How much of my salary should I use to gamble

[Su-asa]

Gambling is becoming a popular thing in my locality almost everyone gamble and even colleagues gamble and engage in gambling related discussions at work,  so gambling is legal and very popular so there is no Shame in using part of a salary to gamble with that is why I am asking the question of what the right percentage from my salary that I should use to gamble?

I don't think there will be a generally accepted answer to this question because people's salaries are not the same and so also their needs and responsibilities. These are the factor that determine how much can be injected into gambling without feeling depressed when it is lost. Some people can put 20% of their income and still be good whereas there are people that will put 5% and will be worried. Whatever be the case, I think a 2.5% of income injected will not make anyone broke. It is small but huge for sizeable for gambling provided the gambling will be diligent to build it systematically to something magnificent.

Yups it's true to say that everyone has a different income in life, but no matter how big your income or how small your income is still the point is that it is advisable to put a small amount or a small percentage to be injected into gambling. If we talk about income then maybe we can see how the difference between the income of the rich and the poor where the difference must be quite significant but still if we talk about how much money should be allocated to gambling then of course it is recommended to put an amount that we can afford or an amount that will not make you feel upset or depressed if in the end you lose, in my opinion 20% is too large a percentage to inject in gambling, and usually the largest amount I bet is between 5% - 7% of my total monthly income and this allocation does not cause any problems at all to my finances.

But on the other hand I think we also have to manage other things because managing the amount of money you want to allocate is certainly not useful if you can't manage the time to gamble, or what that means is you also have to manage your gambling time, because it's useless even if you put a small amount but you gamble too often then it can still cause problems in your finances.

The amount of money that people have in their salary and want to allocate is something that is very personal, the only thing I can recommend is that a person does not allocate all their salary for gambling, because playing in a casino is always high risk and can be lose everything, if you want to play by allocating a percentage of your salary to gambling, it is something else, the person has to make a list of their expenses, including services and everything that must be covered and what they can allocate is what they think they can spend It is very difficult to say that there are times when it is not even enough to cover the basics, and for each player the economic situation is different, I would speak in a general way assigning 1%, if you can assume it, but not the rest.

It depends on the amount that the gambler receives as salary and it also depends on how much the person spends on daily weekly and monthly expenses. If the gambler is a person that doesn't have any responsibility he can choose to gamble with 10% of his monthly income, but if the person is a type of gambler that have a responsibility and his salary is not much to be enough for him in a ways that he can be able to save at least 20% to 30% he might choose to wager low amount while gambling.

[qwertyup23]

Gambling is becoming a popular thing in my locality almost everyone gamble and even colleagues gamble and engage in gambling related discussions at work,  so gambling is legal and very popular so there is no Shame in using part of a salary to gamble with that is why I am asking the question of what the right percentage from my salary that I should use to gamble?

It really depends on your financial obligations as that will determine on how much percentage you are willing to allocate on your gambling expenses.

So let us say 100% is your salary, you have to at least allocate 60% to your obligations especially if you have a family that you need to provide. Also, you have to include all the expenses for your family and dues that you will have to pay. The other 20% will always be allocated to your savings and the other 10% will be allocated  to your personal needs. Probably and in my opinion, you should at least allocate 5-10% of your whole income every month for your gambling needs.

So in conclusion, the computation will be as follows:

• 60% = monthly obligations that includes all the dues payable and family needs;
• 20% = savings for the future;
• 10% = personal expenses for yourself or your family; the value could be adjusted depending on your needs; and
• 10% = gambling expenses.

[Huppercase]

Gambling is becoming a popular thing in my locality almost everyone gamble and even colleagues gamble and engage in gambling related discussions at work,  so gambling is legal and very popular so there is no Shame in using part of a salary to gamble with that is why I am asking the question of what the right percentage from my salary that I should use to gamble?

I don't think you should be gambling because gambling has become a new niche for people to make money and just because it's popular doesn't mean is something you will want to try. The question I want to ask you is this, do you know how to gamble and what type do you do? Is it casino or sport betting? I will presume is sport betting since you said locality but there is more to sport betting though, you can't just venture into sporty betting if you don't follow the leagues.

As for the amount, always gamble with what you know you can afford to lose, if you can afford to lose your salary then you are more than welcome and if it's some fraction you can let's go, it's fine but know that as you are thinking of making back the money, you are likely to lose that same money either you are good in predictions or bad because you can't be right all the time.

[Fatunad]

If you want to go the appropriate way, 1% of your salary is okay, but that should be if your salary is enough. Some people may not have money to spare on gambling. If you earn enough, use 1% of your weekly income to gamble.

