Is it ethical to break your gambling rules

[bangjoe]

My recent experience from gambling, prompted me to ask this question,  and just as the title stated clearly,  you can easily deduce what I am trying to ask in this thread


My experience
In the last two weeks, I have been on a steady roll in gambling and most of the stakes I placed are mostly in sports bets, dice, and spin, all these games are luck-based games unless for football that requires a little bit of analysis.


That being said, this week I noticed that I have continued in the same trend despite that I have a personal gambling rule, not to gamble for two weeks consecutively,  but unknowingly for me I am already in the third week without adhering to my own rule.


So this led me to ask the general public if I am gambling too much, although this excess didn't affect my finances in any way since I still managed to come out with little winning at the end of the day and at some level, my losses are still below 30 percent of my set out money.

Mistakes are mistakes, after all the rules you make for yourself are what you have to keep as you manage your finances, even though you say that it does not interfere with your finances, in my opinion it is not tolerable and cannot be underestimated, the fear is that you will continue to do things because you think you have no problem with your finances after you violate your gambling budget, and it will be bad if you have that mindset.

This will go back to what you might get used to in the future, because that is what will change your actions and consider something good or bad if you continue with that view, my opinion is that it is better for you to correct and recycle the rules that you make yourself, so that there is a clear point of reason, honestly controlling yourself is much more difficult than determining how much money you have to spend, because you can easily break it.

You are the ones who do set those rules and literally yes its a mistakes since those are violating your own rules but since you are the ones who had set out then you would really be revoking those rules
and make it not effective.  . This is why people would really be just that make out those easy decisions and divert it out into something that they are really currently dealing with.
You wont really be having any problems even if you do broke those rules. You are the ones who would really be feeling out that its ethical or something that off on trying out to break those you had set earlier.
Just like on what others been saying that as long you are really that having the good control of your funds and you are still on winning side then you are really just that doing fine.

Yes, whether it's ethical or not depends on your personal view too, because that point of view depends on how you understand the moral side of yourself running a strategy or whatever you do in your life.

Maybe the typical person in judging something is also different, so some say ethical and some think it's unethical to do, it looks ethical because you do it for yourself in your financial strategy, and in my opinion unethical is like you lick your own saliva, if OP is a person who has firm principles on what he makes himself then it will look unethical, but if OP is a dynamic person or does not stick to his rules or principles then it can also be considered ethical, after all he himself did it.

[Slow death]

Well, it is important that when we enter the world of gambling we manage time and bankroll well and that we create a good gaming strategy, of course you can only create strategies when playing a game that does not depend on lucky for the person to win. In this case you first need to analyze which games you like and want to play and how much free time you have available to play and how much money you are willing to risk losing in each section. for example you decide that you are going to play plinko because it is the game you like, so you have 2 free hours a day and you have 3$ available to risk losing during those 2 hours in which you can play. Each week you only have 4 free days to play

With this calendar and bankroll management you can play at will, always respecting this rule, even when, for example, in a section you are lucky enough to hit a big multiplier and thus win a lot, you still need to keep the same rule, you cannot deviate from it. . but there are cases in which you can make an exception when, for example, you are changing games, for example you are starting to place sports bets, as the calendar of football games or other sports is different, so in this scenario you will need to create another calendar and do bankroll management in another way. for example, major league games take place on Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays and Mondays. but there are weeks when European competition games take place, such as European champions league, European league and conference league games.

By this I mean that there is nothing wrong with sometimes not keeping up with your calendar, as long as it doesn't become too frequent, there are times when a person may not have anything else to do and as they have free time a few minutes then the person uses this little time to play, this is something acceptable, the most important thing is that even if sometimes the person breaks the rules they created a little, they still continue to follow them and breaking events are not frequent of rules

[Zigabel]

It's actually unethical to break a rule and then your gambling rule now makes it even more unethical because at this point you may gradually engage in habits that will not be beneficial to your gambling practice because you have involved in gambling against the rules that should guide you into becoming profitable so you rather suffer losses more than you should have. Sticking to our gambling rule helps foster discipline and also keeps our habits in chack so we don't go bankrupt gambling or spend much more than we anticipated or should have because we are trying to make money.

