Topic: Do you regret also for ever knowing about gambling? - page 13. (Read 2896 times)

That's nice. Optimism. And I agree with you.
Let's also look at the bright side and what gambling made us learn about life. Not just controlling greed but controlling all your emotions. When you lose, you tend to get angry with yourself and somehow pass that anger to other people, most of the time your family. How we control that anger so that we would not affect other people is an act that is not easy to do. If we can do that then somehow we become a better man.
The same when we are winning, we cannot be too excited with our profits or else we might end up spending the money while our brains are in ecstasy.
We make mistakes when there's no control and gambling can overflow us with emotions that need dominance over it because those emotions once they are not checked can wreck our whole life and that includes breaking our relationship with our families.

I don't think there is anything to "regret" to know about gambling. I mean, everyone takes some sort of risks or "gambles" in their. Be it money, or something else, but they do gamble. And I don't think in the current age/time, there is no way you "cannot" know about gambling. Even video games now a days promotes some sort of gambling through "loot box" microtransactions. You know about different kinds of "crime" but you never commit those crimes. It's the same in the case of gambling. There is nothing to "regret" about as long as you know how to control yourself and not affecting others. If you think gambling is affecting you, then go get help.

Believe it or not, I don't regret knowing gambling cause it taught me some lesson in life.
How to control my greed and when to quit in order to win.
It also helps me when I feel lonely, it was my way to enjoy and forget some of my problems or you might say emotional support.
So I don't ever regret knowing it, even though I lost some money from gambling.

life is a gamble, that's very true and there is nothing different about this concept, like when you build a business, initially you are very sure that your business can be successful, but in fact your business cannot be successful within a year and you are constantly trying to build and promote your business. and in 3 years your business can be successful and become very big but in 4 years it turns out your business is bankrupt. well, this is what it means to live like a gamble, even if we live how long we will never know, the most important thing is just to survive and try to live.
just like gambling and I take an example from poker gambling when an ordinary gambler wants to become a professional gambler and continues to try playing poker even though he always loses but he continues to learn from his experience to correct every mistake and strategy or tactic used and finally he can find out all the ways to win and finally become a professional poker gambler and take part in every poker tournament and win the tournament and get rich from the poker results.
with these 2 scenarios you can take the positive side and you can also see the similarities between life like betting and also gambling is the same only the concept may be different but if you take it from the positive side it is the same.

and with all this we can take something important that whatever the condition and situation, gambling is a choice that we dont need to regret or blame other people when we experience the bad effects of gambling because we have chosen gambling as entertainment but it is our own fault that sometimes we lose control which leads to losing a lot of money and I support your opinion about limiting the budget is very important so that there is no regret when you have a losing streak.

That's the problem, he shouldn't blame other people for his own mistakes, it's true that gambling was introduced to them by their friends when they often got together, but isn't that normal? A friend definitely has a story and shares their experienced, it may include gambling, but that doesn't means they have to play it too, and it doesn't mean they have to gambler. If they are not prepared for the risks, it is better to avoid it because gambling is full of the risk of losing.

Yes, it's true that gambling plays a big role in our lives. If we don't use it excessively and don't turn it into a habit, we will avoid the risk of addiction. When you decide to gambler, you have to be prepared to accept the risk of losing, maybe the winnings are only 10%, the rest we will experience losses, the most important thing is that we don't regret getting to know gambling even though it has bad impact.

Of course, I would probably say the same thing that they are nothing more than children who are far from mature and don't seem to recognize or have any sense of responsibility for the activity they are doing. I think it's ridiculous to blame other people for your losses when you know from the start that gambling is all about winning and losing, as I said earlier that there's no sense of self-responsibility in that person.

Everyone gets different results when it comes to gambling especially the amount of winnings, if you lose but your friends win it means you are far from lucky and vice versa, and also in my opinion it is unethical if you come just because you see your friends win even though this is basically what always invites many people to get involved, but on the other hand the problem is that if you already know that gambling is about winning and losing then you shouldn't blame others for your losses, so understanding can make them come to their senses and that's what I think should be emphasized.

