How do you classify reckless gambling as?

[Hispo]

Yeah, I have been called reckless gambling by a friend as I do gamble frequently but I often maintain responsible gambling, but this friend of mine keeps calling me a reckless gambler. At first when gambling, I make sure my money used to gamble doesn't exceed my budget and I do allocate 15 percent of weekly/monthly income to gamble and whenever this allocation is exhausted I do not care to gamble anymore and I am also stick to my rules and regulation whereby even though I am gambling and I ran into lose and exhausted my initial deposit you wouldn't see going further to make additional deposit just to satisfy the urge at that moment.

Please I would like to know if any body who is actually keeping to his rules and regulation without aggressively keep gambling can be called a reckless gambler? I do not actually like such words, though I wanted to start reacting to him based how he do sees me gambling and before that I just want to know what you think about his consistent action towards me. 

Perhaps there is something you are not mentioning or something you are not seeing on yourself which you friend has noticed in you.

Usually when one starts to fall into some addiction, one does not realize what is going on, but those around us indeed notice it. My recommendation for you would be to pay attention to what your friend is saying and allow him to explain why he believes you are gambling recklessly. You may be falling for early addiction to gambling and you have not realized it.

Also, one can still gamble recklessly within the boundaries of one's budget, which leads to increasing one's gambling budget in the long term.

Take care and merry Christmas.

[lovesmayfamilis]

People often have negative opinions about gambling. They've likely either had some negative experiences or heard stories of people who lost everything they had. This is why we see this attitude even toward those who can control their emotions and finances. OP, you shouldn't react to criticism or try to prove to everyone that you're not who they think you are. People have the right to think whatever they want, but you don't have to live up to their image.

[Mahiyammahi]

Please I would like to know if any body who is actually keeping to his rules and regulation without aggressively keep gambling can be called a reckless gambler? I do not actually like such words, though I wanted to start reacting to him based how he do sees me gambling and before that I just want to know what you think about his consistent action towards me. 

You're gambling a lot , 15% not a small amount to gamble. Also since you can't limit yourself to gamble, you gamble repetitive there has some chance you can get addicted to gamble. Same thing has happened with me. To reduce my balance sheet I tried to shift playing game with low cost games , since there was little chance of losing my all. I can play repetitive game.

Which makes me play more and more games, and spent more time on gambling. By this , continue sometime I exceed my weekly limit. I can't control it myselff.

If it's not happened with you then your lucky or control in urself. But it's unwritten future, so it's better to keep ur self safe from begin with. Play with cautios

[Mindyspace]

People often have negative opinions about gambling. They've likely either had some negative experiences or heard stories of people who lost everything they had. This is why we see this attitude even toward those who can control their emotions and finances. OP, you shouldn't react to criticism or try to prove to everyone that you're not who they think you are. People have the right to think whatever they want, but you don't have to live up to their image.

Yes, experiences matter a lot. And that ends up influencing whether a bettor will continue or stop betting. I always see cases here on the forum where bettors change betting sites because of a bad experience or decide to take a break. The same happens when the experience is good: the bettor continues betting and even recommends it to other people here.

[xenomorfo]

Everything always starts with small violations, they act like a permission switch for our brain, signaling that we?re allowed to do this. From there, the risk grows that these minor violations will drift further and further away from the original line. That?s why it?s not worth taking risks, strict discipline when it comes to money is simply a necessity, otherwise you can end up in a very bad financial situation.

True, you're right, small violations that gradually become bigger and bigger.
Every time we authorize and move forward, apologizing, and this gradually brings us closer to the edge of the abyss, when we'll then make a huge blunder and everything will blow up like a bomb has exploded.

Better not to give in at all, give yourself a budget that you don't want to go over, that always works.

[marywill9020]

Wow, so following your 'strict rules' still makes you a gambler. Imagine how reckless I'd look breaking all the rules! 😏 Maybe the real gamble is believing anyone can truly control themselves when money’s involved

[Satofan44]

From what you described, you gambling habits doesn't sound reckless....A reckless gambler are ruleless gamblers who chase their losses, ignore their set limits and gamble with funds which are meant for basic expenses....But then you are doing the complete opposite which makes you not reckless....That being said, I feel that anyone who doesn't gamble may see those who gamble as reckless e en though that gambler may be gambling within his limit... So you friend reaction is more of a bias perception rather the actual reality..

You are wrong, read other posts before writing a generic shitpost response. There are all kinds of recklessness, and recklessness is not defined by your limited view of it.

15% can be quiet reasonable depending on how frequent s/he do gambles could depend whether such amount is low or higher

No. If you ever spend 15% on gambling you are an idiot, and if you are doing it consistently you are an addict. OP is an addict.

Anything more than 2% of the total income for a month is already too much to give away. I don't care what fortune could be waiting for me; it's better to not play and save money, than try to find opportunities that cost even more money, without certainty.

