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The question on the title just pop on my mind.
Are they poor or rich?
Remember the famous line on gambling?
"Only gamble a money you afford to lose". With that line we are really thinking of losing, the risk is still there.

So, what do you think on most gamblers now? Are the majority gamblers are rich or poor?

HOW TO KNOW IF A PERSON IS POOR/RICH?
 - Now, it's now on you how you will judge a person if they are rich or poor, we have different criteria on how we judge/look on poor/rich people.

From my experience, most gamblers are about average, when it comes to their wealth, and those average people really come all kinds of different jobs, i couldn't find some that really stands out.

In the casino where i worked for a few years we had gamblers that worked basic manual jobs, for basically minimum wage, and business owners/millionaires that, so really high variety of people. Casino wasn't located in some  fancy part of town though,  so that probably affected the type of people that visited.

With that being said, majority of our gamblers were just an ordinary hardworking people, albeit some were pretty hardcore and probably spending most of their income there, but there was also quite a few that just wanted to relax a bit after working day, have a few drinks and play some games.
And what is interesting, exactly those average gamblers were best tippers :)

Is there a way we can tell?

What I can say comes from my first hand knowledge and observation around my country. I would say most of the gamblers here are poor. That is a fact that does not have to be supported by an official statistics. Everyone can readily look around in this poor nation full of gamblers and one can easily conclude that the majority of the gamblers here are poor. But that does not mean to say that their being poor has something to do with their being a gambler, or vice versa. Although, for a fact, many of the poor in this forsaken country are betting on lotteries with the hope of getting away from their abject condition in life.


This one will always be true but can hardly happen in reality.

In all aspects of living, there are gamblers.

There are certain poor areas where people are relying on gambling and there are also rich places where they completely rely on their economy on gambling.

I don't think it's a matter if a gambler is poor or rich, what matters is that he/she is gambling with their own money.

It's not about the financial status of a person that encourage them to gamble. They are gamblers in general and being rich or poor does not have anything to do with this vice. Also a means to differentiate poor gamblers to rich gamblers is the venue where they do the gambling. Rich people tend to be more cozy and do gambling on casinos while poor gamblers cannot afford to bet on casinos and tend to do it on their neighbors with less bets than casinos.

There's no exemptions when it comes to financial status. Whether you are rich, average or poor you can gamble. Is it possible for a poor to gamble? Yes it is (I know some who just bet on cockfights for sustaining his needs)! As long as he is willing and got a money to bet. Usually, this kind of people are the ones who gamble for a living — the ones who didn't finish college and jobless at the same time. They tend to engage on such thing simply because they are uncompetitive to qualify for a certain job due to lack of knowledge of course. They don't have any choice but to push their luck in gambling since it doesn't require any diploma unlike entering a job.

If you mean those players during and after gambling then I might say most of them are poor now or at least didn't make any profit at all. The number of gambling losers is greater than the number of winners, we all know it's a fact even without showing statistics.
There are "social climbers" or people who dress and act like a rich kid but poor in reality and there are also "low key billionaires" like Mark Zuckerberg, Steve Jobs and Bill Gates Hmm, it's really very hard to determine 'til you see their bank accounts ;D.

Gamblers comes in different status in life, rich, average and poor, all have different reasons why they gamble. Rich people normally gambles because they’re bored and they wanted to have fun. Average people gambles because they wanted to have fun and at the same time win along the way. Poor people gambles because they see gambling as their escape goat to being poor and they are willing to risk the little money they have hoping that they’ll be lucky.
On the other note, determining whether a gambler is rich or poor is difficult because you can’t base it on looks and how much money they use but I doesn’t really matter because gamblers use their own money to gamble for whatever reason and status isn’t important.

I don't think that poor people can afford to lose their fund or taking regular risks for gambling where rich guys are capable enough to continue it.

Middle class and poor people's actually continue their daily struggle to earn enough money for living average life. From this kinda situation its relatively harder for them to take the risks of gambling. In this place rich guys have enough extra money to try their luck on gambling.

Suggestion for gambler's could be something like that; "Only gamble when you have extra money on your wallet"  

That is an easy question to answer.The majority of the gamblers are poor if not all of them because what would be the point to gamble if you are rich enough?It doesn’t make any sense and most of the gamblers play to win money so I think most of the gamblers are poor.

I disagree. Its not as simple as black or white(Poor or rich) since there are many shades of gray in between(Middle class, Upper middle class etc). The majority would fall in the middle class category if you ask me. Why?

They have the funds to do so and they want to move to the upper categories. The rich gamble for fun(minority) while the poor lack the funds to do so(Fear of losing what they already have etc). Basically, the gambling industry probably feeds off the middle class people.

You honestly think that Las Vegas, city built in the middle of nowhere became so popular  and built it's wealth because of massive amount of poor people gambling there? Or for example Monte  Carlo, tiny state state on the French Riviera, with 2nd highest GDP per capita in the world, that built it's known by gambling and casinos. Or maybe Macau, another top gambling destination?

Some people gamble for fun, not all are desperate  and poor people looking to sort their life issues through that.

There are many streamers on YouTube or Twitch that make money by spinning slots. This is a very good way to advertise casinos and attract your own viewers to register using referral links or something like that.

Sometimes the income from such a business can be tens or hundreds of  thousand dollars. However, very often this income goes to new deposits in the hope of winning even more and gaining more viewers who watch he's spinning slots. These streamers earn a lot, but spend even more.

Do you consider them poor or rich?

Some poor people gamble because they hope it will change their life and future, these type of people are often become addicted. Rich people gamble because they get the sense of enjoyment and satisfaction on that habit. Some poor people gamble also for that reason, gambling relieves their stress but they only do it for fun not expecting for any profit.

Montecarlo and Las Vegas are different,all rich people go to Vegas while in Monaco are living some of the wealthiest persons on earth right now like F1 drivers and alikes.It is only natural for Monaco to be a rich place as almost all people living there are rich so the casino there is just a passing time hobby.In Vegas a lot of Us people go to have some fun,all the classes.I still think the majority are poor people as middle class family I consider a family which can afford one or two vacations every year,can afford a surgery and can fulfill all of their expenses monthly with their salary,these person do not really need to gamble.

Accurate results will never exist because gambling is divided into 2 (online & offline), we can only estimate it, Are the majority gamblers are rich or poor!!

First, we put together a list of ranking countries gambling enthusiasts
Second, we look at per capita income statistics from countries listed
Third, we see how many adult and young gamblers in the country are included in the list
Fourth, we must look at the population in the country

This is the result that I got personally, in online gambling I see the majority is rich people, but for offline (traditional gambling) I see the majority is poor people.

I think the main goal in playing gambling is looking for profit. For rich people mostly playing gambling just for fun. But most gamblers are dominated by poor people.

in investing also i see this famous line we must gamble or invest the money which is not necessary for current expenditure  ,because we dont know whats the future is our money will be in risk if we lose that  money it should not effect our financial situation

I think the majority of online gamblers are not much rich else they wouldn't be gambling. But, the high rollers you see on many casinos, those are really very rich players! Don't try to replicate their bets lol as you will lose whatever you have lmao ;)

When it comes to gambling there is no specification I have seen poor people hooked on gambling and I have seen rich people gambling all their money away, but they have a different venue to play, poor gamblers will  just assemble a group of gamblers and they will play poker or any card game, rich people will go to big casinos to play, we cannot possibly tell who has the more gamblers.


You can easily how he dresses how he talks and what kind of gambling venue he is going, of course, we are talking about offline gambling, but when it comes to online gambling it's how much he bet or wagered.
 
 

Well you claimed that majority of gamblers are poor because "what's the point of gambling if you are rich enough". And i pointed out that there are bunch of rich and middle class people gambling regularly, as people gamble for various reasons.

