Do you limit your gambling time?

[uneng]

I don't allocate a certain budget for gambling but I just use my extra money to play. I haven't tried borrowing money just to gamble. As for me, that will be a big risk since there's no assurance of winning on it. I have learned and control gambling on my own. I always make sure that I discipline myself all the time so I'll know when to stop and when to continue.

Playing this way you won't face issues with gambling. I believe the most important thing is to discipline yourself, so you will know your limits, always acting responsibly, not risking your loved ones and your own welfare. That is how gambling games should be played by everyone, and seen as a leisure activity only. But unfortunatelly there will be always gamblers who will see it in a greedy way, leading to addiction, that is the final step to ruin.
But good examples like yours can help them to start controlling their emotions better and improving their self control.

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[BTCLiz]

I don't allocate a certain budget for gambling but I just use my extra money to play. I haven't tried borrowing money just to gamble. As for me, that will be a big risk since there's no assurance of winning on it. I have learned and control gambling on my own. I always make sure that I discipline myself all the time so I'll know when to stop and when to continue.

Playing this way you won't face issues with gambling. I believe the most important thing is to discipline yourself, so you will know your limits, always acting responsibly, not risking your loved ones and your own welfare. That is how gambling games should be played by everyone, and seen as a leisure activity only. But unfortunatelly there will be always gamblers who will see it in a greedy way, leading to addiction, that is the final step to ruin.
But good examples like yours can help them to start controlling their emotions better and improving their self control.

In my opinion it is not a matter of self control. There are people who are deemend of being a gambler cause of e.g. bad experiences during childhoood. This is often shown in psycholgy literature.

[Kakmakr]

This is about how do you make sure that you are gambling in full control. There are many people who are easily brought into gambling beyond fun and that is a problem for them and also for the gambling industry, because it is for them that there are limitations in many countries.

Do you actually...
- Have a weekly budget to play and do not ever go over it?
- Not ever get in debt for gambling?
- Have an allocated time for gambling and never exceed it?
- Gamble only socially with friends of relatives?
- Have someone helping you control your gambling?

Question 1 - Yes, I set a weekly budget and I seldom go over that. (Just when I degen for a race position)
Question 2 - I only play with what I earn. (Salary & Online activities)
Question 3 - When I have FREE time... at nights and over weekends
Question 4 - I go solo ...... friends and relatives just break my concentration. 
Question 5 - I do not need help, because I am not addicted to gambling.

Hope that answers your questions.  

[Mahdirakib]

I'm in crypto gambling world, it's more than four years. Time to time there was changes in my gambling activity. Firstly, I started it for fun purpose and never took it seriously. But at some point I got addicted to gambling. Spend a lot of time daily and didn't manage my fund properly. Though I never took money from other people to do gamble. But those days are gone. I took a break from gambling for few months (at the first quarter of 2020) and after that I gained control over my gambling habit. No one helped me to get out of this situation, I myself controlled it and nowadays I have fun from gambling.

[uneng]

I don't allocate a certain budget for gambling but I just use my extra money to play. I haven't tried borrowing money just to gamble. As for me, that will be a big risk since there's no assurance of winning on it. I have learned and control gambling on my own. I always make sure that I discipline myself all the time so I'll know when to stop and when to continue.

Playing this way you won't face issues with gambling. I believe the most important thing is to discipline yourself, so you will know your limits, always acting responsibly, not risking your loved ones and your own welfare. That is how gambling games should be played by everyone, and seen as a leisure activity only. But unfortunatelly there will be always gamblers who will see it in a greedy way, leading to addiction, that is the final step to ruin.
But good examples like yours can help them to start controlling their emotions better and improving their self control.

In my opinion it is not a matter of self control. There are people who are deemend of being a gambler cause of e.g. bad experiences during childhoood. This is often shown in psycholgy literature.

But don't these bad experiences during childhood affect the person's self control skills, becoming an impulsive individual?
Self control difficulties might not be the root of the problem, but it may also be a consequence of childhood traumas, leading to addictions later such as gambling. However, even if it is the case, traumas and addictions can be overcame.

[dunfida]

I don't allocate a certain budget for gambling but I just use my extra money to play. I haven't tried borrowing money just to gamble. As for me, that will be a big risk since there's no assurance of winning on it. I have learned and control gambling on my own. I always make sure that I discipline myself all the time so I'll know when to stop and when to continue.

