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We all often write and repeat in conversations about the importance of being a responsible player. But I would like to discuss those points that are related to putting this into practice. Really: is it easy to be a responsible player? For someone, like me, it is not difficult, I am not a gambler in general, I am used to soberly assessing my advantages and, if there are none, limiting the size of my bets or playing only for research or entertainment purposes. But if we take the average player - is it easy for him to be responsible? After all, people often come to the gaming industry with the naive goal of getting rich. And before they come to an understanding of responsible play, quite a long time may pass. It is somewhat similar to smoking or gluttony. Everyone knows that smoking is harmful, and excess weight causes health problems, but there are a huge number of people who cannot quit smoking or lose weight. What do you think makes a person become a responsible player and why is it difficult for many?

I think you have already mentioned some important points about being a responsible gambler. One of them is setting limits on our gambling budget, which allows us to maintain financial stability by using money that we are prepared to lose, as there is no guarantee of winning at the end of a gambling session. In addition, it is important to view gambling purely as entertainment, not as a way to make a profit or even seek wealth. This mindset is flawed, as those who adopt it often face financial bankruptcy, and this inevitably has a significant impact on their real lives.

The rest may involve learning to control emotions when facing losses, never chasing what’s already lost, and stopping immediately once the gambling budget is exhausted. The key is to accept whatever the outcome may be and never think about seeking revenge for the losses incurred.

No it's not easy, if it's easy, I should have successfully convinced many gamblers to stop being addicts.

Smoking is harmful, but it brings nicotine.
Excess weight is harmful, but it brings you happiness.

Being responsible is hard, but life without risk is not challenging. That's why people like to gamble to earn money, they like challenge and want to beat the house. If people said it's risky, they will counter if life itself is already risky, you get a job, you might suffer work accident etc.

I don’t have any issues being responsible when I play games. I do it for the entertainment value of it though. I could see how someone could convince themselves that gambling was going to be how they got rich and then let it get out of hand when things weren’t going their way. The best thing to do is just be aware you’re paying for entertainment.

If a person is gambling, then it's really difficult to control yourself. There are breakdowns. In such a situation, I completely give up gambling, and for a long time. Or, if a losing streak sets in, I also completely stop betting. But of course, controlling yourself in terms of excitement is much easier than stopping smoking. Smoking is one of the most insidious and powerful addictions, and it is also extremely harmful to the body. Years after quitting smoking, I have dreams about cigarettes, but I have never had a dream about gambling. As for obesity, I don't have any personal experience of trying to lose weight yet, so I don't know the degree of difficulty.

It is tough to be a responsible player. I don't know anyone who plays in a casino as if they were doing some ordinary, routine work for themselves, completely without emotion. It seems to me that every time a person plays in a casino, he has some emotions or mood that guides them in the game. If the mood is good and the game is going well, then there is a lower risk of losing more money because there is an opportunity to be more reasonable, but a bad mood very often makes you risk more, spend more, and, as a rule, lose more. Thinking about pulling yourself together at such moments is completely useless.

It should be easy for them. But the problem is they always forget to limit their money in gambling. That makes them still gamble without thinking about their losses. Besides that, they become irresponsible with their gambling activity once they lose their money.

Awareness will be something that people should have. They must treat gambling as an entertainment and not play gambling for too long. If they are aware of that, they will not waste their time in gambling and will stop gambling immediately before all things change.

I have seen most gamblers come to various gambling platforms with a small amount of money just like you to have fun. But at one point they got addicted to it and turned out to be complete gamblers. To be honest, people have very little ability to control themselves. In most cases, people are more attracted to the forbidden side. For example, if I say that no one should look at the sun today, harmful rays will come out of the sun today which can damage the eyes, when people hear this news, they will try to look at the sun with curiosity even though they have been warned that looking at the sun can damage their eyes. However, they may not have looked at the sun for a few days or weeks before due to natural reasons.
The field of gambling is also the same. No matter how much we say that it should be done within a certain limit, then damage can be avoided, in reality it does not happen.

People that have their priorities in order are the ones who don't have addiction issues as far as gambling goes. Some realize that paying rent is better than risking the money and taking the chance of being homeless, or paying a utility bill so they have heat for them and their children is better than the risk.

Younger people who weren't raised with morals and discipline are the ones who are going to stay in the poor house. They were never taught consequences and will live on the edge.

Seeing this thread reminded me of a friend in our circle. He's a regular gambler & he makes deposit at almost every hangout we have. We (his friends) witnessed his glory days until his downfall, he used to say that gambling should be done responsibly & he was one of the people who implemented that mindset. But what happened now, he was bankrupt (meaning he didn't have much money left) & he still gambled saying he was a responsible gambler. It's funny, seeing his money gone on gambling & he still says he's a responsible gambler.

I think being a responsible gambler is difficult, because gambling involves not only money but also mental & psychological factors. Sometimes our mental & psychological factors create their own instincts, making it difficult for us to think clearly.

It is better to form the habit of playing responsibly than to fight addiction. When you have the wrong perception that gambling will make you rich from the onset of your gambling life, it will lead to chasing losses and gambling beyond your financial capacity. Once you get used to that habit, it becomes an addiction. The ability to stop this behaviour and start gambling responsibly is hard. So it is better not to be addicted because you might need an extraordinary effort to overcome it.


Responsible gambling is the ability to engage in gambling activities in a manner that doesn't affect your finances, family, or work and other areas negatively. Many people fail to gamble responsibly because of the wrong mindset they have about gambling.

It’s not easy to become a responsible gambler for average gambler but it’s achievable through experience. I’m an irresponsible gambler when I start to gamble but I learned the hard way by looking back to my total losses and reflect on where did I go wrong.


By mastering bankroll management you can be a responsible gambler. Gamble only what you can afford to lose and aim for entertainment when you are playing.

When you have fun on your regardless of win or lose then that’s what you called being responsible gambler.

Someone can be a responsible gambler if he thinks about gambling in a responsible way. Many people do not think about gambling in a responsible way but they think about it in a way that they wish to make money from it and which is what is causing risking higher amount of money on gambling and also it is the cause gambling addiction. This is what I do and it helped me a lot not to put high amount of money on gambling and it helps me to have a specific budget for gambling.

The truth is, too often we fail rather than being completely responsible all the time. Yes, it becomes a challenge for everyone, and it is impossible for emotional gamblers. In fact, it takes many years and losses before I see how important it is. I change, yes, but as I've said, sometimes I also fail.

I think this is what gambling looks like. But I don't believe we have to be perfect. As long as we never complain about our losses, it is still fine. But if we blame the casinos, that seems to be a problem.

Based on each gambler's individuality, the answer is twofold: easy and not easy.
For me, being a responsible gambler has been neither difficult nor easy for me to practice. The proof is that I don't complain about the money I lose because I have targets, both time and money targets. If I lose, that's reality. But if I win, I consider it a bonus.

Although every loss is a reality, it's a feeling that can't be masked through expression because it's psychological.
If the money I set aside for gambling runs out and I have nothing left, I'll stop without regret.
In the future, I don't know if that will change for me.

Well, I don't know if it is easy or not. I know that I am but we see many stories of people here for whom it does not seem to be easy.


That's what I would say. If you have a complicated personal situation and you think gambling is going to solve it, the normal thing is that not only will it not solve it, but you will end up even worse off. Especially if we focus on financial issues, if things are going badly for you, what you have to do is try to improve at your job, look for a better job or look for more sources of income. Trying to solve financial problems by gambling will lead you to disaster.

I believe it's hard to gamble responsibly because of some reasons, one might be because the gambler involves his emotions while he gamble. We all know that emotions can actually ruin our entertainment during gambling, so if one have to gamble it's very important not to become emotional when they lose because emotions can actually make them chase after their losses.
Another Thing is that more players actually think they can win the house meanwhile they don't understand that gambling is about luck and not just strategy.

However,one of the best way to gamble responsibly is apply risk management and one can actually do that when they risk what they can afford to lose. Most times it's difficult for gamblers to apply risk management because they they are not discipline or separate fo win.

It depends on the individual, for example, i for one have never had a problem controlling my gambling habit, even though i gamble somewhat frequently, but it is with money that i can afford to lose. Doing this over time has made it easier for me, just like someone who has been going to the gym for years, it is no longer something they think about, they just do it, but someone who is just starting off, is likely to drop off with less determination.

People who are irresponsible players lost the plot at some point, and now they are struggling to go back. Some of them have lost so much money and are caught between going back or to keep on gambling with excess money, so they could recoup losses, but we all know how that pans out.

You are not a gambler in general, but you have opened more topics about gambling than many others... Mostly with some silly questions & conclusions...

As a gambler who has been in many different situations, I can say that "being a responsible gambler" is both easy and difficult. The important factors are: current mood, casino & wallet balance, and perhaps most importantly, choice & style of play at a given moment. You see, it's easy & simple to be "normal & responsible" with a cool head... but once we fall into the fire, it's hard to keep the control! The game can take us to heights, and then it is played fast, aggressively, and dangerously... When that happens, the results can be different. Sometimes we survive those battles like true heroes, and sometimes we burn out like that Phoenix bird... to the ashes, and we need some time to recover.

It is all about discipline, once I read a very interesting thought in a book by Bodo Schäfer: you can eat one bar of chocolate a day, or you can go for a run of several kilometers every morning. Both will eventually become habits if you repeat them every day. But after a year, the chocolate will make you a sick overweight person, while the morning run will make you athletic, fit, in great shape, and with excellent health. So it is up to each person whether to stick to it or not is a matter of discipline. I think that everyone should start working on discipline from childhood. At first, parents should oversee it, and later a person should maintain it independently. If there is no discipline, then any task will seem difficult.

To my understanding, to be responsible first means to hold yourself accountable to your actions and be ready to accept the consequences or outcomes of those actions. It means that you set a course of action and stick with it. It also means that point fingers at others for your failures. In gambling, it means that know that you should place your bet and after the outcome of the game, if you had told yourself from the start that you will not go another round, you don't. And if you do decide to go another round, you will be ready to accept the outcome and not blame the casino for it.

You are accountable to the set course of action, and the set rules that governs that activity without try to play smart or outsmart the system.

If I am in a good mood, I may prefer to chase money, although I am not chasing money while gambling to the extend that I will lose huge amount of money, I prefer to continue to gamble in a responsible way. If I am in a bad mood, that is the time I will just only want to have fun and not look for money at all and I think I will be more responsible at the time to even use lower amount of money to gamble. Example is if I am using $1 for each round, I may change it to $0.05 if the game accept such lower amount.

Responsible gambling is easy for some, but difficult for others. I myself have gambled recklessly at times, but I have been able to control myself since I was able to understand my mistakes. In my opinion, the most effective way to overcome addiction is not try to recover losses. When someone wants to control their gambling, one of the biggest obstacles is not being able to accept their losses. Many gamblers try to get back to responsible gambling if they can recover their losses, but for those who have such a policy, it is difficult to return.

Well, we are all only human. So as hard as we try we will make mistakes and those mistakes will result in damages, whether financial, psychological, physical or other.
so there is not much we can do about it.

But one thing you can do to minimize gambling mistakes is to go in with a plan and a healthy dose of self-discipline.

For example: I make a budget and a rule about the maximum amount I plan or winning or losing. And if that limit is reached, I stop. I do not go over budget and I make sure the budget does not break me.

Most people gamble without a plan and start losing random amounts of money and never stop even if they are winning.

Responsibility comes from within and it must be put into practice. Simply thinking about being responsible will not do anything.

A person becomes a responsible player when he has strict discipline when gambling. He doesn't gamble out of impulse and make reckless bets when he is having a bad time in gambling.

It's difficult for many to become a responsible gambler because they always get consumed by greed. They don't know how to properly control themself during winning and lossing situations.

It's discipline and control of yourself, usually if you have those two, you would be unstoppable and you'll get control of yourself and life. Many of the people I know that is addicted to gambling is that, they can't control and accept what happened to them, some of them already lose and can't accept the fact that they lose and would deposit again, trying to recover those losses but ended up more losing.

A lot of people lose their savings simply because they lack of discipline and control. In reality, being responsible is not complicated, it's about overcoming your emotions and sticking to logic. That's why you should be smart in playing gambling, emotions wouldn't do anything actually.

For OP, just be careful with every advice you get, even here or in person.
Always remember that it is always easy to say, but hard to do. Just like telling, easy to handle how to gamble or how to be responsible player. But in reality, it's really not and difficult to do it.

I would say that the key is to understand the mathematics of gambling in depth. To truly understand what HE or RTP are, which are two sides of the same coin. To understand what variance is, and expected value or mathematical expectation. If you truly understand that, it is impossible for you to become a problem gambler. You will not see a professor of statistics who is one.

Many years ago, I wrote an article on another forum about the risks that accompany us all many times every day. To avoid an accident or something similar, you need to be responsible for your actions and decisions. But I want to make a reservation - excessive control is also dangerous and harmful. Therefore, it is necessary to maintain a balance so that there is harmony in life. This also applies to gambling.

No it's not easy, I could have been trapped like many gamblers as well but I started gambling with fear in my mind because of what gambling did to my father's family, it robbed them of their lives and turn them worthless, my father hated gambling so much that he didn't want us to be fan too.

I dare not to gamble while he was still alive, I made the first step after he died, but I can't help but keep wondering my own people became a victim, until I understand some things and went through ponzi schemes experience myself, and I came up with a fact that nothing comes easily, if it's too good to be true then you got to be ten times more careful.

How you start or your mindset when you decide to gamble is what will determine how discipline you will become or how irresponsible you will become, if you start with a mind that you will get rich, that will be your pursue and this will get you punished.

It shouldn't be difficult to be a responsible gambler. As long as someone can control themselves and know their limits, their gambling activities won't harm them. However, we know that each individual has a different level of self-awareness, and not everyone can control themselves well. Sometimes, certain circumstances can cause someone to lose control of their gambling, such as when they're on a losing streak and trying to recover their losses, or when they're stressed, which can lead them to exceed their limits. This is what often leads gamblers to gamble irresponsibly and become addicted. So, it all comes down to each individual's ability to control themselves and have the awareness to be a responsible gambler.

If something is not imposed or forced on you, you will not be responsible for that work. As you can imagine, most of the human psyche is structured in this way. If you did not need food you would not have so much desire to work you would be lazy. If you did not need to take responsibility for the family, you would not feel the need to earn money through hard work.

