Have you ever lost a friendship over an off bet?

[shanz]

I’ve heard many stories about friends betting on a game at home, where one person couldn’t accept the loss and refused to honor the bet. After that, the friendship was never the same. Has this ever happened to you? Do you think off bets with friends are harmless fun, or are they risky for the friendship itself? Personally, I try as much as possible to avoid playing this way, not because I don’t trust the people around me, but because I don’t see the meaning of gambling that way in the presence of online platforms.

[DubemIfedigbo001]

I’ve heard many stories about friends betting on a game at home, where one person couldn’t accept the loss and refused to honor the bet. After that, the friendship was never the same. Has this ever happened to you? Do you think off bets with friends are harmless fun, or are they risky for the friendship itself? Personally, I try as much as possible to avoid playing this way, not because I don’t trust the people around me, but because I don’t see the meaning of gambling that way in the presence of online platforms.

They never had any off bet if the funds were not brought together and kept under the custody of a middleman that serves as a local escrow.
Bets are real when the stakes are guaranteed present and not guaranteed by word of mouth.

I've had several of those off bets with friends and no matter how much I trust them or believe in their integrity, if the stakes are not present, I dismiss it as a mere joke.

I bet on the casino too as well as side. Often times side bets are the only ways to humble a club supporter who is being over confident with the performance of his team, If he can place side bets on his team to win, then his confidence holds water, else he is just a noise maker and is told to keep quiet.

[obuoma]

I have not gotten into a serious bet with a friend, by serious I mean betting significant amount of money that can cause rift between. The only times I have bet with a friend is when it is with something easily redeemable like buying me a bottle of beer or something simple. I know that side bet can be very problematic and can separate friends. Gambling should be focused on the casinos whose business it is to honor all payments of genuine winnings in the platform.                                                                                                                                                

[MArsland]

I’ve heard many stories about friends betting on a game at home, where one person couldn’t accept the loss and refused to honor the bet. After that, the friendship was never the same. Has this ever happened to you? Do you think off bets with friends are harmless fun, or are they risky for the friendship itself? Personally, I try as much as possible to avoid playing this way, not because I don’t trust the people around me, but because I don’t see the meaning of gambling that way in the presence of online platforms.

No, because gambling with friends is just a joke, even if we bet, whoever loses has to treat food and drinks. If the bet is serious, I think it's too much and such people will only ruin the friendship just because of a stupid bet. Betting with friends should have its limits, not everything should be bet seriously let alone to the point of ruining the relationship.

[Zadicar]

I’ve heard many stories about friends betting on a game at home, where one person couldn’t accept the loss and refused to honor the bet. After that, the friendship was never the same. Has this ever happened to you? Do you think off bets with friends are harmless fun, or are they risky for the friendship itself? Personally, I try as much as possible to avoid playing this way, not because I don’t trust the people around me, but because I don’t see the meaning of gambling that way in the presence of online platforms.

None, and i dont have any plans on betting against my friend or known someone because i dont like conflicts or problems because we do know that these things specially betting against will potentially be creating that kind of issues but of course it would be that still depending on a certain person because there are those individuals who are that not too sensitive when it comes to issues specially with money. There are those individuals who are that emotional and somewhat that highly reactive on things and once they've been able to make out some arguementation with other people then it would be creating into chaos. Somehow making up some bets in against with your friend or companion would be bringing out that kind of entertainment and interest specially you've been that betting together but just like been said that there owuld be those probabilities and this could really happen. And this is why it would be better that you should be that betting on your own as my own preference rather than on betting with someone because i dont like with these kind of issues might rais up.

[Versatile_choice]

I’ve heard many stories about friends betting on a game at home, where one person couldn’t accept the loss and refused to honor the bet. After that, the friendship was never the same. Has this ever happened to you? Do you think off bets with friends are harmless fun, or are they risky for the friendship itself? Personally, I try as much as possible to avoid playing this way, not because I don’t trust the people around me, but because I don’t see the meaning of gambling that way in the presence of online platforms.

Going on side bet with friends? No I haven't done that although sometimes when we are arguing about clubs my friends usually come up with these idea of going on a side bet, but I always turn them down because it's very risky even though they don't know the disadvantage of going on a side bet. But I must say that i have seen some gamblers doing that  and it all end with fight as the other gamblers refused to accept that he's the loser and that's how the both of them were just dragging, then I start imagining that wish I listen to my friends when they asked me to go on a side bet with them so these is how the whole thing would have ended.

