Problem Gambling in the wake of covid-19

[swogerino]

This pandemic virus makes some other people focused on online gambling, they have free time and one way to kill the boredom is to gamble, it makes them entertained especially when playing with friends and it can make them earn money as well and lose their money most of the time. Losing in gambling would not affect the willingness of an addict in gambling because they are thinking that they should play more in order to turn back the money

I am not that so addicted to gambling so most of the answers to the questions are "NO", actually it will only get positive for those people who are addict to gambling. They cannot control themselves so well while playing because they find gambling as a way of entertainment and a source of money sometimes. Winning the game and earning money makes a person play gambling, it has a good feeling it is also applicable for every aspect of our lives.

I think the pandemic right now is not anymore a determining factor to gambling.Many countries have eased their restrictions to good level.Work has resumed normally in many countries and if you see in Linkedin a lot of companies are hiring in person and not online remotely.This means that people are free to move and this doesn’t impact their decisions to force them into gambling,it is now a person choice if he wants to gamble or not.Meanwhile Moderna the Us firm is near the creation of a vaccine at least they claim so.

[Kupid002]

"Due to the stress of COVID-19 people tend to gamble more."

No, that's not about the stress of COVID-19. People tend to gamble more because they having nothing to do at home or maybe they have less money so they are thinking to make more money in a quicker way even if it is risky or it has the possibility to lose all their money. As we all know, most people are not thinking about covid-19, they are more focused on doing something because they are bored, etc.

Many people now is able to back at work so only small percentage of the community is not able to do what they are doing before pandemic came. If it's
your  habit already i don't think covid can stop you to play any gambling game that you like. It's not also excuse that you are just bored at home thats why you want to gamble there are many other things that you can do to help yourself and improved the skills that you think can help you in the future  and do. not base only on what you want .

[Kong Hey Pakboy]

"Due to the stress of COVID-19 people tend to gamble more."

No, that's not about the stress of COVID-19. People tend to gamble more because they having nothing to do at home or maybe they have less money so they are thinking to make more money in a quicker way even if it is risky or it has the possibility to lose all their money. As we all know, most people are not thinking about covid-19, they are more focused on doing something because they are bored, etc.

Many people now is able to back at work so only small percentage of the community is not able to do what they are doing before pandemic came. If it's
your  habit already i don't think covid can stop you to play any gambling game that you like. It's not also excuse that you are just bored at home thats why you want to gamble there are many other things that you can do to help yourself and improved the skills that you think can help you in the future  and do. not base only on what you want .

It's true. Make yourself productive and sell things or foods online to have a stable income, even you temporarily don't have a job or a source of income. It doesn't mean you don't have anything to do; you will only gamble all of your savings in an online casino because what will happen to you next day if you will only lose all of your money in gambling. Everybody should be disciplined and responsible for using their savings because no one knows when this pandemic ends. Your gambling hobby can wait after the epidemic, so don't let your greed or gambling hobby control you.

[erikoy]

It's true. Make yourself productive and sell things or foods online to have a stable income, even you temporarily don't have a job or a source of income. It doesn't mean you don't have anything to do; you will only gamble all of your savings in an online casino because what will happen to you next day if you will only lose all of your money in gambling. Everybody should be disciplined and responsible for using their savings because no one knows when this pandemic ends. Your gambling hobby can wait after the epidemic, so don't let your greed or gambling hobby control you.

Not all gamblers are losers, in fact other gamblers consider this as another source of income. These gamers play professionally in the game that they are expert. Anyway, with the pandemic other gamblers that are itching and had some resources to spare are not stoping them to gamble even with these covid19 pandemic. I think it is better to let them decide on what to do best of their extra time and money.

[LogitechMouse]

It's true. Make yourself productive and sell things or foods online to have a stable income, even you temporarily don't have a job or a source of income. It doesn't mean you don't have anything to do; you will only gamble all of your savings in an online casino because what will happen to you next day if you will only lose all of your money in gambling. Everybody should be disciplined and responsible for using their savings because no one knows when this pandemic ends. Your gambling hobby can wait after the epidemic, so don't let your greed or gambling hobby control you.

I just hope that all of the people are like this. Instead of gambling their money, they are investing it thru creating a small business like selling foods online. Unfortunately, those non-addicted gamblers are the ones who can try to do this kind of thing.