Players gamble for entertainment, but most of them want to become experienced players with the aim of making money. In my opinion, to be experienced, you have to be a responsible gambler and for that you have to control your emotions and focus on gambling. Being a responsible player is not easy at all, you have to practice patience regularly.

Actually no in real time, even if we are aware and said that we should be in control all the times. Situation hit different when we are playing since climax or to win or recover would come up to us. That situation usually happen especially if we don't have long experience on gambling and been hype on what's going around.

But case maybe different if a gambler have long experience dealing with their win loss experience since maybe they can say just like you that its easy to be responsible especially if you know already the consequences of your future actions.

Experience maybe the main factor here towards how they handle their selves towards their engagement on gambling.

It's easy for non-addicted gamblers.
It's difficult to be a regular gambler.

Whether it's easy or not depends on our emotional self-control... being responsible is not easy because it's quite difficult even though it's easy to say, but once they're addicted, it's difficult for them to do it... it's the same as smoking, like me, a heavy smoker.

The point is, as long as it doesn't harm your finances, smoking isn't a problem... but the perspective is different when it comes to gambling addiction, which can be more severe if there's no sense of responsibility.

Whether it is easy or difficult will depend on the character of the gambler. As you said, there are gamblers who come to get rich quickly through gambling. Likewise, gamblers who start gambling without sufficient knowledge about risks and good management will tend to find it difficult to be responsible.
Those who are more prepared for the risk of loss and are already knowledgeable about financial management to control their limits they will find it easier to be responsible. The situation is more challenging for those who have been gambling poorly for a long time. Implementing some adjustments to limit their gambling will certainly require hard work, and some may even need the help of others.

No, it's not easy to be a responsible gambler. Emotions will always get the better of those who are new to the industry. They will deposit over and over again, that's a fact, especially on a loss.

That's why the number of online casinos is growing. They know people tend to be irresponsible, and they will keep on playing either after tasting a sweet win or when they are losing over and over again (revenge).

Being a responsible gambler requires a great deal of discipline. A gambler who just wants to have fun must keep it that way, and if we are used to one amount when we are gambling, then we must also keep it that way. It should not matter if we are deep in losses. Increasing the amount will just make it worse.

It is very much easy to be a responsible gambler, is all about personal decision because each and everyone us here have different ways we do things. But the truth once you decide to gamble responsibly, it would definitely work out for you without any problem.

Because the most important thing all players need when playing gambling is self control, once you have this at the back of your mind it will going to be very easy for you to play safely.

Most gamblers come into gambling with the sole purpose of getting rich through it, just as you've mentioned. So, yeah, it could be somewhat hard to be a responsible gambler with that mindset because it contradicts what would make ç a responsible gambler . If you were to take that goal out of gambling, there would be no one left to gamble.
Generally, I would say it's hard because it takes a lot of discipline to achieve

I`m not a gambler too, and have no problems with the game. The same time i like to get some slots magic time to time - you just click and don`t think about result. Wonderful feeling of empty head. :)
I think that the main part of gamblers are about us. They bet sometimes few small bets, sometimes play slots, poker. Lose or win small sums and don`t cares about it.
But there is part of gamblers who plan to become rich. Most of them just silly - they can`t calculate their expenses, their win chances, percent of win tickets in lottery, etc. They just believe that they can become rich easy and instantly. In such way they ready to spend all their money. And it is a problem for them and their families. I think that it is possible to stop them if someone clever enough will calculate them gambling, with simple examples. It seems the main chance for them to become responsible player or even to stop the game.

PS. I stopped smoking after more than 20 years of smoking. :)

To be responsible, in my opinion, one must intimately understand how the universe works and the karma connected to it.
If you understand this, you understand that luck is something random, today it's there, tomorrow it's not, being responsible means understanding how the world works and betting accordingly and therefore not putting too much money into something random like betting

In my limited experience the responsible gamblers basically have their shit together in all other aspects of life and with that in mind, are able to control their gambling so they only do it a small amount. When you start doing anything too much then you are likely to build up a bad habit for yourself that will distort your view further each day you dig into it. If you are addicted to one thing, especially things that give you a buzz like caffeine or smoking, then it's quite possible that you can start gambling to an unhealthy degree as you've already let one area of your life slip a little. It's good if you can understand the math that exists behind the odds as well and have an inquisitive mind as how to the games actually work, but that will only give you so much protection.

A person becomes a responsible gambler when they truly value money, no matter the amount. On the other hand, a gambler who cannot appreciate money will continue gambling with the mindset of trying to earn money through their bets. Becoming a responsible gambler is not easy for anyone who lacks a logical mindset. In fact, I once had a bad experience in the past, and now I realize that one of the best ways to be a responsible gambler is to have a mindset that respects money and avoids the expectation of making more money from gambling.

I agree on this but with an additional input. Being responsible means they value their money that’s why they are getting entertainment on gambling in exchange to the money they are wagering.

Most of the irresponsible gambler usually looking forward on the gains and neglecting the main goal of gambling which is to enjoy no matter what is the result.

Also the main contributing factor in able to categorize you as responsible gambler is to risk only what you can afford to lose.

It's not easy absolutely to be a responsible gambler when money is involved, sometimes you may tend to play for the fun and walk past  it when you've exhausted your bankroll but mostly the quest of wanting something so as to gain a little is what results to the downfall of the gambler, more like you being addicted, so even with your little intentions it's quite not easy to get past it except being well discipline.

It is easy if you can control yourself against the other bad habits like drinking and smoking. It will be much harder if you can’t stop smoking for some reason for example. Let’s say you consume lots of sugar during a day even though you know it is unhealthy for your body. If you cannot control yourself here, you will probably not become a responsible gambler either. It is because the core idea stays the same. It is all about self control. You either have it or you don’t. You can acquire your self-control later on if you really want it though. It is not impossible. Lots of people recovered from their addictions. You already solved half of the problem by admitting that you got one.

I personaly feel being a responsible player sounds easy when you just say it as the usual statement that it is.. but in reality it is one of the hardest partx of gambling if i am to say. because most players don’t even come into it thinking about limits of howfar they are willing to put in some cash!! they just come in with big hopes of winning and changing their financial situation the usual poor man mentality!!! thatx why it is so easy to kind of slipp into chasing losses or betting more than you have planned in your mind.
For me i think responsibility in gambling is not just about knowing the risks involved, at least to some extent everybody knows gambling can drain you either emotionally or financialy... so itx really just about selfcontrol and mind discipline at the end, because being able to stop yourself when that huge river of emotions kicks in!!.... it is almost same way with sm*kin & overeating like people know for sure that it is bad for the health, but the habit and the feeling keep them joyfuly stucked in.

I think what makes someone a responsible player is having the mindset from the beginning that gambling is another form of casual entertainment in disguise and not a way to get rich quickly... once peopel can begin to see it that way!! setting limits and walking away will surely become a lot easier.

Being a responsible gambler isn't easy, but it is possible. I advise you not to make gambling your priority; it will help a lot. Set aside the money you'll use for gambling in advance, and under no circumstances spend more than you've set aside. Never believe you'll get rich by gambling; although it can happen, it's rare. Don't chase your losses by gambling more; the losses could be even greater...

That's what I do, and it works for me. Create your plan and stick to it, no matter what.

The number of deposits the games, accumulated wins and possible cut loss is a must those are the things I do considering if you want to become a responsible gambler because not all of us are responsible at all, once we experience that much losses people tend to make a revenge game instead they made another deposits, once people wins much they think they can win more but instead ended up losing the wins and includes the capital. So if you are a gambler seeking for fun only you don't need this but if you are a gambler responsible with your money having this is a must.

Being a responsible gambler is supposed to start from that  very day you personally make up your mind to gamble, if you really want to maintain this until you get to a point where you will have to give it a break or say goodbye to gamble maybe due to old age or other reasons. First you will have to conduct a research about gambling to know the advantage and the disadvantages of gambling and also what gambling is all about, if you're able to get all this informations then you will know the strategy that you're going to use that will make you not to regret or gamble beyond control. So if you are able to go with this approach there is every possibility that you will continue to be a responsible player.

Gambling is sometimes sneaky and makes you lose control completely. The fact that you can always play at any time makes people fall into the illusion of always being able to win. It would be enough to limit yourself with bets and try to set a budget. I think it's easy to do, it just takes a bit of good will.

Who knows, I mean, each person will have different reasons for becoming a responsible gambler. But talking about my own experience, I just don't want to be in a position where my financial security is at risk again.

lack of commitment, willpower and discipline.

It is easy being a responsible player, that we don't know what we are privileged of does not mean that they don't exist, but our ignorance or lack of being aware of what we should benefits, responsible gambling is a choice, if we see the needs arising, we can join in making a responsible gambling as others does, we can't assume on the use of flimsy excuses for our irresponsible gambling attitude, when we know how to take things for granted without doing the right one, once we can maintain high pedigree of being disciplined , then to be a responsible gambler will be more easier for us to achieve.

I don't think there is a specific reason for everyone to become a responsible gambler since we all have ways in which things affects us, and we also have our own approach to resolving such issues. I'm of the opinion that gambling responsibly is never a big deal, but it has become a big deal in today's world because a large percentage of people sees it that way so they just give up and become addicts.

The idea of seeing gambling as a source of income even sounds more like why so many people fail to gamble in a responsible way. They chase after wins because it is something they heavily depend on. There are others that might have a good source of income elsewhere, but because they still prioritize those wins that comes from gambling, it then becomes a tough task to do it in a responsible way.

We are not made equal; we are different in our background, character, and roots, and this is what will shape our future and our reactions to many things, especially in gambling, so there are no specific correct answers.

I can cite People who grew up in a home that is open to discussing everything tend to be responsible gamblers, and individuals who have strong character and know how to analyse can fight the temptation to become addicted to gambling.
Addiction can happen to anybody, but your character and roots will help you to get out of it and become a responsible gambler.

It’s because greed is already embedded in their bones. If it were that easy, the gambling industry wouldn’t be where it is now. It wouldn’t have grown this big if it were that easy. It’s only easy for someone who isn’t placing too much hope on gambling. Like you, yes, you also want to win, but you’re not like other gamblers who even dream of becoming rich through gambling or relying on it to sustain their daily needs. It’s about emotions, addicted gamblers are heavily invested, and not just with money.

To be a responsible gambler is not hard even the addicted one can be a responsible gambler if he can only follow the gambling principles. He must be mindful of everything he does in gambling and budgeting to play games in the week and doing the house expenses by paying bills and follow the gambling rules then you are a responsible gambler.
But when you are not following the rules and do things according to your own ways then excess gambling will lead to addiction.

When it comes to gambling, our minds and targets are different. Some of us see gambling as nothing but fun, while others still see it as a way to be rich. They keep gambling without thinking that they are addicted to gambling, and they are losing more than they have.

Being a responsible gambler I don't think that is really hard for someone to do. First, changing your mindset about gambling because everything good and bad starts with the mindset. Once your mindset has the right perspective about gambling, not a means to be rich, you will keep being a responsible gambler who gambles with less expectations on gambling

Anything that we do has consequences. Some people count them more seriously and plan as well as they can, while others don't even think about them. Gambling is an entertainment, not a way of getting rich. If you think of it this way, then being a responsible gambler can be quite difficult. Because all your thoughts are on getting a big win, so every time you put more and more into hunting something that, from the start, is a dream. As I see it, without thinking about what a loss can bring to you and in which position you might get to, you can't be responsible. Not only as a player-gambler but as a person in general.

I'm struggling to became a responsible gamblers since I'm overwhelmed by lots of promise and have some thinking that I could able to win more money on gambling sites I play. But same with other people experience I lose and experience addiction.

But now for having long years of experience on gambling especially on online casino. I can say that I'm very much responsible especially on the money I spend, also on the hours limits I set because I don't want to exceed because anything like we extend for minutes is bad action to do since it will lead to something that can harm us. This situation is same as what you have mentioned that's why its really good if we pay close attention on what we are doing and spend only what we can afford to lose here.

It is easy to gamble responsibly if you are not greedy, greed is the root of irresponsible gambling. The problem is the mindset people have about gambling, once you start seeing it as a way to get rich then there's a very high chance that you might end up being irresponsible with it and it becomes difficult to stop when you find yourself in this mental state. First thing you must do is to change your mindset about gambling

Well, I can not speak for all, I believe that everyone has their own self experiences, what they have witnessed from others and also their self control abilities which is not the same for everyone. For me, when I started gambling, it was not that easy because I was gambling to win and make money and not for fun like I do now. Because I was gambling for profit, I lost self control but I also got to realize that I was making mistakes by being compulsive, so I had to retrace my steps, I would not say it was very easy to do but if you are determined, you can control it.

This interest me because I also think it is not easy to be a responsible player. There is a difference with someone who plays into addiction and someone who only plays by impulse, just maybe when they wish to play or they are encouraged by others to play, maybe like op. For that person who is always playing and becomes an habit to the person, it has become part of the person. They say habit is difficult to do away with. So to get that person who is addict out of gambling is not easy. It is a personal conviction that will bring such person out of it and not basically about what you tell the person. If such person on a sober reflection takes stock of loses and profit, they may draw their decision from there. It is just like someone who does only 3 sticks of cigarettes compared to someone who does 1 pack of cigarettes, their conviction level is not the same.

It is easy to be responsible if only one is ready to go through the process of learning and understanding. In gambling, what you understand about gambling is how you go about it.

If your understanding of gambling is that you think money can be made quickly and easily, then you will gamble the wrong way. If you think gambling is a game that can't be predicted, then you will know how to go about it and handle the risk.

It is an understanding of gambling that makes a gambler responsible, and if you don't understand gambling, there is nothing that can be done about it. It is impossible to be responsible with something you don't know about; you either go about it in ignorance or try to abuse it by benefiting from it by all means.

I think you can be a responsible player from the very beginning and not wait until the time when you realize that it’s difficult to make money in gambling. To understand how good you can be at gambling, you don’t need a large bankroll at the start. It’s enough to play with the money you can afford to lose, and if you are able to make a profit, then you can think about increasing your bankroll. If not, then what’s the point, if in the end you will lose everything anyway.

It looks like it was very easy for you to retrace your steps and start gambling responsibly. For others, it was not that easy to end addiction. Some of them had to seek professional advice or assistance before they were able to gain control over their gambling experiences. I see reason with you that the cheapest means of becoming a gambling addict is seeing it as a source of income. It will lead to loss chasing and other unhealthy practices. Some gamblers go to the extent of selling properties or borrowing money because they see gambling as an investment.       

