Most likely category of people to become Gambling addicts.

[swogerino]

I would add my experience which I was addicted up to the year 2020-2021 as I used to play slots almost every day.I did so with an intention though,a real one and not that deceiving one which all other people have which is to become rich easily,once I started playing in each session I had an objective,like if I get this amount I will buy x things and quit and this kept me on a trend until I become addicted following my objectives.This was a mild addiction though as once I realized where I was going I immediately stopped gambling like that and since then I just play 20,30 to 50 or 100 dollars maximum in a week,this keeps me at bay to avoid detection.

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[Solosanz]

It's somewhat pointless to let us know if we should be careful to introduce someone into gambling, because the huge influence make people to gamble is come from gambling influencer, not a common gambler. Usually a real gambler will not want to invite their friend to gamble to because there's a personal reason or there's no point to invite them. If someone invite you to join gambling, it's high likely he will ask you to sign up with his referral link.

[acroman08]

- Be Careful introducing gambling to people with some certain "Personality Characteristics".

Certain personality traits are associated with a higher risk of developing a gambling addiction

this suddenly reminded me of an article I've read before that gambling addiction can be hereditary just like alcoholism. if I remember correctly, in the article it mentioned that certain genes that are more receptible to gambling addiction that can be passed on by the parent. it was quite an interesting article to read and kind of also explains why there are family members(including relatives) that have the same issue with gambling, drugs, alcohol, etc...

[Kakmakr]

Well, you should also not introduce gambling to people who has a lot of time on their hands. Just go to any "brick n mortar" casino and see how many old (retired) people are there ...gambling away their pension fund.

They are the most desperate and vulnerable people in our community and some of them should rather be in a old age home, being cared for.... but they risk the little money they have on things like gambling.

If we can have an age restriction for minors.... then we should also have a age restriction for the older people.  

[Strongkored]

It's somewhat pointless to let us know if we should be careful to introduce someone into gambling, because the huge influence make people to gamble is come from gambling influencer, not a common gambler. Usually a real gambler will not want to invite their friend to gamble to because there's a personal reason or there's no point to invite them. If someone invite you to join gambling, it's high likely he will ask you to sign up with his referral link.

You are right with today's technological advances where all information is easy to obtain and all kinds of content can be accessed by many people, from the youngest to the oldest, even though they don't get gambling information from their closest people, they will easily get it via the internet, advertisements that appear whenever they are accessing a site even the advertisements display far more interesting than what the people closest to them say about gambling, and more people trust what the advertisements show on the internet than what is conveyed by the persons who closest to them, so now people will easily fall into gambling because the internet is not the invitation of the colleague.

[davis196]

Why do I think that there was an older forum thread discussing a similar topic?
Anyway, age isn't the main factor. I've seen old people becoming gambling addicts. Some people simply love taking risks, while others hate taking risks. I've seen a gambling addict, who desperately tried to find a way to manipulate the game of roulette, so he could win.
Being delusional and thinking that you are smart enough to "exploit the casino" is also a sign of gambling addiction.
I don't know if this is delusion or a "Dunning-Kruger effect"(when you are dumb, but you think that you are smart), maybe a combination of both. Actually the Dunning-Kruger effect is some kind of delusion.

[irhact]

- Be careful introducing gambling to your friend who you know has a drug use problem.

Introducing gambling to an addict is the worst thing you can do for that individual. Addiction has a way of conquering itself, if a drug addict starts gambling, they might quit the drug addiction but it'll be replaced with gambling addiction which will be like jumping from a frying pot into the fire itself. Drug addict can get influence easily so they should be speared.

My personal opinion, I'll say don't introduced anybody to gambling, even though it's been very profitablity to you still don't introduced it to others. Allow them to discover it themselves so you don't get blamed for their failure as they mightn't be as lucky as you're because gambling doesn't favor everybody.

[Davidvictorson]

Right now, we are the ones on the receiving end. What I mean is, if you don't tell anyone about gambling they will tell you about it and even go as far as trying to convince you.

Image source: A screenshot from my from conversation with a stranger trying to convince me to sign up on a gambling platform

The above is a conversation with someone I have never met. The person got my number from a WhatsApp group and decided to try to convince me to sign up to sportybet. So you see, sometimes we are the ones on the receiving end.

So if you as a person is a teenager report anyone trying to persuade you against your wish to sign up on a betting platform.
I suspect that introverts and people who like to spend time alone would fall prey to these gambling crusaders. They are most likely to become addicted because of their sedentary life.

