Gambling is a choice.

[davis196]

Gambling should be your choice, you shouldn't let anyone compel or persuade you into it.

Saying that gambling is a choice sounds like a BS excuse to me. Doing drugs is also "a choice". Becoming an alcoholic is "a choice" as well.
Ruining your life is a choice. Sometimes the people lose control over their behavior and their choice suddenly becomes an addiction.
Being addicted is not a choice, it's an illness that has to be cured. The life story you are describing seems like a scam to me.
Letting someone else manipulate and scam you is your choice, but that doesn't mean that it's your fault only. The scammer is also guilty of manipulating and scamming innocent people.

[mak013]

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I am guided a lot by the statistics and predictions of a particular sport, for example , what they say is very good, but you have to have a lot of time to dedicate yourself to the sport or favorite sport and know, in the case of the most controversial fight like the one yesterday where Haney won Lomachenko was a unanimous decision , where it was seen that the winner was the American, and Lomachenko himself said that Hnaey considers him good, but not one of the best in the world, he is a boxer well, but he is not among the best , there is a lot of controversy and boxing fans did not like this decision but the statistics and probabilities showed that the winner would be Haney.

There are different ways in bets. Even if the main goal is to get profit. You can bet with the odd 1.01 but make lots of bets or you can spend much time and make just one bet with the odd 2.5. Both times you get the same profit. If you bet lots of bets with small odds you spend time for betting, if you bet once with high odd - you spend time for analyze. Of course it is just for example.
I don`t know what the way is better, but at least the number of ways is more than one.

[maydna]

~snip~

While gambling is a choice, I don't support people defaulting the laws of their country and putting themselves in situations where they can be cheated on. If a users uses a VPN, he should first confirm if it's okay by the casino or gambling site that he's using it on.

We have many accusations when members accounts were closed for asking them to verify their identity after they won big amounts and they found out that the users are accessing the sites illegally through VPN as their country of resident isn't welcome on the casino.

Online Gambling makes it easy to forget that there are laws and regulations that need to be followed so we should be very careful about the decision we take and make sure we know every terms and conditions of the gambling sites or casinos that we play on.

Besides, they can be caught if they keep gambling because our country prohibits gambling. And when they do, they're just getting into trouble we don't know about. And while we can use a VPN to visit the casino and gamble there, we must be aware of the risk of being found out by our government. And we'd better not have to take that risk.

And casinos can also identify their members easily to find members from countries where gambling is prohibited. Casinos can also impose penalties on their members by closing their accounts without notification, which is what has happened so far. But that doesn't stop people from gambling at online crypto casinos because they find lots of interesting promotions from these casinos.

~snip~

Gambling does provide benefits, but only at times, so one shouldn't think of it as a way to gain benefits constantly since it is not something that makes everyone rich. Only the luckiest people in the world manage to become rich through gambling and those are a few out of millions that gamble from all around the globe at different casinos online and offline.

So one should only see gambling as an opportunity that might do something good for them but the chances are mainly against them, so they need to make sure that they are not giving away everything they have only for that.

Profits from gambling can only be obtained when we can get lucky, but we cannot expect that luck to be with us while playing gambling. Indeed, some people can become rich people, but only a few, while others will lose a lot of money, especially those who do not have good self-control.

We should use gambling for fun and not turn it into a money-making opportunity. And that is why gambling is an option that we don't need to think about seriously.

~snip~

What you said is true, it is still up to us to decide whether we will play gambling or not. That's why the good advice of others is useless if we don't follow it. Because everyone's mindset is different when it comes to gambling.

Just like there are countries where gambling is legalized like Casinos and in others it is illegal, the same for every individual person. But in reality, it's not good for children or minors, we know that. That's why there is other gambling that is made legal because it helps the charity program and at the same time the tax that it gives to the government.

As long as we can anticipate the risks, I think playing gambling is okay. But it must be remembered that "only" if we can anticipate the risks and control ourselves. If not, it will only be a place to waste money without being able to make money.

If it is a child, gambling is indeed prohibited. But we know that today's children already use sophisticated mobile phones that can make them visit many sites, including gambling. They use the cell phone without their parents knowing so they can freely visit any site. And it can trigger them to gamble if they see gambling advertisements. And when no one knows, they can play gambling secretly, and it is possible to use a lot of money.

[Doan9269]

Gambling should be your choice, you shouldn't let anyone compel or persuade you into it.

