Topic: Can Anyone +18 Play Gamble? - page 19. (Read 5008 times)

If what you mean by "play gamble" is to play a gambling game with money that is not real, then I think yes, they legally can. They are not really gambling because real gambling is only with real money. Pressing a few buttons on the screen to win/lose fake money is fine by me. In fact, it might even teach the kid what gambling really is, So he can gamble responsibly without getting hooked later in life. I can think of quite a few video games which are morally worse. And if that is wrong then perhaps both things are wrong. But that is a question I have no answers to.

Everything is based on the country and it is important we know the age limit that is necessary for us to gamble. In most countries, someone from the age of 16 above can gamble with no restrictions but there are countries where the age limit is 18 years before they can intend to gamble and make money for themselves.
Someone that is not up to the age of 16 years should not take about gambling because that is how the influence do start and if things are not well coordinated, such a person might end up go to gamble without knowing some certain things that are required for us to know before even think of gambling. Children need to be prevented from showing any interest in gambling.

Well. To be completely honest with you, I am not even sure why the selected age for people to be considered to be adults is eighteen and not younger or older; I assume there must be some psychological or behavioral study behind it, however I have never read about it personally. At the age of eighteen most people are still living with their parents and are financially dependant on their family, though they are going through a process of psychological change which they turn into adults. I would be in favor of raising the age for people to gamble one year or two, if scientists managed to prove such a measure could delay or make harder for those people to get addicted to gambling and irresponsible gambling, until then, I believe eighteen years old is a good enough age for people to start gambling, smoking and consuming alcohol if they wished to.
In general, I have seen people in the United States complaining about how in the rest of the World legal children become adults at the age of eighteen while their children are supposed to wait for their 21th birthday.
Though, I am not sure why their 16 year old teens are allowed to have cars and drive them around. It sounds rather like an anomaly to me, in my opinion, does not make much sense. 

I think even 18 is too young an age to start gambling. At the age of 18, anyone is still considered a child and this is a fact. Remember yourself at the age of eighteen! You probably, like me, were fooling around, wanted only fun from life and had no idea at all what responsibilities and responsibilities were. And now imagine that you won gambling at this age...
Yes, you will never want to earn money in the usual difficult standard ways after that.

Experienced or not, of course the casino doesn't want to know because their goal is to get as many customers as possible to make a profit, in fact sometimes the casino will pay more attention to experienced players just to protect and prevent experienced players from winning, I think we all know if there are some casinos that use sneaky methods to beat players and of course experienced gamblers will also have tricks to win at the casino compared to gamblers who don't have any experience in gambling.

Talking about age, I think the casino only makes the age limit of +18 years old as a mere formality, because in fact when I was in Malaysia and Singapore I actually saw several teenagers enjoying playing several slot games in the casino, it's not an open secret that the casino actually applies this rule only to deceive police officers and related agencies with permits to establish casino, so that when raids are not carried out the casino will be open to anyone, including teenagers under the age of +18 years.

Is every casino ask you a couple questions: where do you work and how much you get paid? nah, they're also don't care with the gamblers, remember they're making money from the gamblers' losses. There's no way to know if someone has a job or source of income.

Right now online casino is really booming and crime rates increase from time to time, there's a correlation between both of them.

Casinos can limits the age of participants but casino doesn't knows how old each participant. Casinos doesn't know if the gambler is experienced or not because casinos only invite them to playing gambling without considering the other things. The more people who visit and playing gambling on their casino, the more profit the casinos will get so they will make a good promotions that can attract the attentions for the people, whether they are under or 18 years to playing gambling. But those who under 18 years must not playing gambling because they don't have a good control yet and they can lose much money if they are involve in the gambling. But we can't know who is the gambler who comes and playing gambling, especially on online gambling because every people can playing gambling on every where they like.

Of course it is very dangerous for someone who is involved in gambling but on the other hand they have no money or income in their life, this habit will trigger many problems in the future especially as a result of gambling itself and you have said the answer that someone who has no income and then they lose in their gambling session then it is very possible for them to feel frustrated and emotional due to defeat, One of the reasons is because they do not have the income that is expected to cover their needs and in addition the gambling session ends in defeat which means that some money that they could have used for other things is lost in gambling, but all of this is their own decision and this is why it is not recommended to get involved in gambling if you do not have an income or if you are unemployed.

Someone who has a job or income is very different from people who are unemployed in terms of dealing with losing situations, for those who have a job or income then I think it is true that it is quite unlikely for them to experience excessive emotions due to losing because they have other income from their work which means that losing will not be too big a problem so they can reduce their emotions, But for someone who is unemployed I can already confirm that their goal of gambling is entirely just to win, they hope that the amount of money they bring can increase but in the end it is lost, and obviously the concern is when they enter the addiction phase where they definitely borrow and maybe even commit crimes to finance their gambling activities.

Every gambling beginners started this journey as someone who have zero experience as a gambler, either they will become a gambler or not depends on the experience of their first game, it's better if they lose as their first experience, they might be more careful.

It's not safe for them if they win because they will have a different and unsafe mindset about gambling, they will come back for more and in a more reckless way, +18 can gamble, most online casinos accept this age range but keeping yourself safe is not something the casino will teach you.

