Moderation is surely vital. I think gambling could still be fun when you’re married and rich. If you’re an individual who finds gambling fun when single, you could still indulge in the activity when you get married provided you strictly moderate your time indulging in such activities.

Also, if you’ve got enough money to comfortably afford to put some away to gamble whenever you want to, then money problems won’t pop up. With a lot of frequent gamblers, issues with money seems to be a common theme so as an individual who’s married and has the means to still comfortably afford his gambling lifestyle, then I don’t see how it could affect the relationship.
We’ve just got to be responsible with our activities most especially when you want to settle down.

I’ve always thought with an addiction, gambling or some other habit could most likely bring financial problems. Cause when addicted to a particular activity, that activity would be foremost on your mind all day and you’ll spend whatever it may take to indulge in that activity.

With Michael Jordan, although he gambles, i don’t think he’s an addicted gambler. Although he gambles frequently, he doesn’t dedicate all his time and resources to gambling and he still has the money to take care of his and the family wants and needs. With a gambling addiction, money problems usually creeps up. In this case, it’s not likely to happen.
Michael Jordan is a frequent gambler and not an addicted one.

At a glance, one could think it’s all fun and jokes and it could very well be. But these are jokes that subconsciously, we go on to do in reality.
Gambling just on weekends like you lot seem to do is quite safe and not necessarily an addiction. But what your mate posted is pushing it. He may not have been the person who wrote that but he seem to agree on what was being said.
For some irresponsible gamblers, that could be more motivation to play more than ever as your big win is supposedly around the corner. Taking loans to continue playing and ultimately falling into financial difficulties.

I can understand what you mean here. It can be stressful watching a game that you’ve placed some good money on a bet and the side you bet on doesn’t seem to want the win that badly and are playing poorly.
I sometimes, think it’s not necessary to get worked up over matches that I’ve placed bets on and skip watching such games. It’s better not to watch such games and just check the outcome later on.
Matches that I placed bets using a considerable amount of money, it’s sometimes much easier for me and my heart not to watch it. It’s not really fun watching the side you bet heavily on play and go on to lose.

I sometimes think along the same lines as you do. Sometimes, I’m skeptical of the outcomes of some bet slips showing big wins I come across on social media.
It’s possible that a lot of these are fakes just chasing clout and trying to get some attention online of being a successful person that plays and wins big. In a lot of cases, these big wins are consistent too that I had thoughts of all that being some sort of scam thats out to get gamblers to part with their money.
A whole bunch of scams and fakes are out there online. Getting harder to differentiate made up stores from the real ones.

In a way, you’re right. People who are aware and fully understand probability won’t necessarily fall into addiction. There is great awareness that the game could go either way and you could lose as well as have a win.
I don’t think we’re taught about the possibility of wining big with gambling. But the success stories of numerous people over the years who have played and won big with gambling. Those big wins won by other people is motivation enough for others to continue having high hopes of winning theirs. The more success stories they hear, the more motivated they become. He probably won’t be aware of the accumulated amount of money lost during the quest to win big.

I think it’s a thing to be concerned about as match fixing is just not okay. After doing some vigorous work doing some research, it would end up being a fixed match making people losing out on their legit bets. Obviously, there are going to be winners as well in a fixed game. Winners who had no idea the game was fixed but still won.

But it’s never a good thing to try and manipulate the outcome of a sporting event. It takes away the fun out of it and if repeatedly done, the event becomes uninteresting and would gradually lose viewers.

I don’t think there’s any most common form of gambling that people get addicted to. People have different opinions and preferences when it comes to gambling as they may prefer one over the other. And as I don’t think there’s anyone keeping tabs on the number and rate of addicts from the various forms of gambling.
And as there’s no solid data available(that I know of) that could point out to a significant number of addicts on a form of gambling over the others and even if a data of some sort exists, I would doubt it’s accuracy as you definitely cannot get the right information about the number of addicts amongst the several forms of gambling.

I don’t think there’s any high level nor low levels of luck in gambling or in anything. When you’re lucky, you’re lucky. Making a bet and winning a large sum of money doesn’t lie with luck alone.
You won’t place bets with $5 and with just luck, expect you’re going to win $50 million. You’ve got to also place bets with a big amount to win an even bigger amount of money.
That’s why a high stake gambler who win huge amounts of money most likely play with an equally big amount. And if lucky, the gambler comes out with an eye popping amount as his winnings.

Piracy cannot in any way I can think of contribute to the economy of the society or the country in general. It doesn’t contribute anything, rather the economy of the country constantly takes several hits due to piracy.

You rightly noted that we always have a choice. We also know what’s right and what’s wrong. Hijacking vessels and holding crew members for ransom money is outrightly wrong, morally and legally. And choosing to indulge in kidnapping is acceptable of the repercussions when caught.

When a ship route is notoriously plagued by pirates, no captain would be willing to risk the life of his crew members and wouldn’t take up any task that would involve sailing to that area. That area would lose business and would be more expensive for the local merchants as they would have to pay more in travel expenses.

