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This is an open question, maybe I could be wrong in the eye of some of you but am asking this question because a  large number of addicted gamblers are not even up to a middle class standard but they are addicted. Can someone tell me why it's like that or is it totally a different case in your society, maybe an opposite of what I asking is happening in your own society. Poor people gets more addicted, following the middle class before it gets to the rich. Since it's like that, I think it's just the poor people that are gambling the most in the world, if am not correct, I stand to be corrected.

Most rich people don't believe in luck. They believe they have to take calculated risk and they don't see gambling as major area for taking that risk. They can invest in bitcoin but may not give in to gambling. At least in Nigeria, I don't see most rich people gambling as source of income. If you see gambling as source of income then you will become an addict.

Another observation is the rich gamble reasonably and with the money that they can afford to let go and not chase back what they have lost. If you chase for your loses then you are likely to be an addict.

The rich get addicted to gambling just like the poor and middle class, the only difference is that the rich already have system in place that generate money for them such that even if they lose money in gambling, it will not show in their lifestyle. In other words, they are gambling with what they can afford to lose unlike the poor and middle class that gamble with their life savings. Gambling addiction is never dependent on income level but can happen to all.

When you are rich things like gambling don't get you addicted unless it is a way for you to have fun.
The rich has all the money they want, if they want to get rich they can venture into another business, or go into an investment that is very profiting. They are also updated on latest opportunities that will yield huge return in the future.

Gambling cannot make them rich again or sustain the wealthy they have build, that way they cannot be addicted to gamble. If you notice most persons that are addicted to gamble are always gambling for profit not for fun.

The reason why middle class or poor people are more addicted to gambling than rich people is because when a middle class or poor person loses some money in gambling, they continue to gamble more to recover this money. Sometimes they are very excited about winning a good amount and continue to gamble and thus they become more addicted to gambling. But rich people gamble only for fun and they spend money there for fun. So when they lose money, their emotions do not work like a poor person and even if they win something good, they do not get very excited about it, so in general, poor people are more addicted to gambling than rich people.

And how can we infer rich people don't get addicted easily? Is there any surverys which say so? I know stories of wealthy people who went bankrupted and wasted the patrimony their families took generations to build due to addiction. We just don't see these people too often, because they are minority in society, but at same time, it doesn't mean they don't correspond to a considerable percentage inside the financial class they are inserted.

Moreover, I risk saying this situation is particularly frequent among heirs. That is, people who didn't have to build and grow their wealth by themselves, rather they just received it from their parents and relatives.

Rich people are not addicted, because unaddicted people are rich.

In the case of gambling addiction, a person is rich because he can control himself. He knows when to work hard and how to control himself. I am not talking about those who are born with the clothes of wealth. If you can control yourself and keep yourself away from any kind of addiction, then you can also become rich. You can become addicted to hard work and intelligent work that if you work, you will become rich. Because of such addiction, you will become rich one day or the other.

In the case of the poor, they are poor because they are addicted to things that are harmful to them and they are unable to control themselves. They believe in pleasure and are busy eating. They are even lazy to take risks which a rich person easily accepts.

I don't think so that rich people don't get addicted easily because there is lots of stories like that the rich people become poor due to doing the excessive gambling. But I don't want to say that the rich people have the most percentage of the gambling addicted people. And the reason is if we make a Survey then you won't gonna see that all the people in our are rich people percent chance of rich people in our society also quite low and that's why it is automatically can be say that there is more under the rich class people's .

And since their number is large, it is natural that there will be more addicted people than them, but this does not mean that rich people are not addicted to gambling.

Your opinion is partly correct, as the majority of gambling addicts actually belong to the under middle class. This is somewhat understandable, as their economic status often motivates them to engage more intensively in gambling, hoping to make a profit that will lift them out of their current social class.

However, I disagree with your exclusion of the wealthy, as there are many wealthy gambling addicts. Visit physical casinos every day for a period of time, and you'll notice people there every day, spending fortunes gambling all night. Even online casinos have a significant percentage of users with very comfortable financial circumstances, as do crypto-based casinos, where you'll find so-called gambling whales willing to spend millions of dollars on slots.

Well, it's not hard to crack, rich people don't get addicted easily because they are not desperate to make money... although there are some rich people that are addicted not on the basis of making money but they just derive pleasure in throwing their money away... people who are poor are more likely to be gambling addicts because they unrealistic expectations of making money and becoming financially stable through gambling

Let us also ask ourselves why there are more banks and other financial institutions in rich people environment, and there are more clubs, casinos and betting shops in poor people environment.


The mindset of the rich is not the same with that of an average individuals, and how a rich man sees risk is far different from how an average person sees it.

As a rich person, you have access to more means of entertainment and you are way more social and therefore busy. Generally, addicted person lacks all of these. Rich person also has access to better company (friends circle), chances are they are highly educated so a rich person gets back on track easily compared to a poor person.
All of the above is especially true if that person has acquired the wealth himself. During that process, he has understood that there are more ways to make way more money with significantly less risk than gambling ;D.
Even if a person has acquired wealth through inheritance, he still has better chances to understand the impact of addiction and get back on track because of his prosperous family than a poor person who just won lottery.
 

Rich people don't easily get addicted to gambling because they don't chase money blindly like the poor and middle class often do. Rich people are usually involved in things they know carry less risk, which is why they focus on business and investments rather than high risk activities like gambling.Most poor and middle class individuals get addicted to gambling because they believe it's the only way to quickly make the kind of money they dream of. This belief may be the reason they don't give up on gambling easily.

Another reason that draws many poor and middle class people into gambling is a lack of work. Some of these individuals have little to occupy their time. For someone who is constantly busy doing something that generates income, it's unlikely they would have the time or even the interest to get involved in gambling or develop a gambling addiction.

When a rich person gambles, he is not looking for profit. He already has enough money to live well, so he gambles just to have fun. The rich also have many occupations, he has many places to have fun and many other things to do, so he will not spend much time gambling. But when a poor person gambles, he is looking to make a lot of money and become a rich man.

Since he does not have many sources of entertainment and things to do, he turns gambling into his main source of occupation. He spends more time gambling and losing money, and as a result, he becomes addicted.

Finally, in rare cases when a rich person becomes addicted, he quickly receives psychological treatment and locks himself in a private hospital. While when a poor person becomes addicted to gambling, it takes a long time to start treatment and, if he does, he ends up in a hospital with terrible conditions.

No way man, even the rich gets addicted bro, I mean there are many gambling stories out there about rich dude that their habits ran them into bankruptcy but their is a difference between the thin line of a rich gambler and that of a poor gambling because the effects of someone who is poor when he is addicted is more visible but for rich guys since they have more source of funds it takes more to show and the after effects comes slow other than someone who gambles and have nothing to cover it when he loses.

There are many rich individuals who are still addicted to gambling but you will never know because they are in a financial position where they are able to cover their losses. Losses on a poor person will reflect more because you would often find them complaining and nagging more about their losses or even getting depressed from them more easily, but with rich people, they easily bounce back and keep gambling unless they lose a very substantial amount of money that gets them into a difficult position.

There are many rich addicts; you probably just don't know.

I have seen exactly this somewhere before that the rich people are less addicted to gambling. I think this is because they are gambling not to make money, unlike someone that is not rich. I have seen people that are not rich going to a betting shop before betting on parley with little amount of money like $1 for odds of over 10 to 1000x. They will keep doing this and they will keep losing. Rich men will not think like this because they will likely not expect luck like people that are not rich. Also rich people have sources of income that is right for them which will let them not think of gambling as one.

It is easy to get that, especially for people who have worked in a big company and had the chance of staying with the boss family, like driving them or making some work for them. In my case many years ago I worked at such family and had the chance to know these persons, they had everything, a big company, money flowing to them from people working for them and I would find it extremely stupid for such people to get addicted in gambling. One day I had to move out of the country and we were in some casino in a place in Europe where it is famous for casinos, not naming it here, and the guy spent a lot of money trying every game there, in a physical casino. Next day when we woke up I told him let's go and play again, he said to me no, I got bored there, so normally for such people it is much more difficult to get addicted compare to us, working class.

I have an assessment of some of the neighborhoods I observed :

Rich people rarely get addicted because they sometimes only come some of the time and don't even have much time to gamble. They have busy schedules in several companies. And when he comes to gambling, he comes for fun not to make money. But that doesn't mean rich people can't get addicted. Because there are some company owners bankrupt too much debt because the money is used for gambling.

A poor person must have less work and more free time. When someone doesn't have a lot of free time, usually his mind is always thinking about things how to make money without having to work hard. And when he knows gambling, he thinks gambling can be used as a place to make money. That way poor people who have thoughts like this will be more easily addicted.

Why it seems like rich folks are immune to addiction. It’s because their addictions wear better disguises. Casino? Yacht club. Lottery tickets? Angel investing. You see what I mean? You can be addicted to risk, status, dopamine, but wealth lets you change the packaging. Poor people gamble to escape. Rich people speculate for fun, for sport, for power.

When you don’t have much, you gamble because the upside actually changes your life. High risk, high hope. For the rich? They’ve already won the basic game. So their compulsions play out differently, often invisibly, sometimes even getting called “entrepreneurship". (Look at Silicon Valley’s burn rate.)

When society shames addiction in the poor and calls it “vision” in the rich, you get these weird double standards. “Addiction” is poverty’s label, “adventure” is the luxury version. Same brain chemistry. Different suit. If you’re middle or lower class and gambling is your one shot, the things get brutal, relentless. For the wealthy? They can lose and shrug, so the spiral doesn’t grip as tightly.

So no, it’s not that the rich are made of different stuff. It’s that the game gives them free lives.

Though it's a claim that the poor people are the major sets of gamblers known to easily get addicted to it due to their respective financial status, but it still doesn't mean that both the rich and middle class don't get addicted to it too, because addiction is primarily caused as a result of greed and the high quest of trying to get rich quick, because until an individual is able to have self control to gamble responsibly, not minding either he/she is rich, middle class or poor. That individual will always fall victim to an addiction. Hence, resulting to the fact that everybody is prone to gambling addiction, irrespective of your financial status, if only you can be able to manage your funds effectively.

Do you think the poor have the financial capability to gamble like the rich? do not let any one deceive you, the poor does not have the mind to gamble like the rich, The poor gamblers are often used to give illustration of how addicted gamblers behave because the rich gamble and lose but they hardly make it open because of their social status.

The rich get more addicted to gambling but they have the sense to gamble in a very coded way and in online casinos and online betting companies so even when they lose people will not know likewise when they gamble much.

When you are that rich then the primary thing that comes up into your mind is to have some fun. Yes, we can still make out some thinking or having those hopes to have those winnings but the urge on making money is less than in comparing into those gamblers who are poor and thriving to become winners as the time they do gamble. This isnt something that belittling these poor people but rather this something that really shows out that there are difference about into those insights and perspective into those different set of people on which it will be basing up into their financial status. For those rich people then they are might that just that using up their money to have some past time or leisure time and since they are financially capable, then they wont be that much too mindful about into the things that they've been that dealing into. There are those conditions on which you do need up to think up first on what are the probabilities of possible issues or problems that you might be able to face on once you do make out some excessive engagement into it. There are those conditions that you might be able to forget just because you've been that getting blinded with greed too much. There are also those rich people who do end up on getting wrecked with gambling just because they cant just that be able to stop on what they've been doing. It might that much more slower for them to get broke compared to those who are already poor but still ending up on the same demise or condition. Regrets do always come at the end and if you arent that good when it comes on making up decisions for your own good then you will be able to suffer it out into those obvious consequences that you might be able to encounter ahead. Addiction comes with having no exemption into those people who are easily that being shackled with it. There might be those conditions or situations that turned out to be that make you that engaging out on which it isnt bad but when it comes on bypassing limitations then this is where issue do starts.

Maybe because rich people don't usually gamble and when they do, they do it as a form of entertainment, also, the money they use most likely is money they can afford to lose, so they don't really mind if they lose. Now, if you compare that middle to low-income individuals, a lot of them are gambling for the sole purpose of gaining profit, and a lot of them also gamble with money they cannot afford to lose. Also, rich people usually have a different mindset when it comes to gambling compared to middle to low-income individuals.

Well, gambling addiction doesn’t take note of the financial state of an individual before it comes; so irrespective of the financial condition whether a wealthy person or a poor individual they both can become addicted to gambling.

The only difference between them, as others have said is the way they both approach gambling… for a rich man, it’s easy for them to just take gambling as a means of entertainment and not a mean of earning money and they’d be fine with it but for a poor man their aim is usually monetary gain oriented and that’s among the top reasons why people get addicted according to what I’ve seen and read so far.

I’ve seen people whose life got ruined because of gambling; they started small and then moved on to use bigger and bigger amounts of money for gambling to the extent of them using their business funding to stake on games and then lose it all, this is a perfect example of from wealth to poverty because of gambling addiction.

The rich are very intelligent enough to know when they are getting addicted and stop or reduce the speed while the poor dont keep track of their gambling behavior, also the rich are off to work activities that consume their time mostly making them to having limited time for gambling, while the poor spends all the time predicting to become rich somedays, the rich also already had the money so whats the need to constantly getting headache for lucky money when they could get it off their business.

Don't be upset with this thing I want to say but if you were rich or mingle with rich people you will know that they are as addicted to gambling as low income earners or rather poor people. Rich people just have a different access that the later and so they can easily afford a therapist to deal with their gambling addiction. They can easily afford to send their kids for rehab if they are dealing with addiction and they know that if the public knows about this "ugly" part of their life, it could damage their public image should they decide to run for a public office tomorrow.

I believe why the rich does not get addicted is because they gamble with caution as not to lose their wealth. It could be that most rich men lose alot but many will never know because they keep it up to themselves. It is believed that money works for the rich while the poor works for money so it is possible that rich men Gamble with the profit generated from their investment and it will never affect their investment but the poor will gamble with little they have without considering if another money will come.

I have witnessed and read about both rich and poor people getting addicted to gambling none among the two are immune or get easily addicted to gambling who get addicted it’s mostly not because of the person’s financial level but sometimes it’s base on their personal life style.

A wealthy person can easily get addicted to gambling because they have enough money to spend and they consider gambling as their only way to spend their free period and for those who go to physical casino as means to associate with people they can get addicted in that process, their are also those who are too busy with their work that they won’t have such time to give gambling that energy that could lead to addiction,

Same thing is also applicable to the poor, they see gambling as where they can use to end their misery, but it always turns out the other way round, some of the people who fall under the category of being poor can be busy using their life for something else while others are looking for fast money from gambling which could lead them to getting addicted.

It depends on the gambling platform; many poor people are betting on the lottery and playing at online casinos, while the majority of physical casinos are for rich people.

Poor people are taking a long shot on a gambling platform like lotteries so they can have a chance to change their lives, while rich people in physical casinos want to have a good time, expand their network, or duplicate their money.

Some rich people are also addicted to gambling; it depends on the character, not on their status. This is what I believe: your status will not deter you from becoming addicted to gambling.

 

I live in a third-world country, and gambling is legal in our country, and there are more poor people in our country, and betting in a lottery is so popular in our country.

So, if you sum it up, there are many gamblers categorized as poor people. The reason is that they want to improve their lives, and they see the lottery and other betting stations like horse racing as a way to make a lot of money if they hit the jackpot.

Wealthy people tend to gamble for fun, but poor people like me. Making money first, then having a good time, is secondary.

I think that the answer is that poor people tend to be more addicted because they gamble excessively hoping to win more money by any chance to turn rich one day. In gambling I think that the more money you put brings the more chances to win, when a poor person puts little qmounts or precise amounts of money it lowers the chances or maybe even if there is a win it won't always be as big as when you gamble with more money.
Generally, rich people gamble for fun only and for the dopamine rush I guess, winning or losing in both cases won't bring any financial issue if the money is always there.

So this might be the reason why poor people are more addicted than the rich ones.

Rich people calculate the risk in every investment they take, and that is the reason why they don’t get addicted easily, while on the other hand, poor people believe much in luck, and they invest readily without any calculations. That is why they lose a lot in the process of doing reckless investments, and they get addicted to all of that stuff easily.

Gambling is not a good source of income, as it will make you an addict, and that is the reason why rich people consider it as their source of wealth or income.

In most cases you won’t find a rich man gambling because they understand the whole concept of gambling, and they didn’t like to fall for traps so they won’t lose their money.

Rich people get addicted easily because they gamble too often. They're usually lonely people and gambling is the only way they have fun. They also aren't lacking money hence they have enough revenue to support their gambling addicts. Rich man addiction isn't dangerous to the masses than the poor man addiction that'll end up making him to become a nuisance to the society because of his lack of money and inability to hide his addiction problem.

 A poor man will lack money and can't be able to afford all the expenses that comes with being addicted to gambling. Rich people have alot of money to spare hence we shouldn't copy them or try to spend more as they do. The rich have freedom to do with money anyhow they want while the poor should be looking for means to make money instead of throwing away the little they own.

Maybe because if a rich person gambles too much he becomes poor?  ;D It's a trivial thought (I'm sure many have already expressed it), but nevertheless it works. Those who take an unprofitable risk (gambling) lose money. Those who do business and manage large capital act differently (although they might also like excitement and gambling) in order to preserve what they have and even increase it. Well, it is obvious that if a poor person spends his money mainly on entertainment (gambling, alcohol, etc.) his chances of rising into the middle class or higher are reduced.

There are still people from the upper class who get addicted, but yeah, the majority comes from the lower class. The reason is simple, because they want to get out of poverty. Gambling could give it to them, and they don’t give a f*ck even if the chance is very slim. The difference in mindset between the lower class and upper class is obvious. The upper class work hard and smart, while people from the lower class also work hard but don’t think too much, especially about the consequences of their actions, behaviors, or gambling activity. They tend to get more emotional.

Poor people get obsessed with gambling because of their expectations, they seek financial stability from it but they only end up losing more. People who are already rich gamble for fun, they are not obsessed over it. People that are financially stable can lose a huge amount of money and not feel bothered about it because it's possible for them to get back the money they lost unlike people gamblers, They keep chasing their losses

Addiction is for both rich and poor when you gamble excessively. The reason why you wouldn't know if a rich man is addicted and losing huge is because he has a business or investment that generates income for him which he can use to cover up his losses. Some rich men get addicted and become broke after losing all their properties.

A rich man can't get addicted because he is not desperate about making money by all means through gambling but it is the poor people who out of lack of money put all their energy in making sure that they make it big through gambling so invest their time resources into gambling with the false hopes of making it through betting without knowing that they are making them self more bad.



The fact is that gambling was not originally designed for the poor but for the rich because the rich and wealthy people gambling is just doing it for the purpose of passing time and having fun which is the true definition of what gambling should be like

There are rich people who gamble not because of anything but because of hanging out with friends. They enjoy the moment so much that the only thing they can do is when they want to discuss business, they add a little bit of gambling to it, just to make it a little more interesting. And since it's just within them, there is no harm done. And since they are gambling to get more deals, they will gamble little amounts, maybe like hundreds of dollars, so this is why I love rich people, they are just too smart when it comes to making money decisions. They don't make reckless ones, they make decisions that will benefit them at all costs every time. They do things that will add more value to them in any way that money they are losing, they will find a way to recover it.

Who told you they don't get addicted? Many rich people got addicted and never got back on their feet for real. Same with the kids of many rich people. You're having in mind a very certain archetype of rich person. Not being born rich, having worked and being eager to work. These are now the exception other than the rule. The rich generation of today isn't what you see in movies. They're heirs of generational wealth that haven't worked a day in their life. That's why you don't see them. You think these people don't get addicted? Who do you think consumes all the cocaine?

People gambles but the majority of people who are gambling are not a gambling responsibly and moreover these people mostly believe their life depending on gambling that's why it looks like the poor gambles more than expected, meanwhile there are average people who gambles within these without others knowing they are gambling we can say these sets of people are gambling responsibly because they knows where to stop when to start. The poor people often makes it obvious that they must gamble for their breakthrough.

There is no exception to gambling addiction among humans; both the rich, the middle class, and the poor can all be addicted to gambling; so far, they are humans, and they will still have the feeling of doubling their money in one way or the other someday.

I have seen and heard of how a rich person turns out to be a gambler addict. Their intentions were to double their money in the short run to expand their businesses; they never knew it would lead to selling their properties to cover up their losses. By the time realize their mistakes, their wealth has gone low

It's a different case for me. Most of the addicted people that I am seeing are from the poor. Yes, you've heard that right because they're the ones that are hoping that they can have much money from gambling and it's a way for them to become rich easily. That's the mindset that has been embedded to their minds and that's why all of their hopes are being put to gambling and making their ways through it despite that it's not always good result that comes out. While there are rich people that are addicted to gambling and there are stories of being rich that turned out poor later on for selling all of their hard earned assets when they've become addicted to it.

It's simple, rich people don't believe in luck, they work hard and focus on business, not gambling.
However, there are rich people who don't need to work due to inheritances from affluent families.  
Many of them may gamble for easy money, but those who become rich through hard work and business often lack the time for gambling.

In general, gambling addiction isn’t confined to the poor, it also impacts all social classes, though the patterns and effects always matter.  
While poorer people tend to have higher rates of addiction, the middle and upper classes can also be affected in their own ways.

One of the main reasons why people from the lower and middle classes are more addicted to gambling is that these two classes of people believe that it is possible to change their fortunes overnight through gambling and consider it one of the main sources of income. The lower and middle class people are always short of money and they always try to find some way from which they dream of becoming rich overnight. Gambling is considered as a way to become rich for them and from there a kind of invisible greed is created in them due to which they are attracted to gambling. The rich class does not have this lack of money, due to which they do not need to worry about their source of income. That is why the rich class is seen to be a little less attracted to gambling.

