How do you understand entertainment?

[Accardo]

According to Wikipedia  "Entertainment is a form of activity that holds the attention and interest of an audience or gives pleasure and delight. It can be an idea or a task, but it is more likely to be one of the activities or events that have developed over thousands of years specifically for the purpose of keeping an audience's attention." So in this case gambling if you have the form of interest and gives you a pleasure than it consider as entertainment and you might consider gambling is for fun

Entertainment goes along with the purpose that leads to fun. Football is not completely fun without dribbling, scoring, red card, and most of all, the loudest noise of “goal" those are few purposes that makes a football match fun to watch. In gambling the purpose of having fun in a casino also consists of multiple factors, but this time it's personal. Gamblers who wager on football matches don't get the fun when they lose the game. Some even get emotional about their losses.

But, in all, money is one thing that makes gambling fun for a lot of people. Other personal purpose may include trying out luck and being amongst other players. However, entertainment is pleasure and sadness, if it has to do with competition. So, only a set of gamblers gets complete pleasure when gambling. And that's those who don't see it as a competition. Whenever a player begin to think he's competing with the house, then you'd see he'd get entertained with both pleasure and sadness.

[ethereumhunter]

We tend to find entertainment in gambling in our own ways, and that's what make the fun more colourful. Some person like slot game because it's easy to make predictions by just guessing. But I love sport gambling because it also involves you to associate in watching the games to be able to make your own analysis and predictions that guarantees more fun and excitement whenever you win a bet. You could even play among yourselves using any card game or dice and get the best from the moment. Gambling is fun when you don't add addiction into the process spending above your limits will only make you regret gambling in the first place so I urge you Al to gamble responsible.

Actually, we can find entertainment from other things to avoids the lose of the money from playing gambling. But we wants a challenge that can also gives us the wins for some money and that's why we keeps playing gambling and even many gamblers use more money to playing gambling. If we can still limits our money, that will be good because we will not face the big lose but we always use limitation when playing gambling. The excitements in gambling will change into lose more money, especially if we forget that gambling is part of entertainment.

When you can understand the meaning of entertainment in gambling, you will not try to breaks your limits because that can makes you lose more money. You will always use limitation because you know that gambling can gives entertainment to you but gambling can also gives you the lose that can becomes bigger if you forget to limits your money.

[EarnOnVictor]

In the topic of gambling, I often see the word "entertainment". Nevertheless, each user means some meaning by this. Many people believe that entertainment is the main driving force of any gambling. And many even believe that entertainment is a much more physiological need than, for example, a desire to get rich. If you initially set yourself the goal only to have fun, and limit the amount that you are ready to take a chance, then you play for the sake of entertainment, and not because of the thirst for profit. You risk less. But if you ask you what entertainment is for you, then this question will be at a dead end. They do not know what entertainment is. Wikipedia writes that this is activity for pleasure.
 But I see in this a certain cognitive activity, only with poorly formulated goals. For example, you play in order to understand the laws of the game over time and learn to win more often.
 Or maybe entertainment for you is something else?

I know where you are driving towards but it is not particularly true, it is relative as well. In my wide understanding of how entertainment has been widely used in this forum, I can say that some would surely fake it, but still, many others will say the truth about it. However, one thing I am sure of is that all gamblers cannot gamble solely for the money. Even if the majority gambles for the money, some may just like to gamble for the fun part which is what people at times term entertainment, and the money involvement may make it more exciting than just playing games to some people.

I tell you that I fall into this category as far as the casino section of gambling is concerned and I know other few gamblers in this category as well, so it is real regardless of your take about it, individuality varies. Also, many people gambling are comfortable with their finances and will never let gambling push them in a way, and even if they make a mistake at times, they quickly retrace their steps in it so that they will not repeat it. These are gamblers who are not in mainly for the money because they are comfortable, so gambling for the sake of the money to be made that often infest people will not have dominion over them.

As for the Wiki's meaning, it is right, and perhaps, people should rather change that Entertainment to Fun. Fun is the term I mostly use in this regard for it is more appropriate. And truly, you can have Fun gambling, but ensure that you gamble with a ridiculously low amount of money if you are truly sure you want to gamble for Fun, otherwise, gambling will ruin your day.

[kotajikikox]

For me, entertainment in gambling is when you see the slots spinning in all colors that you can see and the music and the performances in the casino, entertainment is something that should make you happy and reduce your stress. Regarding the main driving force, I really don't believe that's the truth because you're really gambling for fun? Why not just waste your time on games that don't require you to waste your money too?