[Cointxz]

I’ve heard many stories about friends betting on a game at home, where one person couldn’t accept the loss and refused to honor the bet. After that, the friendship was never the same. Has this ever happened to you? Do you think off bets with friends are harmless fun, or are they risky for the friendship itself? Personally, I try as much as possible to avoid playing this way, not because I don’t trust the people around me, but because I don’t see the meaning of gambling that way in the presence of online platforms.

No, I don’t bet against my friends but we do bet sometimes on the same team. Competition against friends especially on gambling is not a healthy habits since it might create a conflict later on if the other party can’t hold on anymore to financial responsibility for paying the bet.

There’s a lot of things to do with friends that will develop your bond instead of competing through bets.

I have a lot of fun gambling together with friends instead of betting against each other.

[Oshosondy]

That is crazy man. How would friendship end just because a friend did not pay me the money that I won? I can be angry or not even angry. But even if I am angry, he is still my friend. Only what I can think of is that we can just refer to it one day and use it to joke and laugh over it but I will maintain the friendship if it is worth it. I can end a friendship but that will never be because of a bet.

[Dechris_08]

I’ve heard many stories about friends betting on a game at home, where one person couldn’t accept the loss and refused to honor the bet. After that, the friendship was never the same. Has this ever happened to you? Do you think off bets with friends are harmless fun, or are they risky for the friendship itself? Personally, I try as much as possible to avoid playing this way, not because I don’t trust the people around me, but because I don’t see the meaning of gambling that way in the presence of online platforms.

For me, betting offline with friends just doesn’t make sense.

If there’s already a betting platform, what’s the point? Why involve people when I can just place the bet directly on the platform and be done with it?

Offline betting is messy.

Emotions get involved. Someone loses money, and now it’s personal.

Most people aren’t emotionally disciplined enough to handle loss cleanly.

They’re not in control of their emotions, so small money turns into tension, arguments, and broken relationships.

That’s the real cost people ignore.

Online betting removes all of that.

Everything is clear. Rules are fixed. Odds are known. There’s no negotiating, no back-and-forth, no “let’s talk about it.”

If you lose, you already understand what that means.

You can be angry if you want, but you still pay what you owe.

If you win, the bookmaker pays you. No fights. No arguments.

Clean system, that’s the only way this makes sense.

[Africolo]

I’ve heard many stories about friends betting on a game at home, where one person couldn’t accept the loss and refused to honor the bet. After that, the friendship was never the same. Has this ever happened to you? Do you think off bets with friends are harmless fun, or are they risky for the friendship itself? Personally, I try as much as possible to avoid playing this way, not because I don’t trust the people around me, but because I don’t see the meaning of gambling that way in the presence of online platforms.

I rather place my bets online than betting with a friend and at the end of the day if I win he won't honour the bet by giving me my money and we end up having issues, I once had that experience of betting with  a friend and when I won the bet he refused giving me the money and it lead to a heavy fight until people came and after much pleading and explanations he gave me the money and that was how I vow never to gamble with a friend, instead I will do all my gambling online so I don't have issues with anyone over my win.

After the outcome of the bet I had with my friend I won't advise anyone to do a side bet with his friends due to the conflicts that will arise from such gamble so to avoid stories and conflicts just do all your betting online without having to bet with a friend because when any party wins it will be difficult to release the funds from the winnings. Money has a spirit that controls people's emotions and feelings that's why betting wth a friend is not ideal so I can't gamble with a friend again to avoid conflicts.

[joeperry]

I haven't experienced this kind of scenario however I wouldn't also include myself in that kind of bet. I'm thinking if that happened to me and if my friend didn't honor the bet, I would be disappointed and would definitely lose trust to him, actually anything that's related to money such as borrowing money and I only accept bet when it's a dare like drinking bets. I'm pretty sure it happened to other people and anything that involves money is dangerous even relationship and friendship that's why we have a saying that money is root of all evil that's why it's better to avoid simple bets with your closed friends.

[michellee]

Yes, that is normally happens but although we don't talk each others for some time, we finally back to normal as friends. We forget what happens before and talk like nothing happens.

Our friendship is more than just that so we can forget after don't meet for days. But later, we are not meet each other because of our busy. We have a plan if we back to home, we will manage to meet and have fun together.

If your friends can't accepts the loss and choose to stay away from you for a long time, they could not be good friends. We are gamble so we must realize that win and lose will happens to anyone.

[stadus]

I’ve heard many stories about friends betting on a game at home, where one person couldn’t accept the loss and refused to honor the bet. After that, the friendship was never the same. Has this ever happened to you? Do you think off bets with friends are harmless fun, or are they risky for the friendship itself? Personally, I try as much as possible to avoid playing this way, not because I don’t trust the people around me, but because I don’t see the meaning of gambling that way in the presence of online platforms.

