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I have seen people gambling with positive vibes of them winning at all costs. I could remember when I started gambling, I was always optimistic of winning high bets that will later cool my mind and cover all my accumulated loses. I believe the same thing happens to other people making them to bet more, becoming addicted to gambling.

Some people could bet without even knowing the amount of time and money they have invested in gambling which could look obvious and call for estimation. I gamble a lot and sometimes I don't even know if it's becoming excess not.

Anything like excess gambling?

just to clear things up, are you asking if there are gamblers who are gambling excessively? if so, then yeah, tons of gamblers are gambling excessively, do they realize that they are gambling excessively? probably yes, but have no control over it until it is over. I mean there were times in my younger days(I still don't know about crypto) that I would gamble so much that I would knowingly gamble my allowance for that week(yes I was still a student at that time) and lose all of it. but those days are in the past and the fear of not being able to pay the bills today is far higher than my urge to gamble(which is almost non-existent).

I am not just asking, initially having a feeling that it happens to every gamblers most time without being aware of it. Although I had worse pattern of gambling back in the days when I gat no plans on how to spend my little allowance. I had no girlfriend then so all I do with funds is to gamble and play games with friends, most time sponsoring them because it makes me feel happy and among, especially seeing my peers trying to put heads together to make winning bets. Although it was really fun but I think I was stupid cause I gat no plan for money.

Depending on the establishment whether this is done almost full time just spending gambling because we will think it's excessive regardless of continuing to drain pocket money just for the sake of big wins and after that it's easier for me this is a bit difficult because we don't know all the time betting makes how much profit it is, so it is Your way of gambling may seem excessive but I think it can still be corrected again so that it is not excessive.

Before that I was also not in control of betting, but after I had plans for the future I had to give up a little from gambling and let gambling be more relaxed meaning not in full time

Don't spend your youth doing useless things, this is what my parents told me when I was young...

You have to be able to manage your education, money, and friendships at a young age because you and your friends will eventually live own lives. at a young age, gambling is really challenging but you have to be able to control your gambling budget, so you don't hurt yourself. do it slowly.

The first time we gamble, we can feel optimistic about winning the game. But after we play for some rounds, and we experienced winning and losing, the optimism can also change and if we lose for some money, the optimism will get down. If we still do not figure out that something is wrong with us, we will not have a chance to determine how much time and money we already lost. Besides that, it can make you addicting for some time without you know. If you are excessive in gambling, you will lose your money, which you must prevent. It will be better if you use that money to invest in the coins that will increase later to make a profit.

Yes there are excess gambling and such person who gambling excessively is regarded as an addict. Like the scene you painted there, losing control of one's emotion to control what you want to do rightly is driving yourself to addiction and you won't be able to think properly at that time of gambling. Addiction makes you to take irrational decision all to the reliance on luck or to "god of gambling" (as some gamblers allude to). On a good day an excessive gambler won't take certain decision if he or she was not on the gambling arena but because he or she loses control, that is referred to as addict.

As you can see excessive gambling is a common practice among people who don't have any plans or other activities to do with their money, so they become addicted. But from the moment you engage yourself in another activities on, you start overcoming the addiction in gambling, because you finally have another goals in life which become more important.
In some cases the addiction might not be the cause of the problem, but just the consequence of something else. So the individual must observe himself to discover what is disturbing him and how he can change his life for better.

It can consider as human nature in gambling. We are not aware that we are now reaching our limit but still continue to gamble.

Let's put it this way; why should we stop if we are on a winning streak? The luck is there so take chances as it won't come regularly. The same goes for losing, why should we stop if our losses are not covered yet.

In the end, people have no choice but to gamble more unless the sense of responsibility to stop will emerge more.

You should know how much you're gambling, with your time and money. If you are not aware of how much you've accumulated in losses then you really will just keep on gambling in losses because you're not realizing how much you've made in losses.
I don't do such and I only limit myself whenever I gamble because once that budget was already gone, I wouldn't add any more for that day or two.

Well I think it is what most of us had done we all had those kind of time of our life when we are so carefree and doesn't acknowledge the importance of money or how to handle it properly.
For me it is normal for teenagers to be like that I mean I also had no plans before I got into relationship.

Excess gambling or excessively gambling depicts already that behaviour of gambling is now compulsive, and when an individual starts to gamble compulsively to the detriment of his time and money, the individual is addicted and can be said to gamble excessively.

When you take a bottle of alcohol, there is an inscription sometimes that you should drink responsibly, which means that you shouldn't exceed your limit. If you exceed your limit, you have drank excessively and have not acted responsibly. The same applies to gambling. It is not a problem to gamble in moderation, the problem is when gambling is done without moderation, excessively.

Very common behavior and this is one of the reasons on why gamblers do become addicted because of that kind or way of thinking on which they are really thinking for some winning neither to patch up their losses
or just simply their goal before they do stop but majority of people will really fail up for this one since they would really be ending up on going further hoping for more win because human beings are way too greedy
and only a few could able to control theirselves on not to do so.Until, the time comes that they would realize into whats the reality when they do already face up some challenges or unfortunate situations in their lives.
Dont go overboard and always be on your limit with finances because if you dont able to do so, then you are fucked up.

I can’t imagine how a person could not be aware if he’s excessively gambling or not. Isn’t that like depicted in one's wallet? :D

Granted, the definition of “excessive” can vary among people, especially if we’re talking about the amount of money one spends on gambling, that’s purely individual. Thus, I think it would be more correct to look at the time parameter. For instance, more than 2 hours per day (except for the games that can take long themselves, e.g. poker) I’d consider excessive.

Yes, if you gamble and becoming losing than usual is as a result of excessive gambling. If I will use my experience about this, I notice one or two bets I staked often result to win while continuing gambling after I have already won the bets will later result to losses. I noticed if I still continue to gamble, I will still continue to lose until i do not bet again until my mind cools down, this can take me a week. If someone continues to gambling, losses will later result, few quality gambling is better than quantity gambling.

If you’re greedy you always aim for more just like chasing your losses, you keep on playing with a hope that you can get back your capital which turns to a disaster to your financial status, that’s an excessive gambling and a way to addiction.

If you can’t control yourself at least go to casino with small money don’t bring too much cards or cash, just bring the money that you can afford to lose anytime, don’t go beyond your limit that’s too risky and addicting.

Chasing losses is extremely common, after some time people realize all the money they have lost during that particular session or during a period of time and they want to get it back, this is obviously a mistake since the best thing you could do at that point would be to stop gambling and accept the losses, but many people on the heat of the moment are not thinking clearly and make a huge bet to try to recover what they lost, sometimes you could be successful and recover what you lost but most of the time the opposite happens and now you are in a deeper hole than the one you were in before making that bet.

It's just common mate. I don't think we need a discussion about this.

It really happened for a gambler since we are expecting something good out of it. We will just continue to gamble no matter what without realizing we are now within our limits. Now to control it, we should start by ourselves and do everything to resist the temptation of doing gambling even how we feel lucky and optimistic at that particular time.

It's too risky if you do not know your limit,the worse thing is not accessing and not calculating your allocation on your bankroll and your time in gambling, like all addition it will go further you want to more time in the case of gambling bet more add more money, and this is the cause of chronic gambling and will eventually ruin your life, the first that you've got to do is to know your limit, failure to do so will get you in big trouble.

Most players have excessive activities when it comes to gambling.
And that's really an old news in this industry.
However, on my part, I only allot certain amount for my gambling activities.
So once depleted, it means, I have to stop and just play once I have extra funds.
Because what I learned from my experience, I only stop when I have no more bankroll.
So to have moderation in my gambling activities, I have to allot funds specific for gambling only.

It's foolishness to think that you can win all the time and you can always recover your losses if you have this mindset yes you can become addicted to gambling only thinking of your winning but forgetting your losses, a responsible gambler always takes record on both his winnings and losses so he can track and organize how he gamble.

That's because you hadn't a good bankroll management. If you manage your bankroll seriously you will never gamble money you need for eating and for paying bills. Even someone who bet occasionally could fall in this kind of situation if he poorly manages his bankroll

That’s not a common thing if you know how to control yourself in the first place. You have to understand gambling, the risk of continuous playing and being out of control can result to a big loss because the longer you play the higher the chance for a house to win against you. Casinos will always try to tempt you to keep on playing, but if you can handle it very well you’ll just avoid it because you know already that your limit has been reach and its time for you to go home, practice this one.

I believe what he is saying here, is that it is common among gamblers to be excessive with their games. And I guess, that's true for a lot of gamblers here. Very few can really control their gambling habits. If you are a regular gambler, you always have the tendency to be excessive as you chase your losses or potential winnings. Lucky if you can have the discipline here.

the worst thing a gambler can do is lie to himself, like winning a bet and thinking that it was a perfect choice he made because he knows what he's doing, but when his bet loses he just say that it was unlucky or i wasn't sure about that bet but i placed it anyways and that's why i lost, this makes him wanting to gamble all the time since when he loses he just says that it was a mistake, and the amount of money he loses every time don't matter a lot to him because he thinks that he can recover one day, he just have to keep trying but reality has other things to say.

The greedy / deep desire in earning more, makes the one just blindly spend what they have at most. I would says its not just the individual responsibility. The gambling environment is such, makes one or other to just fall into it. Many here, just blindly bet seeing other's victory. This is what in turn, attracts the every participants to just stick around even if they do not have money to gamble.

Spending money in gambling without control means a gambler is addicted. It happens if you have no discipline and your goal is to get back what you've lost by keep on playing and using the money which supposed not to be meant for the gambling activity.

Its not an unusual situation for gamblers who dont set limit. The problem that we often discuss if a gambler became addicted due to his eagerness to win and to recover the losses. Thats why if you notice that your gambling habit changed, its best to refrain from playing, otherwise you might end up among of those gamblers who became addicted.

Of course, many people really love to play a lot of gambling but those are the ones who have a lot of budget and time but i guess if you are just a normal gambler just to seek fun it's too hard to achieve excessing gambling its costly. There are people who would like to play gambling because in different purposes, such as earning money its a primary objective and the one is just to seek fun. There's nothing with too much gambling unless it's not too healthy to yourself and the people surround you that's why gambling moderately.

Then you are not a responsible gambler at all because you are having such misconceptions because if you know what you are doing and dealing then surely the excessive gambling will come your way very often .