The rich understands gambling more better than the poor, that you have to play for fun and not for money, they don't have time at all, they are always engaged on how to make more money for themselves and are very prudent in spending, they believe in getting their yield back on any business they put their money, they don't have time for putting their money into where they will not benefit from and since they already have money, they are comfortable, they reason to enlarge their firm.
They also get addicted but not as common as the middle class and the poor because they can easily control their gambling habit

The poor believes they can make some money from gambling since they don't have any source of income and are unemployed, this is due to poverty mentality, instead of them to use the little they have to establish a small business they believe putting it in gambling we produce them bigger yield that will make them achieve a better life without them knowing that they are far from it and when expectations are not met, they end up becoming an addicted gambler due to lack of understanding the gambling rules and regulations.

A poor person sees gambling as a money making center which it is not and so they put in all their resources trying to make money out of it and when not fort coming, becomes frustrated and that is why alot of persons sees gamblers as failure and does not want to be associated with.

It is still possible for the rich to get addicted to gambling, specially those who do not use their time and effort to conyinue to grow their fortune and prefer to spend their money in pleasure and leisure activities.
Though, there is a big difference between the rich and the poor when comes to their average approach to gambling, obviously, there will be poor people who get attracted to gambling as a medium to escape their situation, thanks to the kind of advertisement jackpots get and how lottery winners happen to appear on TV getting those giant checks from the organization which manages the lottery. Those amounts of money, in general millions of dollars or hundreds of thousands of dollars, do not appeal to people who are already within the range of millionaires or billionaires, no reason for them to play lotteries or spend money on slots.

Advertisement from casinos are targeted to the middle class of several countries and the poor, but not to the rich in general.

The reason for this happening is that the more number of poor people are more desperate to make it quicker and they feel that by playing this games, they can achieve their aims faster. They feel that gambling is their way out of poverty and that is not to be viewed in that manner. If they come to be the ones with such intentions, then we will likely see more poor people getting poorer here and also see more poor people addicted to gambling.

The middle class and the rich class who already know this only use money they can afford to lose while gambling and they stop immediately their limit is reached. The poor then begin to compare themselves to them and sometimes have the perspective that if it is not through gambling, they can never make it big in this life. This is how some of them thinks and continue to decline in their financial status.

Poor people are more likely to be addicted to gambling than the rich and middle class because poor people always want to be very rich and live a luxurious life. Poor people do not want to be poor, because of their lack they choose to gamble to get rich very quickly and many choose it. There are many people in my country who are very poor, they always gamble in the hope of getting rich very quickly but at the end of the day they lose more.

Only poor people are not addicted to gambling to change their lives very quickly. In particular, when the rich are gambling, they lost no problem because they have more money. And if they want they can use it in a more sense.  Gambling is everyone if you do for fun or enjoy most of the time. Then you will never be addicted. Even if the rich start gambling regularly, they will gradually be addicted. Here the rich and the poor will be addicted to anyone who will be less or more addicted to themselves, for example, how much time he is spending gambling. Nevertheless, the middle class or the poor are not less in any part of the rich, all to make money by gambling at the same speed. I think gambling is not a good way to improve life. Everyone here will lose.

In your social context, you may have said that but it should vary from place to place. In my context, I see that people of every class keep themselves involved in gambling. Gamblers of any class, rich or middle class, tend to be addicted. If you gamble with high class gamblers, you may think that middle or lower class people may not be so involved in gambling. Low and middle class gamblers may limit their thinking in the same way.

Poor gamblers addiction directly affects their families and society, but high class gamblers do not have such a negative impact. They have sufficient financial resources and money to meet the daily needs of their families. I think that the tendency to gamble is present in people of every class, rich, middle class and poor. Its impact on society may be different due to differences in ability.

Everyone could be addicted for everything its never been work like this poor people addicted and have problems rich are also have same problems, but usually they handle them better, or they have sources to getting out of them which give them advantage.
In many cases things works for all because here we need willpower for coming out of this addiction this does not need person is rich or poor its need strong mindset and approach to handle situation many rich peoples gone bankrupt due to their addiction in gambling or intoxication.
Here for avoiding things like these always family role is important because they can help person to return to normal and have better life even this has never been easy but still possible with here again rich had advantage and poor suffer because usually had not favor due to available sources.

Okay, I saved your ass and added a question mark there so, at least I can understand it's a question  .... right?

A large number of the younger generation have gotten into addiction just because it's a thing in their era (as they often say). Peer pressure/ influence has been so strong in the couple of years down the line that if a kid in the gen z era isn't careful, they ruin their lives and stay forever locked up in jail.
I stand to be corrected, but I don't think addiction really depends on any of those criterias. You could be as rich and as influential as -- but your habits and personal live doesn't get affected by your affluence. Infact, having enough in stock will be a solid reason why most rich people diehard in gambling...

That is because poor people have a dream getting rich from gambling. They underestimate about the reality that gambling can make them lose everything they have. They just see gambling is a way to make money so whenever they have money, they will use it to playing gambling.

Even they don't control over themselves in gambling so that make them addicted to gambling slowly. Suppose they realize that gambling is not a source of income, they will not trying to gambling or spend too much money but they will think how they can use limit money to have a small home business.

While the rich people know that gambling is just an entertainment. They don't gambling too long because they are very busy and have many things to do. That will different from the other society class so rich people know how they use their time.

you only think that there are more poor people addicted in gambling because it is always the poor that are being reported for losing money

rich people get addicted in gambling maybe even more since they have more money to spend we just do not hear about it often since their wealth makes us think that they are invincible and they do not get harmed by gambling the truth is it just takes a long time for them to lose money in gambling since they have a lot

The reason why more poor people become addicted is because there are more poor people than rich people, and many poor people are too desperate with the difficulty of making a lot of money so they choose gambling to achieve what they want, even though their hearts know that gambling does not provide certainty of winning.

As far as my country is concerned, gambling mostly preys upon the poor. I don't think there's one reason for this. There must be a combination of factors. For one, it's the poor who needs to court lady luck for a change in life. Also, it's ironic, but the poor are mostly the ones who have so much idle time. Moreover, they're also the ones who lack basic financial education. They're also the ones who are mostly irresponsible when it comes to finances.

I could be mistaken, but the top 10 richest families in my country are probably not into gambling. At the bottom, however, people would even borrow, pawn their phones and other appliances for the sake of gambling.

Both poor and rich get addicted just that the poor Gambler will always make people know of his loses but the rich will never tell anyone of his loses and how his addicted but rather bear the pain alone. The rich take high risk to gamble with huge amount with less odd, which they win more often than lose, why the poor usually stake small amount with high odd, making the possibility of wining more difficult and they get more addicted to Gambling than the rich.

Rich people, just like poor people, are addicted not only to gambling, but also, for example, to drugs. This is a fairly common phenomenon among the children of wealthy parents. Isn't Hunter Biden an example of that? Moreover, this phenomenon has always been there, historical novels are filled with characters such as the heir who lost the inheritance in gambling.

However, since there are more poor people than rich people, and, consequently, there are more addicted gamblers among them, it seems that there are almost no addicts among the richest. Of course, there is also such a factor that the rich play out of boredom, out of idleness, and the poor play to escape from poverty.

Therefore, instead of a simple explanation, theories are sometimes invented that rich people are special, they are not like everyone else, "they are even resistant to gambling addiction!" and other fantasies. For probably a hundred years now, all it takes for a person to become rich is to be born into the right family. This is precisely the origin of the vast majority of the rich, and not at all due to some unimaginable business talents. There are talents in every generation, too, but their share is negligible.

If a poor gambler loses money, he cannot easily accept this loss and keeps on betting again and again to recover the previous loss. In this way, a poor gambler loses a lot of money in gambling.
But a rich gambler is not so serious about money and even if he loses more than once in gambling, his mentality does not change and he accepts gambling as if the previous losses did not matter to him.
It is true that if a rich gambler loses, he does not share his defeat on the streets, but if a poor gambler loses, he publicizes his defeat.

What you mean by addiction is most likely gambling.

The rich have money and can do whatever they want with their money.

They even gamble for fun, but those who have little money gamble either to pay off their debts or to have more money, but when they lose, they don't stop gambling and start gambling again at the first opportunity.

This is how they become addicted.
70% of life is easy for rich people.
They solve many things with their money without thinking.
Because of this freedom, they never become addicted.

Because most gamblers with small capital gamble relying on their luck to achieve victory that hoping to change their lives. They try to chase their luck every day. The increasing gambling activity, even with small bets, allows them to become addicted. With limited correct knowledge, of course allows the gambler to bet more than what they can lose.
Those who are rich also actually have the same chance of addiction. But they have sufficient funds, and if they are knowledgeable, they will not go crazy by betting more.

I believe that the rich also get addicted like the poor but the difference is that addiction is more noticable with the poor because they will become broke and be looking for where to borrow to fund their addiction. The poor that are gambling to win big and become rich are very desperate to win because they don't have sufficient income to continue gambling if they are not winning. If an addicted rich person loses a huge amount, the impact won't be much because they will recover the lose from another source of income and the addition will not be noticable. I believe that addiction is more of a habit than a the financial statues of gamblers.

some of the rich is also addicted in the gambling, but the thing is that we have to know that being addicted in the gambling is basically through a mindset, and again some of the rich is not desperate the way other people may be desperate in the gambling, because looking at it very well you can see that people that alway be desperate in gambling the poor and they always be addicted in the gambling because they believe that gambling is their source of income, since gambling is their source of income they will be addicted, some of the rich don't be addicted because they gamble for pleasure why the poor doesn't gamble because of pleasure.

A few minutes ago I answered a similar question in another thread, and here I would like to add that wealthy people always know what to do with their money. Especially if we talk about those rich people who built their own business and know how much and where they can spend it. Such businessmen need a break from work in the form of some kind of entertainment associated with thrills. Where can you get such sensations? Gambling has an unpredictable outcome, and the risk with dopamine is always present here. A rich person can spend his money calmly, understanding that he has the right to do this.

A poor person wants to become lucky without working. Finding his few hundred, he wins them, does not put them into business to increase them, but begins to play even more, and eventually loses everything. An old story. In gambling, you need to learn the rule that if you play with your last money, you will lose it. Yes, there are cases of success, but after checking the history, these lucky ones also lose everything over time because they never learned to properly distribute their finances, which cannot be said about rich people. Gambling addiction involves the desire to get rich and being very lazy.

It's quite simple. Because they have found a way to generate a sustainable income flow through business (this is the usual case on how people become rich) than gambling to make easy money.
They even appreciate how hard it is to earn this money. So, spending much through gambling on which you could potentially lost some significant amount of money in a matter of seconds is not something they can tolerate. In fact, they are also too busy with a lot of things to become addicted to gambling.
Rich people who gets involve in gambling usually doesn't stay as a bettor. They tend to create their own way on how to make a business out of his field of interest specifically in gambling. So, instead of going to other casinos, a rich person would build his own or even buy the existing one.
To make things short, rich people knew how to handle their money and most importantly, they knew they won't get any richer by just being a gambler.

I think it all comes down to psychology. Poor people tend to believe that gambling could be almost the only way to become a rich person. For example, according to statistics, the people who buy lottery tickets are usually the poorest segment of the population. I have read some research about this and it made me curious why it happens this way. It turned out that people see the lottery as their last chance in life. Sometimes they are willing to buy less food or save money on clothes, but still purchase a lottery ticket in the hope of hitting the jackpot and instantly changing their life and becoming rich. I believe this is where the real reason lies.

Both the poor and the rich can get addicted but we actually say that it is more highly on the side of the poor because the rich might not necessarily chase gambling as a means of passive income unlike the poor, the rich can understand more better addiction can do them and might not give a chance no matter how hard it can be, the rich have more important things to do with their money like investment rather than gambling, the rich might not be that desperate about winning compared to the poor person, the rich can only gamble at best convenience of their time but the poor might attempt to gamble at all time.

I think it's obvious, the rich doesn't need to have money, while the poor wanted to escape their lives and so they gamble in hope that it will change and they will make a U-turn. Most likely though there are rich people who gambles, let's say Dana White, but maybe he just wanted to have fun.

And even if he loses, he knows that he can make up that money in no time as we all know that his company is one of the biggest. As compare to the majority of us or the poor people who want to take our chances and then think that we will win money by gambling.

Why do most physical casinos build their businesses near the slums? That question actually answers it all. Their real target is the poor and the middle class.  Those who are hoping to get rich in a faster way because they have lived a poor life for so long.

Now let's look at the online gambling applications. Why do they set a very low minimum to bet? 1 peso here in our country, which is really low for a minimum bet. Because their main target is those who hope to get rich easily. They will let it be available for them so that they can gamble more without having any knowledge about the house edge.

The title of your topic is not true, because rich people are exactly the same people as poor people. Therefore, they are subject to the same vices and addictions. I know stories about fairly wealthy people who spend a lot of money on casinos, but at the same time, they can't get their appearance in order. Not only in terms of clothes, but also health. Because they are so passionate about gambling and this is their only passion.

The only difference between rich and poor gamblers is that the former can afford to lose more.

Those who are poor do not have any source of work through which they can get rich quickly. That is why the poor are more prone to gambling. They think that they can get rich through gambling. It takes a lot of time to get rich by doing ordinary work, and not everyone has that opportunity. But if someone gambles, if he is lucky, he can get rich quickly. The poor are more interested in getting rich, on the other hand, the rich do not think that they will get rich through gambling. That is why I think the poor are more likely to get addicted to gambling. Because they spend extra time in gambling to get lucky and later become addicted. Though not everyone is equally likely to be addicted, in most cases, the poor are more likely to be addicted.

because most people who are rich are not born “rich”. for someone to be really rich, they have to have very good money management, intelligence and habits. and it is very difficult for people who have these things to be addicted to gambling, or to be so addicted that they lose all their assets.

it's not “rich people don't get addicted to gambling”, it's more accurate to say that they are rich because they don't get addicted to gambling. it's not just gambling either, those people earned that money because they worked hard, put in effort and gave up a lot of bad habits like gambling.

i'm talking about people who got rich later in life - not through inheritance, of course - so people who have been rich since birth or who have seen a lot of money all at once may not be as good at managing their money.

I already talked about something like this in an old thread, rich people have jobs to do, they have business to attend to, they don't have too many free period and every free period they have is invested into something that can yield a quality result, and you already know the answer, gambling can not yield any quality result for a lot of rich people. Like someone already said, those rich people that struggled to make there own money are very busy people and they are busy all day until they retire. Some of my rich relatives working in a company that pays them well, they go to work from Monday - Friday from 7am-5pm, after work, they rest and prepare for the next day work, there's no time to gamble.

Some do get addicted, atleast those that have more time to gamble but they likely can afford to lose most of this bets unless they are taking so much dumb risks that  could eventually ruin them  as well .. but not commonin individuals as  opposite. So yeah they can withstand more loss and  to them it might not really look like they are addicted even though they are.

You are right and your logic is right a poor gambler can never accept his loss and he keeps depositing there again and again to recover his loss and if he does not have money then he borrows from his friends and if he has any arrangement to take loan then he does not hesitate to gamble even with high interest loan. And as a result he is harmed in many ways and it also happens that when gamblers take a lot of money in loan then they can commit suicide because they are not able to pay that loan. Gambling can destroy a person in all aspects. This is a common thing. And rich people never take their loss seriously that is why they do not continue gambling to recover their loss they only take fun from it

this is an interesting topic and each time I suggest to use some "scientific literature" that could provide many useful insights.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/ Actually we don't know any negative bias relative to "rich" people (remember that this is not a scientific measure...)
for sure we know that there are many factors involved and it's not just a single factor tat could lead or less to addicion.
personally I had the chance to meet people addicted with any income. from really rich people (people that don't need to work) at people devasted by debts and other issues.
It's not matter of wealth, there are always many factor involved...

That is quite clear, some of the studies or data available are indeed poor people the most percentage of gambling, most poor people want to be rich quickly without having to work and spend a lot of capital, so the best solution gambling they think of.

Although the facts on the ground are not what they think.

In contrast to the rich, they are busy in their business, even if they gambled indeed to find the pleasure of money is not a big problem for them, they gamble not to be addicted but for pleasure.

That's true the poor is only person's are only interested in making money from gambling which is a bad thing to consider because there's no guarantee of you making it through gambling but the rich can't get addicted from gambling because they do gambling not with the mindset of making money by all means, the poor people should know that true wealth is nat made through gambling this is where the poor is getting it wrong

you are correct it is the poor people who are always addicted to gambling not the rich guys, take for example a rich man who has businesses and other things that usually Fitch him money will be always busy he will not even have time to know the clubs that are playing to match, because his very busy, but a poor with no job are people who normally have the full time for gambling, they always know the clubs that will play even before the match day and funny part is that they know all the clubs in all the league and even the name of all the players playing in all leagues but rich guys hardly the first 11 the clubs his fanning.

Most of the views of poor people in gambling are that they think that they will be lucky by being able to get a big win that changes their life, but instead of winning it makes them more difficult in other words, they are addicted to gambling without looking at their own financial situation.

There is no guarantee that rich people are not addicted, everyone has their own mindset and views, in my opinion there are also rich people who are

I cannot agree with you. I have seen rich people get addicted to gambling. They cannot control their emotions in gambling. After losing in gambling, they scream and express their emotions and start playing again. They continue to gamble and set their time aside for business. You might say that rich gamblers are indifferent to being involved with their families and they spend more time making money. They do a lot more research on the teams before betting than poor gamblers and they can win. An example of poor gamblers is that they spend their time gambling for profit rather than entertainment. They do not research the teams before betting and as a result they lose most of the time and are addicted to gambling.

More of poor people being or getting addicted than the rich folks does not necessarily mean that the number of poor people gambling are higher than the number of rich people, as a matter of fact, it maybe very possible that more rich people are gambling but the number of poor people that are addicted are higher simply because the poor are gambling for money while the rich are gambling for entertainment.

This two are very different, someone gambling for money will over gamble, will chase after his loses, will spend more time and resource on gambling because to them, gambling is almost like their business, or it's actually a business..
But the rich already have money, they are OK financially and only seeking pleasure from gambling, they gamble with what they can afford to lose and rest when they lose it, they don't have to chase after their lose because they have more than enough money to cover for what they have lost, this is why almost every gambling addict we see is a poor man.

Good question and the reason is on the title of your thread- it's because they are rich.

Rich people have the mindset and goal of primarily having fun. They do not need the cash in gambling in order for them to have fun. What they are seeking is the feeling of anxiety and thrill whenever they wager huge amounts of money on their end. Regardless if they win or not, they will walk out happy in the casino knowing that they are still damn rich.

With that being said, in contrast to other people who are not considered rich perse, they have the mindset of winning money in gambling. The expectation of winning the jackpot or huge amounts of cash gets them addicted pretty easily compared if you see this activity for entertainment.

Not that the rich don't also get addicted, but they understand how they could manage the way they are gambling and it will be very difficult for one to notice about their addiction, all because they have the money to always use for gambling.

I can accept that the rich don't get addicted easily, but they can also be addicted if they are not gambling responsibly, but it will be hardly noticed, most of the average class gamblers got noticed easily because they are not being reserved and could barely manage to afford gambling in some situations.

The issue of addiction shows how greedy people can be, so there are more reasons why you work on yourself than there are to work on yourself when gambling. For sure, there will be people who will have lost everything to gambling just because they refused to do what is right, so clearly enough, when making decisions, you just have to make the right one, so there is no reason to give too much energy to gambling. So there are enough ways that you can make things easy for yourself when gambling because being rich does not mean that you won't go broke if you don't work on intention on management of resources.

And as a rich person, I think their focus is supposed to be on how to make other investments and not just gambling, and the amount you gamble when you are rich does not affect you, so the best you can do is to do more business and gamble less.

less not argue blindly we have to realistic on This matter and I want to ask you just few questions and I want I sincere answer from you, first question I believe you have been to gambling hall, which people do you normally see their? Second question have enter any gambling location and see cars of rich men who came to gamble pack outside or have you even see rich men dominating a gambling hall ? Third question how many business men who rich which you know that they addicted to gambling? Note am not just saying things because I want to talk I have been manager of a gambling office  for 4 times for years I haven't seen rich getting addicted to gambling like poor men even if they are rich guys who are addicted to gambling they are rear to find.

The poor and rich have different mindset that is why they aren't in the same class.The rich have a different believe when it comes to wealth, they believe that wealth can be acquire through hard work and dedication.most of the poor people have the mindset that they can stumble upon wealth without working for it that is the main reason why the poor prioritise gambling more than the rich and they easily get addicted to gambling.

Most of the addicted gamblers are people that are leaving a life without focus and Direction,they are always looking for short cut to everything so they think they can escape poverty through gambling.

However even the rich folks too, do get addicted to gambling but majority of the gamblers are mostly poor folks.

Simply because poor needed money the most compare to middle and rich class that’s why they are easily hooked on gambling due to the wrong assumption that gambling can give a quick rich opportunity due to the maximum win it can offer on their games.

Poor people is easy to believe on anything that has a potential to earn big money quickly that’s why the6 are also being frequently victimized by different investment schemes like ponzi.

Middle and rich people usually prioritize their job as source of income rather than relying on other source that’s why it’s very rare for them to get addicted.

Both poor and rich people are equally susceptible to addiction, especially if they do not have good control over their emotions and gambling.

