As a gambler who much do you think is right for gambling per week?

[Zlantann]

I want to know if it was you what would you do to him, and how much do you think he should be allocating to gamble every week or month? Let discusse, know that there are lot of addiction thread so we should try as much as possible not to make a repetitive comment.

Using such a huge chunk of his income for gambling is too much for me. If I lose 40% of my income on gambling, it would have a negative financial effect on me and my dependents. Maybe your friend has other sources of income that he can fall back on when he needs financial support. Due to how my country's economy has turned out, income from my salary is not enough to cover my expenses. So my gambling budget is not more than 3% of what I earn. If I finish my monthly budget, gambling will have to wait till next month. 

[BitMaxz]

Using such a huge chunk of his income for gambling is too much for me. If I lose 40% of my income on gambling, it would have a negative financial effect on me and my dependents. Maybe your friend has other sources of income that he can fall back on when he needs financial support. Due to how my country's economy has turned out, income from my salary is not enough to cover my expenses. So my gambling budget is not more than 3% of what I earn. If I finish my monthly budget, gambling will have to wait till next month. 

40% of income is actually huge. I don't think even you are rich or have a job that pays too much; losing 40% of your income from gambling is still going to hurt you much.
If his friend can spend like that, I don't think his friend is going to survive losing that 40% every month. You can do many things with 40% if you are in high-paying jobs. Doing it on low-paying jobs that 40% can affect you financially. I can't afford to lose that much; even if I am rich, I better save it to buy more crypto to hold and build a store that accepts crypto in the future than lose 40% of your salary, which is not a bright decision.

[Rabata]

I want to know if it was you what would you do to him, and how much do you think he should be allocating to gamble every week or month? Let discusse, know that there are lot of addiction thread so we should try as much as possible not to make a repetitive comment.

Spending 40% of the total income is certainly not a normal expense. So, whatever the income, the person must pay close attention to his gambling. If he spends so much money on gambling, he must know how much his wealth is. For many people, 40% seems low to those who have a lot of income, but for those who have a limited income, 40% is definitely a lot, which is never possible to use normally. I must tell that gambler to stop and try to find out how much his wealth is. If he does not have any such savings, then no doubt that he is addicted and I will try to talk to him about this addiction. I will try to tell him that he has not gained anything by gambling for a long time and will not get anything in the future. Gambling should be used as entertainment, but if he gambles for income, it will rather bring losses.

[Royal Cap]

I want to know if it was you what would you do to him, and how much do you think he should be allocating to gamble every week or month? Let discusse, know that there are lot of addiction thread so we should try as much as possible not to make a repetitive comment.

40% definitely seems like a lot to me. If gambling is considered entertainment, then it should be at a level where losing doesn't have any impact on your lifestyle. But 40% means almost half of your monthly income. I personally would say a very small portion of your income, first set aside savings and necessary expenses and then if you have anything. If not, don't gamble. In my opinion the best would be something like 1-5%, Because we can spend 1-5% of our income on entertainment if we want.

[Uhwuchukwu53]

Responsibility differs, human reasoning are in categories, I see that some person finished action before reasoning, if a gambler used 40% it show how myopic the gambler could be and such gambler lack responsibility, it a clear indication that gambling is the first priority, because if the 60% is share in all aspects of what makes many daily living to be complete you believe me gambling has taken the highest percentage more than even health care of the gambler, this implies that even feeding has lesser percentage, what of the logistics before the and other PR because as human no matter how small mostly the third world countries people must depend on you once it's known your employed or earning something, that percentage for gambling for me is too ridiculous.

[Mindyspace]

Wow, 40% of his salary is really a lot! If he can't save and still replenishes the money to continue gambling, that already indicates that the gambling is out of control.

A healthier way would be to pay all expenses, save at least 10% or 20% of the salary, and set aside a small portion for leisure. For gambling, many experts suggest a maximum of 5% of income or almost nothing if there are no savings.

In the end, you can't force anyone to change, but it's important to show concern and suggest limits, balance, and without judgment.

[alastantiger]

I want to know if it was you what would you do to him, and how much do you think he should be allocating to gamble every week or month? Let discusse, know that there are lot of addiction thread so we should try as much as possible not to make a repetitive comment.

If Im being real, allocating 40% of your salary to gambling especially when you are barely saving and running out of money before month end is just poor financial judgment and a very terrible way to live, i mean fun is fine yeah, but it should never come before stability and if it were my friend, I wouldnt attack him but I would ask him the hard questions about savings, about emergencies and then his  long-term goals, because once gambling starts eating into security and requires “refilling” that on its own is a red flag and personally I dont think anyone who isnt saving consistently should be gambling at all, and even then it should be a small, fixed entertainment budget you can afford to lose without it affecting your life.

[whiteblue]

Spending 40% of ones income on gambling is highly not good at all, but he is spending more.

If someone still go for 5% and the person is not going beyond it, that is better but not still the best. The recommended percentage of money that people should use to gamble in a way that they will not be affected financially if they are earning enough amount of money is 1% and it should not be more than 1% of the person's income.

