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

[ndutndut]

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.

I share your view. It's wrong to consider gambling merely as a source of income let alone an investment.
So, I view gambling purely as entertainment, not an investment. For me, investing is a process where you have a positive expectation, like building assets for the long term and we have the opportunity to achieve that through analysis, information or time. But in gambling, we are mathematically guaranteed to experience losses if we gamble repeatedly over the long term because in gambling the house always wins while the longer we gamble the greater our chances of losing.

So, I view gambling as entertainment even if I lose, it's just a way to spend some money. Just like I want to eat at an expensive restaurant or spend time at the beach when my money runs out, I don't feel stressed in fact it makes me happy.

[ChocolateBitcoinK]

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

The safe way is to treat it as entertainment. By treating it as entertainment, you will only play based on your allocation, by treating it as entertainment, it will not be your priority, and you will have a stress-free experience.
It's the opposite if you treat it as an investment; you will lose your peace of mind and money because, in gambling, once you bet, there is no guarantee that it will yield a profit.

Gambling should definitely be seen as entertainment, when a person thinks from the beginning that it is only for entertainment purposes that he is basically buying some time of entertainment with the money he spends, then if he has this mentality, the tendency to go beyond the budget, rush to cover losses or make emotional decisions is usually reduced. But if from the beginning someone sees gambling as an investment only in the hope of winning, then the situation will never be good for him. Due to such a wrong mentality, he will very soon face huge financial losses and at the same time he will also become addicted at some stage.

[Maslate]

I would never see gambling as an investment and dedicate most of my time and money into it. Because its hard to invest in something that is not designed to favor but will go against you, talking about the house edge and luck which is not all the time you got to be lucky with gambling. And we all know that too much focused in gambling will not make us rich and successful in life, but will definitely make us poorer and eventually fall into gambling addiction.

With all these reasons, I don't think a responsible person would still want to treat gambling as an investment, but more likely just a sole entertainment instead.

[Hardyrobust]

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.

I share your view. It's wrong to consider gambling merely as a source of income let alone an investment.
So, I view gambling purely as entertainment, not an investment. For me, investing is a process where you have a positive expectation, like building assets for the long term and we have the opportunity to achieve that through analysis, information or time. But in gambling, we are mathematically guaranteed to experience losses if we gamble repeatedly over the long term because in gambling the house always wins while the longer we gamble the greater our chances of losing.

So, I view gambling as entertainment even if I lose, it's just a way to spend some money. Just like I want to eat at an expensive restaurant or spend time at the beach when my money runs out, I don't feel stressed in fact it makes me happy.

seeing gambling as an investment will only leads to making of unnecessary mistakes that is not supposed to be. Gambling is a game of luck which investment isn't luck based. The risk involved in gambling is very high when compared to investment.  So even if someone is planning to make profit from gambling they shouldn't see it as a source of making money or to even treat gambling as an investment to avoid being addicted to gambling.

[Floxynice]

Do people really treat gambling as an investment? Like, the only thing they do to earn a living is gamble, and they are very successful and comfortable with such a lifestyle? I personally do not believe that these supposedly successful gamblers we see online are successful only through gambling. These people have other investments or sources of income that they do not show to the public.

I have never seen a successful person who earns money only through gambling. People who do that are not financially stable; today they are rich, and the next minute they are back to being broke. No reasonable individual is successful solely through gambling.

[Dewi Aries]

Since I first learned about gambling, I've never considered it an investment. I think even the average person knows that gambling isn't an investment because the outcomes are random and uncertain. And I think if you approach gambling with common sense, you should know and understand that it's not an investment.
Making money in gambling only happens if you play, and even then, it's very difficult due to the much higher percentage of losses.

[Dunamisx]

The mistake is coming from us because many are trying to take gambling for what it is not, that is why we must have the right orientation concerning gambling even before starting, when we also play, we are expected to have a better understanding of the outcome that is possibility to come as a result of the risk taken, so we shouldn't take gambling as an investment, anyone that is interested in an investment should go for something better like an asset to invest and not when you use your money to gamble and risk the chances with you on bets.

[Joeboy]

Investment and gambling are totally two different things, and it would vee very wrong when they are both identified as the same... The  mentality of majority of investor is that they always expect something in return from the investment they made or are doing... And such a mentality would be very dangerous to bring into gambling since gambling doesn't have that same level of predictability as a long term investment has...In gambling we mostly know of the possibility of losses, and that's why most gamblers end up very frustrated when their bets dosen't yield the profit that they have long anticipated for..And due to their high level of certainty is best that gambling is done only with the extra money that isn't needed for any basic needs to necessity...

[Odusko]

The mistake is coming from us because many are trying to take gambling for what it is not, that is why we must have the right orientation concerning gambling even before starting, when we also play, we are expected to have a better understanding of the outcome that is possibility to come as a result of the risk taken, so we shouldn't take gambling as an investment, anyone that is interested in an investment should go for something better like an asset to invest and not when you use your money to gamble and risk the chances with you on bets.

Sometimes you will not blame people too much for taking gambling for what it is not, the ability to make money always pushes people onto greed and dependency, gambling is for entertainment but since one can make money through that entertainment, is now becoming a way of making earns needs for some people, sometimes we can blame them but the reality keep us at that level that gambling should be for fun and if the winnings comes we celebrate.

