If you see gambling as investment, you will keep losing.

[Gozie51]

This topic is also part of how you can control your gambling losses.

So the idea is this, investment is what you do with precision, not relying on luck  And sometimes, in some investment you don't lose everything. Like you can insure your investment and when it fails, you get the insurance company to come in, depending on the insurance product you signed for. Apart from insurance policy in your investment, some investment generally may still give you room to regain part of your investment and avoid total collapse.

But if you treat gambling as investment, you will see yourself chasing back what you are losing because at every gambling game, either you have a loss or you win but the number of losing outweighs your winning chance as the house edge and luck will likely go against you.

Therefore, it is better to limit your stop time or amount and resolve to treat gambling as entertainment, not investment.

How do you handle your gambling? You see it as investment or entertainment?

[Stepstowealth]

How do you handle your gambling? You see it as investment or entertainment?

People who consider gambling as investments will keep spending money on it and using the excuse that they are investing to avoid having a reality discussion with themselves that they are really spending money on gambling and such persons will not want to do it on a budget because they believed they are taking a risk and they are investing it. But that is a very wrong approach to have, a better approach is to see it as entertainment so that you can also control the amount of money you use in entertaining yourself because knowing that it is entertainment to you, you would not want to allow it become a problem to your finances just so that you can be entertained at another time when you feel like gambling. I believe seeing gambling as entertainment will help you be more in control then when you see it as investments.

[Cointxz]

How do you handle your gambling? You see it as investment or entertainment?

This topic should be move on gambling discussion board.

I view gambling as an entertainment since it was generally designed that way. I will not invest on something that has negative expected value on money place bet on it.

It’s mainly use for entertainment that’s why even with -ve EV people keep playing gambling games since they enjoy on experiencing winning game even on unfavorably odds of their game.

[ultrloa]

This topic is also part of how you can control your gambling losses.

So the idea is this, investment is what you do with precision, not relying on luck  And sometimes, in some investment you don't lose everything. Like you can insure your investment and when it fails, you get the insurance company to come in, depending on the insurance product you signed for. Apart from insurance policy in your investment, some investment generally may still give you room to regain part of your investment and avoid total collapse.

But if you treat gambling as investment, you will see yourself chasing back what you are losing because at every gambling game, either you have a loss or you win but the number of losing outweighs your winning chance as the house edge and luck will likely go against you.

Therefore, it is better to limit your stop time or amount and resolve to treat gambling as entertainment, not investment.

How do you handle your gambling? You see it as investment or entertainment?

They are creating a situation which hard to sustain, also its hard to think about that gambling is a form of investment and I think those people have that thoughts are been confused then don't know how to determine the right investment and also what's real score about gambling.

Most of people think about this end up losing. Because these people usually exceed and will not think about the risk then hope only to gain each plays they made.

Well as experience gambling dude, I see this as entertainment.

[noorman0]

I am a bit confused to understand the context, how to apply an investment to a bet? On the other hand, if "the house will always win" is the truth, people who invest in the gambling sector will make a profit without make any single bet.

[Dr.Bitcoin_Strange]

Obviously there are lots of people that take gambling as an investment and they end up learning a lesson in a hard way, I remember some old topic where OP was saying that bettors stop being mediocre in sports betting and stake with a bigger amounts if they want to see great result while some persons have also asked if increasing their bet amount can increase their chance of winning,  they are already starting to feeling a bit of misunderstanding if they should take gambling as an investment and risk a huge amount so that the reward can be big as well but what they don't understand is that gambling is based on luck and not certainty.

[Gozie51]

How do you handle your gambling? You see it as investment or entertainment?

This topic should be move on gambling discussion board.

Oh .. sure you are right. I thought I dropped it there but I have done that now, thanks.

On the other hand, if "the house will always win" is the truth, people who invest in the gambling sector will make a profit without make any single bet.

Surely, if you invest in gambling sector then you are doing pure investment that is guided by investment principles of how much invested and sharing formula, assets and liabilities etc. You don't need to gamble for profit or lose if you are an investor in gambling sector before you make profit or either "lose".

What you are talking about is different from gambling and referring it to investment.

[danherbias07]

Hmmm. Good point.

If we keep on tracking how much our losses then we will probably keep thinking about that amount of money. Next to it is that we want it back so badly because we think the gambling sites are being unfair. But it's all in our heads only. Gambling is always unfair, and there's no way they will pity a gambler even if they lose millions of dollars in the process.
The thought of them giving back just because we lose our money should be removed. There's no way they will give it back with a promise. All we can do is gamble again and try to win it back, but let us also accept the fact that we might lose again instead of winning it back. So, I think acceptance is the real issue here. True, it's not an investment. It's gone when we lose it, so might as well accept that first.

[Nrcewker]

How do you handle your gambling? You see it as investment or entertainment?

I can’t afford gambling as a form of entertainment. There are many entertainment activities that can be enjoyed without spending any money, so why would I spend a huge amount of money on entertainment?

Only rich people can afford to do that. For them, gambling is like hanging out with friends. They gamble for the adrenaline rush it gives them.

On the other hand, middle-class people like me gamble in the hope of completely changing our fortunes. I also don’t consider gambling an investment.

If you have spare money and want to try your luck, then gamble without thinking twice. You either win or lose—there is nothing in between.

[Pandu Geddon]

How do you handle your gambling? You see it as investment or entertainment?