Playing this way you won't face issues with gambling. I believe the most important thing is to discipline yourself, so you will know your limits, always acting responsibly, not risking your loved ones and your own welfare. That is how gambling games should be played by everyone, and seen as a leisure activity only. But unfortunatelly there will be always gamblers who will see it in a greedy way, leading to addiction, that is the final step to ruin.
But good examples like yours can help them to start controlling their emotions better and improving their self control.

In my opinion it is not a matter of self control. There are people who are deemend of being a gambler cause of e.g. bad experiences during childhoood. This is often shown in psycholgy literature.

But don't these bad experiences during childhood affect the person's self control skills, becoming an impulsive individual?
Self control difficulties might not be the root of the problem, but it may also be a consequence of childhood traumas, leading to addictions later such as gambling. However, even if it is the case, traumas and addictions can be overcame.

Chances are there but not all the times where individual would really be falling out into this scenario thats why it all matters on how they do handle out things
because we do have different ways of understanding and  make out self realizations which really be determining on what would be the possible decisions that
we would make in case we do experience those kind of situations upfront.Cant deny that those traumas or bad experiences could really be one of the factor
which would trigger out on being impulsive but those are still chances only.

[Fredomago]

I'm in crypto gambling world, it's more than four years. Time to time there was changes in my gambling activity. Firstly, I started it for fun purpose and never took it seriously.

Most gamblers start with the same intention, taking this for fun and not minding those loses since it's just part of
your entertainment.

But at some point I got addicted to gambling. Spend a lot of time daily and didn't manage my fund properly. Though I never took money from other people to do gamble.

The bad effect of this activities, getting addicted and unable to manage your  money, good thing you didn't get to the point that you ask
for some money / lend money from other people just to continue your gambling vices.

But those days are gone. I took a break from gambling for few months (at the first quarter of 2020) and after that I gained control over my gambling habit. No one helped me to get out of this situation, I myself controlled it and nowadays I have fun from gambling.

Your self will helps you up, but make sure to keep on doing your assessment, from time to time make sure that you are just
doing it to gain some fun, otherwise you are still prone of getting addicted again.

[coin-investor]

I have to limit my gambling time so as not to interfere with my daily task and not make it my main activity daily, one or three hours for me is good enough to have fun and to refresh yourself from your daily task, for me anything more than this can be considered as falling into addiction, although I have seen some people playing 4 or more hours without any issue at all, I guess it's how well you can handle yourself, I just don't see myself playing longer hours  

[Lanatsa]

I have to limit my gambling time so as not to interfere with my daily task and not make it my main activity daily, one or three hours for me is good enough to have fun and to refresh yourself from your daily task, for me anything more than this can be considered as falling into addiction, although I have seen some people playing 4 or more hours without any issue at all, I guess it's how well you can handle yourself, I just don't see myself playing longer hours  

Simply the least priority you should put your time on because it isn't really that much of feasible for you to do so.Everything should be managed well in terms of time
and financial.

Gambling should be intendedly for the sole purpose of entertainment nothingless because if you do make this as a source of income
then you would be fucked up.

Don't spent the amount that you cant afford to lose because that will surely mess up your life.

[johhnyUA]

Do you actually...
- Have a weekly budget to play and do not ever go over it?
- Not ever get in debt for gambling?
- Have an allocated time for gambling and never exceed it?
- Gamble only socially with friends of relatives?
- Have someone helping you control your gambling?

As for me, i had had my weekly budget when I played poker on SwC and Sportsbet. And thanks to my iron will, i don't need any help to keep myself in hands (this is to the last question).

But now, because bull markets and some offline activity I don't have time for gambling at all. Now I'm getting a lot of entertainment in trading and with buying low cap altcoins. Believe me, guys, this is thrilling as fuck  

[harizen]

Gambling should be intendedly for the sole purpose of entertainment nothingless because if you do make this as a source of income
then you would be fucked up.

Gambling for entertainment is the worst thing to do for average or casual gamblers. The only ones who are entertained to do gambling are those high rollers.

Gambling should be treated in a way of, do our best to win. That's why we gamble right? It's not fun losing and we will say, we can afford that loss. Obviously, treating it as a source of income is a different story and shouldn't be the reason why we gamble.

