Gambling is not a means to an end and their is no guarantee that you must win in the process so just do your prediction and enjoy the fun, if you win, thumbs up for you but if you don't win don't allow it get at you and don't assume you can always win back your money, learn and master the right time to walk away.
As there isn’t a solid guarantee for someone to have a win whenever they gamble, one should be careful and aware of the amount of money being spent on the activity. The number of people who take gambling as a means of making an income is frightening and should be a cause for worry. Wins are not consistent in gambling, hence the idea of gambling as a means of earning an income is not viable. Asides, a good majority of the people who take gambling as a means of making an income would at a point, slowly fall into addiction. Gambling is not a job opportunity. Wins in gambling, if any isn’t consistent compared to a paycheck earned from a regular job. |
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Patience is a virtue that everyone should strive to have in our lives. Asides gambling, one who has patience could almost never go wrong in the actions taken.
With gambling, patience is also important as it could very well help deter a lot of losses one would have normally gotten as some gamblers can be very impatient whenever placing bets.
But one with a little bit of patience would play with a clearer head than others who, being so eager for a win, could play recklessly with mostly his emotions instead of his head leading and directing his actions.
OP, your experience is one that has been experienced by a lot of people who gamble. I too sometimes get impatient when gambling. When things doesn’t go the way one would have liked, it’s always best to have a clear mind.
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The way of life today has changed from the way it was decades ago. With great help from inflation, prices of commodities have drastically increased. Wages? Not so much and it’s getting increasingly difficult for middle to lower income families to be able to get by.
When there’s barely enough income coming in to comfortably afford the needs of the household, there’s little to nothing left to save making a lot of people having to take up additional jobs.
Tax cuts and incentives to the rich would literally get them majorly richer, increasing the ever increasing gap between the wealthy and the poor. Trickle down economics had the wealthy elites dinning at the table leaving the middle and lower class scrambling for crumbs that on occasion, fall to the ground.
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Staggering figures involved in all of this. 45 BILLION hack attempts a day. That’s an insane amount of hack attempts a company would have to deal with and on a daily basis too. These guys are sure relentless in their efforts to get their stubby hands on some of the huge chunk of bread the company has.
Like the rep said, “they have to”. They’ve recognized that they need to be literally on guard against hack attempts that are ever changing. 15 billion invested yearly on defenses against cyber attacks is a huge sum but apparently worth it.
It’s not just fiat that’s not safe. Thieves would always seek out to steal from someone else, whatever has value.
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In as much as your nephew has reached the legal age to gamble as stipulated by many jurisdictions, the fact that he is still a dependent, he shouldn't gamble. He is currently building an addiction and there is a stage he will get to he can do anything to satisfy that urge to gamble.
Even if he doesn't resort to stealing, he might use funds meant for payment of bills to gamble, and in the end, his mom will face the consequences of such behaviour.
Gambling by a dependent should be seriously frowned upon because it will amount to throwing away the money laboured by another person. My advice is that his mom should reduce the money he gives to him because that can also reduce the money he uses from gambling.
I agree. Despite being matured enough to be considered an adult, I wouldn’t advise someone who’s very much still dependent on someone else for survival to pick up a gambling habit. As a dependent, he has no money of his own and has to make do with what is being given to him. Picking up an activity like gambling could tell on his finances. There’s a possibility he may resort to stealing after burning through the little funds available to him. Dependents are literally still relying upon others to survive and as long as he is being given money, his actions with that money would always be scrutinized. There probably won’t be much ruckus from anyone if he works and earns his own money. |
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Lets just accept that people dont read. Even if reading ToS would be a must during registration, people will find a way not to do that. Observe how people use swimming pools. It is not local, it does not have any difference from nationality, religion and etc. Nobody read swimming pool usage rules. Nobody even notice a huge sign NO DIVING. People ignore reading. Even though it is important. But if you show them pictures or video of people getting injured while diving, reckless behavior and etc, people would be more cautious. In modern world reading isnt popular.
