Does gambling for fun mean you've no interest in profits?

[Mpamaegbu]

Gambling for fun is an addage used to describe a gambling based on responsible gambling practices that wouldn't necessarily lead the gambler into addiction or financial disaster.

It's a cliché whose true definition is subject to individual interpretations. For me, there's no such a thing as actually gambling for fun when money is at stake. The only gambling for fun is if I get free spins or bonuses I play from.

What about you, do you believe gambling for fun entails absence of desire to make profits?

That's what the proponents of that conception assume. I wish we can video tape them while they're gambling and they lose, so we see their facial reaction. That should tell us if they actually believe in what they preach.

[Swordsoffreedom]

What about you, do you believe gambling for fun entails absence of desire to make profits?

Gambling for fun does not mean that gambler does not want to make any profit.
Phrase gambling for fun is perfectly fine. However there is misunderstanding on your part.
There's no fun in just losing. If you can't hit 2x or 3x, where's the fun in it?
So, everyone dreams of hitting 2X or 3X. LOL!

But actual point is that controlling power. Setting budget, staying within timeframe and being able to stop when you're losing without getting tempered that is what fun gambling really about. If you can tuck your emotion away in your pocket and play with cool head that’s when it’s fun. And the moment you cross that limit and start acting recklessly in attempt to recover your loss that is when actual problem begins.

[gracreavix]

What about you, do you believe gambling for fun entails absence of desire to make profits?

I don’t think profit can be taken away from the picture when it comes to gambling, be it for fun or not, and I say this because as long as the chance of winning or losing money is 50/50, then it’s will be hard to not be at least 10% money conscious.

Personally for me, gambling for fun comes in because majority of the time I gamble is for the thrill, I don’t really have my focus of the monetary outcome, be it a win of loss, I’m cool with it. But I normally do get really happy whenever I win.

[Silverstonez]

I don't know about others but my main purpose is to gamble for fun, I like to watch sports and at the same time enjoy the game by betting. I don't gamble with more money than I can afford to lose. And how much profit have I made from gambling? Ask gamblers to calculate their profit/loss and most of them will answer that their losses are more than their profits. I am no different, I have lost more than I have won but I have no regrets about that money and I have no plans to recover it.

Oh I see, someone is still pretending not to have the desire to make a profit from gambling.  It seems many of us do not understand this thing, gambling for fun doesn't mean you don't want to make a profit.
I'm sure you spend time analyzing team's performance, and other factors before placing your bets.  Now, my question is, why do you spend time checking all this things if your main purpose of gambling is just for fun? As for me, I gamble for fun while still hope to make a profit,  and get disappointed when my bets don't play out as expected.

[nara1892]

You have the right perspective, OP, and it aligns with my own thinking. For me, gambling for fun means when someone enjoys the process without worrying about the outcome in other words, a loss won’t affect their mood. This approach is typically adopted by responsible gamblers who understand that losing is a natural part of the game.
Simply put, gambling for entertainment means enjoying the process, not making a big deal out of losing, and finding it even more enjoyable when you end up winning.

[Ruttoshi]

Gambling with what you can afford to lose and let go of your losses without being emotional regardless the outcome of your session is what I call gambling for fun. I see gambling as a means of entertainment just like you go to the cinema to watch movies and you have to pay for your ticket.

That money I'm using to stake my bet is the money for my ticket and the game is the fun. If I win my bet, I see it as a compensation for entertaining myself with gambling. Nothing is free in Freetown

[len01]

Profit comes from winning, while gamblers who gamble just to have fun also need wins so their budget doesn't run out too quickly and they can keep betting again when they have free time. On the other hand, gamblers who are only looking for fun also need wins to get that feeling of excitement, just like when playing video games.

So, the word profit has different purposes for gamblers who only want to have fun and those who genuinely aim to make money from gambling.

[pawanjain]

What about you, do you believe gambling for fun entails absence of desire to make profits?

Gambling for fun does not mean that the gambler does not want to make profits. There's no person on Earth that would say he does not want money.
Who wouldn't want to win money and so in this context, gambling for fun only means that there are no issues even if the money deposited is lost while gambling.
The person has the ability to take up the losses while not worrying about it much and is enjoying the game his playing and having fun while doing it.

[Akaenyi]

No, anyone saying that is completely full of shit. Nobody bets money expecting or wanting to lose it... The whole thrill of the game is literally trying to win something.