Poor people gamble with a hope that they will solve their bad financial situation and other issues by gambling.
Rich and middle class people  play for other reasons. Their need for money in this case is secondary reason why they play, first one is adrenaline and excitement that winning brings. I met bunch of lawyers and doctors who simply liked to play a bit after a hard day.They weren't hardcore gamblers or high rollers, they simply played for fun.

Yes but these doctors are not real gamblers,what I mean is that regular gamblers are poor from lower class and trying to overcome their difficulties through gambling but are sucked into it and can never get out.This for me defines the “real” gambling majority.

It depends on how much a gambler is earning and how much he/she gambles I guess.

Scenario 1:
I gamble $200 per week and I earn at least $6,000 per month. Even if I lose all bets, I can still be considered as doing well in life.

Scenario 2:
I gamble $200 per week and I only earn around $2-3K per month, I think that can be considered close to poor  ;D

For me most gamblers are rich, they have the money to spend and to gamble if you are rich there is always a temptation to gamble and you can easily sway to gamble because you can afford to lose because you have excess money.
If you are poor you can gamble in a limited amount of money and time.

It would be hard to know if a certain person is poor or rich here in the virtual world, because the only way to do that is to see him physically, it could be easily said here in the internet that "I'm rich" but in the reality he is not, and what benefits are you going to get with that, basically it just nonsense for me. As long as you have the money to gamble, whether you are rich or poor, and as long as you could make money with that, then it doesn't matter.

Rich or poor, the bottom line is that you are still going to lose in gambling no matter what.

we cannot Identify if the most gambler right now is rich or poor. But what status you have right now better to limit your self because if you are poor and rich possible that money you have lost if you did not know about controllinh yourself or become addict. But maybe let say that mosy of the gamblers can afford or in the middle because they have some good capital to start playing gambling.

Honestly, I cannot even assume because people who gambles are often want to stay anonymous. If only we can make a statistics about this but I am afraid not all of them will admit that they are gambling. But one only thing for sure is that billions of money that are put into gambling or casinos are from crazy-rich people and I bet 10% of the whole money of the gambling industry is from poor people.

The whole advantage to crypto gambling I see is that its so incredibly scalable so I think we have the whole spectrum of the population involved here.   Alot of people are here for the same reason which is convenience and ease of use, no worries about various draw backs that traditional sites might have.
   I've worked in some pretty basic jobs where people would take their entire earnings on Friday and go out and live like lords, gambling and all sorts so its definitely feasible we have every income level.   Personally I dont recommend that spend it all in one go attitude but its not as boring as being careful I guess.

You already knew the answer in your mind that it doesn’t matter what are they the important is they can afford to gamble and your choices is not complete because you forgot to add the “Middle people”
Does this also the famous line of advice in cryptocurrency?invest what we can afford to losses?
I believe that the truth is e can’t really tell,because many rich people pretend to be poor specially when they are in gambling world same as those poor who’s pretending to be riches

No one can actually tell if a gambler is rich or poor.

Majority though are taking a big risk and playing with money that they can't afford to lose. Just look at their expression when they go out of a casino. Most of the time they don't even have cab fare and would rather do the "walk of shame".

So nobody can't really tell unless you see first hand what's behind a gamblers life.

Is there any gambling websites especially designed for poor or especially for rich? If not then its different to determine who is real rich or poor. All glambers are human and they might rich or poor. Although there is no restrictions to enter on gambling but I don't think very poor people will play gamble. I noticed from real life, most of gamblers have enough money since they know they might loss it. But there was few poor those have less money. And they wasn't able to play next day if they lost today. So I can realise from real life that most of gamblers are rich. I can't say exactly anything about online gambers if most of they are poor or rich.

Based from my experience, majority of the gamblers that I see are on the below to middle class citizens with the rich gamblers being limited to exclusive casinos.

Be reminded that there are casinos that offer various methods of gambling. In addition, gambling does not pertain to someone going to casinos. It is enough that they risk their money in a game/method of chance with the risks being equally divided proportionate to the amount that you bet.

Gambling exist even in the least-possible place that you would suspect that would happen. Majority of the gamblers are also the people who are under financial debt/conflict that resulted to means of extremes.

It could be various reasons that some of people became an gamblers with plenty of money but some of them might be can be recognized as poor people and there is no exact statistics showing the percentages for how much rich people and poor people to gamble but all i know when they comes to the casinos they have one expect achievement that gambling to won the money

Depends on the game you are using to determine the results of poll. First you have to understand both the rich and poor gamble. The poor gamble with the hope to become rich while the rich gamble with the mindset of just catching fun sometimes or to double their riches. Hardly before you see a poor man/woman gambling just for fun. Therefore considering most gambler game to make profit then it's save to say, majority of the gamblers aren't rich so gambling to earn extra income or with the hope to become rich.

To back my statement, just try observing the game which record mostly rich individuals gambling like Golf and that of the poor (plus middle class) individuals like soccer (although both categories of financial status can gamble on both platforms) you will observe there are more individuals on the soccer platform trying to profit unlike the golf platform.

Firstly, it hard to know if gamblers are rich or poor because a gambler can't definitely speak for all gamblers and my own definition of been rich is been content with what you have. But the gambler who has the chance of being rich are those that follow the act of gambling with the money they can afford to lose and don't gamble to recover losses.

Everywhere there are huge numbers of gamblers and they had a different living status, but as I have observed here in my country most of them are poor. Rich people had a mindset of not wasting money, instead they are going to gambling they invest on it in business. But those lazy and poor people just wanted to have a quick profit or a quick rich. Trying to buy tickets of the lottery every day even their money is just not enough for their family needs. Nevertheless, not all are in the same situation sometimes there are rich people who always in a gambling casino.

We really can't tell whether a gambler is poor or not. But we can tell the reason or their motive why they gamble.

For those who are in the lower class, it's probably for the hopes of winning the prize money to overcome their current status in life. For those who are well-off, it's mostly for entertainment, just a past time activity.

But the truth is gambling is one of the main reason why people become poor or rich.

My answer is same with everyone who said you can't decide it. We can't tell because we don't exactly know what's their main job, also how much money they have, or even how much money they spend on gambling.
You can gamble even if you only have small amount, it's different case when you can only gamble if you have much money in a site.

Mostly are rich bro but sometimes there are some ppl wherein not rich also that keep trying gambling just to accumulate few dollars. Actually gambling is for all and no status needed on it.as long you have money to play or money that you can afford to lose you are in on it no other requirements. Lol

The reason why the clause of ''Only gamble what you can afford to lose'' in gambling is just obey the prudence concept and there is nothing wrong about it. I don't know any endeavor that you are quick to make money as much as you are quicker to lose it other than gambling. In a case where the activity itself by default returns a more likely situation of losing than winning, then its safe to assume the loss position from the beginning so that your heart is not broken or you get to lose it because your expectation was not met.

To know if someone is rich or poor is on the basis of the parameters we are using to judge because really for me, so far someone can keep his body and soul together irrespective of what he is doing with the exception of stealing from other people and scamming them, then there is a problem.

I believe that most of gamblers are rich

Maybe not literally richer but the way they can spend money over and over is enough reason for me to call them rich people

Because poor people (those legit and family loving persons)won’t risk their hard earned money just like that instead they will first provide their family needs before everything else

So The way they can afford of losing is the more they become rich(maybe in credit as well) lol

Depends!

Not all gamblers are rich but you can eventually identify which ones is rich and which one isnt but not on 100% because there were rich ones who do make
bets conservatively which you've thought that they are just common man.This is what makes this question wont able to get the precise answer.

