is gambling fix your life? or wreck your life?

[98problems]

if you are playing only on sportsbooks i am pretty sure it can fix your life as there are a lot of sports tipsters who make money from investments and so on but if you play casino you will get bust

[Cereberus]

well it defo. depends on how u gamble and luck is also a factor .. u can really make profits if u r depositing 50 coins and withdrawing 53 or 54 coins that is like 5 or 10% but as soon as u get greedy and go for doubling ...u know the rest hehehe, u can do it many times in a month and easily make some coins ..

Isn't that the story with alot of people who fall into that trap? They do not know when the getting is good and when to get going. 

[Cereberus]

Well, if people are stupid to play gambling, I'd to say two thing:

- Always table wins.
- No matter the amount of money or how much you earned, you will always but always lose more money than you earned.

Are you sure about that?
How can you explain poker sharks? They win more than the table does.
Your second point so false. Whales do spend a lot of money and walk away with winnings more than what they came in with.
I would say. You have to know when to walk away when you win.

People who play poker for fun = %99
Pro Poker Players aka Poker Sharks = %1

None of us will be in %1.

Don't forget these sharks also started from scratch. None of them was born a shark they just got to it by playing a lot.

Yes I agree and think they lost in play alot then learned from their mistakes now are making that money back plus more.

[apriyani420]

Well, if people are stupid to play gambling, I'd to say two thing:

- Always table wins.
- No matter the amount of money or how much you earned, you will always but always lose more money than you earned.

Are you sure about that?
How can you explain poker sharks? They win more than the table does.
Your second point so false. Whales do spend a lot of money and walk away with winnings more than what they came in with.
I would say. You have to know when to walk away when you win.

People who play poker for fun = %99
Pro Poker Players aka Poker Sharks = %1

None of us will be in %1.

Don't forget these sharks also started from scratch. None of them was born a shark they just got to it by playing a lot.

Yes I agree and think they lost in play alot then learned from their mistakes now are making that money back plus more.

you cant learn from your mistakes in gambling as there arent any mistakes as casinos are created to make people go bust after some time of gambling

[tennozer]

if you are playing only on sportsbooks i am pretty sure it can fix your life as there are a lot of sports tipsters who make money from investments and so on but if you play casino you will get bust

I agree that; If someone can be patience in sports bets, and follow true matches, there will be some opportunities to get good money.
But patience is more important thing.

[sana9821]

if you are playing only on sportsbooks i am pretty sure it can fix your life as there are a lot of sports tipsters who make money from investments and so on but if you play casino you will get bust

I agree that; If someone can be patience in sports bets, and follow true matches, there will be some opportunities to get good money.
But patience is more important thing.

well you have to be really good on it then as the edge on casinos are usually really big though its kinda skill based so its possible i guess

[WalkerIVIV]

if you are playing only on sportsbooks i am pretty sure it can fix your life as there are a lot of sports tipsters who make money from investments and so on but if you play casino you will get bust

It's better play roullete than trying predict unpredictable :-)

[adaseb]

if you are playing only on sportsbooks i am pretty sure it can fix your life as there are a lot of sports tipsters who make money from investments and so on but if you play casino you will get bust

It's better play roullete than trying predict unpredictable :-)

That's completely untrue. First of all Roulette has a bad house edge for you, you are better off playing Dice.

Sport books are easy if you got some experience with them and are good with the players. So some players might have an edge with sports betting.

[harizen]

if you are playing only on sportsbooks i am pretty sure it can fix your life as there are a lot of sports tipsters who make money from investments and so on but if you play casino you will get bust

It's better play roullete than trying predict unpredictable :-)

Disagree.

Didn't you know that sports enthusiast who gambled in sports betting by means of fearless forecast wins most of the time especially when they bet on their favorite sports.

[darkangel11]

if you are playing only on sportsbooks i am pretty sure it can fix your life as there are a lot of sports tipsters who make money from investments and so on but if you play casino you will get bust

It's better play roullete than trying predict unpredictable :-)

Haha because roulette is so predictable... You have higher chance of winning a sports bet, simply because you know each player's or team's strengths and weaknesses. This allows you to predict the outcome, while in a random game you have no such hints. The fact that there was 10 red last time doesn't tell you anything.

[Don007]

I'm not really into gambling myself, although I'd like to place some bets on who's going to mine a particular next block (you can find these party's on this forum). However, I don't think it can really wreck your life IF you do not gamble with money you can't afford to loose. As soon as you start gambling with that money - and you loose the game - you're in problems, in a kind of negative feedback loop I guess: then, you want to continue gambling to cover the amount of money you have lost already, and this process goes on and on.. Go look for help when you're in this process.

[frank0929]

Sportsbook gambling saved my life. I earn very good amounts every month. It's like a part-time job for me.

[relq]

Actually it's wreck my life, i'm losing so many bitcoins and real money. And now i can't continue my college because my money all gone. I'm trying to stop gambling but it's really so hard, always someday i gambling when i promise myself to not gambling anymore. 