I think right now there will be no thought of gambling as an investment. Even if the gambler eventually wins after a series of losses, that is not the result of an investment made. Even the amount won is not necessarily greater than the amount of money deposited. 
Just play and bet with the budget you set, that is enough.

[Porfirii]

Some say no risk, no benefit, but when it comes to investments it is clear that in addition to the luck component, the ability to identify gaps between the risk and the benefit is key. As for gambling, however, the risk is always higher than the benefit because of the design itself of odds, and that's why as an investment, it is a very bad investment. Yes, the extraordinary can happen and hopefully end up winning, but that won't make it a better investment decision, and the more you repeat it, the greater the probability of losing. Take gambling as it is: an entertainment.

[nimogsm]

This topic is also part of how you can control your gambling losses.

So the idea is this, investment is what you do with precision, not relying on luck  And sometimes, in some investment you don't lose everything. Like you can insure your investment and when it fails, you get the insurance company to come in, depending on the insurance product you signed for. Apart from insurance policy in your investment, some investment generally may still give you room to regain part of your investment and avoid total collapse.

But if you treat gambling as investment, you will see yourself chasing back what you are losing because at every gambling game, either you have a loss or you win but the number of losing outweighs your winning chance as the house edge and luck will likely go against you.

Therefore, it is better to limit your stop time or amount and resolve to treat gambling as entertainment, not investment.

How do you handle your gambling? You see it as investment or entertainment?

I would change the term "investment" to "a way to earn money." Investing is about systematically adding to an account at a certain interest rate. I would also categorically not consider gambling as a way to earn money on a regular basis  the principle itself is based solely on luck, so any planning and forecasting are inappropriate. It's possible to have fun and enjoy the excitement.

[Achalugo BTC]

Some say no risk, no benefit, but when it comes to investments it is clear that in addition to the luck component, the ability to identify gaps between the risk and the benefit is key. As for gambling, however, the risk is always higher than the benefit because of the design itself of odds, and that's why as an investment, it is a very bad investment. Yes, the extraordinary can happen and hopefully end up winning, but that won't make it a better investment decision, and the more you repeat it, the greater the probability of losing. Take gambling as it is: an entertainment.

Sometime people amazed me, in gambling they can say no risk no gain but if its something that will benefit them in the future like investing in Bitcoin, as in to buy and hodl, they won't. They will be like the market prices changes and I might not be get my profit from it, meanwhile what the money they use to bet and lose, will be enough to invest despite it won't bring profit for them as soon as they want. But, when it comes to gambling, they will risks their money and if care not taken they might even risk everything they got and for me, this is the most stupidest thought so far, anyways its all their choices beside  most people have take gambling to be their side hustle.

[L E G E N D A R Y]

Surely, if you invest in gambling sector then you are doing pure investment that is guided by investment principles of how much invested and sharing formula, assets and liabilities etc. You don't need to gamble for profit or lose if you are an investor in gambling sector before you make profit or either "lose".

What you are talking about is different from gambling and referring it to investment.

It depends, if one takes gambling to be for investment, either they can buy a shares or have a business shop of their own, that way its called investment and it might profit them if they applies the right principle of an entrepreneur. But, if its to play and waits for luck to do justice to it, that's not a good investment because one can end up losing everything and this regrets can hurt their wellbeing and even affect them mentally. So, it depends on the point of view people see it as.

[SFR10]

How do you handle your gambling? You see it as investment or entertainment?

I'd never treat something as an investment if there's a higher chance of losing, so I always see it as the latter one ^{[I have great self-control with how I usually place my bets and I only do it on somewhat interesting games (I can do it more often, but it'd decrease the satisfaction levels)]}.

[Nwada001]

I see it as both investment and entertainment, investment in the line where I have to think about the risk I'm taking carefully not to put in more than I could lose, not in the aspect of risking big to get a big reward but in the investor's mindset where you also need to consider the risk before deciding.

And as entertainment, paying for the fun I want to enjoy even if I don't win, I use the little free time and what I enjoy from the game as compensation even when it can't be compared with money.

[SamReomo]

How do you handle your gambling? You see it as investment or entertainment?

Gambling isn't an investment, and I never thought about something like that. I always considered gambling as an entertainment and it's actually an entertainment where someone spends good time to try their luck.

Sometimes we win, sometimes we lose but we should enjoy the losses as well and never chase the losses because the money that's gone isn't ours anymore and chasing it might make us lose more money.

I truly enjoy gambling as an entertainment and I've been placing bets for many years and so far I've never got any kind of addiction to it. So gambling as a fun activity really works if someone does it with full responsibility.

[rachael9385]

There are people that thinks gambling can be a trade especially sports betting, some even identify as professional sport traders but I think that they do this because they have not ended up losing a huge amount or got into problems because of gambling. There is no way rhat this can be an investment because that's not what it was designed for.

[Woodie]

Let me guess, we are among those that claim gambling is merely for fun..hence the not an investment mentality  

Now let's look at it from the other side of the coin, for those of us that gamble with the intention of not losing our money to the house meaning playing for profit.. isn't this in some way considered as an investment because you inject capital with the objective of getting returns (profit), so in a formal language it is an investment!!

[348Judah]

Let me put it in this right manner that when we see gambling as a source of income, we may be triggered to keep losing as we attempted to win, gambling should be taken or sin as an entertainment and not a way of earning, not that people cannot have an opportunity to earn from gambling, but this shouldn't be our priority or expectation from it, when we make a winning, we should count it as the privilege or an opportunity, we don't know when such may come again.