Remember that being a gambler we must be responsible in smallest details of our activities such as How much we must spend and how much we wanted to win.
if you can deal with those 2 then you will be determined as responsible and Good gambler.

In reality, although the OP does not express himself well, he points to a serious problem that problem gamblers have: the control of emotions. The one who bets and loses more than he should, knows that what he is doing is not right and that he should stop, but he has entered a kind of trance that drives him to continue.

Gambling requires controlling one's emotions we need to move forward with positive thinking. Those who go to casinos to gamble don’t know if they go to play to win I don’t think anyone in a casino goes to play to win money my guess is that some people might spend time and money going there to have fun if you are addicted you should not play for entertainment and you should correct the mistakes without getting frustrated even if there are risks. So the source of happiness of each person is the same.

There are several factors that usually a person gambles excessively, such as spending a lot of time in gambling even though only betting with a low amount but with him spending a lot of time then still, they gamble excessively. So in this case it's not just about money being spent excessively in gambling, because usually those who spend a lot of money in gambling will only gamble with a shorter time. Well, I think it's only about the ability of the gambler themselves, if they have a lot of free time and money that can be spent more then of course they will gamble excessively and usually this kind of gambler is an addict.

Do you feel compelled to gamble whenever you have free time?

If the answer to the above is yes, then you probably have a problem. I've seen friends who see gambling as a surefire way to make money and treat it almost as if it is a second job. Obviously, it is not, and more often than not these same people end up chasing their losses and losing more than they initially had planned.

Be brutally honest with yourself - are you gambling for the sake of fun, or the sake of making money? If the latter, you need to reconsider your strategy, potentially apply for self-exclusion schemes, or take a short break to adjust your mindset.

Are you asking about what's the point where you're gambling excessively? Well, that's pretty situational ngl. It all depends on the amount of money you actually get monthly, best to not include salaries and only include beer money stuff, but really it's up to you if you want to. It's all about financial management, and you'd pretty much be set with gambling while not losing much money. People only lose their money or rather their entire assets in gambling due to improper management. They exceed the set budget they have or don't really set a budget in the first place which is pretty stupid imo.

Take the time to actually manage your finance, it would help not only when you're managing your gambling budget but also for overall progress in your life whenever you want to buy something.

If you have been winning you wouldn't reflect whether you have wasted so much time in gambling. You would probably be drinking more wine, show how much you have won and buying things that you like. But if you have been losing a lot of money in gambling, you will at some point reflect sometimes you will even realize that you do owe some cash to a person which you have yet not paid even when you won a ton in the past weeks.

If you come to that point, maybe you have gambled excessively already, it is time to rethink what you have been doing.

This is a good example of what we call as 'gambler's fallacy' where gamblers think that by betting, they would be able to recover their losses.

Excess expenditures in gambling leads to a plethora of problems long-term. Without any self-discipline and control, a gambler would be put in a situation where all of his resources would be slowly depleted in the process.

This experience happened to my brother back when covid was still non-existent. He brought like $600 with him and he told me to stop him at all cost in the event he wins a single bet. To cut the story short, he lost $500 that night and blamed me for not stopping him (although I did).

It's like playing the lottery; you pay a small amount for a ticket in the hopes of winning the grand prize, but imagine buying tickets for almost 5 years and not winning a single time. If you've done that and bought a lottery ticket without missing it, you've gone overboard without even realizing it. We all know how difficult it is to control our emotions. We thought it was still okay, but it was really bad for us. Well, what I can say now is that if you are happy and it has no effect on your life or family, it is okay, even if you have a lot of money that you have lost.

Calm down mate, I know I've had an adventure gambling lifestyle in the past but this does not portray my current personality. Even though I've exhibited a wasteful addiction lifestyle in gambling, I still have past showing me my regrets which does not constitutes my success in life. Gambling is exciting and very much addictive especially if one is making it and things do not look really bad as it is with some persons. I know my guage and level of gambling which I always considered before taking a step.

It becomes excess if you start depositing money coming from your savings or money that you should spend for your bills, once money for gambling keeps adding up and bills are delated for payment, then we can conclude that you are spending too much time and money on gambling and we can call this excess in gambling and this is not good for your over all health and financial situation.

What will be more worse is that you start losing with his money which was needed to pay your bill and to pay for other day to day expenses. Once you will lose all this money, you will take loan to fulfill your needs and you may again gamble with that loan money, thinking that if you win this time, you will return the loan and also pay the expenses. People take this risk and unfortunately lose again making them bankrupt.

Don't make gambling control you, try to control the gambling, so it doesn't happen, it's too much.

I don't blame anyone else or myself, for getting involved in gambling, it's all on my will and will, without coercion, so I can control my time and finances, so I don't overdo it in betting and time.

In essence: gambling is allowed on the grounds of winning and losing, you can still control yourself in everything.

That is one of the most common mistakes made by everyone who becomes addicted to gambling. It's not a good idea to pursue your losses because it will often, if not always, make matters worse, such as if you're on a losing streak. If you think it's enough, stop because you've already lost a lot of money and it's not a good idea to spend the remainder hoping for a big gain. Make sure that your gambling activity is balanced, and that you keep track of your gaming budget so that you don't lose a lot of money. Always keep your emotions in check; if you allow them to consume you and you wind up betting without making a sound judgment, it will wreck your life.

Addiction is a diagnosable problem, but it doesn't affect most gamblers. Like many drink alcohol casually and easily don't drink at other times, there are many gamblers with all sort of attitudes that gamble for fun and have no problem stopping when needed. According to research on the US, only 1.5% of gamblers there are pathological, and 5.4% altogether belong to gamblers with mild to serious problems with gambling. So the vast majority of people have no problems with gambling.
If you're wondering if you're gambling too much or not, conduct an experiment: make a decision that you won't gamble at all for a week, and then see whether you can fulfil this promise to yourself. If you cannot (for whatever reason you come up with), you probably have a problem.

This is the biggest problem of almost every gamblers , because they only counts their winnings but care nothing about the calculation of their over all losses .

They even count their biggest wins but even if they tallied all the winnings they have is not enough to cover the losses.

Indeed , self discipline and control is what gamblers need to win , without those is always losing what they will encounter because we must understand that we need to buy some time to get out the casino when we already winning and never spend more time to lose.

which is excessive if you make a large loan to the bank for this or selling or pawn valuable and important asset such as a property or vehicle for this i think that is too much for gambling. the point is if you think your finances are still fine, it means you are still at your entertainment point in gambling. but if it makes a lot of trouble from anywhere like high debt that is excessive and very possible cause many problems.

Excess gambling is basically the definition of having a gambling addiction. Where a large part of your day can be spent either gambling or thinking about gambling, some people get so hooked on it that their brain is "rewired" to want it. There are two factors involved - the endorphins released when you're doing an activity you love, which was originally just about the rush you got from winning and the habits you form around betting. You might get into a routine of going down to your favorite betting shop or website, which can become almost robotic and repeated every day - chasing the original highs that you had from the first wins, but it just becomes a chore in reality.

Some people like to ride a bike, play pc or playstation strategy games all day, while others like to gamble. If gambling doesn't interfere with the important things in your life, I don't think it's abnormal. Obviously if you are in control of what you do thats fine. Just be careful because at some point it can change and you can become addited. So just try to keep it under control, take breaks from time to time and everything will be ok.

That will be a big No to search for a loan to the bank for just playing gambling because we need to repay that loan and we do not know if we will get our luck in the gambling games. If we have good finances, we should stay away from gambling because if we try to play gambling, I am afraid that can attract us to get deeper in gambling and make us use more money. Once we use more money, we can forget to manage the money for our life and it can make us become an addiction for a long time.

Most people don't make that calculation. When they win, they forgot the losses they had before. That's all that matters for them. Since you said "I gamble a lot" you already gave the answer yourself. Yes, you are addicted and you are gambling excessively. You should probably get some professional help.

If someone rides a lot of bike or plays playstation for a long time, does it have to mean that he is addicted? If someone gambles without money, but has been gambling for too long, is he addicted or does he just like to spend time like that?
In my opinion, spending a lot of time is not addiction, but of course it can be dangerous. Therefore, the best way to do it safely is to take breaks to see if we can control it.

I used to be in that situation and honestly it's one of the worst feeling if you can't control it because in my case it's impulse gambling. One of the best ways to make yourself aware is by having a spreadsheet or list of deposits and withdrawals you've made from every single casino so that you'll always see the overall losses. It might take a bit of effort from the start but on sports betting having a list helps a lot, even if you get distracted with other things that list will serve as a reminder.

This is an effort that someone almost getting to the stage of an addict will use to get out from it because an addict is totally out of control of his senses on gambling. He can only see possibility to win and will never consider lo losing. It is not easy to start putting down the amount used to gamble, remember a gambler is prone to drinking and getting drunk and may not have that kind of control to be in senses to make calculations.

Yep, can also recommend spreadsheets/lists.

They're great tools to keep track of everything gambling related IF you're willing to take the time to do make them. You'll learn tons of stuff you didn't know about your own gambling habits; from numbers of deposits/withdrawals per X amount of time, winnings/losses and size of your stake to discovering your gambling behaviour and how to spot mistakes you've made in the past and ways to improve in the long-term.

If it wasn't for a google spreadsheet i made a long time ago, i wouldn't have known i had a big problem chasing losses

The word "Addiction" usually has a bad meaning to it.

You can get addicted to smoking or gambling. Since playing PS for long hours is not the most healthy thing to do, you can get addicted to playing PS too. If riding your bike every day for long hours keeps you doing your daily work then It is a bad habit. (if you can find time to do your other stuff then it is not a bad habit)

Even though you are not spending any money, wasting your time on an online casino sounds like an addiction to me because you will miss the other important stuff like eating, peeing, sleeping.

You can get addicted to gambling without spending your time. If you are not wasting time, you are likely to waste money. That's another problem.

Setting limit to the amount you use to gamble can help in avoiding spending too much money on gamble. What about those who are addicted to gambling, do you think they can set limit to their spending on gamble? Some people always want to recover their losses, but end up spending all their money on gambling.

As long as they don't add more to what they deposit after losing, they are good. From time to time though they'd be back again because sometimes they just move to another casino and then spend another hundred there. It's another excess spending. I only hear the term excess spending on the women who abnormally shop using their credit card and then end up spending more than their limit.

But if this applies to gambler, that should be the description. Spending more than what they have deposited.