Saying that gambling is a choice sounds like a BS excuse to me. Doing drugs is also "a choice". Becoming an alcoholic is "a choice" as well.
Ruining your life is a choice. Sometimes the people lose control over their behavior and their choice suddenly becomes an addiction.
Being addicted is not a choice, it's an illness that has to be cured. The life story you are describing seems like a scam to me.
Letting someone else manipulate and scam you is your choice, but that doesn't mean that it's your fault only. The scammer is also guilty of manipulating and scamming innocent people.

Bringing out good moral conducts in gambling is a choice and misbehaving in gambling also is a choice, everyone fall in either of the category stated above, but yet it's our decision on where to settle on, we will definitely be responsible for our outcomes received through gambling if they are good or bad base on what we have decided to settle on, but one thing that i see which is very important here is individuality involved, our personalities as well account, our level of thinking and reasoning matters, the kind of orientation we have as well as the place or environment we lived in, that's why i put it that it's not about gambling now, but our personal individuals responsibility and choice while gambling.

[Nrcewker]

Definitely you should only gamble, when you want, these type of rogues just trick the common people to fall in their traps and games which is not even fair and take all the money from them. But this can’t be happen online, as people are now a days very smart, and before depositing any amount of site in any casino, then do a complete background check on the reputation and then only they deposit. They also check that whether the games are fair or not, hence in online space the chances of getting scammed like this in the name of gambling is very less.

[Warkop]

Gambling should be your choice, you shouldn't let anyone compel or persuade you into it.

Saying that gambling is a choice sounds like a BS excuse to me. Doing drugs is also "a choice". Becoming an alcoholic is "a choice" as well.
Ruining your life is a choice. Sometimes the people lose control over their behavior and their choice suddenly becomes an addiction.
Being addicted is not a choice, it's an illness that has to be cured. The life story you are describing seems like a scam to me.
Letting someone else manipulate and scam you is your choice, but that doesn't mean that it's your fault only. The scammer is also guilty of manipulating and scamming innocent people.

In my opinion it is a choice of negative things from a person, and it all returns to a person's nature whether he is an addict or not, or gambling is just a hobby for the pleasure of his daily activities, sometimes the nature of wanting to know more than what they have not felt when they have a lot of money, so whether the money will be used to gamble or buy drugs or vice versa the money that is owned for the necessities of life, everyone's choices and the nature that is in a person are not too similar, so that's why we can judge someone from when they have a lot of money or not at all..

[piebeyb]

Gambling should be your choice, you shouldn't let anyone compel or persuade you into it.

Saying that gambling is a choice sounds like a BS excuse to me. Doing drugs is also "a choice". Becoming an alcoholic is "a choice" as well.
Ruining your life is a choice. Sometimes the people lose control over their behavior and their choice suddenly becomes an addiction.
Being addicted is not a choice, it's an illness that has to be cured. The life story you are describing seems like a scam to me.
Letting someone else manipulate and scam you is your choice, but that doesn't mean that it's your fault only. The scammer is also guilty of manipulating and scamming innocent people.

Yes, it's true that everything is a choice whether it's playing gambling or becoming a gambling addict, because an addict will stop himself if he chooses to stop gambling and get out of gambling, so there is no way to help treat someone who becomes an addict if it doesn't come from himself, if he chooses to become an addict is a path and a choice that has been chosen.

I think life always has a choice, in any step we have to choose which path is best for ourselves, I once had a friend who used to be an addict without anyone helping him to recover, it turned out he had recovered from his addiction and when I asked him what which made him recover, it turned out that he had made up his mind to stop gambling and avoid any gambling, that was a choice and he had chosen to live a better life

[Bushdark]

Gambling should be your choice, you shouldn't let anyone compel or persuade you into it.

Saying that gambling is a choice sounds like a BS excuse to me. Doing drugs is also "a choice". Becoming an alcoholic is "a choice" as well.
Ruining your life is a choice. Sometimes the people lose control over their behavior and their choice suddenly becomes an addiction.
Being addicted is not a choice, it's an illness that has to be cured. The life story you are describing seems like a scam to me.
Letting someone else manipulate and scam you is your choice, but that doesn't mean that it's your fault only. The scammer is also guilty of manipulating and scamming innocent people.

