way you'll always love what you do and you'll be inspired.

there is a gambling that does not involved with money and it still labeled as a gambling because of the games that have been used but many new games can also be used on gambling and not just the traditional ones  .  sticking games is okay , i remember one time i want to play all games  .it makes me tired and loose more than i expect to win  . that is why i ony foccus on one game , i already develop a good strat which makes me earn something good  . and yes we should stick on reality and not too assuming because that can lead to a bigger bust  than on getting smal wins

There's standard way nor strategy with regards to the way how you treat gambling. Thus it doesn't matter if you're placing your bet with huge proportion of your capital as long as you know what you're doing. At the end of the day, the output of your play will determine if the way you treat gambling is wether correct or not. In most cases even though you think that what you do is correct, output will still end against what you're expecting which is just normal.

Though we can do both,entertaining while profiting but?if we knew how to manage our gaming purpose.
normal that lose is there and we need to accept that but at least we have enjoyed the whole playing time.
the problem occur if gamblers seek fro revenge i mean try to chase their losses and in this part most of them turns to be addicted and greed.
know how to manage gambling and surely your future will never be ruined .

For most players it's just a hobby, but sometimes it can turn into a real addiction!
By the way, there is a need to separate types of gambling... For example, bets on sports, in my opinion, are less dangerous than slot machines! I sometimes bet on the victory of the team for which I will be cheering, and watch the match with friends! For me, it's just extra emotions and entertainment... :D

It depends on the person, maybe gambling for them is just a hobby and to other is an addiction they are looking for, And if they lose control this can be cause their life to be ruined. And for me gambling is just a hobby and I have control of myself especially when I know losing,  so all I have to do is shutdown my computer and find something else to spend time.

It depends on the gambler himself. It could be either of the two. I agree that gambling is just a mere hobby and pastime to some that develops into addiction overtime depending on a person’s self-control. Some even started it off as form of entertainment, but went over board. It’s also true that there are different types of gambling hence, must be separated from one another.

For me, casinos enterprises are the trickiest among all. Other gambling forms like what you said, betting in sports (basketball, soccer, football, volleyball, ice hockey, etc) really gives off entertainment and thrill because you bet on it and you exert effort to cheer them to win.

we all have the gambling attitude where we wanted to win the every bet or game in the gambling website for sure we are going to experience a lot of losing in the game. We still have a responsibility and be careful when we are playing because we could easily give it up on our emotion. We know that gambling is depending in our luck so nothing really we could do about it so we just need to do discipline at all time that way we could be wise in our actions.

Exactly. It starts as fun but it ends as a thread in the end.
If you have a measure in your gambling activity and you can stop when you start losing a lot of money then gambling never becomes a thread.
However, most people do not realize that and they keep betting a lot of money.

I'm not sure it's the case for all poker/card players. In fact many poker players play because they are good at this game and they win. So they don't play just because of an addiction but simply because they win and they like that.

Glad this is just your opinion and doesn't have any statistic backing because in my opinion I'll say sport betting has to be more addictive since it's a more engaging and those are the type of activity that get people addicted easily. We have the fan sprit and love for the game that can result to unthinkable actions to be executed like using all your savings just to back your club to win a match you know fully well they're the least favorite to win.

When you play slot games and lose, you have just yourself to blame as you were the only one in power to change the outcome of the bet you just placed but when you bet on sport games, you divert your blame to the individuals that participated in that sporting events and mostly cultivate harmful thoughts towards them that if precautions measure aren't taking can lead to them getting hurt if you get the opportunity to do so.

It all depends on the will power of man!
I knew some people who played casino like crazy, borrowed money, lost again! For them it all ended sadly...

But if you have a sense of proportion, then you'll be fine! Even if you lose, you'll draw conclusions from it!

Yes, sports betting for me is just entertainment, nothing more! And among my acquaintances, there are no addicts either! What's not to say about slots... It's much worse than that!

That means you are not so serious with it?
Well, as for me, it's really fun as I am entertainment when I am gambling in sports but at the same time, I am also challenge because I follow the games that I specifically bet on and I can say to myself that if I will just keep gambling, I would eventually improve my skills and might making money from sports betting, this is another level because I call this investing in sports.

Yes, I make money in other ways!  ;D
For example, trading on an exchange, which can also be called gambling!  ;)

And I bet on sports when there are the most interesting matches for me, which I would love to see!
Although I agree - a lot of professional players who make money on this case...

Actually it could depends on the gamblers, they will be the one that will decide whether gambling would cause bad or good to him or her.

Gambling would threat for you if you became so addict on it, if you are spending the whole time of you time with this, if you don't have things to do aside of gambling, if it disturb you from doing more productive things. Gambling could be considered as fun only if you can control it, if you can still do some productive things than betting.

Do not make gambling as your everyday doings, make it only as your way of entertainment.

Doing gambling on every day basis doesn't dose off gambling addiction neither is a remedy to addiction. Many have been said about making gambling a form of entertainment and not to be see as an earning point. But, these are just verbal saying and virtual suggestions from gamblers randomly, the reality of this is: doing gamble for entertainment reason or purpose is not achievable for 98% of gamblers but here on the forum we'll preach the good gospel without saying the truth therein. Addiction live with all gamblers but some(very few individuals) have control over this act of gambling.

Well said mate, it will depend on the person who gambles, if they can control themselves while gambling then it would not harm them, gambling will only be threat on you if it will be the one that will control you, if you are wasting all of your time by gambling.

