I'm 100% with you on this. Has anyone thought of the reason why casinos are just flooding the internet like a mushroom? This is the reason, the business is booming and the risk is very low. Once you can do the marketing well and have some sizable loyal customers, you are RICH, my friend, it is as simple as that. The only risk there is when their customers abandon them and that can't be good because, they will have to pay a lot of bills which include maintenance, insurance, employees etc. This is why you see casinos being up to date with their advertisements, even if they stop for a while, they might start again because they will be internally checking the active customer base which is the heart of the success of the company.

Talking about the playing, many gamblers are not just winning, they are regular losers and the few that win cannot replicate it as though they have mastered it, so it is clear that more losses will happen and it is to the advantage of the house who in most cases know how to tweak the system in its favour. So the edge in their advantage will always be there.

There is no way elderly people will not be gambling in any country where gambling is permitted because there is no country in this world where you will not see mixed behaviours and personalities. I also see nothing wrong with elderly people gambling if they are not losing money and focus to it to the point that their lives will be miserable because of it. But for me, it will get to a certain age when I will stop gambling altogether, this is a personal determination that I will surely fulfil.

As for how it is in my country, well, the elderly people are not gambling as such, there is no way they will be gambling so much that I will not know about it as I move around more often. It is the middle-aged people who mostly gamble in my opinion, and if the elderly ones are gambling indeed, then the population will be lower than 0.05% here.

It is easier said than done, but the moment you have a viable means of income aside from gambling, oh yes, you can actually make it a fun-filled activity for you. Mine is not so different from yours, only that I do not take my betting with sportsbooks lightly like in casino bettings. I make sure that I wager a reasonable amount that will be worth the return since I know my percentage profitability. And if you are serious about sports betting, the context of luck should be reduced to the barest minimum. Just try to polish your means of analysis and speculate well and you will be surprised that you will mostly be winning your bets.

This is so me because I like to go for the odds that are so convenient and I do not combine bets to avoid risking higher than necessary. If I bet five matches, you can be rest assured that all the matches will be independent and this has helped me so much in reducing my gambling risks. Though, as you said, the profit can be as high as those who are looping bets together, nevertheless, the risk is little so the consistency of winning will be high too. Now tell me, what do you stand to lose if you are good at it? Owning to this, I advise you to continue this way unless it is not positive for you. Winning a little is better than losing everything most of the time.

The internet connectivity context in gambling has lingered for long but it is not something that is persistent, it happens once in a while. If you are such a gambler with a bad internet connection, just make sure that you change your ISP before you gamble or try as much as possible to stay away from gambling to avoid issues for yourself. The moment you are forcing yourself to bet despite the slowness of the internet connection, you've automatically signed up for the condition as it is, so crying foul later regardless of the consequence doesn't make any sense.

This issue is also a two-way thing, it could be a curse or a blessing. There are gamblers who would say that it is the internet connection that made them miss a certain game, otherwise, they would have lost bitterly. The same thing goes for those who would say that they lost a good game due to a poor internet connection.

However, what I will not agree to in one of what you write is for anyone to claim that the internet connection caused them to make a bad input, how? Is the poor connection also shaking your gambling platform or what? We should try to take responsibility and I am sure that this is one of them as far as gambling is concerned.

Oh, I see, Donald Trump has an odd of 1.70 and Joe Biden has 2.55 on Stake, that's nice and the person(s) who prepared this table might have had some beliefs to have made them think that Trump will win. But for me, I choose Joe Biden to win, more money to my bag...

To be honest with you, I don't have a serious reason for that because Joe Biden has made a lot of mistakes this time, even as Trump continues to leverage on division preachings as usual. Nevertheless, I just don't like arrogance, so regardless of losing my money, I must bet on Joe Biden and the election will be keenly contested like before.

I will always say that gambling on its own is not bad but the way many people approach it, this is why people are now stereotyping it. Can you imagine yourself, for instance, you went ahead to spend all day gambling, is that good at all? Didn't you have other productive things you can do other day gambling? Just because your country had an industrial action doesn't justify you gambling all day, and by you including that industrial action means that it was never at the weekend, there are many useful things you can do with your free time.