The only reason why rich people are not easily addicted to gambling is because with the financial freedom they have, they are always able to let go of every defeat they experience. Unlike poor people, one defeat is very significant and it is not easy for them to let go and forget it, something that makes them continue to return to gambling in the hope of being able to return what has been lost, which ultimately makes them trapped in addiction.

Two things:
- the majority of the people are not rich, so obviously, just as you have more middle-class people buying Pepsi you will have fewer rich guys buying Pepsi as overall numbers
- People who get addicted badly to gambling are also people who lose money fast, so you're not going to see poor people getting up with gambling and becoming middle class but you're going to see a lot of rich people becoming middle class or poor by losing money in gambling

Then, there is the perception problem: how many people who make over $1 million a year do you know, and how many who make less than $10k you know? With a biased sample, you will simply draw a biased conclusion, much like people who live in their own bubble.


Sorry, but this is BS, there are hundreds of sons of billionaires out there who would die laughing reading this.

A poor man can keep gambling with the little he has aiming for big wins and always losing, you'd wonder why they keep trying inspite of their failures, they believe that they can end up winning a huge amount of money someday with the little they bet with but they tend to lose track of the fact that their losses keeps on compounding. Rich people on the other hand are more coordinated because they don't Chase profits

Right, people seem to forget that most of the wealth in this planet come from inheritances and there are people out there who happen to be rich since the very moment they were born and have never worried about money in their life, most of the times it is not about working hard but being born in the right family, living in the right country.
There are some examples of self-made billionaires, but their are rare and they managed to get that status due to a brilliant idea and their sense of vision towards the future.

Rich people can be become addicted to gambling but since they have all their needs covered, it is rather rare for them to become addicted.
Sadly, one can be very hard working and have some good mentality and point of view towards the world and the future, but that does not gurantee one will be millionaire or billionaire.

Both do have the same vulnerability to gambling addiction. Rich gamblers can also go bankrupt when they gamble uncontrollably. Addiction can change them from rich to poor.
Emotional control in gambling should also be owned by poor gamblers. It's just that with a small income, forced to gamble, of course, it's not the pleasure you want to get but luck.
Every gambler must be able to forget their defeat, whether rich or poor. If you decide to gamble, it's better not to get caught up in the ambition of chasing defeat or winning the jackpot.

And I think that is because rich people gamble for fun and entertainment with unlimited money that they can do anytime just to get satisfaction from gambling because they consider gambling as a challenge to beat something that should not be defeated and is indeed fun, so when victory or luck is obtained there will be satisfaction that they can do without thinking about previous defeats even though many because they are supported by good finances and even though they are addicted it will not have a bad impact because their money is unlimited and can also be easily cured and whatever the problem is if money talks it will definitely be resolved. While poor people gamble to gain profit or make money with limited money which will have a bad impact if addicted, namely potentially harming others and also yourself and there are still many other negative things that will worsen the situation.

Rich won't achieved their status if they are easily tempted or addicted onto something like gambling.
There are still rich that achieve their wealth also through gambling like they hit the jackpot but I think many will just get poor easily because of their habit.

We can also have a rich that suddenly gets addicted into gambling. They have lots of resources so it is only easy for them to get addicted. As for the poor, they can use gambling to change their life. They keep on trying and making them addicted or at least look like it. But there are also poor that don't gamble because they are poor and they don't want their life to be more miserable.

I think that Yes, that rich people can very quickly become addicted to butts and completely lose control of themselves.
The thing is that if we judge by Maslow's pyramid, then for rich people almost all needs are closed and they still have a need for spiritual entertainment and some moral pleasures. And gambling for them is not so much a way to enrich themselves as a way of self-affirmation.

Rich people who are suddenly addicted and play without any restrictions can also be dangerous, they can lose all their wealth if they play without restrictions and lose more money,
which is an addiction that cannot be underestimated and will be a problem for anyone with any social status.

Poor people have a lot of hope of winning with little capital because they can only survive with that little money,
but rich people who just play without thinking about their profits are also wasting money in vain.

It is better to play with the limits of the poor or rich so that everything can be controlled, how many losses and wins occur so that you know how much money is spinning.
Don't let gambling that was initially a pleasure turn into misery.

Maybe am not the only one that observe it. In most societies the rich set of people are always few, and they don’t even relate with the low income earners, so people don’t really know what’s happening to them, the challenges which they are facing. I will say the rich also get addicted to gambling but we don’t just know about it maybe it’s hidden. What I notice also is that middle class, and low income earners are always planning to get rich from gambling which is one of the ways that makes people get addicted to gambling. Have seen a guy before that doesn’t have any source of income, he depends on gambling for survival, definitely people like this will get addicted to gambling.

Poor people mostly have no high quality education and bad in maths. They can`t count correct and think that they can get easy money from gambling. Same time they have not enough money to play clever, with small risks. As result they make silly bets and lose money, but think that they have to try one more time. And lose again and again.
Rich people don`t have such problems and gambling for them is just an entertainment. They pay some money to have a good time.

Rich people still get addicted especially that they can easily gamble if they want to since they always have available funds to gamble. However, since anyone can gamble even at a minimal amount, poor people also have an access to gambling, but since they are more eager and hopeful that gambling can make them instantly rich, they become more addicted to gamble and have seen to be gambling a lot more compared to the rich people.

While gambling for rich is just to entertain themselves, gambling for poor is to earn a living so expect that they become more desperate to earn more and make tons of money.

I actually think it's maybe because the motives for playing are different. Poor people want to get rich quickly, so they stick to that one thing that gives them hope; chasing wins every day until it's too late to turn back.

For rich people, I don't think it's because all needs are met. It's even impossible for all human needs to be completely satisfied. There must always be something they yearn for, no matter how insignificant. But rich people already have the money so what else are they chasing? Just fun and entertainment. Their priorities are different, and those who struggled to build their wealth from scratch will never waste it all on gambling, except for some untrained rich kids and a few depressed individuals looking for a way to isolate themselves and pour out their emotions.

It seems like they don't but they do.
They are not immuned to addiction. They only have more money to continue putting on games despite their continued losses. They are not looking for more money. It is the thrill. And Rich people are quick to get bored on one event. They quickly switch to another, shopping, travels and others stuff. These are majorly their addictions.

They show off through their spendings and purchases. The middle class where I belong, we have nothing to show off so we stay in our lane. And when the rich of the rich get addicted, I don't think they consider it as an addiction.

Because the initial intention for those rich people who gamble is just for fun no matter how much they waste in gambling they will not be affected by it even though there is a little upset because they lose but that's just not like those in the middle economy and even poor people who sometimes make gambling a lifestyle change or used as income for them so that they continue to be obsessed with winning.

We can take the case of Drake who doesn't even think much when he bets or even Neymar who spends 1 million just for 1 hour of the game, even though they lose big but of course they realize that the nominal is only a small part of what they have so they are not too affected at all when they lose because it doesn't interfere with their finances unlike poor people who will even get inflamed if it happens to them.

There's no rich or poor in gambling when you are in front of your games. I believe, the feeling is the same, however, the reasoning may be different for them. The poor one has the ambition to really get those winnings, in some desperate ways. However, the rich one, would want winnings but not so desperately.
The motivation may vary, but both people have the chance to get addicted in this game. The degree may be different for each person as it depends on their motivations and why they are going deep in gambling. Hard to generalize this subject because each gamblers has their unique reasons, whether he is rich or poor.

Rich people don't get obsessed to make money like poor gamblers this is the reason why there are able to save money. Poor people get addicted easily because they make gambling a routine and a solution to their problems. Rich people can still get addicted but not as much as a gambler that's poor. Don't gamble to make quick money otherwise you might end up regretting staking in the first place

Financial status is not a reason for someone to avoid gambling addiction. As long as someone is still gambling, the risk of addiction will always be there. And someone who is wise in managing their finances will never approach gambling, because they know that gambling is detrimental, and will only spend the money they have.

And why poor people can be more susceptible to addiction, it is because they play with a big enough hope to win, they have too high expectations of gambling, hoping that through gambling they can become someone rich. and that hope is what makes them continue to gamble until they become addicted.

Maybe you're not so wrong, of course there are exceptions to these patterns, but I believe that the “rich” have a different mindset regarding money, they usually know how to deal with emotions better, although some are also susceptible to gambling addiction.

The “poor” are more manipulable and often believe influencers who tell them that they will make quick and easy money; in the end, they lose everything they had, end up becoming addicted and, in extreme cases, take their own lives (I'm referring to real cases that are happening here in Brazil).

• There is research that indicates that men, young adults, single people and low-income people have a higher risk of developing gambling addiction.
• In low-income communities in Brazil, 70% of residents gamble, and almost half gamble daily, indicating a much higher prevalence of addiction in these populations.
• The appeal of gambling is different: for the rich, it is more of an intellectual challenge; for the poor, it is the hope of social advancement.

Note: There is no absolute truth when it comes to addictions, whether poor or rich. I am simply sharing my perception based on some facts and data.

Sources (of the cases cited, all in Portuguese):
https://www.bbc.com/portuguese/articles/c75deey50rvo
https://www.bbc.com/portuguese/articles/ceqgregqg72o
https://www12.senado.leg.br/tv/programas/noticias-1/2025/05/cpi-das-bets-ouve-dois-empresarios-do-setor-de-apostas-nesta-terca
https://economia.uol.com.br/noticias/redacao/2024/10/05/sete-a-cada-dez-moradores-de-favelas-jogam-nas-bets.htm

Your point of view is wrong.
It is not that the poor are always addicted to gambling, dude
There is no difference between the rich, poor or middle class in terms of addiction. Anyone can be addicted to it.

However, when the rich are addicted to gambling, it is not understandable. Because they have a lot of money. So even if a rich person loses a large amount in wagering, it is not very harmful for them

In case of poor gambler, if he loses a large amount in gambling, it is harmful for him. And since the poor easily go bankrupt, this news reaches us more. I know several rich guys who are very addicted to gambling. They go to the casino at least 2/3 days a week. And they take a large amount of money to the casino.

I'm sure you mistaken. Among rich people, we also see that they are subject to all the same vices as poor people. Look at Las Vegas, do you see poor people there? It was for the rich that these fashionable casinos were built, while poor people are content with a slot machine in a local store.

I would say they do but, you just fail to notice it. Addiction doesn’t pick a people to be tied to, it could get at just anybody but, you don’t really notice it with the rich since, they’ve got so much to not exhibit any signs of addiction and they need time to work on those other source of income.
When it comes to those struggling with life, it’s a different story entirely. They gamble as though it’s what they live for. It’s a means to get that life or survival funds and so, every other day, they are at it and that’s what gets them addicted.

The rich do not show any signs of addiction, they just gamble regularly because they have sufficient income stream. If you consider poor gamblers, they gamble to make more money from their little hard-earned money, maybe they have the mental activity in them that they will win. Their efforts may eventually end in failure because they only see gambling as a way to make money.

The rich may have sufficient sources of income and they spend from that and they consider gambling as one of their means of entertainment. They may not think about making money from gambling as a compulsion and they do not put themselves under any pressure, as a result their number of wins may increase relatively.

People who become addicted are often those who believe in some kind of magical success that will come to them effortlessly , without hard work or common sense. This happens because they’re unwilling to move beyond a childish mindset and take responsibility for their own decisions. Those who have already reached a certain level and status usually operate from a more mature place: they understand the connection between cause and effect and don’t fall for the kind of magical thinking common among those without real achievements.Also, wealthy people tend to surround themselves with others like them, and the ways they spend or invest money are very different , things that aren’t available to the poor. They often don’t even consider alternative options or look for ways to change their situation, relying instead solely on luck through gambling.

Well it's obvious that the poor may want to go into gambling so they would make money or s living from it. The case is different for the rich folks. Most of the times they just play to have fun, probably hang out with their friends or colleagues who are also rich. But the poor may not have such perspectives and end up chasing wins. Losses is inevitable both for the poor or the rich, the fact now is that you have to know your place when it comes to gambling. Don't bite more than you can chew. Dont gamble on what you can't afford to loss. Doesn't matter if you are poor or rich..

There was this stupid girl sharing her advice on how she paid her college loan and then started a business, and right there in the business plan was how she earned money from subletting her condo to other students, making $3k a month from it alone. Nice one, girl—your family already bought you a condo, you didn’t have to pay for a car as it was a gift, of course you would have money to pay your college and start a business.


Sorry to say it, but from your examples and the statistics, it’s more a sign of low education rather than being poor. I know the two seem correlated, but still—getting influenced by a guy on social media and betting whatever you have left at the end of the month for a dream doesn’t sound like an issue about poverty, but rather gullible people that don’t spend a second thinking it over.

Your point Makes a lot of sense, as long as you are a human whether rich or poor you are not secluded from an addiction...but the thing is, poor people are more likely to get addicted than rich people..but like you said, gambling addiction is never dependent on income level, even the rich can fall into this trap but they don't get affected that much because they already have streams of income and that's what is important

The bad thing here is that poor people even sometimes take out loan just for the sake of gambling and trying to “earn money”. They treat gambling as some sort of investment opportunity instead of simply an entertainment activity that is supposed to be done for fun alone. Yeah the money is a bonus but that shouldn’t be the main motivation.

It is possible that the reason for this lies in the fact that poor people initially play not for pleasure, but for the purpose of making money, while rich people mostly play for pleasure, which does not entail dependence.

You raised a very interesting point. I think that in many cases, those with fewer resources end up getting more involved with games, often as an attempt to change their lives or escape difficulties. But I also see that addiction can affect anyone, regardless of social class, but with different reasons and consequences.

But this topic made me wonder: is it the hope or the despair that people feel when they decide to play that weighs more heavily?  ???

Maybe because they have a lot of money that's why losing is not such a big deal to them because of course when you are a rich person, not only one source of income generates income for them, meaning they have several businesses. Meanwhile, for people who are not rich, they are hoping most of the time that with small capital they can grow it.

Why do people who are not rich always do this? Maybe it's also for easy money, this is one of the reasons especially if the day they gamble suddenly gets lucky, they will be even more motivated to go back to gambling because they have already felt the win at the casino online.

Rich people can calculate money and have not enough time for the game. Of course if they make money, not children of rich parents.
Poor people wants to become rich, but they don`t think about work hard, improve their skills. They think that they can get easy money from gambling and as result they lose it all.

PS. I think that different "coaches" and instagram/tic-tok models shows luxury life and lots of people want to get the same. But they can`t get so much money from the job and want to get it from gambling. Silly decision.

Of course that is the real truth about it. because most of the rich people normally gamble just for fun and entertainment. that is the reason why they hardly get addicted, because they have the money already. Although not all the poor people that are addicted to gambling while because they always approach it wisely, which is actually what each and everyone us here is supposed to do because gambling is not a get rich quick scheme.

Gambling addiction can be on any gambler, once they have failed in taking caution of how they should gamble more responsibly, a rich gambler can be addicted and same applies to the middle class and poor gamblers, except they are able to manage their gambling lifestyle in a more responsible manner, but many though the rich don't get addicted, which is totally wrong, because the only difference between us is just the money difference, but regarding feelings, behaviors and other gambling irresponsible acts anyone could go into and get addicted, we are the same in falling for any.

Rich people always get addicted to gambling but they are very few, the reason why poor people are addicted to gambling is because they want to become rich through gambling so they gamble with the hope that they will become rich or wealthy and from there they become addicted because they gamble everyday and when they don't have money they see there property in other to rise money they can use to gamble.
Those few rich people that are addicted to gambling are people that believe they can increase there money or wealth by gambling.

Now you said that the poor people are the once more involved in gambling and I disagree with you, a lot of rich people are involved in gambling but they do it for fun and not just for the money, now the reason you may think rich people don't gamble is because you don't see them in all this gambling shops they usually have gambling apps on there phone so they sit in the comfort of there home and gamble.

I follow a popular TikToker and he has several streams of income..he Makes random posts about how he gambles for fun, he loses thousands of dollars but he simply laughs about it he knows that no matter how much money he loses he can never go broke..This is the reason why they say that gambling is for those with fat pockets, if you are broke then you'd definitely want to keep trying with the little you have so you can make more money, this is the mindset that gets you addicted

It depends on how rich this "rich people" were talking about. There are at least one news that a "rich" person/businessman got addicted on gambling that i remember about. He gamble and lost all the investments fund from his venture. I knew the guy before when just stream ordinary, got traction and become famous influencers then made his venture, and the rest is history.

He is still smiling after losing thousands of dollars, and he will never become addicted. Because of the amount of money he is losing, Losing it will not negatively affect his financial situation or daily life, his capacity is large, so he can afford to lose thousands of dollars, and gamble with it, and after lossing, he never talks about it or has the mentality of recovering this loss. But for those who have a small capacity, even 50 dollars or 100 dollars are too big, So they express a lot of sadness even over small losses, And they cannot bear that loss, so they gamble emotionally to recoup the loss. Therefore, the biggest responsibility of a gambler is to set a limit according to his ability, which if lost, can get out of gambling without any regrets.

Even rich people can be addicted, maybe their level is not usually perceived by us. They can easily handle everything because they have a lot of money. Their strong financial stability. If they do not control themselves and continue to gamble aggressively, they may end up like those poor gamblers. I have not seen such a gambler as the TikToker you gave, but a deliberate reaction to losing money seems crazy to me. If you have a lot of money, you may not want to lose it easily. If you are involved in gambling for entertainment, it may be a different scenario. Also, if those gamblers have a strong alternative source of income.

I agree with the idea that rich people are not easily addicted, and one of the reasons I think is because someone will not become rich if they do not have good money management, or you could also say one of the reasons why rich people are not easily addicted is because they know how to use their money properly and correctly, as far as I know usually rich people will only spend their money on something that is really realistic to make money, meaning not depending on probability like gambling.

This is also the reason why rich people usually gamble just for fun because they know that gambling is not an activity that should be done seriously.

Another reason why usually the poor are the ones who are addicted is because of the difficult circumstances that push them to do various things to get money, many poor people try their luck in gambling in the hope of changing their lives.

But actually this is not about being rich or poor, the point is if for example you can use your common sense correctly then you will definitely be able to distinguish which activities should be done seriously and which activities are just for fun. ;)

But the rich have a lot of opportunities and won't feel sorry for losing only a little of their money.
It is different for those who are poor who rely only on small capital to get big jackpots, dreams that even beat their reason so much that they hope too much to win until they end up addicted.

Some wealthy people who are too addicted have no control over the money they have, just play and spend money without thinking that their money will run out as well.

Common sense is indeed important for everyone, poor or rich is the same, in fact the only difference is the ability of capital that is used, mentally and psychologically it will be the same.

The reason for that is because the poor man sees gambling as a way to get rich quickly. The middle class man just sees it as a way to earn extra cash while putting himself on guard on proper risk. Then the rich man sees it more as a form of entertainment because they already have the money, not really gambling to make them wealthy again. This is what I see with the difference in numbers of those that gamble and are still poor in relation to those that are not poor and still don’t necessitate gambling a lot. People should still gamble reasonably regardless of how the nature of their financial condition is.

I don't know if this is the case for others especially for some middle class, but what I believe is that, they are getting addicted because of their DESIRE TO MAKE MONEY.

We know that it all comes down to the mindset. If a gambler gambles because they want to make money, at some point, they will get addicted to it because they will be spending more time, and their desire to make money makes them addicted. Rich people doesn't get addicted because they don't need to make money off of gambling. They're gambling because they just want to have some fun that's all. Rich people don't care if they lose their money at all in gambling while those middle class care it the most, and if they lose, most of them will recover it hence, getting addicted to it.

Rich people do gamble always but lowkey and that's one of the major mistakes why rich people become poor again, because of greediness in gambling. You don't often see rich people gamble in public places and that's the reason why we mostly see poor people get addicted to it and lose a lot of money.

Rich people sometimes are in private places gambling with other rich people, you can't actually see them on normal casinos or any platforms, they don't like to gamble with small fishes. Why would you gamble in small stakes if you already have a lot, that's a mindset of rich gambler, they want more and that's the reason they fall down too.

I agree with your perspective. In reality, poor people are indeed more vulnerable to addiction because they view gambling as a means to acquire instant wealth. I believe some of them must realize that this action is wrong, but they're already addicted, making it very difficult to stop. This cycle will continue, and as we know, very few people get lucky from gambling. For the rich, they clearly use gambling as a form of entertainment, enjoying their free time and spending a portion of their income on betting. There are no negative impacts after they gamble, there's no life pressure because before gambling, they would have already understood and set their own limits.

Anyone can get addicted to gambling; it's as simple as that. Not because they have the money to waste doesn't make them immune from gambling addiction. That money can also push them to be gambling always because they have enough to spend.

One thing among both the rich and the poor is addiction, self-control and greed. If both can control their greed and be in control at all times, none will get addicted, but if they allow their greed to make decisions for them, they will get addicted to gambling; it's a normal thing for anyone.

Gambling addiction isn’t mainly on your social status because both can definitely fall into the same level of gambling addiction. The more you become greedy and irresponsible of your gambling activities, the higher chances you will deeply fall on the gambling trap. That’s the reason why gambling isn’t advisable for everyone, most especially for those who have immature and irresponsible mindset because it can be harmful and addictive to them.

However, I don’t see any valid reason why rich gamblers do not easily fall on gambling addiction. In fact, a lot of rich men are gambling irresponsibly, so they’re also very prone of seeing theirselves ending up with gambling addiction.

This is not true as all kinds of addictions run in the rich circles, probably much more since they can afford them.