I use 2 to 5% of my weekly income to gamble and it is good for me. It does not feel like I lose anything and sometimes I win.

1% is a good amount from my perspective too. Honestly, I have allocated the same for gambling.
I have seen people using upto 10% of their salary for gambling I wouldn't recommend using such high figures.
At the maximum, people should consider using not more than 3% of their monthly salary for gambling.

The percentage of salary that one should use in gambling depends on the gambler, as long as he is not using an amount that will affect him financially, then it is OK. Using the amount that you can afford to lose is the best when gambling, and it is also up to the gambler to know how frequently he will love to gamble maybe daily or by weekend or once in a while.

1% is cool but sometimes we find it difficult to stick to that amount that we have set aside for gambling when it is exhausted. Discipline and self control is what matters a lot and not the percentage of money that one needs to assign to gamble. However, setting aside gambling rules leads to responsibile gambling. I use 2% of my income to gamble.

The amount that you should be using in gambling is on the last drop of your money or something extra after your priorities and other bills payments and already save up some money.
Doesnt matter on what would be the percentage because this number would really be that different to each other considering that not all would really be earning on the same amount on which means that
on the time that you are already compromising the amount on which it shouldnt really be used on gambling then this is something that indicates that you are already that addicted to it and this is something that you should really be careful. Limit and moderation isnt really just that for gambling means but also in other things as well specially if it do really involves on spending money then it would really be that something that will really be important that you do really know on what you are doing because if you dont then you are just basically putting up yourself in harm not only you but also your family.

[|MINER|]

Gambling is becoming a popular thing in my locality almost everyone gamble and even colleagues gamble and engage in gambling related discussions at work,  so gambling is legal and very popular so there is no Shame in using part of a salary to gamble with that is why I am asking the question of what the right percentage from my salary that I should use to gamble?

Always invest as much as you can afford to loose . So it not depends on your salary it depends on you what you can spends on that month for your gambling. Suppose you earn 2000 dollar per month and your need with the food to rental is about 1900 then I think you should invest 5 dollar ! And if one month your need full fill at only 1500dollar then you may increase your betting amount so always se what you can afford to lose.

[coolcoinz]

Risk as much as you want. It's not a matter of % of salary but rather height of that salary compared to the %.

Someone who earns $100 a week can't gamble 1% because it's worthless. What are you going to do? Bet $1 on dice every week in hope of getting $2 one day?
At the same time, someone who makes $10k a week can easily gamble with 1% because that's first guys total salary.

So, I won't tell you what to do. You have to know that yourself if 1% or 2% of your salary is enough to do some gambling and at the same time not use too much money.

[Ojima-ojo]

Gambling is becoming a popular thing in my locality almost everyone gamble and even colleagues gamble and engage in gambling related discussions at work,  so gambling is legal and very popular so there is no Shame in using part of a salary to gamble with that is why I am asking the question of what the right percentage from my salary that I should use to gamble?

Always invest as much as you can afford to loose . So it not depends on your salary it depends on you what you can spends on that month for your gambling. Suppose you earn 2000 dollar per month and your need with the food to rental is about 1900 then I think you should invest 5 dollar ! And if one month your need full fill at only 1500dollar then you may increase your betting amount so always se what you can afford to lose.

The truth is that using a salary to gamble is no go area but then anyone that involve in such will really be ready to accept whatever that comes their way and regardless of how much percentage you can afford to gamble with just be rest assured that you will lose whatever you put in and if you make any wins that is based on luck and nothing more.


I am against the idea of using a salary to gamble because based on my understanding about gambling and how I gamble is, I only use money that I have no need for to gamble same way I use such cash flow to buy some beer.

[Aanuoluwatofunmi]

I will say that if the gambler thinks its something he can afford to use all his earnings from work to gamble, then he can go ahead and no one will inform him of being taught the lesson of his life before he could realized that, if we are to gamble, then we must be sure that we have enough money in spare which we can afford to use for this purpose without leaving anything behind undone as part of our responsibilities when gambling.

[CroverNo01]

Funny question to ask,funny thing to do,funny man to do this.I believe you don't really know why you asked this question,or should I believe this question is asked because you want to get the answer to it?If you really want to get the answer to this question,I think you shouldn't use your salary for gambling,if you will use it,use a very little of it to gamble to begin your gambling life, because if you should just enter into gambling without knowing the things involved in gambling,you will lose the whole of your salary,and will turn a begger on the street, because you won't have any change in your pockets.
Ask people who are into Gambling,they will guild you on what to do.