I agree with you. It’s getting increasingly difficult to find or cultivate reading habits in people today. You’ve got to agree with the terms of service before you are being given access to such services so one can say, reading the terms of service is a must as one ought to be fully aware of what is being agreed. In the modern society today, people are likely to select today, to be informed by pictures or videos than a detailed written account of same event. With the advent of modern technology making things easier, reading has become somewhat like a chore. |
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Is it true? How quickly did Henderson leave the Saudi league team? I still can't believe time has flown so fast and he chose to join Ajax. Even though in the Saudi league he can find peace and an abundant salary, it doesn't seem to make him happy. He doesn't look old but his passion is still burning for football and maybe Ajax could be the answer to his wishes.
I did think when players from Europe go on to the Saudi league to play, they’ve left competitive football and after playing for a few seasons, they retire from football. Apparently, not all players. Henderson decided he still wants to play football that’s a bit more competitive and made the move from the Saudi league to join Ajax. The team at Ajax apparently thinks he could become a good addition to the team and decided to have him. I had read he was finding it a bit difficult to settle fully over there. Whatever his reasons are, he did what he thought to be the best for himself and that’s what matters. |
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One thing that I have learnt and expect others to learn too is growing a thicker skin here in the forum. no matter the response of how ill mannered a response (comment) is I will never make a personal attack on the commenter.
humans are built differently and as such I wouldn't be expecting everyone to act the same or be of good manners. So whoever is bordered about the manners of comments should learn to move on and forget about this shits. one things is certain some of this senior colleagues will always throw stones at you but use them to build yourself instead of throwing it back at them.
It’s great you’ve learnt not to get hurt and unnecessarily angry by the way some people write. Expectations in a good number of cases bring about disappointment hence having expectations from others to ignore hurtful words is futile. Sure, we’re all different and you definitely shouldn’t be expecting everyone to act civil and be extremely polite to each other. Especially not on a forum that members are majorly anonymous. Some members are brutally honest and don’t mince words so as to be really clear when stating their thoughts in a conversation. The other party would then choose to get hurt on the choice of words used while ignoring what was actually being said. |
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Is there really an evil rigged system? The system isn’t rigged and I wouldn’t say evil either. It’s not fair, that much is obvious.
I don’t think a lot of people go into the bank wanting to save their money for a few years, and having hopes for the bank to double the money deposited. It would be lovely to have a little extra when saving with the bank but most people who save with the bank actually just want to save their money.
I think people are aware of the difference between savings and investments. There is no expectation to generate more income from your savings in the bank so while savings is still very much needed, I don’t think there’s any illusions on one making a great deal with his savings in the bank.
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I think that giving methematical therapy can be effective to help a gambling addict to have a paradigm shift, because even if a doctor gives drugs to an addict to suppress the urge of addiction, it'll still come down to letting the patient to understand the mathematical implications of gambling addiction. You hardly hear of a casino or bet company going bankrupt, infact I don't think that I've heard of any, so an addict should be made to understand that if there are more winnings gambling companies will be going bankrupt and folding up, but the industry is designed that there'll always be far more losers than winners. So the probability of beating the house and winning them is very low compared to when you're losing to them
What do you mean when you say mathematical implications of gambling addiction and what good would does understanding it do to help a person already addicted to gambling? They’ve been cases in the past where a casino went bankrupt. Before I even began reading more on casinos that went bankrupt, I already knew of the a casino Trump had that went bankrupt. Here are some more examples. https://www.gamblingsites.com/blog/casinos-that-went-bankrupt/You’re right about casinos having an edge over gamblers. They’re in business. People seem to forget that point. |
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I can only imagine what you’ve been through over the years trying to fight the disease and how you’re holding up now. You likely have been through a lot and from reading your post, I think you’re being brave about it all and I applaud you for that.
