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I am very confuse about what they call the gambling a game >.< its about spending money on nothing then why is it called a game? why don't call it money investment? kindly explain please? Thank you :D

Called it a game sounds nice, my simple explanation. Investment is different, it is about charts, not games. Casinos offer all kinds of funny games to let us entertain and lose money.

Lol another one of those threads.

Allright, let's do a quick google!

Gambling definition:
1. play games of chance for money; bet.
2. take risky action in the hope of a desired result.

Investment definition:
1. the action or process of investing money for profit or material result

Game definition:
1. a form of play or sport, especially a competitive one played according to rules and decided by skill, strength, or luck.
2. a type of activity or business, especially when regarded as a game.

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You can see from this that all 3 words can apply to each other. This means that when you're gambling you're always investing and in most cases you're also playing games (poker, dice, roulette, slots, sports, etc).

The gambling is a game, as the games you have two sides, win or loose, nothing different on this, besides you need skills to play a game and not just lucky. But well gambling isnt a good way to invest any coin, but people are addicted to the potencial pot.

because it is a game. It only is known as gambling because people started using money as a form of reward to whoever win.

Gambling should purely be considered as medium of entertainment so we can call it game however in most of the cases people try to make gambling a medium to earn big and loss all they have. I think gambling shouldn't be considered as investment or any earning oppurtunity.

That is why gambling exists because of entertainment purposes. Involvement with money is just a plus in the scene, but not recommended if you're the guy seeking for profit.

because it is all about games or playing games with money, we call gambling as games because there people bet their money or we can say invest their money on games and matches not any other thing.

yep, gambling is a game, because for some people they are just gambling for fun, no matter if they lossing their money or win.

it's very different with gambling, you already know what's investment definition, right? except you're investing your money in a gambling site.

Gambling nothing but paid games playing for fun and entertainment. If you think that you're playing games with money to earn more than that is wrong because you can't win money always and easily and you can lose all of your money within few minutes to seconds, if you don't gamble carefully. Investments are something like growing money over the time not instantly.

Agree with this. If you invest, you can't see a return on just one click. You are investing when you spend for something that may be profitable for you in the future(so obviously, it's not just one click away). You are spending your money in gambling, yes, however the result (win or lose) is instant in just few clicks. It's supposed to be for entertainment only, it's just that many gamblers take it in different way like earning profit.

Another fine topic in the tired tangle of gambling threads.

Jhanzo explained it beautifully.  Lock thread.  Gambling is kindasorta a subset of GAMES.  Playing games for money is gambling.  And I know OP knew this beforehand.

for other people gambling is a game and for other people for fun and other say to earn money and im here in gambling to earn money because i need it

Not only you but everyone needs money, but gambling is not the way to earn money because mostly you may lose all your money if you chase winnings in gambling. So try to find some other ways to earn money and spend your money on gambling for fun and entertainment. Hope you will understand the gambling logic before you lose lot money in it.

have you ever opened one of these gambling sites? like your own signature for example (777coin) these are all games from a simple dice game to more complicated card games that you play.

and as it was said before in other topics a million times, gambling is not an investment because even though you can make profit from it, gambling is so unpredictable unlike investment.

For me it is a game that involves money. It is a matter of winning and losing. Just like in life whenever circumstances comes we take sometimes to risk our things life and money. It's just on the matter on how we use it or see it. Everything got its meaning depending on us

People call gambling a game because people play gambling. investment won't suppose to be played.
gambling have many and different type of farms. and some of them are games and some of them are not.
basically gambling is combination of game and investment both.

it is not an invesstment because
- you can not make money from gambling, in long term.
- the risk of doing it is so huge
- there is way you can know the result of it.
- in case of loss you lose all but in an investment you lose only part of your money.

In my own understanding and opinion, gambling games  is  somewhat you gamble your money on playing games or risking on it  just to make it grow and its not  considered as an investment because you wont  get  stable income in doing gambling games  in fact you would surely lose money on doing gambling compare  on an investment.

Good definitions, however,

I think that gambling can be called a game for sure, as it is an activity. While it is a risky game, it is still a game.

However, I don't think gambling can be called an investment in the slightest, as you aren't "investing" your money per se. You could regard it as one, but it would be foolish.

I would say that any "investment" is a form of "gambling"... as all investments carry with them an element of risk, but there is no way that "gambling" is necessarily an investment. Similar to the "All squares are rectangles, but not all rectangles are squares" argument.

And I wouldn't necessarily define gambling as a game either. Some people treat it like a business (Bookies etc) and some people treat it as an income (professional gamblers)... about the only ones treating it as a game are those having a bit of fun and doing some casual betting for some entertainment.