It is not easy to accept the bad things that occur in gambling activities, in terms of responsibility there are many consequences that must be hiled for users themselves, It is easy to say responsibility but a few who can do what else is in gambling.

In general, people are ready and willing to be responsible if they win when betting, but instead will happen if bad things happen and losses, many people are no longer able to accept reality and no longer be able to assume obligations the responsibility and does not want to accept the decisions and reality that occur, the point is that of the many negative reasons that occur during gambling, on the basis of that many users are no longer Responsible for the gambling activities they do, do not be surprised if we often see losing gambling do beyond common sense no longer responsible for themselves.

Yes, its easy to be a responsible player. You need to set an amount that your willing to spend for fun or for profit as the case maybe, and consider it gone whether you lose or win. If you lose get over it.

I know gambling can be very difficult for many people to stay responsible, but there is a general rule which is dont gamble with what you cant afford to lose. I think if every person adhere to this rule, they will directly or indirectly gamble responsibly.

I would wish it was as easy for everyone as it is for your, you know. I am the kind of gambler who have experienced greed, serious greed, during sessions of fast pacing games, like dices.
Let us face it, even if we try to be responsible and use money just as a way to access entertainment on casinos, casinos games are designed to wake up greed within us, as we see we have been able to score a couple of consecutive wins in a single session, even money we can afford to lose can shortly multiply before prompting us to commit mistakes.

One needs to realize when greed kicks in, and log out, terminating our session all escalates.

It really depends on how you would approach and view gamble that will determine whether you could be responsible or not.

Normally when people view gamble as a means for profit, then there is a possibility that they could be irresponsible when it comes with their finances especially when you start chasing your losses. On the other hand, if a person view gambling primarily for entertainment, then it is most likely that they could very well manage their expenses responsibly.


I do think that it has something to do with your goal, in general.

When a person wins a huge amount of money in gambling, they would often feel this "high" in which they would chase and find continuously. The reality is- that kind of high happens rarely. When you chase your losses in the process, most likely, you would fall on this trap thereby making you prone to addiction.

There is truth in your words, because I use something similar in my games and my preparation for the game, when I am set up to the fact that this money is allowed to be lost to me and I practically consider it as such. In any case, I relax and do not intend to strain myself, but at the same time I do not intend to lose it easily, but I begin to think of different ways to not do it quickly, and perhaps even try something new in strategies, sometimes this happens successfully, but even if I lose, I practically do not experience negative emotions.

I believe that this is part of a person's innate character, which can't be developed from the outside. In other words, it is either there or it is not. If you look at the average gambler, he will not have this skill. The average gambler is passionate, that is, subject to emotions and is not capable of responsible gambling, which requires "extinguishing emotions" (self-control).

Just as you have stated already one of the thing that can make someone become a responsible gambler is knowing that winning is not sure and not gambling regularly because whenever someone have the conviction that winning is certain and sure they will be more eager to gamble and they strive to hit a win because of what they have in their head but if someone understand that winning is luck even though analysis due help sometimes, that gambler will gamble responsibly and won't chase after loss and when someone don't gamble often or regularly the urge and zeal to gamble will reduce and they won't be moved or drive by anything because they understand.

It's not difficult if they truly understand what gambling is all about from the start. If they understand from the start that gambling is very risky and know that there's no guarantee of winning, then I don't think it's difficult for them to take responsibility and accept the fact of losing. What's difficult is when they have misconceptions about gambling from the start, such as those stemming from seeing other people's big wins.
But from another perspective, this responsibility can also be achieved through experience while playing. It's still possible for an addicted gambler to eventually become responsible and able to accept the risks if, for example, they've experienced something painful, like losing a lot of things in their life due to aggressive gambling, which makes them realize that gambling is not a way to earn a living.

Easy or difficult will be depending on ourselves because it is every single gambler may face this case differently because of different self control.
Perhaps most people (usually those who are not gambling) will say that it is easy to be responsible gambler because they do not experience themselves but they say about it based on general knowledge only.
For gamblers, it is hard to be responsible gamblers but some gamblers may learn from their own experience then become more responsible than before.
Some other gamblers may not able to learn from their own experience which lead them into the worse possible effect of gambling.

What makes a person to become a responsible gambler is having self control to know when to stop gambling expecialy when you are beginning to get addicted. Realizing you don't need to Gamble above your budget but bet with what you can afford to lose. Not chasing after loses or wining that might leed to addiction. are the key factor to know that you are a responsible gambler.

Why it's difficult for many is simply because they cant control themselves, or we can say they are the opposite of the whole point I made.

We should not fail to consider the background of someone when talking about responsible gambling. The background comprises of the environment the gambler grew from. A gambler who grew in a ghetto where there is no assurance of food, where most of the children never goes to school but are always available in the game halls believing to become suddenly rich, will hardly make a responsible gambler.

Being responsible correlates better with training than traits. You might be born of good parents but peer group will force you to become who you are not. So, being a responsible gambler depends more on the societal influence. You can only claim to be a responsible gambler if you are trained by responsible parents or guidance in a responsible environment. So, if you have younger ones, start now to train them to be very content with what they have. Contentment is key for being responsible.

In the beginning it is easy for everyone to not get addicted and act responsibly. This is even more easy when the first sessions of gambling hit you hard with heavy lost amounts of money, the player thinks this is not for me and never come back at gambling. What is the problem is if this few first sessions reward you with huge wins, it is here that the average person thinks that they are going to win even more and this gets this type of person down south heavily. Only with experience these persons can have a chance to get back to reality and think that those few sessions were only luck on their side. So it all depends on the point of view of the gambler, based on the point of view it can be easy or not easy to be a responsible player.

At early stage into gambling, being a responsible gambler is very difficult because this is when emotions are strong and greed level at the highest. It takes time and process before the player finally understand that gambling is not an easy way out of poverty but something that should be done with fun at the back of the mind. Having fun at the back of the mind will make the player to control the quest for fast money and help in building discipline.

It's not easy to be responsible once you become an addicted to it, this is why you should be very careful at your beginning stages of gambling...Being responsible doesn't really entail much, just gamble mainly for entertainment purposes instead of trying to use gambling as a way to survive or make money...and above all always stake what you can afford to lose, this is always overemphasized

It all boils down to one thing which the inability to control oneself. If we can be able to control every aspect of our lives then we can be able to do same when it comes to gambling. The only thing I believe can make one to become a responsible gambler is that they have control over their gambling habits. They can tell when gambling is becoming an issue and decide to take a break from it , however for those that doesn't have control over there gambling habits. They easily falls prey to gambling addiction. If we can be able to master our inclination towards gambling then gambling responsibly won't be an issue.

Frankly speaking,responsibility is not a hard role to take as a person but in gambling showing responsibility against addiction is ultimately difficult for some individuals.Someone can only be a responsible gambler but with strong boundaries that defines discipline and self-control.

I see responsible gambling as an act which is close to impossible, it is like saying any one who wants to drink should drink responsibly, while drinking responsibly could be achievable if you are very determined, it is not something which is easily achieved and for many, it will remain impossible. The same applies to gambling too whether you are doing it for monetary gains or for fun, it does not eliminate the fact that it is highly addictive and engaging in it can make one exposed to the addiction in it.

Being a responsible player of gambling is a rare discipline and requires serious self training and control over it. It requires the gambler to make hard decisions which includes setting theirs purpose and knowing when to quit when it doesn’t favour them. Not being so distracted and dishonest to yourself and leave the gamble if you truly know you cannot help to control it in the future.

It’s not difficult if you only play with money you’re willing to lose. If I go bowling with friends, I know I can spend at least $20, and that’s acceptable for me. I can approach gambling the same way, I decide how much I can afford to lose and play with that money. If I win, that’s great, if I lose, I just treat it as paying for a game, because bowling or billiards aren’t free games either.

Being a responsible gambler can either be easy or hard, it all depends on some factors, which are..
1. Mindset and determination
2. Level of knowledge about gambling..

First, some persons may not know that that gambling is addictive until they become addicted, they fail to know this due to lack of gambling knowledge which often is as a result of not reading..
On the second hand, if a person already knows that gambling addiction is real and to avoid it, he or she has to gamble responsibly, it now takes their mindset and determination not to get addicted to choose to gamble responsibly because they know now that without gambling responsibly, they are likely to get addicted.

So in conclusion, how easy or hard it is for a person to practise responsible gambling is completely up to the gambler and how they see and what they know about gambling.

The mistake some gamblers make is not taking precautionary measures while gambling until they become addicted and start trying to fix things.

Being a responsible gambler will definitely be difficult for those gamblers who don't have any other source of income. They have made gambling their source of income and source of hope. They will invest so much in gambling even when they are broke. You can't obviously compare them to someone like me that can survive without gambling.

Anyone who wants to be responsible should make sure they have something going on for them that takes their minds away from gambling. If they don't fix this on time, they will struggle when they eventually become addicted.

I think it is easier said than done because most of us here normally discuss how important it is to be a responsible gambler but difficult to  implement it, I don't find it difficult to implement responsible gambling since I don't want to get addicted, it made me to be so conscious of how I gamble, added to the fact that I even get so anxious when I try to spend some money on gambling but losing the money is painful and that's what will even encourage someone to be responsible.

Being a responsible gambler is never an easy task I must say while it might more difficult for a gambler at an early stage keeping up with it is not also an easy task for an old gambler, it takes a consistence discipline even though most times one can still be thrown off balance and go beyond and still bounce back, speaking from experience. However, generally I will say that it is an everyday task in ensuring that as a gambler you are not being off your track as responsible gambler, there is no pride in it since mistakes can happen at any time even when you least expected it.

It's actually easy to gamble responsibly I think that this issue of not unable to control one self in gambling is majorly for the new gambler's for the old gambler they have learnt over time that gambling is not something that you can kill yourself about so they gamble only when necessary

I guess it is different depending on the tolerance of discipline of each gambler. For some it could be really difficult that it may require extra effort from them to really prevent them from becoming addicted. While for some, they can easily take a step back and lose touch in gambling.

Smoking addiction is totally different from gambling addiction. In gambling, you can make a loss that is very significant and because you have made some mistakes, you might decide to look at your trace again and never repeat that mistake again, that means you are limiting it so you don't repeat the same mistake but smoke addiction had nothing like mitigation, it's either you stop taking cigerate or you don't smoke it, there is no any way out about it.

The term responsible can be objective in the sense that we all gamble differently, but one rule makes and bound is all as a responsible gambling. The first rule of responsible gambling is if you don't have the money to risk, don't try it. This phrase might sound too easy but it's so effective that a lot of people ignore it and at the end of the day, it's the reality they refused to admit. If you gamble more than what you can let go, you will have alot of debt pile up waiting for you, it's better not to go beyond what you can risk.

To be honest, it's not that easy, but it also makes a difference as an individual. Those who can maintain their emotional control don't face much difficulty in this regard, but for those who lose emotional control very easily, being a responsible gambler is really tough, but not impossible. 

However, I personally think that for those who start gambling for the first time, it is a little more difficult to do responsible gambling. But gradually when they understand what responsible gambling really is, they can master it very easily, especially when someone accepts gambling only as a source of entertainment, then he will automatically stake a small amount in it.

To be a responsible gambler requires self-awareness, discipline and setting clear boundaries, and these are really not easy for everybody. Lots of players begin with uncertainty expectations to get rich along the line, making them to overlook red lights not until their failure and losses has piled up. Just like overeating and smoking, some tend to be controlled by impulses . What can make a person responsible is personaldiscipline right fight from the beginning lots lesson gotten from initial losses. For most people what is hard is overcoming the idea of one more chance and agree that gambling is just entertainment not earning means.

I don’t really think it’s difficult to be a responsible gambler, all you have to do is that you need to be disciplined, if you are beginning to gambler, then your main reason for gambling shouldn’t be because of money, just have the mindset to gamble for fun, and if you end up making money from gambling, then it’s fine, but if your main target is to make money from gambling, then you might end up being addicted to gambling. As a gambler always make sure you have a gambling budget, and whatsoever happens, make sure you don’t go beyond your gambling budget.

Those who jump into gambling without first calculating the side effects of when addicted they will always end up to be an irresponsible gamblers.
At the other thought been a responsible gambler is quite easy though this depends on individuals differences, when am gambling i know when to stop gambling, when i realize that none of my gambling strategy is working I stop at the moment also i keep gambling with funds i can easily let go without me been troubled over it.

Let us be honest, it's obvious that people who comes for gaming their purpose to come to gaming is because they wants to make money, nobody seems gaming as entertainment, the major objective of anybody who is in gaming industry is to make money, and I'm seeing that that gaming is giving a lot of income if we really understand the system of it, so therefore I will say that people who is into gambling is exactly having the objective of people who is into gaming, their mindset is same, the same thing is applicable to people who is into owning a casino

Even in gambling is not something you can not find against gambling and there things that push people into been addicted and the main thing that push people into been addiction is greed and people just want to make up, and if any gambler does not want to get addicted then they should learn to set boundaries because when you don't know when to stop them there is no way that you will not become addicted. And people are just to greedy and we know that we that are always gambling are always greedy but that does not mean that you will comptrol your self because infect when I look at the amount that is lost then it becomes hard to control from the beginning is when you start cautioning our self to do the right things when it comes to gambling .

Theory is often much easier than practice. We know that to this day, many people talk about self-control or responsibility in gambling, but it is clear that this is merely one way to remind ourselves to discipline ourselves so as not to complicate matters when gambling.

Its application is clearly very difficult because those of us who have experienced gambling know that emotions and ambitions can sometimes push us beyond our limits, and the mature attitude we constantly remind ourselves of simply disappears.

Sometimes, even though we constantly remind ourselves of such things, self-control and mature behavior in gambling remain extremely difficult, especially when we fail to remind ourselves, leading us to lose control and inevitably develop an addiction.

Once it has gotten into addiction, it is really not easy to stop, from a general perspective of addiction not just about gambling.

Answering your question, "Is it easy to be a responsible player" yes it is easy to be a responsible player but it has to start early becoming a habit.

Once you have a lifestyle of discipline, it will be easier to detach when you feel like you're about playing irresponsibly. Gambling is not a compulsory event or lifestyle, it should be something optional that has no control and shouldn't feel pressured if you don't do it.