These things happened as soon as you don't have anyone to stop you and you really don't care about the loss you have made the other day. What comes next is the habit that will stick with you if you don't really know how to stop yourself. Addiction is a scary thing, not only are your wasting your money but you also abuse yourself while doing it. I'm sure lots of them won't even have any budget to buy the things they want, it all comes to one place where they need some capital to start betting.

Excessive gambling or compulsive gambling or sometimes called a gambling disorder is the uncontrollable urge in playing it despite the toll it gets you on your life, I guess if you are really saying that you play excessively into gambling then you have a gambling disorder and may need an expert's opinion with things if you may need to underwent rehab, or just a therapy to control that urge, is highly needed, but this kind of help will be possible if that certain person really is seeking proper treatment.

A person's initial interest in gambling is usually based on a high desire factor to increase the coffers of wealth in a short time, regardless of the various impacts that will occur, which have an impact on the social and economic aspects. The most obvious answer is only one "for the money" and you yourself often challenge it by asking:

* Do you continue to gamble until you have no more money left?
* Do you gamble only for entertainment as a diversion from stress, sadness or the hassles of life?

If gambling is considered to be a very excessive thing and only causes problems, then why do you gamble? It can be evasive and say that gambling did not start as a problem, however, the psychology of gambling will grow in you without realizing it which will later become bigger in your life.

In the psychiatric literature, even if there are no drugs or substances involved in gambling, you will still be drawn into it further. that way you will keep fighting, control your gambling and have to try many times to succeed before quitting.

Actually, I think that what makes it all redundant is your own greed. because basically can not blame who is excessive and who can hold your emotions to not continue gambling. it all comes down to your level of interest in continuing to play or pausing for a while and returning in a ready state of mind and feeling calm.

Simply put, when you gamble, what is the first thing that comes to mind? safety? and multiply capital in the blink of an eye? after all does not go according to plan you try again to keep losing opportunities. So it's up to you personally and how crazy you are to play to keep on gambling non-stop. if you can't, use your logical thinking, stop wasting time, energy, thoughts and money on things that can ruin the future.

whatever it is, if it's too much then it's not good
those who are still young often do not have the ability to manage time, they will forget time, money and also responsibility when curious about something, especially gambling

gambling is not bad when you are good at timing (stop when you win or run out of capital)
Even though you are young, you must already have responsibility for yourself. Your health, finances and family will be damaged when you excess gambling

almost in all cases, people suffering from addiction do not accept that they are addicted and that they need help from a doctor, in fact most think that the doctor who deals with addictions is just to treat crazy people and this is another big barrier that stopped people from being treated, in the countries like mine, someone saying you went to a psychologist, people soon turn away from you because they think you're crazy

It depends on individuals and their networth some one who earns $100 and gambles $70 can be said to be gambling excessively and out of control which might even tempt this gamblers to go as far as borrowing funds to gamble and if the can't meet up the start doing away with their properties. We can go on with so many scenario but the bottom line is that excessive gambling exist.

Compulsive gambling is a sign of gambling addiction and the gambler needs help to stop donating to the casinos. In the long term, the house always wins and the casino management has specific promotions to keep gamblers inside the platform. I don't think keeping yourself busy with something else will replace the entertainment in gambling, better to meet with someone from begambleaware team, IMHO.

In gambling, it's not about how much you win or lose at all. It is more on how are you controlling yourself to prevent more losses and secure more wins. There are people who are lucky enough to win huge prize pots in lottery and gambling but will literally blow all their money off in less than a decade because not only do they not know how to control themselves when gambling, they do not know how to take good care of their winnings as well and will literally spend it on everything that they can afford. When you gamble, self-control is the most essential thing that you can learn, without this, you'd be wasting all your winnings and will accumulate more losses. Plus it will literally send you to a spiral of addiction. Sound advice, you may also want to redirect the money you spend gambling to something that will help you better yourself, like therapy. People downplay the importance of mental health when it comes to anything when most of the times a poor mental health is what will cause you trouble. Keep yourself sane and safe. Not only for you, but for your family and friends too.

Spending $70 amount out of your $100 salary is already suicide or solid indication that you are already addicted with gambling.No one into their right minds on spending too much specially that there are things
which is more important than  gambling.

Anything which is excess not only limited to gambling is already giving out that kind of consequences ones it turns out to be messing out your life or after effects and you would realize
but its already too late.

Everybody should be on control so  that you wont really be ending up on a disaster.

You mean, excess fund gambling? I do sometimes . But those excess that I plat were only the profits I had withdrawn from my winnings on that gambling site. Believe me or not, I dont depositing my salary to gamble. I use only my winning profits, I do some forum challenges and that prize was the fund I use to play again.

Im not saying its not good to deposit some money using your personal money but if there is always an excess budget, who knows? Maybe you can triple that money.

Spending anything above 10 - 20% of your salary in gambling is suicide already, what more of 70%. Even 10% is more than enough imo. Even if we take into consideration that your salary is low, all the more reason why 10% should be the maximum amount you would use. That's your salary man, it's your main budget to living. If it was beer money, even if it was all I wouldn't complain, it's called beer money for a reason. Alot a budget that wouldn't hurt your current state of living as well as leaving space for improvements.

You can use the excess fund in gambling if you win some games. But if you lose, and you deposit more money into your account, that will be excessive for you because you will face a situation that can make you get losses in a row that you never imagine.

But it is good if you do not depositing your salary to gamble because I am sure your salary is enough for your daily needs. I am sure we are experienced having an excess budget but we need to know that it is better not to use that money for gambling than for other things.

I think it still has something to do with the character of each of us, sometimes it often happens, but there are also those who can manage their finances well even though they often touch gambling. And yeah, the level of addiction to gambling can also affect whether we will excess in gambling or not, I think it's better if we can control ourselves more with other activities besides gambling.

Crossing your budget limits is often termed as excessive gambling which could later on lead you to become a addict and it's hard to revive back again.There are many gamblers who gave their life for gambling in hope of winning huge amounts but it cost their personal and financial life at stake so yes it's all because of excessive gambling.You are not forced to play under any burden but stop limits are in hands of players as casino won't restrict you from playing vigorously but it's player responsibility to take all factors into look and play gently balancing his life and funds.

IMO net worth or how much you bet would not make the person an excessive better because someone can bet hugely once in a day, week, month or year that the amount for that one bet is bigger than the money used by a better who bets persistently and consistently. Do the focus should be how often the better does the better to be said a excessive gambling. An excessive gambler is someone who is always locked in a gambling house betting and the driving force about this for the excessive gambler is to win back loses.

The problem you're facing with gambling addiction is that it's really difficult to find a help especially if you are alone and it's also difficult to accept the fact that you are addicted. I have learned about this promotion that you're talking about, they even have no clocks in there to make the gamblers lose track of time and they also have a maze like structure so you will have a hard time getting out since you are on a maze.

Certainly, gambling has to be for fun, once you start setting out objectives or believing in mystical vibes or the karma aligning with you (even if that is actually a real thing, who knows) you may be overstretching yourself and putting yourself in situations you may regret. Much better to have a gambling budget and be disciplined enough to keep it that way. It should not be more than 5 or 10% of your income and no more than 20% - 25% of your disposable income. Above that, you are risking excessive gambling.

Aslo, it is much better if it forms part of a social activity with other people, rather than just spinning on your own.

Yes, spending 10-20 percent looks terrible. If the income is small, then this greatly affects consumption and the quality of life, and if it is large, then it turns out that if this 10-20 percent is redirected, for example, to the payment of a mortgage on a house, then in 15-20 years you can become the owner of an additional house. This is a good present for yourself, even better than winning at the casino.

That's another level of discipline if you ask me regarding the way that people controls their habit of gambling even though it's designed to be addicting. In my opinion, being excessive with gambling is obviously a bad thing but there are ways to prevent this kind of thing from happening.

Well, if we are talking about free gambling which doesn't exists, then you are definitely not addicted. "Free" gambling with fun tokens and all is simply gaming, there are a million stuff like that in the mobile gaming world, go open up your android phone and in the google play section you will find probably a million slot games with all kinds of different slots and designs and they are all free, you could still run out of game money and end up spending real life fiat to buy that game money if you want to, but you may prefer not to do that as well which would work.

Long story short it is not gambling, gambling in itself as a word means that you need to risk something for something and if you are not risking anything then it is technically not gambling. Which is why yes ALL gambling is addictive if you are doing it too much and you should avoid it.

I truly believe and totally agree, some people don't really realize that they are already addicted to it, this is just like porn addiction you think it is really OK but your actions are now louder and they already watching it in public, mostly their friends are the one that is seeing them doing such things, but we can not force them to take a rehabilitation or to seek professional health with the doctor, it should be involuntary,

In my opinion, you can surely enjoy and play gambling without being addicted to it, one should first be a responsible gambler and control your actions in the way you handle your money.

theres nothing wrong if your feeling positive when you gamble because gamble is built to entertain people or to make them feel positive but dont just expect too much that you will win everytime you gamble because that is not healthy anymore .
anything exceses in this world is also unhealthy . have you checked your wallet history ? that should made you remember if how money have you deposit  or check your personal gambling stats in the site your playing .

It is not a good thing when you gamble with more than what you afford.

People who cannot monitor how much they spend, they have to discipline themselves because it's needed for you to see how much you're putting when you gamble.

We have to be responsible because you don't have anyone to blame if that's the reason but only you.

^ It is clear that OP had the lack self-control which is the most important in gambling. We should put all limitations on gambling, your time and the money that spend on gambling should control under by you. Because if you don't have this, you gambling activity will the possible outcome is miserable life which is you will probably suffer nin a long period of time. Disciplining ourselves is sometimes worth it and give us a brighter future.

You would really be having a miserable life if you dont know on how to control up yourself not only in gambling but also even into your life decisions which would result into some things that you arent
expecting for it to happen.Excessive engagement or making it as a hobby would really turn out into addiction which would really be giving out that negative result or outcome in long term basis.
Everything should be in control if you dont like on ending up with those hard situations.No one doesnt wish to have miserable life but if you arent aware or minding about on your current
actions then you would really be having that kind of finish line.

I'm sorry but I don't understand why you want us to put "all limitations on gambling" and especially why you want us to limite our time spent on gambling? Who are you to say that? People are free to do what they like and to spend their free time the way they like. Do you say the same thing for trading activities?

