This pathetic and it's unfortunate it has to happen to you and your family. However I'll like to buttress on what @Mk4 said about you getting a job which is the most rightful decision to take based on the urgency of your needs and that of your family you need a steady income flow either weekly or monthly, probably with time when you might have made much to have some for savings for yourself you can later invest in bitcoin, there's always time to invest in bitcoin no time is too late.
I believe you getting a job is equivalent to doing the right thing at the right time in the right direction

Not a bad perspective as it can help op ask one on one questions as simple and quick and get answers directly as they dialogue, but what am scared of in this perspective of learning gambling from a friend is that it will be dangerous as a newbie you are to learn about  gambling and it happens that you're learning it from an addictive gambler with a bad behavioural record in his gambling spendings. So Op be watchful and make sure any friend shouldn't be one that's out of control with his gambling otherwise you will be doing yourself harm than good.

Taking loan to use it for gambling should be viewed as a last option as it's not an option in any sense. Many people have losed their lives due to how they took loan of huge amount to gambling in the hope's that they will win and return the loan money ASAP and keep the benefits win but it turned our bad and when they realized that by all available means possible they can't afford paying back the loan the next thought we commiting suicide to escape the shame. It's something that's happening and it's not sweet to the ear when we hear about these things.

There are casino games that requires great indeptt of mathematical knowledge,  that if the gambler has so much prowess in mathematics he will most often win the house in their own game. And casinos are always suspicious of those accounts.
The ending part of your comment @summonerrk, is nothing but a bitter-truth that in any form it takes the house always has the hedge over the gambler and they will do everything necessarily possible to keep it that way even if it means banning the gambler (who has been constantly winning) from using their site because they see the account  as bad business to the casino.

oh yes almost all gamblers in this forum utilizes the online crypto casino's we have here in the forum as they are easier to reach out to through their an thread in the forum and also being part of the community there's a kind of confident in the gambler about the casino's reputable that it's preferable to use than using those online outside casinos the forum.
I am a lovers of sports bet as that's where my strength lies bases on knowledge about the sport so I usually make use of those casinos that's also have sport bet in their services. In sports betting it's kind of 50)50 for skills and luck combined to get a win that's why I love to play it more than I can seldom play casinos games.

Hello mate take it from me you were not alone in this, we were all together but different geography . You would find it hard to believe that I concentrated on straight win, draws  in the first six months of my sports bet gambling, at most I could go was both team score  (GG). And it went on like this not until a friend saw my ticket and ask why I didn't play other better options, due to my ego of not letting him know I was yet to understand about those other options  I had to tell him I prefer these options and am sure of my predictions.  This mainly was the reason I made a lot of losses in my first phase of starting sport bet gambling so I couldn't help it and decided to be open to my friend and he started putting me through on many options and their meanings. Today I am masterpiece with different options.
@rdluffy, There's no need to be ashamed, anyone can laugh if they want to, one thing for sure is that we were all beginners at different point.

How much time do you have to wait and policing the blockchain network till you see it's reduced in congestion especially when we can't tell for sure at the very time it will decongest. Assuming you have a sports game to bet on like football match and it's to start by the next 30mins, of which some of us don't like betting on live matches. Do you have to continue waiting for the decongestion of the network while time is running out for your games to start?
In my opinion, the use of the lightening network just as other users have suggested is one way out of the high fees. We all knew a time like this will be here as bitcoin price keeps rising so let not act like the situation itook us unexpectedly.

I consider this supposed anonymity to be stressing for someone like me that is  of a good gambling behaviour and still have my elf control intact towards gambling. What if in a situation of a life threatening emergency arising that demands urgent need of money to get things done ASAP - in that case this medium doesn't meet it. Just be self discipline and you are cool with how and when  you wanna spend money. Maybe gamblers suffering from addictive tendency could make use of it and see how they benefits from it, save themself some unscrupulous gambling losses.

If you talk about professionalism in work place then as a worker in a gambling hub you don't even have to step into any gambler's losing or win  situation whether he will accept your advise or not shouldn't be a concern of yours. Interpersonal, that's how you're bond to behave by the work ethics of the sector you are working in. Except you are related to the gambler in person then you can chip in a metaphor of advise but outside of that you don't just go giving your customers words to leave because you felt empathy for their losses.  

The experience varies alot and another thing I've learned over the years is that these emotions mainly erupt when we use the last cash we have to go and gamble, losing it we get agitated thinking of the penury the loss have made of us, but when you see the rich guy gambling he hardly get that emotionally aggressive even after losing reason being that he's conscious of what is left in his bank account and sonhe doesn't have to worry a bit about the loss and it's just a little piece loss. So it will be appropriate people don't go gamble with the last cash in their possession to dodge getting emotional if lost.

Its nice to read about your testimony and tonknow you were able to regain control of the emotional flows. We all have had such experiences as gamblers particularly in the beginning of our gambling when not so much have been gotten about how gambling is all about. I honestly don't care anymore about how much I have lost in the session and that's the strategy I use to not get emotional about thinking how much must have left my pocket instead I just decide I have reached my limit and it's a enough for the day. Was kind of hard to keep up with initially but progressively I have been able not to think of my losses as I do with winning.

