Topic: Beyond Wagering - page 2. (Read 609 times)

Hmmm. I haven't picked up anything gambling related really, I mean if we're talking about hobbies and pastimes that is.

But if we're talking about mannerisms and certain behaviors that we might've unconsciously picked up from gambling, then I got a few, for one, I'm becoming even more versed with shuffling cards in a multitude of ways, so there's that. I also have become more smarter when it comes to managing risks and money, partly I guess from the fact that the discipline I got from gambling which is practically forged in fire by the way, after a very destructive gambling addiction and its rehabilitation. Back in my younger days I am a little on the reckless side, and would most definitely jump on the first sight of opportunity without gauging my options, thinking that would be the last time I'm going to be able to catch that chance or whatever.

These days I find myself weighing my options even in the most trivial things, like perhaps what food to eat for the day, or where to go when I wanna hang out with people and I don't know which house to visit first. For more crucial decisions, of course I see the difference. Thankfully this is because I literally had to work towards gaining that much discipline.

I am now drawn into video clips and movies related to gambling stories, and mehn, I have learned a lot, I am thinking that these movies are best kept for myself in case someone close to me either friends or family member can benefit from if they ever get lost or get addicted to gambling.

If so many gamblers lived through the experience of other gamblers they might be able to be very careful when they gamble, when you don't see addicted gamblers sharing their past experience  in gambling people will think that it's working out for most gamblers out there.

The sad fact is, it's not, most gamblers lose their money and only a very limited number of gamblers get lucky for real, the earlier people know this the better it will be if they plan to start gambling, if you haven't watch some I recommend.

Like, Owning Mahoney, High roller, bugsy and much more, they are based on real live events.

That means you have enough to read on the forum to warrant it being your hobby to pass the time because if it is writing mostly, you will not spend more than a few times. Well, you have done well to at least find an alternative to addiction, but in my own, I do not have any addiction to fight, there is no trace of it at all so I am not even trying to pretend there is and be looking for an alternative to fight issues. For this, I continue to remain myself and do what I always do in normal life. I gamble when I want to, read books when want to, engage in forums and social media activities when I want to, trade when I want to, cook when I want to, drink when I want to, stay idle and think when I want to, exercise when I want, and sleep when I want to among others.

This is what I could term willpower at work since I have control over whatever I want to do and the place I want to be. The main reason is that I am never desperate for the money to be gained in gambling as I view it as a funfilled avenue that can give money if one is so lucky, so I never take it seriously as such.

Definitely, watching or listening from the radio more matches, races and other events. Or at least reading news about it, when you bet it's something you can hardly restrain yourself from doing because it interests you and because you think you can do something from those informations in order to place a better valued bet. In addition it's exciting to follow an event when you have bet on it or at least to learn how the event took place.

The truth is that it is a bit difficult to keep up to date with so many sports. I am very aware of European football, that includes La Liga, PL, Bundesliga, Serie A, but it is very difficult to watch them all, sometimes the match times Clash and it is difficult, I still go, but the Portuguese La Liga and other leagues already They don't give me time, with respect to boxing and the UFC it is easier for me to do the analysis because here the important thing is to know the capabilities of the athlete players, this is something that when we are Involved in this we can do well, of course it is something which we will always focus on doing better and doing well, it's really hard to keep up with all the proteins, I couldn't even keep up with baseball, basketball or something, Other than I don't like those sports.

Here are my top three recommended casino videos which I watched recently and loved them.  A brief synopsis follows.

Rain Man - I counted three casino scenes. In the first one Charlie and Raymond gamble are at a casino called Caesars Palace in Las Vegas. The second Charlie is alone in the casino gambling and in the third scene Charlie and Raymond are both back at the casino in Las Vegas.

"21" - An MIT student uses his knowledge of math together with some other student to win a lot of money at casinos in Las Vegas. They were mentored by their professor. One of the reasons for gambling was to get quick money to pay his tuition.

The Last Casino -  In this movie 3 students are recruited by their professor and taught how to count cards so that they can go to the casino, play and win for him because he was banned from the casino after his was caught counting cards.

I would like to know how you have enough free time for this. After I became seriously interested in betting, I began to watch fewer games (at least completely, since spending 2 hours on one game is too wasteful), or to be more precise, I began to watch more games, but in text format and a lot in parallel mode. And I focus more not on sports indicators (although they need to be taken into account) but rather on statistics.

In my case, I started analyzing all the games I watch even when I didn't place a bet, before I only cared about games in the big leagues, such as the Premier League, La Liga, Bundesliga, Ligue 1 and the Portuguese League. but after a few months that I was involved I became interested in the Turkish league, the Dutch league, the Brazilian league and when I watch the games I analyze each player and the coaches' decisions, before I got involved in sports betting I didn't did that. I just limited myself to watching the games and I didn't watch many games and I also don't follow the games often. It's funny that I see that analyzing the games I'm going to watch gives me more pleasure than when I just watched the games

This is because while I watch the game and see that the result of the game is going in the direction of my predictions, it makes me happy and even when it is not going completely in the direction of my predictions, I keep thinking about where I went wrong to correct it, I do it without involving money, just for fun. Also when I started getting involved in sports betting I started following the UFC, this was something I didn't even think about doing before I got involved in betting, but as I saw that football games come at a time when they took vacations, so I I would need to continue my bets, that's why I researched UFC, but today, when the big league games stop, I also stop placing my bets. I've just been following UFC and boxing and tennis without betting.