Sticking to your gambling rule will do you more good than harm, there are times it will fail but it still not s reason to compromise it else you will later have yourself to blame when the loses starts coming in.

[acroman08]

So this led me to ask the general public if I am gambling too much, although this excess didn't affect my finances in any way since I still managed to come out with little winning at the end of the day and at some level, my losses are still below 30 percent of my set out money.

I don't see anything wrong when someone breaks their gambling rule once in a while but if it becomes too frequent and you start to make excuses like or justify yourself by saying "It didn't affect my finances and came out with little winning in the end" it has become a problem and you are on your way on ignoring your gambling rules, I suggest that despite that you won you should stick with your rule as much as possible.

[danherbias07]

I say, yes you are gambling too much.
How can I say that? I've been in the same position before and thankfully I get to think of where I am before it gets deep.

Great and thank you for telling it to my face that I gamble too much since I have overstepped my set boundaries,  and only this comment has the boldness to tell me how much I have gambled while breaking my own set rules, much more so that I have gone overboard and become a direction chaser lately which give me more concerns.


But then I have gone back to my drawing board and also I have put some measures in place that will put me in check to avoid repeating this same cycle of breaking my rules and principles in the future, and up till then, I may have to stick with that idea of not breaking my own rule at all for whatever reasons.

No problem. For me it's better to tell the truth and that is also based on my own experience. I am just trying to share it.

Being a disciplined gambler is difficult to achieve. Easy to say from lots of people but we who gambled know the truth that it ain't easy. You will still break your own rules but I applaud the fact that you can identify your position. I mean, some will just deny it and tell themselves they are not yet going overboard until they won't even realize they are already gambling addicts. It's a good thing, that you are not lying to yourself and that you are open to harsh comments which is the truth.

We can continue to gamble but keeping in mind that we have a plan to follow and as much as possible stick to the plan. We can go overboard because it won't be stopped but realizing we are crossing the line too far should always be open so that we will stop.

[panjul07]

Ethical or not will be depending on yourself because it is your own rule and it is your own responsibility.
For me, it is not about ethical or not but it is about wise or not because it is related to ourselves as we do not deal with others in this case.
In general, I'm pretty sure most gamblers break their own rules such as their own time limit, money limit, and other things.
If you ask me, as long as we are still responsible for what we are doing, it is fine but it is not wise.

[YOSHIE]

My recent experience from gambling, prompted me to ask this question,  and just as the title stated clearly,  you can easily deduce what I am trying to ask in this thread.

The way a person gambles varies, whether it is ethical or not, everything you do goes back to your principles and common sense, if you think that in one week you gamble normally and with common sense, of course what you do is ethical, but on the other hand, if you gamble at a higher limit than usual, of course your mind will not accept all the facts of what you are betting on, of course it is unethical for you to do it, fortunately you don't lose up to 100%, you only experience 30%, you are able to realize everything you are doing.

Many people gamble to the limit in a day, this happens to those who are seriously addicted, morning until night they still sit in front of their laptop/Android, looking for victory in the gambling arena, I think you are not on the verge of addiction, because you are still conscious. Ask here and tell me about your experience during one week of gambling. My suggestion is that you have gambled continuously for one week and lost 30%, For me you should look for reflection or recreation for a while, don't continue for a while, if you are relaxed and stable you can continue again by choosing sports betting instead.

[summonerrk]

My recent experience from gambling, prompted me to ask this question,  and just as the title stated clearly,  you can easily deduce what I am trying to ask in this thread


My experience
In the last two weeks, I have been on a steady roll in gambling and most of the stakes I placed are mostly in sports bets, dice, and spin, all these games are luck-based games unless for football that requires a little bit of analysis.