I wouldnt say it's easy to be responsible, but a step towards that direction makes the most change. Gamers lose fair play momentum the very moment their first few results resounds hardship to them, and because they're scared to face what's ahead, the anxiety grows and inflicts fear on the gamer. Then, the problem sets in like a burning fire, and each day it's not quenched, it consumes the player to a point of no control and much level of recklessness.

If you know how to set boundaries and you are disciplined to follow this, becoming a responsible gambler is possible, not using the word easy because there are traps and temptations along the way that will make you fall into addiction.
One of the highly recommended ways to stay responsible is always to make time for a break, as it can help break the cycle of investing too much emotion in gambling.
Taking a break is crucial to maintaining your discipline so you will not fall into addiction.

For me, this is a subjective question.   Different people have different resistance to the allure of gambling entertainment.  For a disciplined person, it is very easy, but for those with cognitive issues, it would be hard for them.  So I can say that this depends on how a person controls himself.  Like what you stated that you have no difficulty to be a responsible player, but others may find it difficult.



I think it makes a person become responsible player if he is gambling in a sense that it does not affect its financial status negatively, does not affect his social status negatively, and does not affect his career path negatively.  In short they have self-control.

It is difficult for many because they lack discipline or self-control.

When it comes to gambling, some are taking like they know what their doing, so what they mean is that no matter how the gambling turns them, they will know how to control themselves. They are unaware that that’s what they can find difficult, and the reason why I said that is by the time a person is losing so much money that he didn’t expect to lose in gambling, he will definitely lose control over himself, but some think that they can easily get control even when they're losing. Because of the  that a lot of people that are into gambling can be able to controlled themselves, I think by now the number of people getting addicted to gambling won’t be that much anymore, but look at how a lot of people are get addicted to gambling.

Being or living the average life is one reason why it's very difficult to be a responsible gambler, we can not deny the fact that a good percentage of us (those who gamble) are only focus on trying to hit our lucky day to win big that will eventually change our life and this belief system is a trap that is very difficult to be broken, no matter what you do as long as the population of the world is poor and the few or lesser percentage are rich the urge to escape the average living standards will drive people to gamble limitlessly hence the gambling responsibly is difficult to achieve.

It's easy for a start, but if you're already a gambler that's struggling with addiction/ trying to change the narrative of something negative about your habits, then it's a different struggle that requires a lot of effort to adapt to.
Discipline is a key factor to any achievement in life -- if that's not the very first focus, then I don't know what else will.. creating a routinary scheme that suits your budget weekly/monthly is majorly what it takes to stay responsible in the game.

It depends on the gambler itself. We have own way of thinking when it comes to gambling, some plays to win while others are just for entertainment. It's hard to be a responsible player if one is greedy to gain more. Because there's no contentment (if a gambler happen to be fortunate to win a decent amount) and acceptance in facing losses.

On the other side, it's not hard to be a responsible player if you know the risk of gambling and able to limit yourself to avoid becoming addicted. It depends on we discipline ourselves.

I think it's sometimes quite difficult for some people to act and be responsible. Not just in gambling but in other activities in their lives as well. For some, being responsible when gambling is easier said than done.
Like the op noted, a good number of people go into gambling with the notion that you can get rich from it. With such dreams of hitting it big, it's not difficult for such individual to gamble irresponsibly.  You really have to do away with goals of getting rich through gambling if you want to keep being responsible when playing.

That's a big mistake, mate. And you need to change that thinking because that ONLY makes you suffer losses and turns your life miserable rather than making it better. We will have to think that our winning odds are very low. Therefore, there is no way to rely on our future in gambling. Nor find gambling as a way to escape from poverty. Winning is just by chance, and it's sad to say that not all gets it. That is why you should just gamble without pressuring yourselves to win but rather enjoy it.

At first what we must basically look at is the background of the said gambler and with it could be that easier to control. What i meant in context is that, there are people who came to the gambling site or who keeps gambling as the cause of low income or lack of employment opportunity, so whenever such gamblers goes into the casino you would see them transforming above the previously. To me I believe anything is possible and you can keep gambling and still becoming a response gambler without making obvious while gambling.

It actually depends on the individual's nature (characteristic) and their goals. As you have described, it will be easy to be a responsible gambler if we only gamble for fun or have a very realistic goal. Moreover if we are careful/cautious person, we mustn't easy to do unnecessary spending. However, for the people who really gamble for winning certain amount of money, they must try to gamble as many as possible until they get the goal. Unfortunately, there is no guarantee to achieve the goal, especially if it is unrealistic amount of money. Even worse if the people are greedy, they probably raise the amount of money to gamble whenever they assume to win bigger. Unfortunately, this may be endless until spending all the money they have. This is related to the self-control or emotion-control. When someone fails to deal with this matter, it easily turns to be irresponsible gambler/player.

What mostly happens is that people needs to calculate their time allocated to whatever they are doing, for instance knowing too well that gambling consume time while gambling, at this very moment you could convert some of the to limitations or minimize risk associated with gambling.
There are people who falls into chronic addiction and could be hard to solve, so the majority now should be that their time are also controlled and they should know when to stop, or continuously gambling.

Be respectful to self awareness but it is just a cliché to say that one either has it or does not. Self control is a skill combined with a suitable environment & not some imaginary personality badge. Implementation intentions, if-then plans, significantly increase 'follow through' & precommit tools, -deposit limits, time limits, reality checks- cut spending even among extreme users. Impulsive choices can also be reduced with episodic future thinking. whence do not believe vibes, construct guardrails, fixed bankroll, auto timeouts, preset loss limits, selfexclusion on tilt. Realizing the real issue is the first step to improvement, the next one is to engineer in the frictions so that you can keep yourself clean.

This is actually easy to say, but sometimes difficult to implement. For example, before gambling, we think about doing it wisely: if we win, we withdraw, and if we lose, we stop. But things are different once we're in the game. I think even those who are disciplined in gambling sometimes have the thought of continuing, whether with the winnings already won or depositing more money.
This is a problem I think is quite common, but we must recognize that gambling is not something we should indulge in excessively.

Gambling activities requires some specific experitse to don't get wasted immediately.
Money management is essential. If you don't know math and statistics it's really hard you can get profit from gambling...
Moreover if you don't understand the basic (likewise RTP or house edge) mmm trying to follow luck will not provide nothing at the end.

If you take things easy, everything is easy, when we go to a new task, we find it very difficult because we do not have any prior knowledge about it, but for those who are experienced in that task, it is very easy. When we start gambling, we think that maybe we will become addicted to gambling or we may not be able to gamble responsibly, but it is not very difficult. Before gambling, you have to consider that the amount of money you are gambling with, considering that you cannot get back this amount of money, you have to determine the amount of money you are gambling with and after careful consideration, you have to decide to bet. Winning and losing in gambling is a very natural thing, but the point to see here is how much effort you put in to win or how much effort you put in to lose. Always be careful about money and avoid betting even with small doubts. When you realize that one of the two teams is relatively strong and the other is relatively weak, then you bet on that stronger team, which will greatly reduce the risk of your money.

Honestly, being a "responsible player" is way harder for the average gambler than people like to admit. When money’s on the line, emotions usually beat logic. That’s why most end up chasing losses or believing the next spin will save them.
Casinos are built to keep you hooked, so unless you have strong self-control or set hard limits, it’s very easy to slip. For many, it takes losing a lot before they finally wake up. Sad truth, but responsibility usually comes only after pain.....

I agree that responsability usually comes after pain, and it's mainly due to the fact you know how painful the pain is, so you want to make sure you won't feel that again in the future. Therefore, you have to become responsible because that is the countermeasure against pain. It works as a survival mechanism you have to develop and improve for your own wellfare.

Those who fail doing so, will inevitably continue facing painful situations over and over again, until they have all their strength completely drained by it, or until they finally change their mindset and starts walking towards a path of responsability.

To a very large extent, in this case hugh percentage of gamblers are actually gambling for the money they will make through gambling or will say the profit they will make but we should also know that gamblers who gamble for fun exist too is just a matter of how many are they, when you say nobody then you are on the conclusion that people that sees gambling as fun and entertainment don't exist nah nah I don't agree to that.

I will like to get some fact from you, is gaming not part of gambling, if gaming has to do with 2 players setting money hasnt it become gambling, in conclusion gambling is what it is but fun gamblers exist, I know that too well

One thing that makes it seem very difficult for gamblers is the mindset one has before gambling. If the mindset about gambling is wrong, it will be very difficult to make a change and to gamble the right way.

That is why it is very important for one to have the right mindset before gambling, because with the wrong mindset, it can lead one to make many wrong decisions. But I think if a gambler wants to be a responsible gambler, the first step I would take is to quit and work on my mindset and understanding of gambling, because if it is not done this way, it will be very difficult to become a responsible gambler.

When they come at the very beginning, yes, I agree that everyone wants to make money, but later for almost everyone it turns into a game for entertainment. It’s easy for me to be a responsible player, and I’m not trying to make money from gambling, this is even clear from my bankroll and the way I allocate it for my bets. A small bankroll and small stakes show my intention in gambling, and now the main goal is not to lose too much.

If a gambler understands what gambling is, he will try his possible best to make sure that he is not after profits and will limit the amount of money that he is using to bet and time. When you aim to win big, you will lose big. Winning isn't by our desires but by luck.

Responsible gambling is easy to practice but hard to stick to it, especially when you are on the losing side. Some gamblers find it difficult to see themselves as losers and that's wrong because you will lose more than you win as a gambler. Accepting your losses is a good way towards self control.

The thing is that, theoretically when we start to write about how to be a responsible gambler or how to stay responsible we could go up to 20 pages and still won’t run out of ideas but when it comes to the practical aspects and how to put it into practice you’ll get to realise that it’s not as easy we have taken it to be. A method that would work for you and keep you in check won’t be able to keep me in check, and if I should try it I’ll only just be wasting my time - that’s why some people do complain that after they listen or followed some tutorials or lessons they still couldn’t find the right way to keep themselves in check while others are busy practicing that technique for its effectiveness.

So whatever method I would say, might not even work for you - because for me I tend to not take gambling seriously, I take it as something that I can leave anytime I want to and because of that I tend not to give it any priority and only do it when I’m truly free and have more than enough money to spare so I have a very low tendency of becoming addicted to it and I’m sure not everyone would be willing to just gamble few times a month or weeks, they might want to gamble all the time or everyday which is very different from what I do.

With all the high emotions and urges that would tempt us to get rich in gambling, I must say, it’s not really easy to be a responsible player. You need to be in full control of your emotions, and be wise on your decisions, but since majority find it hard to perform responsibly in gambling, a lot have fallen into the trap and eventually get addicted into gambling.

Gambling requires us to be responsible, so we should play it right, but I don’t think gambling casinos would be deeply happy to see it because that would mean a slow profit entry, at the same time a slow progress of their business.

When you’re just getting into gambling, it’s almost never your thing so you wouldn’t think too much of it, you just place few bets here and there, go few rounds on slots and you are off for the day or week, pending when next you remember not to have played in a while.

Then it gradually starts to get to you, you start chasing your losses and get to lose even more money and you hope you would get it back in the next round or next gaming session and the trend continues.

Now you are really into gambling, being conscious of the match fixtures, it’s not easy having a game week go by and you don’t gamble. Mehn, it’s not easy, once you cross the line to becoming an addict, it takes everything within you to get off.

It is easy to be a responsible player in as much as you know when and how to handle your gambling activities, some persons falls into these habit of not being responsible in gambling because they have failed to control themselves and follow the rules and regulations in gambling but follow their own rules which has been given tham a lot of issues and leading them astray.

Being a responsible gambler make you not to be a slave to gambling, by not allowing yourself to get carried away, by not chasing your losses, avoid gambling when you lack fund, gamble with what you can afford to lose, setting a limit for yourself in bankrolls and time, avoid gambling when you are suppose to be at work, don't borrowing to gamble.

It is true that we do not have one-size-fits-gap solution since our habits and intellect differ. I think this is where exactly the challenges are since some people may tend to feel that they can stop at any time and yet they are also unaware of the fact that when overconfident sometimes they open the gate to being trapped. We must be straightforward that a feeling of security does not always prevail in the face, when pressures of life come up. Therefore, the key to overcoming problem gambling is keeping yourself far away and out of reach of gambling so that it does not turn into compulsion yet.

Why is it so difficult?
- It takes time to realize it.
- Once you realize it, you need the desire to start.
- Your emotions are still high to get the benefits.
- Continued greed.
- You still believe you will get the jackpot.
- You still have money in your pocket.
- You don't recognize yourself.

In a book (I can’t recall the title), it says that “man’s greatest enemy is himself.” Most people aren’t ready to change themselves once they’ve developed a belief and obsession about something; they tend to be stubborn in doing anything, so doing good isn’t easy because it requires forming new habits that go against previous ones. Someone who’s overweight is already very accustomed to sweet foods, oily foods, and a full stomach. This situation makes them comfortable and has become a necessity for their self-satisfaction. Smokers are accustomed to the nicotine in cigarettes; quitting causes withdrawal symptoms, their mouths feel sour, and their brains don't function normally without smoking. Therefore, they will continue smoking to maintain that situation. That is how addiction works. Similarly, so maintaining a healthy lifestyle or taking responsibility for oneself becomes extremely difficult once one has become accustomed to bad habits.

For me who's spending less time and money in gambling, I can proudly say that I'm a responsible player. At the end of the day, it all comes to the mindset of the gambler. I've said "mindset" when it comes to gambling multiple times already, but that's just how helpful it is to a gambler.

Being responsible for me means not thinking on gambling as a way to make money.
Being responsible for me means knowing when to stop when needed.
Being responsible for me means knowing their limits financially.

I can say that I can do all 3 of what I said so I'm a responsible one, and I hope that many here are doing the same. Well, I believe that we all are because I'm not reading any threads here regarding "Me getting addicted to gambling, and did horrible things." blah blah. :D

Like what I said above, a responsible player knows how to set limits when it comes to time, and money. At the same time, they treat gambling as a form of entertainment only, and not a way to make money, and a responsible gambler has the discipline to stop when needed. This is very hard to achieve because emotions are getting into them, making it harder to stay in control.

It is not easy to be a responsible gambler especially those that has been playing gambling for some time. They must know how to limit themselves in gambling and not spend more money. But for the average player especially those who are new to gambling, they should try to be a responsible gambler before it's too late to realize.