40% is indeed too large an amount that is not good for finances, it is very excessive, yes, it should be less than 10% of our income, 5% is a very wise amount, but in my opinion it depends on the income, because the percentage is also influenced by that, if the income is only $ 200 for 5% and 1% it is very small for them to gamble and I think rarely anyone will do that, at least 10% for betting.

[DrBeer]

Had discussion with friends over the weekend and one of them said he do allocates about 40 percent of his monthly salary to gambling within the month, and when that amount finishes he wouldn't mind refilling it again, provided that he is catching the cruise and having fun he doesn't mind any amount he is spending to gamble.
To me: I just quietly breathe down, and looked at him a kind of annoying looks like, if he truly knows what he is saying. I told him that such amount is too huge to allocate for his gambling, I asked? How much do you saved per month and how much do you spend or for your up keep? He said " he barely saved up money" that he do spend out before the month ends. This made me to understand that he is actually addicted but he seems not to noticed yet and even when I tried to draw him closer to know that he is already an addicted gambler he said he knows what he is doing.

I want to know if it was you what would you do to him, and how much do you think he should be allocating to gamble every week or month? Let discusse, know that there are lot of addiction thread so we should try as much as possible not to make a repetitive comment.

It's not about gambling or the “economics” of the person. He's just set up to play and lose, he gets pleasure from it — it sounds strange, but that's how it is, otherwise there's no logical explanation for his behavior. Plus, most likely (I hope, because that's the best option) — he has no family and no responsibilities to parents, children, wife... He is ready to lose everything.
When I gamble, I only take the amount that I am prepared to lose today. Yes, LOSS. Losing this amount does not affect my quality of life in any way, I just have that amount less money  But, a mandatory condition for myself is no “I'll win it back now and get everything back, I'll just take a couple more bills out of my pocket.” The main rule in such matters is to learn to negotiate with yourself and not deceive yourself!

[Btcdeybodi]

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 how much do you think he should be allocating to gamble every week or month?

10% of your monthly income should be enough for gambling every month which means that you can spend 2.5% every week, i think it's an amount that one can afford to lose. However, gambling is not supposed to be done every week or every month. There might be times when you have other important things to do with money, you can just take a break from gambling at that time then when you have enough discretionary income you can consider gambling again. No matter how much you allocate for gambling it doesn't warrant you to be actively involved in gambling.

[Zlantann]

Using such a huge chunk of his income for gambling is too much for me. If I lose 40% of my income on gambling, it would have a negative financial effect on me and my dependents. Maybe your friend has other sources of income that he can fall back on when he needs financial support. Due to how my country's economy has turned out, income from my salary is not enough to cover my expenses. So my gambling budget is not more than 3% of what I earn. If I finish my monthly budget, gambling will have to wait till next month. 

40% of income is actually huge. I don't think even you are rich or have a job that pays too much; losing 40% of your income from gambling is still going to hurt you much.
If his friend can spend like that, I don't think his friend is going to survive losing that 40% every month. You can do many things with 40% if you are in high-paying jobs. Doing it on low-paying jobs that 40% can affect you financially. I can't afford to lose that much; even if I am rich, I better save it to buy more crypto to hold and build a store that accepts crypto in the future than lose 40% of your salary, which is not a bright decision.

If I can use 40% to buy Bitcoin, I might become financially stable after two or three Bitcoin cycles. But it's not even possible to invest as little as 20% in buying Bitcoin. Sometimes I end up not saving a dollar from my monthly income because of the high cost of living. This issue can be summarized as OP's friend is suffering from a gambling addiction. Such people might end up taking loans before the end of the month because of gambling, as consumed a large portion of their salary.

I had a neighbor who was always having problems with his wife because of uncontrollable gambling. The manager of his workplace had to decide to part of his salary to his wife for family upkeep. This was because he was always gambling more than he could afford to lose.      

[DubemIfedigbo001]

Had discussion with friends over the weekend and one of them said he do allocates about 40 percent of his monthly salary to gambling within the month, and when that amount finishes he wouldn't mind refilling it again, provided that he is catching the cruise and having fun he doesn't mind any amount he is spending to gamble.
To me: I just quietly breathe down, and looked at him a kind of annoying looks like, if he truly knows what he is saying. I told him that such amount is too huge to allocate for his gambling, I asked? How much do you saved per month and how much do you spend or for your up keep? He said " he barely saved up money" that he do spend out before the month ends. This made me to understand that he is actually addicted but he seems not to noticed yet and even when I tried to draw him closer to know that he is already an addicted gambler he said he knows what he is doing.

Trust me bro, he doesn't know shit that he is doing, he is only afraid to admit the truth about his gambling inclination.
I've had such an experience with a colleague who pointed to a worse person as a validation that he is still on the right track while it was obvious he was messing up his finances.
40% is a whole lot, does it mean he doesn't have responsibilities or does he earn so much that 40% of his total income can be considered his discretionary income?

[Cityhunter34]

I want to know if it was you what would you do to him, and how much do you think he should be allocating to gamble every week or month? Let discusse, know that there are lot of addiction thread so we should try as much as possible not to make a repetitive comment.