There's no worldwide data that can tell us who gamble the most, rich or poor people, you can gamble even if you are rich or poor, your status in the society can stop you from gambling, I think it's more on the society if you live in a city where there are a lot of gambling casinos or betting sites, you are likely to get attracted to gamble, and another one is if you have a lot of friends who are into gambling you are likely to get attracted, irrespective if you are rich or poor.

Its hard to distinguished between rich and poor actually and same as you said no matter what status in life you do had, you were able to play gambling without any intervention from others.Trying to figure it out on checking it on gambling sites? It isn't that possible and its hard to know which one is rich and which one is poor but generally they do have the money to spend on and as said above before above post that you can see which one is having lots of money or have a bigger bankroll because you do able to see on how he bets.

Well, this kind of question is hard to identify which is the correct one. Because not all are poor or even rich in gambling. The fact that if the gamblers are poor then where did the money come from since the gamblers are poor. There is a chance if rich because they can afford to gamble. Indeed, in gambling, there is not living status if you had a budget that willing to lose then, go ahead. The better answer will depend on gamblers but the majority was usually can afford to lose.

Lol, but the thing is psychologically if you are hooked to gambling, it wouldn't matter how much you earn, the ratio of earn:gamble with stay same. If you earn billion dollars a month, you will gamble away atleast a million ;)

If we consider the saying: "gamble with what you can afford to lose"  then it is safe to say that gamblers would gamble with amount relative to their wealth. I believe wealthy gamblers would regularly gamble with something above 50 dollars. That would be quite huge for what middle income gamblers could afford to gamble with on regular basis. Not sure about this though.  Just my opinion.

People from all walks of life gamble, though there's a lot more poor people in this world than there are rich people, so there's likely more total poor gamblers than rich gamblers. For me personally, I'm really not extremely rich nor am I extremely poor, and I also regularly gamble whenever I have free time to do so. A lot of people also unfortunately gamble what they can't afford to lose, which can end up poorly as most people know from experience or hopefully from hearing stories from others.

That's true, earnings would not matter if you are addicted to gambling. Sometimes you will forget that you already gamble more than what you have earned lol. The key word here is discipline  , we should have that characteristic for us not to be broke.

IMO, it's hard to tell whether a gambler is poor or rich but generally an individual gambles to make money so it's safe to say that he have nothing or just enough capital for gambling.

Majority of the gamblers were poor, while very few are lucky to be rich. These poor gamblers have made themselves poor without knowing the difficulties to earn out of gambling. Gamblers who are rich out of gambling or through their own earnings were the luckiest, because these are the persons who spend on gambling for fun and not for earning. They spend without fear, and easily wins big making them more richer.

With my observation to those gamblers who are in our town. They became rich but suddenly the go back to where they are before so it means no one become rich through gambling unless you know how to stop and to think ways on how your money grow bigger not in gambling but in other ways. You should also know how to limit yourself to avoid bankrupcy.

Firstly, we don't really have constant basis in considering wether a person is rich or poor. We can be rich and poor in different aspects and we can also consider ourselves as rich or poor base on our perspective. Lastly, since there is no basis or data regarding to this question, for my opinion most of gamblers are considered rich since they were able to risk their spare money. Poor people doesn't have much time and capability to gamble in order for them to survive but rather they'll work instead (I'm not saying that poor people aren't completely capable to gamble).

on our place most people that play gamble here are poor including the ones that plays on public casino regularly but they only have a job to support thier habbit.  on online i knew some gamblers that are not that rich and they also doing some online jobs or freelancing to earn so that they can play gamble.  you can identify who  is rich by seeing thier waggers if its online but if its offline you can tell by thier appearance and also on thier capital on thier hands. .

Most are poor because if we look at the millions of gamblers betting in a lottery, most of them are poor who are hoping to win a big amount of money to change their lives, they gamble even if they know that their chance is very low.

for me line "Only gamble a money you afford to lose" only for a reminder that gambling often makes people poor and loses everything if they gambling everything they have.

i have friends who are rich he has a yacht ship and also living with unlimited credit cards from his father but he likes gambling for fun too. and also me as an ordinary person who doesn't have a lot of money likes gambling too. so in my opinion this gambling is not a problem of rich people or poor people. but rather to each other's personal pleasure.

Well sounds like legit as Lottery is the largest gambling place people are betting ,but let’s consider that lottery isn’t not the only place where people gamble
Sadly right that even rich people turns poorer because of their addiction in gambling ,so on the second though from the first I quote it seems that poor is the majority

In short, the more money you have, the more money you putting in gambling, and the greed too.
Having lot of money will lead you to greediness, not unless you  have risk management and have descipline.

Greed always accompanies the human, whether he holds a huge fund or small, he always looks for a bigger win. This is where most of the gamblers get caught into the trap. Countable number of gamblers around the world might have profited out of greed through their luck. Looking at this there might be number of people who have spend big and ended their gambling forever.

Yes of course, but it's a great barometer to determine that most gamblers are poor, though they are just risking a small amount compared to gamblers who bet in live casinos, dice games, or sports betting. What makes gambling operators more profitable is the volume of poor people who are gambling as big portion of poor gamblers are irresponsible gamblers as well IMO.

I believe in your statement, however, most people who gamble are really desperate and at the same time lazy. Most people I know who are poor and is addicted in gambling gamble because, first, it is fun and the easiest way to earn money, second, they can have a shot on winning a lot (which we know has a smaller odd), finally, earning thru gambling is easier than working your ass out 8 hours a day.

On the other hand, rich people who gamble does it for money, habit and to socialize. Being rich doesn't stop you from wanting more. Man is naturally born greedy.

most gamblers are poor imo. and those rich people who are addicted to gambling become poor later on with their lives if they cant control themselves.
only small percentage of gamblers are considered rich people. in my terms, rich are those that dont bother how much they are betting on or spending in the casino. the main reason they gamble is for their entertainment purposes

I guess the most or majority of gamblers are poor. Some tried to gamble because they thought this will help them get rich quickly, just look at those who fall in line to buy tickets to lottery, that’s considered gambling right? Have you seen anyone who bought a lottery ticket driving a Mercedes Benz?

It's rare to see a gambler that will bring his Mercedes Benz just to buy a lottery ticket.

But most of the gamblers that have that kind of luxury vehicle won't gamble in such place. You can find them on the casinos where they can lose thousands to hundreds of thousands and even to millions of their money.

Most gamblers are rich, and only a few of them are poor. We know that to play gambling, we need to have money and that only the rich people who will have money and time to spend in the gambling games. It means they have free money which they don't use for anything so they can start to play gambling. But after some time, their money will be less than before. And many of them finally lose all of the money, and that makes them poor. They are rich because they have money no matter how much money they have.

We cant tell for sure if the majority of gamblers are rich or poor.

Anyone can gamble regardless of their status in life therefore we cant accurately answer your question op.

Even people who dont have money can make a way to gamble especially those who want to get rich quick so they regularly buy a ticket in lottery.

they are not poor, but in middle class society hoping to struck jackpot and change there lives overnight, poor people will buy food first tickets later, and if were talking about casino gamblers then i can assure you that most of them are rich people.

Well, this one really got me thinking. Anyway, I think it's quite difficult to determine whether the majority of gamblers are poor or rich. They could be rich at first, gambled much and then lost big time and became poor. Or it could be the other way around. Poor (or average) at first, tried his luck in gambling, and then won big time, and became rich afterwards.

I don't know, honestly. I can't really say personally because there are people who are rich but prefer not to show it and there are poor who likes to show-off. And we cannot simply judge a book by its cover, right? But regardless of their financial status, as long as they gamble with their own money, then let them be.