Key word here is discipline as always . Before starting to save, you should know where to use this money. If you are saving for an emergency like this then at all cost use it to help your family in this crisis and not use it in gambling. Casinos can wait for this to end but if you don't have money right now to use because you it in gambling then you are a complete greedy, undisciplined citizen and you will be one of the huge percentage of people who are suffering right now because of the pandemic.

[Mauser]

I just hope that all of the people are like this. Instead of gambling their money, they are investing it thru creating a small business like selling foods online. Unfortunately, those non-addicted gamblers are the ones who can try to do this kind of thing.

Key word here is discipline as always . Before starting to save, you should know where to use this money. If you are saving for an emergency like this then at all cost use it to help your family in this crisis and not use it in gambling. Casinos can wait for this to end but if you don't have money right now to use because you it in gambling then you are a complete greedy, undisciplined citizen and you will be one of the huge percentage of people who are suffering right now because of the pandemic.

Creating a business is very hard, it requires capital and a lot of work. Without constant effort and looking after your own business it will go nowhere. That is why gambling is so attractive to many people, you don't need any special skills and have the chance to become rich very quickly. Even if you have only a little bit of money you can win big, for example when playing the lottery, or going for high risk/reward bets in Dice. I believe gambling is the human nature, so we will always see people looking for the quick way and risky way to get rich, even if this might lead to losing it all.

[Eureka_07]

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Not all gamblers are losers, in fact other gamblers consider this as another source of income. <snip>

That's right, it's the choice of anyone if he wanted to make himself more in-touched with gambling.
We don't need to say to those people who wanted to to gamble their money to stop and be more productive or do different stuff other than that.
In fact, it's the sole resposibility of the player to be much disciplined enough on gambling.

Gambling may be source of income too, but this is not always the case for everyone. Some gamblers are way too good on gambling, they're even called professionals, on the otherhand, some are just poor into it, so better to think twice before spending too much time and money into it, be diciplined enough specially in this time of pandemic that you surely need money.

[perla]

You can always consider betting on virtual games. Yet that is a bit different, there are no statistics whatsoever and you also do not know at all what happens behind the scenes. And statistics don't say much in virtual games. I also think that certain teams play very differently after the Corona break than before. But that affects all teams that have not built up a rhythm. It's a matter of good preliminary research.

[plvbob0070]

Probably because they get blinded by the idea that they might win and earn money by gambling.

That might be the main reason why they are risking their money in gambling. They are hoping that they can win good amount of money in gambling, and maybe this could be a coping mechanism of them to deal with their problems specifically when they lost their job because of this pandemic.

Hence, I agree that they have their own thinking, probably they see theirselves successful on gambling that's why their hopes are high.

Probably only few of the people are gambling because they lost their job, while most of the gamblers are enjoying because they are staying at home and they are finding ways to entertain themselves. Hence, it should not make gambling bad as though there's a risk and there are people who get addicted or lose a lot of money in gambling, but majority of the gamblers are doing it responsibly.

People should not blame gambling because they lose, or blame the pandemic for that to happen, they should be responsible enough to accept their mistakes and blame themselves.

I agree with you that they can't blame it on other things when they are the ones who choose to gamble. But sometimes people really get blinded and just think that gambling is a place where they can earn free money which is totally wrong. And it's not a good mindset because it might make them addicted and dependent on gambling. Also, I don't think it's easy for others to accept that they are losing that's why they keep on playing thinking they can still get everything.

[South Park]

Many people concentrate only on the economic and the direct effects of the pandemic, however the pandemic is going to have long term effects on the mental health of people, humans are not really designed to spend months isolated from each other, this has probably lead many to the path of depression, addiction and maybe even suicide

Yeah l! The frustration this pandemic brings to all of us is quite alarming. I mean, I don't actually bother because I'm used to stress (engineering life lol) but those people particularly the weak hearted extroverts are the ones who suffer the most. So I guess the best we can do is to look on the brighter side and take advantage of the plenty amount of time in our hands. Share moments with your family, focus on your passion, do recreational activities and the most important thing is pray. It will ease the pain . (You're unlucky if you live alone)

Keep holding on guys, we can make it!