For me, "for fun" simply means that I set aside money that I am wiling to "spend" on this type of entertainment. And if I lose it, I don't go chasing it down. But The profit motive is always there.

I don't think that anybody will go into gambling wishing themselves bad luck and it means that winning is good, when you win it increases your fun and thrill you will leave the casino happier than when you signed in. But we should also remember that gambling is a game of luck which means that you cannot expect to win everytime and that is why we shouldn't put our expectations too high when we are gambling so that if lose happens it wouldn't ruin our day. To help yourself as a gambler not to be caught up with feeling bad when you lose you should use money that you can spend without regretting it, that way you won't care so much if you're on a losing streak.

[Zigabel]

Every gambler comes to the casino to attempt making more money and can aim at 2X, 3X or any more or less profit target. What makes it gambling for fun is your reaction when you do or don't meet your target, if you can control your emotions better and make rational decisions, then it can be called fun gambling. If your gambling activity doesn't in any way become problematic to you, affect your finances negatively, or make you less productive, it could still be gambling for fun.

What about you, do you believe gambling for fun entails absence of desire to make profits?

Op you may be missing out the fact that it can actually have its literally meaning to others, i mean gambling for fun, is typically for fun and with no intent of profit making, but making profits can sometimes be an icing on the cake for this set of persons. all of this you have mentioned is correct from the perspective with which you are looking at it, but there are also others that it is just literal for them and that is what it is, it doesn't have to be these other aspects you have mentioned, for them, all this others can only mean to these set of persons as a form of gambling seriously and not for fun, so fun gambling could be relative depending on your point of view.

[Odusko]

You have the right perspective, OP, and it aligns with my own thinking. For me, gambling for fun means when someone enjoys the process without worrying about the outcome in other words, a loss won’t affect their mood. This approach is typically adopted by responsible gamblers who understand that losing is a natural part of the game.
Simply put, gambling for entertainment means enjoying the process, not making a big deal out of losing, and finding it even more enjoyable when you end up winning.

Excellent point, gambling for fun is not without winning, but setting your mind on the outcome profits like treating gambling as a source of income, but winning any amount and being satisfied with that is the ultimate for gamblers who intended to gamble to have fun, since satisfaction comes with winning that means if you lose you are not getting your desired fun, so two things need to be made clear here which are, you gambling for fun but fun comes from the winnings, but not gambling as means of making profits from it because such state of mind will only end you in pressure and instability of mind and that could affect other things about you as a gambler.

[Sticky Bomb]

What about you, do you believe gambling for fun entails absence of desire to make profits?

I have never gambled without the desire of winning money from it, the fun of gambling is increased when you win from it. However we should agree that there are times we would loose and I agree that your disposition when you're not in profits decides if you're still treating it as fun or your expectation has gone high which is dangerous.

Even if I'm not totally dependent on my gambling wins, I still want to be in profits, there is this kind of happiness and sense of fulfillment that comes with beating the casino and making away with their money. Profits is the main aim people gamble aside having fun, it's high time people started being more honest with their gambling desires.

[Victorybit1]

Gambling for fun simply means that you shouldn't see gambling as a means of income or put all your hope on gambling. It's another way to let you know that gambling can make you run at a big loss if your sole purpose of gambling is for profits. Even if I'm gambling for fun, it doesn't mean that I wouldn't make my research and analysis before placing my bet. Profits make it more fun because nobody wants to be a loser.

I think this Is also another add to what the OP was seeing originally, but I still feel little that phrase "gambling for fun"  is unrealistic, I still don't think you can add the two words together but I just go along with the general consensus with the group. It's like say killing for fun, it doesn't make sense as I believe alot of people end up getting addicted even though it doesn't impact you much financially

[uneng]

What about you, do you believe gambling for fun entails absence of desire to make profits?

No, the expectation for profits is always part of the fun. If there wasn't possibility of profit involved, there wouldn't be fun. The point is that you never play for profit until the last consequences. You know it's just a possibility, and you know you have to be responsible when placing your bets, so you never spend more than you can afford losing.

It's not like chastity where you are enforced to give up on determined expectations, desires and pleasures. You just manage such expectations, desires and pleasures accordingly to your financial context.

On the other hand, if gambling isn't emotionally rewarding or entertaining for you, and you are solely playing this because of potential profits, it's definitely a good idea to think about replacing it with another activities which are more pleasant to your personal preferences.