I would say that there is some more risk to get addicted if you are rich, because you may throw money at some games more easily thinking it won't have much effect. With some time and if you repeat this, you can get hooked fast even if you are rich. We can see this a lot with altcoins. People who made big money, lost it quickly after gambling it on even riskier projects.

One of the main difference into those rich gamblers comparing into those poor or average ones who do only think that they should win up so that they would be able to compensate on what they have lost in the past. They will be surely be thinking up this way and thats why they do end up on being that too impulsive at the moment that they are losing. They do know that they would be deepen up their loses even more and that keeps on piling up on which it will become that too stressful for them on which it causes up for those actions on which arent supposed to be done. We do know at the time or moment that you are playing without having any financial worries since you do know that you can easily moved on after a loss then it turned out for someone not to get easily addicted since you arent chasing up something, but still its not a guarantee that you would be safe from addiction because we do know that once you do have that confidence since your financially capable on which confidence could lead up into that havent been able to look on on which it might already be imposing up some future big problem if things arent that under control or moderation. Self control and awareness of the situation is the key for someone not to be able to be put up on such situation because people do only getting aware when shit things happen already or they are already seeing some negative results on what they have done earlier. When you are rich then you woudl be having that kind of confidence but just like been said that not everything will be basing up accordingly or would be totally exempt you out when it comes to the possibility on getting addicted or getting having that kind of devastation into your finances specially if you cant be able to notice out with those things that you've been doing specially on the spending part. Always be cautious and be that observant into the things that you are dealing so that you wont be ending up on having that kind of potential problems ahead.

Maybe we should bring some data before we arrive at any conclusion? How do you define "get addicted easily"? Is it from the number of gambling activities, the amount of money spent, or something else? Even "rich" itself can be misleading if there's no clear definition. On top of that, I remember reading some articles on how some athletes are addicted to gambling and spend a lot of their salaries on gambling. I'm sure they can be considered rich by most people. I think some active footballers also got fined for participating in gambling activity, though it's debatable if you can consider that gambling addiction or not.

The reason why the rate of addiction can't be compared to that of poor people is because rich people don't depend as much on gambling as a source of income. When they gamble and lose, they can easily let go, unlike poor people who chase after losses. Poor people are so interested in winning that they can go about it in any way without caring whether they lose or not. Rich people can still get addicted, but at a lower rate. There are some rich people who are greedy, and their level of understanding is that gambling can be easily won. With so much money they have, they bet big and if they end up losing they chase after losses too, and because of greed, they become addicted to gambling.

The reason most gambling addicts are poor or middle class is because they are looking for any hope of becoming wealthy, or at least living a comfortable life, and they believe they can easily achieve this through gambling.

The more they lose the more pressure they feel to recoup their losses, ultimately becoming addicts. While Rich people on the other hand, don't need all that. They either gamble for fun or as a form of challenge and to show off to society. Therefore, they are not under pressure and do not become addicts because they simply don't need it and can easily recoup their losses through their wealth or their own businesses.

I though as much buddy! Even if you are having fun there is some extent to how much you will lose, you will have to quit for the day. You cant be deliberating losing huge some of money in gambling in the name of fun.

What seems to be the problem here, is that losing huge money for fun is simply an act of addiction, it desensitizes people over time, especially when they believe they can always afford gambling on the next game.

We are all addicts... poor, rich, and all of us in between. The rich can afford to gamble, even if they lose they have more than enough for everything else. The middle class has to make choices and set priorities, they live more modestly but can still set aside some money for fun. The poor don't even have money to live on, but they still risk what little they have on gambling, and that's where the problem arises...  And when someone is a poor & addict, it is much more visible. They don't have enough for the basic things of life (food, clothing, a place to live, etc.) because every money they make goes to gambling and then they fall into a vicious circle that is difficult to get out of.

Op, addiction is not measured By stratification, anyone can be addicted Including the rich people, the middle class And the poor. Addiction is ochestrated By greed And that is the more reason the rich people fall victim because they want To fill their Pockets through every means.
Every addicted Person sees it as a quest To earn more And that is why he or she does not even believe that he or she is an addict.However, My point here is that everyone can be an addict Including the Upper class individuals, middle class individuals And the lower class individuals.

OP, do you really want to hear an answer for such an obvious question? I think its obvious - rich people get less addicted to gambling, because most of them gamble for fun for real. But the rest, who say they gamble for fun, usually lie to us and themselves, because money is still matter a lot to them. Also as one of the reasons might be that rich have more options of entertainment than others, making gambling not as interesting activity as it is for the others.

In a way this is true poor people see gambling as a chance to change their lives for the better to become rich. And maybe they keep playing not because of the pressure from previous losses and the desire to win it back although there is some truth in that too. I think they continue because they are still hoping for that jackpot that will change their lives. In reality there are very few players who win big but such people do exist. And the poor who keep losing continue to play simply because they are waiting for their chance. It is easier to spend a couple of dollars on a game in the evening than to organize something start their own business look for a better paying job or get a new qualification.

I agree with you. There was a time I read about some celebrities which are musicians owing casinos some huge amount of money. The casino do allow them to gamble on debt because they know that they have a means of paying back the funds. Addiction doesn't care if you are a rich guy or not, if you gamble without control, you will get addicted.

I am one of those who see your question as inappropriate because "the rich also cry."

You need to move closer to the rich to learn some things about them before you know that they are not the superhuman most people perceive them to be. Many of them are even worse than the poor/middle class in some habits. And frankly, if you must know, yes, the rich are addicted to gambling too, and gambling has ruined the fortune of a few of them, it's no news.

Still, many of them know how to handle their gambling lifestyle well, yet they frequently gamble. The good fortune and business they can fall back on continue to be a solid support for them. Note that many of them can be addicted due to greed or their love for gambling, it mustn't always be solely for the lack of money.

Yes I agree with your idea and maybe I will complete it a little which is one of the reasons why rich people tend not to be addicted to gambling is because they usually have a different way of thinking, they know how to distinguish between what activities should be done seriously and what activities are only done to find entertainment in the middle of free time, rich people will not want to spend too much money on something that does not guarantee profit. Another thing that cannot be denied is that there are always two-faced gamblers, meaning in front of other people they say that they gamble for entertainment when in fact they come to try to make money, I can distinguish what the real purpose of a gambler is from their expression when they lose, they will not be able to lie in that situation.

In this example it is easier for wealthy musicians to get into debt because the casino offers them a high credit limit knowing they might have big money. Celebrities keep playing because they know they might have large fees coming in the future which they can use to cover their losses. But not everyone has such opportunities and not everyone can deal with their debts. If someone gets too carried away with gambling because no matter how rich you are every person has a critical limit where they can no longer cope either with the game or with debts.

Actually, I’ve noticed the same pattern in many places a lot of people who struggle financially turn to gambling as a quick escape or hope for a big win that could change their situation, It’s more about desperation than greed in most cases middle class people gamble too but maybe with more control the rich might gamble for fun but not with the same emotional weight. So yeah I think poverty and hopelessness play a big role in gambling addiction, it’s not just about money it’s about trying to feel in control or lucky even for a moment

I dont think that addictions understand who to hit, and divide people on rich or poor. I think that everyone can get addicted to gambling equally and the explanation for that is simple. Both rich and poor care about money they spend on gambling, both dont like to lose, both can have an idea to try to win back, both can have an idea to return, both can get greedy. Poor gamble with a wish to become a millionaire. Millionaire gamble with a wish to become a billionaire. Billionaire gamble with a wish...

I have noticed that a lot of posters say that rich people dont get addicted easily, because they can afford to lose, they dont care about money and so on. Do you think that rich people gamble like regular gamblers, with $1-100 bets? They bet thousands and hundred thousands and similarly lose and return for a new portion of emotions.

I think you are a little bit off with your explanation here because most people who are wealthy and have so much money that they won't even be able to spend at once in gambling, even if they want, wouldn't gamble for gains but they do it as a hobby and to have some fun. On the other hand, those who are either poor or come from middle-class families will gamble for gains because they know that gambling has the possibility of giving them life-changing amounts of money, so they keep trying to hit that, even though they know the odds for that are very tiny.

Wealthy people gamble when they go on vacations, or when they have free time and need an activity to do. It isn't for all rich people, everyone will have different activities based on their interests. Some will play golf, some will ride horses, but some might like gambling, so they go to expensive and big casinos and gamble for a while, and get back when they are done. They don't sit there and say that they won't leave until they recover their money in case they lose, and that's because they have so much of it, they almost don't care about spending some of it.

We all know that the wealthy love to spend money on things they like. I mean, who wouldn't?

Why people feel the rich don't get addicted to gambling is simply because when the addiction begins to maturate the must have gone bankrupt already. So they no longer afford the luxury the used to and their appearance then look very much like someone who hasn't seen money in their entire life.

Addiction is worst amongst the rich. Just the same way a poor person will sell their items just to gamble, the same is applicable to the rich and that of the rich is even worst that they tend to stake higher because at that point they can afford it until they eventually go broke.

Perhaps they are addicted as well. But not the same as poor people. When it comes to spending, they can afford more than the others, and they could lose more as well. The only difference is that they don't feel the loss of their money because money is not a problem for them.

That is why we might think that rich people are not easily addicted because they are not showy in their actions. Whatever happens to rich people, they remain rich. But for the average and poor people, losing is a big deal for them.

I think you're assumptions is off track cause as we all know addictions is no respecter of anybody and when sometimes having this feeling seems like it's always favourable to the other side whereas the  poor are subjected to  being addicted. I tell you it's not true because it's how you control oneself that matters, the rich can have that self control over their habits Abit the poor in the other will want to  do otherwise and get the flag of being prominent with addictions.

I think the leading criterion for determining how easily a rich person can become addicted to gambling is where he got his wealth in the first place.
The thing is that all rich people are divided into two types - those who inherited a huge fortune and just live their lives without straining themselves. And the second type is those who earned all this huge money themselves with their labor and brains.
So it turns out that the first type will most likely be easily influenced in gambling, and the second type are people who have a strong core.

You did not present data to back up the discussion, based on one study.
https://kindbridge.com/gambling/why-do-rich-people-gamble/

You're post is speculative, the article clearly states it's the other way around. In fact, we have many athletes who made fortunes and lost a lot in gambling; two of them are Tiger Woods and Michael Jordan.
If you have the means, you will not have a second thought about risking your money on gambling.

Addiction in gambling is not by our individual status, but how we understand being a responsible gambler and knows what to do at the right time, just as we already have it, that some may not be able to manage their own self effectively because of their kind of nature and behaviors to doing something, while on the contrary, we also have some who are extremely disciplined in doing things, this is how it applies to everyone of us, we choose to become whom we turned to be, as no one lured us into such behavior, rich or poor can get addicted by any chance if they are not careful.

The rich knows what it takes to be rich so they won't want to ruin what they've built for years all in the name of luck, moreover they've built something that would constantly generate wealth so why do you expect them to take chances and gamble majority of their wealth to make more, they invest on stuffs that ensure profit no matter how long it takes, that's why they buy gold, landed properties, Bitcoin and the rest of other investment opportunities, most rich men gamble to entertain themselves with what they can afford to lose whereas most poor people are eager to get rich they depend on chance and sometimes risk all they got and believe they might get lucky, that's why you'll see a poor man gamble with $20 to win $200k or $2m, and majority of them see gambling as an opportunity to get rich quick that's why they keep try over and over everyday till it turns into an addiction.

You may be right if you noticed that majority of this addicted  gamblers are not even up to a middle class, and that's how it is in other countries across, that's for those countries that make gambling a legal tender. just as it is in my country majority of addicted gamblers here are those that are wallowing in poverty, and that is because they think that's the only way they can be able to make it, and this would make them to  prioritize gambling over any other thing why those middle/rich may not have much time to be spending 24hours to gamble due to thier schedule so they only gamble during thier free time which is why rich people don't get addicted so easily. Though addiction is not limited to poor people alone the Rich can also be a prey to that but the rate of poor addicted gamblers is never to be compared with the rate of rich addicted gamblers.

The answer lies into the question. They don't get addicted because they are rich. Why do people start gambling? There are some who do it for fun and there are others who do it to earn money. We all know that casino games aren't designed in a way to make you rich, they gain at least a slight mathematical advantage to not go bankrupt and make some profit.
So, since many poor or low-income people start gambling to become rich, that's why we see many poor people addicted. Rich people already have money and their motivation isn't to earn further, they mostly gamble to have some fun and that's all, you can't make rich poor via casino, that's only in very rare circumstances.

They say that a lottery is a tax on poor people. This is partly because they are likely to be less educated and understand the mathematics involved or how (un)likely they are to win at a casino long term. They are less likely to have much financial knowledge because it is often not taught adequately in schools, which means they may suffer from predatory financial practices later in life - it's a vicious circle. As to the point about rich people, they are marginally less likely to fall into a gambling routine, as gambling can often be connected with boredom, but when you have money it gives you a lot more freedom to do things. There are definitely rich gamblers who are addicted and lose a lot though, but they are rare and you're unlikely to hear their stories very often.

From where I stand, you're absolutely correct. I said something similar to this in one of my past posts that bet shops and casinos are often ubiquitous in poor communities than there are in rich communities. The reason is because poor people see gambling as a way out of their poverty. The poor tend to gamble with the mindset of "do or die", I must win mentality. This isn't so with rich folks who just place bets and move their emotion out from it to watch other stuff. Rich people gamble to pass time, and it's not what they do often. So, it's not that easy getting addicted to it. However, that isn't to say that there won't be a few who are addicted. It's just that the numbers aren't as pronounced as that of addicted poor folks.

This is not always true. Sometimes, rich gamblers get addicted as well, and they lose their wealth because of their gambling addiction. As for the ratio, I agree that poor people get addicted more than the rich people. The reason behind it is, poor people desperately want to make money by gambling, while the rich people mostly gamble for fun/entertainment. I am not saying they don't want to make money, they do as well.

Since rich people has more than one source of income, they can cover their gambling loss from one of their business. In comparison, when a poor gambler lose money, they try to recover that money by gambling again and again, which makes them addicted to gambling.

Responsible. That's actually a big word that needs a lot of discipline, and I think that is why rich people keep on getting rich, and are not addicted to gambling, because they know how expensive it could be once you are hooked on it.

It's not a business if you are a gambler, which means you will not make money in it, but the contrary. If there's no profit in it, businessmen would rather forget it, or they will do the business themselves. Only those who are hoping to be rich in the short term are the ones who will probably push it too far and gamble more.

This is a very easy question, because they are not as desperate like those who are not financially stable. Most folks usually cover the truth by saying they are gambling for fun and deep down they are doing it for the money . Same thing like trading if you don’t have any other sources you will only end up pressuring your account you will eventually blow it.

Same with gambling once you see that you are not earning much you be in eager to hit a massive life chainging jackpot that can lead to one taken unnecessary risks that they usually end up regretting most times .

This observation sounds true because the population of poor addicts is also high in my country.  Apart from seeing gambling as a source of income, addiction among the poor might also be a result of laziness and joblessness.  When someone is jobless, he would want to engage in an activity to keep himself busy. Rich people work hard and are always busy, which makes many of them lose interest in excessive gambling. If I had the choice of betting or doing my job, I would choose the latter. 

Anyone can get gambling addiction regardless of his financial status. One thing is clear that whether you are rich, middle class or poor, if you got addicted to gambling then you will end up as a poor. It's all about your personal control not about your financial status that whether you get gambling addiction. What I have observed in my society is that rich and poor are equally addicted to gambling. Your financial status can't control yourself from placing more and more money on bets but your mind.

Most rich people are busy with their own businesses or campaigns that they manage, because if there are other rich people who gamble, they do it just for amusement.

They don't really pay attention to it in terms of seriousness, except for the other children of rich families where their children are probably the ones who often get addicted due to the lack of time of their parents who are too busy with their businesses.

The fact that the poor people get more addicted to gambling doesn't mean there are no rich persons who are also addicted to gambling.The difference is that a poor gambler and a rich gambler has different reasons for being an addict.A poor gambler would view gambling as a route to navigate from life struggles and the end result is addiction,while a rich gambler would view gambling as an entertainment which keeps him busy during he's leisure period and the end result may also be addiction,it mightn't have a negative effect compared to that of a poor gambler who's always interested in chasing after he's losses.

The main thing here is time just like what you observed...most rich people don't have a lot of time to do other things apart from anything work related, some don't even have a social life due to how busy they are... someone that's poor always have a lot time on his hands to get into chaotic activities, it is said that an idle mind is the devil's workshop...rich people cannot be addicted to Gambling because of this reason

Rich people in my opinion gamble for the fun of it, for them it's more about entertainment and relaxation and Time to chill with friends over a couple of drinks while watching football in their comfort zone, while poor people on the other hand gamble to get rich, poor people see gambling as an escape route from poverty believing in luck. Gambling for the rich is about entertainment and socializing with friends and for the poor it's desperation and getting rich.

Poor people often gamble because they think that winning in gambling could change their lives. They both can be prone to addiction, but yes, mostly poor people fall into it as they can't control themselves. Their goal is to make money, while rich people just gamble for fun.

There is no wrong in gambling, but relying on this as our source of income can be terrible and a big mistake. We never have to consider gambling as our last resort because it ruins our lives once it becomes uncontrollable.

I think both the poor and the rich can be addicted to gambling. But it is true that their motives are different. The motive of a poor gambler is to improve his quality of life, while the motive of a rich person is to increase the excitement in his gambling, and in some cases, to earn more money. If I say that the motive of both is the same, there will be no mistake because both gamble for the purpose of earning money. Maybe some are more interested in getting money and some are less. But both of them definitely have the motive of earning through gambling. Poor people usually spend more time in gambling because they have no other way, on the other hand, rich people may not try as much as the poor but they also have a strong interest in getting it.

Gambling addiction affects high class or any class. Gambling affects rich ppl & poor ppl because addiction doesn't check which class it's affecting. Addition can fall on anybody's head with out warnings.

Whether rich or poor, gambling addiction don't care about your financial pockets, you can be poor and be addicted and you can still be rich and be addicted. The difference is that poor person gamble for money most of the time and it's because it's an average financial gambler that surround you that's why you see them most around you, when you're are surrounded by gamblers that are wealthy and rich, you will know that it's not about what you have in your pocket but how people treat gambling.

People that are rich are the people that are worse when it comes to gambling addition. Have you seen Drake way of gambling? Man has this bad taste in gambling and trust me, that guy don't used small amount of money to bet, it's always big amount and he loves showing off his bet whenever there is a speculation about one event. He did made a bet during Tyson and Jake Paul. He bet on Tyson to win and unfortunately Tyson loss and he loss that huge amount, it was the same thing when he bets on UFC Champions Adesanya huge amount of money.

Most of the rich people that we are seeing gamble because they take it as a way of making more money off their own pocket; some rich people just introduce themselves to gambling just to have fun, and that’s why it will be very hard to see rich people easily get addicted to gambling. Why? Because if you observe it, those that play gambling do so just for them to cash out; the rich are already getting the money, and that’s why I said some didn’t play gambling in order to cash out or play in the form of sources of income, but the poor introduced themselves to gambling so that they can cash out huge amounts of the money, that’s the reason why most of them easily get addicted to the gambling.

I've said the same about rich ppl or poor ppl becoming addicted to gambling. It doesn't matter if they've got deep financial pockets gambling affects ppl with out discriminating in their society status & classes. If Drake's lost in boxing & UFC he'll survive because it's small money for him but big money for ppl like me.

Agreed and we shouldn't make decisions or follow the footsteps of the rich when they're gambling. The wealthy have the luxury of affording any amount that they can use for gambling while we the poor or people struggling to make our daily needs can't have that luxury. We have to be more cautious than the rich when gambling and with this cautious, we can avoid certain losses. The rich gets addicted the same way the poor can get addicted. Some rich gamblers are losing money that many poor gambler can't make in their entire period of gambling. Everybody has their own battle that they're struggling with. The rich gets addicted but they have enough money to cover up their addiction until they don't have anymore resources to hide that ugly part of their life.

It doesn't matter if they are rich or poor people could still get addicted to gambling it only depends on how well they could control it and how much they could spend on it.
For me the only difference is the amount that they could risk in gambling.
They might not be addicted to the profit or gains but the feeling of winning or being a winner hitting big or something else.

Drake has gigantic royalties probably for the rest of his life, he cant really lose that much overall.   The real reason why rich people might not be as effected is perhaps they are already familiar with large risks of some kind or another, capital invested which can turn bad is a normal life risk.
   Michael Jackson managed to nearly wipe out his fortune but even in his case he had the chance to just throw another set of concert tours to bail himself out, unfortunately he was taking risks with his life and it was a bad bet.

Rich and poor alike have the same goal when betting - they hope to win the round. Some say it's for fun - some say it's for experience, but they really want to win. They spend a lot of money on gambling - even if it doesn't have much effect, but they honestly don't want to lose it at all.

I remember how Neymar and all the other rich gamblers reacted when they lost - they were disappointed even though we could still see the smile on their faces afterwards. Rich gamblers are able to rise because of their financial strength - while poor gamblers will try their luck again and hope their finances can recover.

The rich are very much affected, and probably more so. You are just using people from a very small list of rich people who are famous and do not have public issues with gambling or other addictions. You don't hear much about the countless ones that ruined themselves or even possibly their families for many reasons. For one they may not be famous. Also, their families are trying to cover up their failures to preserve the reputation.

