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301  Other / Off-topic / Re: Gambling addiction is not about the money you could win; it's about the "win" on: April 04, 2024, 12:19:41 PM

But even with those ideals in play, why would a millionaire start gambling in the first place?  

Because no man stops chasing for money, if the rich do then they will still investing and will withdraw all the liquidity they have and go back to zero level but they can't do that because they need to maintain and sustain their status.

so why would a rich athlete or politician become so addictive to gambling?


It is a way of life for them, they have fun that way. If you have a way you get your fun you still see yourself running back to it.


I think socialization+joy+drinking+gambling is satisfaction to them. What do you think?

Well in life you need to follow your heart where it is happy. Do what makes you happy in moderation so that it doesn't also infringe on another person's happiness.
302  Other / Off-topic / Re: How much gambling can change a person and how low his mind can go. on: April 04, 2024, 11:42:35 AM

Every family has a responsibility to keep their children well, so everyone must always attract your children to the good side so that they don't get into gambling dens.

I don't think there is a fast rule about that. Children have a way to pick from what is happening around the house and so if the father or mother has a positive attitude and does a particular thing, the children at home follows that too likewise if they see the parents with bad attitude. Parents who are knowledgeable about this try as much as possible to showcase good attitude to the children or in the presense of the children while they could do other negative attitude slyly where the children won't observe that.

In other words, show a positive attitude to the children so that they won't be exposed to the societal ills on time or vices around their environment, they can learn and choose the way to behave and react or act when they are adults. Fathers who are gamblers always end up having sons who follow his way of life at least one of the sons because they see him gamble too.
303  Local / Politics and society (Naija) / Re: Is this the beginning of crude oil by-products price dropping? on: April 03, 2024, 06:05:15 PM
Make we never begin to jubilate for now as we never still see the workings coming down to the economic realistic expectations. Yes if the prices of petroleum products go down, it will help to push the price of commodities down but for now we have not seen it happening, it is still based on speculative information. So make we still dey go as we dey manage ourselves until we see a very realistic statement saying that dangote refinery don begin work and selling diesel then pH refinery too beginning to work we go then know say yes the economy fit become get shape.
304  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Simple mistake that makes you lose everything on: April 03, 2024, 05:39:26 PM
This was big back in the day with poker.  Unstable sites or my own connection I would time out from betting and miss out on a winning hand.  It used to annoy me to the point of putting me on tilt.  Was not mature enough to let it slide.  I started betting more hands than I normally would chasing down that missed pot.  I don't let those things bother me anymore.  It leads to bad habits.

For me I think bad network can also make you to have a bad decision . Most times we are in a haste in our decision because of bad network and at the end wrong decision is the outcome of clear games and we miss it as we want to beat bad network and it really huts at the end with regrets but you still have to go on at the end of it all.
305  Local / Off-topic (Naija) / Re: Be in charge of these three things on: April 03, 2024, 12:11:07 PM

PAST EXPERIENCES = you have memory not trouble your soul but to avoid mistakes you did in the past should scenarios show up again...


I think this is important and it goes in two ways, bad experience and good experience. Depending on the one we want to reminisce on, they are all capable of lessons.

So if we are going through certain present situation and such situation we have had bad experience on it then we should learn from the past to know how to work on it and never to allow the experience to happen again as they say is a foolish person dat allows fall for what he has experienced before. So also we can use our past good experience to help current situation both for us and people around us.
306  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: What was your latest big win from gambling? on: April 03, 2024, 08:13:52 AM

 Do you increase your betting stake with mindset( if I lose it’s not my hard earned money)

This is not quite the kind of progressive mentality for a gambler who want to sustain and increase his profit. Having such mentality will make a gambler to stake irresponsibly. We are to think and that every money to stake with seriously even if it is money as a gift from uncles or any other family members, because people still bet with gifted money but they don't treat it as important money like " if I lose it's not my hard earned money.


 or will you maintain your staking status quo?