But it's much riskier for poor people to gamble and become addicted, once they've got addicted, they will turn to steal, we have seen people becoming robbers and holdupers because they become addicted to gambling if you are rich you can sell your precious belongings or ask for a loan so you can gamble.

The question is most, so there are a lot of poor people because of gambling. We should know if only people who really chosen who can make living from gambling, because to be dicipline is not all people can do. That is why a lot of people who aim that gambling can really help their life and not expert in gambling games, usually end with lose all money, that things which make a lot of people poor.

Rich people are prone to gambling because they have the money to gamble, poor people depending on his location will be attracted to gambling because he wants to double his money, rich people can gamble in a long period because he has the means, poor people have limited funds to gamble, I can only guess rich people because they have the means and can gamble anytime, most of them had free time.

most gamblers are rich obviously because only rich people can afford to gamble more or loose more or to simply spend more time in gambling  but poorer ones will foccus on other things that they think worth it for thier time .

 they can spend more time finding things to earn more than what they can loose when they play on a gambling  but still there are those fewer ones that arent really rich enough or not really poor enough that plays gambling sometime  .

No matter if they are rich or poor, they still have money to gamble, and they will come back in the next days if they lost in that day. We don't know how rich are they because they don't want to tell us about how much money they have. We could say that they still coming back in the next day even if they cannot win the games.

Most gamblers will not think about the money they used in gambling, but I believe that some gamblers can limit their money to be used in the gambling. Maybe we have a big question about that, but we don't know the truth if they are rich or poor. Besides that, we could only see their activity in gambling, and if they spend huge money on that day, then they are a rich person.

They are actually not poor because they have money to spend on gambling. I could say a person is poor if they don't have anything, they only have money but it only for their basic needs. People do gambling because they have, and actually they can afford to lose something. But I'd never say that majority of the gamblers are rich, they are probably at the middle class which they still have time to go around and enjoy their life. Not that billionaire or millionaire will go in the casinos cause this is might a threat to their life.

In general, most gamblers are those who belong to 3rd and middle class( IMO).

For my experience and what my gambler friends tell, they can say that the gambler is wealthy if they are a Highroller, always in the VIP lounge, the professional player ( as in you can watch them in the TV or any tournaments) and also depends on the place where they gamble. But in it comes with the poor you can't tell it easy, especially if you are playing against with them. For me, it's like a rich and regular gambler.  :)

I think you are right .There is no way we can know if gamblers are generally rich or poor. We can only say based on the few people we see around us and it is not enough to know if it is applicable with all gamblers.

If I am to say by the number of gamblers I have seen so far, I would say that all gamblers are rich because I have never met any gambler that is poor. But, one thing am not sure of is if they really get their money from gambling alone. That someone is a gambler does not mean they get all their income from gambling, there are a number of people that are already doing well but only gamble for entertainment. Seeing this kind of people will make many come into conclusions that there is money in gambling or that gamblers are rich.

It's hard to know whether gamblers are rich or poor, but they certainly have the money to play gambling and think they will be able to get more money to continue gambling.

There must be some who are rich because of gambling or otherwise poor and even bankrupt because of gambling, all I know is that people who have gambling houses or online gambling can get rich because they are able to profitable from every gambler.

It doesn't really matter whether they are poor or rich.

Despite them being poor, they still find ways to gamble. In our country, it might be cards or the usual cockfight.

I think the only difference they have is the places they go to or gamble to. Most of the rich gamblers are in the casino while poor people usually goes to cockfight arenas, there are rich people there too but you get the idea.

In other words, gambling appeals to all kinds of people. Gambling does not represent any particular social status. In my country, gambling pervades the entire archipelago. Rich and poor alike are gambling. Most of the elites are found in exclusive gambling resorts and casinos while the poor are found in the neighborhood.

Maybe you will be amazed but I'd say that most of them aren't really poor. I have experience with casino service providers and sometimes I was checking chats on tables. In most cases there are positive conversations. From my understanding, usually a persons who write offensive words are poor people because they lost or even on win, for example: I win bitch, you fool, now I have to go.
But there are a lot of persons who enjoy gambling with dealers and write something similar when lose: Oh, not my day, goodbye, have a great night.

If we define rich as those with more than US$1 million in assets, then most gamblers are definitely not rich, because the rich make up less than one percent of world population, while according to this research


more than 20% of world population can be considered gamblers.

I don’t think you can pigeon hole gamblers as poor or rich. Just like in all walks of life people/gamblers come from  all kinds of different backgrounds. Some gamblers are rich, some are poor & many are stupid who lose everything trying & failing to get rich.

I don't think we still need to ask this since we all know that even they are poor or rich, their status does not matter, what matters is that they should be responsible and will not be pushed to be greedy with this. Rich can go poor and poor can still be poorer.

Its not an issue when you are a rich or a poor person to become a gambler. And it's not an important when you are a rich or a poor person. One thing for sure that we need being as a gambler is..you have a money to invest and to play in gambling site. It's up to you how when you grow it.

I hope the poor will not gamble because it might negatively affect their life if they lose their focus in gambling.
The principle that we should follow in gambling is to gamble what we can afford to lose, poor people does not earn a decent amount of money, so if they will gamble hoping they will be able to grow it, it might only cause them trouble in the long run.

That's why there are countries who bans gambling because the government sees the negative effect of gambling to the people.

Gambling is one activites that don't discriminate, as both rich and poor can play them. What is expected of the player is too check their pocket or what they can afford.
But then, another thing is that I don't think that someone who has not eaten should take his/her feeding money to gamble. Whoever does this is purely addicted to gambling.

the majority gamblers are poor, full of debt, who sold all their goods and pledged their property. Gambling easily makes people addicted and as you can already imagine addiction drives people to do the biggest crazy things. it's human nature wants to win, nobody wants to lose, especially when money is concerned, so imagine that you play gamble and lose, what will be your attitude? your attitude will be to play again until you win, the problem is that in order for you to keep playing you need to have money and what will you do if you don't have money to gamble? you will steal, sell your things or pledge all your goods. Very few people are lucky enough to get rich with gamble


rich people have a lot of money, they don't go hungry, they can buy any type and brand of car anytime they want, rich have many luxury homes, rich have yachts, rich have private planes, rich have the most luxurious things in the world. world. The rich have diamonds and gold, the rich have money-filled safes in their luxurious home. It's easy to see rich people. look at some rich from the gamble world:

Bill Benter; Edward E. Thorp; Zeljko Ranogajec; Billy Walters; Patrik Antonius; Phil Ivey; Alan Woods

read the life story of each one here: https://www.bestcasinosites.net/blog/richest-gamblers.php

I confess that I was very impressed with the history of each of them

I have yet to meet a rich gambler. Of course there are high rollers, but most of them didn't make their fortune by gambling.

Exactly, people who can't even afford to buy their basic needs are still allocating some money for gambling, which is not good anymore since they are surely not gambling the money that they can afford to lose. I live in a small community, and I've witnessed a lot of people here who do gambling despite they only earn a minimum wage which is very low, and they also have a children to feed, some parents even bring their children in the gambling area which is bad because they are influencing their kids to gamble at a young age.

In fact, gambling involves all segments of society, including the poor, middle and rich.
The most common difference is the method of gambling from gambler to gambler.

^ Definitely right, there are many gamblers and it does not depend on what you are status in life. Probably those people who had gambling enthusiasts are in the middle not poor and not rich enough. They can afford to spend money to gamble. But here in my place, the majority of them are poor and usually had a huge debt. People always looking easy money and they think that gambling is the answer to pay their debt even it takes more risk.

That is just status in life, and we don't have to think too serious. But most gamblers are rich people because they have money to gamble. If they think that it is better to save money than to be used for playing gambling, I think they will be richer than before. They will have a chance to get more money from saving their money in the bank, although the return is not too big.