The thing is that rich people are a very heterogeneous sociological category. Among this group of people, there are those who earned their money on their own, and there are those who inherited it. But even those who became rich because of an inheritance are also divided into reasonable people and reckless ones. In fact, rich people can also afford to cheat, but they do not necessarily have to play for large sums. Or you can even say that playing for a small part of their income, they still play for sums that are large enough for a poor person. The main reason why it is predominantly poor players who become addicted is that they are forced to take more risks in order to get rich, because their initial bankroll is usually small and they will not be able to get rich without significant risk.

You're right. When these poor people see someone win the jackpot, they believe they too will one day. Even though they lose every time, this sometimes turns into an addiction and a mental illness and they can't stop.

I know people in my community who continue to buy a lottery ticket every week even though they are poor and cannot afford it. They have to borrow money every time, but they can't stop hoping to win one day. They have continued this for years without winning a single time. If they had saved up the money wasted on lottery tickets they might have been able to start a small business.

It is because they exactly know how to keep their emotions under control. If you ever see a rich person gambling, 99 times out of 100, he will be playing for fun. You see those greedy and emotional rich gamblers only in the movies. In real life, rich people almost always don’t act irrational. They don’t play a game which they can’t predict its outcome correctly. They are rich and they stay rich for a reason. They don’t chase dreams. They create them.

Most poor people don’t know that and that’s why they keep losing and make their lives even more miserable. Sadge

Among the wealthy, experienced gamblers set their goals so that they play for fun and keep themselves stable and in control. The idea that a rich person means a controlled gambler is not actually true. Experienced gamblers play up to their set goals, but the idea that wealthy gamblers are not likely to become addicted may not be true. If you have some experience in going to a physical casino you have noticed how rational and fair the experienced gamblers are in applying their strategies. In reality the strategy of wealthy gamblers is that instead of limiting themselves they do not justify their funds because they have enough money. Experienced gamblers show discretion in each bet and limit their money allocation and do not exceed the limit.

In my opinion, this is due to the fact that rich people have financial literacy. Their parents taught them how to handle money correctly, or maybe they learned it themselves in practice, creating (over and over again) new successful businesses.

The goal of any business is to make a profit (profit is a positive difference between income and expenses). In gambling, there is virtually no profit (there is only income). Meanwhile, rich people know that by properly managing the process of optimizing expenses (costs), you can significantly increase your profit. That is, a person who has mastered the basics of financial literacy is no longer so interested in gambling (he understands that he is not able to influence the final financial result of this type of human activity).

Yes, of course, rich people also gamble (for fun), but they become gambling addicts much less often than poor people.

If rich people gamble, they strive for really big wins (significantly exceeding the potential profit from their businesses).

I think that every person at some moment becomes greedy for money and rich people are no difference. Who would not love to multiply fortune? Who would not want to try to make it easy and quick? Or how about stories when people bust millions, sell million worth business to win back lost money in gambling? You think they did that as a hobby and for fun? Rich people have different mind and approach to money, but they also gamble to earn. Not all of them, but similarly poor people also gamble for fun. Not every single poor person go to casino to become rich.

Yes, that's the difference between rich and poor people in gambling because their goals are different, most rich people prefer to have fun while poor people try their luck and that can cause them to be ambitious to be rich and eventually become addicted. But for gambling addiction, rich and poor people are no different because there are also many rich people who are addicted to gambling, the difference is that rich people are not worried about running out of money.

Poor people have a great desire to get rich, because it is as if it is an unattainable desire for them, an unattainable dream. And this forms a bias in them towards the idea that you can earn money with the help of gambling, and if this does not work out, then they find the last money to prove to themselves that it is possible, but usually desires do not coincide with reality, and sooner or later they face debts. But rich people have closed primary needs and perhaps even the need for self-realization, so some of them do not even know what to do with themselves and come to the game, starting as entertainment, and in the end they can lose everything.

It doesn’t always happen that way. There are many poor people who understand how difficult it is to make money through gambling. And there are also a lot of responsible people who realize there’s no point in losing their last money on gambling. Among wealthy people, too, there are many who don’t know how to manage their finances, who throw money around carelessly and treat gambling the same way as a way to make more money. And since they have plenty of money, they tend to spend it more easily, especially if they inherited it rather than earned it themselves.

Basically, there is a huge difference between rich and poor gamblers in terms of their gambling motives. Most rich people gamble just for entertainment, rich people have the capacity to lose a huge amount of money, so when they lose the amount of money they gamble with, they do not worry about it anymore, they never try to recover their money, because they have the capacity to lose that money.
But in the case of a poor person, whose income is smoll and limited, they never come to gamble with the mentality of accepting defeat. Their desire or intention is to increase their money by 2X or 3X, and such a motive or thought always affects a gambler in a negative way.
So it is not wrong to say that the most important thing in gambling is to keep your motive right, if a poor person also wants to enjoy entertainment through gambling, and gambles with the amount of money they can afford, thinking of accepting defeat, then that person will not be addicted either.
But gambling addiction is a deep and terrible thing, everyone cannot always be right for their own purposes, they start gambling for entertainment but in the end they become addicted. So first you have to prepare yourself mentally, addiction can happen to anyone, it is not a matter of rich or poor. If the mentality is not right, even a rich person can become addicted, but we see in reality that the most of the time is that the rate of gambling addiction is much higher among the poor.

I just think that among the rich there are much fewer who blindly believe in winning, because many of them know the price of success and how difficult it is to achieve. Probably the rich understand that there are many subtle points that need to be taken into account, and not just want to win and that's it. Although of course this does not change the fact that among the rich there are no addicts or those who have completely lost their business and all assets. You can never completely relax in the game, because you can lose everything very quickly, and it is better to give yourself a break if the loss limit is exceeded, so we can understand what happened and it does not matter whether we are poor or rich players, because losses happen to everyone.

The reason behind is that there are far greater numbers of poor and middle-class populations that are engaging in gambling than the rich ones thus there are more poor to middle-status people who gets addicted.

The possibility of getting addicted for both poor and rich people is the same but due to the greater number of poor people it looks like poor people are easily gett addicted to gambling which I think is a wrong assumption.


It is not that the poor people are gambling the most, it is that there is more number of poor people who are engaging in gambling than the rich, but if we talk about the time spent on gambling, I think the richer one gives more time to gambling because they have the  wealth to do so.

That's true, the rich knows the difficulty in making wealth and how easy it is to spend the money and with that knowledge, it will be difficult for them to just easily wasn't so much money in gambling because they know that gambling can not make them more richer rather it will make them go broke if they don't control how much that will be spent for fun.  I read a comment of someone that mentioned Drake, it's true that he bets with huge amount but yet we have not heard that he is broke, so he definitely is betting with the amount he can afford to lose and knows that he will make the money back from his sources of income. For the poor, a lot of them wants to be rich in just a short time, that's why they go for gambling and become addicted along the line.

There are some rich and famous people, who are addicted to gambling. I've heard about Bruno Mars, Drake and Brazilian football player Neymar.
There's no verified data about the actual amount of rich gambling addicts. Even when a rich person is addicted to gambling, this isn't viewed as a personal tragedy, mostly because his addiction won't make him broke. Poor people getting addicted to gambling is a real social problem, because their addiction makes their financial situation worse and it hurts their families. Most poor people have low IQ and most poor people are financially desperate and lack education in how to handle their personal finance. That's is why most gambling addicts are poor.

Before going to the answer I have to give you a data from the world population, currently world population is around 8.1 billion, where I found that only ~1-2% of all population are in the upper class I mean the rich people. And its around only 80 to 160 million people where world population is 8.1 billion.

So isn't it quite natural that the number of people addicted to gambling will also be lower than the number of people with fewer numbers?

What I'm focusing on here is their finances, which is the difference that makes this one of those things that can't be equated between the rich and the poor.

Regardless of whether the views of the rich are gambling for pleasure or whatever, they will not be too affected by the amount of money they spend because they realize that the amount will not bother them too much even if they lose the money.
But for the majority of poor people, sometimes they want to gamble in order to improve their financial condition but on the other hand they are also afraid of losing the money they deposit because on the one hand it could be the result of what they get as a whole on that day which makes them only want to focus on fun but don't want to get the risk which in gambling is clearly inseparable.
In addition, most of the rich people realize that they still have a lot of things to do so the focus is not only on gambling but unlike the poor people who sometimes always make this the final focus with the same hope that they want to improve their finances quickly and gambling is one of the things they choose as a solution.

I completely agree that people are susceptible to gambling addiction and other addictions regardless of their financial well-being. It's just that people with below-average incomes have a fairly limited list of entertainment options, in which gambling plays a significant role, as it is a relatively inexpensive form of entertainment that allows you to get a dopamine and adrenaline rush without even leaving your home, with just $5-10 in your pocket.

You're right, another somewhat strange but valid reason is that every rich person has a fairly large degree of being egotistical and that is something that is very characteristic of most of them, so in view of this, it could be said that rich people are not opposed to playing a lot in casinos risking a lot of money, because they take great care of their money, they don't like to lose it and they know that in casinos it is easy to lose.

Rich people have a good source of income to fund their gambling. Most of them just use gambling as stress reliever so even losing some is already fine with them because they can easily earn it back while they have some fun on their free time.

They use gambling the way it was intended which is source of fun since most of rich people doesn’t have a legit social life due to their business or work habits.

Aside their value their money, they have huge funds for them not to cling on gambling to win more.

Good information where a rich person always wants to get richer with his money and is always busy competing with the rich. He understands the value of money and does not want to waste his money easily, which is why rich people are less addicted to gambling. But in the case of poor people, they do not understand the value of money and sometimes, due to excessive greed, they want to earn money in the easiest way, which they find in gambling. That is why a poor person is more easily attracted to gambling than a rich person.

Your words contradict themselves: you say that rich people don’t mind gambling in casinos, risking large amounts of money, but they do this because they are very careful with their money. I disagree with this. If you are careful with your money, you would never risk large sums in any kind of gambling situation, including casinos.

If you are truly careful, you either wouldn’t gamble at all or you would manage your risks in a way that focuses on preserving your money. I believe that wealthy people are mostly like this, because otherwise they wouldn’t have been able to achieve the fortunes they possess.

It's not exactly what you think my friend, those who don't even reach the standards of a middle class and are addicted, precisely don't
get there because of their addiction.
The rich, I know two in particular, who really have an empire both in real estate and economically stable, despite their
addiction to gambling do not suffer.
Sure they have big losses, but their fortune is precisely that they manage to balance with the resources at their disposal.
This does not mean that they are immune from total failure, with the huge sums they spend monthly with gambling,
it also happens that they manage to win enough and more to play again the following month.
As they say, money brings more money, this is a fact! But in gambling it is only risk.
Nothing ventured, nothing gained!

I think I should add another more detailed and reasonable reason why most of those who are addicted or involved in gambling are poor people, the worrying financial situation in my opinion is one of the biggest triggers that continue to encourage poor people to try gambling again and again, I am sure there must be many poor people who try to make gambling an alternative to overcome the financial problems they are experiencing and not infrequently I also hear those who say that gambling is a get-rich-quick scheme. Unlike rich people, rich people know how to use and utilize their money properly.

I don't think we can just conclude that rich people have more time to gamble, as far as I know rich people are usually very busy but you are right that rich people have more opportunities to gamble because they have more money than poor people, but even if rich people have free time I'm not sure they will use all their time just to gamble, usually they prefer to use their time for something more useful.

A rich person, despite having a lot of money, is much more firm in managing their money. Just as a poor person spends his money in the wrong places without control even with his small and limited income, a rich person has a lot of money, but he does not spend money where he does not need it. But yes, one thing is definitely true that a rich person spends a extra more on the things he needs, such as eating at expensive restaurants, giving parties, traveling, even though it is expensive, but these are some of their also needs and they definitely do it. But this thing is not something that a poor person can do easily even if he wants to. But overall, if it comes to spending money without any need, then in this case most of the poor do these things, and this is gambling.

The logic behind it is that they are just being careful and they are really taking care of what they have worked hard for, while in gambling we know that their funds that they put into the casino will only burn and burn.

Often in casinos, gamblers only lose and the winners are very few, so we must be prepared for this situation and situation.

Most rich people are actually addicted to gambling and you wouldn't truly know because we don't often venture into were they are gambling normally which is mostly in Casino houses unlike the normal bets that we that allows all kinds of people in from all spheres of life. These guys are so addicted that they lose fortunes while gambling, some of them go bankrupt and run in debts running into millions of dollars.

The rich gets attracted to Gambling but in a less destructive manner because they take gambling as an entertainment and a source of networking.Other ways,the rich doesn't consider Gambling a financial strategy or a means to increasing financial strength and make higher returns.However,I believe the rich don't easily get addicted to Gambling since the perceptive indulgence differs.

When you already have a lot of money and you are earning money regularly, then why do you have to take a risky path to earn money? Because you are earning a lot of money in a safe way. Even a truly rich person knows what is good for him and what is harmful for him. Because he has recognized the reality in the beginning to become rich and has learned the difference between good and evil in the pit. Even because he has been able to give up bad addictions, you call him a rich person today. Imagine, a person is addicted to drugs or gambling, then is it possible for him to become rich by earning money? No. Because he already believes in enjoyment, not saving.

I don’t know if I agree that poor people seem to be more often addicted to gambling than rich people. Maybe there’s that perception because poor people can’t afford it and it ruins their life due to struggling to pay bills and pay for life necessities etc as a result of their gambling so it’s more highlighted.

Many people have addictions, some very famous, wealthy people struggle with addictions so I don’t see why gambling wouldn’t affect them too. Maybe being rich means they can still pay for everything but they’re still addicted.

Even if someone who is poor doesn't consider gambling a source of income, they can still get addicted to it because as you said, they expect to have their lives changed through gambling because they know that gambling can do that despite the fact that the odds for that happening are extremely tiny and only a very small percentage of people in the whole world have their lives changed by gambling and they are the most luckiest people because it's not a common occurance where a person wins a life changing amount from gambling that too using a vey low bankroll because someone poor won't have large funds.

The rich on the other hand don't care about anything when they gamble. Most of them do it as an amusement to get themselves entertained, they go out with friends or colleagues, spend a few thousand dollars on gambling, get back, and that's it. That kind of money doesn't affect their wealth and that's why it doesn't have any mental pressure on them as well. That's why they don't get addicted easily because the biggest reason why people get addicted to gambling is because they try to chase their losses.

I agree with you, a rich person never gets addicted to gambling, because he never expects high profits from gambling, they have no need for money, so they don't expect to gain money from gambling, there is no problem even if they lose their money. They are the ones who can basically enjoy gambling in the right way and with the right perspective, and they never progress towards addiction.

Rich ppl can get addicted to gambling like poor ppl can. Rich ppl have got more money than average or poor ppl but it doesn't matter because status & class doesn't protect ppl from getting addicted.

Yeah, you are absolutely right, addiction know no poor man or rich man when it's invited and it comes, any body in any financial status or bracket can get addicted if and when he or she gambles recklessly..

But the thing is, a rich man's addiction to gambling isn't always an issue or a big problem because he is rich and can still afford to pay his bills regardless of how much he gambles, and often times, because the man can still afford good life easily, its pretty hard to people around to believe that he is actually addicted..
When it becomes a problem is when the rich man's addiction leads him to becoming poor, he is then assumed to be a man poor, he is counted and assumed that it's mostly poor people who are addicted to gambling, people forget that some of this poor addicted gamblers were rich, but became poor as a reason of their addiction to gambling..

I think that the rich are the same people, and they are also capable of succumbing to weaknesses and addictions. Some say that it is easier for the rich to gamble because they are more able to part with money, but I know rich people who are very thrifty, even too thrifty, and I know people who live from paycheck to paycheck and do not worry about saving somewhere and putting something aside.

So I can assume that it does not depend on the amount of money a person has, but on his attitude to money and his propensity to risk. Let's say a person can lead a wasteful lifestyle, but he will never play gambling, this also needs to be taken into account.

In gambling, parsimony is a contradiction, but for some players it works, I have to admit.
Addiction affects everyone, no one is immune to something that creates addiction.
It depends on your balance, lifestyle, parsimony, psychological and psychophysical state do the rest.

I don't want to offend poor people in any way, but they can often have a bias in different directions of emotional state, because the rich have their basic needs covered, they eat healthier food, have good medical examinations. I think that many of them are educated, all this helps to have greater resistance to addiction, but there are also genes that you can't do anything about. Therefore, even the rich are not completely insured against addiction, but in general I think there are much fewer of them compared to poor players.

What makes many people addicted to gambling is money, because they want to make a lot of money and get rich quickly. Meanwhile ,  rich people are those who are already rich or have many different ways to make money and become richer. While the poor seem to be stuck or having difficulty making money and getting rich . It can be seen that poor people are under more financial pressure and therefore more susceptible to psychological manipulation. So I don't mean to offend poor people but I also believe and agree that poor people are more prone to gambling addiction than rich people.

It will be hard for you to see a rich man behaving rudely in gambling, because for them to have maintained this level of pedigree in riches takes a serious minded person to work hard and they wouldn't want to waste all their efforts to reckless gambling habits, this also does not justify that all the rich gamblers are not addicted, few are, but most of them have a coordinated pattern of gambling not have more fun in a responsible manner without being addicted.

Yes, most likely it will be exactly like that, but there will also be those rich people who earned their fortune not by hard work, intelligence and prudence, but those who inherited everything and they did nothing for it and lived in comfortable conditions all their lives. I am afraid for them, because it is such rich people who are at risk of losing first of all. They do not know how difficult it was for their fathers and family to go the way to achieve the wealth that they have. So in the game they may for the first time face losses that they are not ready for and will begin to prove to themselves that they are not losers. This will happen with more and more money being thrown in until someone stops it. I do not think this is how it happens.

The thing is that when rich people get addicted in the gambling it doesn't affect them, why if the poor get addicted it affects them, many people will know that they are addicted in the gambling because they doesn't have the finance to take care of them, but when the rich is addicted in the gambling they also entertained themselves, so that is difference rich people being addicted in the gambling and the poor people being addicted in the gambling, so we need to understand such concepts of gambling that rich people enjoy gambling very well because they don't have any much bother whenever they lose and they have many sources of income why the poor sometimes uses gambling as a source of income, they are things we don't need to play with..we should not rate the rich people addiction in gambling with the poor, that is my advice to people

Your post can be understood differently. A good source of income might allow rich people to gamble more often or place larger bets. Wouldn that frequent gambling has more chances to turn into hobby first, then into addiction? Dont forget that nobody wants to lose or be losers. Rich people are not exception. Those who say, that rich can allow themselves to lose and have thought to win back, are wrong. Nobody loves to lose money.

It is all about discipline. Organized people are more likely to realize that it is impossible to succeed in gambling with a chaotic approach. You need rules and strict adherence to them. I think that wealthy people gamble much less often but when they do they approach it in a more organized way. For poor people gambling often feels like an opportunity to make money or even a chance to change their life for the better. That is why I believe their attitude towards gambling is different and the disappointment from losses can be much more intense.

People who become rich through inheritance do not know that it is difficult to earn money because there are some people among them who do not hesitate to spend their money. Even if such a person keeps spending money on gambling, then he can lose a lot in a short time. And if they are addicted to gambling in some way, then surely the addiction will harm them more than other gamblers. Though not all rich people behave the same. I see some rich people that their heirs are more strict in spending money. A big reason why the rich do not get addicted to gambling is that even if they gamble, they do not gamble uncontrollably. That is why they are less likely to get addicted than others.

I don't think that people who have or are part of high-income or wealthy people do not get addicted. They do, and sometimes it is a different thing, not just gambling, but sometimes it is substance abuse because they don't get to really be happy with what they have. It's not a lot, but I know that there would be people who get addicted, but the majority of wealthy people know how to control themselves and how to discipline themselves.

A person who is not disciplined and does not have good financial management skills will most of the time not be able to save himself from major disasters. And these things are very less effective in the case of a poor person, because they waste money randomly on gambling, because their only goal is to try to make money. They want to get rich overnight through gambling, they think that now they can easily win the jackpot, but that jackpot never comes to them, rather they will always be drowning in losses in this way.

I quite agree and maybe I will draw a conclusion from the statement you made above which rich people have more opportunities to gamble than poor people but talking about addiction and inability to accept defeat they are still included or still possible to be addicted and feel disappointed or upset because of the defeat they experience, meaning yes it is true that no one likes losing money.

From another point of view, I think rich people who actually do not want to dedicate themselves too seriously to gambling, even though they have more ability to gamble more but usually rich people really love and appreciate their money, they have very good money management.

I agree with you that most rich people do not gamble excessively, and the reason is because they will not waste the wealth they have earned so far. I think this is all because of the mindset of rich people, usually they have a mindset not to be excessive when they want to spend their money, even I often see rich people say that they will only spend a maximum of about 10% of their finances, and that is intended when he spends 10% then he will easily produce the 10% that has been spent.

While for poor people who I often see behaving rudely in gambling are people who feel upset because they lose the money they have lost, because in any amount it means a lot to them. Therefore I always remind anyone including me not to spend money that can't afford to lose, because the risk is feeling upset, trying to restore the situation or defeat, and ultimately falling into a deep abyss in the end. So, if you can realize it you will be a responsible person in gambling.

It can even be said that rich people, if they feel that they are becoming addicted to gambling, can afford to hire an excellent psychologist or clinics that will help them get rid of the addiction without any problems. And a poor person in this case will only start reading literature and watching videos on the Internet about how to try to solve this problem on their own. Yes, in some countries there is free help for such people, but what is its quality? I think that bad specialists work there, because they are unlikely to have high salaries. And therefore good psychologists and doctors sit in private clinics, where not every gambler can afford their services.

