Reflections on Responsible Gambling. Insights from the Community

[Davidvictorson]

Having been active on this board and engaging in countless conversations about gambling, sports betting, online casinos, KYC, Crypto casinos, betting strategies, gambling addiction, football banters and the whole gambling experience so far, it raises some fascinating questions. I'd like to read the answers of the gambling community members. This is a safe space.

• Have you become a responsible and ethical gambler, or do you still find subtle ways to increase your odds of winning?
• What small actions have you taken to combat underage gambling in your locality or online?
• Have you become a more financially literate and socially conscious gambler?

Looking forward to your thoughts.

[Odohu]

• Have you become a responsible and ethical gambler, or do you still find subtle ways to increase your odds of winning?

Seems you are mistaken responsible gambling for being about your gambling even in a losing strategy.  This is not responsible gambling as being strict in a wrong approach is rather irresponsibility because responsible gambling requires that an individual will be able to protect the capital and never to gamble with amount that one cannot afford to lose. Being flexible to adjust your game in order to increase the winning odds is being smart and responsible and not the other way round.

• What small actions have you taken to combat underage gambling in your locality or online?

The advent of online gambling has made it difficult  to even meet fellow gamblers. I hardly even visit physical shops, so there is no way to meet the underage gamblers to be able to talk to them. The best that can be done about that rest with the gambling companies; they have to refuse them access to their platform or shops and this will discourage some of them not all. Parents should also dk more to protect their children from gambling.

[topbitcoin]

• Have you become a responsible and ethical gambler, or do you still find subtle ways to increase your odds of winning?

I think so because my gambling today depends on the rules that I have made, with boundaries, with the principle of gambling properly, and being able to stabilize emotions well without having to spend more money to gamble, because I want to get a win, on average my gambling today is regular, and I think it falls into responsible gambling.

• What small actions have you taken to combat underage gambling in your locality or online?

One of them is, not talking about or showing gambling activities in front of minors who deserve to be gamblers, this may be trivial but most will imitate what adults do, it is also a conservative step in protecting children in our environment, besides that it is also like talking to the parents that the child interacts with gambling, this is also a form of concern and the parents will educate them much better after knowing that their children interact with gambling.

• Have you become a more financially literate and socially conscious gambler?

Of course finance is a major thing in life and socializing, because if not with good financial arrangements it will lead to bad results, especially if we interact with gambling, most gamblers are poor and many become poor, of course this will have a bad impact on the social stigma about us and gambling itself that gambling can be disastrous, but if we are financially healthy maybe that stigma will not exist.

[bluebit25]

Not answering all the questions but I have some answers for gambling behavior, I knew about gambling since I was a child and first played it when I was under 18 and I knew it was illegal, even the game was then also illegal to play locally (it was a slot machine). But the process of growing up has many life lessons that make me realize that gambling is just a pure entertainment game, but in the face of greed, it can easily be corrupted and cause that person to fall. It just depends on each player's perception whether they really understand those things or simply approach them as a lead from outside social factors. I also come into contact with a lot of people who are addicted to gambling but perhaps through them I have also seen the valuable lesson that responsibility follows behavior.

In any case, no one forces anyone to do anything according to their nature, in the face of fear and control from ordinary manipulations, we can justify everything around us that controls us with gambling, I just consider it an entertainment game. Even using money as a means is just something we accept to participate in the game.

[danherbias07]

Have you become a responsible and ethical gambler, or do you still find subtle ways to increase your odds of winning?

I think so. All I do is rest whenever my budget to gamble is done. Well, when it comes to odds, I don't go too crazy x5 to x10 for just a single bet for one team because that can be a crazy bet and it's percentage to win is low. I'd rather make a parlay or a same-game multi and put a little bit of money on it. IMO, that have a higher chance to win than in a single super underdog.

What small actions have you taken to combat underage gambling in your locality or online?

Nothing. I don't know who they are. I don't see any underage gambling in our place personally but I did hear some rumors about it.

Have you become a more financially literate and socially conscious gambler?