Fine, you can gamble as well, but it should have its time and limit, it should not be extensively as that, otherwise, you will appear irresponsible. Personally, I feel guilty if a day of my life is not lived as planned, perhaps you should also have plans for the day and also query the plan before finally accepting it, it will help you so well.

At the same time, for you to discuss a thing like this shows that you are not even comfortable with it, so it is a good one, since you have a bad mind about it, you might avoid it next time. Generally, people living a life like this should stop, spending the whole day gambling or being desperate about it will take us nowhere, it is good to take gambling as a passive income in a non-desperate way but rather find a good job and other responsible daily engagements.

This is serious judging by your experience in gambling, notwithstanding, thanks for throwing it on board, at least, some people who are confused like you, or who feel they are confused may find answers.

From what you narrated above, I am confident that you are gambling for the money, and here is why. First, it's clear that you are not gambling for fun since you don't seem to be taking it easy with gambling. You are such that risk so well and also conversant with it, so that can't be for the fun part, because those who gamble for fun will take it easy, which will naturally cause them to wager lower amounts per bet.

Now, it doesn't matter if you have a target before you admit you are gambling for the money, in as much as you like gambling and are not satisfied and still pressing high figures or somewhat higher figures than an ordinary fun-seeking gambler would do, then you are for the money even if you do not admit that. Having a target in gambling is a choice, it is never compulsory the way you make it a basis to decipher.

Mine is clear, I seek my fun through casinos and try to make money through sports betting. Also, I've never been aggressive with my betting to make the money and I am a conservative bettor any time, any day.

As you can deduce from the above, mine is mild, so I do not really give gambling that thought since my focus for money making is elsewhere. However, I have a low betting plan on casino games and I strictly manage my sports betting even as I go for the least possible difficulties.

Nah, bro! Far from it. But it is not too late for you to put the pieces together and have a goal and the plans to achieve it.

This advice is generally good and can save a whole lot of gamblers if they adhere to it. But the only issue with it is that those who would adhere to it can't emphatically call themselves gamblers because it is such that discourages regular gambling. You can imagine gambling today and lost, and taking a break of two weeks afterwards while others continue to gamble all the same. That will surely keep your sanity for you but you can't always have that fun or achieve that core goal you might have wanted to start gambling for in the first place. This is not to discredit this point of yours but to show that many people will not adhere to it because it will not just be their thing simply because they want to gamble freely.

They would have loved to stay more connected with gambling than giving it too long a break. However, if I should share my own advice, I would say that gamblers should be the person to be careful from the beginning to avoid causing issues that could warrant them taking too break from it. They should learn about gambling sanity and keep responsibly gambling intact. This is possible by gambling with the money you can afford to lose, and not only that, such money should be ridiculous, so that you can manage your gambling portfolio without fear or greed and still preserve your gambling psychology rightly at the same time. It is those who are desperate for the money or trying to revenge their gambling loss with huge amounts that are mostly affected badly by it.

You are making so much sense here, this 1% depends on the gambler, his plan and the amount he earns, as it could be too much to gamble at once in some casinos due to their terms and conditions if it is a huge amount of money or too small to gamble if the gambler is such that makes a very low income. This is a good reason why it can't be a basis for everyone, and in my last replies here, I made it clear that whether or not it even goes in line with my income, it can never go well with my personality and my gambling plans, so it is dead on arrivals as far as I am concerned.

I do not measure my wagering amount in gambling with any modality, based on my discretion, I only earmark a certain amount that is convenient for me to gamble and that I can lose without being hurt. That is the money I gamble with, and it's so far so good for me, which I ever intent to keep. However, I know this is so precious to the OP according to how he has shared his view and it is not entirely bad as well, which is why I say we should go for whatever we love in gambling so long as it is convenient and working for us.

Well, I have heard over and over that gambling businesses have their terms and conditions and it is subject to change, agreed! But did you read the OP mentioning they updated him about the terms and conditions different from what he signed up for?That is the issue here. The last time I read the OP, he claimed that the casino's terms and conditions clearly indicateed that he can withdraw $50,00 monthly. If this is correct, it means that he has the right to withdraw far more than $500 daily alocated to him daily. This can only be cheating and nothing else.