I have not really hard such a very big win but the little I get I still bet moderately from it and not thinking the next bet will be the bigger win.
307  Local / Off-topic (Naija) / Re: It's over 4 months and you no wan leave? on: April 02, 2024, 06:48:33 PM

Open up to them and tell them your mind, they are aware of the reality of today's economy and if they have your best interest in mind they will happily leave lifting the burden on you and your wife. May if you get small tin you fit the send them ones ones.

Omo this seem like the answer you are looking for. Although some response too don give insight like this.

Me I been want ask if the apartment na your own wey you and your fiancée dey stay abi na your family house but then you dey contribute to their upkeep for the family but the point be say house na house and them don over stay, 4 months no be 4 days and dem just stay put after wedding no be say una plan am to be like that and them too no open mouth talk as e be despite the economic challenges wey dey bite everybody now.

So talk to them, dem no be small pikin and dem gat to understand while you fit just support dem from time to time so that you and your woman fit breath too.

If person want go person place wey dem go stay over you suppose even tell the person, feeding these days no easy, no be to go sit for house on top person bill. One week even don dey enough if you want stay over with person and it must be discussed and agreed upon before such journey.
308  Local / Politics and society (Naija) / Re: Na only the government go fit help us to make cost of things come down on: April 02, 2024, 06:03:34 PM
Me I no think say na dollar exchange rate dey cos the high prices wey we still dey witness for market. If government don do all the artificial things wey dem think say dem fit do na for only temporary. Abi if investors succeed to exchange for lower rate and import things what about the duties wey dem dey pay. How are the borders wey those goes dey come in from, how are they charging on importation? If we know how much bag of rice dey land for Nigerian border line before e go finally enter naija then we go know say na duties self follow dey cos high prices. Abi how much dem dey take clear 40ft container now wey the price don double and these ones na wetin dey within the confines of government to reduce but na dem even dey carry price high.

That of agricultural products no be dollar still dey cos am na . Make government fight insecurity then farming go begin flourish.

Make government leave to dey chase shadow and den get to fix the infrastructures wey go allow economy to grow and not to dey chase binance when dem self don carry dollar take do business finish.
309  Local / Nigeria (Naija) / Re: The power of Networking. on: April 02, 2024, 10:18:36 AM
Survival need no be the race of one person and when it has to do with finance, omo na person go need to show you road even if you get idea you need more road and enlightenment to succeed pass as you dey reach. Like regards to this crypto wey all of us dey now, na learn we dey learn from the things wey we dey read and we dey grow like that. Therefore, no man fit claim say him sabi everything by himself, e still get wetin you go learn from some people join the one wey you sabi. No man be an island of its own.
310  Local / Off-topic (Naija) / Re: Insight on traditional practices in Nigeria. on: April 02, 2024, 09:10:27 AM

Even if she gets married after a year of losing her husband, tongues will wag and all manner of things will be said. But on the other hand, some men even get married 6 months after losing their wives and they are not restricted or expected to perform any ritual.  What is your take on this?

Wetin we go understand be say most culture and tradition favour the men and that is why them also be patrilineal society more than matrilineal. So depending on the one wey we dey, the pendulum go swing go there. But certain things don dey also change now like that remarry stuff now after the husband die, some women no dey too send now especially if the dead man no marry dem properly.
311  Local / Off-topic (Naija) / Re: Women cheap these days but benefiting more on: April 01, 2024, 03:10:07 PM
Bro this topic na subject questions, women and men matter no dey go straight forward. Women dey agree for men base on different things and some factors don dey established like money, popularity, physique and strength. So it depends on the category wey the woman find attractive in the man and likewise also the woman side. Although the economy never still help matter these days as money scarce, many women don enter street.
312  Local / Off-topic (Naija) / Re: Is Yahoo(Street)the last hope of a common man? on: April 01, 2024, 02:51:22 PM

God no shame dem,e come dey like say na dem dey live well pass.


The simple thing wey dey there be say dem dey cash out with foreign currency na dat one make the thing be like say e dey pay dem well. You know say as the Naira dey fall, if maga pay dem small change and dem go cash am out, the money go make sense. But likewise no be only Yahoo guys dey cash na. For naija, if you get business wey you dey also receive in dollar you too go dey feel the parol wella pass people wey dey government wey inflation dey chop their salary.
313  Economy / Economics / Re: Irresponsible spenders consumes their retirement resources and losses values. on: April 01, 2024, 02:29:28 PM

These are usually the set of persons that says... Had I know and once upon a time during their old ages after they must have spent their retirement resource at their youthful ages and end up being disregarded in the family and looses their influential values around the societies.


