Not completely true that gambling doesn't offer the gambler an opportunity to make money at all. It does offer the opportunity just that the opportunity sharply slim compared to that of losing which is gigantically big in comparison. It is for this reason people who wants to gamble are advise to not treat it as a source of money making but as a form of leisure where the tendency to lose money is far higher than that of winning.

We have had people whose life has been changed by that slim opportunity to make(win) money which gambling offers but it wasn't an act of skill or professionalism but of luck and chance and, just in case you won, count yourself lucky for the opportunity.

Firstly I won't have employed him  if I had known that he is a gambling addict, but for the fact I have him in my payroll already as my employee I don't think I will go on to sack him. Importantly, if he's doing his job as expected and my company is getting the expected results then I have no issues with his private life how he chose to live it.

The only area I could have problems with his  gambling attitude is when his attitude to gambling starts interfering with working hours, company finances, and productivity from his own end of the desk. And if you notice carefully you will see that all of these things or some of these factors will eventually set in one way or the other so far as he's an addict and not just a normal gambler like every other regular responsible gambler.

It's all in the struggle for world power between the BRICS and the West all lobbying for allies to enlarge their camp.

The natural aspect about development is that it doesn't come from outside but rather starts through an internal drive. If a country's domestic economic policies are making developmental waves through programmes and measures that propagates  massive domestic productions in the different sectors of the economy thereby saturating the domestic market (with these goods and services domestically produce) turning the economy from a consumption type to a producing economy.

With such it would increase exportation leading to a decrease of importation since most of the goods/services that were imported before are now being produced within the country. All of this will lead to a less dependant on other countries or foreign organization membership and in turn boost the country's currency value, increase in jobs creation, foreign investment,  for this is how development is achieved and not by just belonging to partnership of wether the West or BRICS. The internal factors of development has to be addressed before all else, everything been equal.

Don't be surprised it could be for related  reasons as this that we probably don't hear much about some of these celebrities again like we used to when they were in their prime in the music industry as debt for the wrong purposes has taken the better part of their financial life.

Technically this hits differently for all strata's, for people like them (Mars & Drake) through one or two concert or shows  they would have gotten the money to cover their debt unlike some of us unpopular gamblers that could barely earn a decent loan amount that's  without stress. What I appreciate for the different class of people is that none is immune to the consequences of addiction when they all gamble the wrong way.

Pardon me please but mehnn you did really had a rough childhood, selling cigarettes and gambling combined. How many classes did you actually miss I am quite sure that there are some persons that have done things more worse than this for bets while growing up, and more interestingly there some of us that did some weird things just because of a girl in school we're into.

Maybe I have done something crazy in all my time of gambling especially in my childhood days with mates but can't recollect any of one of those occasions, but as an adult I remember many times I have had to take long route instead of a short cut route on my way back home just so I can stop at a gambling store along the road to book a bet mostly days I don't feel like gambling online for some personal reasons. I think at some points we tend to carry out some weird actions for the love of something we do and gambling is not excluded in that.

After united played an amazing ball in the few minutes of the game showing some great thrilling performance it was so surprising how Liverpool had to come from behind within a blink of an eye to get an equalizer and in a flash leading the game before half time. it was so electrifying and exciting to see this Klopp side pull such astounding results within a no time. The second half would be really dangerous for Manchester united as Liverpool would come in with a  much striking confident to score more goals and take a win back home.

I am fascinated with the gradual improvement with the Chelsea boys only that they haven't shown enough promising improvement with the conversion of goal chances to the back of the net in many events, and if they can make a great change in their finishing then there are games they will have to win right from the first 45 minutes of the game with no much stressing at the second. Another weakness within the team is the style of substitution by the coach Pochettino his style of changes has been really poor in recent games just like today taking off Mudryk from the pitch instead of Sterling who wasn't really in the game today and these mistake has always changed the narrative of the some of Chelsea's games thereby affecting results.


This Manchester united vs Liverpool game is giving me everything I look forward to this weekend in terms of the fun am getting from both sides, United has continued to the keep the paces whereas Liverpool are being more adventurous to making sure they get an equalizer before the end of the first half, a show of determination from both teams and despite it's Manchester united that's leading with a goal it's still daisy on who's going to eventually win this game. What a weekend!