Some people don’t see/think far ahead to see how piracy would affect their economy or are too selfish to care cause they’re benefiting themselves.

It seems you’ve got the will, the enthusiasm and the ability to be a blogger. I think for you to want to be a blogger, you must love to read, understand and also write. That’s if you want to write something interesting and intelligent enough.
I don’t really think you need a mentor or you want to start off as a blogger. You mentioned you’ve been watching YouTube videos and I think you can find all the tips you would ever need over there on YouTube.

You’re at an advantage as you’re a member on this forum as you can get top notch content and information about anything relating to bitcoin making your blog hopefully in the not so distant future, one of the place to go to for information about latest news concerning bitcoin.
Success on your endeavors.

It may be seem better to be an employer of labour yourself than to work for someone else and rightly so as having employees work under him, the employer works on his own time.
But not everyone can possibly be an employer of labour as it’s not everyone that’s cut out to be employers. It’s no easy feat starting and running a business as a good number of people lack managerial skills and work best being instructed on what to do.

With a government  that fails to plan, a rise in population could lead to a rise in unemployment numbers and also taking into consideration that there are people not willing to work and would prefer to rely on government handouts.
Any business that’s just starting up and finding its feet needs a lot of capital. You’ll be competing with already established businesses and would face a lot out challenges which would require money.

The shorter the time spent playing in the casinos, the better for your pockets. It doesn’t mean time has anything to do whether a gambler wins or loses, It means the shorter the time spent in the casinos, the less you would be tempted in spending and playing some more.
Obviously, someone can win and lose huge amounts in a short period of time. But after winning or losing such huge amounts, it would be best to stop and head home but some would instead hang around and later get tempted in withdrawing some more money in order to continue playing. Much better for your pockets if you can limit your stay at the casinos.

It’s a good thing then that you’ve seen the error of your ways and have made some positive changes. Most addicts do not have their eyes open to the reality that they’re addicts and would get angry and confrontational at anyone who is close enough to tell them the truth.
You’ve opened your mind to actually having a gambling problem and that’s when you became open to changing your lifestyle. Gambling may for a large part be a game of luck but there is certainly strategy and discipline involved.

I couldn’t agree more. It would be full of spam and irrelevant information. All the advise one would ever need against irresponsible gambling has been already posted on here. People just need to search and read the numerous threads in various topics concerning irresponsible gambling.
Asides all of that, even if there were to be a thread concerning all these, a lot old people could ignore the sub board as they’ve ignored these threads stating more or less the same thing.

Yeah, I thought so too. Liverpool seemed to be the stronger of the two and was predicted to win by a lot of people. But that isn’t the case now. Presently, Liverpool is losing to their opponents, USG. The score line stands at 1:2 with USG having a slim lead. Having had one of their recent attempt and goal disallowed due to a foul(handball), USG would have been leading by two goals.
USG doesn’t seem to relent on their attacks as they’re making more attempts to score another goal. The home crowd cheering them would be quite motivating.

Reliability, in my opinion is a characteristic of an earned income. You expect to be paid for your services at a certain date. It’s not at all relevant if the management of the company is late to pay. They may be late to pay but it’s certain you’re going to get paid for your services.
Business clients paying you late for your business are issues that may arise in business. Along with bad debts.

With gambling, there is no certainty that you’re going win after placing a bet. You haven’t any guarantee you’re going to win and the probability of losing your money is higher. What you’ve got is hope of a win and hope won’t pay your bills nor will it put some food on your table.

If at certain times, your money gets deducted from your account and no one can give you a refund nor a reasonable explanation on what happened, I don’t know what banking services you do use, I do know you need to change your bank.
Saving your money in the bank is not necessarily a waste. It’s being kept safely for you although overtime, the value decreases as inflation in the economy continues to bite harder.

Perhaps you would prefer having your money with you at home and open to theft and other unforeseen disasters since it’s a waste of opportunities keeping them in the bank.

Even if your request is granted and a sub board created for people to learn how to be more responsible in gambling. A lot of people won’t read it and for those who do, won’t heed to its advice and warnings.
They’ve been hundreds of threads on the gambling board talking about responsible gambling as well as stories of how irresponsible gambling can wreck someone’s life.

Just today, I read a thread about someone who took his life after gambling and losing some money. There are threads like those detailing real tales of different individuals. If they can’t read these threads, can we count on them to read it on a sub board?

If gambling addicts are true and honest with themselves about being addicted, that’s the first step in the journey to get better. Admitting to an addiction problem is the first step in gaining treatment for an addiction. It’s not that easy for someone to openly admit that they’re addicted. Opening up signifies readiness for change and would get him the proper care and guidance he may need.

For an individual that’s already addicted to gambling, stopping gambling for a while is easier said than done. With an addiction, you’re already hooked and fighting hard to get a grip on how much time spent indulging in the habit.
Constant care, attention and encouragement is needed for one to get over and heal from any addiction.