Looks like we are the same though I am in roulette mate,I love watching the ball running into each boxes/numbers to distinguish which will win and the most entertaining part?is when it stopped at Zero because thats the number that I constantybetting even if it comes out rarely

[fullhdpixel]

Let's face this at face value, usually when it comes to the word "entertainment" in gambling ...usually this means not taking gambling to heart such that when you lose one get's suicidal or trying to cause body harm to oneself.... We all know the primary goal of course when it comes to gambling is make money, but the journey should be treated as fun &games( entertainment) if you win be happy, if you lose then laugh about it and get on with life.

The primary goal is not to earn money for people who consider gambling a source of entertainment, the goal is to make money for those who consider gambling a way to earn money which it isn't. So, those who have a wrong mindset about gambling will eventually face negative consequences for their mindset because they aren't supposed to think that gambling can make them money because gambling can only make money for its creators.

So, those who consider gambling a way to have fun should never have the aim of earning money from it, they should have a budget allocated for them to have some fun and if they manage to win something out of luck, they should consider it a bonus and use that in another gambling session.

[TheUltraElite]

The neurohormonal rush that happens on gambling is something that addicted gamblers crave for. This is what drives gamblers and this is what the "fun" part comes from. It is an addiction, no doubt, but if kept under control it can be fun without having to get frustrated over the losses, which will most definitely come.

The best thing is to not gamble, but that is impossible for the gamblers to do in a single day. So the point is to reduce the  amount spent with any objective of making money from it and bring it to a fun level with the money being paid as cost of entertainment.

[Jody.Drummer]

We tend to find entertainment in gambling in our own ways, and that's what make the fun more colourful. Some person like slot game because it's easy to make predictions by just guessing. But I love sport gambling because it also involves you to associate in watching the games to be able to make your own analysis and predictions that guarantees more fun and excitement whenever you win a bet. You could even play among yourselves using any card game or dice and get the best from the moment. Gambling is fun when you don't add addiction into the process spending above your limits will only make you regret gambling in the first place so I urge you Al to gamble responsible.

Actually, we can find entertainment from other things to avoids the lose of the money from playing gambling. But we wants a challenge that can also gives us the wins for some money and that's why we keeps playing gambling and even many gamblers use more money to playing gambling. If we can still limits our money, that will be good because we will not face the big lose but we always use limitation when playing gambling. The excitements in gambling will change into lose more money, especially if we forget that gambling is part of entertainment.

When you can understand the meaning of entertainment in gambling, you will not try to breaks your limits because that can makes you lose more money. You will always use limitation because you know that gambling can gives entertainment to you but gambling can also gives you the lose that can becomes bigger if you forget to limits your money.

That's right, it's exactly right that there are actually quite a lot of other activities that can give us entertainment and fun without involving risk in it, you can do anything, play online games without risk or go on holiday or gym or other things. But on the other hand, I also understand that everyone has their own wishes about which one they will choose, where gambling is one of the possibilities they will choose, and actually it doesn't matter if you really want to choose gambling as long as you have to be really firm. with your intention that you come just to look for entertainment to fill your free time without placing excessive hopes on winning, because by only bringing entertainment as a goal, I am sure you will avoid various bad possibilities.

But if, for example, you treat gambling in the wrong way, which tends to be excessive without imposing any limits on the amount of budget and time involved, then of course there is a definite possibility that something bad will happen to you. And as you said it is true that a gambler must first understand what entertainment means, because in gambling it is very possible for entertainment and pleasure to turn into tension along with some pressure when a gambler loses direction and is dominated by emotions, and the point is that gambling is just will be able to provide entertainment and pleasure when done without any excessive elements.

[JMBitcointernational]

In the topic of gambling, I often see the word "entertainment". Nevertheless, each user means some meaning by this. Many people believe that entertainment is the main driving force of any gambling. And many even believe that entertainment is a much more physiological need than, for example, a desire to get rich. If you initially set yourself the goal only to have fun, and limit the amount that you are ready to take a chance, then you play for the sake of entertainment, and not because of the thirst for profit. You risk less. But if you ask you what entertainment is for you, then this question will be at a dead end. They do not know what entertainment is. Wikipedia writes that this is activity for pleasure.
 But I see in this a certain cognitive activity, only with poorly formulated goals. For example, you play in order to understand the laws of the game over time and learn to win more often.
 Or maybe entertainment for you is something else?