It is better to be a responsible gambler than addicted to gambling. You see that gambling is a way to fill your free time but you will not playing gambling too often. You still remember that playing gambling for too long can make you lose control. Awareness can make someone become a responsible gambler.

There is no pressure that you have to win because you only take a little time to gamble or just for entertainment to be precise.
I also do the same, only play if I really want to and don't focus on paying attention to how gambling develops.

Maybe I'll only bet on a few big sporting events or my favorite teams, even that is just a small bet because the most important thing is how to enjoy the game,
if my team wins then I get a profit, but if I lose I won't think about the money I bet because it's only a small amount and just think of it as ticket money to watch the game.

If you can apply all of this, don't think about making a lot of money from gambling, stop when needed and there is a limit to the money you will play.
That is an important factor to not become addicted and become a responsible player.

It's easy to be a responsible player most necessarily when your mind is made up, it just seems like when you're hungry but then your not having appetite to do so, you may want to hold back for awhile, that's how gambling seems like mostly you want to.give a teu but your hunches keeps withdrawing yiu back of doing so, just as you listen to your inner mind that's how you eventually gain power over your gambling habits and be responsible.

Very much easy to be a responsible player we have people who play responsibly even when they are addicted they still control it, they still know there limit and when to stop gambling. If guys gamble with what they can afford to loss i believe that is a way of gambling responsibly or to be a responsible player there are people who don't care if they eat or not all there thinking is gambling those people are gambling irresponsibly.

Before your mind will be made up, you would have passed through thick and thin, paid heavy prices, cry sometimes and finally learn from experience that gambling is not to be rushed. You cannot be a responsible gambler from inception, you have to follow the long process of maturity through experience. I started slowing down when I was humbled by losses I never knew could happen and it was from those experiences I decided to play by the rules and even put it as a priority to protect my equity.

I can't agree with you. Being a responsible gambler is very arduous . If it were easy, most gamblers would be responsible.

You are right  that there are many gamblers who are able to control their addiction. They set a  limits. And they do not spend beyond that limit. I would say that these gamblers are not addicted. They have managed to keep themselves away from addiction. We need to know what addiction is. Addiction  is when a person becomes compulsively dependent on something. It could be drugs or it could be gambling. If we can control ourselves, it can not be considered an addiction.

Being a responsible  gambler is difficult. If we can be responsible gamblers, then we can definitely keep ourselves away from gambling addiction. And you make an important  point that many people set limits on their spending. If we can do that, we can stay away from addiction.

The main part of gamblers - are responsible players. The problem is that they don`t create thread like "i`m responsible player and it is easy". We see here lots of threads about responsible play, about risks of gambling and lots of same threads. Real situation that all these threads about just one percent of gamblers. All others don`t care about it. They bet time to time, they play slots when they want, they lose or win some small sums and they are happy and don`t want to know anything about "responsible gambling".

Being a responsible gambler doesn't really take much form you, it's just about becoming disciplined and controlling yourself more. There are gamblers that are able to control their addiction and keep their activities in check, so this is something that's possible to achieve. A lot of gamblers sue dopamine rush as an excuse to keep on gambling irresponsibly. Gambling addiction is all mental, just learn how to control your mind

I think that should not be hard thing to do. The first thing to do is to control the way you approach the gambling sites most specifically yourself. And once you can do that then you have overcome it and become a responsible gambler. Another thing to do is that you should not be too serious on gambling and only play when you like with your specify budget.
You must have a budget. You must discipline yourself which have a lot things to do. Not motivated by others and always contented of what you play. What these few outlines you can be a responsible gambler.

It is very easy to be a responsible gambler, when you practice it from onset, then you will master the act of being responsible.
But if have been addicted along the line and you suddenly wants to be responsible, it will be a very difficult task to accomplish. So your question has a two face and as well will have a two faced answer of Yes and No.

I would also add it depends on how one discovered gambling and how much time one invested in gambling during the first session one had, by the way. Those how started to gamble and only spent some minutes before investigating what was gambling about will eventually develop more sense of responsibility than those who started by gambling during hours and hours without taking a single break from it. Those won't even investigate on the risks of gambling addiction and how the majority of gamblers are going to lose, so the house can be profitable in the long term, while paying the minority of winners.

Anyways, to each their own. As any other addiction, addiction to gambling is never to be under-estimated by anyone, I would not say it is easy, otherwise there would not be so many people with problems with gambling around the world.

I think it's difficult to stop these things you mentioned because like you said in your write up that people come into the industry with the goal of getting and they get addicted to it because they have got no other option or no other way to get rich to they keep trying and trying in gambling hoping to get rich. Being a responsible gambler isn't hard if you start gambling with the right mindset without thinking that gambling will make you rich overnight, it's easier to stay responsible if you start with the right approach with a clear head and knowing that gambling could make you rich but the chances are high so it's better to think of gambling as an entertainment.

Been self controlable is a much task to practice brother, it's not an easy job to be responsible and follow it up consistently, don't ever say it won't take anything from the victim, it going to take a lot of practice to win addiction and become responsible especially when you've been a hardcore gambler before trying to change, it's a hard task out there.

Even those gamblers that are not addicted but practicalize the limit control approach to limit and control their gambling activities still find it a big job to cope up with things as following that principle all the time, let say that you have to put up against your desire all the time when you have a limit control in place this makes the approach a hard job, that approach is what we call responsible gambling but you can see that to achieve that you will be needing a lot of patience and endurance to the limit you have set.

When a gambler have lost so much already. This makes them hard to quit and that's why being a responsible one is quite hard when you've got a lot to worry with.
And so, even some gamblers would like to be responsible, they just can't because they can't help themselves and doing it at first glance won't have an instant result.
They can do it somehow by changing a little by little until they've fully been changed. Start with small deposits and maintain that for as long as they can and to control the amount of losses that they might have just let it lose.

It is certainly possible to be a responsible gambler, but we have to change our mindset. If we can change our mindset and go through some rules, then we can certainly be right in any case. If we accept gambling as entertainment, then we can be responsible in gambling. Moreover, there are some more strategies among some strategies. Excessive money cannot be used in gambling. A certain budget must be set in gambling, such as a maximum limit of 1%-5% of a person's income. Then after losing in gambling, we cannot try to recover that lost money and try to participate in gambling again and again. In this way, if we can take gambling through some rules and we can adopt these few strategies, then we can certainly be responsible in gambling and use gambling responsibly. Moreover, it is not possible for us to be responsible in gambling.

It may depend on the beginning as well. If from the start the player has the wrong mindset, then it is likely that their playing style will also be wrong or their behavior will be wrong. However it cannot be denied that the risk of addiction to gambling is very high. Even those who view gambling solely as a form of entertainment are not immune to the risk of addiction the potential for addiction still exists and they may occasionally lose control, It is indeed challenging to be a responsible gambler; only a small fraction of those who engage in gambling can do so responsibly.

I think it depends on the person, absolutely.

It's similar to alcohol, for some it's no problem to have a beer here and there, but for others once you start drinking you cannot stop.

In gambling it's the same, some people can go and gamble a couple of times and leave, others will spend all their money over days or months until they're broke.

It really is an addictive thing.

That is why a person needs to be responsible at the beginning of gambling. It is necessary to keep himself under control at all times. He needs to be aware that he does not lose a lot at once. As you said, if someone has already lost a lot in gambling, it is not possible for him to get out of gambling. Then he gets involved in various types of criminal activities to earn money from gambling. Then he himself is destroyed and his family is destroyed. But if that person can control himself at the beginning, then he can gamble while keeping himself under control, so if he is addicted to gambling, he can get himself out of it.
Therefore, at the beginning of gambling, you should prepare yourself in such a way that you can get yourself out of any situation at any moment.

Fear of losing money can prevent someone from taking high risks by gambling beyond their means.
Also, a person who is quite busy in their life will find it difficult to find time to gamble, so when they do gamble, it will be limited to times when they are truly free, resulting in less money spent.
However, it is not easy to be a responsible gambler, especially if you are in a community that actively gambles, but in my experience, the busier I am, the less I gamble, allowing me to save more money.

Being responsible is not a decision we can make because we want to and then be Irresponsible in other aspects of life, if we are responsible we will be responsible in everything, we may get Carried away by emotions in a casino , but the Responsible person will not lose a lot of money because they know they must maintain themselves and cannot give in, those who do run the risk of getting into trouble and obviously falling into addiction.

Having responsibility in gambling will help someone to prevent the bad effects of gambling. He will realize that he must keep control of himself to stay away from the big loss. Responsibility in gambling means he can keep himself under control at all times so no matter the result, he can stop gambling anytime.

He will not be lured to continue gambling especially if he loses too much before. He just doesn't want to see more losses so he will stop gambling immediately. And with self-control, he will prevent more losses or prevent being greedy by wanting to win more.

He knows that gambling can destroy him, so controlling himself will work best. He doesn't want to become addicted to gambling so he will prevent himself from playing gambling too often.

I think its not hard to be a responsible player, but its hard to build «past» to be prepared to be responsible. From my vision, a person who has enough money, knows lots of ways how to earn them (not only in theory), have stable income, can gamble responsibly and greed will never lure him to dark side. Its not easy to become such a person, but if someone managed to become like it, he wont have problems with gambling.

With all that the members have said, I agree that it's definitely challenging, especially for people who are not in control of their emotions. Sometimes it really brings more problems when you do that, and that would lead to stress and bad moods that would lead you to poor decisions like gambling more.

Perhaps people could become more understanding of the possibility of using tools that help them limit themselves when it's tough and stay away from temptations.

Yes, even the gamblers that treats gambling for entertainment purposes. They're also prone to addiction knowing that there are other factors that could affect them.
And that's why if they're not as responsible as us, they could fall for their own mistakes and losses. It's the start of the tragedy for themselves of being addicted when they can't take their own choices well.
Even for small amount of deposits and bets that they'll make, that could also trigger them into falling to addiction.

People should choose to be responsible in their lifestyles and finance, that is when they can be responsible gamblers. It is not quite feasible to learn being responsible because of gambling, it has to be a lifestyle that affects every areas of life especially in finance. The important aspect about responsible gambling is not to gamble to become rich because that can lead to chasing loses which will eventually lead to addiction. Even when you're lucky and gets rich through gambling if you're not disciplined and responsible you'll lose everything back to the casino.

It's a tough thing to be a responsible person, but you have a point about what you said. It's about being responsible anywhere, and if a person or a gambler is used to what he is doing, then I think it will be normal for him to have control over his gambling habits.

Still, that's a tough action to do, to be responsible. In gambling, it's always the emotions that we need to keep under control, and when one is losing, the emotions go up, and that's when we make wrong decisions.

Sometimes greed can make us deviate from the right thing but once you're determined to follow the right path you'll be able to overcome that greed. I won't say it's very easy to be a responsible cause there are several temptations along the way but if a gambler can be determined like those steps you've take which are " limiting the size of your bets, playing for the fun of it and entertainment" and so forth then the gambler won't find it very though to overcome the temptations that comes with gambling, it's something that if not done in a responsible way can cause serious damage to someone (addiction) so it should be done with precautions and in a responsible way. Once a gambler develops such mindset then gambling responsibly won't be though for anyone.

For someone that's brought up in a responsible home he can be a responsible gambler, the type of gambler that others can not influence through the way they spend on gambling or the way they win constantly. It can be hard to maintain a responsible ways for gambling but if the gambler is disciplined he can gamble responsible. At first if the gambler is not there to make money he can actually gamble responsibly. To make money from gamble is the what really makes gamblers to gamble irresponsibly because they don't normally like it when they lose.

If it's that easy to be responsible gambler, I wonder why there are many gamblers out there that are losing money because of wrong decisions.

Being a responsible might be easy, but in reality, it's hard. Gambler can change their mood from being responsible, to being greedy in an instant especially if they're winning consecutive times already. Most of the gamblers aren't contented with their winnings, and they always have this feeling where they feel that they can win more after maybe doubling or tripling their money. It's hard to be a responsible gambler for most because of their mindset as well. What I believe is that, if we are responsible outside of gambling, we can carry it over, and be responsible as well in gambling.

That is true, when we say that we wanted to be a responsible gambler, then that's it. However, in practice, specially in we are in that situation, that's where's we totally forget about. And recently, I heard about the story and this is one factor that the recovering addicts shares.

In the beginning, when he lost we wanted to recover. And then he said to himself, that once I recovered, then I will quit. But once he was in that situation, he said that or what reason he gave is that since he is already there so what not aim for some win? And then the pattern goes until he become addicted.

I believe that every gambler can be responsible when they have the mindset that gambling is not an activity that should be prioritized. Gamblers find it hard to be responsible when they take gambling too seriously. Initially, gamblers can control their gambling budget, but when they gamble more frequently and make it a necessity to do so every day, it jeopardizes their finances.

If you have started to see gambling as an activity that you must do every day, try to force yourself to stop for one day, a week, then a month without gambling. It is not easy for those who are already addicted, but when you succeed, you may gain a better perspective on gambling.

The beginning matters a whole lot yet it is mostly ignored because at first it will never seem like you can get to a point of carelessness with your gambling habit. Even for entertainment addiction can set in, most persons believe gambling for entertainment can not really be addictive except when you gamble for money, these people forget that you can get addicted to a form of entertainment and it has nothing to do with If  it was done for fun or money.  This is why we have to be careful, at the very start of a new habit, it is best to make sure to checkmate your involvement because that is the beat time to build a habit around it and be able to see how well you can gwt it regulated if you finally intend to do so.

Well, I think it's easy to talk about how to be a responsible person in gambling, but talking can't make a person responsible, it's the execution that can make a person really responsible. Just like your examples of being overweight and smoking, people know that these habits are injurious to their health, but they still engage in them. This shows that talking or planning does not work until you put it into practice and start implementing it. The same is true for gambling, individuals should realize that gambling is not a way to get rich, but rather a form of entertainment that comes at a cost to their money. If you understand this mindset, you will be more responsible, I hope so.

Everything you want to do or become in life is about the sate of your mind, you can control anything you want to control, therefore becoming a responsible gambler is a decision you can make by stating rules and that will help you stay disciplined while gambling. Though it's not easy you said, it comes with a lot of work to put because you definitely you will be tested at some point to do things out of control, I assure you, especially when you encounter a huge lose.

Gambling is something you made up your mind to start doing in one day I think you are right it takes your decision to decide the way you want to continue doing things either gambling or other things. Your ability to make good decisions determines how far you can go in life and the things you consume in your mind is also a function of your decision. Becoming a good gambler is possible becoming addicted is also possible but you can decide what you want to do if you make up your mind and decide not to cross a certain amount in gambling when you want to fund your account you won't fund beyond that limit.