No gambler who is very much hooked on gambling will confess and admit that he is gambling excessively they will deny it they will not even count their losses and brag their winnings and make their winnings their reasons to continue, it's the people around that will notice that he is gambling excessively but not the gambler themselves, it will continue until it's too late, when all their savings are used and their lives become misery, that's the time they will accept that they are indeed gambling excessively.

so dont be Stupid , because all of us also have the right to Give advices and if you are not welcome to that then don't read His post that's easy .

and besides he does not care about you but for those who are Rightful people that wanted their life to be more reasonable than spending Money and time in gambling.

If you want to gamble all your life then do it but dont be Stupid to question others opinion and advices because you only shows How Heartless human you are.


We are concern about our co Players here , We gamble but we know how to limit ourself and telling others to do the same is Worth a try than Doing nothing at all so Find your way and let us find ours . maybe we are both having the same feeling for others and we are here to gamble and Enjoy not like you that this is your life .

Excessive gambling isn't fun, except you always win, which is improbable. Once your budget is spent, that's it, it's time to stop.
Yeah, the urge is still there, but it's similar to control yourself so you don't eat too much meat and stuff. In the end, you are free to do anything you want, but remember that overspending your time and money doing useless stuff will halt your career progression, and in worse case, you can get a lot of problems.

Right, they can continue to gamble as long as they still have money to spend but unfortunately, being indisciplined like that will only make life miserable. Unlike the case if they do it from the winnings they get, it will still keep their finances under control. So in this case, at least they should limit their time in gambling when they have lost a lot, because if it continues or becomes excessively aiming to take what has been lost, then of course they will get a lot of trouble that will endanger themselves and even their families.

I'm sure there are, but they are very limited. I think even if a user admit that they are a bad gambling addict then it doesn't affect him at all although on many occasion I have seen many users try to advise users who are heavy gambling addict to control their gambling frequency a bit. I agree that excessive gambling will only cause a lot of problems for gamblers and I believe they are no longer gambling for fun but rather chasing wins and recovering previous losses. Gambling non-stop is also not recommended, I think gamblers also need a break.

Winning always is far from reality lol, there are no gambler that ever win forever unless a cheater .

Gambling tend to Win in favor of the operator and not for the gambler , though there are lucky gamblers that come to win mostly than losers.

I have known a person that use gambling to make his family  well fed and in luxurious life .

I don't think that anyone likes excess gambling except for the gambling houses, they want addicted people to play because they want money after all. For me and I assume here everyone else, anything in excess is bad no matter how good you are feeling with it because in the end you will not enjoy it anymore since it's become all too common for you to do it alone.

Non-stop gambling oh wow! how much money will it burned by doing that?

There are people who engaged themselves to this activities without any limitations, the thing that will stop them is when everything already burned out, what happened after will only realized once regrets of losing a lot already taking place.  That's a big problem and only those who are willing to admit are capable of helping themselves to solve this kind of problem

With what you said here, I think you need to have some financial learnings or else you will not be one of the people out there who will grow old without any savings or investments or the like.
Maybe this scenario that you said happened years ago so there maybe is a bit of a change with regards to you spending your money. My advice is save and invest and not invest into other people that will not give you any benefits aside from happiness.

Now with regards to excessive gambling, there is a time where gamblers really spending too much time and money to the point that they are too excessive already when they are gambling. There are some points where gamblers really want to gamble even though they don't have any money on their pocket anymore. They will do something just to have money. Some borrowing and some do bad things unfortunately. Is there anything we can do about it? None at least for me unless you have a friend or a relative that is gambling excessively. As for me, let them experience the worst things that gambling can give and there will be a time where they will realize their wrongdoings.

Playing excessive gambling is not a good thing and should not be done, because not only gambling, everything if done excessively in my opinion is
not good. Of course casino owners will like addicted gamblers, because they will spend all the money they have at the casino. That would bring in
a lot of money for the casino, but would create problems for gamblers. Actually we who like to play gambling, must always remember playing
gambling is only entertainment, and if playing excessive gambling will not make us entertained. There we will be more stressed, because it will
definitely experience financial problems. Therefore get used to limiting our gambling time, so it can be avoided not to overdo it in gambling.

Well there are some people also that plays with excess either intentionally or not yet they do it for their own pleasure .
But of course House is always the winner on this matter because the more you play is the more they earn as more or less we will lose and only few will win.
If only all gamblers has this attitude surely there will no becoming addicted soon.

When you put more of the budget than what you actually have set, you're into excessive gambling and that's going into addiction. Well, yeah, there is not that much difference as it's going there.

We all knew that anything that's in excess is bad for us, in health and mentally. But you'll always get to see those gamblers that have always been in excess when they gamble. Excess in funds, excess in gambling time and as they gamble, they're enjoying more to stay because they've been hooked by it.

Only addicted gamblers will chase losses because we know that we will never win against the house in this matter.
What? Nonstop gambling? lol even billionaire is taking rest because there is no unlimited luck.

I don't think anyone like excess gambling because like everything else in life which is in excess is harmful.Even if we eat a lot of bread it can be harmful for us while we know that eating bread is a good thing,same principle applies to alcohol,if you drink a lot you lose your conscience but if you like going out at night and just drink a Jagermeister this does not lead to bad things.The same is for gambling,when you play excessively you are becoming an addict gambler and we all know the consequences of such act and it can lead to lose the serenity of one's life.

Anything that has "too" is not good, especially gambling, because that can make us lose too much money. Sometimes, we will not see the loss because we enjoy the game but the other people will see how big we already lose the money. When we play excessively, our adrenaline can increase high and that can trigger our tension higher too. And if we can not control ourselves, the worst thing will come after that without we realize. Gambling addiction will be the thing that we can get in the end, which will not be easy to solve.

I must say most of the gamblers do play gambling a lot, like they always go beyond their budget just to chase their losses which lead often to more losses until they play gambling like crazy, you know what I mean. And any excessive plays could be called addiction, because you're willing to play even more whether you lose or win, the only important to you is you keep on playing and doesn't even care about what's gonna happen.

And then you'll never be able to stop it, unless someone told you to do so because you're going way too far from your normal gambling playing method.

I mean that's like the mantra for anything, too much is bad and too little can sometimes be bad. I think no one in this thread likes excessive gambling because I feel like everyone here is financially smart enough to not lose all their money in gambling.

Therefore, addicts are very vulnerable to instability in emotional control when gambling. What crossed his mind was only to catch up, but it was really difficult to give advice to those who were already addicted. The rest that gamblers do is identical to forcing the remaining funds and spending them without calculation from the start.

Sometimes the order is reversed - at first a person loses serenity in life (some health problems, with family, with the country - there are many cases when nothing depends on us) and after that, having lost the reason to control himself, he is overly carried away by something. And I can say that excessive gambling is not the worst of the addiction options.

If we are talking about serious addiction, the addict has no way of stopping... He simply has no control over his actions until he loses all his money, and even after that he will find a way to satisfy his addiction! It is inappropriate to say here that "everything must be in moderation"! In such a case, he need professional help!

Of course quite a lot, but it depend on how they gamble.

It is never good for anyone to gamble beyond their financial mean. Gambling should have control although sometime we really know that it is much easier said than done. Based on what we have seen from previous experience of gamblers, it is best for anyone not to gamble beyond their financial mean.

When people began to tell you that you are gambling excessively this is a big warning sign to take heed, you are not aware of the time and the money you are spending because you are enjoying it and you sometimes can recover your losses but not all the time, but the people around you can see that.
Excess in gambling is dangerous and should not be tolerated if you have a family with showing excess gambling take all the means so he can minimize his gambling to the extent of going to a professional.

That is what makes addictions so dangerous, the person does not realize they are getting addicted since it is a slow process that takes time and they slowly increase the time and money they invest in this activity, however a friend or family member can tell very clearly that something has changed and can tell there is something wrong, the problem is that you cannot force people to want to stop, the desire to get better needs to come from withing and unfortunately there are some people that never escape that hell and ruin their lives in the process.

Well, It is really not wrong, the feeling of positivity in playing gambling, but it is always good that we become a responsible gambler, even though you are playing really good or positive in winning you can never be wrong or be an excessive player when you always play responsively,

And yes a daily check on your wallet history or gambling stat can surely remind you of your loses and wins and how much money you have left in playing gambling,

Gambling addiction and losing much money will be avoidable if you really want to play gambling with care.

Anything beyond our ability is excess gambling. We gamble with the hope of winning big, but slowly we'll understand it is true with the lucky people and not for all. People easily get addicted when they focus much into gambling for their earnings.

Most of the time gamblers who doesn't take money as an account for gambling wins. This is all because of the fearless way of betting which isn't possible with the small gamblers. Myself have experienced fearful excessive gambling at different occasions and sometimes I don't even sleep thinking of the loses.

Two things they could be enjoying the game or they are trying to recover their losses, if they are doing this for fun and they are putting only excess money, there's nothing wrong with this, but if they are neglecting their homes and they are losing money then excess in gambling is on it's worse and should be dealt with immediately, this is dangerous it's bad for mental health and financial status.

Indeed, when playing gambling, we must have positive feelings, so that we can enjoy when playing gambling and that can also reduce stress.
But it is better to carry out regular checks regarding the gambling statistics that we have done, so we can control ourselves when gambling.
We are afraid that we will become addicted if we play excessive gambling, later we can not only lose a lot of money, but it can ruin our personal life.
Therefore it is important to be careful in gambling, always control ourselves, to avoid gambling addiction.

Are u referring to  gambling addiction or you are looking at something completely different? Because what I understand about your post is pointing at gambling addiction except you mean otherwise

Without knowing the amount of time and money, we can have the worst experience in gambling as we do not see how much money we already lost. It is okay if they excess money to playing gambling, but never put another money if you lose because of wanting to chase or recover the losses because that can not work for you. Even if you can recover the losses, you should not continue playing the other gambling games and consider stopping as soon as possible before it becomes too late for you.

This will happen if you don't count the money you brought and continuously cast your bets on casinos, I don't agree that its ok to excess  your capital since this is somehow how addiction start and you will end up being addicted without you  personally notice it and continuously play  as  gambling is a  part of your  daily routine.   We should really not  to continue if  we  are losing  to much or get another money to take revenge and bet again.

That's the irony there.