I do gamble on several occasions but I don't mince my resting time with gambling I know it's not good because it's only one of many signs of gambling addiction. Never at a time should we make the mistake of giving up the time that is resourceful to our source of income to spend it on gambling as it would affect our productivity to work, perhaps also putting our job security at risk for an activity as gambling that is not reliable.

I don't like panicking while gambling because it doesn't make you stable to make better choices with your predictions in the case of sports games, and it doesn't make sense that I should not be enjoying an activity I was supposed to be enjoying just because am doing it at the wrong time and don't have much time to engage in it as should at a much free time.

There are phenomenal conditions that could make some people's perspective towards self examination in gambling as nothing of any use to them. Take for example,  society's that living conditions in that society are very poor and gamblers under that setting get hold of gambling as a means to make money which could in turn change their conditions for a better by the money that may be won through their constant gambling.

 This fixation to making a win at all cost to better their life could be a hindrance to give heed to the necessity for self examination of their gambling life to withdraw a bit from how they constantly gamble in a way that seem as though their future depends on it maybe due to how other factors are not resulting favourable to them. But still I'll emphatically say that making time for self examining would do more good to such people than the opposite.

I do feel sorry for him whenever the thought of how severally injuries has made him missed a couple games this season and how he has to battle with picking and keeping back to form after each return which is in extension putting the future of his career at risk if he would be able to stay for a long career in football in the likes of Pepe (Porto) age 41  and Cr7 age 39 yet still in active football. And here's a young man of age 32 but always prone to injury after another or perhaps it could be as a result of too much work load expected on him (from both fans and coach) to always deliver in the midfield position whenever he's available.

It is with no doubt that his absence will have a huge effect on Manchester City's team when they meet the Spanish side Real Madrid in the champions league and also in the EPL but Gardiola has always been that exceptional coach who will always find a way out to keep his team still in force and in winning ways while they awaiting for De Bruyne's return.

Not just you mate, many other gamblers won't do it and it could be considered to be a waste of time in doing that when the game gambling is not about how much time you take to learn about it that determines how often or consistently your winnings will be coming in but basically  determined by chance if you will win or lose.

Furthermore, sports betting shouldn't be that had for a pure beginning in as much as he has some ideas about the team's and the rules of play in that particular sport he's interested in making his predictions on for a bet. Football for instance, as a football fan you don't need be told a team like Manchester City is with high chances of winning a team like Aston Villa in a match, it's just for you to go ahead with a straight win for Man. City and that's how it begins down to other gambling options as you proceed. Right?

Big or small bankrolls I think all of that doesn't really matter with casino's reputation being put in check. And could only create some kind of intimidation among casinos between those of small bankrolls and those of large amount of bankroll.

On the other hand, some dubious unsuspecting casino's (mostly new ones that are just emerging) could use their size of bankroll to cover for being able to potentially keep a good reputation by coming into the market with a heavy bankroll that may drive in large attraction just to end up scamming the unsuspecting users.

So this is what I think about making bankrolls public by casinos, it should be at the casino's discretion and not under any enforcement laws that generally demands of it in order to avoid the above.

It's very sad news to me that such a magical player would be on the sidelines continuously due to injuries, it's because of players him we the neutral fan go to the stadium just for us to see some of his magical passes, and his absence is always felt in this Manchester City side, and I am quite sure that arsenal will be licking their mouth in excitement for his absence in their upcoming premier league encounter at the Etihad, but as for that tie, it's really going to be a fascinating encounter between the two, it's an open tie and it can go either sides.

It's not a surprise to me that Arsenal can't keep  up to it high level of performance in the champions league, because the championships league have it own added pressure, and secondly, this arsenal team lack experience especially in the champions league, so it's quite normal that they weren't able to dominate fc Porto completely, especially in the second leg.

Another thing about this arsenal team is that, they aren't physical enough in that encounter between Porto, they really struggled in that aspect, congratulations anyway to them for progressing via penalties, but I think that lack of experience will cost them in this season's champions League as they face Bayern Munich in the next round.

The economic hardship in the country we have times without number blamed it on the politicians that are in charge of the allocation of resources (don't get me wrong about what I want to say, am no way exonerating them either on this) but imagine where all the marketers/businesses men/women have now without conscience are poised to make  an extra 3 times gain of whatever item they are selling out there

and to them they fill it's an opportunity to make profit thereby causing an artificial economic hardship that could be avoided if all decides to make at least a 10-15% gain in whatever items they are selling. But because the institutions responsible for price control has failed in it's duties the market men and women has jump on the crude opportunity to pillage the people forgotten that what goes around comes around.

