Are you part of Sports Bettors who bet to pay bills based on this survey

[cryptomaniac_xxx]

I will admit that sometimes I have this mindset when I'm betting. And there were stretch that I was able to do it and said to myself that this can be done. Even my nieces and nephew was amazed by it.

However, it's not going to be sustainable. As luck will caught up with you and the most your chase, the more it's not going to end in a good way to you. So I just simply stop doing it and I will have to pay my bills first and then the leftover funds is what I'm going to play with.

[ruykeri]

Personally I don't bet to meet my essential expenses. But when I used to bet in the past, my intention was to consistently make a profit. That wrong mindset caused me a lot of losses. After that, I bet only for entertainment. And when someone use essential money bets, if the bet loses, he will feel more psychological pressure. Then he will decide to bet more aggressively, which will eventually make him addicted to betting. To me, sports betting seems reasonable only when someone participates in it only for entertainment purposes. When the purpose of betting is to get money for bills, rent or daily expenses, then the risk of gambling becomes much higher.

[Cantsay]

So I would like to ask the sports betting community: are you part of the US surveys that bet to pay bills? Be honest, and if possible, state your country or region.

On my part, I will not lie. I bet on sports, hoping to pay my bills. I'm from Asia, and many times my bets saved me from missing paying my bills.

This might be totally off-topic, but reading this post and seeing that percentage of American gamblers who make use of gambling to pay off their bills just makes me wonder; if this many gamblers are gambling with this intention and yet every gambler you see online tends to say that they gamble for fun and not for the sake of money, then who are the ones making all of these statistics? I hope I am not tripping because it is kinda concerning that no one wants to admit that they gamble for profit, but still the number keeps going up.

By the way, I am from Nigeria, and I do not gamble for the sake of using it to clear my bills, but if I am lucky and get any wins from my gambling session and I see that it is enough to get something done, I wouldn't hesitate to use it on it.

[AmaGold70]

Personally, I don't hope on bets to my my bills, and I want to say that this is not only common in United States of America, there are people who come from other countries that do the same thing. In my o n country in Africa, I have seen someone whose house rent had expired and was looking for games he can gamble on to be able to pay his debt. But the truth is that even while some of us gamble to settle bills, it is not right to depend on gambling to pay your bills because gambling is not favourable all the time, and it could be that the very time you are looking for money through gambling to settle your bills, you may not be lucky enough to succeed, so you should have an alternative means of settling your bills instead of depending wholly on gambling.

[Su-asa]

So I would like to ask the sports betting community: are you part of the US surveys that bet to pay bills?

Currently, I gamble for entertainment, but in the past (before I joined the forum), I usually bet to pay off some bills. But right now I have developed the mentality that I can't use gambling money to achieve anything, that's why I no longer expect to use gambling money to clear any household bills and other necessary bills, so currently I'm not among the category of gamblers who gamble to clear bills.

Well, I think these statistics reveal how players view betting. It turns out that the majority of players bet to earn some extra money for their expenses,

Absolutely right; it's hard to see any bettor who doesn't gamble to earn money, but truth be told, half the time they gamble expecting to win from their bet, they don't always get it because there's no certainty that every bet will be won.

and honestly, even in surveys where players claim they bet solely for entertainment, I think they’re being a bit disingenuous, because ultimately I believe their true goal is still to make some extra cash.

Don't be so sure mate, but I kinda agree with your point because no gambler will be unhappy to get a winning bet.

[yudi09]

I’m not the kind of gambler who bets just to pay the bills. If this were a survey posted on a forum, I wouldn’t fit the profile of someone in the U.S.—even though I’m not from the U.S.
I gamble because I want to, rather than to get lucky with a challenge. Gambling in the hope of paying bills actually ends up adding to the burden by doubling the bills you already have. That’s not my style of gambling.

I know that the way to get rich isn’t through gambling, but rather by betting to test my luck while enjoying the game.

[Bluedrem]

To be honest, I am not a regular gambler. I gamble when I have enough discretionary income and I am in the mood to gamble. So I do not need to gamble to pay the bills. However, I have seen people who do what you describe, that is, they gamble to pay the bills. Sometimes it happens that they need $2000 to meet their basic needs but they have $1000, then they put this $1000 at risk and want to earn more than $2000 so that they can easily pay the bills, but it is very risky because there is no guarantee of profit in gambling. And thus they get into more debt.