[germsite]

This is about how do you make sure that you are gambling in full control. There are many people who are easily brought into gambling beyond fun and that is a problem for them and also for the gambling industry, because it is for them that there are limitations in many countries.

Do you actually...
- Have a weekly budget to play and do not ever go over it?
- Not ever get in debt for gambling?
- Have an allocated time for gambling and never exceed it?
- Gamble only socially with friends of relatives?
- Have someone helping you control your gambling?

Yes, I only gamble atleast 5% of what I could earn every week and only 5%. Why? There are tons of investments that are way better to spend your money onto than spending it on a luck-based satisfaction. Since I only settled and disciplined myself with such limit allocated for gambling, I never had any debt just on my gambling activities. Since I already disciplined myself in overall gambling activities, then yes I only have allocated time for it, but no I would still love to gamble with strangers as you can know and experience how others would strategize.

I wish I could always stop when I wanted but it's fun and when you have a great run you don't feel like stopping even though you maybe should.

Lol I know that feeling. Especially when you play poker it feels like you can't stop. The thrill when you reach a final table is just so amazing and the offering on Pokerstars or other website is essentially endless. It's also somehow relaxing, enjoying the weekend having a beer or so and just playing a couple of poker tables online. Tournaments are also great on the weekends and they do sometimes offer life changing money.

The problem with poker is that you are investing a ton of time, you can't just stop and walk away after 6 hours if you are still in the game. In other words, what's tempting about poker also forces you to really spend a lot of time. As long as you don't have family and kids or an extremely demanding job it isn't a problem, but otherwise poker is almost no serious option anymore.

I know that some here might argue poker is no gambling.

[michellee]

Gambling should be intendedly for the sole purpose of entertainment nothingless because if you do make this as a source of income
then you would be fucked up.

Gambling for entertainment is the worst thing to do for average or casual gamblers. The only ones who are entertained to do gambling are those high rollers.

Gambling should be treated in a way of, do our best to win. That's why we gamble right? It's not fun losing and we will say, we can afford that loss. Obviously, treating it as a source of income is a different story and shouldn't be the reason why we gamble.

When you go to a casino with many gambling machines, you will want to try one by one of those games. You do not think about winning or lose because you are curious about the game and want to know more by playing. On the next day, when you know the game, you will come back and you will say to yourself that this time you will win. For the first time, we use gambling for entertainment and curiosity, but then the next day, we use gambling to search for the winning. At this time, if you do not limit your gambling time and money, you will lose all of the money without you can control it.

[mediaBuzz]

I believe everyone comes to the idea of setting some limits towards their gambling addiction after losing some significant amount  At least that's what happened to me. So,

- I have a daily budget. I hardly reach it as gambling is like a time-killer for me at the moment. But at the weekends when I have too much free time I follow this daily limit
- Yes, when I just started
- No, I play when I have free time
- Hell no, it's like watching porn for me
- No, I can handle it fully

[arwin100]

Gambling should be intendedly for the sole purpose of entertainment nothingless because if you do make this as a source of income
then you would be fucked up.

Gambling for entertainment is the worst thing to do for average or casual gamblers. The only ones who are entertained to do gambling are those high rollers.

Gambling should be treated in a way of, do our best to win. That's why we gamble right? It's not fun losing and we will say, we can afford that loss. Obviously, treating it as a source of income is a different story and shouldn't be the reason why we gamble.

When you go to a casino with many gambling machines, you will want to try one by one of those games. You do not think about winning or lose because you are curious about the game and want to know more by playing. On the next day, when you know the game, you will come back and you will say to yourself that this time you will win. For the first time, we use gambling for entertainment and curiosity, but then the next day, we use gambling to search for the winning. At this time, if you do not limit your gambling time and money, you will lose all of the money without you can control it.

Thats how most of the gamblers lost their money they didn't realize that their money is draining little by little for trying out each game so maybe if we have less money better not to do it and stay only on some games where we plan to play, this is little discipline for ourselves to not get addicted playing these risky games.

[Becky666]

I have to limit my gambling time so as not to interfere with my daily task and not make it my main activity daily, one or three hours for me is good enough to have fun and to refresh yourself from your daily task, for me anything more than this can be considered as falling into addiction, although I have seen some people playing 4 or more hours without any issue at all, I guess it's how well you can handle yourself, I just don't see myself playing longer hours  

Don't you think that the daily task of the day can be miss used by the mindset of addiction, i will suggest that there should be a distinction between these task rather than just not having something physical to use. Am such that would do many task per day and not conflicting with others, so, having these on board as a schedule will be more important in life.