In my opinion it is a choice of negative things from a person, and it all returns to a person's nature whether he is an addict or not, or gambling is just a hobby for the pleasure of his daily activities, sometimes the nature of wanting to know more than what they have not felt when they have a lot of money, so whether the money will be used to gamble or buy drugs or vice versa the money that is owned for the necessities of life, everyone's choices and the nature that is in a person are not too similar, so that's why we can judge someone from when they have a lot of money or not at all..

Whatever results we are getting from gambling we need to know that we choose that way and is the outcome of what we have chosen. We don't need to blame people around us for the results we are getting.

 If we don't like the results we are getting, we can better still work on how we make our bets so that we don't end up losing big from what we are doing. Gambling is a choice we need to know and accept any of the results we are seeing. Those we keep making consistent winnings have paid the prize and still paying so we don't need to see it as a shortcut we can take to get the kind of results we are looking for.

[karmamiu]

Gambling should be your choice, you shouldn't let anyone compel or persuade you into it.

Saying that gambling is a choice sounds like a BS excuse to me. Doing drugs is also "a choice". Becoming an alcoholic is "a choice" as well.
Ruining your life is a choice. Sometimes the people lose control over their behavior and their choice suddenly becomes an addiction.
Being addicted is not a choice, it's an illness that has to be cured. The life story you are describing seems like a scam to me.
Letting someone else manipulate and scam you is your choice, but that doesn't mean that it's your fault only. The scammer is also guilty of manipulating and scamming innocent people.

In my opinion it is a choice of negative things from a person, and it all returns to a person's nature whether he is an addict or not, or gambling is just a hobby for the pleasure of his daily activities, sometimes the nature of wanting to know more than what they have not felt when they have a lot of money, so whether the money will be used to gamble or buy drugs or vice versa the money that is owned for the necessities of life, everyone's choices and the nature that is in a person are not too similar, so that's why we can judge someone from when they have a lot of money or not at all..

Whatever results we are getting from gambling we need to know that we choose that way and is the outcome of what we have chosen. We don't need to blame people around us for the results we are getting.

 If we don't like the results we are getting, we can better still work on how we make our bets so that we don't end up losing big from what we are doing. Gambling is a choice we need to know and accept any of the results we are seeing. Those we keep making consistent winnings have paid the prize and still paying so we don't need to see it as a shortcut we can take to get the kind of results we are looking for.

Once you decided to gamble, it is already a surefire loss, it is only up to different factors whether you will win or lose just like luck, and as you'be said that it is also your decision on what to do next, either you will try to gamble again or will just immediately stop. Gambling is your own responsible, not other people, and it is not also right to let other people decide it for you and will end up blaming them if ever you'll lose.

There have been so many cases of this kind of situation before where they tend to be swayed easily only to end up losing big and struggling to get out of that pithole of loss. As they said "gamble responsibly", coz in the end you are the only ones who will eithee benefit or suffer, that is all up to how you handle your gambling habits.

[Wiwo]

I agree with that and even though some may believe that gambling is not a reflection of greed, a good number of people will still believe gambling to be a greed-motivated act especially when it becomes excessive.

I didn't think anything aside from greed will make one fall for such pranks by street urchins who are entirely out to scam you of money, so the best practice is to avoid such activities in totality since we can simply refuse to fall for them.

[n0ne]

When we get into gambling we're into it with our conscious. If it had happened by compulsion then it is wrong. When we enter by our own understanding, then there is no use of blaming others. The street gambles were simple tricks same as that people do magic. We can't be sure as well as those sticks and stones are much used to them. They know well in what way ot need to be dropped so to fail the person who had placed the bet.

Only advantage we've got over the online gambling platforms is the provably fair functioning. We can't expect this with the street gamble. Whether we get into gambling online or offline our minds need to be prepared enough to experience the loss. If by luck we get winning, just enjoy it. This is how one needs to participate into gambling activities.

[Unbunplease]

When we get into gambling we're into it with our conscious. If it had happened by compulsion then it is wrong. When we enter by our own understanding, then there is no use of blaming others. The street gambles were simple tricks same as that people do magic. We can't be sure as well as those sticks and stones are much used to them. They know well in what way ot need to be dropped so to fail the person who had placed the bet.

Only advantage we've got over the online gambling platforms is the provably fair functioning. We can't expect this with the street gamble. Whether we get into gambling online or offline our minds need to be prepared enough to experience the loss. If by luck we get winning, just enjoy it. This is how one needs to participate into gambling activities.

