Profits can be made in different ways, in gambling. Making profits from our wager is almost impossible. But successful gamblers get profits in many other places where gambling knowledge is required. TV and radio shows, books, movies, grand prizes like cars, etc. Gamblers who make money from selling their gambling knowledge and still pertain in gambling activity can be tagged successful. What is needed is staying in control and being disciplined. However, from your view, I understand the point that gambling as a successful player who keeps winning is not possible, yes. That's not real, since the house edge still play vital role. But it's more like a mental game than what the casino has to provide. It's almost or is certain that the jackpot returns to the house. Regardless of the time and duration, the house is patiently waiting for the money they gave a gambler.

Then the player quietly submits the jackpot back to the casino. Which means even the house edge being 2% doesn't mean the gambler wouldn't win more money that seems like he's profiting. The player can spend only 2% of his wins on other financial responsibilities not pertaining to gambling. Whatever makes this the way it is, shows that in that aspect, a gambler can't be successful, you are right. But fine we both know that gambling is a broad market. And there are lots of beneficial things to learn through the gambling niche, as gamblers. Such that given time we may be earning money by providing some gambling related services or information to other gamblers in the market. Isn't it a success in gambling, when one make money through teaching about gambling on TV? Wouldn't he be called a successful gambler?

Patience plays a vital role in gambling, a player who holds on to wagering a designated amount of money per prediction. Needs some it to keep up with doing this often time and helping himself not to waste his money. About the wins, it also requires that the gambler utilize the need for keeping up his strategy until the time he's meant to win. Every gambler will at some point win his games. But the patience to wait for the right time lacks in many gamblers. And they rush things, because they want to win immediately. That's not possible for any gambler to big immediately. Even if he does, he'd hardly manage the funds. However, inexperienced players need patience to adapt to a responsible gambling ethics or skills. Which remains the best lesson one should focus on learning while gambling.

Money comes and goes, but our skills stay with us forever. Why then would a gambler focus on money alone, if his initial intention wasn't to make money off gambling. Such players don't look into having patience that's why they have disputes handling money in gambling. While those who come to learn may utilize being patient with their teacher or the learning process, it's crucial they don't focus on money. Although it's hard to avoid in gambling, losing or winning money. With the right self-consciousness a player can overlook it and wait for the right time. Nothing happens if it's not it's time in gambling, regardless of the type of strategy the player uses. It's a matter of the house's decision. On whom the win goes to, especially in games like slots.

Gambling for newbies may be a hassle if they have no guardian who would take them on the long journey of gambling. It requires a steady learning for a newbie to stand strong emotionally to deal with all the feelings that has to do with gambling results. Every gambler was once in this stage, but not all made it out of the newbie stage safely. Many got addicted along the line, and I know of other gamblers who didn't continue as a result of the outcome of their gambling. Those who had no money and focused on making a living through gambling, got disappointed and stopped gambling. While those who had some funds, but needed to make extra income from gambling also lost their earnings to excessive gambling. But finds it difficult to quit since they've got other sources of income. Hence, they continued the chase. Don't know their recent condition, but many may have been addicted.

However, the newbies have a truck load of advice on the internet, but it's not enough for the ride. I think one should be focused on learning how he feels on a win or lose scenario, before looking at other gambling strategies. Because the emotional response is what actually matters. Those impulses can be controlled if the player is dedicated to following the risk management strategies. Added with good time management and critical thinking, sufficient enough to let the gambler know he's no longer on the right track. Depending on his expenses or ways of participating in the game. In a nutshell, a newbie should get a physical trainer to help them through this, because once they fail the process, it's hard to reconcile or revive with oneself. Since the person needs a person to change when addicted, he should also get a person to guide him while joining the gambling niche.