So if you want gabling yo be threat on you, make it only as your entertainment or way to kill the feeling of being bored, I know people are being addict on it because of the reward that they get when gambling. Some considered gambling as source of income but actually that is not really possible because the chances of losing gambling is higher than winning.

That's added fun when you actual make money while you consider it that you are gambling. What kind of sports you love to bet? The popular sports that we see here are the ff;

- Basketball
- Boxing
- Football
- Cricket
- Esports

you can be addicted too the other way around and not only because of the reward that you can get  . take example video games ,  they are addictive but they dont involved money or betting  .  i am addicted on gambling because of the reward and i think that i can use it as a source to earn extra income . its tiring because the money that i already build for days can blow up in just 1 gambling session if ever bad luck strikes   but i have no choice so far , because my income is still limited on my current job and still i can earn on gambling on some other times if im lucky

To be specific, it's called a risk not gambling because it has difference in each other.

When we're talking about risk, you have considered the possible effects of your decisions and may predict actions. While in gambling, you're guessing, so you don't have any control of the future outcome or result. Guessing can't be applied in trading, it will just make a huge loss. Trading requires a lot of mathematical theories, even thinking that it will go pump due to this and that, it's theoretical, you aren't guessing out of anywhere.

 To me it is a very dangerous threat, I used to gamble a lot and whenever I start gambling again I play way too much and lose way too much money. I used to gamble on dice games and that resulted with me losing couple bitcoins myself, thankfully it wasn't really worth all that much at that time but it was always a painful experience, that losing caused me to stop and never really gambled on dice games ever again, been clear for 6 years now. I followed that up with playing on sportsbooks for a while, the luckiest I have ever been was the sportsbooks, I played on NBA games and I knew the teams so most of the time I made a profit from it, one day I got bored and put all of my money into 3 game parlay and made a huge profit from it and just quit afterwards. Recently I had a problem with horse racing, I played waaaay too much again and lost a lot of money back to back for 2 weeks, after that I decided to quit that as well since for 2 weeks every single day I gambled and every single day I lost.

It depends on your financial status and bet amount,if you are going to spend half of your monthly salary for gambling just with the hope of getting into a millionaire someday then you are doing it wrong.If you are spending 5% or less amount from your monthly salary for getting entertainment via gambling then its complete fun.

I usually bet on football, or rather only on it! ;D Most often these are world level matches - World/ European Cups, Champions League, European League... However, now, for some known reasons, these matches have been canceled...


I agree with you, but still similarities can be found - for example, when betting on sports you can find statistics of personal meetings of the teams. Also in trading there is a technical analysis...

I agree with you, but the reason for their victories (at least if we are talking about online poker) is not in any special skill. Most "profitable" players play poker using specialized software that gives them a great advantage over ordinary players.

TA or Technical analysis and other mathematical analysis will be always there in trading. Those statistics are in the team, but maybe you're right, we will still guess if that's the team will win 'cause those statistics can still be a basis too. Therefore, risk really exists everywhere, since there's always a basis for every decision we're making.

But specifically, the risk is still the right term to be used.

Tennis is also a good sport to bet on IMO because you can find many statistics and informations about players, moreover there are no draws and you can find several sorts of bettings on sportsbooks.

For some people it is a threat, it could ruin your life, you can spend your rent money, your bill money, your food money on gambling and still go on, for some people it is just fun, you can play for a while and stop whenever you want. It all depends on how you approach it. There was an experiment with mouses for cocaine addiction, I know they are not similar and gambling addiction is totally different but the idea that an addiction could ruin your life stands.

In this experiment a mouse was given an option for food and an option for cocaine, it had to pick one of them, and just like a regular mouse it picked food first, however one day it tried cocaine because it didn't know what it was and checked it, after that mouse always picked cocaine until it died from starvation, it literally rather get it is cocaine than eat and it resulted of the mouse to die from starvation.

Addicts would pick their addiction over anything else, that is why it is important to see an addiction and admit having one and go seek help for it.

We can try to use gambling for fun, and never use gambling for making money. That is the only way we can enjoy gambling without becoming addicting. But unfortunately, many people slowly become addicted when they don't care about controlling themselves. Once they spend more money, they will be inside the gambling circle, and it is hard to see that we are addicted because all we want is to make money through gambling.

People who can't classified the difference between enjoying and being greedy to aimed more money will continue to make mistakes.
Only those who can really control emotions and can keep everything in shape will enjoy and be entertained while playing inside any
types of gambling. Most of the time gamblers excess from their limitations and start the problem of addictions.

I will stick to your question, It will always be a threat. They say gambling is for fun but when a gambler felt the moment of winning and the moment of losing, they will always have a choice to bet more. The thrill, the entertainment, the feeling of being intelligent and skilled, the desire to win more money, the desperation to get back the money lost---are just few emotions why it is a threat. Once you feel those emotions, you can lose your control and can become a compulsive gambler. Its fun but will always be a threat.

It can be a threat based on every person perpective, as what we can see we can be good of we know how to manage our resources and our game play, it can help us in many ways, and also it can be harmful if we cannot manage our greedines, it will destroy our lives and can be a threat. Greediness is a threat if we cannot manage it, it is inevitable but it could be lessened in many ways.

Gambling can be a threat and likewise gambling can be fun, it depends on the individual and how each individuals rate gambling in their lifestyles.
If you see gambling as a livelihood,  then addiction is setting in and it could be a threat.