Also, I like you to know today that there are approaches to doing things, casinos can't be lawless and be using the terms and conditions to back it up the way you pointed it out here. There are laws which both the establishment and the customers must follow to avoid cheating each other, they must also agree with terms of cooperation and be notified if there is a change. If at all there is a change, the change shouldn't be so wicked to the point that someone who deposited $10,000 will have to wait 20 good days to withdraw his money, what if he has profits included? It will now be way more, which is wicked.

Charging such casinos to court will not end well for them as whether they have changed Ts&Cs or not, the judge is not a fool and this kind of a thing is what even angers them the more, and more reason they side the complainers in this kind of cases. They would have sensed forcefulness where the casinos is lording itself on the customer no matter the update in their terms of service.

However, it's the lack of good regulation that emboldens some of them to do that.

No thanks to the addicts, they actually brought it upon themselves due to their weakness and lack of cautiousness. Even if they are weak but are cautious, it would still have helped in guarding them so that they can continue in the quest of gambling with the pretence that they are not weak. But since they let loose of all of them altogether, they encounter more issues and that's why I don't like to pity them at times. Notwithstanding, I like to help in my own little way which is why I even want to counter what you mentioned that people do not like free things. This is not so true in my experience when I reach out to challenged people and it depends on the free things you are talking about. Besides, I have truly witnessed some people buying some products for over $2,500, I mean the products that can't serve a better purpose than what they can get for free.

Any time they hear the term "premium," which is also well-packaged, they immediately believe it is the best, but that is not particularly true. I said all that to buttress your point and show that I agree with you in a way. Nevertheless, there are many other products and services that will be issued or advertised as free and people will take them so important as though it is premium. A good example is this context of addiction, anything medical or that can fix you is always to your advantage, and once it is free and is for your advantage, why then run away from it?  That's how most people think. Whether they are qualified or not, they are offering help without a cost, so it is a very reasonable choice to give it try.

After all, they have nothing to lose in this situation. Unless the person is so rich and spoiled at the same time, I think it won't make any difference to them whether it is free or paid service.

I got to know about Bitcoin in about 2013 and it was through some online engagement but notably through one of my FX brokers. Notwithstanding, I never gave it any attention until years later when I was using it as a deposit and withdrawal means but never invested in it until I joined Bitcointalk.

With Bitcoin? I've never made such a mistake I would call silly because even though I missed the opportunity to invest in it, I was investing in other sectors. So, no serious hurt feelings.

I would definitely start investing when Bitcoin was still less than $0.5, and by now, I would be a billionaire.

I started investing in Bitcoin in 2022 and I also started trading it actively ever since then. But I can't say I can still point to any favourite time yet other than my overall experience with Bitcoin which is positive.

Don't be surprised if my view is different from others. For me, though I see Bitcoin going positive, I don't see it as insanely high in 50 years as many take it. If Bitcoin can always be moving higher and higher to the point of hitting $250k, $500k, and $1m nonstop, what do we call that? I call it an embarrassment, an inflationary asset that needs urgent attention. The economy doesn't work as many people take it with their layman's understanding, they just want the money.

Also, the fact that Bitcoin is in the mainstream in the financial market will make it better behaved than before and will disappoint many expectations.

Whoa!!! Am I missing something? This is cool, I am glad you now realise who you are, one of such users who deserve a special package. Consider this as an endorsement.

I am a good writer myself and when I see one, I know, especially the one that is more respectable on the forum and with a better profile. I wish you all the best here and I am sure that you shall be hired pretty soon.

Good luck, bro!

What a smart move for differentiating merit sources and hoarders. But at the same time, a merit source could be a hoarder still even as non-merit sources can also be hoarders.

In my opinion, as you asked, you are making sense, that's how it is judging by the way things are currently. The merit will go more around the quality posters of the forum if hoarders desist from it and give it cheerfully to the deserving posts. However, no thanks to the attitude met on the ground by many who now replicate it all the same, it caused what we see today and may continue.

Regardless, many are receiving it massively, it may only not be even. Stopping sentimental sending will also go a long way though people like to deny that part.