That being said, this week I noticed that I have continued in the same trend despite that I have a personal gambling rule, not to gamble for two weeks consecutively,  but unknowingly for me I am already in the third week without adhering to my own rule.


So this led me to ask the general public if I am gambling too much, although this excess didn't affect my finances in any way since I still managed to come out with little winning at the end of the day and at some level, my losses are still below 30 percent of my set out money.

It doesn't matter what you find in profit now, because you're still violating your rule of "not playing for more than two weeks." You need to make an effort on yourself and stop playing. It's going to be hard, I know perfectly well what it's like to break my personal rules in gambling. The brain creates a bunch of reasons why it allows the mind to go a little beyond the rules, and then we go into a rush and the rules set in a calm state begin to fly to hell. It is very easy and pleasant to cross the line, but it is very difficult to return to order in your character.

[Helena Yu]

Let's be frank, most people can't even set a limit to themselves and they can't consistent with the rules that they set to themselves, so breaking your own gambling rules is normal. I really hard to find someone who stick with their own rules, they mostly do anything when they want or gets forced, not consistent.

As long as you didn't gamble until you have a financial problem, it's fine enough.

[danadc]

My experience based on the things that are in casino games, is little, but enough to realize that things cannot be done just to get by, each one has to be calculated, for example the fact of not Complying with our own rules means that we are doing things wrong, if in a bet on the game we break our own rules I am sure that what will result is in losing money, therefore when we are doing any kind of stinks In a casino we have to be conscious with our money.

The danger of doing things wrong in a casino is that we lose money, and that is what affects many, because without money how can you play? It is impossible, and when you think you have money, what happens is that the person begins to experiment with ideas to achieve more and those ideas are not good, generally what affects the most is the emotional and mental part, that is why it is just the fact of not following the rules is so delicate.

[l3pox]

I think it’s a good idea to think about what are the reasons you had to put this rule at first. Was it to avoid developing the habit? Or for some other reason?

if you’re having a good time than it’s probably not a problem as long as you feel it won’t go out of control

[karabiber]

Let's be frank, most people can't even set a limit to themselves and they can't consistent with the rules that they set to themselves, so breaking your own gambling rules is normal. I really hard to find someone who stick with their own rules, they mostly do anything when they want or gets forced, not consistent.

As long as you didn't gamble until you have a financial problem, it's fine enough.

Gambling allows us to act on purely emotional impulses. We need to set rules for ourselves when we gamble and not break them. Because when we gamble we will always want more, but we can be wise when we gamble by setting rules for ourselves. We need to have rules like not gambling with the amount of money we need, gambling with money that we can take a profit when we win and not be upset when we lose. But this is not easy to do. Our emotions override our reason and the desire to make more money can lead us astray. If we respect ourselves, we should not break our rules, and this applies to all areas of our lives.

[crwth]

I think ethical is not the right word to use about gambling because it might be unethical to be even gambling and it's somewhat redundant.

If you are talking about yourself and how it's going to be with you, then it's definitely your choice if it's "ethical" for you. I think it's more about the consistency of your choices in life with gambling because you are setting rules but you don't follow yourself. It's about discipline, IMO. That's the better word.

[Gheka]

Let's be frank, most people can't even set a limit to themselves and they can't consistent with the rules that they set to themselves, so breaking your own gambling rules is normal. I really hard to find someone who stick with their own rules, they mostly do anything when they want or gets forced, not consistent.

As long as you didn't gamble until you have a financial problem, it's fine enough.

Each person's rules are just a basic barrier to retain their awareness of the game, but these rules do not include punishments, which are mostly just set by thought and the thinking is unlimited in terms of extension as well as a few exceptions, therefore, even if reminded many times, people still have moments to add other things to the rules and break the original basics. Moral principles only have some relationship with gambling in cases where gamblers cause social trouble, more precisely, they are things that go against common morality that people should do and that outsiders will judge

[Cryptomultiplier]

We all know how easy it is to pick up a bad habit. It merely takes days for it to become embedded in the subconscious and the thrill of it never dies but evolves.