Rich people don’t easily get addicted to gambling because most time they don’t gamble for financial gain or navigate financial stress, they gamble for fun or entertainment and it’s not a means of making a living,their losses don’t usually effect them because of their financial stability so losing doesn’t creat much impact on them , the rich can easily let go of the money wasted on gambling and are organized and focus with other daily activities without relenting on it , that is why it seems they don’t get addicted easily .

Let's just say, some of them. But I believe the businessmen who always believe in profits will not get addicted to gambling. They know about assets and liabilities, and gambling is an expensive type of game and a very high-risk one.

Just like you said, many of them have discipline because they know that they need to keep their wealth because some of them don't even know how to live as a poor person. They will probably just kill themselves if they will be poor on the rest of their lives.

It is true that poor gamblers are at a higher risk of addiction than rich gamblers and are much less likely to continue gambling independently due to their limited financial resources. Their search for opportunities to make a lot of money and their expectation of getting rich in a short time are the main reasons for their losses. The characteristic that I see in rich gamblers is that they have a more relaxed mentality when it comes to betting and avoid taking pressure. Perhaps because of their financial abundance, they do not exert pressure on themselves when gambling. To win, it is necessary to be mentally stress free and keep up with research activities. The underlying logic between getting entertainment and making money is what distinguishes rich and poor gamblers.

But it not true that poor gambler are at a higher risk of addiction. Just look on the following example. Poor person wants to make money through gambling, makes his bets and stop gambling when he runs out of money or have risky low amount of them. Rich person can gamble longer, place more bets, get more dopamine or turn gambling into a frequent activity because its fun. Who is easy to get addicted, the one who gamble once, or the one who can gamble 1000 times?

Maybe it’s because they have different mindsets and different levels of what they can handle. Rich people might be gambling longer, but for them, it’s just for fun. If they win, great, if not, nothing really changes. The way they view gambling is different too. For the rich, it’s just entertainment. For the poor, they treat it as a possible life-changer. That’s why their approach and how they react to wins or losses are also different. Poor people tend to be more emotional because of their life situation. They get carried away by emotions more easily.

The first thing to underline is that addiction does not discriminate whether you are rich or poor. If rich people gamble then the chances of losing more money because all of that is in accordance with the portion of the bet. However I do not deny why most poor people are more likely to be addicted to gambling because what they bet on is aimed at finding a shortcut to get more money. Basically you are 50% right and 50% wrong. Where addiction is just a condition where someone cannot control themselves then it applies to anyone regardless of their status rich or poor.

When you get to talk about it, then you're rich.

If you don't then you are wealthy.

Man yet another friend of mine loses their bitcoin. It’s difficult not to take these as personal failures but man how hard is it to just store your private key!!
Addiction can be of any kind. Gambling addiction is one. When someone is addicted to gambling then its the end of their financial stardom. Sincerity I mean actually wanting to implement a bitcoin policy that makes sense and is handled properly, for the good of the citizens. Good to believe in bitcoin's value proposition but to want to seize it all and use it only for international trade and keep your nation on fiat internally. You arbitrarily define Bitcoin. You can make it whatever you want. But a network of 1 is useless. You need to convince everyone else your code is the best code. A node enforces their definitions of what Bitcoin is by verifying and validating each transaction and block.

Keep your own wallet. Don't allow any exchange to hold your bitcoin. Exchanges have been known to be "hacked" and "lose" everyone's bitcoins. I also disagree u can’t be early when bitcoin is the top6 biggest market cap asset in the entire planet and large corps and governments are buying it. My approach would be backing up at the Bitcoin protocol level, not the file system level. Sounds like a security exposure to me. Bitcoin. Right now, if you were to create such a thesis say, it would do nothing but contribute to the pile of junk science in this topic. Stay here with us for a few months.

If they don't believe stableshitcoins are fractionally reserved, remind them that stableshitcoin #1 was found to be backed by shitcoin gambling to the tune of 74% of its value the last time it was audited. I'm honestly very hopeful some of these etf's crash and burn and dampen this gambling strategy where they don't hold any of their own coins. where they get on stages at conferences and call people advocating for holding their own coins "naive maxis"

When the rich gamblers, they are not really bothered even when they lose money. This is because they have different investments that can easily give them multiple times of that money but to a poor gambler, the chance of staying out of gambling is very hard. Every gambler need to know their own status because intend to gamble recklessly.

We don't always make money from gambling which is why we ought to know when to gamble and when to stay out of it. Finance is the first factor to consider as a gambler. If you don't have the money, you can gamble less and gradually accumulate your bankroll with time. Gambling to make huge amounts of money in a single bet is greed.

You are right, most wealthy people acquired their wealth through discipline so it's going to be hard for them to just throw all their hard work away to a wreckless habit. Rich people don't have money issues so unlike a broke man that tends to become more addicted and obsessed because he's trying to make gambling a source of income, a rich man only gambles for fun and even if he ends up losing it doesn't affect him that much

Rich people only gamble for fun. So they have no motivation to earn money and become rich from gambling. Yes, rich people can also be obsessed with jackpots even though their money is actually much bigger than the jackpot prize. So they will not be depressed if they lose thousands of dollars but have not won the jackpot. They gamble, lose, then go back to work. This is different from poor people. They gamble with the motivation and hope of winning the jackpot. Poor gamblers always hope to win the game and get a few dollars for their life. That is why if they lose they will be depressed and continue gambling to get back what they have lost. And rich people do not have such traits so rich people find it difficult to get addicted to gambling. -CMIIW

A rich man has a strong financial strength and whatever he gambles with wouldn't affect him financially, which makes it easy for them to let go of their losses. Unlike a poor man that will gamble with his last funds and expect a miracle to happen. However, life is all about discipline if a rich man gets carried away with gambling, he will become addicted but that doesn't mean that he will get broke.

That's true, rich people who knows the dedication, discipline and time and energy it took them to make wealth will always be mindful of how they spend, even if they want to have fun with gambling, they can only spend the money that their real income source  can easily generate back in just a short period of time and not being too attached like the poor gambler who want to make it just out of the bloom.

It's the only way, I think that rich people see it as something that can make a difference, like killing time, leisure, in some cases this will give them morbid curiosity, there are many types of people who are in casinos for different reasons, some because they need the money, others because they have fun , others because they don't have anything else to spend it on, sometimes rich people have so much money and don't know what to spend it on that they go to casinos just to pass the time without caring what they spend.

Rich gamblers can easily fill the void of losing money because they have more financial capacity than poor gamblers and they have sufficient backup funds. I think rich gamblers seek to win but are not too greedy. They manage their bets realistically and consider losing periods as learning periods. Every stage of the winning or losing season in the game is spent in gaining experience.

For poor gamblers winning and keeping themselves busy in making money is most of the time the main thing. They may become experienced over time but in reality they cannot apply it in the workplace due to lack of self control.

You are very right about different people being in the casino for different reasons, but another thing that I think is also right is that rich people actually do get addicted to gambling as well, though their addiction may not likely and affect them negatively like it affects the poor man, except on occasions where the addiction is on a very high level, one I usually will refer to as a chronic gambling addict.

So aside a chronic gambling addict, it is hard to find out if a rich person is addicted to gambling or not, while it's pretty easy to know when a poor person is addicted to the same, and this is because a rich man has a lot of person to cover himself up, he doesn't go borrowing, asking friends for aid after maybe having encountered series of loses, but a poor man will likely do, and thereby exposing himself.

It all matters about financial capacity on which you are definitely right on what you have said that the main reason on why these rich guys doesnt that get easily addicted because they can fill up that losing void and thats why they would be that confident that they can still play up, but of course it doesnt mean that they are that exempted on getting addicted on which there are those rich fellas that ending up on sleeping on the streets because they have lost up everything because of too much addiction with gambling. Actually its not that bad to gamble as long you do know about into your limitations because if you dont have that proper control when it comes to financial or bankroll then you do end up on getting broke. Gambling could easily that make your life miserable when it comes to money if you arent that good or being sensible into the things that you've been that dealing up with it. You do need up that control and discipline when it comes into this manner if you dont like to have that regret in the end.

Focusing into those rich people then these are individuals who can be able to play up anytime,anywhere they do want because they do have that financial capacity on which not all will be having on doing so. There are those times that rich people are having that more control in compared into those who are poor because when it comes to desperation levels then they are the ones who do easily lose control because of that kind of trait or behavior. Although there's no assurance that they wont be that losing off that control too or they do still that become addicted. It will be that depending on a certain person because we do have different approach towards gambling on which neither be that treating it as an entertainment or making money or income source.

Who told you that ich people do not get addicted easily, I think you are  wong and I think most of the gambler are rich people. If rich people do not get addicted on gambling then how the gambling sites running. Do you think it is supportive only by the poor people who think 10$ is too much? If you think so then I think you are in the kingdom of foolish people.

The rich have funds but they are not unlimited, they're more disciplined because money that's lost, they can still recover it. And they're chill because if they are not calm, they're going to lose everything that they have worked hard for. The mindset of poor and the rich are different. The rich can still come back through the means that they have and the poor will continue to chase their losses which leads them to destruction and lose of focus in life because they are having hard time to recover unlike the rich, they have something to get busied with.

I played one online game with donation long ago. Staff seller told me that the main income he get from small donators. For 1 big donate he get 1000 small donates and it brings much more profit.
Rich people don`t have a silly idea that they will bet last $10 and become rich instantly. They just play for fun.

PS. Of course, there are rich gambling addicts too, but they have much more chances to avoid it than poor gamler.

I think different in poor and rich mindset is about how they use their money, but not that one chase losses, but other dont because he has a lot of money. Even rich people chase losses and dont want to lose. Being rich does not mean that money came to them easily.

I think people incorrectly understand the way rich people gamble. I think they believe that if they bet $1-50, then rich people also gamble like that, and loosing $100 during evening is nothing for them and they dont chase that loss. Imo rich people make large bets and similarly feel bad when they lose that money, similarly some of them chase losses, similarly make mistakes and turn addicted.

You have to look at it from the start like this: the rich became rich because they treat money differently. They are able to collect capital, they are able to work so that money brings them even more money. The poor are not able to do this, they do not have the knowledge for this. And of course, if you risk one dollar, you should not count on a big win. The rich bet more, but the rich can lose more. I do not think that the rich and the poor in gambling are somehow very different in their approaches or results.

Yes, of course we cannot know who got big money from the rich people with great difficulty, and who just got a huge inheritance. I think that the first category simply cannot lose everything, because they understand what they went through to achieve this. Although if at the genetic level addictions stick to them easily, then they can lose everything to the last cent. The worst thing here is that usually such respected people can be given loans by their friends from business or colleagues, of which there can be quite a lot. Theoretically, you can drive yourself into such a deep debt hole from which it will be almost impossible to get out, so the rich can have huge problems if they do not stop in time.

For me this is how it is, of course a millionaire or rich person takes care of their money to the maximum, I have seen that some people are selfish with themselves, that is something that I do not see well either, however they take care of their money so much that they know that in casinos money is Easily lost and that hurts them a lot, in fact that is what all of us should learn, at least think a little more that way.

Wealthy people get addicted to gamble but the damage it causes them can't be compared to that of a poor man. If a wealthy man decides to go all in and take a huge risk that goes sideways he has a chance of getting back on his feet unlike the Poor man that might struggle after losing everything he has. This is why it's always said that gambling is for rich people, they can take risks comfortably without getting ruined by it

In other words the rich has something to fall back to when they experienced losses in gambling unlike the poor who will be troubled, struggle, affected physically and emotionally after losing in gambling. Gambling is meant for everyone but the poor should take caution when they go all in knowing that they may find it difficult to rise again when they lose all they have.

True the rich is not gambling from the point of view of  making money they gamble for relaxation sake and so they are not under any pressure to make money which is the major cause of gambling addiction the if a statistics is to be taken of those who has been struggling with gambling addiction the percentage of rich people who are addicted will be very small because the rich doesn't see gambling as their top priority to make money

They may need the money for gambling, but they are not greedy or desperate to get money from it. Rich people already have money, and if they gamble and lose, they can easily stop and come back another day. One thing about people who don't have money is the way they reason about it.

 Anything they understand can give them money; they believe they can make a good amount of money before taking a rest. For someone who doesn't have money, they are ready to gamble to ensure more money is gained from it, but it doesn't work that way. Most people don't understand gambling the way rich people do.

They also have the same feelings as us when we gamble. They feel bad and sees the outcome of losing as something bad and they're also thinking of recovering their losses. We've got a lot of similarities but it's a different thing on how they tackle it, there are many of them that knows how it can take effect so badly if they lose their sanity on it. And for that reason, they're in control at all times and even if they don't want to lose more, sometimes they also do that mistake just like anyone else of being triggered of their losses.

Sometimes I actually do think that only the addicts are the major contributors to the gambling company, but then again, those who are not addicted yet still place bets with high amounts based on their financial level. I'm not disputing that the rich don't get addicted, but I just want to clear the impression that even when the rich are not addicted, they can still place bets with thousands of dollars and still consider it to be normal and know when to stop after losing their first bet or their budget, and any gambler who still has control over their budget is not an addict.

This question is just like why did the poor think that one can actually become Rich through gambling? I feel like is the poor that mostly go with the intention of making Money/ becoming Rich through gambling, a Rich man may not be having such intention not that they don't always pray for luck to locate them, but they may not be putting much hope in wining unlike the poor people do, when the poor is gambling all thier hope is always in that ticket since they don't have any other source of income and when the outcome didn't work as they expected at this point they start panicking and maybe start chasing after loses, while the rich will just walk away without panicking because they know that gambling is a game of chance.

Majority of the rich people understand how to control wealth, that's the reason they're different, understand when to spend and when to receive, knowing risk management and wealth management is very important for persons who wishes to be rich or wealthy on the other hand, the reason some persons are still poor or the way the are is because they fail to understand and apply certain principles of wealth creation, it's easier to find a disciplined rich gambler compared to finding a poor discipline gambler, and that is why the rich will also end up being the rich.

Agreed but I think why they don't get that easily addicted to gambling is because they got alot of money to spare. Assuming they didn't have enough to spare, they would have ran out of money a long time ago and then they'll be gambling with borrowed money or money that isn't their. Losing this money will drive them crazy and it'll make it easy for them to become addicts. When you have more money, the small ones that you're losing to gambling isn't going to make you shift from the discipline gambler with a good habits that you used to have to sometime different. Lack of money can make you becoming a frequent gambler and there isn't any way you won't turn into an addict when you're left to continue gambling that way.

Rich & poor get affected by addiction. Some rich ppl could lose $1M with out worry but poor ppl could feel like they can't sleep after losing $10. Addiction's going to affect ppl according to the way they've lived in their country & society.

Or, a poor person would be more careful with his playstyle and balance, because money matters for him more. Or rich will get addicted quicker because they are able to gamble more often and make more bets. This is a situation with a lot of "if" and "or", that proves that rich and poor equally have chances to get addicted, equally have chances to get into troubles, equally be good or bad at managing wealth, because history and life are full of different example. Examples of reckless rich people and smart poor people who are unlucky to be in situation they are now, for example.

the amount someone is confortable losing will vary a lot from person to person and it definitely depends on their net worth too

would you be ok risking 1 million usd?
if you have 100 million you probably would

would you be ok risking 10,000 usd?
if all you have is 5k + a loan this would be a huge shot of adrenaline and you should probably watch this position closely

it's all relative

Not all rich people would are that really good when it comes to self control on which some of them had completely blown up their wealth or finances just because of too much gambling. There are those who are that being too careless just because they are that confident that they can make money with gambling. We do know that on the moment that you do get addicted with gambling then there's no way that you can easily get out or able to get rid of it. Always be considerate when it comes to spending because at the time that you do become that delusional or being that too confident about that you can win with gambling then you are just that putting on yourself into such big trouble. People do only make out some realizations when they are already on the tough situation or they had already that been experiencing unfortunate conditions. Gambling isnt bad as long you do know on what you are doing or what are the things that you would gonna do at the time that you do be able to experience out or be able to encounter those common problems. There are those who can be able to control and there are ones who do end up on miserable just because they had tolerated out such addiction.

On average, gambling addiction comes from the lower middle class, many people hope that by gambling they can try their luck, although gambling is not a means of making money, but from the lower middle class by gambling who knows they can get lucky and make a lot of money. From there on average someone becomes addicted to gambling because they want to get an unexpected jackpot. Unlike rich people, they will be busier with various businesses to make money, rich people do not want to take too big a risk, they are more aware that gambling will waste a lot of time in vain

I think you are right, since they gamble where there fellow big men gamble, I think casinos have VIPs so we wouldn't actually know a rich man person who's is actually addicted to gambling I think I concur to the good view and writeup of yours, but with this inno believe that no matter who's involved be you the rich or the poor, gambling addiction or any addiction at all is for everyone as far as you are human beng irrespective of your financial status any can get addicts, they only thing that can prevent any gambling from getting addicted is knowing when to say no at all time, I the area of getting bankrupt we have that severally so you're right, many even ended their life just because of that so you're on point.

Most of the rich people have different businesses that earn them more than what one can make out of gambling. For this reason, rich people don't consider gambling a source of income; rather, it is just considered an entertainment source. When it comes to poor and middle-class people, they are in the urge to move to the next standard of life. This is where they look for different sources, and when the plan is to become rich quickly, the risk is high, and without understanding the negative side of gambling, people keep themselves positive. Beyond a certain point, they find themselves a loser, and the reality of gambling is understood. By that time, they won't be having anything left in the wallet. Some don't have the ability to restrict their gambling activities and start to borrow and spend on gambling, leading to addiction.

I agree with you bro. Most of the time we see that the person addicted to gambling is poor or middle class. Because these gamblers gamble with the aim of changing their luck. They gamble to win big amount of money. And gradually they become addicted to gambling.

It is important to follow some rules to stay away from gambling addiction. But middle class gamblers do not follow any rules. I have seen many of them go bankrupt because of this.

Every week a specific amount of money should be determined for gambling expenses. In no case can this specific amount be spent on gambling. Many gamblers become desperate to recover the money lost in gambling immediately. This should never be done. I lost in gambling, it's okay, I will try again the next day. We should stay away from thinking that I have lost now and I have to recover this money now. This is how we gradually become addicted to gambling.

I agree with what you said, the wrong thinking of the poor and middle class is the cause of their own destruction, especially economically, the main reason is because most think gambling can be used as income, not even a few who consider gambling as the main income, they do this without caring about the risks that will be faced, even though we know gambling is speculation or luck, although there are sports bets that have a greater chance of winning if you are able to analyze the possibilities that will occur. However, there are still unlucky days not on the calendar.

Regardless of rich or poor, in the end, addiction will come for anyone no matter how much wealth or how little wealth they have, the name of addiction will be very difficult to break.
It's just that what distinguishes between rich and poor people when gambling is the intention they have from the start because sometimes their initial intentions are clearly different because poor people are more likely to want to win because they want to improve their finances from an economic point of view but in a risky and misguided way but sometimes rich people although they want to win but they don't really care about what they spend on their gambling.

They will lose but they will not regret too much because their finances are still sufficient and even still very much different from the poor who sometimes when they lose then they will try to find anything including loans and sell their assets just to gamble again and this is a very far difference in the end.

Just like every other habit circulated everywhere, so also gambling addiction is spread from the poor to the middle class to rich, addiction is not tied to only one set of person the only difference is that, that if the poor is well pronounced and visible for people to see, the rich quietly live their lives without anybody noticing it,their chances of recovery are much greater than those less fortunate.
Gambling has the ability to stimulate the brain's reward system much like drugs or alcohol can, leading to addiction.
Gambling addiction can be happen to any age group, gender

I think the rich have multiple sources of income, so if they lose in gambling, they are not as eager to recover their losses as others, which is why the rich become rich, while the poor remain poor. When the poor lose, they do not find any other source of income to recover their losses, which is why they are more prone to chasing losses. Those who try to chase losses are also more likely to become addicted to gambling. Some try to keep betting even if they borrow money to recover their losses. That's why the poor are more likely to be addicted to gambling than the rich. Despite some exceptions, in most cases, poor gamblers are more addicted.

Of course, everyone loses, both rich and poor, but the main difference between them is that they have completely different goals when visiting casinos. And while the rich visit casinos in most cases in order to have fun with friends, the poor players always pursue one goal - to win. But since the casino is not a place where you can earn money, they come back to lose their money again, which leads to additional expenses and, as a result, to addiction.

Not only poor people, rich people are also addicted to gambling, even rich people usually play more often on high-risk bets such as playing exclusively in big casinos, but because rich people have a lot of spare money so even though they often experience big losses but it does not directly affect their finances, it makes many people assume that rich people are not addicted to gambling, unlike poor people who gamble where their finances are limited and are even willing to risk all their income in bets so that when they lose it makes them lose everything.

I dont agree that rich people dont get addicted. They do get addicted to gambling and for them it is like a status symbol that this person plays in this casino and so on.

Then there are those who dont get addicted, it does not matter, it is a personal choice whether to play or not to play.

Once again gambling in majority of the dens is from the lower middle class because they are the ones easily swayed by the get-rich-quick schemes and are looking to double their money. Hence casinos have this class system to keep that "filth" (as the English would say) out. They have this VIP systems and so on - they serve twofold, along with this class system they impart a false sense of pride to the player so that they dont leave and continue playing.

I agreed that rich people do get addicted to gambling too but atleast they have the money they can risk, their main source of income is very important to them than gambling because they know that all hell will break loose if they use gambling as their main source of income, rich people are smart atleast, that's why they are even rich in the first place.

