Are athletes also becoming problem gamblers?

[Jackl87]

Accordingly to this article, athletes are more prone to developing gambling addiction than another individuals: Athletes and problem gambling: what do you need to know?

They present the following reasons to justify potential levels of addiction among players and athletes:

I don't know but i just don't believe that most of the points that you have listed as a reason are really true or based on facts. For example the statement that athletes are more prone to become addicted to gambling because they have a high IQ. I am pretty sure that this statement is true in 2 ways. First i would say that people with a high IQ are not as prone to become gambling addicts as people with a low IQ. Secondly i don't think that atletes have a higher than average IQ.

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[Rengga Jati]

AFAIK, there are athletes' policies and one of them commonly is about gambling restrictions for them.
I am not sure if it is in any kind of athletes or for all athletes, but commonly they are restricted for gambling and will get punishment.
as in based on the policies, they probably will not gamble (by using their own name and do it directly).
However, we don't know them personally.
They may not recognize that he played gambling. And we can't prove it. But we don't know if they really don't do gambling or not.
Because it could be that they already have their own way to safely play gambling and betting.
However, I hope they still adhere to the policy that is there for them. Unless it's not a problem and it's not in the policy athlete, it might not matter if it will be gambling or not.

[Hippocrypto]

Wealthy and top earning athletes had the tendency of playing gambling for their lifetime if they had huge amount of money from their career as a sports personally. Mostly, they don't care for the money they used to gamble because of huge quantities but when it comes to addiction it's by case to case basis.
We're dealing with attitude here, addiction will fall to those who can't control themselves and letting the situation made them slaves of gambling.

[boyptc]

For me if this statement was to be true I would say there is a possibility of match fixing if these games they gamble on included the games they themselves play in otherwise this is up for debate until proven guilty. But looking at the charts i would honestly say these guys do not have any involvement in how government is currently run.

I've heard that there's this rule for esports players that they're setting for themselves to avoid gambling especially for their match and any of their teammates match.

I think the same for athletes, if they gamble, they should not be involve with that match so that there will be no connection if they win. It's complicated but if an athlete do gamble, it is their decision and habit not on us.