Gambling for that amount of time, helps the person to get filled with the transient satisfaction of gambling for the moment. And may not get the urge to gamble again till the next day or some other times. Gambling for 2 hours may not be enough for most gamblers. Splitting times may work; 2 hours morning and evening. One needs to gamble to the level he wants so that he wouldn't get constant urge to gamble. That's why gambling 5 hours works just fine. However, it sounds a long hour of gambling. But while gambling one wouldn't realize how much time has crept by. If one has those hours to spare, they can engage in gambling without falling victim of addiction. It's crucial that the gambler also holds his emotions while gambling for a long period. Like I said, they'll definitely be a win during these periods of gambling, and it could be added to bank roll. Such that it wouldn't run dry. However, it's a personal recommendation.

Moreover, if one thinks he won't make it out safely of 5 hours of gambling, he can do with the time he's comfortable gambling. What matters is the discipline to maintain the wagering speed and amount. Gambling for a long time shows some discipline more than gambling for few minutes, wagering all the money, or going all in. I was one time an All-in gambling victim. It costs more money than gambling for a long time. And increases the impulses or urge to gamble again, as the player expects a huge win out of going all in. You'd then understand that it's not about the time spent, but the amount of money wagered at a go within seconds. Also, the urge to gamble again, immediately after losing it all. The long-time gambler who spends 5 hours would still be enjoying his game while the short time gambler with lesser discipline would be struggling with winning big after losing all his funds at a go.

Video game players who purchase those products such as armor and weapons with real cash are avid gamers. And spend lots of time on screen playing those games. It takes up their focus, like gambling does to players. Some people are addicted to video games and would also do anything to keep up with the gaming requirements. Hence, whatever one wants to do, they'll need to work on it till they get there. Life as a gamer is never simple, they both, gamers and gamblers, need some control to keep up with good gaming habit. It's not wrong to beg for something, but one shouldn't feel entitled to some other person's money. Those games affect the players mentally as well, and doesn't sit right with young people, growing up. From his complaints above, you'd notice how it has affected him. Despite not being gambling. Not that his brother is addicted to video gaming.

Much more the stress gambling addicts would afflict to their loved ones and the society. It's all expensive and requires steady income to keep up with gambling habit. If the gambler is not acquainted with enough money, his target would be his family and friends, which ends up being a torn in the flesh of not just the player, but his acquittances. So, while everyone should be focused on taking responsibility of their habit, it's important or crucial to remind these people of the need to stay careful and not get addicted. Because when they get in problem gambling, we won't have an option than to help them out of the struggle. In a nutshell, not giving them the money won't solve the problem.

Gamblers who chase losses are not doing the right thing, it's a means of mismanaging their bankroll and gambling routine. When gambling with a plan, the process gets out of hand once the reason to win more erupts, which isn't the right strategy for a gambler to follow. We all need to understand that gambling is not a form of winning big money or things related to it, most people who followed such route ended up being addicted or losing control in the process. Hence, staying out of such thoughts would make us good gamblers and reduce the high rate of addicted people in the gambling niche. I'd also add that if anyone begin to act strangely, especially gamblers, following up with some questions and treatment would do a great deal in saving the person from getting to a level worse as punishing his family.

The trouble starts once the gambler begins to feel he's not getting things right or isn't good enough to win or get victory in gambling. Humans most times when not winning in any activity they find themselves into would begin to have a low self-esteem. Thereby, increasing their chances of engaging in any method or strategy just to win. As gamblers those thoughts, shouldn't be taken as necessary since it requires that the gambler enjoys his time while gambling. And forget about winning big in the process. If it's the time for the gambler to win, he'd definitely win, and then struggle with managing the money. One trouble most gamblers would need to bypass or go through while gambling. Some end up mismanaging it and ruining their financial economy.

It's not simple task to handle the upbringing of children, and whatever morals we use on them would matter during their youthful age. Most times during therapy, the expert would go as far as wanting to know the upbringing of the child. How he was treated as a toddler and how he responds, when given a gift. These things repeat itself while the child is growing. You'd watch or observe that a child who is hyperactive or very happy when offered a gift, when involved in gambling as a youth may be so happy when he wins a game. The joy could take the player farther to try again. Although, it's good to be responsive when winning, but with no proper control it could distract the player from focusing on his game. So, parents need to stay very observing of the reaction of their kids and know why they've chosen to behave like that.