But if you see gambling as fun, then theres so much excitement within you, and either loss or gain, you won't feel so much disappointments as opposed to making gambling a lifestyle.

I am not sure about others but for me gambling is a fun. I gamble once in a while and it is some what refreshing for me. Regular gambling cannot be fun it is addiction  and addiction is always a threat.

Being addicted will really threat to your money to lose money because a player have greediness of earning money.
It is also fun becausd when a person stress or lonely once they play gambling games most of them are become happy because it is also games but involve money. As long as you are regular play gambling is not a threat.

But there are people who make huge amount of money even they are addicted to gambling. There are now many famous people who achieved financial freedom through gambling. It really depends on the view of the gambler on how he see gambling. For me gambling is not a threat and it is opportunity for me to earn money. Even though it has a high risk, I have strategies and techniques for me to handle it very carefully.

I wouldn't recommend gambling when you are stress or lonely, you can't win and you might just increase your problem.
You better gamble when you feel relax as that way you'll be able to decide well, and that way, there will be no threat for you, just don't for with your emotion all the time, that's the basic rule as it's the devil that would just bring us to disaster in life.

There are 2 types of people who want to gamble their money, the one is looking for fun that want to kill his boredom and the other is full of greed who wants to earn money from it. I'm with the side of seeking enjoyment so for me gambling is not a threat for me and it helps me to have better quality of life. It can be only a threat if people will depend getting income through gambling only and this kind of scenario should we avoid.

If that is happening to them, then they will get what they did, and the result will be the loss of the money without takes too long. We hope that when we are playing gambling, we are given the power to control our emotions, so that doesn't impact worst to us. Excessing the limitations will be the problem to every gambler so gambling will be the threat for them without excuse.

I also did the same way as you, playing gambling mostly for fun or entertainment. But I'm surprised that gambling can make you have a better quality of life. So far, I didn't realize it in my gambling activity. So, please explain a bit to me, how you can get a quality life through gambling?

Only a stupid man who relies on gambling for regular income. If someone really does it, it means he expects in luck for earning income. It is because of many gambling games are truly luck-based, so it will be hard expecting to beat them (win). People said that don't expect too much to win, just enjoy the games for entertainment purpose. If you win, just consider it as a bonus.

Agree with you, it can be a threat depending on how people cope with it. I must say that it is not a threat now because I gamble but because I am doing that thing to avoid boredom and to strengthen my skills , it is also needs a critical thinking so that it we can make a good decision and strategy, it can only be a threat once the motivation turns into greediness.

It will become a threat if you are having to much fun, just be sure to only spend what you can afford to lose and do not spend to much time on it, and always watch out your motivation, don't ever think of thinking that you can make money out of it, nobody can and nobody will make money out of it.

Anything that is too much is very dangerous, you can't make gambling as your hobby where you want to have fun all the time as it's a very expensive hobby and risky as well. No one has infinite money so in the end we might still lose even if we are very reach, so let's be careful and if possible let's not put too much time in gambling, focus on other productive activities in life.

Gambling is done when you want to do pleasure not looking for profit as the main income because it is not good gambling is always synonymous with its defeat and therefore only once when you are bored then do the gambling.
I can not understand if there are people who rely on gambling as earning money especially if they are only limited money then it would be risky for him to run out of money I think I should stay away from gambling if you do not want to lose a lot of money.

I think that gambling is fun until it becomes stressful. When you wake up in the morning and the first thing that you do is think about which matches you're gonna play, than it's a threat. But when you go out to walk your dog and you play a ticket for a buck or so, then it's more fun than a threat. I know a lot of people who does just that - every few days they play a ticket with 10 pairs and put a little money on it (under a dollar). They think of it as fun and I agree with them.

We can prevent that from happening if we stay discipline while gambling, have fun but always stay discipline .



As a gambler we have different level of entertainment, some only spend a little amount to have fun, while say spend big amount to feel the thrill, but like I said discipline matters and amount you risk does not matter as long as you know how to control yourself.

Not in general, for sure there are people who are good in terms of playing this business, though numbers of successful gamblers versus those who've got addicted and suffered from this vices is just an inch but in some instances those people do exist.
Having the right mentalities gives you the entertainment but always remember to set your limitations to avoid those bad effects of this activities.

There are few who are successful in gambling but success does not only mean you win or you make money as there are other people who are willing to lose their money just to have fun or to get the entertainment they desire, I guess that's also called a success.

Life is not fair, there are people who are rich that can burn their money in gambling without complaining when they lose because they can afford it but there are also gamblers who gambles a small amount of money only but in reality they can't afford to lose, they are just trying their luck win and these people are mostly the ones who will suffer in any lose.

Definitely! Self-discipline is pretty important, but not just with gambling but with any activity that has the potential to make us addictive. I would say that gambling for fun is great, but gambling for thrill is bad and one can easily become addictive.

Like any addiction, the game causes breaking.

A person very quickly gets used to those doses of hormones that he experiences during gambling, moreover, real money is at stake, which boosts the hormonal system even more due to stimulation of emotions.

At some point, a person may become irritable, nervous, moody, but all this will most likely be hidden from him.
It is very difficult to come to understand what exactly gambling is the cause of this condition, because during games you can feel good.

I agree with this. Many people feel they are happy while playing, and this is caused by a few wins. Slowly losing makes a person irritable even if they don't notice. They only think about happiness from the wins.