[Onyeeze]

I will say that if the gambler thinks its something he can afford to use all his earnings from work to gamble, then he can go ahead and no one will inform him of being taught the lesson of his life before he could realized that, if we are to gamble, then we must be sure that we have enough money in spare which we can afford to use for this purpose without leaving anything behind undone as part of our responsibilities when gambling.

I think that whoever that is earning much amount of money or small amount of money as a salary should you have a particular amount it will use for gambling because if you don't arrange yourself well it might trigger you to make use of all the money you receive as a monthly salary to gamble that is why I do advise people have a statistics in their gambling so that there will know the particular amount they used to gamble monthly and also weekly as a monthly earner what you need to prosper in gambling is to know when you are supposed to gamble and also know how much you use to gamble neither weekly or monthly and you are not supposed to use whatever thing you receive as a salary to gamble anyone that do that it is called a foolishness

[traderethereum]

Safe to say it should be less than 5%, but what would you ask the community about a reference on what percentage of your salary portion should go to gambling, when we all have difference in financial responsibilities with ourselves and our family? If your salary barely enough to pay your bills, mortgages, and even necessities, then that 5% makes a huge difference if you don't spend it on gambling.
Now, if you are the kind of person who earns a lot, like you can feed, pay bills and everything on time without any problem and you still can have a lot of money left after all those are taken into consideration, then I think 5% might be too little and you can get up to 10% if you really are a gambling person, otherwise 5% would still be enough as the amount varies on the amount of income we can make.

Less than 5% should be fine to for playing gambling but don't use it all at once because you must knows how much money you can use every time you playing gambling. We can't use 5% every time we playing gambling because that can leads us to use more money if we lose that money without thinks about allocation money to playing gambling.
It's better we allocate some money for a month and splits into some parts and we only use that parts for playing gambling. We must not deposit more money if we lose that parts because that can breaks our limitation.
You must remember that we have other things that needs money so we must separate the money for other needs. That will helps us to have allocation for playing gambling and we will not breaks our rules.

In my opinion, using 5% of our monthly salary is quite large because we have to think about our family's daily needs first and if we want to gamble, leaving just a little 2% is enough.
We as gamblers must have a clear mind because we have worked hard for one month and only then get a salary and we must use that salary as much as possible with activities that are very useful in our lives.
We have to think about our monthly needs and those of our small family, which is very important to do.
Playing gambling is just entertainment when we feel bored and tired of our real work and maybe many people indulge in gambling to entertain themselves.

That's why I say less than 5% is fine and 2% is more preferable because we have many things to fills in a month, especially for our family's needs. It's better if we don't playing gambling and only save that money for the urgent situation because we don't knows when we will gets in that situations.
Having a clear minds will be necessary so we don't playing gambling too often and only gambling if we really wants to have fun in gambling. We can use other things to have fun such as playing gaming or doing physical activities. 
I am sure that will help us to train our minds that having fun is not just playing gambling but with other physical things that can helps us to have a strong relationship with our family. We can prevents the will to playing gambling and will not gets tempts with the promotions that we see on gambling site.

[hyudien]

I think that whoever that is earning much amount of money or small amount of money as a salary should you have a particular amount it will use for gambling because if you don't arrange yourself well it might trigger you to make use of all the money you receive as a monthly salary to gamble that is why I do advise people have a statistics in their gambling so that there will know the particular amount they used to gamble monthly and also weekly as a monthly earner what you need to prosper in gambling is to know when you are supposed to gamble and also know how much you use to gamble neither weekly or monthly and you are not supposed to use whatever thing you receive as a salary to gamble anyone that do that it is called a foolishness

When we have a set limit on the amount of money to be used for gambling, even if it is small, there is a possibility that we can lose self-control when gambling, considering that the attraction of gambling is quite strong and can make every player lose control when gambling. So it is not surprising that there are many cases where players use quite a lot of their money to gamble. When we have a salary, it is our right to use it according to what we want, but that doesn't mean we can use it carelessly without considering it well, there are times when we have to be able to consider everything well so that there are no regrets in the end.
We should be able to make good use of the salary we have received, use it appropriately, there is nothing wrong if it is used for gambling but it is not natural if all the salary money is used for gambling. It's best to think first before acting, there are times when gambling can provide winnings that may be profitable even if we bet using a small betting amount.

[nullama]

Risk as much as you want. It's not a matter of % of salary but rather height of that salary compared to the %.