I will admit that I have not being that affected by the pandemic in that aspect but I know people that were literally going crazy inside their homes without knowing what to do, but since the measures have been relaxed they are doing a little bit better, but it is important to find something to do because we never know if things could go back to the way they were a few months ago if a second wave comes, and more importantly just as we keep our body healthy we need to keep our mind healthy as well by avoiding getting addicted to anything and that includes gambling as well.

[maydna]

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so what they are doing is that only ruining their life because instead of looking for correct answer to the problem what theya re doing is adding more burden.
everytime they played it brings them losses and eventually will take all their money and what ends?hungry.
Gambling is only for those who has enough budget and not for the risking.

Indeed. Gambling makes people's lives ruin and not solving their financial problems, but unfortunately, people who are playing gambling a lot do not realize that. They are still playing gambling with the hope that someday they can win a lot of money.

Losing money in gambling can attract people to do a bad thing. If they lose their money, they can't buy food to survive because they are hungry. We can play gambling, but we need to have rules to have money for our lives still. If we still playing gambling without stop, sooner or later, we will lose all the money.

[erikoy]

Losing money in gambling can attract people to do a bad thing. If they lose their money, they can't buy food to survive because they are hungry. We can play gambling, but we need to have rules to have money for our lives still. If we still playing gambling without stop, sooner or later, we will lose all the money.

This type of gambler is considered as an addict to gambling. No person can gamble without sparing some money to buy some food. This is ridiculus type of person and should call the attention of people near to him. He needs counselling and protection against his gambling acts. If not then he could suffer the rest of his life and you might regret not helping him towards change in his life. Just a little awareness for him or his family about the his gambling addiction problem let them decide what to do on him. If he manage to change then you shoulf congratulate your self for helping others and if they will not change at least you have tried and have no regret to it.

[pakhitheboss]

Losing money in gambling can attract people to do a bad thing. If they lose their money, they can't buy food to survive because they are hungry. We can play gambling, but we need to have rules to have money for our lives still. If we still playing gambling without stop, sooner or later, we will lose all the money.

This type of gambler is considered as an addict to gambling. No person can gamble without sparing some money to buy some food. This is ridiculus type of person and should call the attention of people near to him. He needs counselling and protection against his gambling acts. If not then he could suffer the rest of his life and you might regret not helping him towards change in his life. Just a little awareness for him or his family about the his gambling addiction problem let them decide what to do on him. If he manage to change then you shoulf congratulate your self for helping others and if they will not change at least you have tried and have no regret to it.

Everyone who gambles will get addicted to it some day or the other and later on they will commit such crimes to fulfill their addiction. When you are addict you will forget about food and family, you will only worry and care about addiction.

[AicecreaME]

Losing money in gambling can attract people to do a bad thing. If they lose their money, they can't buy food to survive because they are hungry. We can play gambling, but we need to have rules to have money for our lives still. If we still playing gambling without stop, sooner or later, we will lose all the money.

This type of gambler is considered as an addict to gambling. No person can gamble without sparing some money to buy some food. This is ridiculus type of person and should call the attention of people near to him. He needs counselling and protection against his gambling acts. If not then he could suffer the rest of his life and you might regret not helping him towards change in his life. Just a little awareness for him or his family about the his gambling addiction problem let them decide what to do on him. If he manage to change then you shoulf congratulate your self for helping others and if they will not change at least you have tried and have no regret to it.

Everyone who gambles will get addicted to it some day or the other and later on they will commit such crimes to fulfill their addiction. When you are addict you will forget about food and family, you will only worry and care about addiction.

Not all of the addicted gamblers are like that, but most of them are willing to starve themselves just to spend all of their money in gambling, that's why they lose themselves even more. Let's talk a little science about that. If you do gambling all day without eating enough food, your brain will started to eat itself, and your emotional feelings would feed it up even more when you do have a losing streak.

Being addicted or not is not the problem, but we still have to be a responsible gambling addict by prioritizing ourselves first before anything else.

[iv4n]

Some people are more prone to addiction! Addiction is complicated to be understood, one of the reasons why it's like that is that addiction doesn't discriminate! It hits people of all ages, intelligence, background, there's no patter that can be followed!
Gambling is a vice, and if you don't control your gambling habits, be sure that gambling will control you and your habits! You will turn to gambling and you will forget everything and everyone else. My intro was like for people to understand that all other addictions are pretty much the same, once you get hooked on something that will take all of you!
How to avoid addiction, simply learn how to control yourself! Learn where the fun begins and where it ends, don't go over your limits! It's not a shame to stand up from the table and say it's enough for you, whethe it's gambling, drinking, doing drugs... or anything else, I just mentioned the most known addictions we are all familiar with.