You’ve contributed immensely to the vast knowledge the forum provides and have directly and also indirectly impacted on other members. Your opinions are valued and your assessments are fair and shared by others.
We’ve never met and would probably never meet but i would definitely remember you fondly and with upmost respect as you’ve definitely earned it.
Your opinions are valued and respected and you would most definitely be missed. My thoughts are with you during this difficult times.
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I don't really see anything bad in gambling every day if you really have good games to gamble on and have the money. I did not see any differences between someone who gambles every day and someone who gambles once a week or month; if you will lose, you will surely lose, and if you win, you will surely win, so let's just know that gambling is about luck. But many people are thinking that when you gamble weekly or monthly, you may waste much money, but that is all a lie. Those who waste much money on gambling will surely be using a large amount of money to gamble.
There isn’t anything bad if one decides to gamble everyday. There is actually nothing to it if the individual has the money to comfortably play irrespective of the outcome of such bets. But there is an obvious difference between someone who gambles everyday and one who visits the casino twice in a month. The person who visits the casino twice a monthly would have monies saved that would have otherwise, been lost when gambling. The OP talked about a friends theory about playing everyday so as to draw closer the day he gets lucky. That is a flawed theory. |
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There is nothing wrong with showing our gambling to other people, but we also have to see who is worthy of knowing because otherwise news about your gambling activities will spread to everyone and for me the right person to see our gambling activities is only one of them. family members because sometimes a friend, even though they gamble together and have fun together, will end up giving us trouble themselves when they run out of funds and borrow funds from us and will never return the funds and this is one of the bad impacts.
Information is power. And the more information known about you, the less private and secure your life could be. You’re right on choosing the right person to divulge certain information to. There are people who aren’t to be trusted with certain information about yourself as that information when made privy to to these individuals, would quickly become common knowledge and known all over your vicinity. That’s pretty much why people choose to keep their affairs confidential. It’s best to keep your affairs private and in a scenario that has the society frowning at gambling, all the more reason to share less and know who you allow into your circle. |
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Here I would add that by trusting experts, we are shifting responsibility to others, even if the other team wins in the end. We will begin to blame him for being bad and not understanding anything at all, but in this situation we will be the bad ones.
You’re right. People are increasingly wanting to become less and less responsible for their own actions. It’s much easier to blame someone or something else for our woes. By trusting so called experts, we’ve made the decision to fully take the risk of choosing the path recommended by the experts. And when such predictions turn out to be wrong, it’s easy to lay all the fault at the feet of the expert conveniently forgetting that we were forced to follow the predictions of the experts. Same with gambling addiction. People easily blame the activity itself for them getting addicted. It’s absurd. Personal responsibility as a trait is getting harder to find in people. |
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Ideally, if the person is mentally disordered he or she should not go to casino and should not gamble, as he is not in the right frame of mind and therefore he can lose money when he is not fit to use his brain. If he insists on gambling, then it becomes the responsibility of his near and dear ones to stop him from gambling and the best way to do so is to restrict him from gaining access to the money. I assume that since he is a mentally disorder person, therefore we may not be in a position to do any job and earn money.
(If he is earning money through any means, it would mean that he is not a mentally retarded person).
If he’s stable enough to earn some money and decides to gamble, he could as well be mentally stable enough to gamble and leave without bothering anyone or creating an incident. Ideally, a mentally unstable individual should be under supervision and shouldn’t be allowed to do things or go out on his own. But if someone who is classified and diagnosed as mentally unstable by society behaves well enough that a gambling establishment think it’s fine and don’t mind collecting their money and allowing them to play, then I guess it’s fine. Until it’s not lol. |
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While Messi is the GOAT, he can't bring the tremble alone to the team. I think they signed Messi for marketing purposes and not to benefit the team because their playstyle was different and didn't change even after the Messi's transfer. Messi has only played in FC Barcelona and Argentina. In both teams, Messi has been the main player and the whole team was built around him. When Messi moved in PSG, the whole team was built around Mbappe, their strategy was to shoot the ball in front, Mbappe will run and score. Simultaneously, it's really true that Messi wasn't trying his best for PSG because he prioritized Argentina's national team to win trebles with them, including Copa America and World Cup. It was clear how powerful Messi was during Argentina's matches compared to PSG but I think Messi is not to be blamed here that much because the coach and midfield was the problem here, not Messi actually, he was still performing well but I think he was preserving himself from injuries and wasn't as aggressive/motivated as before.