People always know that gambling is indeed risky and could destroy your life if you play too much every day with the amount of money that goes beyond to your daily limit. But why are they still doing it? the reason why behind those actions is either because of greed (if you're winning and losing) or frustration, pride as well (if you're trying to win back everything you've lost).

So it's just looping every single day and then you'll regret it in the end because what you did was basically a careless decision.

Based on my gambling experience so far, I can gamble for hours when I have more money. It's not really how bad my addiction is, but somehow I can't just stop when I have more money despite having to admit defeat in the end. This habits of gambling doesn't seem right, but I'm sure I'm never alone. There are many other gamblers who have worse gambling habits and it really depend on how much money they have.

Yes, but the thrill of winning gambling is much bigger than having to be disappointed and lose. That's what heavy gambling addict actually experience in my opinion.

The good part is you still know what you are doing, unlike OP which is having trouble defining what is happening to him.
I don't really gamble that much. I just input my bets for the day and let it be.
Check it back the next day even though I know what I already won or lost.
Gambling is supposed to bring fun to the table and not give you more problems in the long run.
That's what I just do and I am glad until now I neither have a problem about it nor my wife.  ;D

Initially you don't have any idea about your gambling and your net from gambling is zero but when you start to make bets then either younwill be in profits or loss and the beauty is on both cases you are going to bet again, let's take you are in decent profits so you won't be thinking about stopping your bets and at the same time if you are in loss but your mind will keep pushing you to recover the loss for that you are going to keep betting.

To make it short his issue is indeed gambling addiction but his case isn't that severe since he only said sometimes. OP just wanted to know when to stop since there are times you want to play a "few rounds" then you slowly lost track of time as that "few rounds" lasts for an hour or two.

I think it's more about the realization because when you're gambling you always know the amount of money you're spending but it doesn't hit you until you start losing.

Yes, you are right. Many gamblers tend to deposit more money in the next hours when they lose their money before making that mistake by playing the other games with your money in the casino. They know that they already lose the money before, but that does not stop them from taking a break. Yes, the addicted will come to them and it does not take too long if they do not realize the mistake. But maybe they really need to reduce their time playing gambling and do not use gambling for their daily routine if they can not control themselves.

That is why, before we gamble, we need to determine how much money we will use and never try to break the limit because we will not realize how much money we already lost. I am sure we have a will to stop ourselves before it is too late to realize.

basically gambling is a pretty bad thing to do, but for some reason many people can't leave it ;D, unlike you, I personally prefer gambling for fun and spending only a few dollars on a game, because honestly I don't want to spend all the money I have to gamble and it's better for me to limit the money I carry in gambling games so far, as a gambler we should be able to manage our money so that even if we lose in gambling, it will not affect our finances our family.

Responsibility is always needed when playing gambling, people sometimes tend to just keep on playing without any second thought that they possibly don't have any money anymore,

but in my opinion, playing positively sometimes is not helpful at all I really think what is really needed is playing with an open mind I think the awareness is likely the best partner you will be needing, in playing with risk, and aware that you still have enough money to play.

Do not overdo it if you're not confident on your self-control when it comes to your money. It will be damaging to you in the long run since you are not aware of how much time you are spending and how much money you are depositing every gambling session that you have. There will come a time that you will be so hooked in gambling that everything else will be affected. Get some time outside of your computer and spend some time doing other things to sway your mind off of gambling.

The best practice is just  to deposit the amount that you are capable of losing,

the mindset that you are just paying for your enjoyment and nothing should excess from that. If you win then feel lucky going out enjoying with good decent amount of money, while if you lose also to go out with a smile thanking that your lust of playing  being paid.

I've been saying this to people, but I also understand the feeling people have when they see constant losses and they don't accept these losses and start trying to run to recover from the losses and in this process the addiction starts and they start making loans in a way unrestrained to continue playing with the hope of recovering the losses they had, Is a sad situation.


the problem is that people do it at the beginning but when the money runs out they put back in more money they can afford to lose, but the money runs out again and they put back in more money and this time they use money that was to buy other things or else make debts

This is only the thing we do need which is to have limit and wont go even higher on the amount that you do allocate for gambling because if you do then this is where problem do rise up.

A solid indication that you are already addicted to gambling when you  are spending too much time and money on it.Its not bad to play as long you do have the limitation and control

because if you do forget this basic thing then you would really be having a hard time on correcting yourself or getting rid of addiction.

And being someone who has gone through all this I can tell you it only takes a little time to go from having a good job, a decent bank balance and a happy family to going bankrupt and everyone leaving you alone to suffer. Just make sure to take a few days off from gambling and see how you react to it. If you don't feel a difference at all, then you are good and may continue gamnbling. If you feel lonely and lot of spare time and feel you have nothing to do, then sorry but you might have an addiction to gambling.

Excessive gambling and addiction are two very different things though. Gambling too much when you have friends around and it's a festival or something like that where you have just too much time and money to spend which you planned, there is no problem at all. Addiction is when you avoid things to create space for gambling.

Most time gambling always has a spirit that will keep telling you that your chances of winning a bet is high inducing gamblers to gamble more without knowing the frequency of their gambling. If excess gambling is addiction so why are gamblers able to reduce or stop their gamblers frequency without any stress. Sometimes my excess gambling is due to me not being conscious about my gambling activities or if I've been having consistent profit in gambling, always ready to gamble more.

Gambling in general is not bad, it is just another form of entertainment in which we spend some money, it can only become a problem when people keep doing the activity in a compulsive way to the detrimental of other activities and aspects of their lives, but that can happen with everything as people get addicted to all kind of behaviors, this is why we must always be on our guards as we do not want to become addicted to anything as once you reach that stage getting out of it is incredibly difficult.

Can we say excess gambling is gambling addiction? I won't agree with that cause one can be gambling frequently or over gambling especially if profits is being made and not still addicted. Being addicted to gambling entails a lots of factors that is needed to be put into consideration. Gambling without self control can be term as addiction while the contrary is excess gambling. Excess and addiction might seems somehow close but are quite different in context and usage.

Bad only is on when people do tolerate their greed and become addicted with it and theres no one should be blamed of but only theirselves because they do let gambling do overcome
them and control their greed and play even more and risking out their finances without even minding on what would be the potential effects that it could give into their lives.
Anything on this world when it is already excessive is always been bad.Always be mindful that everything should be in control and not on that excessive side so that
you wont really be experiencing unfortunate events.

Is losing money frequently in gambling be termed as excess gambling? What of if a gambler so make consistent profits from gambling increasing the pace at which gambling occurs, could it be called excess gambling too? Cause you are only point at the dangers of gambling when a gambler accumulates so much debts that leads to misfortune at the end of the day. Let's generalize it whether a gambler make consistent profits or losses.

The odds in gambling are only you can multiply your money or just lose it. must be ready to accept whatever happens. but also overplaying it will affects the way people think about earning money. just ask people who have never gambled. are they willing to risk their money to get more? not all want to do that. But some people with gambling mindset are brave take risks.

But we know that a gambler can not make consistent profits from gambling rather than losing their money constantly if they deciding playing longer than usual. Maybe if we play longer can cause us to use excessive money to gamble or it could be if we playing gambling excessively, that can make us losing a big money without we realize. But when we do something by excessively, that will not good for us because that can give impact for.

You are correct; it is the same with the lottery; you may think you are only spending a few dollars, but when you add up all of your expenses in purchasing tickets, it adds up to a large amount that you are unaware of because it accumulates over time. As we can't control our emotions, we sometimes win and sometimes lose a lot of money when we play casinos. Unless you are a professional gambler, you will not be able to consistently win or earn money. All I have to say is that let's just play for fun.

There is nothing in playing gambling that wins or loses consistently and there is only playing with consistency, what we must realize is that playing gambling in the long term will cause more losses than wins.
because unknowingly you will increase the stakes because you play with emotions and cannot control yourself, and that is tantamount to playing excessive gambling which will make you lose more and even though there are some wins without you knowing you lose more.

We know gambling games are really fun to play with, the fact that you're enjoying the game plus a chance to earn is really addicting. But yes its not right to gamble without self control because it can lead to more problems, thus as early as possible it would be better to set a limit on how much money you'll going to spend in gambling and its a must to have discipline. If a gambler is aware that he might lose control for some reasons then much better to stay away and not try to gamble anymore.

Good advice though. Yes when you are interested in gambling, separate a amount but should have control over your budget. Once the budget gets over, have self control until the next turn. If one does not fallow this, he will certainly face many problems. He might loose his money, face mental issues from addiction and obviously this will lead into family clash. Though self controlling would be really challenging, it would yield a satisfying life style.

This is usual once we feel pumped to win.

We don't realize we are now beyond our limit and even we realized it, we will ignore it since we want to continue. To prevent it, there's no other way than to force ourselves to stop.

But it's not wrong to continue despite we are now on the limit as long as the money that will be used will not affect our financial priority in life.

If you are a type of person who do really get easily pumped into something and wont able to realize on what are the actions that you had done then for sure you would really be having a hard time

on solving out possible addiction situation in the future.Nothing on this world to be good when you are already on that excessive side of things specially engaging into something like gambling

then it would turn out to be that really giving you problems in terms of finance if this thing do happens.Always have in control and don't tend or make yourself to be that greedy on doing gambling.

To control your spending, deposit only what you can afford to lose. And once that bankroll is empty, it means, time to pause your gambling. Don't think that you have other money to spend to, because it might be your funds for monthly bills. For me, don't ever gamble your money needed for basic needs. Set aside or pay bills first before gamble. Hard to trust your own self when you are already deep in the game.

Both of you are right. From both of you, I should say that limiting our time in gambling will help us to manage the emotion and money and will be able to prevent more losses. The emotional factor will become bigger in the long run, especially if we have experience winning many times so we will have a passion for winning more. Maybe it is enough if we can win but to continue playing gambling, I will say that it is better to stop before it is too late to realize. The losses will become bigger in the long run but some gamblers tend not to think about that instead will think that they will get more opportunities to win. But the fact, the losses will come to them without them realize.

Less exposure, less greed because the moment you gamble everyday you became more greedy and you forgot to control yourself so its really not good to gamble all the time, better to have time limit always and set up your gambling schedule.

Too much is not good in gambling, it can make things worst and if you didn't pay attention to that greed, you can expect yourself on a losing streak and later on you'll feel bad because you lose a lot of money. Gambling should be more fun, so don't take this seriously everyday and just gamble if you want to have fun.