The whole problem is that in online games we often don't know if we are playing with a human or a bot. The bot always has an inexhaustible supply of money to bet, and the program knows, if you take poker, for example, what cards the opponents have. So let's hope that pure randomness is used, without any manipulation by the artificial intelligence.

[paxmao]

Gambling is a choice for most people and that is a healthy choice and the healthy way of creating customers that stay and enjoy in the long term. However for many individuals this is not true, as there is something they cannot control that makes them bet over their budget or not stopping when fun is no longer there. I would not say it is a choice for everyone, just for most people.

[EarnOnVictor]

Something happened in my locality and I just wonder if that's how we also behave in the online space.

So, they're always a group of rougues in my country, they're often sited in the market place where there's a reasonable population, what's their work???

The have things in a martch box like stones and sticks, they'll ask you to pick the one out of it that has something, depending on what the want....

At first, when you pick, they'll let you win so as to drag your attention, then subsequent wins, you'll be at the losing side and the make sure the drain your pockets entirely.

So, just last week, this lady fell a victim and she was shouting and crying, the had obviously emptied her pocket and even gotten her phone from her in the process of the gambling.

My thoughts, is this how we often feel when we lose out on a bet??
Do you wish the site can refund your money??

Gambling should be your choice, you shouldn't let anyone compel or persuade you into it.

These sort of street fraudsters can easily be dealt with by the police most of the time, it's illegal to engage these sort of activities - unlicensed gambling - in almost every country around the world. With just a little bit of evidence, maybe a bit of short stealth recording, it should be easy to present this to the police and get them arrested. They really do take advantage of people who are unfamiliar with card tricks and other games. Ironically it shows how addictive gambling can be, because they often allow you to win small amounts in the first one or two goes of the game, the wisest people would leave at this point, but then those sort of people would never be playing the game anyway so it takes care of itself from the conman's perspective.

But we know that not all people would really be that wise nor really be that aware about gambling and on the time that they would really go into a place and able to encounter such stuffs then this is where
people do easily get hook specially on the time that they would really be showing and letting them win on few tries.It is true that in every place there are really that these illegal doings or fraudsters on which they would really be taking some advantage into those who do have zero knowledge. This is why having that common sense would be your best weapon on which you would really be that able to sense
things that somethings off or not really that right. Come to mind that if those given games are really that easy to win up on your first tries then you should really be minding
on hows it possible? it cant really be just that some sort of rigged or making you believe that it is really just that easy.

It is indeed a grim reality that such fraudulent activities often target those with little to no understanding of the games or mechanics involved. The initial wins serve as a deceptive enticement, a proverbial 'siren call,' drawing unsuspecting individuals into a rigged game. While law enforcement indeed plays a critical role in curbing such activities, the onus falls upon individuals to equip themselves with knowledge. Knowledge is power, after all. By understanding the inherent risks and mechanics of these games, one can more effectively resist the allure of easy wins.

Moreover, fostering a societal dialogue about such schemes, much like we are doing here, can raise public awareness and dissuade potential victims from falling prey. In essence, shared knowledge becomes a collective defense. In the end, prevention remains the best cure, and awareness is the first step towards prevention.

I don't see the business of the law enforcers here as the choice is always freely made, and when you experience something you don't like, you should not want it again, and then you have to quit. This is how I see the whole thing, it's a matter of choice, and no matter how the system is wired/rigged to trick anyone, it should not trick a sensible person for too long before the right consciousness would be alerted. Just don't do what you do not want to do or do not have much belief in, and when anyone persuades you for anything and you still oblige the person, I believe that it's a choice you made, no one should be blamed but you if it boomerangs.

No one should expect a quick-rich scheme in gambling or anywhere else and when something new to you is happening in such a way that is advertised or experienced related to that, then be more cautious rather than blaming someone's later.

[Mr. Magkaisa]

     -   I do I agree that gambling is a matter of choice. And it doesn't mean that we chose it as a novice gambler that we are immediately addicted to it, of course it takes time to become addicted to it. But why should we choose the one if it will destroy our personality and the family we have.

You can gamble without affecting your family and close friends, are you the type who just consider it a game like in amusement you buy a token so you can play, so it should be the same with gambling when we play let's see it as just an amusement , don't take it seriously.