Someone who earns $100 a week can't gamble 1% because it's worthless. What are you going to do? Bet $1 on dice every week in hope of getting $2 one day?
At the same time, someone who makes $10k a week can easily gamble with 1% because that's first guys total salary.

So, I won't tell you what to do. You have to know that yourself if 1% or 2% of your salary is enough to do some gambling and at the same time not use too much money.

You can bet $1 in some places, and in the end it doesn't really matter how much you bet.

It's just probabilities, and the amount is simply a multiplier of the odds.

The chances of winning in a bet can be modeled with a number between 0 (impossible to win) to 1 (guaranteed win). The amount you bet multiplied by this number will give you the expected amount you will end up with.

You can see that the odds of winning are independent of the amount you gamble.

[bakasabo]

I have noticed couple of times, that people suggest to spend 1% of monthly salary on gambling. Even though online gambling allows to make ridiculously small bets, wont 1% of monthly salary be to little to get the taste of gambling, if OP plans to gamble during whole month? I am saying that we dont know much about his motives. If it just a wish to gamble, or wish to have fun, or earn. 1% will be enough to gamble once per month and have fun. Based on the amount of salary, 1% out of 100% is really nothing. Even if OP gets lucky and wins, will that amount really satisfy him?

[angrybirdy]

I have noticed couple of times, that people suggest to spend 1% of monthly salary on gambling. Even though online gambling allows to make ridiculously small bets, wont 1% of monthly salary be to little to get the taste of gambling, if OP plans to gamble during whole month? I am saying that we dont know much about his motives. If it just a wish to gamble, or wish to have fun, or earn. 1% will be enough to gamble once per month and have fun. Based on the amount of salary, 1% out of 100% is really nothing. Even if OP gets lucky and wins, will that amount really satisfy him?

You are right, we are not sure how the set up will be done by OP? Is it daily gambling or once a month? because if 1% of the monthly salary is used daily for 30 days, the OP will end up spending a lot more because when you save that, it's like 30% of the monthly salary will be the total expense, maybe we'll just depend on the gambling set up how much or what percentage is possible for us to suggest to him.

[bakasabo]

I have noticed couple of times, that people suggest to spend 1% of monthly salary on gambling. Even though online gambling allows to make ridiculously small bets, wont 1% of monthly salary be to little to get the taste of gambling, if OP plans to gamble during whole month? I am saying that we dont know much about his motives. If it just a wish to gamble, or wish to have fun, or earn. 1% will be enough to gamble once per month and have fun. Based on the amount of salary, 1% out of 100% is really nothing. Even if OP gets lucky and wins, will that amount really satisfy him?

You are right, we are not sure how the set up will be done by OP? Is it daily gambling or once a month? because if 1% of the monthly salary is used daily for 30 days, the OP will end up spending a lot more because when you save that, it's like 30% of the monthly salary will be the total expense, maybe we'll just depend on the gambling set up how much or what percentage is possible for us to suggest to him.

If we just look on this case from mathematics point of view. Lets suppose OP earns $1000 per month. So he should spend only $10 per month (or per session, per day, we dont know it). I really doubt that it is possible to turn $10 into something significant from gambling. We even have a topic here that suggest to cash out our quit after doubling deposit. So we have a guy who earn $1000, that suppose to win $20 or +/- that amount and end with gambling till next salary? First of all, it is quite easy to lose those $10. Secondly, even if he earn $20 or be lucky to earn $30, with $1000 monthly salary, that is still nothing.

[Jody.Drummer]

You are right, we are not sure how the set up will be done by OP? Is it daily gambling or once a month? because if 1% of the monthly salary is used daily for 30 days, the OP will end up spending a lot more because when you save that, it's like 30% of the monthly salary will be the total expense, maybe we'll just depend on the gambling set up how much or what percentage is possible for us to suggest to him.

If we just look on this case from mathematics point of view. Lets suppose OP earns $1000 per month. So he should spend only $10 per month (or per session, per day, we dont know it). I really doubt that it is possible to turn $10 into something significant from gambling. We even have a topic here that suggest to cash out our quit after doubling deposit. So we have a guy who earn $1000, that suppose to win $20 or +/- that amount and end with gambling till next salary? First of all, it is quite easy to lose those $10. Secondly, even if he earn $20 or be lucky to earn $30, with $1000 monthly salary, that is still nothing.