There's nothing much here because he is gambling blindly, how can someone take gambling that serious. Honestly, I hate when a gambler don't know if they are addicted to gambling because it is only when you no what you are doing that it will be easy for you to get out of it, but this is one nothing like that.

Anyways I don't have much to say about it because gambling it's a personal decision since we can never decide for another gambler it's better for us to stick with discipline because there's no guarantee of winnings in gambling using 40% of your monthly income doesn't make any sense at all.

[Yeesha]

I want to know if it was you what would you do to him, and how much do you think he should be allocating to gamble every week or month? Let discusse, know that there are lot of addiction thread so we should try as much as possible not to make a repetitive comment.

40% definitely seems like a lot to me. If gambling is considered entertainment, then it should be at a level where losing doesn't have any impact on your lifestyle. But 40% means almost half of your monthly income. I personally would say a very small portion of your income, first set aside savings and necessary expenses and then if you have anything. If not, don't gamble. In my opinion the best would be something like 1-5%, Because we can spend 1-5% of our income on entertainment if we want.

It depends on what the person earn per month, plus the responsibilities he has to fulfill. I understand your point of view, but the definition of gambling varies from individual's perspectives depending on how they see gambling and the mentality that they normally or usually have when gambling. If they see gambling as a form of entertainment, excitement or way of having fun, they will know the best way to go about, in order to prevent themselves from getting sad, discomfort, discourage or disappointed after losing, so they will definitely gamble with what they can afford to lose. But as for the people who gamble for the sake of getting rich, they will definitely do otherwise (which is the opposite).

[Webutxo]

Had discussion with friends over the weekend and one of them said he do allocates about 40 percent of his monthly salary to gambling within the month, and when that amount finishes he wouldn't mind refilling it again, provided that he is catching the cruise and having fun he doesn't mind any amount he is spending to gamble.
To me: I just quietly breathe down, and looked at him a kind of annoying looks like, if he truly knows what he is saying. I told him that such amount is too huge to allocate for his gambling, I asked? How much do you saved per month and how much do you spend or for your up keep? He said " he barely saved up money" that he do spend out before the month ends. This made me to understand that he is actually addicted but he seems not to noticed yet and even when I tried to draw him closer to know that he is already an addicted gambler he said he knows what he is doing.

I want to know if it was you what would you do to him, and how much do you think he should be allocating to gamble every week or month? Let discusse, know that there are lot of addiction thread so we should try as much as possible not to make a repetitive comment.

Your friend is addicted to gambling, you can't tell me otherwise. If he likes let him admit it or not, he is addicted to gambling. Don't let him fool uou with that cruise of saying he can increase his deposit if he lose that 40%. That means if he is making $10000 a year, he will use $4000 a year for bet. Why not use the money for investment instead of using the money to bet. This is nothing but waste of money, this is not how to gamble if you must use that money for gambling.

However, we have not think this through, why need 40% deposit if your salary. Does that means you are not making enough money from gambling since you keep making deposit all the time. What is the essence of the deposit if you are not making enough. As a gambler that is profitable, there should be a time where you don't have to make any deposit from your salary if your 40% deposit made you money all through out your gambling journey.

[Obim34]

Everyone has a different tolerance for losing money. 40% sounds big, and it is, to me, but that's the amount he can afford to lose unless you hear about bad things he's done because of gambling.

He might be able to lose that amount because he probably has less expenses to cover but that's a complete waste of resources. Spending 40% of salary is nothing like seeking only entertainment, the incentive behind picture is that he is trying to multiply his income, there is no genuine intention for spending so much to gamble, obviously he is addicted.

Some are looking for chance to invest 10% of their income while someone is throwing away 40% of their income, isn't that stupidity. I spend less than 10% of my income, gambling is not at all included among my monthly expenses that i will have budget for, I gamble just when i have to spare, and not a particular percentage.

[CryptSafe]

Such a percentage going for gambling is ridiculous, men! I can never make such a silly mistake in my life. What does he thinks ke knows he is doing, just like he has said. He is very addicted, to be frank, because it only takes an addicted person to go to such an extent just for gambling. Normally, it should not take more than 5percent of your income because that alone is a reasonable amount to say, and here somebodyis using 40 percent of his salary to gamble. This is the type they say in our local parlance, "dem don do am." Such an amount is outrageous to gamble with. It would be very difficult for him to retract immediately because addiction is boldly written all over his face.

[aioc]

I want to know if it was you what would you do to him, and how much do you think he should be allocating to gamble every week or month? Let discusse, know that there are lot of addiction thread so we should try as much as possible not to make a repetitive comment.

It's his salary and his enjoyment. I can only advise him, one that 40% is such a huge amount to allocate to gambling, and he needs to save for the future since he is a worker and workers' futures are not safe from economic depressions, and second, gambling in such a huge amount can be considered drug addiction that can harm his finances and well-being.
It's still his decision to listen or not, but he will realize that it's wrong to put a huge amount of money into gambling when he faces a financial crisis.