Messi alone cannot do everyone to win games, elevating his team to the top and remaining there. It’s just not possible no matter how good the player is. One individual cannot do it all. I think they signed Messi for various reasons, publicity and marketing reasons amongst others. But I think his influence is still felt in the team although not as much as he or his supporters would have desired. The gameplay at PSG was majorly centered around Mbappe so I don’t think his absence would be really missed. I think there has always been some sort of expectations(sometimes unrealistic) from Messi to either score a goal or create chances for one. |
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What about those who did not win still? Will it just be hope for life? The only instance we could say gambling restored our hope is simply once we experienced winning and with the same extent, not all people have won in lotteries or have won jackpot prizes in casinos. It just depends on your fate as a gambler and that is a variable no one has control.
That type of hope could be depressing. Waiting on gambling and constantly playing, hoping for that big win till there isn’t any money to play with again. That’s not hope in my book. Not everyone is lucky and as gambling is majorly more of luck than anything else needed to win, it’s of no use putting your hopes on being lucky enough to win at gambling. You’re more likely to get your hopes crushed repeatedly than getting lucky enough to win a huge sum. That’s if you don’t go broke first. |
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Yes I aggree on this statement. According to research, women gets mature much earlier than men. And in my opinion and observation men reach financial maturity when they got married, at least in my country Turkiye. In my country girls wants start their life indepently at their young age. If they want to reach their goals they have spend their money wisely. But for the boys mostly they left their parents house when they got married until then parents house perfect choises because their mother already take care the cook, clean etc. and father take care about bills, accomodation etc. As a result of these 2 choices you can say that women better than men economically.
Women mature faster than men. I think that applies to how fast their bodies mature and grow and it does not necessarily mean that women become mature faster than men in their thoughts and actions. I fail to see what point you were trying to prove. I think both sexes as young adults would want to try and be independent. And the scenario you described doesn’t really show how women become economically better than men. I do know men majorly being or trying to be breadwinners just strive to bring in enough money while leaving it up to his spouse to effectively manage whatever funds available. Perhaps that perception gives women the picture of being better at managing money. |
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I think we humans would always seek out and do whatever pleases us despite having to face the harsh judgement passed down by society if found out.
Gambling is no different. There are various cultures and religions that frown upon gambling as an activity to partake in. That hasn’t stopped some people from such cultures and religions from gambling.
Crypto along with online casinos has made it easier to be more private in your gambling activity hence attracting gamblers who would rather keep their activities secret.
Being mentally stable, we’re all aware of what’s good and what’s bad. Religion shouldn’t dictate how anyone should live their lives.
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In my opinion, those who place bets with high amounts and because they imitate other people, they will experience pressure on their bets which will make them restless and tense, because what is clear is that they hope to win, but the win cannot be achieved. Correct predictions will be obtained or not, but the chances are that it is difficult to get. because the chance of winning at gambling is very slim, so even if they place a large bet, that doesn't mean it's easy to win, right?
People who bet with an amount they wouldn’t ordinarily have but did cause of one or more people around who did bet with such amounts often end up losing out and it would be more painful than the losses experienced before. If one wants to copy, it’s better to copy just the bet being placed then go on ahead to play with an amount that’s pocket friendly. Placing a bet with a large amount doesn’t equals a win. The amount to be won would be equally high but it doesn’t mean you’re actually going to win. Seems people momentarily forget. |
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