Personally, do gamble on weekdays and not just ordinary days like others whic help me plan for myself and that of the family.

[peter0425]

This is about how do you make sure that you are gambling in full control. There are many people who are easily brought into gambling beyond fun and that is a problem for them and also for the gambling industry, because it is for them that there are limitations in many countries.

Do you actually...
- Have a weekly budget to play and do not ever go over it?
- Not ever get in debt for gambling?
- Have an allocated time for gambling and never exceed it?
- Gamble only socially with friends of relatives?
- Have someone helping you control your gambling?

Well looks like all the given questions are referred to Self controlled gambler  and not for BS addicted one 

But surely only Few had answered legitimately and majority are just Shitposting or Lying 

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But the bottomline is? If we answered oppositely meaning we are addicted gambler.

[tiCeR]

This is about how do you make sure that you are gambling in full control. There are many people who are easily brought into gambling beyond fun and that is a problem for them and also for the gambling industry, because it is for them that there are limitations in many countries.

Do you actually...
- Have a weekly budget to play and do not ever go over it?
- Not ever get in debt for gambling?
- Have an allocated time for gambling and never exceed it?
- Gamble only socially with friends of relatives?
- Have someone helping you control your gambling?

Yes, I only gamble atleast 5% of what I could earn every week and only 5%. Why? There are tons of investments that are way better to spend your money onto than spending it on a luck-based satisfaction. Since I only settled and disciplined myself with such limit allocated for gambling, I never had any debt just on my gambling activities. Since I already disciplined myself in overall gambling activities, then yes I only have allocated time for it, but no I would still love to gamble with strangers as you can know and experience how others would strategize.

I wish I could always stop when I wanted but it's fun and when you have a great run you don't feel like stopping even though you maybe should.

Lol I know that feeling. Especially when you play poker it feels like you can't stop. The thrill when you reach a final table is just so amazing and the offering on Pokerstars or other website is essentially endless. It's also somehow relaxing, enjoying the weekend having a beer or so and just playing a couple of poker tables online. Tournaments are also great on the weekends and they do sometimes offer life changing money.

The problem with poker is that you are investing a ton of time, you can't just stop and walk away after 6 hours if you are still in the game. In other words, what's tempting about poker also forces you to really spend a lot of time. As long as you don't have family and kids or an extremely demanding job it isn't a problem, but otherwise poker is almost no serious option anymore.

I know that some here might argue poker is no gambling.

Oh my lord yes, poker sessions are the worst when you start them in expectation of losing relatively early anyway and then you keep going and going and going but should be doing other things in life! However, it's a great game and climbing up the ranking ladder in a tournament is just fun!

[michellee]

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Thats how most of the gamblers lost their money they didn't realize that their money is draining little by little for trying out each game so maybe if we have less money better not to do it and stay only on some games where we plan to play, this is little discipline for ourselves to not get addicted playing these risky games.

Yes, that is an old story from the gambler since a long time ago. They didn't realize how their money was gone in the casino, but if they could be wise to manage their money for playing gambling, they would not lose all of the money without knowing. I admitted that having discipline is really hard and needs practice to have a strong discipline, as you said. But that is worth doing by us to prevent the loss and the important thing is we can prevent becoming addicted to gambling games.

[drwoo]

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Thats how most of the gamblers lost their money they didn't realize that their money is draining little by little for trying out each game so maybe if we have less money better not to do it and stay only on some games where we plan to play, this is little discipline for ourselves to not get addicted playing these risky games.

Yes, that is an old story from the gambler since a long time ago. They didn't realize how their money was gone in the casino, but if they could be wise to manage their money for playing gambling, they would not lose all of the money without knowing. I admitted that having discipline is really hard and needs practice to have a strong discipline, as you said. But that is worth doing by us to prevent the loss and the important thing is we can prevent becoming addicted to gambling games.

Some players also believe in systems that are doomed to fail. Like playing strategies that they believe can only win in the end. If such a strategy existed, everybody would be winning all the time, but it can even happen in roulette that "red" comes up 15 times in a row. That's when irrationality comes into play and leads to severe losses.