It's quite obvious from your explanation that entertainment can mean different thing to different people depending on the angle the person views it from. Some people might see entertainment as the only reason why they gamble and that is why it is often used here because once you are having fun you are automatically being entertained, however, from my own view i will see entertainment here as the joy that we derived in spending our time to gamble with friends. collectively people are seen in another mood when it comes to gambling because they are very obsessed with fun each time that they gamble, anything that makes you happy is quite entertaining, and that is why different people with different notion of entertainment because some are entertained with comedies, some are also entertained by watching home movies while whole lots of people are entertained by gambling.

[slapper]

We tend to find entertainment in gambling in our own ways, and that's what make the fun more colourful. Some person like slot game because it's easy to make predictions by just guessing. But I love sport gambling because it also involves you to associate in watching the games to be able to make your own analysis and predictions that guarantees more fun and excitement whenever you win a bet. You could even play among yourselves using any card game or dice and get the best from the moment. Gambling is fun when you don't add addiction into the process spending above your limits will only make you regret gambling in the first place so I urge you Al to gamble responsible.

Actually, we can find entertainment from other things to avoids the lose of the money from playing gambling. But we wants a challenge that can also gives us the wins for some money and that's why we keeps playing gambling and even many gamblers use more money to playing gambling. If we can still limits our money, that will be good because we will not face the big lose but we always use limitation when playing gambling. The excitements in gambling will change into lose more money, especially if we forget that gambling is part of entertainment.

When you can understand the meaning of entertainment in gambling, you will not try to breaks your limits because that can makes you lose more money. You will always use limitation because you know that gambling can gives entertainment to you but gambling can also gives you the lose that can becomes bigger if you forget to limits your money.

That's right, it's exactly right that there are actually quite a lot of other activities that can give us entertainment and fun without involving risk in it, you can do anything, play online games without risk or go on holiday or gym or other things. But on the other hand, I also understand that everyone has their own wishes about which one they will choose, where gambling is one of the possibilities they will choose, and actually it doesn't matter if you really want to choose gambling as long as you have to be really firm. with your intention that you come just to look for entertainment to fill your free time without placing excessive hopes on winning, because by only bringing entertainment as a goal, I am sure you will avoid various bad possibilities.

But if, for example, you treat gambling in the wrong way, which tends to be excessive without imposing any limits on the amount of budget and time involved, then of course there is a definite possibility that something bad will happen to you. And as you said it is true that a gambler must first understand what entertainment means, because in gambling it is very possible for entertainment and pleasure to turn into tension along with some pressure when a gambler loses direction and is dominated by emotions, and the point is that gambling is just will be able to provide entertainment and pleasure when done without any excessive elements.

Gambling? It's not the devil; it's not your best buddy either.  It's a game, hence like any game, it has rules. Know 'em, respect 'em, or get your ass handed to you. The secret in this is self-awareness. Are you doing this for the rush, the excitement, the fun? Excellent. Still, impose constraints. Before you ever begin, figure out how much you are ready to lose. You are already on a steep slope if you are hunting losses

The house has an edge always. Don't get it twisted; their business is not losing. Still, you can have fun even if you don't win large. It's about appreciating the journey rather than only the end point. Don't let it consume you; avoid becoming caught in it. You already lost if you cannot leave

[Moeda]

In the topic of gambling, I often see the word "entertainment".
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 Or maybe entertainment for you is something else?

If you come to a gambling place, you will definitely find other entertainment besides gambling. Gambling and entertainment are one part of the same thing that cannot be separated. So what is the reason why gambling is aimed at entertainment? I see this as self-encouragement, so that he will forget all the losses that have occurred.

[0t3p0t]

In the topic of gambling, I often see the word "entertainment". Nevertheless, each user means some meaning by this. Many people believe that entertainment is the main driving force of any gambling. And many even believe that entertainment is a much more physiological need than, for example, a desire to get rich. If you initially set yourself the goal only to have fun, and limit the amount that you are ready to take a chance, then you play for the sake of entertainment, and not because of the thirst for profit. You risk less. But if you ask you what entertainment is for you, then this question will be at a dead end. They do not know what entertainment is. Wikipedia writes that this is activity for pleasure.
 But I see in this a certain cognitive activity, only with poorly formulated goals. For example, you play in order to understand the laws of the game over time and learn to win more often.
 Or maybe entertainment for you is something else?

