Have you ever lost a friendship over an off bet?

[btc78]

people are confident in making bets when they think they are gonna win but of course once they lose which is something they did not even consider due to too much cockiness they go back on their words and do not honor the bet and they think since you are friends they can get off the hook

[Odohu]

I prefer winning the casino to winning someone I know. This is the reason off bet is not usually interesting to me especially when I want to do it to make money. The only time I would like side bet is in the case of banters where everyone believe so much in his team... "lets bet if you are so sure". This is the only way we do side bets, strictly for fun and not because we want to make money. If I'm sure about the game and want to make money from it, I will bet on the casino who I know will be able to pay me even with higher odd.

[Dave1]

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, as much as both parties is competitive, but I don't think that anyone is willing to break that friendship because of gambling. And I don't know if you can call that a friend if he doesn't honor on what you agree upon.

On the contrary, I do have many bets with my friends, and we honor each other. There are even bets that he doesn't have money so I will used my one to put his bet on sports. If he loses, then he pay me. But the good thing is that if he won, then we both enjoy the winnings together with more friends.

So I guess there are still gamblers who do this because of friendship and not to destroy one.

[demonica]

Back then, I did several betting with my friends. It's just a friendly bet and bet is a bet so if you lose, you need to pay. Why lose your friendship over a small amount of money? Both party agreed on making a bet so whoever wins, gets the money. I guess it wasn't really a problem for us since we only bet with small amount. Maybe it will be a different story if it involves more money. But I wouldn't engage myself in betting with friends that involves bigger money cause it could end friendships.

Right now, I rarely make bets with friends anymore since I'm more into different sportsbetting and I just bet online. It's easier and no need to worry about ruining your friendship. Also, I have several friends who also started getting into the sports the same with me, but we just make bet online instead of making bets with each other.

[Showlove01]

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 this happens and what makes it look that way or result in trouble is selfishness and taking it so personal, some people are very selfish and these people when they didn't win the bet they will want to cause problem so that they won't give the winner the money especially when they didn't give someone to hold the money ( third party). sometimes what causes this is when someone bet with what they can not afford to lose and once they lose the bet, they will be so hostile and aggressive which is very wrong. I will advise we don't do things with people like this.

[vanesha]

I occasionally place bets with my close friends, especially my friends who like sports and have favorite clubs. When their favorite team meets my favorite team, I like to bet with them. The point is, we have to understand the nature of our own friends so that they don't get destroyed just because of betting.

[rachael9385]

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.                                                                                                                                                

Always reminding yourself of how valuable your friendship is would make you avoid getting into all these type of situations. It is always best to gamble privately because humans can act very funny when it comes to anything that has to do with money and fulfilling a part of bargain they act different. This can lead to enemity between friends,  Gambling should be all about having fun not causing conflict.

[ralle14]

I can't recall every single bet i've made with my friends back then, but it probably happened once or twice because at that time we never asked anyone to hold each other's bet.

From my perspective, these friendly bets should be harmless fun unless the money on the line is worth more for one of the two parties. For me, I don't mind if they call it off, but if that happens, then i'd rather not take any bets from them until there's a third party to confirm the bets are on.

[ruykeri]

This has not happened to me. Because I have never bet with any of my friends or acquaintances offline. Even many of my acquaintances do not know that I bet within the regular limit. However, I have heard many such incidents and even seen that there was a problem with a friend after betting and later getting the money back. I know one thing that happens with my friend. Such incidents are seen often. Two of my friends bet on sports betting. When a friend loses, he says that he is betting for fun. ''I did not bet seriously and I cannot pay the money I lost''. Later, the relationship between them deteriorated. That was many years ago, but even then, they have not been on good terms.

[Orpichukwu]

I've seen very similar situations, and it can really turn into a lot of headaches. When money, ego, and competition are involved, things change. I think betting among friends can be fun if it's symbolic or with low stakes, but when someone doesn't know how to lose or take it in stride, the friendship pays the price, and unfortunately, that's very sad.

Most of the betting among friends has always turned out to be more negative than positive. If betting like that among friends is to be carried out, it should not be something constant, maybe occasional during a particular event, and they need to agree on everyone accepting the outcome no matter what it is. That way peace can always end up being maintained.

[iBaba]

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Always reminding yourself of how valuable your friendship is would make you avoid getting into all these type of situations. It is always best to gamble privately because humans can act very funny when it comes to anything that has to do with money and fulfilling a part of bargain they act different. This can lead to enemity between friends,  Gambling should be all about having fun not causing conflict.

I don't encourage gambling with anyone aside from yourself having the mindset of taking the responsibility of whatever the outcome of the gambling is at the end of it makes more sense to me. Because when it comes to the issue of money, there can be backlash or even fight among you and your friends even the close ones especially when they were there and tried to influence whether the amount you staked or the odds you placed at a game. Gambling would have been more fun with friends than on solo but because of the money that is involved, it can cause serious conflict among friends even families.

[LogitechMouse]

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.

Nope, I haven't, and like many here, I also don't want this to happen to myself as well.

I guess it's good that I have friends that knows to honor their words. I've gambled with them a few times already, and they know the word "respect". On the other hand, if my "friend" don't want to honor their word and they don't want to accept the loss, I'd just let it go. I mean friendship is way more important than a single bet, right? Many will agree on this one for sure.

I'm already an introvert meaning I only have few friends, and I will risk my friendship to them just because of a single bet? That's not worth it at all.

[viljy]

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.