You are sure becoming used to the adrenaline and excitement that comes with expectations from staking and betting, am sure you still use a minimum amount for your stakes, otherwise you would have known how much the impact has been on your wallet.

Taking a break or reducing your gambling activities is the best way to go for now since you caught yourself and know it might be leading to addiction already. It is very ethical to break your gambling rules because as a responsible adult, you should know where to draw the line or call it quits or improvise.

[Rampagoe004]

That being said, this week I noticed that I have continued in the same trend despite that I have a personal gambling rule, not to gamble for two weeks consecutively,  but unknowingly for me I am already in the third week without adhering to my own rule.


So this led me to ask the general public if I am gambling too much, although this excess didn't affect my finances in any way since I still managed to come out with little winning at the end of the day and at some level, my losses are still below 30 percent of my set out money.

Why do you make rules like that? That's a little strange in my opinion because you hold back for 2 weeks then spend your money in the next 2 weeks. I noticed you didn't mention budget restrictions. I think it would be better if you set a budget limit for gambling so you still have flexible gambling time but with a fixed budget. I think it's much more effective than what you're doing now. Refraining from gambling for 2 weeks certainly feels very difficult if you really like gambling. Especially if that week you have a match from your favorite team. Of course you will break your personal rules many times with rules like that.

[knowngunman]

That being said, this week I noticed that I have continued in the same trend despite that I have a personal gambling rule, not to gamble for two weeks consecutively,  but unknowingly for me I am already in the third week without adhering to my own rule.

So this led me to ask the general public if I am gambling too much, although this excess didn't affect my finances in any way since I still managed to come out with little winning at the end of the day and at some level, my losses are still below 30 percent of my set out money.

Being ethical is all about keeping to rules set aside for a particular thing. You are not the first person to experience this, many of us here have in one way or another break our gamble rules and that's very unethical. It doesn't matter whether it's affecting your finances or not, having difficulties to keep to your own rules is a red flag and if care is not taken it could cause you a great damage in the future. It's very important to put all factors into consideration before drafting your gambling rules to ensure that it align with your personality and compliance will not be too difficult.

The good thing here is that you realize your problem very early and there's chance for you to correct it or ammend your rules to suits your desires. Gambling for two weeks and take a break for two weeks in a month is actually a very unrealistic rule because some perceived good games to stake on might probably fall on the weeks you are supposed to take a break but you will be tempted. I do prefer to set rules regarding budget and finance and not the days to gamble. I know both rules can be broken but at least that of budget is more realistic than the latter.

[Marykeller]

That being said, this week I noticed that I have continued in the same trend despite that I have a personal gambling rule, not to gamble for two weeks consecutively,  but unknowingly for me I am already in the third week without adhering to my own rule.

So this led me to ask the general public if I am gambling too much, although this excess didn't affect my finances in any way since I still managed to come out with little winning at the end of the day and at some level, my losses are still below 30 percent of my set out money.

Rules are given, and the same rules are broken. If you notice that you give out a rule to abide by yourself and that same rule is broken by you, you know that you are indirectly addicted to what you have a rule for.

Experience of giving a rule and breaking it within a short time, almost all of us have experienced it before and it takes a whole lot of endeavors before we begin to stand by the rule we made for ourselves.

On that, I want to let you know that as long as you continue to put your rule to the test and keep reminding yourself of the rule, you will someday not be able to break your rule of not gambling for two weeks consecutively. Remember, everything one is indirectly addicted to, takes time to quit doing that as always

[Lanatsa]

My recent experience from gambling, prompted me to ask this question,  and just as the title stated clearly,  you can easily deduce what I am trying to ask in this thread


My experience
In the last two weeks, I have been on a steady roll in gambling and most of the stakes I placed are mostly in sports bets, dice, and spin, all these games are luck-based games unless for football that requires a little bit of analysis.