Not really a time limit, a budget should be more efficient imo. Too much isn't that bad, it doesn't necessarily give you a losing streak, could give you a winning one and honestly if you did, feel free to continue. It's money won anyway. Just like in trading, as long as you don't go into negative, I'd reckon that you can still keep going (though if your goal was to earn, then really, stop lmao). YOu said it yourself, it should be fun, so why should they stop when they could still gamble with no loss right? And even if they did use up their entire funds, that was a set budget for you to use to play anyway, no hurt done imo.

I disagree. Whenever something is done too much it always goes to a bad scenario. I can use my own experience as an example when I gamble what I worked for with a signature campaign. Let's say I loss 50k sats and want to win it back, yes you can win it back but something tells you there must be a little profit before you end the game. It's fun at start but it gets stressful if it goes too long. You just want that little profit but yet cannot achieve it until it just goes back and forth and you are already wasting more time instead of just doing something else. It's not just money being wasted and then you are starting to have a bad temper.

No gambler likes to lose, usually for those who are addicted to gambling, of course without realizing it they will continue to play it so that it becomes excessive, even though the losses accumulate but there is a feeling that brings them back to the gambling table, even if they have to go home with empty pockets.

This is a common case for all the gamblers. Because, once you get into the excitements of gambling then you will start forgetting about everything which includes your budget and hours for gambling. Even gambling houses are not ready to alter us about excessive gambling in terms of funds or duration. Because, when you are into gambling for longer hours, their chances for higher profits is more.

Like experts do suggest always, only when gamblers feel their responsibilities there will be the chances for "regulated gambling". In an unrestricted environments, we cannot expect gamblers to be disciplined and responsible.

Although the causes of excessive gambling cannot be explained simply but usually excessive gambling is caused by not being able to control the structure and style of the game being played, so they will continue to place bets even though they are aware that in the long run they will lose rather than win.

Most of the time gamblers loss everything after trying to recover back portions of their bankroll.

In your case, it's good if you only waste time and the bad temper that being brought after playing longer than expected, it's more stressful if instead of winning back you completely lose everything inside your bankroll, that kind of regrets that combines with frustrations, something that will make you more irritated.

It could also be depression because people that have depression try and and find stimuli and gambling can give them their need which they continue to chase because they want to alleviate the dread that their feeling. Addiction is a big reason for excessive gambling too, it's a total lose of self-control.

Many new gamblers turn become excessive in playing gambling and can not control themselves. That is because they can not stop as soon as possible from gambling and consider playing for more to win. Or they play from one game to another and stop in one game because they win for some rounds. But if they decide to play longer, they will see the losing streak will come to them. We got so many lessons from other gamblers who get losing their money and we do not have to be like them if we really care about our funds.

I think the self-control problem is already present even before they have started gambling, excessive or compulsive gambling can sometimes be behavioral so they really have no control unless they have willpower to stop the problem himself and accept help from other people, if they don't, things will only get worse.

But we know playing gambling without self-control can ruin our day because we will play excessive or compulsive gambling, as you say. I think we already see many cases around us, whether it is related or not related to gambling and when that things become excessive, that can impact badly on us. At least, trying to learn self-control will help us in any situation and in gambling, we can prevent ourselves from getting more losses.

The problem with self control for gambling is that you have to deal with everything that goes wrong you can't control yourself if the gamblers become more addicted to winning they will lose everything and become exhausted gambling has long been considered a compulsive behavior rather than an addiction.  Many people still refer to it as compulsory gambling the practice of excessive, gambling is similar to drug addiction the biological processes that take place in the brain create feelings of excitement and achievement. This requires understanding the situation and having the ability to control yourself.

Optimism, in the beginning, is normal especially when we're all excited to play and gamble but since gambling isn't about winning all the time, our outlook could also change when we experience losses which is part of it. Being too carried away by our emotions could lead us to wrong decisions so we must learn how to control ourselves when it comes to gambling. We should know when to stop and when to continue.

Whenever it is about money, when it is lost it usually brings many problems, unfortunately things are like that, otherwise it is if it is won, because with money you will never have problems, in terms of addiction it is something that is very difficult to measure, the brain will always seek to win at any opportunity, the best for this is to always put a capital willing to lose, that is, not to seek to win, on the contrary, using it just for fun, is like taking it as a vacation where it will always be spent and will not enter nothing If this is done with those rules or protocol, it is the only way that the person does not go into addiction, the first symptom of addiction is not accepting that they have the problem and they refuse, while that happens the person will try at all costs Winning what you have lost and this brings many more failures because it will become a much bigger problem, there are people who lend money just to use it to bet and play, they are bad decisions, this happens because of not having an action planation and protection.

When you gamble with no limitation about time and money to use, I will call it an excessive gambling attitude. This clearly indicates that you cannot control yourself, how can you have no limitation there? Even you are a gambling lover or a fanatic gambler, you should know how to control yourself. Be smart and discipline in gambling, guys! It won't be a fun activity anymore if you become an addict and losing everything because of gambling excessively.

Even rich people  does have limitation although it would vary on how a rich person and average one would really differ in terms of betting habit and duration which is understandable but talking about limits then there's
no such thing about unlimited fund.If you are rich but dont have that kind of self control then sooner or later you would really be sleeping on the streets.

We've seen lots of instances on where people get wrecked totally by gambling addiction and this is in the result of engaging too much time and money with it which people should really be aware or else you would really know
the consequences later on.

Excessive things arent just only talking about gambling addiction but also in other forms of addiction as well which should really be controlled properly.

Common people have an understanding that rich people never think anything about the money. They just gamble as they wish, but the reality is different. They have the limitations as mentioned above. If they don't have the limits set, for sure he/she is gonna sleep on the streets. This can be understood by different real life stories. Maybe somewhere lucky to go from street to mansion out of gambling. Those were very rare instances.

I think excess gambling is too much of gambling,which turns to become addiction.When one does not do any other thing in life,but to gamble makes it become excess.These people tend to abuse gambling,because gambling is suppose to be a fun you catch when you have extra cash at your disposal,but some people make it a hobby which is bad and excess.

Having control of ourselves will always help us manage everything necessary for gambling, including managing our money and controlling our greed. But we know that many gamblers somehow lose their control and become greedy in the first and second winning. Instead of stopping gambling right away after winning the money, they enjoy and still continue playing gambling. In the end, they will not see their winning but only their losing, making them desperate.

I agree that "too much" is not good in gambling because that can lead us to the abyss of destruction in gambling. We have time to decide to stop or continue and if we have control, we will select stop as soon as possible before it is too late.

Yes, when a person is not active in other activities in socializing and only spends his time gambling then of course, this person is excessive or addicted to gambling. Excess in gambling are those who are addicted, I think it is very clear when you just spend more time each day gambling then it is excessive gambling or have become a gambling addict. It doesn't matter what the results are, because even though you only use a little money in every bet you make but you do it regularly every day, then it's clear that you are part of a gambling addiction or something excessive.

sometimes it is much better to not having big funds because at least we have no option to play longer and become addicted.
not like those who have plenty of money that by chance becoming a loser and turns become addicted and total loser.

The conclusion is that everyone who is an adult is free to play gambling, the most important thing is not to let gambling interfere with other activities.
Because the main purpose of playing gambling is to get entertainment, playing gambling should indeed be limited and play only in spare time.
If we spend time every day playing gambling, it means we have gambled excessively, because it can interfere with our other activities.
If this is allowed to make us addicted to gambling, the result will not only experience financial problems, but our lives can be problematic.

Many gamblers are carried away by their emotions and leads them not to realize that playing gambling for a long time can bring them losing their money. We have already seen many examples, but some gamblers can not learn from the other mistake and still playing longer. They get trapped because of themselves and still playing gambling excessively and they will no need too long to see they will lose their money. Yes, we must know that gambling needs to be handled with care.

Something that might have exemptions,

If you keep playing and you spend lots of time but you are capable to utilize your bankroll something that not everybody can,
gambling if too much engagements ended up mostly to addiction.

In your case, you are saying that even you spend a lots of time but not losing amount out from your budget, most of the time, if you use more time you'll ended up losing a lot, to the point that you keep adding more, instead of enjoying you find your self frustrated, result is not always going to favor you.

if we think in the real direction it is probably a reflection of yourself because everything that is done by each person tends to be different, as well as in gambling everyone has a different perspective depending on the person himself.
because if we look at people who gamble it can actually be said to be in 2 categories.
the first is people who gamble who only fill their spare time and in this category they gamble in their spare time which can only fill boredom due to work or others and they are not affected by addiction or anything else.
and the second is gambling for profit and here are usually those who are already at a different level or can be said to be pro in gambling and they have calculated and planned well in terms of capital and plans to place bets where and the profit target to be obtained.
and in the case you made in your thread i think it is amateurs who don't pay attention to it and i think it is stupidity that should be changed for gambling using lust and greed

Yep, that's why good self-control and limitation are necessary for gamblers. The number of money owned by someone should have a limit, can be discharged without residual. Even a rich person, it is possible to lose all their money if he doesn't limit the amount of money for gambling. He may gamble with bigger and bigger amounts of money to catch the lose, and finally lose everything by gambling with emotion.

Self control is a must if you don't like to mess up your life in terms of financial since this had been a primary problem of most gamblers when they do get addicted.They do really end up on spending money

which is more that on the amount that they could afford to lose until they had compromised their life savings and investment.Even on real life things where excess could really be harmful and that's why we

should really be watchful for that because if we don't like for it to happen then we should be mindful on every actions we do make.

Not only mess up our life or be addicted, gambling with no limitation probably lead us to end our gambling journey too early. How we can gamble if we have no funds anymore? Some gamblers may ask for loans, but it cannot be the solution. Once the loan money also runs out (depleted) and no longer places to ask for loans, then the problem even will be more complicated. Trust me, gamblers should have limitations both for the funds and time to spend on gambling!!

your life, your control you have to remember that.  If you can't control your gambling passion, it will be very difficult for you to win.  when you eat or drink too much, your body will be badly affected because of the effects of being excessive.  manage your gambling time and funds and stop immediately after losing, do not borrow money to continue your gambling.

Yes, there is something called "excess gambling". This is when people keep on gambling and avoid their main responsibilities. Anything excess isn't good for anyone. You eat too much, its not good. You drink too much, its bad. You work too much. Not good for your health at all. In the same way, gamble too much even if you can afford, its going to affect your life negatively. You should keep this in mind, any kind of addiction can kill anyone.