Yes I agree with your assumption about how much to bet on gambling, as you said if the person has an income of $1000 per month then the best money is to bet $10 of the salary on gambling but try to use the amount within a month before you get a salary again, or that means $10 for one month, because if $10 is only for one session then I think in the end it is clear that in a month they will definitely gamble more than once which means they have to spend more than $10, so the point is to set the amount for gambling expenses within a month before you get a salary again next month.

The point is that whoever you are and whatever your monthly income is, it is always recommended to allocate a small amount of money for gambling, none other than because the small amount will not make us feel objected when it turns out that at the end of the session we lose, meaning that betting a small amount will make it easier for you to be able to accept the fact of losing because as you said above that the amount is nothing or not too meaningful.

[junder]

That's why I say less than 5% is fine and 2% is more preferable because we have many things to fills in a month, especially for our family's needs. It's better if we don't playing gambling and only save that money for the urgent situation because we don't knows when we will gets in that situations.
Having a clear minds will be necessary so we don't playing gambling too often and only gambling if we really wants to have fun in gambling. We can use other things to have fun such as playing gaming or doing physical activities. 
I am sure that will help us to train our minds that having fun is not just playing gambling but with other physical things that can helps us to have a strong relationship with our family. We can prevents the will to playing gambling and will not gets tempts with the promotions that we see on gambling site.

basically we work to be able to meet our needs for one month, gambling is actually our own right, but what we have to pay attention to is that we have to be able to balance which money to use for needs or to throw away in terms of daily snacks such as gambling is one of them. when we have income generated from our own hard work,  we must use it in a good way it is not recommended to risk all the income generated from work, because gambling can only make us lose money, not make money. We must be able to separate money for needs and for things that are not too important.

Of course, we have to be able to limit the gambling we do, don't let it just get us into trouble. such as to avoid undesirable things such as large losses, or other things that lead to bad impacts. Even though we have income, we must be able to set limits when gambling so we don't gamble excessively.

[Dewi Aries]

Yups it's true to say that everyone has a different income in life, but no matter how big your income or how small your income is still the point is that it is advisable to put a small amount or a small percentage to be injected into gambling. If we talk about income then maybe we can see how the difference between the income of the rich and the poor where the difference must be quite significant but still if we talk about how much money should be allocated to gambling then of course it is recommended to put an amount that we can afford or an amount that will not make you feel upset or depressed if in the end you lose, in my opinion 20% is too large a percentage to inject in gambling, and usually the largest amount I bet is between 5% - 7% of my total monthly income and this allocation does not cause any problems at all to my finances.

But on the other hand I think we also have to manage other things because managing the amount of money you want to allocate is certainly not useful if you can't manage the time to gamble, or what that means is you also have to manage your gambling time, because it's useless even if you put a small amount but you gamble too often then it can still cause problems in your finances.

The amount of money that people have in their salary and want to allocate is something that is very personal, the only thing I can recommend is that a person does not allocate all their salary for gambling, because playing in a casino is always high risk and can be lose everything, if you want to play by allocating a percentage of your salary to gambling, it is something else, the person has to make a list of their expenses, including services and everything that must be covered and what they can allocate is what they think they can spend It is very difficult to say that there are times when it is not even enough to cover the basics, and for each player the economic situation is different, I would speak in a general way assigning 1%, if you can assume it, but not the rest.

If gambling had absolutely no risk of losing then obviously it would be fine if you wanted to allocate all the salary you have or even borrow from a service to fund your habit, but however gambling can never be separated from the possibility of losing because it will always be a part of gambling or losing will always be inherent in gambling and can never be eliminated. This means that at any point in time gambling will always be about winning and losing which all gamblers have the possibility of ending up in those two possibilities, simply put if you don't win then it means that you lose, therefore it really doesn't make sense to treat gambling in an excessive way such as putting most of your salary just to gamble, in the end it is clear that it is an action that will only lead you to many disasters and other things yes I agree with you that they should make a detailed list of their expenses, try to prioritize the necessities of life or whatever is far more important than gambling.

[Pandu Geddon]

Gambling is becoming a popular thing in my locality almost everyone gamble and even colleagues gamble and engage in gambling related discussions at work,  so gambling is legal and very popular so there is no Shame in using part of a salary to gamble with that is why I am asking the question of what the right percentage from my salary that I should use to gamble?

If you are an employee and single, I recommend first saving 50-60% of your salary every month until you have enough to start your own business. the rest is for living needs including for fun. In this case includes the budget for betting in gambling. Of course, you can share it yourself based on your needs.
If you have determined your safe financial limits, then keep playing with a clear mind to be consistent with your limits. The decision is up to you, and you really know the financial limits that you can use in gambling.