I prefer to use gambling like that way than to think about which matches I am going to play because at least, I don't treat gambling as the only way to make money, but I use gambling for having fun. When you can do that, you don't have to worry if gambling will change you become an addiction because you never think to make money from gambling.

If many people realize that, and they consider to try to change their mind, I guess that they can see that they have many opportunities to make money from another source. And they will see that gambling is created for having fun, and if they can make money from gambling, that will be a bonus for them.

This is an example how to have fun gambling. Until you are doing it for fun, you will be OK. But it depends on person's self-control. When you get a big win, you could think "hey, I could make money with this". And when you start thinking like that, it's game over for fun.

Football betting is my favorite sports for gambling, i have an advantage due to my knowledge about football
I do try boxing as well, its 2 side of a coin.

Amd you didn't mention Tennis, it's risky but its an easy bet for me
Nadal, Federer and Djokovic has given me good wins by predicting they reach the quarterfinals of major trophies

And Nadal wining on clay has been mostly rewarding too

Not all people do that bad result, many gamblers already know the risks & advantages of gambling from the beginning. So, they won't change their mind even they get big rewards/prizes. In my opinion, only a gambler who has less experience or a new gambler possibly changes their perception suddenly after earning money. Common gamblers must know that they won't earning money regularly, and it will be a disaster if you expect to earn money every day.

Seeing the gambling winnings as a source of income will be a bad habit and the person will do more for reaching that point in order to gain a sufficient amount for living with gambling rewards. Gambling sickness has not limited to earning regularly only some gamblers can borrow money for fulfilling their empty dreams, unfortunately.

I am among those who think gambling is fun, because in my opinion gambling should be fun and not a threat. In my opinion gambling
is a threat because it is addictive, so it can have many negative effects. Therefore we must be able to limit in playing gambling, don't
overdo it. If you can limit yourself to playing gambling, I'm sure gambling will become a lot of fun.

For this word, "hey, I could make money with this", I've done that in a few years ago but that doesn't make me win more money, but coincidentally, I have to get lost the money. After thinking for a while, I realize that word can be a trigger for a gambler to feel that he is superior and unbeaten in the gambling, so that can attract him to play longer with more money.

Thus, after that experience, I never tried to follow that word again because that could I makes me lose the money, and I cannot enjoy my winning money. From that moment, if I win or lose, and the time is enough for me to playing gambling, I always stop gamble and leave the sites because I don't want to get more losses.

That's great! You sound like a person with a lot of self-control. Not all gamblers are like that and that's when gambling addiction starts. I agree that gambling should be fun. It's not always about the winning. Sometimes it's in the thrill of expectation will my team win.

The entertaining factors are there but if you exceed from your limitations then yes it's really dangerous to you and it's going to become
a threat since addictions will be the outcome results of your too much engagement with this activities.
Enjoy but not to play that much in order to limit your stay and the money that you'll be spending.

Definitely, and no gambler would want to be addicted, they just want to have fun and fee the thrill, that is why it's necessary to be discipline all the time.

Discipline means you'll have to always gamble based on your limit, and at the same time you also limit your time spent in gambling as the more you gamble, the more you are being expose and eventually it will become part of your life, which is very risky.

Definitely agreed. On the other hand, it's still depening on the gamblers though most of them have been already eaten of the system since they are missing something which is the discipline. Gambling isn't really made nor intended to be like that but rather it's made to give hope for people that with small money they are willing to risk, their lives can change for good. Some people doesn't see that perspective perhaps they are blinded of their greediness.

Gambling is supposed to be just for fun, but since being greedy and being out of control is already in the nature of a person, gambling turns out to be a threat. People often play to satisfy their gambling activity that becomes addiction later on. Addiction becomes the root of why it is considered a threat due to the different outcomes they produce like burning all their money in the gambling house, etc.

Depending on how much yourself and the money you play with this can be dangerous or real fun.
It's almost my rank1 hobby right now and I won't lost that much. Because I won't play with a huge amount of money. For example, if I earn 5K per week and play with 50 usd or less. Even if I lost all the money I didn't lost too much.
In the other hand sometimes we need the adrenaline in our bloods and for me gambling is my adrenaline resource. But the think is first before everything you will need to make sure to play on a safe platform and make sure they won't scam you and your money.

Very true. If you want more thrill from watching sports or any other matches, then just make a bet on the match that you watch.
But of course, you will also become more upset when you lose  ;D.

Overall it is more fun for me if I bet some money that doesn't really matter to me. And if I bet with the intention of making a profit, it will be a different kind of pleasure.

It's a threat if you cannot handle your own. Gambling is fairly being thought of as a threat because people don't know how to handle themselves. Yes that would be for fun but when it's being misunderstood by the gambler and starts to act crazy and let his emotion control his decision, that's how it becomes a threat and results can be dangerous of damaging himself financially and emotionally.

In my opinion while playing gambling at a reasonable limit I don't think it is a significant threat.  Playing gambling with a maximum level of awareness, when you lose quickly leave and come back another time.  Likewise, when you win some money, don't be greedy, maybe you need to stop for a moment or go to do other activities, if you still want to play gambling again next time.  That way you can minimize the threat.