I don't know where the question falls. Whether the thread maker is talking on people who are rich already doing gambling and getting rich from it or if people who are rich already do gambling but whatever it is, I don't think that gambling gives wealth on the average of people who are gamblers. We have so many poor people who are gamblers than we ha rich people, this is my criteria.

I think those point of yours are valuables and beside this is not debatable because people that can bet are already a gambler and looking if who is majority is really hard to determine,some says the good basis is those who bet in Lottery but for me there’re many rich people that also buy lottery tickets for what reason ?i don’t know.

The question is clear mate “who plays the most” it doesn’t matter if the one got richer through gambling or not but the opinion sharing is about who bets most

I agree, of course they can afford to gamble and I think they are not poor. If the majority of gamblers are poor they can't afford and they don't have enough capital to use in gambling. My answer maybe they are neutral or rich people. Poor people are always lack of money and only can afford their daily needs just like food and clothing.

The numbers of people who are involved from gambling mostly those poor who wanted to have some luck to double their money in a short period of time, taking this place to risk and take chances, maybe if there's rich person who play, the chance that they've wanted to remain hidden to protect their reputation, compared to those who are not concerned about such things.

It's hard to say, because I know different kind of people that like to gamble

But I can say a pattern that is easy to find, at least in my country
Most gamble addicted persons are porr or average, and the rich ones usually play for fun and can handle the losses

If I have to say about your thread:

Online or crypto gambling: Usually rich people

Local gambling: usually poor or average people

In order to play gambling we need money. Without money, no one can play gambling. So when gambler comes to gamble he must be rich as he has extra funds which he is willing to spend in gambling. But when he loses this money in gambling he become poor.
Since most of the gamblers loses, I think many of them become poor. Only a few people win good in gambling and they become rich through gambling.

This is also my view, it's not about the status of life but his character on how he shuns gambling, there will always gambling around us, especially in a place where gambling is legal, here on the internet there are a lot of gambling sites and it's much easier to fall, because you can do it in a privacy of your room without knowing anyone in your family.

There are forms of gambling that cater for the poor and there are forms of gambling that caters for the rich, so it's about the character of the individual.

You cant say that because even on poor or 3rd world countries there were still gamblers even though their money isnt sufficient or enough to their living.
Reasons? They are hoping that they would able to win at least they can possibly win and double up their money or even more but actually this isnt kind right
way of thinking just to solve out poverty because you are making the situation even more worst but well we cant stop on whats the reality which is happening on.
We cant point out which one is poor or not.

I can't say for sure as I haven't looked on any statistics about this, but my bet is most of them are poor. Because that adrenaline rush goes away ( I think) when you are wealthy and have cash flows coming from all sides. The poor man's hope is in winning big time at a roullette or a blackjack game haha But instead of investing that money they look for a short term gain of money without realising that in the long run they drain their wallet like a vampire. ::)

I don't think that someone poor will spend his money on gambling games and even if he want to but he still poor so how he can get the money from.
So most of gamblers are either average people or rich. And to find out it's very simple because rich people they always gambling with big amounts of money that why they don't stay rich for so long xdd, and average people they are gambling with medium amounts so they stay always like that.
But i think no one should gamble with too much money.

Let me tell you one thing first. The rich people gambles because they have a shit loads of money and they enjoy gambling. If they lose, they don't care much. Again, the poor people gamble because they need money. If they lose, they end up suffering more. So for this reason, poor people tend to avoid gambling because they know they can afford to lose what they have. Thus we can say that most gamblers are actually rich.

This could be a valid reason, rich people can afford to gamble while poor people are avoiding into gambling because they know the outcome it is always a loss, besides from that they don't have enough money spending in gambling. I believed this conclusion that rich gamblers were usually having gamble habits. I don't know why people are always wanted to have a quick profit on gambling.

This is true but I've seen communities where there were poor people that never stop gambling.

Their mindset was already set that with just 'one big win' their poverty will end. The reality about rich people as you said is true, they can gamble for some more if ever they lose because they are rich. And with the less fortunate people, they will look for some other ways to gamble again if they ran out of money, maybe sell things or look for a part-time job just for it.

Its an unfortunate truth that the very poorest people pay the most tax, because we levy the highest taxes on the most common pursuits such as alcohol, smoking and also gambling is another highly taxed product.    Thats amplified by the weight of there being millions of average wage or poorly paid people vs just a slim elite of the richest at the top and also the richest people can justify paying for advice on how to avoid taxes.
    If you are rich you can travel around with world to purchase the lowest items from each country and that would include gambling, which is heavily promoted in some places and discouraged in other places.   Being mobile with your money is highly profitable as the world varies so much in its costs, so the richest again win by being to more easily transport not just themselves but their assets, money and expenditure to suit the best situation for each.

This is where crypto is of benefit to the smallest members of a society by restoring in small way the idea of capitalism and being able to transport value yourself without paying taxes on every gate on every path you might take.    I'd say its an equalizer in the big scheme of things, most gamblers can easily be said to be poor people who spend a significant amount of their wages on various bets.   Its part of what has made Bitcoin a growing phenomena because it stops this wealth trap for the poor being quite so crushing.

I think most of the gamblers are in the middle class life, a lot of them have an ambition and trying to get rich in gambling, the rich people playing gambling for fast time not as source of income. That is only my  own view and opinion for those people playing  gambling. But of course we need to accept all gamblers are want to get win.

This is an old article that I've search in the internet now, and it says the large portion of gamblers are coming from the poorest segment of population.

https://www.politifact.com/florida/statements/2011/nov/18/john-stemberger/largest-numbers-gamblers-come-poor/

That's a sad truth, that's why there are state not approving gambling as a legal business as it could affect the poor and the vulnerable due to their wrong way of thinking about gambling, they tend to think that gambling gives easy money when in fact its the opposite.

That could be true since we don't know the truth. But I think some gamblers are poor and they are trying to make money from playing gambling. Although they know the risk, they still playing because they want to change their life if they can win. But the truth is they are difficult to win, and they consider trying to play. The rich people can accept the loss of money, and they will stop playing gambling for a while, but I don't think the poor people will do the same as the rich people because gambling can tempt them to still playing gambling.

to be honest, it's very difficult to know someone's finances when we see him playing gambling online. I feel that it could be rich people, or poor people playing this gamble with a lot of money. it could be their hobby. however, the important point, in this case, gambling is one of the fastest ways to make money but has a high risk. so, those who play it most likely are people who want to make money quickly, and it could be a businessman who makes money through gambling or poor people who want to take the risk to make a lot of money in a short time. we can only guess about this

But in fact that there are still some poor people risking their money on gambling. Usually the type of gambling they used to play is lottery, because they are attracted to win big with just small bets but they do it frequently without knowing the possibility of winning is too low so at the end they are spending a good amount of money in total. I cant blame them though because gambling is their own right, but they should realize the worst effect of gambling for their financial condition.
In average, most gamblers are indeed average and rich people because they have some money to risk which wont affect their financial although something very bad may happen once they are addicted to gambling.

I think it’s more appropriate to use the word “The Poor people are more desperate to win,and risking their hard earned small money hoping to hit jackpot or even higher winnings”

Most of rich players are just having fun and don’t even consider losing their money,not like poor people who considered their penny’s as their bread to eat

But it’s indeed Poor people are Majority of gamblers

It’s considerable since the middle class can become richer in a span of time and they can become poor as well in just a glimpse
Well most rich people that gamblers do this for leisure and not totally to win,and you’re right on there that all of gamblers in the end expect winnings

That old article is only FUD, some politician is making points, probably he never placed a bet in his life. Rodel is right here, most of the gamblers comes from a middle class, ordinary people who have fun with occasional gambling sessions, maybe some sports bet, roulette or any other game, they spend couple dollars, have some fun and they walk away. I`m sure some people lose a lot of money with gambling, but be sure that some people make a lot of money with gambling.