Upbringing requires consistency, as it takes years to change a person's character. Looking at your response it shows that since the youths are strict and don't abide by the rules or advice of their parents, what would be the fate of the youths when they get to parenthood? And would they deal with their own kids? that we may not be sure of, but from the look of things it'll be a difficult task for a gambler to change his child who wants to gamble. You'd notice that in the nearest future gambling may be an overlooked habit. Which won't be bad, but there may be a high rate of addiction in that essence. Just like in the case of many other addictions where youths are involved, their kids may grow involuntarily to participate in those activities, if care is not taken.

I've got no experience about the prisons, but it seems prisoners engage in some form of games, to keep themselves busy. However, don't know what would be used in exchange for money, it could be their meal. Such cases as that of the man in Op's description, would leave him serving multiple years in prison. Which means he'd be very old before he gets out of the prison custody. However, being in prison, may not change the man's attitude, but his aging bodies won't let him think about gambling anymore. The addict on the story of Barikui1 may have found himself in a cruel situation, where he thinks his life wouldn't work without gambling. If he had double addictions, it's way too high for a person to control. Such a player would have been taken to a clinic or rehab before he got himself into the condition.

The problem with most gamblers is that, though right, not everyone feels he'd be in similar situation as the stories we've read or seen happen. Anybody can be that way, but not all gamblers. Gamblers train themselves differently, and lots of players think about whatever they're into and how they'll benefit through it on the long run. It has never been easy battling with the urge to gamble more which leads to addiction. But it's like an obligation, where one needs to understand his need for being responsible in every aspect of his life activity. Every gambler owes himself the responsibility for his actions. So, going against our wills to stay responsible will only ruin the life of the gambler to a destructive one, which ends up bringing down a successful family.

That's not the primary aim of gambling and shouldn't bother any player. The main aim is to be active and make meaningful predictions. Other factors are secondary and wouldn't make any difference for the gambler whether he associates with gamblers or not. There is no rule about that. Maybe the Op participated in a live game where their opinion would be needed for a specific reason. It's not wrong for a dealer to let them discuss or chat online. However, it's not meant to be a rule, it's just a voluntary decision for the gambler. The fun part is only reasonable if we go with our friends for the purpose of getting fun while playing game of luck. There the players can align with other gamblers and build a strong network for the day, able to create enough fun for them. Once the day is over, they may go home to gamble online is the urge to gamble still drags the gambler. So, offline casinos, shouldn't be neglected because of online casinos. If the player is not able to get what he wants online, he can easily go offline and feed himself with new conversation from other gamblers.  

The addicted players are the reason for the society's bad publicity on gambling, which happened to have affected the thoughts of many gamblers around the globe. Whenever, in the midst of nongamblers, what they say about gambling doesn't sound right. Because they've encountered some addicted players who caused their family trouble. These thoughts or complaints from such people is not meant to bother a stable gambler, they are only having fun through gambling. People must generalize in their words against gamblers, due to the fact that they'll hard invest time to research for more truth regarding responsible and compulsive gamblers. Such things on derails their conversation to a point where nothing meaningful come out from their mouth, other than hate speech. Due to critics, some gamblers prefer to hide their habit, and don't discuss it with close friends.

As they may not like the stigma that'll be placed on them by the society. Even the addicted players don't open up due to same stigma. The society need to advance more to a better thinking level where people don't just deduce to a false information. It affects most gamblers, but I wouldn't see myself being carried away by what they'll have to say about me as a gambler. It only unveils an opportunity to go into discussion with them and share more insights with them about where they're getting things wrong. I know some of the nongamblers, would learn from a gambler if the gambler is responsible and is ready tell them about gambling. And maintaining a strict rule on why the nongambler should not join gambling without doing prior research. To avoid being blamed on the long run.