That's right, and it's better if you gamble only with money that can be spent because then you will also avoid threats in gambling, threats in gambling will actually be easy to avoid as long as we are aware of any factors so as to keep us safe and keep gambling fun, because as long as we have control and remain disciplined it might be an effort that can be applied every time we gamble even though sometimes we have to make more risky decisions and I think it's only natural that we can manage it.

Gambling can be threat or fun that it depends to a person if they will take gambling as a leisure time whenever they are just bored or they will take gambling to earn easy money by just playing. But mostly gambling is a threat because there are people who takes gambling seriously as a profit, not for entertainment that they always lead to greed and aggression in betting.

Yeah, it is surely not good to become overconfident about gambling. Once you win in gambling you will soon realize that it has the ability to give you Money so then you will be able to use it both for fun and its not bad if you use it for the money-making resource so just chill and enjoy gambling when you enjoy and get fun from it you will not take the stress and will remain healthy.

No, not really. I still feel that I need more practice to control myself because I sometimes lose my control, especially if I meet my friends in one game, and we play many rounds together. Yes, I agree that it's not always about the winning, but it's something how you can enjoy the games. If I meet my friends, sometimes, we talk to each other while we played, and no matter if he wins or I win, that don't make us want to try to get the loose money. 

Perhaps, you need to reduce the tension in the gambling and try to get out for a while and take a deep breath. With that, I think you will have the power to control yourself, and if you come back to that game, hopefully, you can take care of your mind.

First, it was entertainment but after a few plays things will be changed unnoticed and in every game, there will become thrilled and excited, the fun will likely become a habit and that habit will be pushed to become an addiction. This is the time you need to stop because it will lead to your own destruction when you lose everything and keep coming back. You will encourage yourself to get back what you've lost which rarely happens to some gamblers. when they already lost big and manage to get it back somehow that's very rare.

If it's too much fun in gambling, of course this will be addictive and will be difficult to stop because they want to always be greedy what he won in the game, so it's no wonder many people do this and indeed the beginning for entertainment but for a long time it's hard to stop therefore we must be able to control themselves when playing gambling I'm sure with self-control then their finances will remain stable and will not be lost by gambling.

At this time many people are at home of course they will often play and therefore must maintain a balance in their financial self so as not to burden your needs.

IMO, not all that receives fun and amusement in gambling is going to become gambling addicts or get addictions. Often it's their way of relieving their tension from their job or other issues that really distress their lives. As long as you're having fun, and that's your one and only gambling intent, addiction won't be the case if you stay longer.

People aren't being greedy when they won, for some it's just a matter of satisfaction and that's it. You'll just get greedy if you're having an expectation to win again in gambling game due to high profit. Similar with playing online games, my truly purpose is just to have fun with friends and to relieve stress from school, getting addicted to online games is not an issue for me.

I agree with that. Sometimes there are individuals that will just go to casino during their holiday vacation. Just to have some fun during their leisure time. So for those people that will gamble occasionally, gambling is only for fun, not a threat by any means. It will only be a threat if you will be addicted to it to the point that your savings is being depleted as well as your assets.

Gambling is really not a threat it is for fun and at the same time we can earn on it depending on how we handle it. Gambling cannot harm us if we can control our emotion while doing so. I believe that the only threat on gambling is when we become addicted on it and we cannot control our emotions.

A player who are emotional and no budgeting their money gambling will be threat for them.
I was being emotional too in the gambling before and I was lose a lot of money that is a threat.
It was fun if the gambler winning money and also using a small money but if the money they bet is very high like hundred dollars or thousands dollars they have pressure for sure.

Gambling only becomes a threat if you don't play within your means.

If you know you're the type of person who can't stick to a budget, then gambling becomes a threat.

If you borrow money just so you can play, then gambling becomes a threat.

It is easier in theory.Even for me who have been strictly following my monthly bankroll there has been times like this month that I won a bit of money in slots and I thought why not play to get that 10.000x bet which led me to losing not only my won amount but also a lot of unplanned money.Bottom line is no one can really control their emotions so gambling can become from fun to threat in an instant.

That's most likely will happen if we are weak in controlling your emotion, you got greedy when you win and when you lose as well that's why you lose your discipline, but you should learn from that as its normal for gamblers to make mistakes.


I disagree with this, maybe there are people or a lot of people can't control their emotion but I'm sure there are gamblers who are discipline enough to control their emotion and stay responsible while gambling.

Gambling for me is fun or hobby... I like watching football and betting! I get double gambling! :D Team win and money win, or losing everywhere... ;)

I don't think that kind of gambling can hurt me...

How do you actually cope when you are losing? because I think there's no fun in losing money right? So it is clear that there is 2 sides, to experience the fun when we are winning, or we are threatened because our funds are at risk to when we are losing so we want to play more and win back our loses?

Well, for me, there is a threat in gambling, but we can experience the fun in it if we know our limitations. How? Just set a standard betting amount that we are all willing to lose, that don't affect us and our needs. That is how we should handle gambling. Not just betting and losing everywhere like we are the richest person in the world.

Until getting addicted everyone has the same opinion as you but the first step is to lose the emotional control. Not only logic control use, there is a big portion of control by the human emotions which can lead to the unnecessary decisions during the game session.

Gambling is all about fun and positive vibes if we control ourselves from being addicted but if we became addicted to it, it is the time when it becomes a threat. Control is the key to be a successful gambler and greediness is the key to be the worst. We can control ourselves and avoid being addicted if we limit our lose of money everyday. Example, you will stop gambling for the day if you alreadt lose three times. It will help you for sure.