I think more about the money. That's what changed when I became a gambler. And a disciplined one to control myself not to deposit again after losing the amount that is for gambling purposes only. When I win big amounts, I don't think twice about withdrawing, I do it as fast as I can and exit the money from the gambling site. Socially conscious? Nah. Do you mean what people may say about my gambling habits? I don't really care much about it because I know to myself that I am not crossing the line.

[Charles-Tim]

• Have you become a responsible and ethical gambler, or do you still find subtle ways to increase your odds of winning?
• What small actions have you taken to combat underage gambling in your locality or online?
• Have you become a more financially literate and socially conscious gambler?

First, I am a very responsible gambler. Even I can not call myself a gambler because I spend little time weekly on gambling. I see gambling not as a way to earn money. I only do it just in some minutes or like 1 or 2 hours during weekend, or when I feel like doing it during the weekdays.

The underage people are very smart. You can see them use their father's or mother's identity to get verified on a gambling site without even their parents knowing. If you are in my country, you will see signboards with gambling ads. You will see ads on local YouTube videos and TV channels. If you go to betting agents, just stay there for a long time, you will suspect some people may be 16 or 17 years. Some betting ages just do not care because no one has been arrested for allowing underage people to bet in their shops. The government do not care because all they care for is tax.

Without gambling, I am financially literate. If it is about gambling, I am socially conscious about it. Just my friends know that I am gambling. I do not even go to betting agent for anything like that because I have my laptop and phone which even make gambling better for me in having privacy.

[Frankolala]

1.I have managed to start gambling responsible after some years of addiction that I suffered.

2. Underage gambling is not my responsibility to combat because these underage children hide to gamble and they will never let anyone know they are gambling. If it happens that I see any underage talking about gambling or trying to gamble, I do sit them down and enlighten them about the consequences of gambling and that they should face their studies and have a career first before anything.

3. Yea, of course discipline is very important in gambling and that will help you be a responsible gambler and you will not care about your losses or allow your emotions to control you since you are not betting with an amount that you cannot afford to lose. That alone will make you happy and socialize with people freely.

[Hewlet]

• Have you become a responsible and ethical gambler, or do you still find subtle ways to increase your odds of winning?
• What small actions have you taken to combat underage gambling in your locality or online?
• Have you become a more financially literate and socially conscious gambler?

Looking forward to your thoughts.

all this question you've asked here have been repeatedly asked and people have aired out thier views in multiple of ways to the best of thier ability and the generally thing you can take out from those views is that you're primarily responsible for your gambling journey. Regardless of the tunes of advice you see here regarding responsible gambling, if you don't make a conscious decision to gamble the right way, you're going to end up getting addicted even while you have all the knowledge there is to get.

At some point, it's not even about the age of the gambler or your ability to becoming a literate at gambling. It's about knowing that excess of everything is bad and you need to moderate in all things we're doing. One of the issue we have in our society is to tag a thing as something that's totally bad even when we know that people must get themselves involved in those thing. And what's the implication of such things, you end up making people to engage in such act in secret battling so many things in there own that they can't openly tell a third party because of fear of being being judged and addiction becomes inevitable in the process.

[_act_]

1.I have managed to start gambling responsible after some years of addiction that I suffered.

I like to see people that quit gambling addiction. It is nice seeing this. I have also been addicted before and I later stop the addiction which make life and everything better for me. Not that gambling is bad but we should not be get addicted to it which is what that is very bad.

2. Underage gambling is not my responsibility to combat because these underage children hide to gamble and they will never let anyone know they are gambling. If it happens that I see any underage talking about gambling or trying to gamble, I do sit them down and enlighten them about the consequences of gambling and that they should face their studies and have a career first before anything.

What I have just known is that there is no how underage gambling can stop. If you know an underage person, just ask him that are some of the students in his class gambling, the answer will be yes if he tells you the truth. They are even gambling among themselves without going to betting shops or gambling online.

[BITCOIN4X]

• Have you become a responsible and ethical gambler, or do you still find subtle ways to increase your odds of winning?
• What small actions have you taken to combat underage gambling in your locality or online?
• Have you become a more financially literate and socially conscious gambler?