[Grace333]

There is a difference between expecting sport Betting to pay your bills and hoping that it does that, a lot of people don't hope they actually depend on it like it's a source of income but this makes them lose more in the long run. Gambling is never a source income, it is normal to place a bet and then hope to win or make profits that you would want to use to pay up your bills but based on the fact that you are only hoping on it you know that it's uncertain, this is different from being confident or too sure of winning knowing fully well that the game is uncertain. I don't fall under the category of gamblers that plays to sort out bills because I'm well experienced enough to know that it won't work.

[ZAINmalik75]

Isn't 1,200 way too small of a number to reach a conclusion? It's like asking 5 out of 5,000 customers of a company about a review of their products, and then saying that the products are bad because 4 out of those 5 said so.

However, I think it shouldn't be surprising to know that people gamble with the hope of making money, and that money could be used for anything. One might be gambling with the hope that if they win, they will pay their bills, one might be thinking about buying groceries, buying something for themselves, eating out with family, and a bunch of other stuff that one can do with the money. There is nothing generally wrong with that, and I'm saying this because I don't consider sports betting to be like casino gambling.

Someone who is experienced and knowledgeable about sports that they are betting on might actually have a higher possibility of making some money from their bets than losing the money, unlike casino games where the results are completely random and dependent on luck.

[JoyceBTC]

I like playing sport betting, honestly I won’t say I’m doing it only for entertainment but also for the profit and definitely winnings from my bet has gone a long way in helping me at times but I won’t say I depend on betting to pay any of my bills.
When the winning comes, if there’s anything I need at the moment to sort out, that the money gotten can actually do, then I’ll use it for that but gambling so I can get money to sort out my bills is what I don’t do. I don’t want to start what I cannot finish or what I’ll regret.

[Orpichukwu]

I’m from Nigeria, and I can’t recall if I have ever predicted any game and bet because of the hope to use the money to pay off bills. You have gambled because I want to win the bet, but I can’t remember doing it because of any particular purpose. I have only seen people from this side who have done it because they want to pay rent or because they want to raise money for hospital bills.

[danadc]

That seems very risky to me. I prefer that if I have little money to pay my bills, I save it and get a job doing anything, washing cars, cleaning bathrooms, or whatever. But I don't have any hope of just gambling because what if I lose that money? Here in the USA things are different. You can work all day and earn money to save it up faster. Yes, you work yourself to the bone, but it's possible to do it. That's an advantage for me because in my home country there isn't that option.

[Bryan jessy]

In some countries the higher percentage is for those that bet to pay bills, the sole aim of betting is to make profit from it and settle our bills to me, betting is something that with it profit  a bettor can settle any payments it can afford and take care of his needs, that is the main reason people feel bad whenever they lose bet because they already had plans for the profit even without seeing results yet, they hope to win the game, I play hoping to win my bet and take care of things that I needed to at that moment so truly betting pays bills to be honest, I know most persons claim they just play bet for fun but when they win they uses it to settle their bills.

[Yorubek]

I like playing sport betting, honestly I won’t say I’m doing it only for entertainment but also for the profit and definitely winnings from my bet has gone a long way in helping me at times but I won’t say I depend on betting to pay any of my bills.
When the winning comes, if there’s anything I need at the moment to sort out, that the money gotten can actually do, then I’ll use it for that but gambling so I can get money to sort out my bills is what I don’t do. I don’t want to start what I cannot finish or what I’ll regret.

I think that when a gambler starts gambling with the main purpose of paying bills, it will create extra mental stress on himself, as a result, the gambler will not be able to make the right decision with a cool head, as a result, the gambler will face more financial losses. Because winning through gambling is not in our hands, it depends a lot on your luck, and when you are not able to reach a specific goal through gambling, you will become aggressive, which will cause losses and you will lose self-control over yourself, which will gradually lead you to destruction, so gambling emotionally or in the hope of more profit is dangerous. It is true that if we benefit financially through gambling with discipline, then there is no problem in using the profit money for our own needs.

[Oshio-man]

Not all bettors involved  betting for that reason but majority of bettors are betting to make income that will add value to their business or account, there are some bettors that are into betting to overcome some home responsibility because wife and children are waiting for daddy to come back home to do the right thing, and such bettors are enjoying some things that is helping them to overcome and even though they latter come home the situation will be handled by the wife or children.

[ColdLava40]

On my part, I will not lie. I bet on sports, hoping to pay my bills. I'm from Asia, and many times my bets saved me from missing paying my bills.

The survey is just an estimate in the US, I'm very sure if survey is done on other countries we could get similar results.

People now adays, sees gambling as a means to survive the hard economy and many of them over look for a fact the bad side of gambling that deals with losses.

I've seen many in my country who survive off their sport betting wins. Such people depends so much on wins from gambling that they are so updated with ma y sport prediction groups. So yea it's normal if the values of people who depends on betting for their bills is that high.