It's because gambling has different types from card games like poker to slots but there's money on the line. If you look at gambling that way others don't because they take the risk of winning big or losing everything. Investment and Gambling share the same thing called risk so others use this term instead of gambling.

Gambling in the casino as it is a game. I think all gambling is a game because we have to play it in advance and wait for luck we will win or lose. If we mention gambling is investment money was not appropriate because the investment if we had experts will certainly continue to benefit but in fact even though we are experts gamble if not our luck, we can not win it.

Very nice explanation. But to summarize it, gambling is a game cause the activity involve in gambling is a game. They just involved money the and that's what we called a game.
I think the interpretation of OP to the game is just for fun.. but seriously it is more fun when they are something precious to you is involved because of thrill. Hahaha

Gambling is not investment at all near me and why it is called game because it is about taking risk of money on different things. Gambling is a set of games but where money involves this way as general we say it game. Gambling can be on anything it is not strictly related to money only. This is what I understand the meaning of gambling as game.

Games are fun and they want you to have fun. Casinos want you to feel gambling is fun and games. So that you "play" more but really just fuel their profits. So they make it feel as much of a game as they can.

To simplify:

Game:      For fun, Entertainment

Gambling:   For fun, Entertainment WITH risks and/or money involved

Investment: Placing your money somewhere in hopes of future gain. (The fun and entertainment lies in whether you make a profit)

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In my opinion if you play gambling, it is called game but if you have own website gambling and take the fees from there, it is called investments and i think depend on to us. Because on gambling there are choice what will we doing.

Well this is the simplest definition about gambling, game and investment at all. As long as there is a monetary value involved in a game.

That is already gambling game and even in sports if there is already a money involved that is going to be a sports gambling.

it is all marketing. It sounds better to say play this game bla bla

Gambling has a negative reputation behind it. Plus if your wife walks in and
says what are you doing? playing a game or gambling a bunch of money,
which sounds better?

Yeah gambling really made the lives of the gamblers have negative impact as most of the result of it made our lives miserable and wrecked. That is why when we are going to say the word gamble or gambling it comes to the mind of the people that you are playing only a game with money involved to the game.

i think it still called a game because we play games with money involve and if we are win, then we safe the money, but if we are lose, then we lose our money. its not investment, in investment, we deposit our money and just wait with no acting with that money, we make other activities while our money grow with our investment.

"Responsible gaming" page can be seen in casino sites to instead "Responsible gambling". Game is to lure players to come and play.   ;)

Gamble needs to be played in able to win the prize. While investments is like you lend money to a company and the company will make it grow. Theres a difference between this two but they're both risky. Gambling is made for entertainment purpose and investment is the purchased goods and hoping this will gain some profit in the future.

I will want to disagree that its spending money on nothing because its spending money for a return which involves risks that the outcome may or may not be favourable. So its not totally for nothing...

people call it a game because it is a game and spending money on it doesn't change it. the same way you go to an amusement park and spend money on the games. but the difference here in gambling is that you have a chance of winning some of that money back and even make a profit.
also it can not be an investment because it is risky and you can't manage it in a way that you always win.

All gambling have very interesting games and people have different choices, where we put our money on risk that is pure form of gambling and all people will do agree with this, this is really confusing when we spend money just to lose it doesn't make any sense.

They call gambling a game because you nee to place money on some game that can be from casino or sports game. Whenever you gamble on anything you need to do something i.e you say red card will appear on road yes or no. It is also a form of game this is why gambling is considered a game.

They call it a game because while you are putting your money at stake in it you also get a fun from it,

And try to think about what a gambling looks like, it is a game, poker is a game, race is a game, sports is a game, right,
Sor how come that it will become investment at all.

Yeah you are investing money in it but still it is a game.

We call it Game because we just play it and have fun. We call it gambling because we also have some fun but we should invest money to it . I guess they call it game because they dont care about moneyy its just a game a entertainment to them and we as a gambler i call it gambling because of risk! Also having some fun while playing and earning :D

Answered, so gambling is a game but also an investment. It's called a game because we playing it just like we playing a game and it's entertaining. Just don't get too greedy and broke.

Its a game  from the word itself gambling game but theres a money involved when you intend to play. Its really for entertainment but theres a possibility that you would win some but most of the time  is you usually lose out on your money.  In short you pay them just to entertain their players and  not as a  money machine.

Games can't be treated with only sole meaning because games are applied in general.

If you don't want the idea of gambling being called a game then it's up to you and just stick with your own meaning of money investment thing.

gambling is a game that plays with chances. it definitely is not an investments because the odds of you losing money is better than you gaining. it should be a source of entertainment that's why it's considered a game. just make sure that you don't get addicted to playing :D

Yeah, indeed gambling is not one media investment. gambling is a game that relies on luck. If you think gambling is the investment then that something was wrong. But if you say that lend money to home casino/gambling then it includes categories of investments

Gambling is not investment because there is no guarantee of return, gambling is full of risks and that the reason people call it a game, there are so many ups and down happen during this journey, people enjoy their and feel excitement and that is why they call it game, investment has totally different even it also has some risk and it is very similar to gamble.