Looking forward to your thoughts.

There shouldn't be much difference of opinion about the three questions above, but let's see what I can say about them:

• I don't mind my winnings or losses on a bet, whatever I accept without having to complain about the results. Self-control and budgeting when it comes to gambling is part of responsible gambling, so my answer is definitely YES.
• Do not post anything that interests young people about gambling on social media, including big wins or anything related to gambling.
• Yes, I don't gamble anywhere. Of course I have been implementing this for a long time and of course for personal reasons and also my social relations with society. Most online gamblers here play secretly, they cannot gamble in public places when the government does not legalize gambling. Awareness of the huge risk of loss makes me more strict in managing my gambling budget, meaning I only gamble when I really want to.

[Maslate]

• Have you become a responsible and ethical gambler, or do you still find subtle ways to increase your odds of winning?

Responsible and finding ways to increase my chances of winning in gambling. Thats' how I should work in order to kee tha risk in control, being responsible means knowing what I'm doing, and I'm happy that after learning from my mistakes in the past, I have now become a responsible gambler who uses an more realistic approach in sports betting.

• What small actions have you taken to combat underage gambling in your locality or online?

I can only discourage people within my family as I'm not a type of guy who loves to mingle with my neighbors or relatives.
I gues it's more on the responsibility of the parents, so as a parent, we all have our individual job to monitor our kids to prevent themselves from learning gambling at an early stage.

• Have you become a more financially literate and socially conscious gambler?

Yes, since gambling is more about managing the risk, I have become more matured in managing my funds, and I always follow the principle to gamble only what I can afford to lose so it will not affect my other activities in life, like the main one.

[lovesmayfamilis]

To be honest, the more I read and learn gambling information, the more the more I become interested in it. I am more than confident in my firm position; I am unlikely to turn out to be a dependent person, but it becomes more interesting to try my chances of winning. As for explaining gambling to the younger generation, I, as a parent, of course, show examples of bad stories. And the way this is explained will form in children’s minds. But the third question is unclear to me; if a person initially calculates his budget, he will also be careful with his gaming preferences.

[cryptoaddictchie]

• Have you become a responsible and ethical gambler, or do you still find subtle ways to increase your odds of winning?
• What small actions have you taken to combat underage gambling in your locality or online?
• Have you become a more financially literate and socially conscious gambler?

Looking forward to your thoughts.

Im not totally knew what ethical gambler means honestly. But as a player whom just using gambling site sometimes for enjoyment, not really sure if I could bet more than my normal risk apetite. Sometimes odd can increase with a higher risk but I stick to my common betting.

Underage gambling is prohibited and thumbs up for Government for being strict here, even the casinos are quite strict when it comes to underage. What I hate us the online platform that is so soft that only requirements sometime is email which make underage so easy to register.

With regards to finance I could say I am a good controller and apparently sophisticated enough to be addicted on pure gambling.

[Apocollapse]

• Have you become a responsible and ethical gambler, or do you still find subtle ways to increase your odds of winning?
• What small actions have you taken to combat underage gambling in your locality or online?
• Have you become a more financially literate and socially conscious gambler?

1. I was already a responsible and ethical gambler in the first place, I didn't find any subtle ways to increase odds of winning in this forum since most users always predict the favorite ones.

2. Only if they the young people ask about gambling with me, if they didn't ask anything and they gamble in front of me, I will let them to gamble aka do anything what they like as long as they didn't harm other people. Mind your own business.

3. I learn about money management by myself, not from gambling.

[_act_]

1. I was already a responsible and ethical gambler in the first place, I didn't find any subtle ways to increase odds of winning in this forum since most users always predict the favorite ones.

People are predicting the most favorite matches on this this? I do not think so. What I noticed is that people predict the clubs that are most likely to win but you know how match can be, even an underdog can win its opponent which is better than the underdog. Any matches can fail someone to lose a bet.

[Spaceman1000$]

• Have you become a responsible and ethical gambler, or do you still find subtle ways to increase your odds of winning?
• What small actions have you taken to combat underage gambling in your locality or online?
• Have you become a more financially literate and socially conscious gambler?