[Zlantann]

- Be careful introducing gambling to people who have a good access to enough money and no discipline in spending, they may not mind gambling to win money, but for other reasons, and because of their good access to money, they may just become addicted without even knowing.

- Be careful introducing gambling to someone who you know is poor and needs a better way to earn a livelihood. The person may mistake gambling as a way to earn a living.

- Be careful introducing gambling to your friend who you know easily gets addicted to new things.

- Be careful introducing gambling to your friend who you know has a drug use problem.

In general, I know some forum users may like to respond saying we should be careful generally who we introduce gambling to, which is true, but since may not possibly be avoided, there are some categories of people that we should be on the look out for in the society.

Join the discussion by extending the list if possible.

I think it is not advisable to introduce gambling to people that lack self-control. Being poor or having access to much money is not an excuse for gambling addiction. Anyone that lacks self-control financially will also waste his money on something else. Most people are addicted to earning cheap money which is why they will always be victims of Ponzi schemes. Gambling addiction might lead to drug use or abuse, especially if the gambler is a bad loser or gambles more than he can afford to lose. But it is not a benchmark that all drug abusers are prone to gambling addiction. Generally, I don't think it is advisable to introduce or encourage anybody to gamble. I prefer them to learn it from someone else because gambling could affect people's finance negatively if the act becomes uncontrollable and I don't want to be blamed for someone's problems.

[piebeyb]

To be honest, I have never introduced it to people who are close to my environment, both friends and family, after all, I know it will plunge them into gambling addiction, let alone follow me. I just gamble for fun without having to teach people around me about gambling. . but if they play gambling because they see advertisements I usually give advice not to gamble seriously and always play wisely and responsibly

Gambling is addictive same as drugs, I will never encourage anyone to get involved in any of them most especially in the under-age group since they may not have the ability to control their desire to take high risks which can lead to more problems.

-I personally have never introduced anyone to gambling and as a matter of fact I myself I am still a newbie in gambling, and since I gamble for fun no one will see me doing so and at that, I haven't really seen anyone around me trying to learn gambling from me.

yes of course when we teach and invite someone to play gambling then that person cannot control his emotions in gambling let alone spending all his money at the gambling table and even leaving his family just to win at the gambling table of course I will feel very guilty seeing that person, so it's better just me who play gambling instead of inviting the people closest to us and even those we know to play gambling because we don't know someone's behavior when playing gambling. So don't ever try it for your own gain

[Wiwo]

I think it is not advisable to introduce gambling to people that lack self-control. Being poor or having access to much money is not an excuse for gambling addiction. Anyone that lacks self-control financially will also waste his money on something else. Most people are addicted to earning cheap money which is why they will always be victims of Ponzi schemes. Gambling addiction might lead to drug use or abuse, especially if the gambler is a bad loser or gambles more than he can afford to lose. But it is not a benchmark that all drug abusers are prone to gambling addiction. Generally, I don't think it is advisable to introduce or encourage anybody to gamble. I prefer them to learn it from someone else because gambling could affect people's finance negatively if the act becomes uncontrollable and don't want to be blamed for someone's problems.

My friend Zlantann quite a while, I am excited to read your comments in regards to excuses people give for gambling addiction, most of the addicts failed to accept the responsibility that is entirely their fault for becoming addicts that way, addiction withdrawal and rehabilitation process will be fast and easy.

-Addiction tendency can be detected early and the individual can avoid getting involved in things that could get them addicted such as gambling or substances.

[rodskee]

Myself introduced gambling to my girlfriend, and she started to gamble regularly. Bets doesn't go higher than $1 and initially she enjoyed it as she didn't experience loss. Later started to loss, and requests me to recover her loss for her. I used to recover playing with bigger bets and one day lost big. From that day she completely stopped gambling, not even for fun she doesn't gamble. I mention this just to state what is being said in the OP is true, men easily turns addictive. Good for the men is to concentrate on sports betting than casino games.

really ? you let your Girlfriend learn gambling? and even let her told you to recover her losses? how come that you both become that stupid about gambling?

If she become more addicted then surely you will blame yourself and will even broke up because of gambling.

I hate seeing a couple having this when they can just enjoy other things in internet or even teach them how to invest here than gambling

[bitbollo]

@OP
can you indicate the source from which you got this list of people at risk?

@Davidvictorson
it's useless to say that most of the times they are just advertising a scam site or trying to earn few bucks with their referral in any case, avoid to join if you're not sure what you're doing.