[maydna]

Losing money in gambling can attract people to do a bad thing. If they lose their money, they can't buy food to survive because they are hungry. We can play gambling, but we need to have rules to have money for our lives still. If we still playing gambling without stop, sooner or later, we will lose all the money.

This type of gambler is considered as an addict to gambling. No person can gamble without sparing some money to buy some food. This is ridiculus type of person and should call the attention of people near to him. He needs counselling and protection against his gambling acts. If not then he could suffer the rest of his life and you might regret not helping him towards change in his life. Just a little awareness for him or his family about the his gambling addiction problem let them decide what to do on him. If he manage to change then you shoulf congratulate your self for helping others and if they will not change at least you have tried and have no regret to it.

But before we help him solve his addicting, we need to prepare ourselves because that will not be easy to make him realize his reality. He will try to deny our help and pretending he is okay, but the truth is he really needs help from other people. Perhaps, we can talk heart by heart to him before he goes to counseling, so we know the root of the problem. Thus, we can determine what exactly he needs and how we can help him.

Although that will need a will from him, I think he will know that someone stays beside him and always reminds him. If we could still be there, he will realize and will try to open his mind to leave gambling forever.

[reliable]

Losing money in gambling can attract people to do a bad thing. If they lose their money, they can't buy food to survive because they are hungry. We can play gambling, but we need to have rules to have money for our lives still. If we still playing gambling without stop, sooner or later, we will lose all the money.

This type of gambler is considered as an addict to gambling. No person can gamble without sparing some money to buy some food. This is ridiculus type of person and should call the attention of people near to him. He needs counselling and protection against his gambling acts. If not then he could suffer the rest of his life and you might regret not helping him towards change in his life. Just a little awareness for him or his family about the his gambling addiction problem let them decide what to do on him. If he manage to change then you shoulf congratulate your self for helping others and if they will not change at least you have tried and have no regret to it.

Everyone who gambles will get addicted to it some day or the other and later on they will commit such crimes to fulfill their addiction. When you are addict you will forget about food and family, you will only worry and care about addiction.

Self-control is vital in gambling else as you said it is easy to be addicted to it and not only will lose money , but also will have bad relationship and will have health issues etch. So it is said never gamble just to make money else you will keep chasing those money forever at times without realizing at some day you are addicted and cannot stay without it.

[LogitechMouse]

Losing money in gambling can attract people to do a bad thing. If they lose their money, they can't buy food to survive because they are hungry. We can play gambling, but we need to have rules to have money for our lives still. If we still playing gambling without stop, sooner or later, we will lose all the money.

You have no money = you will create bad things just to have money
You have money =  you will use it in gambling hoping that you will double or triple it.

This is how gamblers are thinking and if they don't have money anymore, like you said they will do bad things like stealing money or worst selling the items in their house just to have money to be used in gambling. For me if they lose their money, they will find a way to have more money again and if they lose consecutive times they will feel regret and disappointed and worst depressed because of their losses.

Self control is still the most important trait if you want to spend more time in gambling.

[Janation]

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Self-control is vital in gambling else as you said it is easy to be addicted to it and not only will lose money , but also will have bad relationship and will have health issues etch. So it is said never gamble just to make money else you will keep chasing those money forever at times without realizing at some day you are addicted and cannot stay without it.

So true.

I am not addicted to gambling but I did some esports betting while I am in quarantine. That also made me think of doing some roulettes and poker but to keep myself in control, I downloaded some mobile games which is also gambling without using my money. It is fun and I am only spending my time in these games instead of spending both my time and my money in it.

[Peanutswar]

Possibly there are two chances of a person right now who is addicted to gambling.

1. The people who still gambling even there is a COVID, there are also gambling online and this is another way of possible earning so they can play whenever they want because they are just on their houses only. Also due to having stress, they can play aggressively and becomes more addicted.

2. The people who keep their money even they want to play gambling they need to save their money because it's too hard if you lose all of your savings just on your habit it's better to have money than nothing to eat.

We are different in gambling. Play, win, and lose at your own risk.