For me entertainment in gambling makes my free time enjoyable in short is pastime. I think the meaning of it will all be the same if not then I don't know what is. Your example is a trial and error for something you wanted on your advantage in the long run so that is not a form of intertainment for me because you intentionally spend time to learn on something as for me it is a more serious thing than having fun.

[LUCKMCFLY]

What happens to me most of the time while gambling is that after winning big I can't cash out because I get too greedy while gambling. Due to excessive greed I lose all money in gambling. I know gambling is a bad addiction.  I have lost a lot of money due to gambling. But now I have controlled myself and prepared to gamble. When I spend extra time on gambling that is when I get addicted to gambling. So I always try to gamble less time.

I think that for that you have to set goals for yourself, that is to say when you are in a casino and you have and are looking for profits you should think about a moment, let's say you make 200usd, if you reach those 200usd you have to take them out, you can't just stay there to look for more, just withdraw them and if you want you can keep playing but with less money, and if you lose that little bit of money you quit and come back another day, or you can do it in another game session, that is the most advisable, if you do that little by little you will have enough discipline to control that Desire to keep trying and trying, remember that in a casino the most important thing is money and without money in a casino we are nothing.

[entertheabyss]

For me, entertainment in gambling is when you see the slots spinning in all colors that you can see and the music and the performances in the casino, entertainment is something that should make you happy and reduce your stress. Regarding the main driving force, I really don't believe that's the truth because you're really gambling for fun? Why not just waste your time on games that don't require you to waste your money too?

No more wasting time on the activities that will bring sadness in our hearts, we crave for happiness in all rounds. Entertainment is probably the activities that ease our pains and stress free. We tend to have entertaining activities atleast to ease up the bad day experience in gambling, remember we're only humans and not perfect but we do try our best to stick to growth and ensure we learn everything solidable on our way.

[ethereumhunter]

That's right, it's exactly right that there are actually quite a lot of other activities that can give us entertainment and fun without involving risk in it, you can do anything, play online games without risk or go on holiday or gym or other things. But on the other hand, I also understand that everyone has their own wishes about which one they will choose, where gambling is one of the possibilities they will choose, and actually it doesn't matter if you really want to choose gambling as long as you have to be really firm. with your intention that you come just to look for entertainment to fill your free time without placing excessive hopes on winning, because by only bringing entertainment as a goal, I am sure you will avoid various bad possibilities.

But if, for example, you treat gambling in the wrong way, which tends to be excessive without imposing any limits on the amount of budget and time involved, then of course there is a definite possibility that something bad will happen to you. And as you said it is true that a gambler must first understand what entertainment means, because in gambling it is very possible for entertainment and pleasure to turn into tension along with some pressure when a gambler loses direction and is dominated by emotions, and the point is that gambling is just will be able to provide entertainment and pleasure when done without any excessive elements.

If we can select the right entertainment, we will gets fun and will not just spends our money without gets fun in the end. We can feels the excitement when do that so we will not lose our money without we can gets something benefits to us. If we go to gym, we can exercise our body and gets healthy so we are not waste our time but we will gets benefits to that. It's about how we can use our spare time to gets entertainment and with so many things that we can do in our spare time, that can improve ourselves to have a better life. We don't have to playing gambling, especially if we knows that can makes us addicted to gambling but we can use the other things to have fun and that will be positive things that we can gets.

If we wants to playing gambling, we must limits ourselves especially in time and money because gambling can makes us forget everything that we must do. Gamblers must use gambling as a fun things and not gets deeper in gambling to avoids the addiction that already comes to many gamblers. We must take care of ourselves when playing gambling because gambling can tempts us easily without we realizes and if that happens, we will getting deeper in gambling without we knows how to stops from playing gambling. That can makes us lose more and more money but we will have no big chance to make money from gambling.

[Mrbluntzy]

If you initially set yourself the goal only to have fun, and limit the amount that you are ready to take a chance, then you play for the sake of entertainment, and not because of the thirst for profit. You risk less. But if you ask you what entertainment is for you, then this question will be at a dead end. They do not know what entertainment is. Wikipedia writes that this is activity for pleasure.
 
 Or maybe entertainment for you is something else?

I love the phrase that was used there because when a gambling is questioning the entertainment that they will get from gambling, @OP permit me to use your word that it's a dead end question. If the gambler is also seeing gambler as a means to enrich himself and expand his wealth, let him ask himself how long he has been gambling and why have he not become rich already? Gambling did not start in my eyes and the early man an woman that started gambling did not inform us that we can that everyone can become rich through gambling, they said that only the lucky people  were able to get rich through gambling.