[Fivestar4everMVP]

    -   I do I agree that gambling is a matter of choice. And it doesn't mean that we chose it as a novice gambler that we are immediately addicted to it, of course it takes time to become addicted to it. But why should we choose the one if it will destroy our personality and the family we have.

You can gamble without affecting your family and close friends, are you the type who just consider it a game like in amusement you buy a token so you can play, so it should be the same with gambling when we play let's see it as just an amusement , don't take it seriously.

Well, but it's still very unfortunate that several gamblers have taken gambling so seriously that some have even taken it as their only source of income for living, it's wild though, but it's really hard to find any thing in this world that involves money, that's not being abused by some, not matter how or what several other people or persons say.

Gambling is one of those activities that some people can never stop abusing, for those who are addicted to gambling, I think it's no longer a choice for them, but a habit, something they must do to feel alright, even though they have to lose money in the process.

[xSkylarx]

Gambling is a choice for most people and that is a healthy choice and the healthy way of creating customers that stay and enjoy in the long term. However for many individuals this is not true, as there is something they cannot control that makes them bet over their budget or not stopping when fun is no longer there. I would not say it is a choice for everyone, just for most people.

You have a point as people are built differently, but for good people should control themselves unless it ain't destroying their lives because what I've noticed about those people who overbet is that they always lose and it is affecting them financially as well as their relationship with their family, but there are really more that can't control themselves even if they only have a few dollars left. They still gamble, like in the lottery, where I've noticed a lot of people will try their luck even if they only have a few dollars left, meaning it is really a choice or an uncontrollable choice.

[Doan9269]

Definitely you should only gamble, when you want, these type of rogues just trick the common people to fall in their traps and games which is not even fair and take all the money from them. But this can’t be happen online, as people are now a days very smart, and before depositing any amount of site in any casino, then do a complete background check on the reputation and then only they deposit. They also check that whether the games are fair or not, hence in online space the chances of getting scammed like this in the name of gambling is very less.

There's freedom in gambling which means you can choose or decide on anything for yourself in gambling, just as no one can force you to gamble or stops you, if you think you want to choose a casino wallet which is centralized as your own bank for storage of your cryptocurrencies that's fine, but always know the risk associated with using online wallets and it danger, if the site is down, your money is down as well, only make a deposit of the amount you can afford to loose while gambling.

[ethereumhunter]

    -   I do I agree that gambling is a matter of choice. And it doesn't mean that we chose it as a novice gambler that we are immediately addicted to it, of course it takes time to become addicted to it. But why should we choose the one if it will destroy our personality and the family we have.

You can gamble without affecting your family and close friends, are you the type who just consider it a game like in amusement you buy a token so you can play, so it should be the same with gambling when we play let's see it as just an amusement , don't take it seriously.

Being addicted does take time but we will never know when we can become addicted. We just know that we just want to gamble most of the time and don't want to do anything else. And that is why gambling is a choice and we shouldn't try it if we are afraid of becoming addicted, especially if we can't control our lust.

Seeing gambling as entertainment is a good thing, especially if it is accompanied by good self-control so that we will not experience gambling addiction in the long term. Indeed, self-control will go up and down along with the emotions that come but it's worth it, especially if we really want to prevent gambling addiction.

[hyudien]

Definitely you should only gamble, when you want, these type of rogues just trick the common people to fall in their traps and games which is not even fair and take all the money from them. But this can’t be happen online, as people are now a days very smart, and before depositing any amount of site in any casino, then do a complete background check on the reputation and then only they deposit. They also check that whether the games are fair or not, hence in online space the chances of getting scammed like this in the name of gambling is very less.

There's freedom in gambling which means you can choose or decide on anything for yourself in gambling, just as no one can force you to gamble or stops you, if you think you want to choose a casino wallet which is centralized as your own bank for storage of your cryptocurrencies that's fine, but always know the risk associated with using online wallets and it danger, if the site is down, your money is down as well, only make a deposit of the amount you can afford to loose while gambling.

We have heard this many times and wherever gambling can always receive good and bad risks from gambling. For now, gamblers are much smarter, at least they can choose and sort out the casino criteria to be used. Usually looking for information about the casino, its reputation and I hope you don't have to worry anymore. Regarding connecting a wallet via web3, it's not really preferred, but if you want to do this, use a new wallet that is specifically for gambling and also make sure that the balance is only enough to play once so that if the site goes down occasionally or you experience damage which results in losing your balance, you won't lose it as a whole.