If a person refuses to fulfill his own obligation, then of course friendly relations with him are unlikely to be possible in the future. It's inevitable. Perhaps this situation is even for the best, because it allows you to see a person's nature, to see that he is unreliable, that his promise has a value of 0. So there is a positive side to everything.

[Jody.Drummer]

I experienced this myself when I placed a bet with my friend on a team that was playing because the team was my team and my friend's team, so the bet was made, but when the game was over and the team I was rooting for won, he didn't want to pay up. I don't know what his reason was, but the point is that he didn't want to pay his losing bet. This made me frustrated, leading to a minor conflict that lasted for a few weeks. Eventually, everything returned to normal, and I stopped caring about the winnings I should have received. However, moving forward, I no longer wish to place bets with him.

[DraculaBTC34]

Back then, I did several betting with my friends. It's just a friendly bet and bet is a bet so if you lose, you need to pay. Why lose your friendship over a small amount of money? Both party agreed on making a bet so whoever wins, gets the money. I guess it wasn't really a problem for us since we only bet with small amount. Maybe it will be a different story if it involves more money. But I wouldn't engage myself in betting with friends that involves bigger money cause it could end friendships.

Right now, I rarely make bets with friends anymore since I'm more into different sportsbetting and I just bet online. It's easier and no need to worry about ruining your friendship. Also, I have several friends who also started getting into the sports the same with me, but we just make bet online instead of making bets with each other.

One advantage of betting online is that personal relationships are not involved. Winning or losing is all about the game not friendship. However it is important to set limits here too because easy access can often tempt people to play more. In my opinion it is safest to keep friendships and betting separate. Money can come back but losing good friends doesn't come back easily.

[Somto9Light]

Sometimes this happens and what makes it look that way or result in trouble is selfishness and taking it so personal, some people are very selfish and these people when they didn't win the bet they will want to cause problem so that they won't give the winner the money especially when they didn't give someone to hold the money ( third party). sometimes what causes this is when someone bet with what they can not afford to lose and once they lose the bet, they will be so hostile and aggressive which is very wrong. I will advise we don't do things with people like this.

I have always seen off bet as a risky game, you are right when you said that some people are just being selfish and also taking it personal and that is because they want to win the bet by all means. Although off bet is not risky rather some people are making it look as if it is very risky, on a norms when you are going on off bet with someone probably your friend you're meant to look for someone who would monitor the bet and that person will also set rules and before you will participate you must stick to the rules/ or terms and conditions, because the reason why people keep having misunderstanding in off bet is because there's no  discipline.

[Ever-young]

One advantage of betting online is that personal relationships are not involved. Winning or losing is all about the game not friendship. However it is important to set limits here too because easy access can often tempt people to play more. In my opinion it is safest to keep friendships and betting separate. Money can come back but losing good friends doesn't come back easily.

True friendship is built on the foundation of understanding and tolerance, and if these qualities doesn’t exist or isn’t mutually shared in any friendship, then it’ll only be a matter of time before that friendship collapses. This isn’t just about gambling, in fact gambling is even meant to be more fun when and enjoyable when done with friends so you’ll be wrong to say it’s best to separate friendship and gambling because this should often even go hand in hand. It’s all about mutual understanding, if both understand themselves, even if one fail to stick to their own end of the bargain, the other would know how best to handle the situation rather than ending the friendship.

[Nahl]

Sometimes me and my friends did offline betting usually we bets for football games and actually it was so fun because if i am lucky i can see my favourite teams won the game and following it i won the bets too and speaking about friendship until now i have good relationship with my friends although sometimes lost from my friends is very upset but it doesn't affect to my relationship and the reason why me and my friends still fine although we were involved to offline gambling because we all kknow the risk of gambling even most of us are responsible gambler who considers gambling only to killing our free time or gambling for fun and everytime we did bets for offline gambling we can accept the results whether it lost or win

[Nathrixxx]

Maybe this can only affect those who are mostly influenced by friends in gambling, because I don't think someone like me can have any effects of this since I don't usually keep much friends in gambling, but we can't deny the reality from happening because some could actually be a victim of all this, by the time they begin to lose, that is when they begin to have serious issues with their friends because of the most they are into.

[HONDACD125]

I prefer winning the casino to winning someone I know. This is the reason off bet is not usually interesting to me especially when I want to do it to make money. The only time I would like side bet is in the case of banters where everyone believe so much in his team... "lets bet if you are so sure". This is the only way we do side bets, strictly for fun and not because we want to make money. If I'm sure about the game and want to make money from it, I will bet on the casino who I know will be able to pay me even with higher odd.

I agree with that, and I believe only those who don't value friendship would make bets with friends so that they can make money out of them, but those who know this isn't a good practice would never do it, and even if they do it, it will only be for fun, the amount won't be significant and both parties will enjoy it even if one them have to lose the bet. You can't ruin a friendship only for some money, it's not worth it, and as I said, only those who don't value friendship or love their friends would do something like that, otherwise, you can only think of having fun with your friends.

When we used to be younger, and when all the friends used to spend a lot of time together, we used to have a lot of fun, we used to play pool games and make bets against each other but those used to light bets, maybe cold drinks or food for each other based on whoever loses will get them for the other. It used to be a lot of fun, no one would get mad or anything if they lost the game, and it would be fun even after the game was over because it wasn't a bet to take the other person's money.

Bets within friends should always have the spirit of having fun and entertainment, and should never become the reason for the breaking of the friendship.