[alastantiger]

You are absolutely right. Introducing someone to gambling has a negative and positive impact. The negative impact is that the person might get addicted after winning in his or her first game maybe by luck while forgeting that gambling has ups and down, there is every tendency that he will gamble more for wins.
And if he looses, definitely he won't give up, he would want to recover his loose.
Someone who is easily influenced by friends can also be a gambling addict.
Someone who lacks self discipline, who dont have self control can easily fall in the trap of gambling addiction.

[molsewid]

You are absolutely right. Introducing someone to gambling has a negative and positive impact. The negative impact is that the person might get addicted after winning in his or her first game maybe by luck while forgeting that gambling has ups and down, there is every tendency that he will gamble more for wins.
And if he looses, definitely he won't give up, he would want to recover his loose.
Someone who is easily influenced by friends can also be a gambling addict.
Someone who lacks self discipline, who dont have self control can easily fall in the trap of gambling addiction.

I agree, but then we are partially responsible if something happens to him. It will be our conscience if he will soon be addicted to it but then we need also to tell him that he need to be responsible enough to his expenses so that there will be no problem in the future. I started gambling because someone teaches me and I will make sure that whatever may happen in the future I will not blame my friend for teaching me to gamble.

[LogitechMouse]

In summary, just don't introduce it to anyone that you know that are not capable of controlling their emotions because you'll never know on up to what point they can control themselves.

Because the time might even come that you'll be the one to be blamed by those people whom you've introduced gambling. That's not a new story and there have been cases like that they were blamed and made it looked bad because they've just introduced those addicted gamblers to gambling.

Avoid being the trigger of others that may fall into gambling addiction if you don't want to get involved and be blamed for.

There are lots of categories, but I think this is the one that's on the top in terms of who you shouldn't introduce gambling for.

We already know that people who are full of emotions often loses their money whether it's on gambling, or trading etc. Traders who are full of emotion most of the time ending up losing their money. On the other hand, those people who want to gamble that are also full of emotions lost their money all the time. People with full of emotions might make some bad decisions that would make their current situation even worse. Some even go to a point where they will borrow money into their family members.

This is also the reason why I'm not introducing gambling to anybody. I'm not gambling that much, but I'm afraid that whenever I introduce gambling to other people, there might be a chance that they will get addicted, and for sure I will blame myself if something bad happens to that person which will cause a domino effect on me.

[Rruchi man]

@OP
can you indicate the source from which you got this list of people at risk?

For the category of people most likely to become addicts to gambling that I quoted, check well, there was always a source link and reference that I attached at the end of it, That is the first and second category that I talked about, look well.

For the other categories, that is the third to sixth option, they were listed out from observation.

I also indulged other forum members to add to the list from their observation.

[inthelongrun]

Well, we live in a world where everything can be seen online if we have basic knowledge and skills. As a gambler for many years already, I am always very careful in introducing betting to people, especially the ones that I feel struggling financially and less educated. At least educated people that are seemingly fine with their financial situations can afford some amounts to entertain themselves in casino games and the thrill when they are betting on their favorite sports, leagues, teams, and athletes. 

[dimonstration]

Well, we live in a world where everything can be seen online if we have basic knowledge and skills. As a gambler for many years already, I am always very careful in introducing betting to people, especially the ones that I feel struggling financially and less educated. At least educated people that are seemingly fine with their financial situations can afford some amounts to entertain themselves in casino games and the thrill when they are betting on their favorite sports, leagues, teams, and athletes. 

I never have a courage to introduce gambling to someone I know regardless of it’s mental and financial condition because I know what’s the effect of gambling when a person can’t handle it. I think gambling shouldn’t be introduced to someone that you knew personally to avoid conflicts in the future in case shit happened to them.

I know a lot of stories about successful and rich person that become devastated when they started playing gambling. Addiction can’t be controlled once our mind is hooked on chasing profit/losses.

[Wiwo]

@OP
can you indicate the source from which you got this list of people at risk?

@Davidvictorson
it's useless to say that most of the times they are just advertising a scam site or trying to earn few bucks with their referral in any case, avoid to join if you're not sure what you're doing.

Fact that everyone have right to a decision makes it easy for us to overlook some things, with basic skills and experience we should be able to differentiate between legit and scam project no matter who is promoting them.

-one of the ways to avoid drama is to make your own decision and don't get carried away with others' points of view or sweet stories, and most importantly we should avoid being greedy since greed has become the major cause of addictions lately.