This is not totally true or not to be generalized on any body who says stuffs like that at the bars or in other places. Some people say that to disguise themselves among people who don't really know them. Some are big time secret investors that you don't know but they only use such would to make you think of them as foolish people just like you will originally be thinking of people like that. There are big real estate investors that own good number of properties and are into different business that are doing well but yet they could be complaining of bad economy, would we now say the economy is actually affecting them like it is hard on the poor people? So that is the point, it is not all that say that who have not got any investment. But truly if someone has not invested, they wouldn't openly be speaking like that, they may not be taking care of the wife but not the children and they have good investment.

One way you can discern someone who has actually been a good achiever yet saying that is by his dressing and appearance. Sometimes you can tell about a man with his appearance.
314  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Local/Traditional Gambling Spots on: April 01, 2024, 01:57:23 PM

But gone are the days now, no more playing like this on the streets and somewhat you feel lucky that you were able to see this in your lifetime and get to tell your children about how we play before the advent of internet and online gambling.

No I think such kind of game and trash talking with all the euphoria in board game as such that the op mentioned has gone, they still exist. Street gambling both board games or card is not going away despite the internet that has given birth to casino and games in it. Gambling on the street is an age long kind of neighborhood activities, some organise football competition where they stake on it by the participating teams. So it is just not going away.
315  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Local/Traditional Gambling Spots on: April 01, 2024, 11:36:32 AM

The place is characterized by old men gamblers and this board game which we call it in our place, is called draft in the local dialect here, some call it Okwe, and others call it different names in their various languages.


I know this game and it is really brain storming form of game. I think more like chess game. Op you may have represented it in an image to give your post more understanding so that you get more contribution from non Nigerians gamblers too  Grin


I noticed something there, the old men who play this game together always play with fun irrespective of the fact that they gamble, they laugh, talk, and make fun of themselves while they gamble without anyone noticing that they are gambling.


They have rules that they also follow despite it looking like they laugh over the activities on the game. There is some rule they always introduce, "it is called touch and play"   Grin This means if you touch any of the seeds of the game on your side of the board and in the bid to make a move and you see it will amount to a wrong move, you can't change that move, you must have to move it or play it even if it is to your obvious detriment.


Although I have been around them a few times while they play, I never had any idea they gambled. They do that maturely, and you would never understand they do so.


Lol... You probably a newbie watcher. If you have watched them a long time and stay with them to the beginning of the next round and more rounds you must understand that they are staking money. Either there is someone that they are staking with like escrow or they are exchanging money on themselves. Or they are only counting their winning and losses afterwards balancing it and because they are quite mature and friends in the neighborhood, everything is done in peace. Family men those days don't want neighborhood or their children and wife know they are gambling or gamblers  Grin



It is never like this when the young ones are playing that game. They always end up shouting match, fighting and quarreling, and making it obvious to people that they are gamblers, which is not appropriate. At first, the environment where they sit to play the game is very rowdy,


Youth will always behave like they are. It is what it is.


I have also asked them, just as I did to the older men, but the narrative is quite different from what the older man told me. The younger ones are desperate to get the money, which has made them gamble and forget so soon the tenets and principles of gambling.


It is not really about desperate for money, maybe show of juvenile and to make a statement of superiority in the game.


The older men gamble, but maturely, and when they gamble, they make fun of the games played, and in some cases, they correct themselves while playing. Despite the fact that they gamble, they point out lapses and errors their counterparts made while playing, laugh over them, and do not mind if money is involved in the game they play.


Correction is part of the beauty and fun of the game. At this point of correction , the game is temporarily on standstill and probably the most senior and experienced player tries to show what the other player who made the error who have played to outsmart the other players move. Actually, this correction or show of best move after the error was made is not only done by the best or most senior player but any one who saw the move and understood it. However, there can only be such interference if it is permitted depending on the rule adopted by both players or people involved in the game. Usually, when the stake is very high, the rules are very stringent and violation could attract penalty. So it is a very sweet game and the older people respect themselves of course, a father would not want to be disrespected unlike the youth.