Days ago, a fellow Nigeria was complaining on X about his ordeal with a sachet water seller that took the opportunity of his car breaking down along the Lagos mainland bridge due to overheating, and he called on the sachet water seller to  get him about 10 sachet of water thereabout so he could pour into his radiator (engine cooling)  the young lad sold each sachet for #50 which was not supposed to be so but the car owner had no option but to buy at that price due to his state at the moment (and this is same in all other commodities). Now the young lad will go home feeling he had made a profitable business for the day but that's bad and exploitative business.

This is exactly the nature of things now in the country,  the prices of alot of goods and services are outrageously inflated by the business men and women when the actual price has gone anywhere near what they are selling at, and we all keep blaming the government when we are our problem in the first place. This is all greed. On the other hand I blame the government because they are failing on their mandate to judiciously enforce the legitimate coercive use of force through it's appropriate price regulatory agency in all of these happenings.

I don't know or understand anymore where we're going again. Only time will tell.

love the caption " Sometimes lose always win", it would help serve as a reminder on your domain to users that gambling isn't herculean affair and the battle should be all about winning not considering that losing is also an inevitable part of gambling too. In extension I see you guys also takes responsible gambling into consideration.

Will be fascinating to have you run a signature campaign in the community through the assistant of one of the many esteemed and excellent campaign managers we have in the forum. However, I'll suggest your team to endeavor to devote to a long campaign promotion as it's with much effective results than a very short while aig campaign projects we have seen here in the community.
 
Joining other to say welcome, wishing you a productive business time here.

I read some preceding comments from other members and I just smiled because I can perceive that some of them are just trying to be economical with the truth of the matter when they argue that they will at all times bet in favour of their team even when the team has no chance of winning the game, and this is very misleading to even think about it.

 Imagine me feeling sad for losing my money and also bearing a loss from my favourite loving team. Oh man, it's best I avoid the avoidable by just watching the game and exchanging the banters from opponent fans as a show of love for my team than including money to it.

People that depends on predictions from prediction sites are usually those with limited knowledge about the sport they show interest in betting on and I have witnessed a lot of gamblers attest to this and with time they get broad insight about the sport and start doing the predictions gradually on their own with a few additions from prediction sites.

What makes some group of gamblers to have much confidence on prediction sites games  over theirs is due to the common believe that those games from prediction sites are been done by professionals in the industry but the truth is that gambling been a game of chance, no prediction is 100% accurate except it's a fixed match which is also very rare though.

I mainly stick to my own predictions more often than predictions sites, that's because I believe in my ability to do a better judgement on it and I have had more wins with my own predictions than I have had with those of prediction sites. There are times I had to merge my predictions with those of prediction sites and it happens that it's the prediction sites games that usually kills my bet. Which is why I don't take prediction sites games  serious than I do with those games I predict myself.

To be sincere I can't do no such thing with my money all in the name of the love of my football club. I can always give that moral support even when it's obvious they are going to lose the game but it won't go beyond moral to financial in my gambling for or against them.

Loving my favourite team so much would either mean I don't bet against them at all, instead of me betting in their favour in game's I know they are going to lose. The whole idea is that it's going to be a wasteful of funds and no one that has value for money will be comfortable wasting it knowingly.

Something about economic growth is that every government who want to drive the growth of it's economy to be competitive must first and foremost create an enabling environment that is insecurity free and conducive for both local and foreign investment to thrive. The insecurities and the economic downturn the Nigeria economy is facing today is as a result of the lack of the deliverables of social welfares and amenities, as it has always been so much promises with nothing to show off, at different levels of government it has always been more of politics than good governance  and over the years it has constantly reverberate negatively on the country's economy.

I think if in every general elections we are a concerned citizens can be able to deliver on our mandate to vote in good leadership's in all level's of the government no matter how little the number might be in each election's we can gradually have the good taking over the corrupt politicians which will immensely affect our economic growth based on their good leadership policies and programmes just as we can see in some of the states like Abia, Rivers, and the Niger Op made mentioned of.