My first thought is just the same: excessive is when you cannot control what you are doing, or at least have a good degree of control, and that is causing  problems in your life. But on a second thought, I think that some people could actually go beyond what is reasonable and for their particular circumstances they do not feel adverse effects on their life - e.g. they have enough assets to cover the losses or do not have a family that depends on them. Still, they may be gambling excessively.

Excessive acts would really be always the result on having no good self control into things not only on gambling but also in other things as well on where it does need up some awareness about the risk behind.

You can deal with everything but of course it would really be needing some limit because everything which is excess would really be harmful into individual.It would mainly affect depending on situation or basis.

Gambling could be harmful if you do make yourself get addicted, not literally but in terms of finances which would really be put up in big risk.

Although no big correlation between self-control and winning, controlling the excessive desire surely can make us gamble properly at least. Winning may have complex factors, not only self-control. However, self-control is one of the factors that play important roles.

This is a good attitude to apply when we gamble on a daily basis. If in one day all funds for gambling are over, just stop it immediately. Just come back again to gamble tomorrow. There is no need to force continuing gambling by using other funds or even take a loan from our family members or close friends. It will harm us, loaning is a bad idea for sure.

You wont really be needing to battle yourself if you dont have that intent on the first place when it comes on making money because gambling cant really be considered to be a source of income which most people

been trying to seek or prove of,which in result that they do spend more than on the amount that they could afford to lose and theyve done it on excessive manner which in the end of the day there's nothing

that would be left into their pocket and this is where problem do rise on where they dont have something to spend out of their purses or wallets. Anything excessive is always bad.

The question is why people spend excessive in gambling ? I think it is the greed. People know that if they are lucky they could make a lot of money in very les time so they put extra money in gambling to get rich more quickly. However they should realize that people lose more often than winning.

Unfortunately the greed in them, does not let them think that other scenario and when they lose their all money, they are just left crying.

That’s more difficult than it sounds  :D
 
That’s why I’d suggest people not do gambling “on a daily basis” at all. When you do something daily it becomes a habit, and habits are hard to let go of (paradoxically, even harder for better educated and disciplined people, that’s why such people are also in the risk group, not only reckless, as many believe). And habits grow into addiction.

The best option here is prevention. I don’t think anyone should gamble daily, or schedule it, e.g. once every 3 days. Just do it whenever you feel like it, sometimes daily, sometimes a week-long break. In such a case, the probability of developing an addiction is significantly reduced.

Yes, greed will be with those who want to get more money from gambling. If they realize and see that will not always happening in gambling, they will not try hard, instead only playing gambling without any intention. But it seems that many people out there can win from gambling, which attracts them to try their luck. It will be okay if they start with control of themselves. Otherwise, they will not have a chance to manage their money and will only lose it in many gambling games. The greed will make them disappointed for some time, but that does not make them stop gambling because they always think that they will tell their luck to win some money next time.

I have watched several twitch streams of people gambling and some channels that I follow the guys are good at what they do and play for quite a long time and at the end of the day they don't always win but overall have remained profitable.

Maybe yes maybe no, If you are going to gamble for a long time and not be profitable then we could say that's excess gambling which changes to chasing your losses but if you win most of your games that's never going to be excess gambling.

This is a very important factor, money must be owned, but in reality, things like this for some people are quite difficult to do because often the initial intention is like that, but after they lose and lose their money, the first thing they feel is not solving it. but instead add to the load because of their greed and lust.
sometimes things like this often happen not only for gambling addicts but some people have felt the same way :)

Not knowing the time and the amount you wager or you bet is an indication of a addiction to me since you are not aware of what that simple thing and you are too focused in gambling soon you might even know that you already lost a big amount of money and probably you will realize that you can't even live without gambling.

In a person subject to gambling addiction, it is as if a demon and an angel are fighting all the time.  Well, the demon or Satan says: "play, play more, more ...", the angel says: "change your mind, stop ... You will lose everything ... You will regret ..".  And what should such a person do if such a struggle is going on in his brain all the time.  So after all it is quite possible to go crazy.  Here, of course, first of all, it all depends on the willpower to say "no" to Satan!  Unfortunately, not everyone has such willpower.  And then the person turns into a gambling addict and he should already be treated, because this is already a mental illness.  In some countries (for example in the UK) there are even rehabilitation centers for such patients.

Easier said than done. That is what I can say with that "manage your gambling time and funds".

That is a good attitude indeed but it is often not used by most of the gamblers because of the fact that they can't control themselves especially when they are winning. Winning and losing can change your gambling habits depending on the situation. One day you might win and because of that you might become greedy and will gamble more or on the other hand, one day you might lose and because you can't control yourself you will do anything just to recover your losses.

There is nothing wrong with borrowing money with your relatives as long as you know how to pay it. What's wrong is that you are borrowing huge amounts of money and yet you can't pay it.

This is the most difficult problem of gambling addicts. 
They are told many times by their parents or relatives - hey!  let's finish your games, stop spending family money ... "And such a person cannot cope with himself and stop playing. But his relatives simply do not understand that it is almost impossible for him to quit playing, because relatives are often not so strong  addicted to gambling and think it's easy. Such situations often become a source of family conflicts and can even lead to tragic consequences. Sometimes the efforts of relatives to make the gambler get distracted - go in for sports, read books, finally watch movies, etc., do not help at all.  I must say that being distracted from the game, the gambler does not feel well, but only waits for the film to end in order to run back to the game table.
Nobody really knows how to humanely solve this problem.

I strongly agree with you.

The best option is prevention, because gambling is much dangerous than it looks. Others says it's fun but it's not, once you bit the bait, there's only high chance of getting addicted rather than quitting instantly after you feel agitated losing your money. That's why it's better not to test your curiosity towards gambling because it might you to a rabbit hole where you won't be able to get out because of your addiction.

Exactly.
Not many gamblers are aware of this.
much only concerned about what and how much they will earn probably.
But once again, this is still "probably", which means that he may lose and also may win.
That is why it is better to make ourselves manage with that limitation, both for the funds and also emotions.

This may be because of gambling addiction. Once people are in this situation, they will not be aware that they are all in too much or even excessing money to gambling

This were everything starts, some didn't know it yet unless their love one's already told them about it or when their property or relationship already been broke. Only few wil realize the addiction not until they will find another activities to keep them away on it. If there will be a sort of people who really takes seriously managing their time and money then starting gambling will never have this bad interpretation.

Everything that cost you so much can be also called addiction. What I mean with so much are paying attention to the things that you supposed to not doing that thing for such a long hours like gambling because I do think that we should still have a self control and limitation in everything that we do especially in a thing that we were going to spend our time, second of course the amount of money that you spent. Gambling has a purpose but it depends on the person perspective about it, some may take it as an entertainment and some take it a serious thing, so yeah anything like excess is a gambling.

Sure. But not impossible, buddy.
What he said is correct, even it is difficult to do.

You can suggest people, but people have their own choices. A few people may play gambling daily, I have a friend that mostly plays gambling every day. You can think it is a rare case, in fact it is real.

Each gambler has their own style of gambling. A few people gamble daily, some play weekly, and others may play without a schedule. So, the time to spend for each gambler may be varied or different. I think there is no problem with this matter. You can choose which one suits you.

What exactly is your limitation? Is it a specific amount you are ready to loose a % of cour net-income or an other parameter? In my opinion most gamblers are lost here, because they cant be so strict.

The imitation is when you don't have money left to gamble  ;D. I did gamble some time but I have limited the amount of money to gamble since I don't have lots of money so yeah maybe that's what desmong is trying to say. A percentage of the amount of money that a gambler have and that's all. I have tried doing this where for example, I have $2000 then I'll take 50% for safe keeping and the other 50% will be split into two which the 25% is for gambling and other 25% is for pocket money but this is for those who are not a gambling addict like me. I don't know for anyone though anyone could also do what I did.

To set a fixed percentage of your income for gambling is the most correct strategy to not lose control over your monthly budget. Of course for gambling addicted individuals it's not an easy thing to do, so in these cases I think they could ask for the support of a trusted family member to hold their income while they aren't able to manage it efficiently yet. This way their money will be safe and they don't risk going bankrupt.

This is what I will do if ever I become a gambling addict which if you ask me if ever it will happen then my answer is no. Even though I gambled but it doesn't make a gambling addict and I can control myself when gambling. Asking for support from family is quite effective to let your family manage your money when you can managed it efficiently. I remembered replying to a thread where I said that doing this kind of way to manage your fund and at the same time, you can only gamble the money you have and the rest is manage by your trusted family member.

For me I don't trust my money to other people, I manage my own money as I believe I'm mature enough to do so. Yes, I gamble, I mean a lot and I made some mistakes in the past so it makes me more matured especially in keeping my discipline, I learned the hard way short, but anyone can learn without losing a lot of money but just by learning from the experience of other people. 

Time limit is a good idea though its not easy to do especially if you’re in the middle of your excitement on casinos, you might not commit on the limit you have set up but still its not addiction yet. It you go beyond the budget, that is more alarming to me because it means you are spending a lot and because you are losing, you tend to withdraw from your funds and continue gambling, this is a bad situation for me that we should always avoid.

Our experience will teach us a lot and this was the reason why we are able to manage to escape from getting addicted and somewhat correct all the mistakes we've done. But unfortunately, we can't sure that we no longer experience mistakes and losses again, this is a part of our life as it was probably that we commit mistakes again and again. But if we are in the stage of addiction, I don't know if we are still able to manage our funds carefully. I don't think so.

If you are getting addicted to gambling then it would be impossible to manage your funds efficiently. Try to search about gambling addicts. Some are even selling their window glass just to have money and use it to gamble. Sell their motorbike just to have money and gambled it on a casino rather than using it for daily needs and other important stuff.

Getting addicted is something that you cant detect it right away specially if you are the ones who are really playing constantly.You would only notice about your mistake when you dont already have money in your pocket.