 


Have you visited the traditional gambling sport  in your place? How do the traditional gambling games and spots in your country look? Have you gambled the local way?  How was your experience, then?


Sure did gamble on that in the past. Quite a good experience too.
316  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Is lack of proof a problem for you or not? on: April 01, 2024, 08:46:09 AM

Also, in any way, does it bother you if you can't be able to figure it out that the casino is regulated or not?


It should bother you really if you can't immediately confirm if the casino is licensed but you can check the license to know that but have to check the license number to correspond with the board issuing the license. You can also know this by going through the casino review, at least you will see that being discussed. However use casino that has reputation.


Do you think that if all online casinos can tender some proof of being licensed all it reduce scams in online gambling?

Yes it should. If this is made mandatory on casinos by regulatory body or authority then fake casinos out for only scam can't provide that and even if they provide such it will also be verified from the regulatory authority website because they will also have to publish that one their website. So it will go along way to reduce casinos that are not serious and those only there for scamming gamblers.
317  Other / Off-topic / Re: Do not make gambling the only activity you do for fun. on: March 31, 2024, 08:54:47 PM

If you are gambling for fun, It will be better to have many other activities (options) that you can catch fun on, so you do not always have to gamble whenever you think of having fun. 


Can someone really gamble for the fun of it without having emotions attached to it because money is involved.


What do you think?

So down to the point, do people stake money and don't get attached to it? If you have staked money then you are gambling and that has emotion too. So if someone has to have fun purely, you can install some games on your phone or go to game houses where you only watch games. It is difficult to gamble while your emotion is isolated from it.
318  Local / Nigeria (Naija) / Re: Investing or trading with emotions on: March 31, 2024, 06:27:47 PM
The koko wey I pick for wetin op talk na about the emotion. Of course that one too go make us no jump into any suggestion wey dem through to our face to buy this coin or that coin and Omo if you no carry better emotion na so so buy you go dey buy because coins plenty but no be all be better market. Therefore, we go need to dey careful about the suggestion wey we go dey fall back on and know the direction to go, no be to dey gather shit coins say we get coin and at the end e no worth anything.


You know when engaging in the crypto trading over trading is bad, impulsive decisions, lack of rationality, stress and anxiety can cause a lot of issues in crypto trading and more

If we dey buy coins, we need to look at the exchange wey list the coin, the marketcap, utility and some other things then set target of your own so that when e reach there you can peaceful and gainfully exit.
319  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: User experience Trends in Online Gambling: What's Next? on: March 31, 2024, 05:35:48 PM
Basically let it be easy to access regards sign up and login for users. The casino should also make for very fast customer service that respond to issues and complaint, that will help build a customer base where users may also support to direct and resolve minor issues. Also, there is need for casinos to state their KYC requirements clearly on TOS thereby helping to facilitate quick withdrawals.

And also seasonal bonuses for losers based on how much that they have been lost to the casino  Grin, at least this will make the gamblers have the desire to play more with the hope that they could get some bonus perhaps. And this is going to be like a promotion for the casino.
320  Other / Off-topic / Re: Noticing sign of gambling addiction before it gets worst on: March 31, 2024, 02:51:19 PM

Mine is I always check my wallet balance to check my current profit then place a small bet without any reason just to gamble and increase my profit. This makes me gamble frequently because of the greediness to earn more until I become hooked and worst is when I lose everything on a bad day.

You are definitely not the only one in this and this is the way gambling addiction start for every gambler who have not been able to get of their addiction, losing and chasing it back is the debacle as a gambler addict.

Of course if a gambler can see what will befall him in his next game, the falls and failure that will automatically change his course of gambling, he would not want to continue the next game and this is because it starts from there. When you lose, you become restive and sometimes annoyed on your losing probably because you think it was a narrow lose then you want to try next game believing you will succeed. So addiction always starts from pushing too hard to win back.
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