Is this man addicted to gambling?

[erwin45hacked]

The priveledge of playing without spending will leads most in addiction.

Set aside from the addiction issue, There is no way that you are playing without spending anything at all. If you only use faucet, freebies or someone else's money then you are still spending what you have gotten for free to gamble. Secondly, if you can control what you are doing and keep coming back that means you are addicted

[Silberman]

My close friend is 50 years old. He's never been addicted to anything throughout his life. His friend made a poker website and now he keeps playing there a lot. he also uses some free tickets to tournaments he gets from betcoin.ag signature campaign. He plays almost every day for a few hours. And he became more nervous in general. But he doesn't think he's addicted and his argument for that is that he can stop playing for a day or two (that's true) and he doesn't spend his own money on it at all. Would you call such a man addicted?

When it comes to addictions that are behavioral it is difficult to draw the line and say this person is addicted, I think that as long as playing casino games does not interfere with his life then we cannot say he is addicted but he is showing dangerous signals.

[equator]

My close friend is 50 years old. He's never been addicted to anything throughout his life. His friend made a poker website and now he keeps playing there a lot. he also uses some free tickets to tournaments he gets from betcoin.ag signature campaign. He plays almost every day for a few hours. And he became more nervous in general. But he doesn't think he's addicted and his argument for that is that he can stop playing for a day or two (that's true) and he doesn't spend his own money on it at all. Would you call such a man addicted?

This is also one type of addiction whether the money is involved or not but now he is addicted to play for free tournaments and above that playing poker everyday but this type of addiction can be stopped so it is not much harmfull

[Fireblade]

It’s a pretty straight answer, the guy is addicted to gambling. The gambling situation that your friend has is one of the common addiction to gambling –he can’t stop playing and it seems that gambling is one of the things that is having a huge impact on his life. If you have a chance try to let him know that gambling is not a thing to do every day, if he has a job to make money from then he will understand it more.

yes to stop gambling for an addicted person it is not such an easy job, in fact he want to continue gambling in any case, they find it very hard to stop gambling and continue even after a lot of struggle to stop it. i have personal experience in this sense i know some people who are addicted to gambling and they continue gambling for for long long time, even for so many times they decided and tried their best to stop gambling but they did not succeeded in their struggle and still they continue playing gambling.

[pixie85]

A 50 year old guy coming to a bitcoin forum to post in a signature campaign, so he can feed his poker addiction? Nah. This sounds more like OP has made himself an alter ego.
Let's face it OP, as long as you're playing with your sig money it's all fine.

[gabmen]

A 50 year old guy coming to a bitcoin forum to post in a signature campaign, so he can feed his poker addiction? Nah. This sounds more like OP has made himself an alter ego.
Let's face it OP, as long as you're playing with your sig money it's all fine.

LOL that seems to be the case though its true. Do what you want to do with your sig earnings as long as it makes you feel its worth it. Consider it a product of your ideas and thoughts that you input and share in these threads

[Lorilikes]

It sounds a lot like every one else in this particular section of the board, but I don't judge people just because they like to gamble.  It is not fair to really ask such a question to determine a man's addiction and whether or not it is real.  Just sayin.

[yoseph]

His attitude is somewhat that of an addict, but he is very smart about not investing his own money into it, ibwill say that he wants money but he is clearly not addicted but who knows what may eventually happen.

[erwin45hacked]

His attitude is somewhat that of an addict, but he is very smart about not investing his own money into it, i will say that he wants money but he is clearly not addicted but who knows what may eventually happen.

This is pretty stupid statement, anyone that keep playing in a casino despite knowing that probability to win is low is actually addicted already. Wether you want to swallow the fact or not, it totally depends on you. Some people just cant seems to understand this simple stuff and keep on denying it

[EdenHazard]

His attitude is somewhat that of an addict, but he is very smart about not investing his own money into it, i will say that he wants money but he is clearly not addicted but who knows what may eventually happen.

This is pretty stupid statement, anyone that keep playing in a casino despite knowing that probability to win is low is actually addicted already. Wether you want to swallow the fact or not, it totally depends on you. Some people just cant seems to understand this simple stuff and keep on denying it

then you have not to gamble at all right? otherwise you will just suffering lost more often as the winning chance you have here are very low based on your opinion , but you should remember that everybody will have different gambling taste .

for some people chasing that low chance to win really fun and nobody knows it could leading them to get rich !

[michaelch]

My close friend is 50 years old. He's never been addicted to anything throughout his life. His friend made a poker website and now he keeps playing there a lot. he also uses some free tickets to tournaments he gets from betcoin.ag signature campaign. He plays almost every day for a few hours. And he became more nervous in general. But he doesn't think he's addicted and his argument for that is that he can stop playing for a day or two (that's true) and he doesn't spend his own money on it at all. Would you call such a man addicted?

I'd consider that to be fairly addicted. But if he doesn't play with money, then it's not so bad.

[Oralmat]

My close friend is 50 years old. He's never been addicted to anything throughout his life. His friend made a poker website and now he keeps playing there a lot. he also uses some free tickets to tournaments he gets from betcoin.ag signature campaign. He plays almost every day for a few hours. And he became more nervous in general. But he doesn't think he's addicted and his argument for that is that he can stop playing for a day or two (that's true) and he doesn't spend his own money on it at all. Would you call such a man addicted?

I'd consider that to be fairly addicted. But if he doesn't play with money, then it's not so bad.

No, he is not addicted man, he is just gambler and like to play gambling. You read, he is not wasting his own money and also he could left gambling for 1 or 2 days and also he has spend a long time of life and in 50 years, he has no waste anything life money, career and family, everything is in normal. That's the reason i am disagree with you. Because i see an addicted man, his family left him, he has destroy his career, and no money in his pocket, these are qualities of an addicted person. 

[Mike Mayor]

Yes that man is addiction. Addiction doesn't require you to spend money. You can be addicted to anything. If he enjoys his poker you should leave him be but you have mentioned you are conserned that this man has become more nervous and uneasy outside of his game time which is an adverse effect. I don't think this man is too bad but it is heading that way so I do think this man needs to be honest with himself. I think if he admits it then he will be ok. If he continues to deny he may be in some trouble.