Don't be a hypocrite and admit that you are a gambler

[ralle14]

Everything in your life you gambled, you had to. On regular casinos you don't have to gamble, you can simply leave, plus casino literally tells you that you will lose on this gamble and you still do it.

We can't blame the people who prefer staying in a casino instead of leaving you're right they don't have to gamble since the odds are against them but at the same time the rewards are tempting if they win. And for some people gambling in a casino could mean more than making money like having new friends.

You can't take away getting rich sindrum from playing gambling because there are people who's financial situation has changed as a result of what they made from playing gambling and there are still people making it big in playing gambling no doubt.

Yes I can, give me three names with links to support your statement about people who became rich because of gambling (and not broke after that), or I'll delete your post. No doubt!

I agree not every gambler have the same mindset of winning just to be rich. I remember watching a few stories about gamblers that win millions then became broke after a year or two since their big win.

[xvids]

As a gambler I am proud of it and I don't care what others think of me,
As long as I know to myself that I am not doing anything wrong and I could control myself on gambling then there isn't a problem at all.
We choose to gamble on our own so why would we hide it?

[btc78]

who am i to deny?i am a gambler from a very young age and until now(though limited gaming time and budget)playing around because this is the reality in life,we are always live to gamble at any way,either  literal gambling games or decisions in life what important is we knew how much we can afford to lose,if we are not that so sure then better  choose another or not to answer so you are safe from the gamble.

[lienfaye]

Gambling doesnt always involve money, just like what you have said since we are kids we already gamble in facing the reality. No assurance for the outcome of our actions because we dont know whats ahead.

Im a gambler because I do gamble though not often, I like those games because its entertaining plus the fact that you can grow your money if you're lucky makes it more exciting.

Its fine to be a gambler as long as you know your limitation, life is a gamble btw thus enjoy every moment but make sure to be aware of what could be the aftermath of your decision.

[dentolas]

I agree that we gamble in a lot of things in life, but gambling for money is a different scenario... when we gamble on our exam it is a desperate move with nothing to loose (because you don't know the answer)... it doesn't produce the same chemical reaction on your brain...
Some people can gamble for fun once in a while and know were and when to stop... same thing with alchool, some people drink for pleasure and that's it... but on some people these things get addictive and destroy their life, same as drugs...

[iamsheikhadil]

Well more or less we gamble on everything but isn't life a gambling itself as well? No matter how much it is extend, it always seems it is also a big casino. Luck influences everything. Out of million sperms, you made it to the world, you won it. The universe had very little chances for supporting life and it did and that was gambling. God didn't had to create the universe but he felt like doing it so that's also our winning by chance!

[Shiversnow]

You should have included the cycle of life. Your mother is on a gamble whether she will get a miscarriage, deliver a premature baby or a healthy baby. Then you covered the cycle from the middle.

When you were a kid in school, you gamble in your exam when you didn't know the answer. Should I mark option A or B or C?

You gamble in your career path, your spouse, your children's education, literally everything that is unknown.

But it doesn't involve money, sir? You gamble in your purchasing and investment decisions as well.

Inspired by this debate: https://www.debate.org/opinions/is-gambling-morally-wrong

Thank you for reading, let's be more positive and tell me a funny/interesting story about your gambling experience here. Gambling should be for fun, not for getting rich.

We also don't realize it consciously but we are also part of our respective nations gamble. Our country could either go bankrupt and we will be the price that will be paid or the opposite. We are also just pawns in a very long game of Cosmic Chess, we are at mercy of cosmos, our planet is in a gamble too, we could be hit by an asteroid that could wipe out life but no we are dancing in the palm of universe. Also don't use gambling as an excuse to get financial stability that's a really bad move.

[AniviaBtc]

Practically everybody in this section is a gambler, that's why it's called the gambling section.

Everyone is in some way interested in gambling but not everyone does it on a daily basis or has that gambling activity influence his normal way of life.

When you hear stories of people gambling constantly that is already a problem. I think it's hard to define your priorities like that.

It is rare to find people when they are not interested in gambling after they try it. Most of the people who tries to play gambling are getting interested and addicted to it. They see that gambling is enjoyable as they win and they will never notice that as they bet their money, they will get lose without even noticing it. So based on my observations, no matter what is your state in life, once you gamble, there's a high percentage that you will do it again, and again, and as you do it many times, you will become addicted to it. But it still depends because people can handle their greed and emotions so they prohibit themselves to lose a huge amount of money.