Now back to normal people around us today, they don't have the money but they want to escape poverty using gambling, acceptable, why can't they just use only what they can afford to lose then? I guess this is because they have to become rich, this is their goal.

The rich people are already rich, that's the difference, so they even enjoy gambling than people that are not rich, they do it for fun and make more money instead if possible, now who is a responsible gambler here if not the rich?

Rich people don`t have a reason "bet all my money to become rich instantly". Rich people mostly have good education and can calculate chances and analyze information. It is the main difference between rich and poor people. All other things depends on gambler as you said.

The main reason that the majority of people gamble is to get rich and take a short cut to get there. If you are already rich and money is no object to you, then there is less of a pull from that perspective. It's not impossible for a rich person to get addicted, as some people are greedy and always want to accumulate more. At a certain point though, it becomes less about the money and more about the habit that has formed. When you have been doing the same thing day after day for months, then you start to create a robotic routine for yourself and there is a bit of "chasing your losses" thrown into the mix. That routine can be very difficult to break free from unless you're ready to let go.

Reasons is that Rich people no longer need gambling funds to succeed, No amount of funds they will win from gambling that will make them to be addicted to gambling, Rich men gamble for entertainment reason which is the reason they don't get addicted easily like poor people got addicted to gambling, But the majority of people that got addicted to gambling are poor people because they are looking for quick funds to settle some financial issues or seeking for quick funds to flex, and it has led many poor people to be addicted to gambling,

True but how many rich people do you know that ended up losing everything to gambling? Since I've been on the Internet I've only read such news twice about rich people that turned broke because they lose fortune in gambling, now let's compare this to the poor.

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The poor have lost more money than the rich, not in numbers of amount but the affordability, poor people will starve themselves, take loan, borrow money from friends and family thinking that they can get rich overnight with gambling only to end up in more debt.

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The big difference is the rich can afford to take risks in gambling more than the poor because they always have enough spare money around them, it's also the same reason why they risk higher amount, all still leads to affordability to lose.

Rich people do get addicted to gambling ,I have seen rich men staking huge amounts of money into gambling in fact when it comes to staking huge amounts of money it is mostly the rich folks that does it.I have heard of rich folks being addicted to gambling and almost losing all their wealth to gambling.however when compared to the poor in terms of numbers , the majority of the people that is addicted to gambling is the poor because they want to make generational wealth through gambling.Most of the rich folks that is addicted to gambling made there wealth through illegal means such as drugs business some too are wealth they inherit from families.This class of rich folks easily get addicted to gambling when compared to those that build there wealth by themselves.

You're on point mate, I see some people with the contradiction that poor people are even more careful when it comes to gamble,  but that perception is wrong. Most of the poor is as a result of no jobs or low paying jobs and they'll always want to to meet up with life's expectations and that usually is the reason they start gambling to increase their funds without considering the probability of losing everything. And just as you said lack of proper education for the poor doesn't give them an hedge to having very high IQ and forsee some certain things until they've experienced it. And of a truth education doesn't just make us literate persons it also helps build and expand our brain thinking faculty to solve very critical problems.

I don't think it's that simple. Some people become rich because they took a risk at the right time and got lucky. Others inherited their wealth from their parents. Not all rich people know how to manage money properly; they just have many more tools that allow them, if not to increase their money, then at least to protect it from inflation. Rich people spend money on entertainment just like poor people, only many times more, because a $1 bet will not bring them any pleasure. They need much more risk.

Btw I havent seen a rich person being reckless with money. I have never seen such rich person, who would ever say that he does not care about money. Rarely we see rich people living ascetic way of life. I think we call them either weird, or admire them. Nevertheless rich people have more experience with money, they wont resist get rich quick method if they have a chance. Sometimes I think that they are more lose chasers than poor people. Losing $1 or $100k, what is more disappointing? I think that rich person would wish to get his $100k back more than poor person his $1.

It's true that the huge number of addicted gamblers are not rich people, but there are not too many rich addicted gamblers but the truth is, not all rich people are actually gambling for fun, that's a false believe. Some people are rich that they can live a comfortable lifestyle but because they are not satisfied and they want to get more money, they can decide to go into gambling for the reason of making more money from gambling. So, there are addicted rich gamblers who didn't go for entertainment but for the financial profits.

Gambling is designed with the dream of getting a jackpot or a big multiplier which for poor people is an opportunity they must get. Although gambling also designs a VIP system to give a sense of pride and arrogance to rich gamblers, but basically they are already rich and their motivation to gamble is for status, not for money. I do not deny that there are rich gamblers who are addicted but such cases are very rare. So I think I do not include them in my calculations. This is different from what we see or maybe what I see in my environment. Where most gamblers are poor people who expect wealth. And ironically 90% of them are addicted to gambling. They are even willing to sell their assets to gamble in the hope of getting back what has been lost. I think if there are rich people who still gamble to increase their wealth, it means they are not rich enough from their salary or income. The real rich people are those who have money that can even be bigger than most jackpots offered in casinos. -CMIIW

I just realized that the VIP system was one of the purposes for such things. And it makes sense when you think about it because this system can easily show the VIP process between the lower middle class and the rich. But what if the VIP system is not their purpose, and is just for gambling. I mean rich gamblers can also move from one casino to another, right? And maybe they don't care about the VIP system either.

Both the rich and poor get addicted to gambling but it's more noticable in poor people, they are the ones that it hits very hard. Because of the excess money that the rich gambling addicts have they can be able to fund their addiction, as long as it doesn't render them broke they'll keep being addicted. But it's a different ball game for poor addicts, they will face a lot of financial chalanges if they are not winning often and it'll become noticable. A poor gambling addict is always looking for money to gamble, they can sell their properties and be in dept to raise money for gambling.

Of course rich people do get addicted, but they don't get addicted so easily, because rich people don't rely much on gamble like most of this poor people that prioritize gamble instead of looking for a more reliable source of getting money, a rich man can only visit the casino during his free time or maybe after he most have return from work, while most of this poor people can choose to spend 24hours in the casino since they don't have something important to do with thier time so they thing spending it in the casino is worth it, This  is the reason why the poor people get addicted the most.

A rich person who got rich through luck based sources are the only ones who are addicted to luck niches like gambling, truth be told many rich people don't believe in Luck, they believe in hard work in a rare manner that isn't popular, they work in a smart way which means they don't do the same thing that the general people are doing.

Gambling isn't been smart, it's a fools game let's be honest, this is why you should also gamble in a way that suits a fool game, by risking very little amount of your income only.

Poor people are punished by their own mindset, that's why most gamblers are poor because they want the impossible dream from gambling, the highest numbers of people gambling are those that are struggling in life.

This is actually about the mindset of rich people and those who are not. And this is also related to the self-discipline that rich people have compared to those who are not.

Rich people gamble at a rate they can afford to lose. This means that they only gamble with money that they are not afraid of losing. And they also only gamble for fun and not to seek more profits. Because we know that rich people have made a lot of money from the companies they own. What they are looking for and what they need is fun. And rich people have good financial management.

Meanwhile, ordinary people sometimes gamble because they want to get big profits instantly. Regardless of the risks involved. Sometimes they are not even ready for the risks they face. Like sometimes they bet with money they are not even ready to lose.

No, i don't think anyone meant that rich people aren't exposed to some sort of addiction, let's say it usually doesn't happen to them, that's all.
They have a different culture and don't need money to eat, so they fall into the psychological trap of gambling with more difficulty. They fall into it anyway.

Yes, rich people can still get caught up in gambling addiction. But they do know how to make money and spend their money properly. Rich gamblers have enough knowledge not to get caught up in the psychology of gambling that forces them to bet bigger, even after continuous losses.
There are still those who initially have quite a lot of money, but run out of it in gambling. However, the level of control and understanding related to gambling is different for each person. Whether rich or poor, actually every gambler is also susceptible to addiction.

Rich people can easily control themselves in the situation of addiction because they have neither abundance nor scarcity of wealth. Their money supply is much more than that of poor gamblers and their sources of income are much more than their needs. Poor gamblers have relatively weak sources of daily income and gamble to only earn. On the one hand, the urge to meet the basic needs of their family on the other hand they gamble to earn more to escape poverty.

Some are not addicted to the being a winner, they are addicted to the satisfaction they feel when gambling, it doesn't matter whether they win or lose it's just something they can't control. People like this would go to any length to get money just for them to fuel their gambling addiction. Both the rich and poor people might go through this, it's kind of a mental disorder and it takes a lot of discipline to stop

Totally true, I've noticed that gambling money is not a thing of achievements for the rich because they have different perspective and relationship with money.They may still gamble occasionally but they know their boundaries so it doesn't escalate into unprofitable fields whereas addiction.

this is the thing
learning to analyze if the person (or yourself if you are the gambler) is really gambling for money or just for excitement or some other reason
if they're not gambling for money than any outcome will do for them

but if someone wants to burn money there are probably better ways than throwing it at a casino's owner hands

For sure it is. I think it's because they're already rich. I mean, if those above the middle class are already rich, why would they gamble more and even get addicted to it? Maybe it's because these rich people are just gambling for fun, not because they want to get richer. But of course, sometimes even fun can turn into addiction.

And yes, just like others say, poor people often get more addicted because they think gambling is quick way to escape poverty or solve financial problems. And when you don’t have many options, gambling might feel like shortcut eventhough it usually makes things worse.

I was working in Evolution and I know the psychology of live casino players. Rich players were the most generous players, they were really playing for fun and were throwing hundreds of dollars bets like it was 5 bucks. There were also lots of middle-income players who were playing for fun but I've noticed that mostly poor people were the addicted ones because they were betting very low amounts of money and were always complaining about not winning.

From my experience, usually poor people become addicted to gambling with the hope of earning much enough to change their life forever but they end up very differently and then become addicted because they try to recover what they lost. Rich people don't have that problem because they are rich and they do not expect to become richer by gambling, so they don't get addicted.

There is a misconception that we need to quench regarding this gambling addiction of a thing. What is even addiction, doing something repeatedly like you can't do a day without doing that thing over and over, that's what an addiction can be whether you are the type that makes money from gambling or lose money to gambling most often. Gambling addict is a person that loves gambling almost all day, they can't do without putting money into wager.

Where the difference comes is the profit margin, there are gamblers that makes money from gambling and they are addicted but are on safe side, no matter how they gamble they don't loss much because they have this strong affinity to win but a gambler that make losses and still doesn't know how to regulate the habit of gambling is the worse person to be addicted to gambling because on the long run, they will not last financially if they continue to bet.

It's hard to in that shoe when every kind of people deals with it. That is true that both rich and poor get to experience this and no one can skip it until they have recognized that they are the ones who are in control to stop addiction if they want to. The discipline that this requires is a lot and someone who's got through with so many problems aside from gambling addiction is hardly going to overcome this and the rich people are not exempted with that.

What are you talking about? It's all about perspective. Rich people with addiction just gamble with bigger amounts to get that thrill.

And for OP: You are less likely to see similar effects with people that have huge fortune, since they don't have to worry about basics like food and being homeless. They have those pretty much settled. That doesn't however mean that these people wouldn't get addicted, you just don't see similar sad stories, because selling a yacht for gambling debts isn't as a sad story as stealing your kid's money for them.

There are ton of rehabilitation centers with rich people, mainly because only rick people can afford them. So i don't even know where you got that idea that there wouldn't be rich addicts.

The desire of poor people for money is much greater than that of rich people and poor people can consider this gambling as a way to earn money and try to get rich quickly in a short time from this gambling game due to which poor people are more addicted to gambling. Those who have the desire to get rich quickly in a short time will definitely be addicted to gambling. I have lived in my area and compared to many rich people, poor people are more addicted to gambling because they have a lot of greed for money. They want to get rich in a short time from gambling due to which they are addicted to gambling. Although a person has a desire for money but it is much less than a poor person because he already has money. He may not have such an effort to become rich. I am not saying that he does not have any greed, of course he may have a lot of greed but a poor person has a little less compared to him.

The desire of the poor to change the conditions they have is much greater because they want to create a better life and it can be supported when they have a large amount of money but the problem is that sometimes they have difficulty getting this because apart from limited relationships, they also have few opportunities so in the end they want to try something more risky and gambling is considered as a solution which actually makes their thinking wrong.

The difference is very obvious actually when talking about poor and rich people including in terms of gambling, the rich sometimes do not have big expectations in the gambling they do (to change themselves to be richer) in contrast to the majority of the poor who try to depend on gambling as if this is the best solution they have.

Poor people need money, that's why poor people are busy thinking about how to earn money easily. Their only goal is money, not entertainment. That's why poor people are more attracted to gambling than rich.
For rich people, money income is not the main thing, where a rich person gives importance to entertainment rather than earning money. Moreover, a rich person has multiple sources of money income, due to which he does not have to depend on gambling. Moreover, a rich person has multiple ways of entertainment, where in addition to gambling, he depends on all those entertainments, due to which rich people are less addicted to gambling than poor people.

As the title said, the mindset of real ordinary people is different compared to those who aspire to get rich or progress in life like rich people. Then most probably, rich people are more disciplined than those who aim to be rich.

That's why those who aspire to get rich are also inspired by successful people in the business world. Now when it comes to gambling, it's still the same, they are still better disciplined than those who hope to hit the jackpot in gambling. This is not how rich people think when they gamble, because when they gamble, I can say that playing the game is really just a hobby for them, even if they lose a lot because they have income that generates income unlike most gamblers, which is not the case.

The key word on your explanation is "easily", there is no such a thing as "easy money", either money is hard earned and secured from having a stable job or it can come and go unexpectedly from unstable sources like gambling or even by fraud or commiting crimes.
To me, it is not only about being poor, it is also a matter of lack of education, which is correlated to poverty, if one is poor one cannot pay for education which could help to understand the mathematics behind gambling and realize the house always wins, and most of stable and attractive jobs demand to hold some degree of education, the further and deeper education is, the more chances there are to get an stable job, money and not to think about gambling as a source of income. It is a close cycle or poverty, lack of opportunities and desperation.

That is why it is so profitable for casinos to also have some headquarters in developing countries, where there are less chances for people to be educated.

Well I've been able to understand that no matter what both the rich and poor or middle class get addicted but for the rich it can't be detected cause there's a way they gain control of their habits that seem like they don't get addicted whereas they do. But the poor people seem to be more addicted because they gamble with so many returns in mind. On the contrary addiction can be seen in different ranges so therefore no one is exempted from bring addicted except that they can be able to control oneself.

The mindset of rich gamblers is quite different from ordinary gamblers.
The mindset of a rich gambler is to enjoy the game if the winning comes, it's his/her lucky day, but most ordinary gamblers see gambling as a means of making some quick buck, and there's no way anyone will have such an impression and won't be easily addicted.

You can assume that someone who is not mentally strong is addicted. I think that gamblers of any level rich or poor, are at risk of addiction but in reality rich gamblers are in a better mental state because they have more money and can solve any financial situation. There are examples of rich gamblers who were addicted and sold their assets to continue gambling and gradually became poor. They could not use gambling properly they prioritized making money over getting entertainment.

I don't know for sure, but is there a journal on this issue? What I understand is that rich people tend to have a lot of money so they are free and tend to have no limits. In fact, I understand that many rich people become poor because of gambling addiction or other vices. It is not always the rich, in my area there are also many people who are addicted to online gambling, they are in well-off families until they become poor because their money assets, land, houses are sold to pay off debts. But indeed, most of these perpetrators are the children of the rich. IMO

The topic of wealthy people is very interesting. There are first generation rich people who achieve everything on their own and there are second generation rich, the children of wealthy parents who value money much less because they grow up in abundance with everything ready for them and they get whatever they want. If such people get into gambling and become addicted to it, of course they can face huge problems and often lose all the property their parents leave them as an inheritance. But for this to happen they first need to become addicted to gambling and people usually start gambling because they want to make money. If a person already has enough money they might not even be interested in gambling or would treat it cautiously. So you are right that there are not really studies on this topic specifically about the rich and most likely this subject is just an assumption.

It's not that the poor gambles the most, the rich gambles as much as the poor but the issue is that, how many rich people do we really have in the society? The ratio of the rich to the poor is really vast that in whatever comparison you do, you're going to find more poor folks sitting at the recieving end nearing most of the brunt.

In a day, The rich can afford to gamble with an amount the poor can't afford to gamble with in a whole month. They might lose it and not bother too much will the poor might lose his penny and that might end up becoming one of the most devastating experience he's had in the longest time ever. Even when you consider who's more likely to get bored between the rich and the poor, the rich gets more bored because most times, their circle always revolves around work, work, work. And then some that loves gambling might just decide to use Thier free time mostly for gambling. How easier can they get addicted than that? Anybody can get addicted, what makes the case of the poor person more renounced is the fact that we have more poor gamblers than Thier rich counterpart.

There are processes of redistribution of money in the world, and casino owners are getting richer and richer every day, there are too many of them, but one day these times will pass and I think that interest in casinos will gradually fade, although it seems that human greed and avarice will never change. Rich children who were raised by parents and were not denied anything should think about how difficult it is to earn money by real work, and not just to receive as an inheritance or when they were given a part of the business to manage. People all over the world are looking for how to earn money to feed their children, and someone simply loses the equivalent of their annual salary per day. Everything is relative, but the rich also have the same feelings and can also lose completely like poor players.

Beside gamblers addict doesn't gamble to make money, they gamble to feel good, excited and entertained. And they can do whatever it takes to gamble even if they have to borrow money to gamble, just as you said. and this is probably the perfect definition of irresponsible gambling. Because sometimes this may have a great negative impact on the life of the gambler and that of his family, and it may lead to a great disaster. Anyone can fall a victim of being addicted to gambling, no matter their economic status, either rich or poor depending on their level of gambling.

Both depend on the behavior of the gambler, if both have responsible gambling behavior then both will have differences and will tend to cause addiction for poor people. Rich people gamble just for fun because without gambling their finances are already good which allows them not to play to make money and just to enjoy the game and have the sensation and challenge of trying to beat the dealer who is indeed difficult to beat, while poor people even though they play just for fun and are also responsible in the long term have the potential to get addicted faster or easier because they definitely gamble with the aim of making money because the circumstances that make them play slowly become uncontrollable and if it continues like that the potential for addiction will be very vulnerable. Although both can cause addiction, in reality addiction often occurs or occurs more in poor people.

Anyone can get seriously addicted to gambling whether it is the poor, middle class or the rich people. I think any gamblers who frequently visits and play at online casinos would have noticed there are sometimes a page which indicate high rollers betting stats on that certain casino, and judging by the amount wagered by those high rollers, I would believe they are certainly rich enough as they are able to wager with those high staggering amount of money in a casino.

They are not showy enough for us to see their addiction. They gamble without worrying about losing but rather gamble for fun. Unlike poor and average gamblers, who always complain about their losses and commit debts. Their gambling behavior is completely different. They act normally, and greed is not in their mind. Aside from that, they treated gambling differently, which makes them feel they are just spending on something that gives them happiness and life satisfaction. With this kind of insight, we never expect them to fall into the trap of addiction.

There are addicted gamblers both as rich and as poor or average class gamblers, but how each one of them package themselves matters and serves as the major reasons why they were seem as being addicted or not, everyone of us cant be the same, if we carefully checked on how we are gambling, we could deduce form our own end how some have been found with unethical gambling manners, while some have maintained a responsible gambling over the years, because they have the sense of why it is needed of them to do so as they are gambling and being entertained.

That's true, anyone can get addicted to gambling irrespective of their financial status but like what the OP was saying, it's only poor people that mostly get addicted to gambling compare to the number of rich people that are addicted. In my country as well, most of the addicted gamblers that are roaming the street are not rich, even some of them that have made betting centers their living home are not rich people, so of them are even jobless. Most rich people worldwide stay away from gambling and some of them don't take it so serious but only do it occasionally.

Because poor people try their luck in gambling as some people say, they don't want to try to build wealth from a long process but maybe their thinking can be a shortcut, right? The poor people's thinking can be like this? Rich people already know the risks of gambling, they will focus more on other businesses that make money --- because when they have a lot of money, it's easier for them to do it than the initial process.

I wonder why some people thinks that addiction only happens with poor set of fork's, since gambling addiction is mostly displayed and shown on the poor guys much more than the rich fork's, and the reason for that is the available fund's at the dispense of the rich much more that what the poor can afford, and since majority of people judge addictions based on the financial impact on the individuals.


Aside from financial ability between both, all other gambling addiction symptoms can display on the rich guys also, regardless of how they package it with the money they have.

Even rich gamblers can become addicts because we know that addictions do not discriminate. This often happens to poor people because most of them are desperate to win or hit the jackpot in gambling.

Unlike the rich, it is not like that, some rich gamblers only become desperate when the addiction has developed in their character as gamblers because they no longer have the so-called control over themselves.

RICH PEOPLE: have their money, they have the stack you need in gambling.
Therefore, they are playing with peacve of mind that even they lose they they have a lot tomorrow.
they are just happy doing it. making their selves happy.

while when you are poor, you are playing in line, there might be no torrow or no money after a few bets.
when they osse their minds are set i wll have money again and be back to get what i lose.

Rich people don't get addicted easily. I think there's only one reason and that's because they no longer try their luck at gambling. Rich people gamble for fun, while other gamblers gamble for money and become more addicted to it.

Gambling for money and gambling for fun have different approaches and both have different impacts. Classic gamblers who gamble for money play gambling by relying on luck and strategy, while rich gamblers can gamble on whatever makes them happy. They do not gamble all the time, but only on a few occasions if they wish to do so.