[micky123]

Actually it's wreck my life, i'm losing so many bitcoins and real money. And now i can't continue my college because my money all gone. I'm trying to stop gambling but it's really so hard, always someday i gambling when i promise myself to not gambling anymore. 

Sorry about your situation, the sooner you accept you have a gambling problem, the easier it will be to fight the addiction. Not sure where you are from, but you can find more information on here: http://www.gamblersanonymous.org/ga/

Maybe you can locate a group nearby that can help you. The first step is admitting you have a gambling problem, which you pretty much did with your post. Now it is time to take action. Good Luck!

[redditisforhippies]

any kids out there read this (bad grammar and all)...

Around early 2000 i found gambling online. At first i would just buy a giftcard and play at some online casino and if i lost it, that was that for awhile. Well... before i realized it i became a full blown addict. Our family had a shared bank account and it was normal for me to make it go in the negative. I hurt my family very badly. I always told myself i was trying to win money for the family to try and justify it. See, my mother was bed-ridden as she was always very sick so i wanted to buy her nice things so she would have something to do. however, again, that was trying to justify it.

Years went on and i never stopped. I put so much extra stress on my mother. She was already dealing with my "father" who was very mentally abusive. A real scumbag he was. I kept telling my mother i would quit and she believed me most of the time. She would always stick up for me when money went missing as when that happened my father had a real, real mean streak. She would take all the abuse for me, always.

About 1.5 years ago my mother was getting worse. She was in the hospital for about 5 months once. When she came back one of the first things i said to her was "can you fill out this id verification form for me, it's for a sportsbook as i have enough to cash out, i'm working on getting that kindle you wanted". Things were back to normal for those 3 days she was home. i was back to betting sports and ignoring everyone else. Well, on a Saturday morning i went down stairs to see if she needed anything and asking her to cover up some of my recent withdraws i took out of the bank. It was always about me, no one else. In a blink of an eye she told me she could not breathe and she passed away. Those were my last words to my mother, asking her to hide my spending. I called 911 and they revived her but her brain was dead. We had to pull the plug 11 days later. She was only 60.

Gambling ruined my life. I'm almost 40. I now live with my brother. I never will have a family of my own as i would do the same thing to my family. I still gamble. I play for literally pennies of bitcoin and i can not even afford that. I go days without eating so i have money to gamble with. No one talks to me in real life as why would they? i'm beyond a loser and i bet they think i would ask for money. I never stole or scammed etc. from once friends or online. No, i did something worse; i stole from my family. For the last very painful years of my mothers life she lived poor because of me.

I know this is hard to read due to grammar, sorry. Also, this is the internet so i expect to be judged or laughed at. That's fine. I made this post as on bitcoin talk there are a lot of naive kids. Maybe if some bother to read this it will maybe stop them from taken the path i had chosen.

That's it.

[subSTRATA]

Actually it's wreck my life, i'm losing so many bitcoins and real money. And now i can't continue my college because my money all gone. I'm trying to stop gambling but it's really so hard, always someday i gambling when i promise myself to not gambling anymore. 

Sorry about your situation, the sooner you accept you have a gambling problem, the easier it will be to fight the addiction. Not sure where you are from, but you can find more information on here: http://www.gamblersanonymous.org/ga/

Maybe you can locate a group nearby that can help you. The first step is admitting you have a gambling problem, which you pretty much did with your post. Now it is time to take action. Good Luck!

to me it sounds like he doesnt want to stop; he has already admitted that he has a problem with gambling yet makes no attempts to actively stop himself or restrict himself from gambling. that being said, i doubt he will take steps to contact people that can help him with the issue.

[jayce]

Well, if people are stupid to play gambling, I'd to say two thing:

- Always table wins.
- No matter the amount of money or how much you earned, you will always but always lose more money than you earned.

The problem is not the table always win, but the greediness that always drive you when you playing. No matter how many we have won and how much we earn, if you cant drive your desire to get more, surely you will lose all.

well not only greediness destroys people luck on gambling the house edge sometimes is also really bad as it doesnt let to have profit in a long run

imo you could avoid those sites that have high house edge actually, so you will have bigger chance to win in other sites with low house edge. Greediness is the absolute reason why people feel gambling have wrecked their life.

[fox19891989]

any kids out there read this (bad grammar and all)...

Around early 2000 i found gambling online. At first i would just buy a giftcard and play at some online casino and if i lost it, that was that for awhile. Well... before i realized it i became a full blown addict. Our family had a shared bank account and it was normal for me to make it go in the negative. I hurt my family very badly. I always told myself i was trying to win money for the family to try and justify it. See, my mother was bed-ridden as she was always very sick so i wanted to buy her nice things so she would have something to do. however, again, that was trying to justify it.

Years went on and i never stopped. I put so much extra stress on my mother. She was already dealing with my "father" who was very mentally abusive. A real scumbag he was. I kept telling my mother i would quit and she believed me most of the time. She would always stick up for me when money went missing as when that happened my father had a real, real mean streak. She would take all the abuse for me, always.