That being said, this week I noticed that I have continued in the same trend despite that I have a personal gambling rule, not to gamble for two weeks consecutively,  but unknowingly for me I am already in the third week without adhering to my own rule.


So this led me to ask the general public if I am gambling too much, although this excess didn't affect my finances in any way since I still managed to come out with little winning at the end of the day and at some level, my losses are still below 30 percent of my set out money.

Mistakes are mistakes, after all the rules you make for yourself are what you have to keep as you manage your finances, even though you say that it does not interfere with your finances, in my opinion it is not tolerable and cannot be underestimated, the fear is that you will continue to do things because you think you have no problem with your finances after you violate your gambling budget, and it will be bad if you have that mindset.

This will go back to what you might get used to in the future, because that is what will change your actions and consider something good or bad if you continue with that view, my opinion is that it is better for you to correct and recycle the rules that you make yourself, so that there is a clear point of reason, honestly controlling yourself is much more difficult than determining how much money you have to spend, because you can easily break it.

You are the ones who do set those rules and literally yes its a mistakes since those are violating your own rules but since you are the ones who had set out then you would really be revoking those rules
and make it not effective.  . This is why people would really be just that make out those easy decisions and divert it out into something that they are really currently dealing with.
You wont really be having any problems even if you do broke those rules. You are the ones who would really be feeling out that its ethical or something that off on trying out to break those you had set earlier.
Just like on what others been saying that as long you are really that having the good control of your funds and you are still on winning side then you are really just that doing fine.

Yes, whether it's ethical or not depends on your personal view too, because that point of view depends on how you understand the moral side of yourself running a strategy or whatever you do in your life.

Maybe the typical person in judging something is also different, so some say ethical and some think it's unethical to do, it looks ethical because you do it for yourself in your financial strategy, and in my opinion unethical is like you lick your own saliva, if OP is a person who has firm principles on what he makes himself then it will look unethical, but if OP is a dynamic person or does not stick to his rules or principles then it can also be considered ethical, after all he himself did it.

On this life then it would really be normal that we do really have that kind of adjustments on which this is something that could really happen into each individual on where you would really be having
those sudden change of minds or hearts on which it would really be that resulting for you to changed up those earlier decisions. I do agree  onto those words above that there's nothing wrong if you do broke those rules on which as long you do make yourself that still responsible then this what matter the most and you arent really that putting up yourself on such problem and this is something what matter the most.
There are really things in life on which we do really changed up those things which basing up onto the experiences that we are currently been that dealing with. Yes, it doesnt really feel right on which you do
really have that kind of feeling that you are really that cheating up yourself. hehehe

[EarnOnVictor]

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So this led me to ask the general public if I am gambling too much, although this excess didn't affect my finances in any way since I still managed to come out with little winning at the end of the day and at some level, my losses are still below 30 percent of my set out money.

According to what you narrated above, I can't say you are gambling too much, after all, it seems that you enjoy doing it, so why not continue and have fun through it? Gambling is not so bad as many take it to create unnecessary fear in themselves. Like yours, I can only decipher psychologically that you are giving yourself that break because of the fear of either money wasting or addiction. This is in fact very nice and advisable but yet could be relaxed if you realise that you are enjoying gambling more than the fear you instil in yourself.

Also, the good part is that you never mentioned any irresponsible gambling behaviours, and as a fact, you are winning even if it is little. All these point to the fact that gambling is not negative for you, so you do not have to punish yourself too much over it or have hurt feelings that you are going against your plans. Not to mention that the last time was even a mistake, you only forgot, it is not as it is in the case of many people who due to emotion will knowingly abandon their gambling plan. But yours was just about being taken away by the activity due to the fun you derive from it. So you are still progressive in my opinion.

But mind you, a rule is a rule, I would encourage you to be strict about it next time. This has passed, the next could be catastrophic if care is not taken, and the earlier you guard against it, the better. I advise that it is better to relax the rule for better engagements in gambling than to default on it. The breaking of it can only speak of how weak you are in the face of the discipline and self-management we often preach in gambling.