That's really a tough and life-threatening encounter. Many people have complained about this while playing offline casino. But it's better to sleep in the casino's hotel room if it gets dark, then go the next day. This is one big advantage of online casino over offline casino. Nobody would be aware of you online wins. Unless you open up to them. The offline casino exposes the wins of players and people around celebrate with them. Thereby risking the life of those people to criminal who would want to attack and extort money from them illegally. Also, the location of the casino matters, if the players are not staying close by and would have to travel lonely roads back to their house. It's risky holding whooping amount of money in the vehicle while driving home.

I think the casino would need to divert to paying winners straight to their bank account, instead of cash prize. The risk is getting much, and players may be putting their lives at risk on the name of gambling. It's fine they were lucky they weren't harmed. I like offline casino for one reason, the need to take our wife alongside us and enjoy the evening. It's more like a sight-seeing. The best part of it would be spending the night in the hotel. Don't know if any casino exists with no hotel, except so, the players will need to go home earlier before night. Such fun may not be found in online casino. As we'd still be in our house, they'll be no changes. However, for safety reasons the gamblers would need to play games online, instead.

A successful gambler who possesses such qualities as risk management and self-control may be able to get along with gambling challenges without failing in the process. It seems very difficult to achieve the goal of becoming a successful gambler, but it's possible. Especially in the offline settings. Not sure for the online users who have many disadvantages as false provably fair. Who still has to depend on the house edge for everything. Coupled with the fact that no compliments are offered to the players. Even if gambling has not certainty the player who belongs to a comp club may be certain of his comp points being able to cover for some of his bills in the casino hotel.

He'll only have to bother about his bankroll and how it may suit the house edge. That way the gambler wouldn't have a hard time gambling for a long duration. However, it's a boring career, gambling every day without any other activity the person gets doing. Sure, there is nothing as profits, but one can earn few moneys, before he gets a big win. It's hard for a gambler who participates often not to get a win. The trouble with it, is battling with compulsiveness and managing the money meant for gambling. If one is able to take care of all that, he may not fail as a professional gambler.

On that perspective, the offline casino unveils most of the results or information of the player, like his face, earnings etc. I mean everyone would know the person as a gambler, compared to the online casino. Where the gambler can conceal his gambling habit to himself, while risking his personal information to KYC. Having this is mind, you'd understand that no place is safe; online or offline. Since the government insists on KYC online casinos lost its privacy feature. But the player is safe from his loved one or friends knowing that he's into gambling. That's what you're talking about, it makes a good difference. In the world of today, people who go to offline casinos, may not really go out to the society or our environment with a microphone telling them about seeing us in a casino. Things look mature.

A player who doesn't want such visibility, can go to a distant casino far from his house or neighborhood and gamble. If he's a social being, enough, he'd get more fun playing offline than online. It now depends on the gambler. The online space is mainly for gamblers who don't have the energy to associate with friends, in the offline casino. Hence, they wish to continue their habit at home to keep things safe and secure about their behavior. Although it strived during the locked down period, but that may have been the reason for online casino. A place for less social people to spend time gambling, at the serenity of their home. Nothing else can be offered to the players, he's social activity now depends on him. Online casino puts every other responsibility on the player, aside, providing games, support, and chat box.

Wagering few cents out of a small amount of money would take a gambler more than 5 hours duration in a gambling session. It all depends on the gambler to have the energy to stay on screen and enjoy his game. Remember he won't lose out on all his wagers or predictions. Hence his winnings can be added to the bank roll. The strategy would be stopping once 5 hours has exhausted. If the person does this every day, it's quite a long time, but if he possesses strong discipline, he won't get addicted. The other good side of it, is that the gambler needs to take some break at some point. His brain would begin to reset to normal, if it was thinking abstractly and going towards addiction. Since it has to do with mental disorder, many factors affect a gambler to get addicted which has less to do with how consistently he gambles. Anxiety, real life challenges, can lead a gambler to get addicted.