Nice graphic the guy has there, but he should go and fake other forums and not the people here. What you wrote above struck my annoyance yesterday when I read his thread and also the reason why I skipped the page pretty fast. Only the gullible can fall for this, it's cheap like the old. How can a casino or whatever he calls itself pride itself on a 99.9% RPT, I wonder how the casino will be winning and be successful. Perhaps, it's for charity...lol

Another annoying part is the 16+ that can access the casinos. Is it not to swindle the young ones who can't yet decipher their rights from their wrong? Maybe he expected them to steal their momma's money to gamble, I don't just know.

I know where you are driving towards but it is not particularly true, it is relative as well. In my wide understanding of how entertainment has been widely used in this forum, I can say that some would surely fake it, but still, many others will say the truth about it. However, one thing I am sure of is that all gamblers cannot gamble solely for the money. Even if the majority gambles for the money, some may just like to gamble for the fun part which is what people at times term entertainment, and the money involvement may make it more exciting than just playing games to some people.

I tell you that I fall into this category as far as the casino section of gambling is concerned and I know other few gamblers in this category as well, so it is real regardless of your take about it, individuality varies. Also, many people gambling are comfortable with their finances and will never let gambling push them in a way, and even if they make a mistake at times, they quickly retrace their steps in it so that they will not repeat it. These are gamblers who are not in mainly for the money because they are comfortable, so gambling for the sake of the money to be made that often infest people will not have dominion over them.

As for the Wiki's meaning, it is right, and perhaps, people should rather change that Entertainment to Fun. Fun is the term I mostly use in this regard for it is more appropriate. And truly, you can have Fun gambling, but ensure that you gamble with a ridiculously low amount of money if you are truly sure you want to gamble for Fun, otherwise, gambling will ruin your day.

My advice for @zTec is that he should always be careful, there are a lot of ugly things happening on the internet now in the name of marketing and others, so extreme caution in this situation matters as it may not even come from Stake at all, at least, that is a possibility. Because many websites are advertising insane benefits just to have certain access to people's details or for phishing purposes, that's my first advice.

But at times, many companies including Stake may have a special package for some special partnership purposes, so it is possible as well. Either way, it is best to first confirm with the representative of Stake, one way or the other, they will be aware of that offer. I will never advise anyone to risk such a high offer immediately without confirmation unless it is from a safe website, the one they can really trust.

A provably fair system is good but you should write at the back of your mind that casinos these days are using it for advertisement. Many provably fair games are not so but a piece of a lie, so you should be careful about that because you will hardly see a casino these days that will tell you that their games are not provably fair, some will even try to prove it for you, but still, it is not so. So dealing with the right casinos, especially the reputable and popular ones is a very good way to go in this context.

That said, you can try Stake.com for this. I have not seen a casino or heard of such that has more probably fair games than Stake.

First, the remark that users want to bump up their post count in such threads is based on your assumption and can never be proven to be right in any sense unless an individual tells you their mind. If they like, they will let go of the thread and still have thousands of threads they can post in, that's the extent to which they have choices as far as Bitcointalk is concerned. Posting on such threads is part of what this forum is for whether you are in a campaign or not and I've seen many people who are not in a campaign still posting in such threads, are they also bumping up their post count for a campaign?

However, what I see as the main point here is telling the truth in this regard and I think people are trying their best to do so. Though it may not be what you wanted them to say, nevertheless, that's their opinion and we should respect other's opinions. For me, I am most neutral in such threads, this is unless there is viable proof on either side. But what I do not like is for forum members suddenly backing a casino simply because their representative make a comment even without proof or users saying others are not complaining. Is it a must that cheating affects all?

I try to be fair to all.

That is nice, but in my thought, I do not think that most people will solely because they want to gamble and start learning how to operate a computer. This may be true for a few categories of people but can't be so true for the majority. The reason is that instead of using a computer to access their gambling platform by all means, they will either reach out to gambling outlets that are offering the same service easily and make their bet or use their mobile phones for the same purpose since it can do exactly the same thing as what the computer can do.

The good news is that, though most people may not have a computer in your country or simply do not know how to operate it, but certainly, many more than those who can't operate the computer will have access to their smartphones and will be able to operate it which is more reason why the option of computer will be less in my view. Also, I just thought about it now, I would rather do the same if I do not know how to operate a computer. Needless to say, computers is not getting less expensive these days, I mean a gadget with a lesser useful function for many. This is unlike the smartphone which is more useful to many people than a computer and can still help them to gamble.