For me, gambling is like a game but it's need your money to play that game. If you can predict that game, you will get money but if you can't predict the game, you will lose your money.

Because it is a game of luck. You are playing with your own luck, and with your own money. However, it's a game you can't really play smartly... More of a random game, where you have a 50/50 chance of win.

Yes and most of us are gambling on casino's where they offer us games like roullete, slots and others hence most of the people have started to call gambling as gaming or playing games. But I think the dice betting is different and gamblers betting there can't be said they are playing games, since they are simply gambling not gaming.

in gambling they had spending their money by playing the particular games such as poker or dice that's why gambling also called game for some people but i don't think considers gambling as money investment because in gambling lucky are necessary but for investment lucky doesn't necessary to do so

Gambling if you take as a game then if you lose you should not be sad, but if you take gambling as for profit then you have to work a lot for it to get profit. I will suggest to go for sports betting which is much better to be in profit , let the profit be low but in long run you will see you are in big profit calculation.

There u=is no confusion in this. It all depends on people how they take gambling. If anyone plays gambling just for fun, then they think it is just game. But those who play gambling to make money they will believe that it is investment to make a profit that's it.

Gambling is consider a game cause there is no point to gamble for money. In gambling, you are expected to lose the more you gamble. So it is not very feasible to aim for profit from gambling. Just treat gambling as a form of entertainment, a form of game.

I don't think gambling is game in any manner, gambling and game have a distinct boundary since gaming is something which is done by people to refresh themselves and sometimes for entertainment while gambling is something involves luck and money. So I would never call gambling as game.

I think not too different gambling is part of the game, while the games can be interpreted with some explanation
If you put the money in the game was called gambling. whether gambling including investment? some people say, yes This type of high-risk investments. there are also those who say gambling is not part of the investment, everyone has a different opinion

Yes exactly because gambling is something that involves risk and there is nothing assured win while with investment the profits are guaranteed while they might be small but they are not risked or unsure. That's the reason why gambling sites stated to accept investment from players so that they can feel how investors feel.

I think those giving investment in their gambling site they are not give this investing to give how owners feel in their business..i think its different if you invest in gambling site than you are the owner..

Well if you view it as all about money then you won't see it the same way that other people who play these games for entertainment purposes.
If you are solely going to be playing it for making money, which most people do in fact, then you will see it as work and not a game.

Gambling is not just about luck or money but it's considered as an entertainment as by gambling, we aren't changing anything at the end but just making or losing money. Nobody requires any sort of knowledge while predicting the results whether in casinos or not but it's mere experience and luck that helps us to earn money.

What? People call gambling a game because people play gambling? I don't get it haha. Let's get it more simplified by it's meaning.

Someone already posted it here about why gambling was called a game. But I can't re-call it.

He said that a game with bet is called gambling simply as that.

Gambling is a game as we are mostly playing dice, poker, cards and not actually doing something productive that could give anyone any result from what we do. We also predict for cricket matches and that's again called gambling as nobody can actually get anything from those predictions except for the gamblers. It's all for the sake of earning money but is not considered as an investment.

its a game that basically can allow you make a lot of money if you are extremely lucky but most probably it will make you lose

You mean earning money or hustling money isn't productive ? You make me re-think my life choices. :-X
The end result is the most crucial part of our lives,money.If you don't think making money/losing money doesn't give any results,I got a bad news for your my dear.

There's a difference,Gamblers == Luck Luck || Sports Betting == Skill Analysis Prediction.

to m in investment as we pay for something to buy, but in gambling as there is nothing in gambling for which we are investing, but it is just like game as two team play games for nothing. therefore gambling is a game and also a good method of earning money.

because we play a games and with money involve then its called gambling a game. this is not money investment, its just a game with money, and there are many games on gambling and not just one games.

I hardly think that 10% of real gamblers would gamble for fun, I mean what is the fun in loosing your money ? I am not quite sure.

Yes though gambling was made for entertainment but since the involvement of money everyone has started to just starve for profits and hardly anyone plays on casino's for fun anymore.

Depends what type of gambling you are doing. I mean if you are doing arbitrage or trade sort of betting then yes you can call it investment. But if you purely dependent on luck and picks from tipsters then sorry you cannot call it investment. I think gambling is opposite of investment in fact.

Life is a game. Why they can't call gambling a game?

Cause when you gambling, mostly you playing a game, when you can win or lose...