Especially when the problem or challenge is distracting him mentally, such that he gambles without any ethic or self-control. If he wagers all his money in the process, faster than he should have done in his right mental state, at some point he'd get sad over it and get depressed in essence. From the little experiences available to me, mental disorder doesn't have round the clock. Sometimes the victim gets to realize himself for some minutes. During those periods he begin to question he actions, and in the process of trying to recover the brain issues starts again. Therefore, you may hear them say no to gambling, but in the next hour you'll find the person gambling again. These things may not have been caused the moment they began to gamble every day. But, at the very few weeks they started gambling. It could be the real-life problem is the primary reason they started gambling.

Indeed, it won't be a sound encounter for the growing children. Coming from a family where the head is addicted. What then would be the fate of the child. Not all the children will get addicted or follow the ways of their father, but it'll be a hard experience on the end of the child. As he'll think bad of gambling and those thoughts could affect the brain of the child. I could remember a thread of a guy angry over what happened to his addicted father. He in the thread, wasn't addicted, but he has no reason to give gambling a chance one bit. He may have taken the best choice, most people would say, but on the long run it's bad to hate an activity dreadfully. Not saying it's his fault, no. The father is the bad player and has proven himself an irresponsible gambler, for making his family hate gambling because of him.

This era should be the best time for parents who engage in gambling, to fight for the wellbeing of their children. To make sure they don't get addicted into gambling, or understand what gambling is about, and not have hatred on gambling. Following the trend, and how fast the gambling industry is growing, most family will have at least two gamblers, and a society a few more gambling addicts. This can be controlled with the help of the society, making a strict rule against problem gambling. So, that the kids growing up would know what's in for them if they ever get addicted in Gambling. Addiction is quietly disturbing the growth of the society's economy. Addicted players should be looked into and helped out of their struggles.

A child grows according to the life in and outside his society. The training a child gets at home, differs from what the society would teach him. That's why they're complications between parent child relationship, in recent days the teachings don't corollate. In the past, if I may assume, before the invention of electricity and internet, parents still had to battle gambling addiction with their kids. Casinos existed, and if it wasn't there then, people gambled on their own, in different games like football, wrestling, bull fight etc. It may have been the growth of man up to this stage that youths and adults will gamble. These days it has been innovated to suit the recent technology which the world is so fascinated about, the internet. To get the attention of the child, it's mainly about video games, or online videos.

All they want is a device to keep them busily happy. While parents tend to change the life of their ward to focus on books or choose to ask them questions other than google, they need to provide the time between them and their kids. Children want their parents around them, they want to grow close to their parent. But have been denied of such privilege what would the child do when his parents are not at home to teach him. He runs to google for any unanswered question that's bothering him. There he can get some ads pointing to a site he may be too tender to visit. Like gambling. If he had some close relationship, they would voluntarily tell them about the site he's visiting. It rarely happens. Most kids keep it to themselves, trying to make their parents proud with a huge gambling win.

A good number of them don't realize they're not living a real life, thinking of gaining all their money from the casino. It's part of the goal to try winning, but not about a competition or looking at the result of other people. Or going too far as purchasing predictions. I think gamblers are taking it too far, forgetting that they'll need to follow some good gambling routines, able to help them stay away from problem gambling and they wouldn't have a deal with having patience in their gambling journey. Which should be a great means of escaping addiction. The activities gamblers feed their brain as regards to gambling doesn't help their thoughts. As gamblers we need to understand the behavioral effects of the strategies, we take on the umbrella of winning big in gambling. It begins to get used to the brain to act in those ways during gambling.