Gambling is intended for fun purposes. OP if you believe that gambling is a threat then you are too close minded. It's like eating cake is a threat too? Because eating too much cake is dangerous to your health too. Stop being funny OP. Life itself is a gamble. Everything in this world needs control and balance.

Well, I guess its kinda the same as crypto is. You should not spend money that is not OK to lose else it is really funny and sometimes profitable to gamble. So my answer is both.

It is not that OP is close minded.
Gambling can be turned up to thread as well.
It depends on the person that gambles - if he is "close-minded" as you said he might end up loosing all of his money. Then there is not any fun in that but only threads of loosing all your money.

I don't set the primary goal of making money... For me, it's first of all about getting emotions! And winning is a nice addition! When I place a bet, I realize that I can both win and lose! And with a bad outcome, I won't think about how to get back my money!


I hope I can deal with my emotions! ;)

It is upto each individual person how he treats the gambling...some people ruin their lifes in gambling while other enjoy and have fun with it....it is important to be in limits and know what you are doing...if you are feeling stress in gambling it will be much better to quit it

It's a global threat since most of the casino houses are affiliated with drug lords or criminals but in the perspective of a rich person who wants to be entertained in gambling, it's a fun activity. Casino houses will probably do their best not to lose any income and will put the odds on their own hands.

Customers will still go there due to its good benefits for middle-class people. Still, gambling can be also a fun activity but for some people only, so it really depends on the scenario.

A good point of view, but I think there is a huge difference between "being disciplined" and "understanding that you need to be disciplined." I know some people who suffer from their gambling addiction and they perfectly understand that it would be good to get rid of it, but they themselves can not do it.

This is how most of the gamblers see gambling.

It will be a threat for most of the gamblers since they see gambling as a way to get profit and not to have some fun. They believe that they will get money in an easy way thru gambling so they are throwing their money and hoping that they will get profits which is a wrong idea for them.

Even those gamblers who are just gambling for entertainment are becoming greedy when they are winning consecutively and their reason of just to have some fun will be change to get some profit since they can become a greedy gambler when they feel that they can win on that day. Winning consecutive times can make them become greedy. If you want to just gamble for fun, spend a small amount and put a target price if you win and stop when you reached that limit already if you are lucky but if you lose learn how to stop and call it a day.

Of course, people would not gamble if its not fun, but with that fun, some failed to realize that they don't have the end to win.
It's always the casino that has the edge that's why they are so profitable, more gamblers having fun means more money in their pocket.

There's is a threat in gambling but generally it's not a threat.
It only depends on how people manage themselves in gambling, if they are responsible and they know how to manage the risk, they will never fail in gambling, yes they will lose most likely but will not regret.

It depends on the person who will handle gambling. There are people who did not make themselves too much attached to gambling while others just choose to enjoy it. But all in all yes gambling is made is for fun. That is all where it starts. You/they will not become interested to it if you're /they find it boring from the very start.

Agree. Gambling isn't to make someone to be stress, it is a fun activity. If someone becomes stress in gambling, I guess he expects too much in earning money or too obsessed to win big prizes. I always remind myself to be a smart gambler, don't be a stupid one by hoping unreasonable things. Yes, limit your funds and think realistically is the key.

That's where most gamblers failed. Those who are addicted and really have no resources to supplement their gambling activity will experience stress like it depends their entire life on it. But for those who gamble occasionally or just use their extra funds to play will have more peace of mind and they will enjoy the gambling itself. And I think, I am included in the latter part. If I don't have extra, I prefer to spend it in more important things now that almost all of us are in bad situation.

Maybe people don't care about their lives, so they still playing gambling without stopping for a while. When the gambler can choose how they will going to treat gambling, they will think that gambling is just for fun, so they don't have to get stress because of losing the money. But we know that many gamblers already got stress when they lose and many of them want to recover the money which will be so difficult.

That's how gambling works when you lose, you always have that feeling that you need to recover that loses. That's why it's affecting your mentality when you are about to sleep, you are thinking of strategy that could work to regain your loses but it's not possible that way because gambling is all about luck. There is no strategies that actually work except you know how to stop when you're done but most of the cases people want to overcome those feelings and return back to gambling to lose again.

It's the least that they can care about.

Just because they have ruined their lives through gambling it doesn't mean that they don't care for themselves. They do and that's why they can gamble because they thought of living the life at the fullest through gambling and tried their luck because they might win big time.

It completely depends upon the person how he treats because myself, I will consider gambling for fun, today we are living in a stressful life and everybody are looking out for some fun and entertainment. People who are looking for fun will not invest much amount into gambling.

While one is not losing cash needed for living it's fun else it's a threat.

It happens that simply fun can easily become an addiction! And you won't notice how you start spending more money than you can afford!
So you don't need to be too fond of gambling! And need clearly understand it's entertainment for you, or the beginning of addiction!

If you want to recover from the loss of gambling then I think it will only fall to lose again because there is no right strategy to recover the money from losing gambling and only luck will restore it.
Stay average for jugi addicts they believe in it when playing gambling again so they are always careful but still defeat they experience.
To be honest, it's hard to say that we want to get the money back because in gambling we have to be prepared with all the risks.

We can't term it a threat, because none force people to get into gambling. When we talk about gambling and gamblers it is purely associated with self decision. Even the one with good understanding fails, for that he never blames that gambling is bad as he considers it as fun and enjoys on winning and hope for the best while losing. Same time one without proper understanding about gambling terms it a threat as he has lost money. This is the difference of considering gambling as threat and as fun in my opinion.