If a gambler has already lost a lot of money by gambling, then I would say that maybe when that gambler gambled, his idea about gambling was not clear and he may have gambled unplannedly with excessive risk of money, which is why he lost so much money. Now, seeing that this gambler had lost money before, he gambled randomly to recover that money, but this will increase his chances of losing money even more, so I think a gambler should forget the past and gamble responsibly from the present. It is difficult to be a responsible gambler, but gamblers who gamble responsibly make fewer wrong decisions and are never seen in excessive haste when gambling. There are many gamblers who forget that they have a family or that they are already in debt while gambling. When they lose money again, they feel that what they did was wrong. So there is no point in regretting after losing everything, but we should try to protect what we have.

Responsible gambling, gambling addiction and all related vices pretty much come from the same vine...and if you think about it, the only reason people fall into these traps is when a person wins and becomes over confident thinking they are invisible, before you know it people lose themselves and go against their beliefs which shouldn't be the case!

Btw responsible gambling is easy when you have experienced and know how to go about loss, but should you be a freshman trying to gamble, trust me this is new grounds for such people and the only antidote is experience.

I believe the secret to achieving success in any field is determination and setting your mind on the reason why you initially decided to go for that thing, in other words, your drive. You need to have a strong drive, have the determination and always maintain a positive mindset and even if it'll take some time, you'll definitely achieve it.

But it is true that gambling affects the emotions within us. Everyone who gambles has surely experienced emotions that may be uncontrollable, even those who gamble for fun. One example of irresponsible gambling is when someone cannot control themselves, for example, when their emotions peak and they continue to gamble instead of choosing to stop. Besides being responsible, self-control in gambling is difficult to achieve but easy to say, as evidenced by the numerous cases of gambling that occur due to a lack of self-control.

Certainly those who gamble know how difficult it is to gamble responsibly. Even though who gamble responsibly, many are not able to control their emotions in the long gambling life. Controlling emotions in gambling is more difficult than in any other activity. Only those who can demonstrate proficiency in this activity can enjoy gambling. Responsible gambling is even more difficult for gamblers who gamble uncontrollably. For this reason, gamblers should be more cautious when conducting gambling.

To an extent, even though smoking is as addictive as gambling, the difference between the two is that while the drive to smoke is mainly from the pleasure that comes with it, for gambling you have a lot of driving force that gets you in the mood which ranges firstly from the fact that you always think that you might get lucky if you try it again, and also the fun that comes with gambling as well as friends, ads, and also stories of people hitting jackpot that always pushes you to go even harder in pursuit of your own jackpot.

With this reality, is it still possible to gamble responsibly? absolutely yes. If you set the right system in place that protect you from being too vaulnourable to becoming addicted, you can be a responsible gambler. regardless of how much you have that can go into gambling without it interfairing with other aspect of your life, it is best to set a system you are to work with and ensure that you follow it up to the latter. knowing that if you eventually get addicted that it is going to be to your own loss is also another way of ensuring self descipline such that you become accountable to yourself.

If you understand what the house edge is, what is the RTP and what is the math behind the casino, if you understand that mathematical advantages guarantee a profit for the casino and if you understand that casinos exist to make a profit, then it's easy to be a responsible player because when you know all of these, you do not deposit all the money with the hope of making a profit. In this case, you usually deposit some money to have fun before you lose it all.
So for me, who analyses and understands these things, it's very easy to be a responsible gambler because I've been responsible for years and I'm actually in profit against the casinos, so I'm doing very well. I can't imagine myself addicted to gambling.

While it helps to be self conscious, gambling always finds it way around knocking gamers off balance in terrible losing conditions. And not every person who have the drive will bypass the taughts of losing substantial amounts to a casino. Nobody knows the path where irresponsible gaming walk through into the emotional state of a gambler. It's something unpredictable, and as well affects players unknowingly.

That is why it's recommended by gambling authors that we to pay close attention to ourselves by allowing a close friend discuss with us about any changes they've noticed in us over the past few days, maybe after losing a certian huge amount.

In life one must have discipline and self-control on whatever he is doing. This is same with gambling, when you gamble without reserve, it's definitely gonna have a negative impact on you. Rules are very easy to set and hard to obey when you are gambling for profits. Sometimes, we have the intention to gamble with little amount of money but when gambling we get triggered by our losses and gamble with more than the budgeted amount.

but emotions are not only in betting or trading, they are in everything and i don't feel like condemning them
Emotions make us human and also make us weak and vulnerable but they certainly make us authentic people
Without emotions we are like computers

Our loved ones always see if our mood or behavior changes, so there is no need to worry about it, the main thing is to be honest with them. And it is even better to control yourself in such a way that gambling cannot influence you in such a way that your mood changes because of losses. If gambling can influence you, then this will be reflected in the atmosphere in your family, and it seems to me that this should not be allowed under any circumstances.

There are several factors that always affect responsible gambling, and if you are not able to handle these factors, it will definitely affect you. We have greed, lack of understanding, and overconfidence, and when all of these are difficult to manage, it always becomes a problem in gambling.

This is what most gamblers do not understand; they think that some or one among these factors does not matter and that they can do without it. To be a responsible gambler, it is important to be vigilant and to have an understanding of what gambling is all about.

Maintaining discipline and self-control is of course the most important thing, those who can keep themselves within the set limits in gambling and control their emotions can avoid big losses.
And to follow these things properly, discipline, responsibility and self-control are definitely needed.
Those who think more and more after a loss actually move towards bigger losses.
But those who accept the loss and stay away from gambling, then they protect themselves from bigger losses.
Basically, those who cross their limits will definitely face losses, so these things must be understood well, more gambling is never the solution, rather it will only lead to more losses.

We can not blame emotions because that is part of us. We can control our emotions so that will not get into a bad situations. We should have self-control in gambling, although that is difficult to have but with practice time to time, we will have that self-control. We can prevents irresponsibility in gambling because we know the risks that can happen.

We will not just follow our instinct to place a bet in gambling or playing casino games if we think that can gives more losses. We can see when the situation turns bad and save us before something bad really happens to us.

I'd buy your opinion. Addiction is a habit which victims unaware get themselves in.  It's every individuals duty and wish to be responsible gamblers but those victimized are as result of their approach in chasing losts or overexcited on their winning. With their eagerness state of minds, they just pays deaf and dumb sensitive thar they might loose more and find it unbearable if they're not careful in the long run.
It's accorded that the temptations of loosing self control will always be there from a begining, but consistent disciplines will always keep you on the safe side.

Not in gambling alone, in life, if you want to become a responsible person you will have to learn how to take decisions by yourself and continue to learn how to take the responsibility of your decisions. Once you get used to doing that, it becomes easier for you to apply it to your gambling games. Gambling will always find a way to test your patience and play around your emotions particularly when you are chasing your wins or when you think you are losing but that's where your ability to take your own decisions sets in which includes discipline and self control.

In gambling, two things mostly happens to people. The first one is either you decide to play your gambling games responsibly by ensuring that you discipline yourself and limit yourself to the realities behind it or secondly, by letting the game play you which means instead of you to control the outcome of your games, you allowed the game to control your decision making process

If you are not so difficult as a gambler who is not so active, I also have no difficulty because my initial goal when I was about to bet was clear, installing to believe what I had analyzed. Losing for me is normal. Like yesterday a few soccer matches in different leagues, won because of choosing Real Madrid but lost during the Fulham vs Man United match I chose Man United to win.

In a slot game, I don't want to spend a lot of time there. When the time I set makes me have to lose money, it means I'm ready with it.
In my opinion, being a responsible player is ready with loss.

There should be no much lessons to attend in order to be able to learn how to be a responsible gamblers other than making sure to use funds that we can afford to lose to gamble and not also entertaining the idea of getting rich through gambling. I think these are the simple factors that determines responsible gambling, because if you don't lose more than you can afford to then you wouldn't be having a need to chase losses, and if you're not among those that takes gambling as a means of getting rich then there's nothing you have to do with impulsive gambling at all cost.

That should be the basic motto in gambling. Gamble when you have extra. And not because you want to find extra funds. Because most gamblers have the mindset that gambling can either give him the jackpot or will give him the huge profit that he's aiming for. However, we all know the end result of most of our games.

Though some are playing for fun, but we all know they also have hidden desires of winning. And they are like occasional gamblers that would only play using spare funds, hence, they can easily say that they are indeed responsible gamblers. But for most, quite hard to be responsible as they can't contain themselves in front of their games.

For me, playing is a way to relax, and I enjoy the process itself. The most important thing is to set clear boundaries for yourself both in terms of time and the amount of money spent on the game, and then everything stays under control. Gambling only brings problems into our lives when we lack discipline and a proper system in managing our affairs and expenses.

I agreed with that and Aside from trying not to use so much funds to gamble just to prove that you are a responsible gambler, there are ways and mechanism a gambler can put in place that helps him to automatically operate a d gamble with the ambits of a responsible gambler, that covers more than not just using Money carelessly being the determinant factor to say a person is an irresponsible gambler.

I think those that have hard time in reducing their gambling activities need to accept some things about gambling. First, it's not going to make everyone win and that's why we need to chill and calm down whenever we're winning. The adrenaline rush that it provides us makes us confident that we're more than winners already if we think that luck is on us and gave us some few wins. But, that's not it. Being responsible is what gives us a strong foundation and that definitely gives us idea of how to gamble smartly and how we should keep ourselves in control despite sometimes, we get emotional breakdown.

In many cases, a lot of people often fail to control themselves despite setting their own limits. I think the best way to gamble is by betting small amounts of money because even if you have a losing streak, it probably won't have a bad impact on your daily life.
Additionally, to reduce the risk of addiction, I think it's important not to gamble too often. The time spent on gambling is essentially more valuable than the money. It is very wrong to make gambling a means of seeking wealth, regardless of the financial situation one is facing.

All is smooth until you’re actually in the situation. The feeling, the adrenaline, is much more intense. It’s not that gamblers don’t want to stop or calm down, but it’s really hard to control once you’re already playing. Greed, emotions, frustrations, everything can consume you, or you’ll let yourself get consumed even if you know you shouldn’t. Not everyone is capable of dealing with greed or frustrations while playing. For other gamblers, just thinking about it and actually experiencing it are two very different thing, easier said than done.

Not just for you, this is an idealogy I agree with all the time, a good number of times, gambling  may not be the issue but our greed and indiscipline may turn around to us and we begin  to fault gambling forgetting how nonchalant and undisciplined we have been. Setting boundaries when gambling and even when you are getting entertained shows the level of discipline you have attained and in most cases it obviously gets to help you with how you manage your finnace at the time mostly at the casino.

When you have other options and are active with other hobbies/activities, you are less likely to become hooked to a specific habit.  I'm proof that someone can gamble for many years without becoming addicted.  I only gamble when I want to gamble, not because I have to.

I can go a month without betting; it's all about discipline and knowing what you want.  One must have control over everything they choose to start on.

It's only difficult once it becomes an addiction, but from that beginning stages it's easy to condition yourself and learn to do it moderately. Just like someone that takes his first sip of alcohol, that moment is actually very important because that is when the person gets to decide if it's going to be an addiction or not. It is easy to be a responsible gambler when you are just starting to gamble but if you don't learn self control it becomes a problem

Why many are being addicted is because they don't have alternatives to what get them engaged, had it been they are always preoccupied with loads of activities for the day aside from gambling, some of them wouldn't ha e been found addicted the way they appear, this about understanding what is of priority to us, why we need to devote more of other time on other things that are important to life than always on gambling.

This is true, basically, gambling never becomes harmful for those who can discipline their mentality and activities here.
If gambling is only for entertainment and relaxation, it can be enjoyed positively, but when it is tried to achieve success through it, and the activities are carried out greedily, then it can naturally bring harm.
When a gambler loses control and gambles in a chaotic and uncontrolled manner, then gambling becomes a problem for him, no one tries to understand this in the first place, and because of this they cannot avoid this disaster.
Therefore, enjoying gambling within limits is the right decision, and this requires complete discipline and self-control.

People will become responsible when they see their gambling history, most of them spend more money than they earn, when their money is almost gone they will regret it, and they think that what they did was wrong, this is where they start to be responsible if they avoid the same mistakes, it is so difficult to be a responsible gambler after sacrificing quite a lot of money

Being addicted means too much time spending on it. So, we can't separate with that activity anymore. In gambling, this happens because of playing gambling in an excessive way. Sure, in the long run, we will too depend on gambling and we ignore other important activities in real life because of an excessive gambling. I think the main problem is lack of control in playing gambling. In this condition, it leads to an excessive gambling. So, it means it is very important to gave good self-control. If we have good self-control, we won't play gambling excessively and there will be no chance of addiction.  ;)

The problem is that we don't know when luck will strike. Even if a gambler comes with the intention of doubling their winnings, it doesn't mean they can't win. However, as I mentioned above, that's why we shouldn't gamble for entertainment. It's not impossible, but we certainly don't know whether we'll win or not.

Furthermore, gambling with the intention of making a profit will only damage our mental and psychological well-being. This is because when we expect to win but end up losing, we'll inevitably become emotional because we've lost money instead of making a profit. Essentially, throw away the idea of ​​"doubling your money" from gambling, because that's the beginning of disaster.

I began to play seriously when i decided to get additional profit. But of course it wasn`t a dream about jackpot. I knew that i had to work really hard to get profit.
But for common gambler who want to play time to time - your words are 100% correct. They mostly lose their money and it is important not to lose the last of it.

I do not quite understand what you meant, your concept of limit control and how it relates to responsible gambling. Are you eulogizing limit control as a good way to becoming a responsible gambler or you are saying that even with limit control, it is still difficult to be a responsible gambler. But I believe that I made my point so clear for you to understand.
However, in your conclusion, you made it clear that to achieve responsible gambling, one must employ patience and endurance. Permit me to add contentment and risk management.

We must learn discipline  so we don't fall victim of this situation.  Even while trying out best to gamble disciplinly there often time we're the thought of overriding your schedule  just hit your side so bad that it feels like you have no other option than to concor to that voice. Well the truth is, if you actually  obey that voice that definitely means you're not ready to be a responsible gambler, because  the only way out is discipline gambling habits. Though while trying to quit the behavior you may face difficulties and psychologist say that it's best to start reducing your hunger by still doing those things little by little  until you're done for good.

