Can people still get the addictive nature through friendly games

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One of the mistake he made was not acknowledging the fact that gamble is a game of luck and you cannot be always lucky to make wins.

If a gambler doesn't acknowledge luck in gambling then he would like to keep trying after losing and that is what has happened in Op story, he feels that giving out more try will guarantee him winning but it doesn't matter how many times you tried, if you are to win then you will and if not, despite how long you try it will remain hard luck. So not to regret losing, it will be better to play as you can lose and not to persist for another chance for a time of winning.

Many gamblers believe they have the ability to turn a game designed to be uncertain into one they can win all the time, a mistaken notion but one that is very common among many gamblers, and even if we tried to make them see how mistaken they are, they will hardly consider our opinion as they believe themselves to have privileged knowledge we are unaware, so the only thing we can do is to wait until they begin to lose their money and try to convince them then their expectations were out of place.

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Good day friends


Yes the topic name somehow portrays what am about to explain although for a female gender and plus the current society where am staying this kind of habit is somehow strange but I guess most persons must have witnessed it.

So the other day me and my friends both male and female were involved in some house old friendly games like food competition, card game, thumb wrestling and so many more and take to note, all these activities were done just for old times sake and meet between old friends at my place as it included both my husband and his friends but I witness something rather uncalled for.

So I noticed that there were this particular group of guys who really went all out with the friendly and even getting to the extent of making serious argument and almost taking it to the next level for games that were just played for fun purpose and nothing more, it got so worse that the whole atmosphere changed and he instigated that they added some monetary value to the game that he is certain that he isn't going to lose easily and to cut the long story short it went on and on till he barely had much left with him anymore and I had to call the whole thing off and even asked that he money was given back to him but his pride and Shame couldn't allow him to take it back.


So am just curious to know if these little games are the one's that got to him or already developed such habit and to know if possible that the practice will continue elsewhere after leaving there when he lost the money and to look for means through gambling to recover it.

Op everything is not addiction, just like you have just narrated, peer groups, friends, husband and wife, brothers, sisters and many more other sets of people can be in that type of gambling or games as people might call it just to have fun or keep themselves busy without any financial attachment. Those competitions like food competition, card games, thumb wresting and many more are to just keep themselves busy for old times' sake probably because it  was the only way to keep themselves happy and reunite with each other once again, and talking about arguments , we are quite sure that argument is part of gambling whether you are addicted or not because it is part of the thing that makes gambling interesting and that is does not mean that they are addicts.

outside your narration people can still get addicted through friendly games because people are naturally addicted and obsessed with gambling irrespective of friendly games or non-friendly games, so people can still get addicted in friendly games but it's all depends on the caliber and temperamental condition of ther individual.