[pixie85]

When you were a kid in school, you gamble in your exam when you didn't know the answer. Should I mark option A or B or C?

This isn't gambling. This is choosing when you have nothing to lose. If you don't choose any option you will lose anyway and chosing one at least gives you 33% chance to get it right. Gambling is when you have a choice not to gamble and walk away not losing anything and not winning anything. Not marking an answer in your test is losing and walking away is also losing.

Gambling should be for fun, not for getting rich.

People should be kind, courts should be fair, nobody should go hungry...

What's the point in stating the obvious?

[dothebeats]

Well for one, almost everything that we are doing on a daily basis is a gamble. Some leads to more losses while others lead to some small victories.

The moment you close your eyes when you try to sleep is already a gamble on whether you'd wake up by tomorrow or not. You are taking a chance to rest even though there is a possibility that you might not wake up anymore.

Our daily lives are made up of tiny elements of gambling, and it's apt to say that most of us don't even realize it. Then again, there are gambling games which are really detrimental to a person's well-being, and being addicted to such isn't justifiable by any means, nor should even be romanticized by any article/debate.

[nakamura12]

All of us are gamblers. Gambling can be in any form as long as you are willing to take risk to get the desired result. Gamble may involved money or something that you may lose. As mention in op about exam when you choose option a, b or c is the same and what you have risk is your score. In casinos what people put in risk is money to earn more money or have some fun depends on the person why he/she gamble in casinos.

[DabsPoorVersion]

Everything in life seems to be a gamble,

What you have discussed is really like a gamble, but you know what, this is not actually considered or even connected with gambling. This is about our own survival, and not about some kind of risking something and expect an easy return.

Gambling is an activity that you have something to risk(more like money), without any guarantee of return and your chances to win is unknown. What you have discussed is about something that every people normally do in life. It is part of our life which is not be considered as gambling but more on survival.

[serjent05]

Addiction, mentally ill, health symptoms, etc. Too much negativity in the gambling industry, especially in this forum where ironically casinos have paid a lot of users.

You know what? You are a gambler even though you haven't realized it.

When you were a kid in school, you gamble in your exam when you didn't know the answer. Should I mark option A or B or C?

You gamble in your career path, your spouse, your children's education, literally everything that is unknown.

But it doesn't involve money, sir? You gamble in your purchasing and investment decisions as well.

Inspired by this debate: https://www.debate.org/opinions/is-gambling-morally-wrong

Thank you for reading, let's be more positive and tell me a funny/interesting story about your gambling experience here. Gambling should be for fun, not for getting rich.

This is quite an interesting argument.  It is indeed debatable and I guess there is no right or wrong on this one because it is all about perspective.  Here is one article to refute that belief.

What's the difference between a risk and a gamble?

In this article, it differentiates between a gamble and a calculated risk, thus making some valid point against OP's point.  This is also an interesting read because it clearly differentiates gambling and the daily decision of people taking and was presented as calculated risk.

There's a difference between a gamble and a calculated risk. As a young entrepreneur, it's important to understand the differences. The trick is to avoid the former and get comfortable with the latter. Here's how I see it:

A Gamble is a shot in the dark. A Calculated Risk is a shot taken in the light.
In other words, when you take a calculated risk, you're working from solid intelligence. You've tested. You've validated. You've in a sense proven your idea. But when you're gambling, you're acting unintelligently and just playing games.

A Gamble puts something in jeopardy. A Calculated Risk puts something to work.
When we're gambling we're putting things like our time, money and energy in great jeopardy. A calculated risk, however, is a true investment of your time, money and energy. Those three significant assets are being put to work in an efficient and productive way. Calculated risks aren't always guaranteed returns, but a dividend in some form or fashion is likely.

[mu_enrico]

This is quite an interesting argument.  It is indeed debatable and I guess there is no right or wrong on this one because it is all about perspective.  Here is one article to refute that belief.

What's the difference between a risk and a gamble?

In this article, it differentiates between a gamble and a calculated risk, thus making some valid point against OP's point.  This is also an interesting read because it clearly differentiates gambling and the daily decision of people taking and was presented as calculated risk.