About 1.5 years ago my mother was getting worse. She was in the hospital for about 5 months once. When she came back one of the first things i said to her was "can you fill out this id verification form for me, it's for a sportsbook as i have enough to cash out, i'm working on getting that kindle you wanted". Things were back to normal for those 3 days she was home. i was back to betting sports and ignoring everyone else. Well, on a Saturday morning i went down stairs to see if she needed anything and asking her to cover up some of my recent withdraws i took out of the bank. It was always about me, no one else. In a blink of an eye she told me she could not breathe and she passed away. Those were my last words to my mother, asking her to hide my spending. I called 911 and they revived her but her brain was dead. We had to pull the plug 11 days later. She was only 60.

Gambling ruined my life. I'm almost 40. I now live with my brother. I never will have a family of my own as i would do the same thing to my family. I still gamble. I play for literally pennies of bitcoin and i can not even afford that. I go days without eating so i have money to gamble with. No one talks to me in real life as why would they? i'm beyond a loser and i bet they think i would ask for money. I never stole or scammed etc. from once friends or online. No, i did something worse; i stole from my family. For the last very painful years of my mothers life she lived poor because of me.

I know this is hard to read due to grammar, sorry. Also, this is the internet so i expect to be judged or laughed at. That's fine. I made this post as on bitcoin talk there are a lot of naive kids. Maybe if some bother to read this it will maybe stop them from taken the path i had chosen.

That's it.

I am sorry to hear your sad story, just giving up gambling dude, find good jobs and won't bet again, most of people don't have luck on gambling, only a few guys get luck on it. Gamble with the money you can lose, don't all-in all of your money.

[Dannie]

any kids out there read this (bad grammar and all)...

Around early 2000 i found gambling online. At first i would just buy a giftcard and play at some online casino and if i lost it, that was that for awhile. Well... before i realized it i became a full blown addict. Our family had a shared bank account and it was normal for me to make it go in the negative. I hurt my family very badly. I always told myself i was trying to win money for the family to try and justify it. See, my mother was bed-ridden as she was always very sick so i wanted to buy her nice things so she would have something to do. however, again, that was trying to justify it.

Years went on and i never stopped. I put so much extra stress on my mother. She was already dealing with my "father" who was very mentally abusive. A real scumbag he was. I kept telling my mother i would quit and she believed me most of the time. She would always stick up for me when money went missing as when that happened my father had a real, real mean streak. She would take all the abuse for me, always.

About 1.5 years ago my mother was getting worse. She was in the hospital for about 5 months once. When she came back one of the first things i said to her was "can you fill out this id verification form for me, it's for a sportsbook as i have enough to cash out, i'm working on getting that kindle you wanted". Things were back to normal for those 3 days she was home. i was back to betting sports and ignoring everyone else. Well, on a Saturday morning i went down stairs to see if she needed anything and asking her to cover up some of my recent withdraws i took out of the bank. It was always about me, no one else. In a blink of an eye she told me she could not breathe and she passed away. Those were my last words to my mother, asking her to hide my spending. I called 911 and they revived her but her brain was dead. We had to pull the plug 11 days later. She was only 60.

Gambling ruined my life. I'm almost 40. I now live with my brother. I never will have a family of my own as i would do the same thing to my family. I still gamble. I play for literally pennies of bitcoin and i can not even afford that. I go days without eating so i have money to gamble with. No one talks to me in real life as why would they? i'm beyond a loser and i bet they think i would ask for money. I never stole or scammed etc. from once friends or online. No, i did something worse; i stole from my family. For the last very painful years of my mothers life she lived poor because of me.

I know this is hard to read due to grammar, sorry. Also, this is the internet so i expect to be judged or laughed at. That's fine. I made this post as on bitcoin talk there are a lot of naive kids. Maybe if some bother to read this it will maybe stop them from taken the path i had chosen.

That's it.

I am really sorry to hear that. What's done is done, and you can't change the past, but you can change the future. I see you are still having very bad addiction problem and you also acknowledge it. You should seek help immediately. I don't know where you are located at, but there should be organizations offering some counseling service that could help.

[relq]

Actually it's wreck my life, i'm losing so many bitcoins and real money. And now i can't continue my college because my money all gone. I'm trying to stop gambling but it's really so hard, always someday i gambling when i promise myself to not gambling anymore. 

Sorry about your situation, the sooner you accept you have a gambling problem, the easier it will be to fight the addiction. Not sure where you are from, but you can find more information on here: http://www.gamblersanonymous.org/ga/

Maybe you can locate a group nearby that can help you. The first step is admitting you have a gambling problem, which you pretty much did with your post. Now it is time to take action. Good Luck!

to me it sounds like he doesnt want to stop; he has already admitted that he has a problem with gambling yet makes no attempts to actively stop himself or restrict himself from gambling. that being said, i doubt he will take steps to contact people that can help him with the issue.

Yeah you right. When i wanna stop gambling there's must be something make me wanna bet again. But from now i promise myself will not betting again using my money. I mean i can keep betting with free bitcoin like from giveaway or something. It's really hard for me to stop gambling.