I gave up to 5% to be a bit more liberal, but nevertheless this is accurate. It is usually those that are doing things wrong that are looking for justifications for their behavior instead of admitting that they are wrong. This is precisely what is happening with OP here. You have to be really dumb to spend 15% on gambling each month, and you have to be even dumbed to do that and believe that it is not reckless.

But he thinks it might be different, 15% is just a small part of an entertainment that doesn't even give him any benefit at all.
Is this done regularly? Otherwise, it will certainly not be a problem, but if it is routinely done and spending on gambling is only 15% then there needs to be strict rules about how much to spend on an entertainment.

If I spend 15% on heroin regularly it is a problem, but if I only do it occasionally then it is not a problem. Sounds correct doesn't it?   It is time to stop looking for justifications for bad actions, in others and in ourselves. Take a look in the mirror, you are probably doing this regularly.  

[Muba20]

Yeah, I have been called reckless gambling by a friend as I do gamble frequently but I often maintain responsible gambling, but this friend of mine keeps calling me a reckless gambler. At first when gambling, I make sure my money used to gamble doesn't exceed my budget and I do allocate 15 percent of weekly/monthly income to gamble and whenever this allocation is exhausted I do not care to gamble anymore and I am also stick to my rules and regulation whereby even though I am gambling and I ran into lose and exhausted my initial deposit you wouldn't see going further to make additional deposit just to satisfy the urge at that moment.

If one gambles normally, there is no reason to call him a reckless gambler. Someone makes such a statement without having knowledge. I think if you can control yourself, then there is no need to respond to his words. You can bet as you wish. There are many individual, when they see someone gambling, think that he is an addicted or reckless gambler, but in reality, not everyone is an addicted gambler. That is why many gamblers are not interested in gambling in public. Most of them try to hide their gambling.

A reckless gambler has some characteristics, one of which is prove that he gambles recklessly. A reckless gambler cannot control himself after a loss. He continues to gamble without looking at his budget. He tries to hide his losses from others. Many times, even if there is a financial crisis, there is a trend of borrowing money to gamble. He gambles without paying attention to any rules or discipline.

[Aanuoluwatofunmi]

The risk factor is what determines for a reckless gambling or not, if we are gambling nare taking inactions on things that are beyond what we could cope if the opposite should happen, then we will identify ourselves being one of those taking further steps into reckless gambling, discipline and ability to set priority right could also be a monitor to how a reckless gambling could be prevented.

[Odusko]

Wow, so following your 'strict rules' still makes you a gambler. Imagine how reckless I'd look breaking all the rules! 😏 Maybe the real gamble is believing anyone can truly control themselves when money’s involved

people have this high level of stereotype about gambling and it should be noted, so regardless wether you gamble responsibly with in acceptable rules that keep you as a less risky level in gambling, people will still talk negatively about you if they know that you gamble, most especially highly religious people do that, so as a gambler you should make up your mind to accept whatever comes your way along the line.

[AYOBA]

Reckless gambling is when a player gambles without limitation such that he does not know when to stop and when to continue gambling. He is so engrave in the gambling that he pays no attention to bankroll management and even when he wins, he continues to gamble and often lose the winning to the market again. Ut is a display of gambling addiction and should be avoided to be able to make progress in gambling.

Yeah, you’re on the point i think this is the part of definition of reckless. Because by the time a person is into gambling and he doesn’t have the limitations to his gambling even when is losing money every time he place a bets, that kind of people will never collect advice from anyone because they’ve out of control themselves talk less of another person.

What’s really encouraging most of the gamblers is winning when their lose and later win after severals losing; they will be still having hope that may be if they go again they can win more than that they don’t know that the risks involved in the gambling is very high than winning.

[Crypto Library]

Yes that is true and when gambling it is that better to keep our gambling budgets within 5% within a week but if OP is saying that the amount is entirely for the whole month then I don't see it as something bad as, 15% can be quiet reasonable depending on how frequent s/he do gambles could depend whether such amount is low or higher
For me, I do have specific amount I do use to gamble per bet as I do not spend above that amount per bet and is being divided across all my bets then I will know how often I would be online gambling and to know if such amount can actually serve me to finished the whole month allocation.

Actually, I think it's a bit high to budget 15% of our monthly or weekly income just for gambling because gambling is not our only source of entertainment, we have many other sources of entertainment, we also have to spend on that. And finally, starting from our daily necessities, we have to spend on our monthly health expenses, and finally, if we want to do savings, then using 15% just for gambling seems a bit high to me.
And that's why I basically try to keep the budget below 5% so that there is no impact on our financial situation.

[taufik123]

People often have negative opinions about gambling. They've likely either had some negative experiences or heard stories of people who lost everything they had. This is why we see this attitude even toward those who can control their emotions and finances. -snip-

More people are only reacting with negative opinions on gambling because they perceive gambling to be the source of the problem of losing money and increasing one's stress.
Though they don't see the positive side when some people win and hit big jackpots, this kind of assessment should be fairly balanced.