[shinratensei_]

What about you, do you believe gambling for fun entails absence of desire to make profits?

Let's say i have 10 bucks that i coulda spent it to have fun on slot without worrying to lose it. Whenever i get profit, i treat it as a bonus while when i lose it, i being careless of it because it's the money that i could lose. That's a simple illustration about gambling for fun by me.
I don't need to write an essay just to explain how gambling for fun is in my version. Others may different.

[Abu-Naim]

What about you, do you believe gambling for fun entails absence of desire to make profits?

If you are gambling for fun, it doesn’t mean that you are not after making profit, it means you only gamble when you feel like gambling not to gamble daily for making huge amount of money, you can gamble on your favorite teams or in some matches you think are important  and can be an opportunity to make money for you.
And in this type of gambling, you don’t accumulate as much odd as possible because you are not greedy, and you will use big money to place the bet, the money will be what you can afford to lose which means you don’t depend on that money to survive.

[WhoYouCantKill]

I think this Is also another add to what the OP was seeing originally, but I still feel little that phrase "gambling for fun"  is unrealistic, I still don't think you can add the two words together but I just go along with the general consensus with the group. It's like say killing for fun, it doesn't make sense as I believe alot of people end up getting addicted even though it doesn't impact you much financially

Technically, some people actually does kill for fun lol.

The thing about this is that, what gambling does to you as a person is completely dependent on how you see, understand, accept and act towards it. People can argue from now till next year about whether gambling should be for fun or not, and yet they’ll never arrive at a specific conclusion because different people would still have different opinions about it, opinions that was birthed by either their experience or mindset. But one mistake we shouldn’t make (which we always do) is assume that simply because we perceive something in some way, automatically means it’s a general perception and so others just needs to accept it or leave it be, now that’s where we can be soooooo wrong.

[Bitcoin_people]

Every gambler comes to the casino to attempt making more money and can aim at 2X, 3X or any more or less profit target. What makes it gambling for fun is your reaction when you do or don't meet your target, if you can control your emotions better and make rational decisions, then it can be called fun gambling. If your gambling activity doesn't in any way become problematic to you, affect your finances negatively, or make you less productive, it could still be gambling for fun.

What about you, do you believe gambling for fun entails absence of desire to make profits?

Most gamblers come to casinos to make money and they bet to make a few times more profit. Many people bet a lot in the hope of winning the jackpot, I have seen many people who say they gamble for fun but they actually play for profit. A person I know once told me that he gambles only for entertainment and fun, but when he loses, he regrets a lot and thinks that maybe something good will come to his luck one day when he wins big. Many people talk about gambling for entertainment and fun but basically their process is not correct, they just do this to convince people. However, it is true that when a person can control everything and does not depend on gambling and besides earning, he gambles a small amount of money, then he can be said to be playing for fun. But nowadays we can see that most people gamble only to make their own money and hope to get a lot of money from it.

[Charles-Tim]

What about you, do you believe gambling for fun entails absence of desire to make profits?

I will like to make money from gambling, but I know it should not be compulsory for it not to affect me. I use just little amount of money to gamble and not necessarily for profit. I am expecting little profit, I may be lucky at times or I may lose the little amount of money. This year I won than I lost, but the profit is not much. I am not after huge profit, but I do not want to lose too much and which makes me to be using small amount of money to gamble which is what that is most important to me.

[Su-asa]

Gambling for fun is a term used by many people here in the gambling section, but I feel most times it is misunderstood as gambling without the desire to make profits which I think it's a conflict of understanding because no one ever goes into gambling without the aim of making profits

You have a point, but there's still some misconception here because even though a gambler's aim is to get profits from gambling, it doesn't define the idea that the gambler is depending on their initial winnings, which is making money through gambling.

However, what I'm trying to say here is that anyone can gamble and hope to win something from gambling (but not depending on their initial winnings), so at this point, if they gamble with what they can afford to lose and, unluckily, they don't win, it won't affect them, as they didn't gamble with money for their feeding or money that's meant for any important thing, and their activities while gambling will still be entertaining even though they didn't win. So it won't be the same with someone who's depending on his initial winnings as a source of income.

Gambling for fun does not mean that the gambler does not want to make profits. There's no person on Earth that would say he does not want money.

Everybody wants to make money, and even those who have money still want more money. But the truth is that some gamblers who gamble for entertainment know how to remain entertained while gambling, as they can accept their losses without being affected by it.