That explains why most governments do run lotteries because its a legal voluntary tax and many people will step forward to pay it.    I think its fair enough so long as the prize is tax free also but often it is not which makes it a double hazard.   
  It also explains why its government which taxes and benefits from the easiest things like alcohol duty, luxury taxes, taxes on property in popular areas, taxes on junk food is a new one and cigarettes of course.   The government is taking a cut of all the things which are easiest in business and most likely to keep repeating, a bit like the mafia does.   There is no intelligence, innovation or finesse to succeed in such things so its an ideal part for the government to pay as it rarely excels otherwise and can ruin any business more complicated then this.

Those are interesting stories, especially that one of Bill Benter, who has made $1 billion by creating a horse betting app.


I must say, I didn't know about it, and now I'm very impressed.

However, I think we should keep in mind that those are not regular gamblers, they are rather exceptions.

To answer the question whether most of gamblers are rich or poor, we should look for statistical data rather than for stories of individuals.

According to stats, around 1.6 billion people gamble during any given year, and it's not hard to conclude that most of them are not rich.

Obviously.

No matter what your status is, as you gamble, your goal or aim is to win a good amount of profit.

Despite the fact that your goal is also to have fun, we are also hoping that we could get a profit out of the bets that we would be doing.

I think it's easy to distinguish between gamblers rich or poor, just if they are addicts they will end up in poverty, if they succeed in gambling they will certainly be rich. nothing is gray or middle. there will be poor or rich in gambling. and poverty can be so much more seeing, because gamblers mostly are addicts

Gamblers is a rich people (biggest part), have money for gambling. They not have problem to loses on gambling. And poor people play gambliing, but very smaler then rich, they play with small risks. Poor people know that they spend a lot of gambling, for example, leading a salary. Countries in transition have a problem with gambling, because when the poor spends their salary on gambling, they decide to kill because of all that not have money, but have lot of problem.

Yuppp so basically the poor and the rich both is love to gamble ... the difference is on how the rich one usually have a full awareness that at certain point they have to stop whether it's because a win or because of lost, where the poor tend to be greedy wanted to get rich overnight because yeah that's the nature of poor gambler.

They don't looking for entertainment mostly , they look for fortune. That reason also makes the poor become more poor and the rich become richer.

We can't judge which one is the most but I'm sure the case of poor gambler become successful ( have a long lasting wealth) is rarely happened.

It's more enjoyable once you win even your interest is just to have some fun, it's adding more entertaining each time you've got the winning bet. In some way, there's big differences between this two status in life, poor people who deals with gambling find the place to risk and hope for best outcome, while rich mostly play to find enjoyment and to have some fun with their friends and relatives.

IMO, people who gamble with money they can lose are rich people, because they really have money that can be eliminated by doing so with awareness. But people who gamble with money that cannot lose and truly seek profits in gambling are poor people, this opinion also came to mind immediately when I read your thread.

lol do you really understand what you are saying?who told you that gamblers becomes richer?while the truth is majority of them are losers and we can expect more failure as thy gamble along

Remember that largest percentage of gamblers are losing their money and only few survives everyday in their gambling habits

Unfortunately true. Too many people forget that gambling is designed to be a hobby, not an addiction.

If you can't afford to lose, then don't play, it's as simple as that. Sure, it's quite possible to get rich quick while gambling, but the odds are not in your favor, and there are more certain ways to go about it.

Bet what you can afford to lose, if you win, that's cool, if not, you had fun trying!

Why not try to report that dude for shitposting? Its clear that he do talks about nonsense and very out topic thing. Windice signature then yahoo is the CM.
This dude will surely be kicked out.

Gambling isn't intended for gamblers to get rich and we know the reality that there are more losers than winners and the one who becomes rich are those gambling site owners.
We cant point out if which one is poor and rich but we can see on whose whales been playing on.

Both rich or poor people can gamble with small or big amounts and it has to do with the amount of risk the person is willing to take and how sure he/she is about the game. A poor person can take all their last saving to gamble because he is certain he will win that game, he might win or loss all, same goes for the rich too. In some cases, some rich people tend to even gamble with small funds and they are sure to let it go without regret.

It doesn't matter what is the status of your life may you rich or poor. Casinos are not asking for your status as long as you can play and bet to their game. Most casino owners were looking for a potential gamblers and that means he/she is a rich person because these type of people are gonna make them a lot of fortune by giving them some freebies and package deal that these type of people can only afford.

Well, if someone gambles for profit, the easiest way is to become a professional gambler or lets say be a continder to a poker tournament and seek for sponsorship. In contrary of becoming a pro gambler, it isnt easy to become one as well lol. It would be hard for someone who tries to earn money from gambling casually, because luck isnt always on your side, self control and emotion must be practiced when gambling.

Casinos doesn't ask for your status, they're quite aware of the social structure that is found globally. Only the rich has got money to spend, while the poor looks for his daily bread. Maybe now there might be small number of gambling personalities who aren't super rich spending a portion for fun and try what is there in gambling. Apart from this my mind always have a thinking gambling is a practice done by the rich.

That is what happens in the real casino. They don't care about our status because all they know that we have money to playing gambling in their place. But if we visit on an online crypto gambling website, they don't know if we have money to gamble, or not and even they give some free coins to us to try to play gambling in their site. So it is hard to know if crypto gamblers are rich or poor because we can get the free coins to start gamble although the amount of the coin is not big.

I understand a lot of people will not like this but it sometimes good to be blunt and this is exactly the reason I am throwing this out. A lot of gamblers, I mean anyone who plays for money is actually poor because I do not understand why anyone would choose to make money from an unpredictable game. That means the person is really broke, and in desperate need of making money.

So if you look at this critically, you would agree with me that there is no significant difference between broke gamblers that are buying lotteries with the hope of winning jackpot someday and the ones that are foolishly adding up big money depending on skills or luck. They are all broke and I will say that gamblers are poor.

Not anyone but mostly as I think because I presume there are people out there just plays for leisure or to pass the time on gambling. Not anyone wants to make money for it some just want to experience the feeling of playing it if you're talking about desperate then that's an addiction in a sense not that they are poor because of being desperate.

I guess we have to visualize first what or who are the gamblers before making some assumptions that they are rich or poor. Does a first-timer to gamble and has a lot of assets to play with and an individual that plays occasionally just have a penny to gamble can we consider them as gamblers?

But the topic isn't like that.

OP just wants to know if most of the gamblers are rich or not. It's not about the status of the gamblers that the casino doesn't really care of.

It's hard to tell who has more gambler between the two, there are kind of gambling that caters for rich people and there are for people poor, and it's hard to believe those data because even if you ask some people they will deny that they are gambling or hooked on it, and this applies to rich and poor people.

Well in my view not all are rich wherein of course there are someone ppl as well that keep trying to make a living on it. Such those gambler that sometimes can afford to play and cant gamble just for fun. Because you know since crypto become popular around the world the average of hungry ppl on this community is geeting higher so there's no way most of the gambler are rich.   ;D

I don't really understand statistics,
in the environment around me, only rich people play gambling, whereas poor people are only busy working to fulfill their daily needs,
IMO, the majority of gambling players are rich people because they have money and lots of time to play gambling.

This is contrary to what I know around me. In that case, those rich people gambling around you might be using it as fun and not that their main purpose is strictly to double their money unlike the poor people would do.