Looking forward to your thoughts.

The big question is, who is a responsible gambler or what does it mean to be a responsible gambler. For me a responsible gambler is a person that knows when to stop, especially when the odds are not in your favour. Increasing your winning odds just as you said OP, doesn't guarantee winning, if your prediction always comes out 2 odds and it's been working for you, I will suggest you stick to what works for you.

As for the underage gambling, I think it has been a collective effort from most adults to help fight it, I've seen a situation where a little of boy was sent by his father to go to a gambling shop to help play games he had already booked with code, when the little boy entered the shop, he gave the front desk officer the booking code his father gave him, immediately the adults that where there started shouting at the boy,  telling him to go back and call his father, even the front desk guy rejected the booked game. So for me, we can fight against underage gambling collectively, as it shouldn't be a one man thing.
 
Lastly, I can only gamble with what I can afford to lose, so i do my risk management whenever I want to gamble because it's 50/50.

[Nwada001]

• Have you become a responsible and ethical gambler, or do you still find subtle ways to increase your odds of winning?
• What small actions have you taken to combat underage gambling in your locality or online?
• Have you become a more financially literate and socially conscious gambler?

^[1] I have always been a responsible gambler, and I'm still gambling without any pressure, and I still believe it will continue that way as I don't see myself losing control of gambling. 
 
^[2] I haven't taken any direct physical action to reduce underage gambling in my area, but I have given my little relatives advice towards that to the best of my ability, trying to change that mentality that most of them have that gambling is the easiest way to escape poverty, which is part of the reason most of them start gambling at an early age.
 
^[3] When it comes to gambling, I'm very cautious of what I spend, as I consider that whatever amount I'm wagering is automatically a waste of resources, so I don't treat it as something serious, and I don't spend much money on gambling in the hope of expecting something big or even making a budget as a result of an expected winning.

[coin-investor]

• Have you become a responsible and ethical gambler, or do you still find subtle ways to increase your odds of winning?

We strive to become a responsible and ethical gambler but the temptation to increase your odds of winnings is just too hard to lose and I may add the temptation to chase our losses is also hard to beat, but as long as you are not doing this every time you gamble and you sometimes take a risk then you are good to go.

• What small actions have you taken to combat underage gambling in your locality or online?

I don't have much to do with anything we have a very strict law about underage gambling if I find one establishment that does this I just report it with evidence to get their license cancelled and also they get a stiff fine.

• Have you become a more financially literate and socially conscious gambler?

So far I'm good after I experienced my worst, when you go through a lot of worse things, you learn what to avoid and what not to do, experience is the best teacher in gambling.

[taufik123]

Have you become a responsible and ethical gambler, or do you still find subtle ways to increase your odds of winning?

Never a responsible gambler, I'm too panicked by slot gambling, but love football betting.
Just as entertainment and don't think of increasing any odds.

What small actions have you taken to combat underage gambling in your locality or online?

By telling the true information.
You must know about the Domino High Island mobile game, it is a game for all circles in my place even minors play it.
Even though it is a gambling game, but I said that it is not good and will only be a waste of money,
because many cases involve gambling until finally caught by the police.

Have you become a more financially literate and socially conscious gambler?

As it should be, a professional gambler should be financially literate and socially conscious and aware of his status in the environment.
Every gambler must know how technology develops, how gambling is increasingly developing,
but the status as a gambler does not have to be told to anyone because there will be many negative views.
Looking forward to your thoughts.

[Natsuu]

• Have you become a more financially literate and socially conscious?

Yes! the thing is that if you do this correctly over a long period of time, you won't see this as gambling alone but an opportunity to expand from yourself. However we have different psychology and most people cannot handle the same stress and level of thinking necessary to keep the mentality. You need not only to be carefree of money or have a probabilistic mindset but also the resilience over the tough times.

If you want and edge on this industry, you need to meet new people, those who are more informed or well connected. So you can learn from them too. And you also need to give value back, that's why you also need to learn new things of how money works.