That act can dump you into trouble and cost your job, so as a worker be it in metaphor, overtly or directly it is not in your place or position to  entreat a customer to continue or stop from playing. You are violating work ethics and can land you to trouble and you continue do that same customers you think you are cautioning would be the ones to report to management of your actions and you be fired for good.
As an employer any employee that does that is bad for business and is not worthy of employment in that sector.

In the issue of transaction fee I don't throw blame on any exchanger at all as the issue is equally out of their absolute control and just as @ever-young said they have very less or (nothing) to benefit from those fees it's actually the miners that are the benefactor of every transaction fee charged, and I have this feeling within that the fees binance have set for their users depending on the amount you are to transfer is for users to get their transaction quickly completed going by the congestion in the bitcoin network.  I use electrum and I also experiencing the high transfer fees unlike what I use to spend for transaction of a $500 now I have to spend double of that transfer fee if i am in a hurry to get my transaction completed in time.

Of course it's nothing but more bigger losses that awaits gamblers with such gambling culture of lack of control. But reasoning it, it's not that simple to leave gambling after recounting your losses how much you must have lost and at same time having the feeling that you can recover if you can just give it more time. People that are able to leave when they perceive that they are making more losses than they ought to have won are those who still have some coal of self discipline still burning in them, such people can manage to walk away and save themself from bigger loss.

Newcastle united are in a formidable form and will be looking for a second win to maintain there quest for top four position, But I think Everton deserve the point more so it will be a cracker and avoiding relegation will be what Everton team will be looking for so I see Everton wining or draw ,with the genius of there coach reading games within the line. I look out to see luck on Everton's side in winning the match because if it's only by matching form Newcastle is above their level in this game

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E get wetin I don the observe as we enter this month of December, several times I don go bank them the curtail the amount of money Ii gat withdraw from counter and even for ATM machines you go see say many times them go say money no dey even at working time wey bank dey on operation. So I just take style ask one of my friend wey the work for one of the renowned bank for we country as why money no dey always day available for bank recently even for ATM.

She tell me say nah so even them the bank the notice am too say as we the draw near the festive season people no the gree bring money com deposit for bank like before, say in fact , the rate of withdrawal don dey 4x higher than deposit and this thing dey give bank concern, so even the small way dey their disposal them the give out in limits.

So out of concern and curiosity I say make I com here com ask people, if unah the experience same thing with bank withdrawals for your own areas or state abi nah just my own location all this the happen. Abi we wan go back to another cash scarcity as we experience am towards the end of December last year up to march/April this year. Just to stay on the safe side make all man try collect cash hold keep for house in case say things happen the way I dey reason am. Becos it be like other Nigerians don the fear say wetin happen early this year fit happen beginning of next year but I'm different dimension and becos of that them don decide to hold money keep, if this continue much then bank go start do their sufferman nonsense again.

I just hope no be wetin I they think shaa.

Are you fvckin kidding me! You wan dey for river make soap the enter your eyes bros? When the price been dey lower than wetin it be today you no gree buy now the price don rise reach 40k+  you still no dey an buy rather you dey hope say it go drop below again.
Mate make I tell you, onto the next one now nah continuous uptrend bitcoin don enter like this, na gradual leaving of the bear market be this and anything way make you no buy now com the wait na ATH you go, and it will be another miss for you again. So try buy the small amount you can , you must not buy with big money na small small before you know it you don accumulate much with time and na so your profit go follow up as we enter the bull run.

Everyone loses in gambling both the addicts and those that are in control of their gambling lifestyle, losing too much doesn't make you an addict but chasing those losses constantly can gradually make you an addict. Moreso, constant wild gambling can be a symptom of addictive gambling lifestyle when it turn to be a regular pattern of going wild for you and not until you go wild you don't get satisfactory with your gambling for the day, mate that's addiction taking a center stage.

I doubt there are any fanciful difference between the two, they are both bad in their different ways nothing to prefer one over the other. I have also seen drug cracks sell off their valued properties and items in a very cheap prices just to get hign and stay high just because they couldn't hold it when the desire flamed. Worst still hard  drugs destroys the internal organs and system of the body gambling doesn't go that far, it only play with your head. Drugs kills faster than gambling can kill an addictive victim, notwithstanding both deviant ain't anything to prefer one over the other trying to make one seem good when none is in any sense.

The did has been done already no time for the regrets about telling him or not telling, as a good friend you have giving him the advise he needs to get as a grown he has to use his own sense to know when to stop should he start having a bad gamble results. Martingale gambling style isn't a method I will wanna recommend to any gambler the hopes that it raises in an individual is such that you keep believing you will recover by just having a single win which then makes you to comfortably doubling you bets on each one you have lost. I think you should allow him do his thing, he will learn faster through a personal experience and not videos or articles can save him at this junction.