I personally feel riches cannot be defined based on how much money is on the account or what any one is worth in terms of finances or material values. I can categorically state that I have seen a lot of rich gamblers and you might feel disappointed when you meet up with them because they have no cars or house to flaunt and make them look rich.

In my opinion, rich gamblers are those that can boast of never falling into unnecessary losses or falling into addiction.  Those that have a good knowledge of gambling and do not gamble for money.  In this regard, I think gamblers are rich because the ones I have been opportune to meet have the attributes of riches.

Most gamblers are rich. But some of these came from being poor to rich because of gambling just by luck, like winning lotto. Even though people that are in a poor state, I'm talking about some toxic Filipino culture that makes Filipino still fond of gambling even though some are in extreme poverty that survival is the first priority, sometimes it is their wants that swallows them.

Right most of gamblers are rich people are now we are of all games rules they know what things could go better for gambling. Try to play with all your effort so we also will be able to become rich same as all those gamblers who are gambling to have money, according to me gaming has more potential to make people rich.

Racism on its finest.What can you say other nations as well that do involved with gambling even in the verge of poverty? Seems like you do love Filipinos eh?

Gambling doesnt mind on whats your status in life.They might differ on financial capacity but in terms of enjoyment seeking it would be still the same.
Rich or poor, anyone can play gambling and its none of your business on what are their aims on playing it.

He must be a Filipino to be able to say that, he sees what is happening inside his country and gambling like lottery is one of the contributor of the increasing poverty. Philippines have a very minimum salary while the basic needs like food are very expensive and I believe if you are poor, you can't afford to gamble as most likely you will only end up getting addicted.

When a person does not have much money to lose, he can easily get frustrated, loss his focus and worst could result to addiction.
What would happen to the family then if the head of the family gets addicted to gambling? obviously we know the answer.

How about the middle class?

We don't always need to look at the extremes and the means, we should also look at the middle.

These middle class are the ones one step above being rich and one step below being poor but that doesn't mean they are close, they are still a bit far. That is the reason some chose to gamble in order to lessen the gap but that makes them farther from being rich. Another thing, always remember that despite the money they have, people will continuously gamble.

Its hard to tell because we don't have enough statistical data that can help us know whether a gambler is becoming rich or poor.

I will share mine base of the experience from different gamblers. I think most of them are becoming poor because of some bad traits that they have when gambling like lack of self control, overconfident, lack of patience etc. Maybe there are some who are becoming rich on it but they are just not sharing it to public for some reasons but most are becoming poor in my opinion.

Well i think the most gamblers who are in casinos are in middle class since they have some extra cash to gamble with and the richer ones who know what to do with their money they just play on casino to have fun they don't care how much they won or lose they are just came to casino to relieve stress and also, in some poor areas in my country even they don't have any money to gamble in casinos they just gamble in sidewalks or in their houses of course not a huge money to bet with only small amounts just to pass time and also to gossip. so, if the street and illegal gambling would count definitely the poor has most gamblers.

I don't think that there is a categorization of them.
Rich people gamble more money but they make bets rarely.
Poor people gamble more times but with less money. So there is not actually balance in between in order to specify those two categories.

We can't simply say that they were rich or poor because we don't know how many people were gambling in this world and what kind of income they have!But generally speaking they are kind of people who can afford to spend money for these things which means they are not extremely poor but also they are not millionaires atleast most of them since they are gambling with the desire of making more easy money.

Because many poor people are too fond of their money, they are very difficult to get money but just throw it away in gambling, it's a good choice for them. honestly gambling is for the rich, because it would be very unfortunate if you didn't have a lot of money but playing gambling, because the risk could come to anyone right ? but in reality gambling is play by anyone rich or poor. but most of them became poor, although some became rich.

I am sorry to say, that point isn’t candid enough, everyone depends on a particular source to earn money and to become rich and doesn’t or shouldn't exclude gambling. You should know by now that there are people that take gambling as a business and they are putting in their best to see positive results. 

I am not by any means in support of gambling as a business but we can't deny the fact that a huge number of gamblers are doing this for the money and are truly making it, otherwise we would have had the number of gambler reduced but it keeps increasing because it is profitable.  So frankly speaking, there is money in gambling and most gamblers are rich.

Categorically you are saying the opposite buddy. The last time I checked, the poor were the ones taking the lead in the world of gambling because the rich do gamble just for fun or for entertainment purpose. The poor often check for opportunities in the world of gambling while the rich aren't but doing it for fun till they get their wins. I have been gambling for sometimes now and, I often stay around gambling platform's to ensure I have my win even though I still loose. The poor will remain and wait patiently for his or her luck to shine but the rich will never be patient like the poor gamblers.
In my country, the numbers of sport enthusiasts are youths without job ( that is the unemployed youths) and they are poor, they survive from what they do as gamblers.

This time l think there are lots of people gamblers are rich people because especially when online gambling is opened. There are lots of rich people lve read to invest in because they profit a big amount of money. Their capital can multiply into many times depends on how they manage it. There are lots of sites here to make money especially when you have a big capital.

Losing the money in gambling will be the risk that we could get. We cannot do anything to prevent the loss, but we can prevent on how much money we should use to gamble. No matter if we are rich or poor when we were playing gambling we should think about the loss so we can know how much we should use the money.

Besides that, we should leave the gambling site when we know we don't have a chance to win the games. That will be the best way for us to prevent a big loss. It will difficult to do if we are getting involved too deep in gambling games because all we want to do is to win the games. If they are rich gamblers, they will not have a problem to lose some money. But for people who don't have much money, then it's a problem for them.

Yes gambling is very risky and you’re right that only gamble a money you afford to lose because in gambling there are chances of losing than winnings but think about it you can’t win when you are always emotional that when are already lose you are about to cry and give up then don’t enter gambling if you are like that because you can’t get back your loses. In order to win you need to become brave and wiser.

Most of the gamblers are greedy in betting. When they are losing so much money they trying to recover it again but still losing more. That's why when i start to lose money i'm ending my game and waiting for some events that i can earn profit again.

Gambling is losing or earning of money. That's why if you can't take a risk then don't gamble.

That's bullshit act of them trying to recover the lost what they encounter to them and better to stop this kind of attitude since more losing streak will surely come unto them.

But on the other hand not all of the gambler come is sick as that since there are people comes just to have fun, I have meet several gamblers who laugh when they lost but they only bet a few bucks just to satisfy thereselves for there gambling tantrums.

Being brave doesn't mean anything in gambling. The same as being poor and being rich.

You lose, you win it depends on luck that you have.

Another thing is that in the real world? There is no one crying about their losses, gamblers know what they are doing but the thing is that they can't stop themselves from betting since they are always hoping they could win.

I think most of the gamblers are those who don't know where to use their money.
or most of those guys are only want to have some good time with their friend to hang on gambling site.
So the answer to this question is most of them are rich just wang to hang out sometimes with their own money.

I guess he's meant to say being positive or cheerful will help and not really being brave. Being positive can help relax the mind and make things alot clearer. Being brave and blind will probably lead a gambler into a pit

When I saw the thread title, a thought instantly crossed my mind

That many gamblers start off rich and end up poor. There was a thread about some unhappy cryptoinvestor who bought his stash of coins in 2017 near the top and then being unable to see his capital losing its value (in dollar terms) anymore decided to make up for the losses through gambling. Quite expectedly, he lost it all in the end

And while the whole cryptomarket did plunge dramatically in 2018, his losses were still paper only as he didn't sell anything and by now he would have been rewarded for his patience. Instead, he made a rash decision and proved that there is only one direction you can walk this way (unless you are extremely lucky or play just for fun)


This looks more like an addiction to me. If you earned your dough the hard way by working yourself to the bone, you won't let go of it so easily. Unless you are a gambling addict, of course. But if you are not, you would definitely know what to spend your money on (say, buy a few bitcoins here and there)

Much better to say is being a risky type of  person, if you have that quality even you are rich or poor chances are both the same. You need to have some luck to win with your gambling activities without it most probably you will lose your money and ended up being busted.