Dude, read the purpose of this thread: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5226378.msg53863341#msg53863341

The problem with calculated risk is, you couldn't control the surprise or unknown risk. It's like flying on an airplane. Everyone makes sure that all of the procedures were met, and everything is under control, yet every time you take a flight, you gamble with 1 in 205,552 probability of losing.

https://www.sbs.com.au/news/how-safe-is-flying-here-s-what-the-statistics-say

I'll lock this thread in 24 hours since I've satisfied with the answers

[Ethereums]

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hold on dude, I really surprised to see u your thread here. I wanna says that life is gamble too. Full of surprise and no one knows the result even sometimes history repeat itself. Even when i trade sometimes TA doesn't work at all, so i try to see bigger timeframe and still felt like gambling for me..

[eaLiTy]

When you were a kid in school, you gamble in your exam when you didn't know the answer. Should I mark option A or B or C?

I never gamble in exam and even during my Engineering entrance examination 18 years back you will not pick and choose because there are negative points for wrong answers .

You gamble in your career path, your spouse, your children's education, literally everything that is unknown.

I choose the path i want and never gambled on that aspect too, spouse i selected because she was my girlfriend and got married but it ended sadly, so you can call that a big gamble in life but my kids education, i will not force them, which ever field they are interested in they will select those options and if you are choosing a career that you are interested in you will be successful in life.

But it doesn't involve money, sir? You gamble in your purchasing and investment decisions as well.

You can call stock investment and any form of investment as gambling but i call it educated gambling where we can predict the outcome depending on the performance of the company and the global financial market.

Thank you for reading, let's be more positive and tell me a funny/interesting story about your gambling experience here. Gambling should be for fun, not for getting rich.

Gambling is always fun and making money is a fools errand.
The fun encounter i had was in primedice while using seuntjie bot, i misconfigured the auto bot and the starting bet was 0.05BTC and ended up winning over 15BTC until i realized the mistake and ended the bet i could not believe my luck, i could have burned my 1BTC deposited instead ended up winning .

[serjent05]

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Dude, read the purpose of this thread: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5226378.msg53863341#msg53863341

The problem with calculated risk is, you couldn't control the surprise or unknown risk. It's like flying on an airplane. Everyone makes sure that all of the procedures were met, and everything is under control, yet every time you take a flight, you gamble with 1 in 205,552 probability of losing.

https://www.sbs.com.au/news/how-safe-is-flying-here-s-what-the-statistics-say

I'll lock this thread in 24 hours since I've satisfied with the answers

I got what your thread wants to convey, I just cited an article because it somehow had points and creates good argument with your thread as life being a gamble (since you presented that decision making is a gamble).  As I said, this one has no right and wrong it all goes down to one's perspective.  


and sorry seems I missed this one (was more focused on the idea you laid on that OP:)

Thank you for reading, let's be more positive and tell me a funny/interesting story about your gambling experience here. Gambling should be for fun, not for getting rich.

Not much of  interesting story,  I just find it regular for a kid to somehow do some gambling stuff(due to curiosity) even though their mum forbid them to do until caught and got nagged the whole day.  Then after the nagging, back again to do gambling games with friends 

[LogitechMouse]

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Deciding everyday is also a gambling too especially if you are choosing against 2 things which are important to you.

TBH, before I read this I only know that anything regarding to money is considered gambling but I'm wrong. What ever you said here is true. From career path to answering the exams. I had experience those things in my life and luckily, I'm happy with all of my decisions in my life although there are times that I lose in my gambles it is normal already since there are no perfect person .

[adzino]

Everything in life seems to be a gamble,

What you have discussed is really like a gamble, but you know what, this is not actually considered or even connected with gambling. This is about our own survival, and not about some kind of risking something and expect an easy return.

Gambling is an activity that you have something to risk(more like money), without any guarantee of return and your chances to win is unknown. What you have discussed is about something that every people normally do in life. It is part of our life which is not be considered as gambling but more on survival.

Gambling means to take a risk where the probable outcome might be good or bad. How is OP gambling by making this post? Makes no sense at all. What the OP said over here isn't wrong at all. What ever you have done starting from your childhood was all based on gambling.
You are saying its all about "survival" but not gambling. According to you gambling means taking "risks", right? Then survival automatically means gambling according to your definition because to survive you take various risks on every seconds of your life. You will have to go to work to earn money and survive. You will be risking your life on your way to your work. What if you get hit by a car on your way?

[Rengga Jati]

-snip- I wanna says that life is gamble too. Full of surprise and no one knows the result -snip-

Sorry, I think it is not true to assume "life is a gamble". We know that every religion provides a guide to living properly in the world. And all know that the result of our life will be divided into 2 ending, to "heaven or hell". It is a bit different than the fundamental of gambling, so I think it doesn't include the kinds of gambling because of having a clear direction.