There is, if you correct your mistake and you'll use the right strategy, but you should be discipline, you can win back your loses but it's not gonna be instantly especially if you lose a lot of money already.

it's like a business where you are not profitable at the beginning but once you figure things out, you'll be profitable.

When there is an addiction, there is no chance anymore to win, a gamblers chance only is to minimize the loses if he can cure his addiction.

It is a threat of course as you can see most of the gamblers are having a higher percentage of losing rather than winning and as what you have said being addicted is the big threat to all the gamblers. Even if we will start to gamble as a hobby or to have fun but if you are going to continue to, you will not notice that you are already addicted to it.

But for those who really have a control then it is not a threat for them especially if they are only using the small percentage of their extra money as their capital in gambling. For gamblers, make sure that you still have a control of yourself and don't be greedy.

Same here. I also played gambling only with my extra money. Extra money means not big amount of money. I know it will kill my family if I played with all my funds (money). Never forget about the most urgent needs although the gambling games are really interested to play more and more. Self-control should be the key to prevent from playing excessively, and don't follow the emotion.

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Dangerous is quite a harsh word you use, there is no entertainment factor if that is dangerous, maybe there is a risk but not dangerous.

The most important is you know what you are playing and you know the risk, games we play depending on the interest of person to person, so it does not matter a lot, some love sports betting or skilled based games, some love poker, dice, roulette and any popular games online.

Yes, but there is a lot of people who can't control themselves and after few winnings they start thinking "oh man, if only I put more into those winning bets, I would have been rich". And then they start raising the amount of money they gamble. Then they start losing that money and then start to gamble even more to cover for that losses and so on... In the end, they can't get out of that circle.

Yeah, unfortunately there are many gamblers still difficult to have good self-control. They always dream to win after put more money, and they believe if doing more attempts, then the chance to win higher. In theory they are right but in fact they just get more losses. I think in this case, they need the role of family and their closest people to advice them.

   And where self-control comes from? I think some people just don't wish to learn to be patient, to
have self-control and to not be greedy! It's something you get from experience and rethinking about
consequences of your actions! Clearly some people are ego maniacs, they think only about their own
satisfaction!
   Gambling should be fun! It's something we all agree with! But for some people and their close ones
gambling can be a threat! I am in the first group, for me gambling is fun activity, and I think it's ok
to gamble from time to time with money you can afford to lose!

if a person gamble just for fun like spending few hours and with 20 dollars a week or monthly, i consider it as a normal, for a person and just having fun but if you are spending more like hundreds and thousand a month or a week that's a different story, since its not healthy you may be in a big debt to  bank and to a person without knowing and and the end it will became a threat so, it depends on what you are doing.

for a poor person yes 20 usd a week is enough or already huge enough but to the person that is a big earner , those 20 usd are nothing and wont be enough for them for a week  .  i see many gamblers complain that they loose 1k  and above amounts within a week only , can you imagine that  ? for me that was alot but for them no because they do afford it at the first place  . if thats the only think that make them happy why not  ? we cant bring the money on the other part when we leave this world  so better if we spend them according to our liking  .

Well that is not normal because we don't have the same financial status.
For people who are making like millions in a month basis, $20 does not anymore give them a thrill and it's just a waste of time.

What is necessary is not the specific amount, it's you gamble what you can afford to lose, and that you'll stay consistent following that.

I won't try to recover from the loss because I know that will be difficult, especially for me which don't know much about gambling or strategy that can work in gambling. The chance for me to get a win in gambling will not as big as the other people. Gladly, I never think about recovering the loss, and that's not affecting my mentality when I want to sleep. I can let it go after what I experienced before in gambling because if I think about that, I will be hard to sleep, and I cannot move on from those losses.

I am pretty sure that even if a person with a financial status of spending 20 dollars a month or week, they will still play and bet higher than that if they win consecutively. That is how gambling works, you have money, you play in order to make the most out of it. So, it is impossible to just waste that exact certain amount. Sometimes, if we are winning too much and still continue to gamble, all of our funds could be lost, there are instances that it pushes us to borrow money and in that way I can consider gambling as a threat. Mainly, fun with the experience at the start, but a threat to consider in the end.

Gambling is more likely a threat rather than fun, it depends on the people how they will treat gambling and what is their intention, motive, or reason why they gamble. Some people tend to gamble just to relieve their stress in work or to forget their problems. Other people tend to gamble because they think that this is a good source of in come when in reality is, it is not.

Gambling is risky and how come that this is a good source of profit? People should learn and understand how gambling works and what can it do to people who are getting addicted to it. It is easy to prevent yourself from getting addicted to a certain thing if from the start, you know the advantages and disadvantages of playing gambling.


Yes, all of these are a threat.

It's not impossible with discipline, let's say you are gambling with a fix bankroll of $100 and you'll stop right away once you lose everything, then that is a real discipline, I know some people can do that but us who can't maybe say its impossible.

This is already out of your plan, when you set up a bankroll you start gambling and you think of stopping when you lose, but when you borrow money after such effect then that tells you'll be at a higher risk as a gambler.

The biggest problem is that I think every gambler (even an addicted one) will say that gambling is fun for them. That's because almost all addicts can't or won't admit that they have an addiction.