IMO, one of the reasons why more poor people are addicted than rich people is because rich people usually have a different mindset towards money and towards something they will do, usually they have very good money management or it can also be said that they will not be too serious in doing anything that has uncertain profit potential, such as gambling for example which really depends on the probability of winning.

So in simple terms I think rich people have more considerations before they allocate their money to something, they will not take it too seriously if the field they are going to do is uncertain, as I said above, it depends on probability, while one of the things that causes poor people to be more addicted is because of several factors, usually because of the pressure of financial circumstances that make them justify any means to get money, the addiction scenario usually begins with success in achieving the first victory.

All people differs, so it is possible that poor people play more careful. But it is true just for some of them. And it is true for the rich people, some of them more careful than others. But statistics is about big numbers and the percent of poor people with problems will be higher than same percent of rich people. Just due to named two factors.

Because most people don't care if a rich person can get addicted with gambling, obviously that person has enough money to burn with excessive gambling.
While, a poor person who got addicted with gambling, he can become a problem not only with his family but in the society. When that person runs out of money, he can potentially become a thief and potentially become violent. Nobody wants that to happen around our community, right? This is very similar to drug addition. Their desire and hunger to gamble would fuel them to do whatever they think they can to acquire money even if it means illegal. So, this is the reason why most people focused their attention to poor people who got addicted in gambling.

The rich also get addicted to gambling but just that it's just few of them unlike the poor that puts all their hopes in winnings from gambling, and it makes most of them fall into addiction. The rich take higher risks despite that they gamble for fun but since they are rich already, they want any amount they win to also come with a huge amount the only thing they do is that they bet on few events with high amounts, but the poor will use a very little amount to win big which makes it difficult to win. A rich man can bet 10 times and even if he wins just once it can cover up the losses, but a poor man can bet 100 times and still not win because their accumulated odds are higher.

When these kinds of things happen, that's when people get most desperate, lose control, and spend more money instead of making a plan to rebuild their money through investments , That's when people have to become much smarter, seek help from advisors , do whatever it takes to get back on their feet But in gambling, when people get caught up in it, that's when they have the most Problems of all kinds , That's why even the rich have a really bad time when they don't have Good Control.

I will say the rich is already up there to start with, which means with or without the gambling, they can still have something to cater for their needs.
As for the poor, they see gambling as an escape route, thereby putting all dependence upon it. And when they have lost, they still dive in more

Gambling is something that affects both the rich and the poor if you abuse it and that's why there are even rich dudes who suffer from this habit and just the way the poor or low standard gambler suffer it's the same for rich dude and in some cases the rich gamblers goes through enough trummer than the poor dude because they gamble at a rate that when it's starts telling on them their regrets from coming from a place where they were comfortable to where it's inconvenient tells on their mental health.

You are right, when a gambler is into gambling and does not have control of himself over gambling activities, it's obvious that the gambler will become addicted in the future. Like you have said it before that it doesn't matter whether you are rich, poor or mind class gambler, if you are not responsible in gamble you will also end as an addict gambler. Frequently visiting a casinos house or casino site can also make you become addicted. The point is just gamble responsibly in way that guy knows will be better and will not make you to become gamble addicts.

from the people I talk too the poor usually go more for the thrill and are gambling solely on the hope of making more money
people that already have more disposable income and understand money better end up having some kind of system to manage bankroll and risk, they understand risk better and they avoid gambling when they aren't grounded and present (like when they're sleepy, anxious or angry)

these simple things already go a long way

Ninety nine percent of those gambling are poor people and they are doing that with out any good hope of any livelihood so to them gambling is one good way to escape from poverty so they gamble constantly while that is not the case with Rich

That is it for the rich, they have a system and they understand how much risk they should take. And if the bankroll that they have started with losses, they have a way to recover them.
While the poor, they don't have those and if they lose, they don't even know how to take it back from the other ways of earning money that they have compared to the rich folks, they have ways.

Yes, the rich people gamble, but few might fall into the addition category, and you won't notice them because you don't operate within their class or circle. Therefore, you can't see them on the gambling shops like the normal street gamblers, they do their things in cool way,   without disturbing people knowing gambling isn't where got them rich, only very few can be found addicted base on some reason we may not know, the rich man mindset and the poor man mindset over gambling isn't the same, The poor gamblers gamble with the hope that there come life-changing opportunity, whereas the rich see it as a game anything can happen, there's no too much hope or emotion being attached to it.

Rich people are the ones that get gambling addictions most time but we may not know since we may not be close to many of these big bankroll gamblers. Gambling is like a fun to many of these gamblers and they don't gamble like the way an average man gamblers. Since many of these multi millionaires have sufficient funds and different investments, they tend to gamble in millions because hundred of thousands which could be seen as less to the kind of amounts they are controlling.

The average gamblers are not really spending much compared to what the rich gamblers spend in a single bet. Addiction is mostly seen with the average gamblers because they are always gambling just to make money that could take care of their bills. Some gamblers can even gamble for the whole days without knowing that it's a sign of addiction.

Well, as much as I definitely will agree with you, I will have to be sincere and say that your 99 percent is exaggerated, there are a lot of rich gamblers, that is, gamblers who are successful outside of gambling, and maybe their gambling is simply to either have fun or they have gotten to the point where they can not do with it and this equals to addiction..

And as for looking for an escape route, this i agree with you, every poor person with sense definitely is looking for a way to escape from poverty, and to many of them, gambling is their only affordable means since one can literally place a bet even in cents and stand the chance of winning hundreds in thousand of dollars, this is only possible with gambling even though the chances of it happening is often low.

This is the reality for most of the poor people that gambles.

Their last hope is within in the heads of gambling and that's why they're doing everything they can and continues to do it despite that the results are not favorable to them.

People like them are hard to convince that they should stop and look for a livelihood to get busied with.

There are actually rich people that misuse money when gambling but like I always say it's not something that can ruin their pockets easily except they are out of control... gambling experience for rich people is different from that of poor people..rich people like Chase losses more but Poor People gamble to get money, a rich man already has money, what fuels their gambling activities is when they chase losses

Some gambles purely because of their financial needs, as gambling can be considered as a means of making quick bucks, an income source. While some only gambles for entertainments and pleasures. I assume you have understand who these group of people are. This is probably the one of the main difference between the poor and the rich gamblers. The poor tries to win back the money they lost previously but in the process they loses more and becomes addicts. But for the rich I believe the reason they gambles are more entertainment focused not money makings.

Rich people are divided into two categories, you have the ones that are extremely disciplined, these ones made their money through consistency and hard work. Then you also have the ones that are not disciplined, these are the type that can spend lavishly on anything that they find interesting. We have seen rich people that gamble carelessly but they don't get addicted easily because they know that gambling can't make them wealthy

I think most of the gamblers know it is hard to become rich out of gambling
but they do it anyways because they dream about it and they have hope

but if you ask around, probably many people understand that hitting the jackpot is not easy or common

of course it could happen to them but what is the cost?

I think a lot of rich people get addicted to things all the time.  It is most likely just more difficult for them to be functional and get away with it because they have incredibly busy schedules that are demanding of them, so they can't exactly be stuffing their nose with drugs or gambling 24/7 without their management team stepping in and taking control of them.  Plenty of rich folks have lost everything chasing the bottom of a bottle though.  I don't think it is any easier for them to avoid that fate than a typical person.

If you are planning to become rich with gambling then you are on the wrong path on doing it considering that the odds or chance for it to happen is just that near impossible because luck isnt something that you can be able to influence out for it to happen and thats why its very wrong that you would be making up some assumptions that you can be able to hit it up in no time because once you do have that kind of mentality then it will be giving out that kind of desperation on which you would be continuing up to play no matter what until you had blown up everything that you do have. If you arent that good when it comes into this situation specially on controlling up your emotions then you are likely that messing up your life entirely in terms of finances if you arent that good when it comes into this approach. Always be considerate about on those slim chance and its always been best that you should be playing for the sake of entertainment and fun not for making money.

For rich people then same odds too when trying out to chase up those jackpots and we cant be able to say that they arent that becoming addicted so easily.Hence, it would be the opposite for sure because they do have the money then they can make out that more engagement because they will be having that much more longer threadline for them to play in compared into those average joes that playing gambling with having that limited funds or bankroll. Somehow when you do have that tons of money then you wont be aiming up that much for more but since human beings are naturally greedy then its most likely that everyone will be that still sharing up with the same mentality when it comes into this aspect. We do know that on the moment that you do become that impulsive then this is where addiction kicks in because of having those mentality.

The reason why the poor get more addicted in my own fact check is that they have a wrong narrative of gambling and that mindset they come to gamble with is what is killing them more. They come with the mindset of getting rich quick which is not how they’re suppose to respond to gambling but rather as a game of fun.

They are told risks is involved in order to become successful in this life, so they think taking risks even more than which they can manage will help them achieve their aim not knowing that addiction was already setting in when they were trying again and again.

Most rich people that are into gambling are there for the fun, so they don’t even bet with big odds and are very satisfy with small wins and they leave the market quickly more after a win for the day. The mindset of the poor is never like that especially those that are lazy and only depend on gambling as their saviour and remedy out of poverty.

If I understand what you say, a rich person's personality changes a lot and their visions of what they want change too, and casinos and games of chance are something they can easily lose money in , and they don't like that fact, so they Prefer not to take it as seriously as others, because they don't have the need to make money , they just want to make their money grow and not lose it, that's their mentality.

Poor people have a particularly hard time when their account is empty. It throws them off track, and it affects not only the emotional component, but also the overall family financial situation. This happened to me at one time. I would never have thought that I would fall into a financial hole from which I would not be able to get out on my own for many years. I had to go through nine circles of hell. It was a terrible time. I constantly wanted to escape from reality and not return to it. Bad thoughts constantly swarmed in my head, which did not give me peace day and night. I could not sleep, and this led to stress and depression.

If a person is rich, it means they have found a way to make money differently, I suspect it is some successful business or profitable investments. In other words, if a person is smart enough to earn a lot of money in a different, less risky way, then of course they will focus their efforts and attention on what brings them that money. Gambling might not even be interesting for a rich person.

Maybe they will try playing just out of curiosity, but if it does not work out, they will quickly give it up. Rich people think in terms of money and are very good at assessing risks. That is why such a risky and complicated way as gambling is something they will most likely just exclude from their lives.

The rich gamble, but they do so for fun, entertainment and relaxation purpose, not for the purpose of acquiring more wealth. With this idea, they don't see reasons of being addicted to it.

To a certain point, to be rich could require a little touch of luck, with more of time, dedication and hard work in other to get results that are fulfilling. To everything one does, there is always a result, and that of hard work and dedication, it could take time but it pays off well. Rich people take calculated risks, and risks that are worth taking, because every single penny is valuable to them, as they don't see luck as a major tool for success.

The poor or middle class youths takes time in looking for luck, because they are not interested in taking time to dedicate themselves into something that is worth the time, and that is why the call of addiction comes on such people, who feels success story lies on luck. Success stories that lies on luck is possible, but very rare to find, while on most people, because it caused no labour, they don't take the time to protect it, rather languish it all.

"There is no millionaire, who does not want to be a billionaire." Rich people are not different from poor people. I dont have statistics, but I believe that rich people also want to get even more rich in a shorter period, like poor people. There is always other side of the coin, being rich not always means gambling for fun or for curiosity. It could also mean having larger deposit or more chances to deposit more. All people are the same and fall of victim of 7 deadly sins, such as greed, pride, gluttony and envy, all of them are widely presented and found in gambling.

I agree with you. Rich people do not think about anything else except making money, in fact their attitude is made in such a way. They conduct all their activities with the addiction of making money. Almost in the same way they have taken control of their destiny through hard work, patience and action. If you ask them to play on the gambling board for entertainment, they may spend some time and after losing, they will lose interest in gambling. Some of them may avoid the issue of losing money and gamble for entertainment. The way you evaluate rich people their main goal is to make money and become richer. You may call poor gamblers greedy because their wealth is limited and they lose their money in the initial stage and later they cannot gamble without alternative income.

The rich man certainly gambles for two reasons: greed and fun.
The first always wants more than he already has and therefore will always aim to gamble with the sole purpose of accumulating wealth.
The second, the one who has fun, will never gamble amounts that can compromise his economy, but still tries to win just for the fun of it.
The poor man, on the other hand, gambles (often more than he can afford) in search of a hope to change his financial situation.

Indeed, many rich people play just for fun, for the ability to assess risks, for example, the same poker. Many rich people love poker, even if they play with professionals who beat them in the long run. So businessmen try to read hidden tells, to understand whether the player who puts all-in against him is bluffing. In addition, poker has a mathematical component, as well as calculating the odds of the bank. I myself like poker for this very reason, and from the point of view of earning there, I do not really consider it because I know how hard it is to earn money in poker, you need to completely live this game and devote a lot of time to it.

I think the issue isn’t about being rich or poor, but about what really drives a person deep down. Even wealthy people can lose big amounts of money not just by accident, but as a way to punish themselves or act out inner struggles. Often, these losses are not just random or impulsive, but come from deeper emotional reasons. And those reasons can affect anyone, no matter how much money they have.

Not only are poor people actually gambling, but everyone gambles, and for one interest, which is to win money. Forget people that will tell you that gambling is for funt they still have there eyes for moeny and if anyone should have the mindset of thinking that gambling is another way to escape poverty, it is just another way to actually put your self in more trouble and people need to see it as a risk that there is a very high chance that you might not make your money back.

and there are people that already have the money, and I don't think they even have any interest in why they are gambling, and this are people you will say they are gambling for the fun of it because there are rich people that during eveniing hours they find a way of gambling with there finds just to have fun were some will even make use of vip rooms in casinos with there friends just to have fun and they do it on specific days.

It is a desperate move indeed. Of course, I understand their situation and want to improve their living situation. Unfortunately, they are wrong to think that gambling will be the solution to their money problem. Instead, this will give them more problems. They should correct this kind of mindset and try to look deeper. Gambling is not a thing to rely on when it comes to money.

For rich people, losing is not a problem. They can refill their money easily. But for people, that takes them several days to recover.

There is no such thing as the rich not being addicted; their addiction is just less visible because they have money. They also get addicted, but because they work and have systems to cover their losses, their gambling is usually more sustainable. I would say that the perception that the rich are less prone to addiction is due to their material and social advantages.

However, these advantages do not completely prevent addiction, they just make it more visible and manageable. While the rich have more options in dealing with addiction, psychological and emotional factors pose similar risks for everyone.

That’s why, it’s said to be a desperate move.

Most individuals that find themselves within this circle of life don’t often look at the odds to success before them. They come to gambling because, it’s the only field that could offer so much for very little. Come to think of it, where would you get over a X10,000 for just an input that is a mare $0.5. It’s unheard of everywhere but, not in gambling and that’s why, people who have lost so much to life just see it for a solution.
Even though, it comes by very little and with a lot of difficulty, they just don’t care. It’s all they see and it’s what their minds have told them that they’ve got.

I think one of the reasons why rich people are not easily addicted is because they have a different perspective on money, usually they always calculate everything they are going to do, rich people have smart thinking and that's what makes them rich, they are only interested in everything that has clarity in achieving temporary profits as we know that there is no certainty and guarantee of anything in the results at the end of the game and I think that's what makes them not too total in struggling in the world of gambling because they understand that it will only waste their money.

this happens too
I wonder how many more people get addicted from gambling or sports betting than from videogame
because on one hand I think the receptors for each could be simmilar but on the other hand I knew lots of players of free games that were pretty addicted but really resistant in terms of spending money on the game
so they'd play lots of hours but wouldn't spend a cent on it

Rich ppl get addicted to gambling & poor ppl get addicted to gambling. Rich ppl put higher bets than poor ppl because they've got the money but poor ppl can't so they'll gamble according to their finance. Rich or poor they shouldn't gamble.

Most of the people who gamble of course they have hopes even with those who are rich of course they must have hopes in their hearts to be able to get victory in gambling, it's just that maybe they don't have high hopes for gambling that will give victory because in my opinion only some people gamble with the aim of entertainment most of them are those who are aiming for victory, it is not strange that there are many cases of people who are addicted to gambling.

The difference is not poor or rich, I think the difference is in their respective perspectives. Now rich people see gambling as a means of entertainment only and poor people as a means of making money but even so there must be the opposite reality.

I agree with it all besides the last affirmation
what people decide to do or not with their money is on them
if they want to gamble let them gamble
I'm not sure if the way would be making it forbidden all around the world or not allowing them to do what they want

Of course they play for fun, most of the games they choose can make them more relaxed and not rush to conclusions. Rich people play by instinct and reading their opponents' moves when raising the stakes, the resources they have allow them to turn things around even if they lose in some rounds.

At certain times this type of game also requires doing something beyond reason, such as placing an all-in bet when getting good cards. Bluffing like this can affect the opponent's mentality and they have to think again if they want to continue the game. Rich people are not infallible, the capital they have allows them to take back their money if they are able to read the hidden signs.

I don't know of a better word to use to describe it but regardless I think the rich get addicted but in a more classy way. I want to let you understand something the rich go to the casinos to ease pains and get involved in some games and with time since they enjoy the moment they go back there doing the same process but mostly it's not been recognized as being addicted but to the middle or poor having gone through this same process they are recognize as being addicted, so they get addicted.

Rich people have enough money and even have a strong source of income, they do not need to earn money by gambling, so they never want to earn money by gambling, they want to gamble only for entertainment purposes, to clear their minds. They have big meetings in their business, then when they return home and rest, they can gamble in online casinos for some entertainment purposes, or they can go to physical casinos, but their attitude is only entertainment.
But in this case, a poor person can easily be led to addiction, because their gambling purpose is to achieve big wins, from which their financial situation can improve, but ultimately in this view gambling, is will leads them to more and more financial problems, and this is a completely true fact, in the end its result is ultimately disappointment and disaster.

Everything you've said is on point, rich people mostly gamble to entertain themselves, they understand that gambling is risky so they can turn it into a habit that would attract addiction and make them lose wealth they've built for years or lose money while trying to make more when they can just invest their money and watch it grow on the long run.

 What am trying to say is that poor people lack patience they're mostly very eager to make quick money and be like the rich class, they're willing to take risk at all cost forgetting the consequences, most poor people don't even mind risking the last cash on them just to make more.

That is also true.
Some times the poor people used to use the gambling as a quick rich scheme to rich quickly but in case of the rich poeple they are already rich so they play gambling for the entertainment and that's why the addiction rate wasn't that much high as compared to the poor peoples.

And there is another point for that the the rich people amount is low in case of gambling addiction rate and the casue is the rich peoples amount is also low as compared to the global population so that's why we saw the rich people's has the lower number in case of gambling addiction.

The truth is that there's no body that can not be addicted to gambling but the poor who are more devoted to gambling are the once being easily addicted more than the rich  who are only few in numbers that are dedicated to gambling. Another thing is that many rich people are more self controlled than the more who are bent on making a living from gambling.

Based on the last statement you made, are you advising people not to gamble? If that's a yes, then why?

for most people it's probably better to avoid gambling completely because they'll lack the skills for learning when to stop and for managing bankroll
gambling for most will just end up being a way to slowly (or really fast for some) transfer their money to the house

poor people get more hooked on the dream of making a lot of money

have you read the razor's edge by W. Somerset Maugham?
it's an interesting book regarding what we really need in life and about life being about more things than money only.

You told if rich people lost then they can recover, but I want to know how they can recover? They can recover by playing or any other way? If they can recover by any other way then I agree with you. The main reason of that they can earn more than they loss on gambling that's why they are not worried about the loss and that's why they usually not become addicted on gambling.

Yes, a rich person doesn't fall into temptations like those, the casino is a place where we can be people who lose money, even so we do it because first we like it and second because we don't rule out having some luck and multiplying what we have, but the reality is harsh and it's that you don't win all the time, you lose a lot and based on that is why the rich don't fall into those things, they are more concerned with making their money continue to grow.

To be fair, rich people are just throwing money to a thing that's only entertainment to them and it doesn't interest them to spend a lot of hours in a casino. Their priority is their real game, the way of making more money than spending time on a gambling that doesn't really assure a huge profit. Rich people already have a game that gives risk but also assure a good money, so this gambling thing isn't a way for them to find money. Most of the time, they gamble just for the thrill or to socialize, not out of financial need. When they lose, it’s just part of their entertainment allocation, they're not affected to it.

You are very correct. The difference is that wealthy people don't gamble for financial needs, while the poor gamble with high expectations of making a profit. Looking at gambling, the psychological aspect of it is what leads gamblers to become addicted. It is very hard for those who gamble for entertainment to become addicted to gambling; that is why the rich don't easily get addicted. The reason why people often face challenges in gambling is that they are very desperate to gamble at all costs.

That's actually true, some of them that are gambling are using it to pass time and socialize with friends, they already have some serious investment that they took risk to invest a significant amount of money with high chance of getting a good return but they are financially smart to know that gambling is not what they should consider as an option to put in a huge amount that they can not afford to lose, because they know that it doesn't take time to lose it all or double it, which can be way riskier than expected.

You've got ask rich gamblers if they're addicted easily. Gambling's the same for rich & poor ppl so it shouldn't make poor ppl more addicted to gambling. Rich ppl gamble more money & poor ppl gamble less money so why do you say poor ppl get addicted easily ?

Rich people get addicted to gambling but the percentage of rich people that are gambling addicts are quite lower than those that are poor. Rich people tend to be more busy so they don't really have enough time to sit around gambling but at the same time it's possible for a rich man to lose millions within a few minutes. I don't think rich people consider theirselves as addicts even though they might be