Gambling addiction is one of the most powerful addictions known because it causes excessive dopamine release. Overeating is less serious than gluttony or smoking. That's why gambling addicts continue gambling until they reach their limit. However, gambling addiction can also be abandoned and simply played for fun.

It's all in the mind. if you convince your mind, all problems will disappear. By disciplining your mind, you become a responsible gambler.

I say the same, you have to keep busy and have other things to do in life to avoid getting hooked. If you have other things on your mind, it is certainly much more difficult to stay addicted. I would dare say that someone who has many activities as a hobby will hardly have problems controlling gambling since you eliminate anxiety from your body.

Agreed, we don't have to prove to any one that we're responsible gamblers, it'll show in the way we gamble and being responsible benefits is more hence we have all reasons to be that way. When we budget, our expenses shouldn't exceed a small percentage of our income, we can't chase losses or get triggered because we lost some money, our decision making should be that of someone that's not relying on the game that they're playing but like someone that's enjoying themselves because that's what we should be doing when gambling. Responsible gamblers are those that stay in profits more because they're in control and that should be what we're known for as gamblers.

We don't need to prove anything as long as it doesn't harm others, so we will just walk our own path according to what we want.

Indeed, for now, validation seems to be one aspect that is always seen by everyone because of its stigma, so it seems that many people only expect validation from others in order to live their lives according to certain criteria.
However, in the end, this only makes us feel like we’re living in someone else’s shadow, especially when we’re just trying to show others that we’re responsible and want to be seen in a certain light it all feels pointless.

What’s most important is that we must be able to control ourselves regardless of others’ opinions. Why should we care? Because in the end, we can’t force others’ views onto ourselves.

I leave my life in my own terms as long as I am not doing anything illegal and not harming anyone else and for that reason, I don't validate people opinion and acting in the most responsible and private as possible is what matters to me the most, let not get it wrong and leaving based on others opinions.


The world will definitely talk, but what their are saying doesn't really matter as long as we acting in the most self respectful ways, such that even if we gamble we still be seen as responsible set of gambler's

I believe a responsible gambler isn’t someone who consistently wins, as they have control. For me, the center of responsible gambling is to know when to start or when to quit. They don’t gamble just to win money but have fun with it. They are not profit-oriented but rather play it for entertainment.

Responsible gamblers are not seized by the anguish of regret or the rancor of losing because they establish and set clear limits right from the beginning. They play only the money that they can well afford to lose without disrupting other aspects of their lives. This way, the issue is about playing not a source of trouble. That, to my mind, is the difference between a responsible gambler and one caught in a cycle chasing losses.

Personally, it's very easy to gamble responsibly. I've been gambling for close to a decade now, and I've learned to gamble responsibly, but if I'm to answer that question generally and not personally, then no, it's not easy.
It's not easy because the casinos and betting companies plant the ideas in the heads of customers and potential customers that they can get rich from playing. With an idea like that, people won't think about how much they will lose as long as they get out of poverty. Add that to the stories they hear of people who won hundreds of thousands of dollars in betting, and it changed their lives. Stories like that motivate them to think that one day it will be them

Then there is the chasing of losses. You want to get your money back, and there is a voice always at the back of your head telling you that the next bet might be the one you'll win big and recoup all your losses. So, we can see its very difficult to gamble responsibly, but it's very possible.

We can become a responsible gamblers if we don't see gambling as a means of escaping poverty, if we don't chasing our losses, and if we use 2% of our income to gamble so that we can always control our gambling habits. It is difficult for many to become a responsible gamblers because they gamble from monday to sunday and if their favorite leagues didn't have fixtures the day they want to gamble, they wouldn't take a break; they would bet on the available leagues that day just for them to have a bet ticket they would monitor that day, and they would be chasing their losses so that they could get rich from gambling.

I have also seen people who say they are gambling only for the purpose of entertaining themselves, but as time goes on, it moves beyond just that gambling for entertainment and fun over to something they will start chasing profit for, because they might have seen someone who just recently managed to win something out of it and would like to also be part of that winning family.

The question about if it is easy to be a responsible player? Merely looking at it one will know that such question is on the general perspective because while it might be easy for you it might not be easy for the nearest man, and provided that one has not quite gambling it is still an everyday struggling because change is what is constant,  where a long term responsible gambler can turn to an irresponsible gambler, it is not easy and I must say but it is so important to keep being stronger than ever not to fall a victim of such circumstance because it is not actually a good thing. We talk about it here everyday and the negative impacts of it to a victim.

Putting in mind that you must become rich through gambling will really destabilize you and make you lose your focus in gambling. You’ll make a lot of mistakes and will also remain at a disadvantage in your gambling journey. Taking a break at gambling is very important and if you continue to make mistakes, your gambling will only end in havoc, this will be like a scenario, from grace to grass once again. It becomes even worse if you’re already an addicted gambler and can’t do without it. 2% of our income spared for gambling may even look like a very big amount for some people to sacrifice, some will go as low as sacrificing only 1% and if they lose those amount, they will only restrict themselves from gambling until they get paid to spare another 1% from their income.

True, it makes all the difference! You have to know your limits and never risk what you need in your daily life. Games are meant to be fun, not a headache later.

Being a responsible gambler is easy which means following the rules and regulations of us without ommiting any one of them .
As we all know that gambling is for fun and not for money, therefore we must learn how to gamble with what we can afford to lose, because must persons becomes irresponsible gambler because they tend to gamble with what they can't afford to lose which now becomes the genesis of their gambling problem, since they will start chasing their loss because they need the fund back since that money was meant for something else and not just their left over from their monthly expenses.

It should be easy. If you don't know if you can control yourself then it's a tough situation you're putting yourself into by starting to gamble.

The chances are you will lose. When it happens how would you react?  This is how gambling goes. If you can't adapt to the condition of being met with loses then it's more of a risk for your life to participste. It could bring instability to your finances and relations.

Consider going over however much money you have if a small loss occured at first. If it's not easy for you to recognize this is the wrong move before it even happens then maybe gambling isn't for you.

If it is possible for the government of every country to restrict the people that doesn't have source of income from gambling, i would have encouraged the government of every country to banned nor salary earners from gambling because these people sees gambling as a means of getting rich and they are easily addicted to gambling because they don't know when to take a break from gambling, and they end up destroying their lives. All gamblers doesn't have the same income, so any gambler that thinks 2% of his income is too big to allocate to gamble can reduce it to the percentage that pleases him.

If we take the story from the average gambler's side, they may find it difficult to become responsible gamblers because from the start they have the desire to make a lot of money so they are out of control and they feel how easy it is to earn money just by sitting and playing games (if they are lucky) so that over time they become addicted, just like the point you mentioned about passive smokers, if they have become passive smokers, it will be difficult to stop, but if they have the intention to be responsible, that desire will overcome their addiction, but gradually.

If that's what will happen and be aware of how to judge yourself then staying away from gambling would be better.
But some people do not listen to the content of their day and only cling to their ego, so that when they make bets or gambling games and lose they feel regret and stress because they continue to lose their money,
even though an unstable mental state and not being able to manage becomes a fatal mistake.

Not only financial instability, but their real lives will be disrupted and depend on habits as well if gambling becomes a regular thing and knows when to stop then it will not be a bad thing.
Defeat is only a sign that you have to stop first.

Most of the gamblers in my community except for the underage gamblers (below 18 years) play to make money. The number of children under 18 participating in gambling is increasing at an alarming rate and most of them do it for entertainment rather than for money. You cannot expect responsible gambling from older gamblers unless they have lost a lot of money. Even if you advise them to play for a short time or according to bankroll they will ignore your advice. I am not talking about everyone but about the attitude of most gamblers because they are mature in age and aware of losing their money. They want to combine gambling with an alternative source of income through earning. If you are mentally strong, you can quit smoking but quitting gambling is not easy if you are not tied to a limited budget.

Nowadays a huge percentage of those gambling don't gamble due to having extra cash in hand but to rather make extra making them lose the funds they could have had other plans for.  That wrong mindset of doubling funds through gambling have made many gamblers run huge loss to their funds leading to a loss chase with a bad end.

It's even better to play for fun and give the least expectations to making of profit rather than putting all your thoughts on making money from how you gambling. It's easier to stay responsible that way than dealing with the money making mindset.

If a passive smoker does not start smoking, he will never become addicted, and he will always have the choice to change the environment to stop breathing smoke if he does not want to. The same with gambling, I do not see a reason that would prevent you from being a responsible player from the very beginning, and there is no need to say that inexperienced players are more susceptible to addiction, this is not true because I was able to approach gambling responsibly from the very beginning, control the bankroll bets and do everything to not lose more than I planned.

..yeah, having other interests and self discipline are huge protective measures against gambling addiction. You know, having good social support & resilience results in a reduced risk of addiction, and a higher education leads to better decision-making and self-control. Hobbies take the place of the dopamine high that gambling provides and do so in a healthier way. In my place, i also know many survivors who build hobbies in refreshing activities as cooking, photography or even walking helped tremendously. So, to stay in control, discipline & alternatives are very effective methods, depending only on luck will not help you.

I've tried to restrain myself from gambling when I had money in the form of a balance. I've played games or watched movies and videos, but the desire to win has caused me to lose control, ultimately depositing my balance at an online casino and starting to gamble. I've experienced this myself, so it's difficult to be a responsible gambler unless we force ourselves. You're right, we must be careful when gambling, because the decision is ultimately ours.

All of us here are theoretically prepared people to not become addicted to gambling and stubbornly resist any temptation to turn gambling into earnings. Because I, like you, believe that it will not work. All those who are in the black from gambling are either strong analysts who have achieved success in poker or good sports analysts who are excellent at placing bets. But such people are 1 percent, and even then it may be even less.

It's just that every gambler must be a well-rounded individual with a desire to learn about the world and discover new intellectual subjects for themselves and read books, as well as be interested in something other than gambling.
In the world of gambling, the audience that easily succumbs to addiction are people who do not have many different hobbies, who are only trying to earn as much money as possible. Although they themselves do not understand why they do this.

Making profit not only in gambling but in other areas of endeavours motivates us to increase seriousness and efforts, but there's something I would want to point out here correctly, and that's that, in gambling moat often than not it's not about how much seriousness you give to it that makes you profit, it's predominantly about how lucky you are. Anyonvan still not be that serious about gambling and still hit a jackpot when they never thought about it.

Having the desire to win isn't bad but at the same time knowing fully well that no matter how we desire to win, losing can also be coming your way, that's the real thing, man you're just facing the reality in gambling, please don't lose control, just retrace your step, it might not be easy at this moment but you can actually do it because you own your self control, you decide what you do, don't allow those instincts that keep telling you that when you keep trying, you'll win, be a responsible gambling by controlling those urge that keep coming your way.

No doubt dude, being a responsible gambler is not a play, one has to be very desciplined to do this but we can actually do it, it only requires we saying this is what we want and sticking to it.

Exactly. You've made a valid point, consistent with the facts: in gambling, the chance of winning isn't determined by how hard we try, but rather by our luck. I'd also add that subsequent results don't depend on previous results. This means that even if you win previously, it doesn't necessarily mean you'll win again.

So, in conclusion, winning isn't determined by how we play, but purely by our luck at that particular time. However, for other types of betting, such as sports, things may be a little different. Our hard work in analysis can help improve our chances. So, it's true that it's better to treat gambling with a minimum of caution, as even trying harder doesn't guarantee victory.

It boils down to one mindset, just like you said some folk are usually naive when come to gambling they usually think gambling is all about getting rich quick. Such folk with such mindset won’t be responsible when come to gambling, because he has already have the mindset that gambling can give him wealth or make him rich pretty fast which may lead to him thinking that him gambling frequently would increase the chances of him hitting the jackpot and such not a responsible way of gambling.

I think those who got rich quickly will most likely give that money back to the casino, because throughout their lives they will be haunted by the thought that they could have won more. Although it would seem that you should take the money and enjoy life, because very few people have been so lucky. I think I would do exactly that because I imagine how difficult it is for beginners to understand this, who can be deceived in their heads when they start thinking that they are the chosen ones after several wins in a row. In general, you need to be a responsible player and learn from the professionals, at least that's what I do when I want to take a break from the game.

Emotions is for what we are playing. If you control emotions, you lose a part of pleasure. It would be more correct to control your betting behavior - don`t increase bet or don`t cash out during the game, because your emotions tell you change your first decision. I made such mistakes when tested strategy with small sums. As the result, about the half of such decisions were mistakes - i lost more money than could win without changes.
Today i don`t cares about bets when it`s done. I just feel emotions from the game from my bet, but don`t touch anything.

Being a responsible gambler depends on your character, and on that depends whether it is easy or difficult for you to be responsible or not.
As i always say, if you don't fall into this addiction there are other insidious and subtle ones, the important thing is not to let yourself be dominated and keep everything under emotional control

What strategies do you need to apply for a responsible approach and how can you expect to win more. The reasons for relying on others for gambling for example if you are new to the platform and before gaining experience, you have increased your expectations of winning a jackpot and you continue to gamble frequently but in reality it is pushing you towards more losses. Another reason why people are stupid in gambling is that they love to apply the decisions of others rather than waiting for their own decisions because when they keep failing in their own efforts to win they rely on the luck of others which further disable them financially.

In gambling you need to be able to control everything and even emotions, because at first you think that you have everything under control, and then when you have lost several bets, you can decide to bet more to win back, because this will be an emotional decision. But gambling can be predictable if you bet so little that it does not cause you great emotions, then you will exclude the reason why you can lose more than you should.

Let me get it right please. Are you implying that it's not possible to practice responsible gambling habit as gamblers? If it's so then we wouldn't have some responsible gamblers still out there. I believe it's about being conscious of yourself and motive, and not being overwhelmed by greed cause that's the first enemy of a gambler in losing his self discipline to stay on track with his plans of not getting addicted to gambling. And lastly, I don't think there's anyone that's excellent at gambling.

Being a responsible gambler has a lot do with discipline, because you have to be disciplined to be able to set limits and boundaries. For you to be a responsible gambler you also have to realize that you can't get rich through gambling a d that will really help you in the way you gamble, because you are not expecting to get rich with it. Self control is also very important for you to be a responsible gambler, this quality helps you know your limits, which helps you not to exceed your budget for gambling.