This had been always the case and thats why you should really be mindful about addiction once you do step on gambling activity.You wouldnt know until its too late but somehow not all would really be that careless

and some are really that aware towards their actions which is a must thing for a certain person for him to avoid possible problems in the future.

you cannot just evaluate a gambling addict because of this attitude because imagine those newly learning gambling in which they are enjoying , do they have idea on how to properly deal with it?
how to allocate time and also budgeting when playing ? nope they are not and besides this is another chance to learn in the future , not unless the the person who teaches them to gambling had already give them those ideas before even learning and that is another story to tell.

of course this has become one of the acute addictions.
but really no one is to blame when this happens because it comes back to the person who did it.
as long as they don't realize their mistake it will stay that way forever until their money runs out and there's nothing left.
but it would be a different story if the addict was aware. even if the money that has been spent cannot be taken back but at least they will try to change

Proper time management is very important in whatever can addict it, user, once you give the right time and energy to it, you see that its influence to control your emotion is less so the same with gambling. Don’t gamble excessively because it leads to strong addiction.

If you can't manage your funds well, it looks like you are still addicted and if you don't, you will definitely think about what happened in the past and if you repeat it, it means you haven't recovered and it feels like you fell back into the same hole.
and what you should avoid is do not sacrifice your valuables for gambling capital and it is an acute addiction that must be completely cured because it will be fatal.

However, not many gamblers can set time and money limits when playing gambling because once they get the pleasure of playing gambling, they can forget the limitations and that is what happen to many gamblers. We must stick to our limits and not try to break the limit, even if we are in a good moment to win some money. We do not have to be afraid if somehow we lose the money because we will know when we need to quit gambling before all of the money is runs.

As you have said, it's about proper time management but it's not enough for someone to be not addicted. There's also the budget management that one can also do. Because having no such will make him gamble as much as he wants and that's the combination of it, when you have no control for both of your time and money, you'll ending up with a bad result of being broke. As a gambler that knows how to do it moderately, too sad that there are those that are hyper when they gamble and forgets their status.

Most of the gamblers were the same as the one you've mentioned. They're not aware about and don't have control once they're are into it. Whether it is a winning streak or losing doesn't matter. They forget themselves and keeps gambling. Finally used to feel bad when things have gone beyond his/limits. So, it is always a must to stick within schedule which could limit our loses.

Indeed. When we often gamble excessively, we probably are addicted already. And if it continues for years, we may have a heavy addiction. Everyone must avoid a heavy addiction since recovery will be more difficult. For a heavy addiction, it should get special treatment from an expert (doctor). And to recover from this addiction level mostly takes a longer time.

We will never last a year if we are too addicted, gambling does not have a limit for losers, only for winners, so if you keep losing, you are most welcome because they make money from you, and if you are not enjoying, then most probably you will just chase and time will come you'll steal money just to gamble.

It is normal to feel bad when we haven't noticed that we've made into the limits without noticing it. Limit in the approach that they've loss a lot already and didn't see it coming. Sometimes the situation isn't going to the likes of us and it is catching our weakness that makes us feel disappointed. And that's the cycle that we used to see not just for some but can also happen to us even if we're aware of these things.

Yes this is correct!  Totally agree with you.  

You cannot win more than a certain amount.  At the same time, the amount of the loss is not limited.  

The player can lose all his money.  

After that, the gambler will borrow money from friends and close relatives.  He will lose this money too.  He won't stop there.  He will sell real estate (a cozy apartment or a house).  He will also lose this money at roulette.  

As a result, the player can sell his kidney.  And end your life in a gutter.  Therefore, gambling addiction is evil.

We have seen many cases where people become gambling addict and why so? Because they put themselves in conditions where they went mile extra in gambling and place bets in excess or say your budget was of $100 monthly but suddenly you can't resist yourself and put $200 or more it will be called excess gambling if you can't afford it.So it's better not to indulge in any such excessive gambling and becoming addicted to it as consequences are really bad which you can learn from stories of gambling addicts.

Simply they do go overboard into gambling on where they are already spending on the amounts that is way more than that  they could afford to lose.If you do go past to your limit and
ending up on taking some loans and having big debts then this is where problem do starts to become big.Anything which is excessive is really bad and this is why its  important that
you should know on how to control up yourself and able to stop mid way and if you do tolerate on what you are doing then expect the consequences  that would happen.

Yep, if someone has been addicted, he probably won't last a long time. There will be complicated problems both for his funds and his attitude in life. That's why we must be very careful to avoid being addicted. We already know that some addicts ended with a bad story, although many of them can recover from addiction and be normal again. But don't ever think to experience addiction, it will be a too bad experience!!

No that's a common misconception, but in reality casinos are mostly making profits through the house edge they take on their games, so on the long run it's not a good thing for them if players lose too much and get burnt too quickly. Because if they give up after only few months, the casino will not receive anymore its house edge from them.

Either ways gambling platform still make a profit but the one at the receiving end is the gambler because you have to make deposits since you are constantly playing games, I think every gambler need to come to a point where they decide what are the motive behind they gambling life, if you are gambling for fun then I don’t think you need to put in excessive efforts but if you are gambling as a business then you need skills and constant gambling.

That's what happens where they think that gambling is just for fun but in fact, some of them can make regular deposits which of course is something that is excessive or addicted. Even though they don't make it as a source of income but when they make deposits regularly, then of course this habit is a bad habit because after all they are just playing for fun which of course doesn't need to be done as often as possible.

It's not like you're unable to set a time limit, just that make the budget the highest priority when it comes to limiting what you want. Besides, it's a lot easier to quit midway due to the wins and loses being back and forth, instead of quitting midway due to the time limit being reached. The former is honestly easy tbh, but the latter? When you're enjoying gambling or in a state of enjoying the thrill or adrenaline, having no money limit but instead of a time limit can quickly siphon your funds without any limit on the money that you can spend. Honestly, I'd rather prefer getting frustrated tbh since it means I can stop early.

there is this formula I adopt recently, and that is to set a stop to lose your gambling lifestyle always try to have a limit to whatever you are doing I know some things can be highly addictive but again you need to help yourself out of getting too involved with gambling.

You cant really tell because there might be treating this as some sort of fun in the beginning and turns out to be chasing already for some profits later on or simply they had already changed up their mindset.

People cant really be predicted because it all matters with self control and if youre someone who doesn't really care about making money and just seeking for pure entertainment then dealing with
gambling wont really be giving any issues.

Anything excess would always be harmful so you should really watch out.

Exactly right - when you stop feeling gambling is fun, there is no point in playing anymore.

So many gamblers that I know view gambling as a tool to recoup past investment losses/make short term, quick profits. But they don't understand that each bet they have has a negative EV, which is why the house is willing to take on that bet with them in the first place.

Sometimes a little mathematical literacy is all you need to poke through the delusions that have been formed by the mind. This is one of the prime examples.

People react differently to addictions. Gambling excessively is a mental disorder that need nobody but only you to disease from. Gambling has the same thing like drugs and other substances that can stimulate the brain leading to addiction. This kind of addiction might want you to risk out something you value hoping that you’ll get something greater or higher. With this mentality, you’ll lose bets and have debts that might be life threatening and you’ll start involving anything to aid you. The need for controlled gambling is key.

Yes, gambling can destroy a person's life in some cases, as I believe many of us have seen. The addictive nature of gambling can affect a person's state of mind, as well as have serious psychological, physical, social, and professional impacts on individuals as well as on their families. Although gambling negatively affects a small but significant number of people, research has shown that many compulsive gamblers resort to drugs, alcohol, and other harmful activities in order to cope with the anxiety caused by their gambling habits. It is all about cause and effect, because once the cause has been identified and prevented, no harmful effects will occur.

Well addiction can be risky in gambling but can also help to make money especially when one is a pro in the business. All business or attempt is risky but it depends on how one is able to understand is levels when it comes to risk taking and executing one's aim. You wouldn't ague it that what has disadvantage will also have advantage which is the reason why life is not balance. After criticizing some particular fields of life, we'll see that many are still making it in such field which relate life to be sophisticated.

@Desmong I don’t think so, addiction have no advantage remember casino have house edge and will do whatever it takes to drain the gambler all the winning even as a pro you can’t survive an addiction the only way to destroy an addiction is total stay off. Even if you are making good profits from gambling, there should also be a limit set so that you can checkmate your involvement in other to constantly review your time spent on gambling it helps most at-times.

Those are clear signs that you are losing control of the situation and that you are descending in the spiral known as gambling addiction, however it seems you have a chance to get out of it and my advice is to do it while you can, after all once an addiction is completely developed it is way more difficult to get out, so it is better to take preventive steps to avoid this to happen to you and maybe it is a good idea to forget about gambling for a few months so you can leave those feelings behind and you concentrate in doing something else to entertain yourself.

Excess gambling means gambling addiction,whether it is good or bad.I don't think there is any possibility in being addicted to gambling,all I know and see are it's negative effects.Gambling addiction seems to be a spirit that cannot be controlled.When the urge to play a bet comes,even one's last dime,he or she is ready to use it in gambling.

Excess gambling results to frustration,stealing,depression and so on.when one looses a huge amount of money in gambling,the feeling of frustration that comes thereafter is one that can lead to depression.
We should try to limit the rate at which we gambe,else it consequences will befall us.

Yes, he doesn't know what he's talking about. There are no pros in gambling, unless he's talking about poker but that's not what he's talking about. Being addicted can only lead you to lose money because you are not in control and even when you get a mini winning streak, you keep playing more and more until you lose. And I completely agree that for the gambling addict the only way to beat the addiction is to quit completely, in the same way that for the alcoholic the solution is to never try another drop of alcohol.

Some of the people didn't too much notice they are getting addicted into playing of gambling because it satisfy themselves but afterwards being to much gambler they already deposit and wasted a lot of money on that time they urge more to earn because they want to take back their money again. This is the reason why having a self control when everytime we gamble. Gambling is just right there but the money is hard to earn. We know that there's a statistical formula if you want to play gambling but if you are good with numbers and probability there's a chance you win the game but if you are just hoping for luck i don't think so with it.

The real problem here is, the excess amount is not having any universal standard but it is up to individual's income dependent hence one gambler may wrongly assume by watching how much another gambler spends in a gambling premises which might lead them to go excessive in terms of both time and money.

In my opinion, we must have self control and discipline on how much we need to spend based on our individual parameters. This will help anyone to gamble responsibility which must be the first step toward avoiding excess gambling.

Make money from gambling is obtained by a few and this must be understood. A gambler must understand why he is gambling and how much it costs him. If he enjoys gambling more than other comparable types of entertainment and it does not result in a serious reduction of his finances, I do not see any problem with it. If his loved ones suffer from this hobby, then he needs to stop gambling.