[Royal Cap]

If I say my own opinion I do not see it as an investment in any way. If someone wants to play gambling, then it should be considered as entertainment. I would say that the best way to manage gambling is to set a specific budget and time, after which it cannot be played again.  And that is what we call bankroll management. When people play repeatedly in a desperate attempt to recover lost money, they get into debt. So it is wise to think of it as just entertainment and understand the situation of their pockets.

[Issa56]

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.

I don’t even think gambling is close to investment in any way, and I don’t think anyone should even take gambling as an investment. When you are gambling, you are just suppose to be having fun, and not that you are investing. I know lots of people try to make money from gambling, but I don’t even know some people still take it as an investment, because I don’t even know how gambling can be taken as an investment. If you are the type that’s trying to make money from gambling, don’t be surprise that you might just end up losing everything you have to gambling, and you going to find it difficult to stop gambling, because you will want to win back what you have lost previously.

[Crypto Library]

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

Personally I am not actually a hardcore gambler I only do gambling occasionally and maybe frequently in the season. And so I personally think that the gambling is only for entertainment purpose even if someone wanted to take it is as a investment purpose I don't think that will be work out.

Because for investment purpose we should have the steady profit or income and that actually possible if we can use our strategy and skill but in gambling skill and strategy doesn't have any work to do the things here only matter is the luck. So it is also pretty clear that if anyone wanted to make gambling as a investment purpose then you will just increase his loss amount.

[Jubilee58]

Every investment is likely to appreciate in value over time, sometimes, their may not even be losses even though the desired profit might not achieved. For instance, bitcoin investing, it is difficult to make losses in bitcoin if really you are investing for long term purpose possibly between 5 to 15 years interval.
There are also other form of investment like investing in the stock market or real estate, the possibility making profit from this investment is very high especially when you attach patience.

Making profit from gambling is very uncertain, and highly risky. You can actually make money from gambling, but only very few gamblers are fortunate to win big, and majority of gamblers are on the loosing side.
Gambling is not an investment, because making profit is not guaranteed.
Gambling is similar to trading that is highly risky, and therefore should be approached with serious caution, and not to be taken as a form of investment.

[Joy_learns_crypto]

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

Handling your gambling is for people that can not handle themselves. I don’t see gambling as an investment or business, gambling is fun to me I can say it’s entertaining but it more of fun that I am taking part in, I don’t enjoy watching others gamble so I can’t say it’s entertaining.
See it as fun or investment is a divided choice but do it with discipline and self control.

[DrBeer]

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?

Investments are what you calculate, according to your business model, market analysis, demand, supply and other indicators, will yield a profit. At the same time, the risks that the situation may not go the way it was calculated are laid down and at least assessed. But at the same time, investing we consider that the risks are significantly lower than the positive scenario. In gambling such a calculation can be only if you...manage random processes, well, or you can and you have a "deck of marked cards". Therefore, the probability of getting additional income from a predictable (with adjustments) and almost controllable process is disproportionately higher than from the expectation of ... chance, which is the main indicator of gambling. Gambling is PLENTY of entertainment, with a likely, pleasant SURPRISE, but not an investment idea

[Vaculin]

If you clearly understand the real nature of gambling and fully aware what casinos are up to, hence you will not gamble like you are totally investing, because that will only ruin your finances in the future because such gambling platforms do not guarantee us winning but will secure our guaranteed loss in the long run.

So if you still view gambling as an investment, stop that foolishness. Even a grader understands that in gambling, losing is the end destination. Otherwise, if you see yourself winning in the long run, you are just being delusional, holding to such beliefs that  are rooted from fantasy.

[Furious 7]

Gambling for income alone is certainly a misconception let alone making gambling an investment is clearly a misguided thought that should be avoided.

From the definition alone investment and gambling are 2 different things why are we trying to make this the same thing because when the beginning is different then certainly the end cannot be equated either.

There will be no investment that relies on luck to make a profit so why force gambling to be considered an investment because apart from wasting your time, this will also make you even more lost in the thought of gambling that you do.

[Hispo]

At this point, and all the time I have accumulated on casinos in order to get experience, there is only one way for me to consider gambling as an investment, and that would be if the casino/house allowed me to deposit my money so I could contribute to their bankroll. So the edge of the house would be working in my favor and not against me...
Anyone who says it is possible to get consistency while having the edge of the house against them are simply laying and trying to seek some shady "strategy" or "signal" in exchange of money.

There are simply so may scammers which play with the needs and illusions of people to get as much money at possible and never getting accountable for it...

[AYOBA]

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.

Treating a gambling as investments it’s a very bad decision making because the only thing they will be after is to be chasing their losing and that’s why it’s not good idea for someone to be treating gambling as the investment, the only i understand about investments is that is a where you can keep the money and hold for a long time when the market goes well you will sell and take yours profits. Where gambling is a place where someone will be h predicted a games by bet with their money, and once they lose they will not be any return or recovery of their losses.

[Slow death]

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

I approach gambling purely as entertainment. For example, my maximum bet on a football game is $10, but most of the time I bet $2. This is a very small amount of money, and even if I win, it wouldn't be enough to spend in the real world. So, I only gamble for entertainment. With such a small amount of money, I don't need to worry about losing. Sometimes I even forget I placed a bet and only remember the next day or days later, because I don't take gambling seriously. There are times when I go a long time without placing any bets.