My interest on the sports I'm betting grew. I mean, because of gambling, I was able to love them more because I love to watch the game every time I'm betting on a particular team. It's not only on games actually, even on fights like UFC and boxing, I'm also loving it and gambling has introduce them to me. It's not easy to win when you are not familiar with the sport you choose, but eventually you'll fall in love with it and your confidence will grow.

I don't know if it's still not related to my gambling activity, but since my gambling activitiy is sports betting, so there's quite a relation to it.

Perhaps getting familiar with games which are otherwise uninteresting to me. I am now betting on eSports matches and leagues which I used to know nothing about. If not for gambling, I wouldn't have made myself familiar with Mobile Legends, for example. I still don't play the game until now. I still don't find it worth my time and energy, but I became a little familiar with the game, the players, the leagues, and so on because I bet on them. My gambling experience with this started because of the influence of my friends. It didn't really become my hobby, though.

This is the same with other sports. There was even a time I knew some table tennis and lawn tennis players because I was tailing somebody's bets on the sports.

I think we are on the same page.
My habit now is to share my picks in either NBA or MMA (UFC), and sometimes boxing too. Simply because I love those sports and it gives me pleasure if I can share all my analysis, predictions, and picks. It doesn't mean they have to tail it, somehow there must be one gambler out there who is just looking for an idea of what he will bet for the day and that is where the shared picks will be useful. It became my habit to do that and I enjoy it unconsciously until now that you float the question.
Before, I also liked talking to the chatroom of Stake.com but when some pessimistic guys came in, I stopped. I like it more when the chatroom is just sharing stories and optimistic about their bets. It's necessary because of the stressful environment of gambling.

I agree that managed gambling can lead to productive hobbies. Joining a forum is about sharing tips, understanding other viewpoints, and respecting alternative approaches to the same task. Critical thinking and socialization improve with this engagement. Community learning about probability, risk management, and financial planning is valuable in many areas of life. It shows how hobbies may become major learning lessons that deepen your awareness and respect of the world.

I have a few hobbies on this but I think this very one will be very interesting to share. I take it as compulsory fun habit following my friends that are fans of my rival club to go watch their club matches with them at our favourite football viewing centre, I make sure we all seat close just with the intention to laugh and make fun of their team when they're losing a game. It's a banter we all both share among ourselves. I have this particular friend who is forever ready to drive the few miles just to come pick me up from the house on evening's my club will be playing, all just to make fun of me should my club loss the match.

hobbies that you have picked up as a result of your long term gambling but that doesn't involve gambling? hmm good question tho I actually have friend that do gambling but most of the time when we met we always talked about gamble again  like win or lose in some gambling site but if we tired talking about that we talked something else or do something else like fisihing

there is big lake in other city called waduk and we had free time and bored with gambling we usually go fisihing there

During the early years in gambling usually I mostly chase my losses and my temptation to win it back is high and later on these years I managed to calm myself down and control my emotions, which is a good trait that adopt in daily lives for instance watching a series for a long time and it's now late, I am tempted to watch another one but since I get used to gambling habit of controlling my temptation or desire, I managed to overcome it along with other things like drinking or playing games excessively. I called it "That's enough" method 

I haven't really paid much attention to other sections on the casinos before or on gambling sites that offers external services such like forum for gamblers discussion or sections where gamblers can make odds calculations or some other mathematical practices,  but sure I understand what both of you guys have posted but since I haven't experience any of them before I won't be able to give accuracy of information so for that I have to go along with you guys but asking a little questions.

How can someone who bearly have time to gamble develop that time to use other features within the casinos as mentioned by both of your guys.

just like you, i also became interested in getting involved in discussions about gambling, especially on this forum. there are lots of experiences, tips, etc., that i read and i participate in discussions in them which make me know more about other people's experiences and various other things in gambling. i also share my experiences and tips that I think are useful for other users.

Personally, I started to see the "numbers" and "percentage" differently.
I become interested in financial aspects that I previously ignored.
This led to me to a better money management even in my private life and not only on gambling aspects.
I thinks it's also fascinating the aspect related physicology behind gambling.
I become pretty interested on these aspects and enjoyed a lot since these are not only linked to gambling.

Guessing the result of the match is something that I do with my friends but that's not too often as I don't watch the match too often. Only if I gather with my friends in a cafe and we knows that some matches will takes place. Maybe at that time, we are not realizes of what we do but that's fun to predict what team will wins and what score in the end of the match. Maybe we are enjoy in the discussions that go on here and that can helps us to learn something that will gives advantages to us. Reading the tips from my friends is also something that will gives us knowledge about the match. That can helps us to learn from that tips to improve our skills because we can asks something from our friends if we don't understand it. But we must be careful and not gets tempts if we knows that can makes us to place a bet because we already have a schedule to playing gambling and we must stick to that schedule.

I would say trying out new foods.
I know it feels unrelated but there's this thrill and curiosity to try something new either I later regret it or not but enjoy taking the gamble.
Even with this I can't pass the importance of my quiet time
It makes me detach from the stress or anxiety of taking a gamble
This has helped me in reigning on my emotions and getting by in making less risky move
It removes the feeling of trying to regain my loss and feels like you learning Tai Chi.
So in a nutshell I would the hobby have picked up is enjoying my alone time and trying new cuisines.