It's better for a beginner to do their own research first before having their first experience, they will have read about the possibilities of losing their hard earned money which can prepare them in a more safer approach, and also be ready for the worst, compare to someone who just want to give gambling a try, anything can happen..

The Casino and Gambling Policy states that gamblers must be over 18 years of age and must have knowledge of gambling and casinos. If all these policies are mentioned in various casinos or gambling, my country does not follow such age limit, most of the gamblers in our country are under 18 years and they are not that experienced about gambling. Most of the gamblers participate in gambling only to earn money, so these gamblers do not feel the need to follow any rules of gambling.

Would not it be dangerous for anyone who does not have a job or income to gamble then? If a person with money looses, he will take it differently. Maybe he will try to play back lost money, or it wont be a tragedy for him and he simply will never return to gambling. But if a jobless or the one without any income looses (gambled with borrowed money for example), then his further actions can be unpredictable. Like you have said, that person might commit a crime, if he get really addicted with gambling.

It is an obligation for casino providers to limit the age of gamblers, both traditional and online. Every country probably provides the same rules to prevent children from gambling. However, children or those under 18 years old do not yet have responsibility for themselves and when they are loss, so it would be very dangerous if children under 18+ yo were allowed to gamble. Apart from the reason of not having an income, there is also the potential for committing crimes even within the family circle, such as stealing money from their parents.

Yeah, some countries even decide that it's not in their interest to have casinos, so they make gambling illegal, which opens another can of worms.

At the end of the day each country is a group of people, and it's very complicated to get into an agreement, specially for making laws, where you need very specific things like a number in this case to be agreed upon.

In the end it's a personal issue if you are mature enough to engage in gambling activities, but law doesn't really work like that.

Exactly. It's not "arbitrary", like you said. Twelve would be arbitrary. By 18 your brain is developed enough to call you an adult. Well, in some countries they say it's 24, and who are we to argue with them. So, you are right, it is arbitrary. If we are talking about gambling, I would say one have to be 24 to engage in it.

I think casinos can only limit the age of participation, cannot control whether you have or do not have gambling experience. Testing this evidence requires a lot of time and is not always possible. In some ways, casinos really want inexperienced people to play, because it's obvious that inexperienced people will easily lose more, casinos obviously like this, right?
In the other side, if you participate in online gambling, how can they control whether you have experience playing or not? They can find out for themselves somewhere, then join the game although they have never played that game before. The age limit is still sometimes uncontrollable if they play online, let alone the experience limit. That's not feasible.

I would say that not online have started, but children have been gambling for long time. You and me have also gambled when were kids. But we had a different gambling that adults have. Kids gambling is like a competition. Two kids do homework, one offer other a challenge, who make homework first, is the first one to choose which candy to take. Candy = money, a bet = candies that parents have bought for both of them. Back in my childhood we used chewing gums for bets. And take a look into those 3-in-a-row games. They are partly related to gambling, kids test their luck there, kids face random, kids make ingame purchases to continue the level (partly similar to chasing loss in gambling).

From the age of 18 you can go to the casino hall even if you are not  gambling. You can gather experience when you start going to the gambling hall and see people gambling. You don't have an experience in something when you are not doing it or constantly seeing people that are doing it. Some people say that gambling is luck most times, so those who are not experienced gambler leverage on this while playing gamble. 18 is the age that will secure your access into the gambling hall. Both experience and inexperienced can play gamble. Moreover I have seen the inexperienced win big money from football betting on his first attempt.

In fact, in everyday life, children have also started to gamble, not by doing it in online casinos or going to physical casinos, but gambling is done by betting with friends about many things, so gambling can be done by anyone, only if it is gambling carried out in online casinos or physical casinos there will be age restrictions that must be adhered to because casinos must follow the rules of the country where they operate or the license where they are registered
And winnings are not influenced by age is true, but the age limit set by the state aims to ensure that those who gamble are adults and understand every action they take because gambling that is not done responsibly can ruin that person's life, so casinos should enforce this age limit strictly and also parents supervise their children so that they do not gamble before entering adulthood.

I will reply with a following example, but please dont go deep into kids and gambling topic, it is not about that.

Lets take video games as an example. Take any grandpa or grandma and put them behind a PC, give same PC to a 10yo kid, and give them task to install something. On one hand we have adults, who seems to be experienced in life, knows how to read, probably google and etc. On the other we have a kid whos life experience is way lower than his grandparents. But that kid will get with PC quicker than they.

With this I want to say that for some actions age isnt proper way to evaluate ability to do something. What if one person has spend whole life in Vegas with parents who gamble, and other spend whole life on a island in jungle with bow and spear. First kid is 15, second is 20. Both have equal amount of money. Who you think is going to lose them all faster?

Many gambling sites require an age to start gambling. However, this is only confirmation. so just click if you are over 18+ you can definitely play. So even though you are still not old enough, by clicking on confirmation you are over 18+ and you can definitely play.

What's worse is that sites like slots can even be played by children who are still in elementary school. and it actually becomes a big problem if children who are still in elementary school can play online slots.