Everyone does have their own point of view about gambling, but as long as we are able to control it and gambling is just part of entertainment, it won't harm anyone.

[r_victory]

Is your friend a gambler too?

Recklessness is not having control over how much you gamble, it's neglecting your bills to gamble, it's taking out loans to gamble, it's letting your family go hungry to gamble; recklessness is the extreme. Do you act like that? If not, with all due respect, tell your friend to mind his own business, because a friend who wants to warn you about something you're doing wrong is always welcome, but if you are, in fact, being responsible, he's just being annoying.

[justinlamode]

Wow, so following your 'strict rules' still makes you a gambler. Imagine how reckless I'd look breaking all the rules! 😏 Maybe the real gamble is believing anyone can truly control themselves when money’s involved

Following structured rules is what will make you a good gambler because it helps you not only in bankroll management but also in game selection.  People that don't have rules are those who end up becoming reckless gamblers because they hardly know when to stop and when tj continue.  Following rules is what every gambling should try to implement no matter how hard it may appear.

[Powerjumboo]

Yeah, I have been called reckless gambling by a friend as I do gamble frequently but I often maintain responsible gambling, but this friend of mine keeps calling me a reckless gambler. At first when gambling, I make sure my money used to gamble doesn't exceed my budget and I do allocate 15 percent of weekly/monthly income to gamble and whenever this allocation is exhausted I do not care to gamble anymore and I am also stick to my rules and regulation whereby even though I am gambling and I ran into lose and exhausted my initial deposit you wouldn't see going further to make additional deposit just to satisfy the urge at that moment.

Please I would like to know if any body who is actually keeping to his rules and regulation without aggressively keep gambling can be called a reckless gambler? I do not actually like such words, though I wanted to start reacting to him based how he do sees me gambling and before that I just want to know what you think about his consistent action towards me. 

Here, as you have stated, based on your information, I would say that you are not gambling recklessly because you are using a specific budget that you are not spending any money outside of that budget. If you were to spend extra money outside your specific budget and continue gambling, then perhaps you could be called a reckless gambler. Also, if you took out a loan to gamble outside your specific budget and continued gambling after taking out the loan, then you could also be considered a reckless gambler because you are the opposite of all these things, so I cannot consider you a reckless gambler.

[STT]

Reckless is when you gamble what you cannot lose, regardless of outcome you have disregarded risk and the consequences of the loss that was quite possible, dangerous.  If you ever win on such a bad or reckless bet you should at the very least halve your bet size and reduce back the risk, don't ever increase because you won a 'bad' risky bet its too frequently a mistake made by us all.
  

allocate

If you allocate and think about your spending and the concept of losses not just dreaming of winning then you are ahead of about 90% of gamblers.   Like any leisure activity people focus on the good time not waking up the next morning with a headache and having to work it off, dont worry too much if you are already considering your risks.

[Orpichukwu]

Sometimes it's not wrong to listen to people's criticism, especially when it is coming from someone sincere. They could help in identifying weaknesses in your behaviour. Some people became addicted because they failed to heed the candid observations and advice of others. We should be able to distinguish between constructive criticism and insults.

If one's mind is clear and not clouded by seeing negativity in what others are saying about their gambling behaviour, it will be easier to see far above what could have been taken like an insult and learn whatever they could from the insult, but anyone who picks offence easily won't even bother to look at criticism from that angle.

[iBaba]

People often have negative opinions about gambling. They've likely either had some negative experiences or heard stories of people who lost everything they had. This is why we see this attitude even toward those who can control their emotions and finances. OP, you shouldn't react to criticism or try to prove to everyone that you're not who they think you are. People have the right to think whatever they want, but you don't have to live up to their image.

You've just said it, the reason why people often have negative opinions about gambling is because many have seen how badly it can go wrong, they watched how lose their savings because of gambling, how people have lost their relationships, how the  have lost their dignity and those kind of experiences have shaped the their judgements.

but with that being said you don't owe anyone an explanation, if you truly have control over your own money and you are disciplined towards your spendings then you will have no reason to carry on with what you intend to do with no fear or intimidation.

[junder]

~snip~

That said perception matters and people often judge gambling based on frequency rather than behavior. To some people gambling often automatically equals irresponsibility regardless of limits or control. Your friend may simply be reacting emotionally to the idea of gambling itself rather than your actual habits. In many cultures gambling carries a stigma so anyone who engages in it regularly is labeled negatively even if they are disciplined. This does not make the label accurate but it explains why it keeps coming up.

Losing control while gambling is a common problem that is commonplace for most people who gamble, especially those who gamble to improve their financial well-being. Another definition is excessive behavior, driven by unstable emotions.

You're right. Many people have negative opinions when discussing gambling, so it's not surprising that some people use unpleasant terms or opinions. I believe it's best not to be influenced by other people's opinions. As long as we do it wisely, we shouldn't dwell on it too much.