It's not just about the gambler. Gambling is fun for almost everyone n the plant of earth. The addicts will understand about the addiction, but only when they are fallen info it and can't even help themselves to stop it like falling into swamp.

Yeah, that's true. For an addict it's really hard to admit that they have a problem. And even when they do admit it, then it's already late. But then there should be family and friends who will help an addict to fix his problem.

   Maybe addicted gamblers think that gambling is fun, but when the game stops what stays? If he spent
money for food and other family needs? What if he spend entire savings? Will it be fun? I don't think so!
   My opinion is still the same, addicts and potential addicts don't think about consequences of their gambling,
they are ego maniacs! And that is the biggest problem, they only think their own fun for a short time!
   Normal person would never do something to hurt his closest ones! Addicts only think about their own addiction!
I believe it's same with drug addicts, but I don't know that for sure, I never tried drugs.

I agree! Nothing is special with gambling addiction. It's like any other - drug, alcohol, cigarette or any other addiction. Drinking alcohol too can be fun if a person drinks occasionally. But when it becomes too often, than that person is an addict. The same is with gambling. If it's occasionally, than it's fun. But if it's too often and if gambler spends a lot of money, then it stops being fun and becomes a problem.

That is where we can conclude that gambling addiction is a real threat if done for the long term, and becomes a momentary pleasure if played for the short term.
Said to be a threat because of gambling addiction it does not really provide wealth but stress in the end.
Likewise for a moment of fun at gambling players, as long as playing at a reasonable level everything will be fine.

Gambling becomes a threat when it stops being fun. It stops being fun when you are dependent on it and start losing vast sums of money you can't afford to lose or if you truly need gambling to earn money that you desperately need. It's binary, one or the other and there's a fine line separating the two.

I'm afraid you're wrong. Having a mindset like that is the lamest excuse ever, you don't have to spoil yourself to anything and the latter part would be on your family if you ever get addicted to gambling. We have to be mature in everything, not everyone is willing to help us especially if we are the one who brought the problem to ourselves, we have to solve it on our own to learn some lessons.

Also, other gamblers (the addicted ones) never ask for help, they just pursue what they think is "right" (pun intended) as long as they do have the money to do so, until it wore them out.

loosing money is not fun but what about your playing for fun only ? you still need to put a  capital and wouldnt care at all when you loose  .  you desperately need the money but why gambling is the first thing that come to your mind  ? there must be something wrong with you   . many possible ways out there to earn without needed to put a capital  .  gambling have the two element which is fun and profit , so i dont agree that they are seperate like what you have said   . you can do them or choose one depending on your preference  .

Well said mate, you are the only one to choose whether its to be fun or to be threat on you. There are so many ways for us to let this gambling only for fun. Do not include gambling for your daily routine, stop playing everyday, you may play twice a week something like that to avoid being addicted on it because when you get addicted on it then it will become threat for you.

Think always your family, focus on them instead of focusing on gambling because your family is the best thing you have in this world, you will lode your connection or relation to your family if you are only focused on gambling.

In anything we do, our family should be our first priority, even if we are making money in gambling.
For me, If I have the skills, I would do everything to make myself profitable so I can give my family a good life where I have a financial freedom.

Gambling is full of excitement, risk and fun and also this kind of business we can make a lot of earning regarding with this kind of sideline or extra job but still always be conscious about the thing happens into the world of gambling not all the time we can win all of our income and profit sometimes we are facing in the dark days of our gambling plays, sometimes when we experience this the conscience are running up to your mind like why do I lose this game instead of buying a lot of things I need like even in your family that you can help a lot like buying things to support your financial still at the end you will realize your mistakes.

It really depends on the person itself. People are influenced by their environment but the most deciding thing is the self control of the individual.
Gambling is gives you multiple opportunity to learn from your mistakes. If you don't it's a threat to your economy and mental health.
If you can, it's a good way to have fun, socialize and stay occupied.

I know that many articles have been written about it. But gambling should not get out of hand.
 Only play with money you can afford to miss. But I can imagine that it is difficult for people who are sensitive to addiction.
Of course, gambling should be fun, not obsession or coercion.

Apart from all that, gambling will still be an attempt for gamblers to make a profit and indeed, it all depends and goes back to the intentions of each different individual but basically, no gambler wants to get a threat from gambling and therefore gambling is basically for generate profit even though you think of it as entertainment and for fun but it all depends on how you manage it, because when you can't manage it well then gambling might make a threat to your life.

When we say about fun about gambling, it will only occur at your first game by the next day you still want to play then it's not for fun anymore. by that time you are changing the course of your life by letting yourself falling addicted to this thing. When you are doing it every day, I think there's no other thing to call for it except addiction. If it is overdone, there will be some bad consequences.

Therefore I conclude that rather than asking if gambling is a threat or fun, it would be better to say that it is both to settle the argument because yes, of course it depends on a certain person on how gambling treats him every single day, if he wins always then it is fun, and the other way around, just like that. We can't say we're having fun if we always lose our money on it, well maybe you could, but again, it will depend on your social status.

Agree, it always depend and people that usually play gambling don't want threat from it. People are avoiding threats but at the same time staying at the place where a threat is possible to happen. People are still being optimistic that they can earn and be entertained on gambling, they remove the threat on their mind 'cause they're enjoying on it.

It's like the law of attraction, if you want to have some fun and don't want to gain any problems, think it as for entertainment and just enjoy it.