The gambler may be thinking he's still on the driver's seat of his behavior but won't realize he's acting out involuntarily to some of his moves. Until he can't regret it anymore, then just continue that way without control. It gets normalized in his brain. That's why the person's behavior begin to change and adapt to the new gambling behavior. He wouldn't mind any other exercise of life. Some would forget to eat. So, if gamblers begin to reduce the extra actions, they make to win big, they'll be learning gambling and understand how to behave as a gambler. Depending on our prediction would work fine and help us decide our next moves properly. Doing the observations and research at our leisure time, the brain will be adjusting to a better shade of reasoning. Other than misbehavior.

Parents have lots of work to do in the society, although the current parents who don't know much about the tech world, have done their best, but seems they failed in their teachings regarding the use of gadgets for longer period. Hence, a new set of parenthood would be emerging soon, which include the tech savvies and computer trained people. Then we'd know if the problem is from the parents or the schools. It may be the fault of the parents to some extent, but the society has a lot of duties to do with young people to stop their excessive engagement in gambling. Most of them hide these activities from their parents, and it's getting out of hand, even in the recent world economy, parents hardly spend time with kids. Both parents go to work for long hours, some do shift, to get more money to settle the family bills and take care of the child.

While they're away to work the child may engage in different activities due to boredom. Going out with friends and peers, is their best fun time. So, it'll be a tough thing to change the mindset of most young people to begin to see gambling for it truly is, other than a way of earning money. Online casino has made it very simple for youths to gamble excessively and get addicted in the process. Many youths are lonely and have nothing doing, that's why they spend their stipends or pocket money gambling. However, other youths are getting deeply addicted to video games. Which is about to ruin the social lives of the young people in the society. The electricity lifestyle has pushed the society to a way different level and things are expected to remain the same.

Gamblings games likes slot depends on luck and every player need to follow some certain precautionary measures to at least avoid not being dependent on luck alone but handle their winnings or losses such that they wouldn't lose out all the money they've got in their bank roll. Luck isn't something that keeps appearing all the time, most times, the player wouldn't have any other option than to continue playing until he gets his big win. Which then leaves the gambler to continue gambling despite losing his money in the process. While luck plays a vital role in gambling, the gambler needs to take away such thoughts, once a while to at least enjoy the game of gambling. It's better he wagers smaller amount of money to maintain his money not to get bankrupt due to gambling. And hoping on luck.

The odds are not certain, yes, anything could be the outcome, but the trouble is then how people envision the game of gambling. Because on the long run the gamblers end up losing, so revolving their thoughts on winning alone, the person may not be equipped enough with strong emotions to battle with the disappointments awaiting them. One would think his got no luck for gambling. And maybe wants to prove to himself that he's got some luck left in him. That is one reason some gamblers keep gambling despite losing. There are lots of the reasons to that, some may not care about the luck thing or how much money is there for them to win or lose. They only gamble for the fun and the hidden lesson a player can learn through gambling.

A lonely person looking out for some hobby can begin by trekking around his town and seeing new faces. It helps in building stamina and relaxes the emotions. Staying alone without doing anything, is quite a luxury, but it affects the thoughts of the person. And if the person is a gambler, he'd have a hard time controlling himself from gambling. Since, he's actually in the search for what to do, hence gambling would be the only option in the presence of no other activity. So, loneliness in most senses like what Op explained in his thread could affect the gambler's thoughts, and only the long run even if he wasn't a gambler can begin to gamble. There, his troubles may erupt, and he'd be wondering over what his new lifestyle has become.

And without any experience of gambling wouldn't want to share his trouble with people around him, I mean he's lonely nobody to talk to in the first place. That's quite a tough situation to be in as human. Not having friends around us to communicate our troubles or problems to. Speaking out the problem to someone else almost starts to solve the problem. But in a case of no help, I think the person would need to look out for a place where he'd get proper treatment. As staying indoors won't solve any problem for the person. Instead, it'll increase the trouble for the gambler to a difficult stage. Other things like heartbreak leads to loneliness and then gambling addiction. Having a companion or being a relationship can help a gambler who is lonely to escape addiction. We must not sitback at home and watch gambling addiction win the fight.