Sometimes I do this too, but it never ends up ruining any friendships because it’s always just a friendly bet. It’s only a small amount, nothing serious that people would fight over.

Most of the time when I win, I just use the money to buy drinks for my friends anyway, so even if they lose, they still kind of win since they get free drinks. But yeah, technically it’s still their money, lol.

[Tungbulu]

I’ve heard many stories about friends betting on a game at home, where one person couldn’t accept the loss and refused to honor the bet. After that, the friendship was never the same. Has this ever happened to you? Do you think off bets with friends are harmless fun, or are they risky for the friendship itself? Personally, I try as much as possible to avoid playing this way, not because I don’t trust the people around me, but because I don’t see the meaning of gambling that way in the presence of online platforms.

I've had off bets with friends that were never honored, more times than i can recall but we are still good. if you allow such a thing tear your friendship with someone then you both were actually not friends. The only thing I know would be the outcome of such an experience would be that, I'll only have that mindset that such a friend can't be trusted when it comes to redeeming or honoring such a bet, and then I'll choose whether to indulge in such with him next time or not, but this still won't affect our friendship in any way.

[CONVOAI]

I have bet a lot with my friends like this in my childhood. But it is normal that none of my friends want to accept loss easily. Then there is a quarrel/dispute with friends but it does not last long. The quarrel/dispute is for a short time. Later everything is fine again. My friendship has never been lost because of betting because we took it as fun. But now gambling is done online. Offline gambling is no longer done like before.

[Dunamisx]

If you don't have the mind, don't gamble with your friends because that may be the only reason to end your friendship, it may not have to be gambling alone, it could be something like business or making a deal, because you may not want to do accordingly as expected of you and same may also applies to the friend involved, better to gambler with an outsider and treat the case with them as according to how it is.

[Maslate]

That’s basically cheating. If your friend does that, it just means he’s not a true friend because he doesn’t respect the bet.
I wouldn’t really trust someone like that, since it’s dangerous to deal with people who don’t keep their word.

I’ve made bets with my friends too, even with some online friends, and the losers really do pay. That’s how you know they have integrity, they honor the deal even when they lose. Still, I don’t usually bet big amounts with friends, to be honest I even trust sportsbooks more than them sometimes.

[aioc]

Do you think off bets with friends are harmless fun, or are they risky for the friendship itself?

It depends on how well you know your friends. I have friends that I can bet against, and we have no issues about who wins and about payment and I have friends that.

I don't want to play with for fear that we will lose our friendships the most important thing is you both have fun and agreed about the payment, for us we usually bet on who will treat in the next round of drinks, we don't want to make money from each other we jsut want to have fun not make money.

[CryptoHeadlineNews]

I’ve heard many stories about friends betting on a game at home, where one person couldn’t accept the loss and refused to honor the bet. After that, the friendship was never the same. Has this ever happened to you? Do you think off bets with friends are harmless fun, or are they risky for the friendship itself? Personally, I try as much as possible to avoid playing this way, not because I don’t trust the people around me, but because I don’t see the meaning of gambling that way in the presence of online platforms.

Sticking to your words no matter how hurtful it may seems, shows a sign of responsibility. And as friends, there are certain games you ought not to play for the health of that relationship, such as this one. Because I have seen many cases where bets between friends later ended in an unexpected manner when one party after winning the bet requested for his agreement and the other party took it as play which ended the trust between two parties. Because in a case like this , it is better to bet with a stranger or both off you bet on a casino, than betting on physical items as friends. Since the tendency of whoever losses will be hard to comply with the agreement off terms. So in a nutshell, I won't do a betting agreement with my very close friends, we might talk about it, but not to the point of betting over a physical items like phone or e.t.x. because that's the easiest way to lose friendship.

[Zigabel]

I’ve heard many stories about friends betting on a game at home, where one person couldn’t accept the loss and refused to honor the bet. After that, the friendship was never the same. Has this ever happened to you? Do you think off bets with friends are harmless fun, or are they risky for the friendship itself? Personally, I try as much as possible to avoid playing this way, not because I don’t trust the people around me, but because I don’t see the meaning of gambling that way in the presence of online platforms.

It is always not advisable to accept that gambling outside a platform because it is easier for people not to want to honour the bet outside  a platform because they feel they can swea you with their relationship to not want to hold them accountable for the bet. I don't like gambling  with friends because it most times could cause issues and spoil friendship, so because  I cherish my friendship at all points I will  rather just discuss about  it and probably just argue and not place bets and if I must I will online.