The logic of not having any luck contribute since even what state in life you are into it will not change a thing. It's luck that will control the outcome.

I think they know how to use their money since there are a lot of rich people that gamble their money. Even businessmen and some wise people are also gambling, they just want to have fun or either want to earn a profit. We can't say most of them since I think the most people that want to gamble are those that want to became rich easily and I think that is between the rich people and the poor people.

Gamblers are: Either ppl with too much money who couldnt care less and are just doing it for entertainment purposes. And the rest are desperate (often degenerated) people who hope to hit that big win, which will solve all their financial problems... Its as simple as that... Oh, pardon me... there is a third group... people with deep knowledge but they are not really "gambling", they specialize in sports betting or poker, where you can really be profitable if you are good at it... hard work required

I think gamblers belong to all the classes and are not limited to middle class only. I know some gamblers who are very rich and therefore they gamble for fun only. They have so much extra money that even if they lose some portion of their money in gambling, that will not hurt them.
It is only the middle class or lower class people who take gambling seriously as they cannot afford to lose the money in gambling. These people play gambling with care and if they lose, that will really effect their lives.

I have met many people who won in gambling site and still playing without spending money instead they are earning money in instant. i don't know what's the secret behind that success. Maybe they are lucky but sometimes they got busted BUT still laughing.

I, like many other users, think that gambling is played by people regardless of their income. In Las Vegas, even beggars play casinos in the hope of ever winning a large sum of money and changing their lives forever.

Well, that is true. That is because the gamblers want to make money from gambling. That is what you need to do when you cannot win in the gambling games, so you don't lose more money. Many gamblers cannot realize this, and they play more and more, and that only makes them get more losses. If that is the case, then we called the gamblers are a rich person because they can always play gambling.

Greedy is one thing that always with us, no matter we win or lose that thing will stay inside us. When we can see the chance in the gambling, the greedy will tells us to continue and say that the next round will be our winning. You need to be careful if you hear this, and it's better to quit the game as soon as possible.

it's hard to find someone who makes money in gambling starting from the bottom , here we are talking about a big number of money that allow you to create a huge busniss or something else , so the average gamblers are those who used to gamble for fun or habbit and then there is the rich people who started with a huge amount and most of them get all busted

Regardless of life status both gamblers on their financial status could be poor or rich. Most of them played gambling doesn't matter whether you're a rich or poor person. That's an individual perspective in which a person who has the passion to play and bet for gambling actually desires to do.

My wild guess is that most of them are poor. If we count lottery then it will turn out I am correct because it's technically gambling and millions of people are hoping to the huge jackpot so they can finally change their lives from nothing to everything that they like then they will have. But some people would argue that lottery is not gambling. But we all can agree on one thing that there are more people that do get poor than getting rich in gambling.

It's impossible to tell who has the greater number, even if there's a study I don't think it will be reliable, there are kinds of gambling for poor and there are for riches and people will get hooked on gambling because of association, but if you ask me there are more rich gambling than poor one, because they have the money to spare.

We are not talking about the amount spends fo gambling but the question is the volume of players and that’s why we are surely about the Poor people
And most specially we are not talking about online gambling but the totality of gamblers from all nations and from all Betting types
So technically it’s the Poor people who’s more engaging in gambling than rich and middle class

About spare money to play gamble, maybe only rich people who did that. In fact, a lot of poor people do gambling and aim for win so they can be rich. That is why a lot of people agree if who do gambling is a lot of poor people. Because it is which already happen. Rich people who do gambling is people who have spare money, but not resist that it  happens too.

The rich people are the ones who understand what is gambling and how its done.
They are gambling with their spare money, so if they will lose, it would not affect their living, they are doing it for fun, i mean purely fun.

On the other hard, the poor always are so optimistic in winning despite the fact that their strategy is not so effective and they don't play the right game when player have a chance to win in the long run, most of the popular games are games with house edge and this is what attracts the poor since its return is very promising but they failed to evaluate their chances of winning.

Anyone can gamble whether you're poor or not, because even if you are poor you ca n still gamble as long as you have the money. For me, those who can play at the casinos are the average people because they are aware how the casinos works. I actually don't care if there are rich or poor, especially when I'm playing poker because as long as they have the chips then they can continue playing at there own expense.

Lottery doesn't have an addiction touch to it, unlike "proper gambling"

Of course, some people may be addicted to lottery as well, but it is not common or as common as addiction to dice and other casino games. Further, I don't think that you will see a lot of beggars in Las-Vegas, the gambling capital of the world, which means not all gamblers are as poor as church mice. Though I agree that gambling is unlikely to make you richer, so the overall tendency must be easy to see (from rags to riches and back again)

People who go to gamble in Las Vegas, Monte-Carlo or Macau, of course they are rich, and since they are frequently seen on TV and specialized YouTube channels, one can get the wrong impression that most of gamblers are rich. What we don't see is over 90% of gamblers who play in places where no cameras around, no hot girls pouring free Champagne or Cognac, nothing. It's usually dim lit places with dirty slot machines, and no one films those places because they are not attractive. And if it's not slots, it's street gambling like on the pic below:

https://i.imgur.com/FVvITbl.jpg

Trust me, they are not rich.

They are gambling in the street, so I believe they aren't rich.
I'm just curious what type of gambling they are playing as I have no clue by looking at the pictures alone.

Anyway, I'm also a believer that majority of the gambles are poor, I can prove that as in our community there are a lot of gamblers and majority of them are in a lower class if we based on income they earn.

I think I forgotw something on the topic.
A poll, RICH v.s. POOR.
I should've added a poll for the topic, btw, I just added it, a little bit late, hoping that they will still visit this thread and vote.
Let's wait for more votes so that we can get the majority answer and will help us to think why they are rich or poor.
It has only two option, no more dramas like 'middle of poor and rich', 'neutral', 'none of the above', etc.

Vote wisely!
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I totally agree with you, I'm sorry for not having merit to send for your answer but you deserve it. Most gamblers are poor people living in third world countries in Africa, Asia and South America, betting on cock fights or things like that.

That would help to really determine the voice of the majority, and actually I have voted and based on my observation by reading the replies from this thread, majority are saying that most gamblers are poor... this is actually obvious as the gambling industry is not only compose of legal business but there are also a lot of illegal business and even in our own house, we can gamble with our friends and relatives.

IMO,they were poor.Many places people gambling to make money with their daily earnings which remain me that what is their real intention of gambling but its supposed to be fun.

The status will not be a matter if you play online gambling as the owner doesn't see you played in your home. But if you go to the real casino, I think they want you to use good looking clothes, so they will allow you to enter the places. But I guess some casino will leave you like that and they will allow you to gamble with your money. All they think is you have the money to gamble, and as long as you have the money, you could playing gambling.

Since it is not likely that you are getting a straight answer we will have to take an educated guess, the amount of rich people among the population is low so it is unlikely they make the majority of gamblers, now it is also impossible for those that are poor to be the majority of gamblers, even if in many countries there is a significant amount of poverty you need some spare money to gamble and they do not have it, so most likely the middle class make the majority of gamblers since they have enough spare money and there are way more of them than rich people.

But you didn’t get the point this doesn’t concern on our stands about poor or rich can play either casinos or street gambling but the question is who’s the majority of gamblers in the world?

And that clearly states from almost 200 answers here who’s more than 80% are voted “for Poor”