There are many stories where people got crazy money in a casino or lottery. And they could not stay at the same level of happiness they were at, but also became much unhappier, for example, they got divorced or quarreled, because they did not have money management and were not people with a wide range of interests, but were simply poor narrow-minded people with weak ideas about the world, on whom a lot of money fell.

Does seriousness give wining in gambling in the first place? I think it doesn't, seriousness in gambling only makes you to unintentionally hang on the traps of gambling addiction, so it is better for we gamblers to understand that chasing money from gambling as if we are going about a lucrative business will only put us in trouble, winning in gambling can us make us feel that we now have license to sleep in casinos but thats falacy coming from our mind, I have heard people say consistency in gambling beings them closer to wining, imagine the crazy way of thinking, gambling is gambling, the earlier we approach it as one the  better for us.

If you can actually learn how to control how you spend and what you spend on, it would get easier to be responsible when gambling or engaging in other activities. For someone who is really active in gambling, I know it's easier said than done and still very much difficult to be responsible. But like you noted, we've got to strive and push harder so we don't let something that should ordinarily be a harmless recreational activity control our lives.
Try budgeting your income and strive to keep to it. Overtime, it would get easier.

You are right, a lot of people don't have anything else to do to keep their mind off gambling that's true but it's not the case for some people. There are people that gamble with the intention to get rich from it even if they have other things that they are into, they still see gambling as an easy way out of the matrix. There's absolutely no way you can expect such people to gamble responsibly because they would be desperate to do so

That's actually the hard part of it. The emotional control. If you are in a position where you have lost too much, the mentality is to get back what you had lost and get the revenge that you want. This kind of emotion is not easy to control because we are thinking that we are being treated unfairly.

A responsible player will stop at that point and maybe just call it a day. Better, he won't be back anymore because he felt cheated. But those who have so much pessimistic lingering in their mind will keep coming back to get their revenge.

I am generally a responsible person, and it is easy for me to be responsible in any area, as long as I have some basic mental resource for it.
But being a responsible player is probably not easy in general, especially for those who come to gambling with the idea of making quick money. It is important to practice systematically: set a budget in advance, understand the risks, and stop on time. Emotions, stress, or a bad mood can affect your judgment, so the habit of playing responsibly should be fostered and developed gradually, in case it doesn't come naturally to a person.

I wasn't given this by nature, so I probably made most of the mistakes in the game, from small to large, even several times, until I realized that I needed to understand why I was doing this and I began to study this problem. It was enough for me to watch several dozen interviews with players who told their path from the beginning to complete loss and I noticed that everyone had common features. This helped me completely get rid of the addiction, so if at one point I realize that the game is starting to take over my emotions, I will immediately stop playing, because I do not want to be drawn into the funnel of my emotions and the desire to win back.

Those people must change their vision of gambling. Gambling will not allow them to make money easily but can take all of their money in a second. People must have many activities to distract their minds so they will not think of playing gambling in their free time. But if they don't have other things and only spend their time in the casino, they will get addicted in a short time and that is the problem will coming. That is why if you want to playing gambling, you must have a strong mind and have the power to say stop to yourself. So you can stop gambling anytime.

In my opinion, being a responsible gambler is very difficult, although many people think it is easy, but in reality it is not easy. In my opinion, there are many people who gamble and claim to be responsible, but in reality, when they lose money, they regret it a lot later and cannot control themselves. If a gambler cannot control himself when he loses his money, then he cannot be a responsible gambler at all. Rather, a responsible gambler is a person who can always control himself, even if he loses a lot of money, if he can still control himself, then he is responsible. And a responsible gambler always plays from experience and always believes in his skills and patience, he is a patient person who does not lose control of himself.

A responsible gambler should know his limit and stop when gambling. It doesn't mean that he should continue gambling and lose a big amount of money. Stopping at the right time and having a gambling budget will limit your losses, if only you stick to the rules. Nobody will be happy to lose big especially, when it's not an amount of money that you can afford to lose. Prevention is better than cure.

I told about it. It is betting behavior. Yes, it based on emotions, it connected with emotions, but i think that we have to separate it. One thing is how you watch betted match, another thing is it you decide to change the bet on it, or make a higher bet on next match.
It is good to be fulfilled with emotions but your decisions mustn`t depend on it.

Unfortunately, it's not easy to keep our inner selves in check, the ones that fight to get what they want, and rightly so.
In fact, every day the silent enemy we face, the most terrible and the strongest, is ourselves.
We must, however, do our duty and try not to succumb to pleasures entirely.

Losing doesn’t mean being irresponsible; responsibility lies already at the stage of funding your deposit. If I know that I can afford to lose a certain amount, I will deposit exactly that amount and not a dollar more. I believe responsibility should precisely be at this stage. How the deposit will be lost afterward, and how quickly, depends on the player, their strategy, and so on. Responsibility should be about controlling yourself and not losing more than you can afford.

It is very easy to talk about it over and over again but very difficult for most people to practice it, that's why a lot of people are falling into gambling addiction because they can not control their urge and desire for gambling, this might have been as a result of motivation that they can make big amount of money from gambling but yet they don't get to make the money they expected and yet they can not stop trying. If many people stop trying to make a huge win from gambling or make a living from it, there will be less numbers of addicts.

In fact, people have this kind of excessive expectation that they will be able to achieve success through it, because of this kind of mentality, they cannot tend to get out of gambling at the right time.
Due to such a mentality, most people fall into the trap of addiction due to not being able to control their emotions, if a gambler does not expect too much from gambling, then they will definitely be able to maintain their control here.
It is very important to consciously set limits, see gambling as a means of entertainment rather than a source of income, and make a habit of stopping in time. Because when you are weak in terms of your mentality, that is when the danger begins.

Yes I agree with you. It is only a beginner in gambling and average gamblers that can discipline because at that stage they are not addicted to gambling but for those addicted gamblers, my brothers it is difficult to be a responsible gambler because their mental thinking is not like that of the beginners again. So to be a responsible gambler should be practicing from the beginning of the gambling journey.
But if the addicted person determined to discipline himself, he can but it will be a challenge moment for him. One thing that makes gamblers to be addicted is the easy access to finance so if the person wants to stop he has to channel the income to another "Pause to keep money", which he can locked the funds in the Bank or in the Micro Finance apps so he won't have access to spend on gambling. And when the due date comes, he can use I to buy what he has budgeted to buy.

Apart from games like chess, poker and sports no other type of gamble requires much mental effort or seriousness. But like you said making profit from a particular thing might make you want to increase your seriousness in it but this isn't what is going to help you make more profit. Gambling is basically about getting lucky and most times it is not really about putting in too much effort

For someone to be a responsible gambler I think that person Hunt to work out many things that will prevent him from having another agendas or another plan for itself and the family, for someone to be a responsible gambler that person have to establish a strategic ways that will lead him not be discouraged carrying out other plans, so we have to have a timetable our gambling and we also map out a particular amount of money that will be used for gambling so that it will not affect any of our financial service weekly or monthly, people who participate in gambling irresponsibly have the people who does not have a particular amount there can be spending in gambling weekly or monthly

It is when you're a family man and when your mindset is focused on your family. There should always be a limitation on how much you spend on gambling, regardless of whether you are married or not. Excessive gambling is not a good habit.
Being responsible is not that really hard. Everyone knows we can't beat the casino, and we can't hit a jackpot without spending too much. At the end of the day, it is just our money we win back when the algorithm decides to let you win lol. However, this will definitely not apply with sports betting and other pvp card games.

Gambling excessively can alaays lead you to actions or results that are regrettable and thats why so many avoid Gambling excessively to the extent of them not being able to know what they are doing and this is not limited to any person as it cut across every aspect of life, there are times when even the most responsible is tempted to gamble due to maybe pressures from the circle of life that's around but if he doesn't hold himself then it will result to him Gambling out of bound and losing himself to the same act he tries avoiding.

Luck is needed for unpredictable games. If you play slots, you can`t get profit. You some games where you can influence the result or where result depends on something. It is some card games and sport betting. May be something else, but it doesn`t matter.
Of course you can`t get 100% win rate, but if you good enough, you can get win rate enough to get profit. For a long distance luck would increase/decrease your win rate just for few percent. It still can break your day, but for the month it would be to small to worry about it.
But someone still can jackpot with one round in random game. And it would be more than you`ll get for a year.

I don't support that if you play slot you can't get profits, there are people who are good at slot games and get lucky when they play but it's not like that for everyone, for instance I'm more good at sports betting than slot games so I pay more attention to the area where I have more knowledge on and that's how it should be, if every gambler pay attention to the areas they're good at then they won't suffer much lose, you can't always play slot when you're not very good at it then hope to get lucky and win, I know one can't get 100% win rate but when you focus on an area where you're good at you may get more luckier. As for winning the Jackpot it's strictly by luck.

The first thing to do as a responsible gambler is to set a limit for gambling. Because until a limit is maintained, you cannot control yourself while gambling. When I have unlimited funds, of course, after losing in gambling, I will keep depositing there again to maintain my attitude because then I will have the attitude that I have to win. Especially in live casino games, our emotions work more. And at that time, if there is no budget limit, we will never be able to control ourselves. And then there will be no responsibility in us. These things start happening to us automatically and that is why the first thing is to create a limit that will keep us within a boundary.

I agree. When you have responsibilities.

Honestly, I cannot gamble even 4 USD in my account because I cannot complete my payment for the electric bill if I gamble it. I need to wait for my next salary so that I can play again, and I think that's becoming a responsible gambler. We can stop whenever we want, and we won't play because the money is needed for something more important.
If we can somehow follow that rule, then we are responsible gamblers who always think about our responsibilities first before our own bad habits.

yeah your setup for schedules & budgets is really sound. however  if you ask me imo time & money limits greatly lessen the harm that gambling causes, specially for high risk players. Real makeup is created by using bankroll & budgeting tools such as allocating your weekly expenditure promptly after taking care of necessities. as well setting time limits stops impulsive betting & mental exhaustion. I will say you are establishing the groundwork for longterm enjoyable betting, not just talking about discipline. Keep drawing that financial boundary mate, it is the upright thing to do.

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duke

As long as gambling is under your control, it will not cause any problem, but whenever it goes out of control, danger arises. Gambling is a game where a person is deeply addicted to gambling but he does not understand it in any way, it is true that gambling is so tempting that even many responsible people are negatively affected by the harmful effects of gambling. Therefore, it is important to keep strict limits within yourself, avoiding the power of gambling is very difficult, but it is not something that is impossible, and this is why you have to be strictly responsible towards yourself, if you manage everything with limitations, it is definitely possible to avoid addiction.

Being a responsible player really comes down to knowing your priorities and keeping gambling in the right place when your mind is on your family and on your real life obligations it becomes easier to set limits gambling should never come before food on the table or paying the bills if you can draw that line clearly then being responsible is not that difficult.

The truth is casinos and betting platforms are built to profit not to make you rich so going in with the mindset that you are only spending what you can afford to lose is key once the money is gone you accept it and move on instead of chasing losses that kind of discipline separates responsible players from those who end up in trouble.

Your example is exactly what responsible gambling looks like choosing to skip gambling with 4 dollars because it is needed for the electric bill that simple decision shows control awareness and priority setting it may not sound like much but this mindset saves people from a lot of regret. Responsible gamblers always remind themselves that gambling is entertainment not a source of income when you respect that and stick to it you can enjoy the game without hurting yourself or your loved ones.

Being a responsible gambler involves more than just maintaining strict self control after losing, it also entails putting in place practical boundaries before things get out of control.  imo techniques like self exclusion tools, reality checks & time or money limits, not only save money but also drastically reduce harm.   sayin "if you lose but don't lose control, you're responsible" ignores the fact that mistakes are made before a significant loss occurs.  Responsible gambling involves more than just keeping your sanity after a difficult time,  it also involves being proactive, setting a budget & maintaining an entertaining mindset.

Slots - random game. It is the type of gambling when nothing depends on your skills, brains, technics. You can win, but it would be only luck. You can`t have strategy, you can`t analyze the game, you can`t influence the game. I avoid such games - it can be good to spend time, to rest, but it is not about profit. You can catch jackpot, but the same time you can lose all your money, trying to win something. Here you have to set limits if you want to lose everything.

But i repeat. Yes,

Being a responsible gambler is not as tough as people think, yes anything that involves money comes with lots of temptations that could make one greedy but if you're determined and set your standards then stick to I don't see why a gambler won't do it responsibly, "it also involves being proactive, setting a budget & maintaining an entertaining mindset". Also those stuffs you've mentioned are the characteristics of a responsible gambler and if any gambler can constantly maintain those principles then it's won't be tough being a responsible gambler.

This responsible gambling of a thing is only very easy for gamblers that have control over any activity they they involve themselves, it is easy for some people to be responsible gamblers while to some persons it is a very difficult personal task but what I understand is just the approach and the mindset of gamblers generally that determines if a gambler can be responsible or not, to some gamblers, gambling is just for entertainment and fun nothing much, this set of gambler bother less when they lose although gamblers that fall within this category is not much others are gamblers that gamble with what they can afford so that losing with not seem to them like the lost a relative, those approach you listed will be of immensed help for a gambler to control excessive habit of gambling.

Yeah, every gambler's attitude in real life is mostly projected to their gambling life. there are people who ordinarily just have that addictive attitude towards everything, they overdo everything and before you know it, they are already getting addicted to it and start getting distracted by that activity. If such a person starts gambling, it will be very easier for them to get addicted. but those who mostly know how to manage every situation they find themselve and control their emotions when faced with other situations, nif they starts gambling, it'll be difficult for them to get addicted.

The act of responsibility when it comes to gambling starts by knowing the fact that in gambling anything is possible. Whereby in every bet you make, you stand a 1% chance to win and likewise 99% chance to lose your bet too.  And as such, ready and willing to accept whatever comes your way while having fun playing bet on your most favorite club and risking an amount you can always afford to lose. Because to be frankly speaking, it is very easy to gamble responsibly, if only you can be able to regulate the amount you deposit into your casino, and knowing fully well that the worst decision you can ever make is playing to get rich with gambling. Or having the ideology that the more you gamble, the closer you are to winning your jackpot. Which is the ideology most newbies have, making them gamble without considerations. 

If you are completely right , when a person sees their History and Sees Everything they have lost, they will not feel good , they know that things are Bad because when they start to look at it , there is a lot of lost money, money that would have been very Good to go buy BTC and have a good amount of money there safely stored, but that happens when you see the History , as you say, in some way it makes people react.