You better be serious with your life, plan as much as possible and stop gambling with it. I must say I was surprised that someone would say that life is a gamble, how? Maybe you want to say that life is uncertain, they are two different things. If you follow the right procedure, pray and get serious with your life, then you will get to make it and not gamble, which is different from those who are just gambling with their lives. As for gambling, it is indeed an opportunity but must be carefully pursued so that in search of the opportunity, the life of the person will not be in regret. I have pondered many times about the OP itself and I wonder why an adult should regret gambling if the adult himself is a smart and wise person. No one who engages in gambling smartly will ever get to regret it, after all, if they do not make money from it, they get to derive the fun and will not lose so much at the same time by being calculative and budgetary.

This is why I say that it's all about how we take gambling as a whole. Some take it at the best and get to continue to be cautious and budgetary, and also plan their gambling life and get to make the money even as they also lose at times. But overall, they will not be left out in losses, they will get to make money as well which is the fun part of it. But for desperation, people get to be entrapped in their minds through it and get addicted and start doing all sorts of things that make them further addicted and irresponsible in their gambling. To them, they have a whole lot to share negatively about gambling. But in fairness, is gambling at fault? Or those who engage it wrongly?

Honestly I can never regret ever coming to gambling because gambling has never affected me in any way, on the contrary I have benefited a lot from the gambling because irrespective of how uncertain wining a bet can be but it has helped me in so many ways I never imagine not that I have won a big money from gambling but however the time I had most of my winings was actually the time I needed the money so much, however the only people that can hate gambling could be those that gambles so aggressively which has led them to lose so many things all in the name of gambling.

Actually based on your posts I see no reason why your friend will blame another person for his problem perhaps if somebody introduce him to something, he has the decision to choose if the thing will be of beneficial to him or not or is going to affect him in the future or not, so after aggressively investing all his money on gambling and losing the money that was when he realized himself, actually it was a very childish of him to blame the guy for introducing him into gambling.

The nature of sports betting is something that makes me wonder to what extent skill is a key factor in the result. Could you tell us how are you doing? are your numbers in overall positive or negative?

Back on topic, blaming on others because of own faults is more usual than it should, but I don't think it is the standard behavior: OP said that, out of a number of friends, only one behaved like that. Of course, today he gambles more than he would want, probably because some sort of predisposition out of his control, but that's not his friend's fault because he didn't force the former to go with him to that casino that day.

There is nothing to regret about after knowing how to gamble, personally I am a football fan so when online betting sites started popping out I got involved in soccer bettingy in a bid to earn extra fund, this was based on my ability to analyze soccer matches and my ability to make some predictions, however I gambled responsibly with the amount of money I can afford to lose in any case of a Loss or losses I am not bothered because I also have my winning days too, unfortunately there are a lot of addicted gamblers who wanted to get rich quickly however got bankrupted while some of them committed suicide which is very unfortunate I believe those gamblers would regret knowing how to gamble.

As long as we gamble just for fun and entertainment,  there is nothing that can push us into regret after all our expectations will not be that much on from gambling since fun is what we are seeking after,  and so much also,  those who have slid into regret due to their addictions and its resultant effects on them are all in that condition because they're took gambling over the board and taking gambling outside of it an original safe practice when gambling.

So personally I don't have anything to regret from my involvement in gambling and as long as I gamble within that limit,  I am sure I will be safe.
The responsibility is on you as a person,  either to gamble or not and blaming another person for your failure or bad experience in gambling is something that one has a personal decision on and being aware of the risk to bear while engaging in it,  so I am also of the opinion that the blaming his friend is totally wrong and childish of him.

The problem is with your friend, I mean why did he ever blame other people when it is his fault that he acted like a fool, wasting his money and lost it by gambling? Right? maybe he was annoyed with others that’s why he blamed them, or maybe he encountered conflicts with his fellow players. We don't know the situation either.

Of course, gambling has a huge part in our lives, and we are making it a habit. When you gamble there are a lot of obstacles that comes your way, like when you don't know how to balance and don't know how to limit your bankroll, I mean how much can you bet for gambling? Sometimes you win and sometimes you lose. It’s a 50/50 situation and if you’re willing to risk then go ahead. When you enter there is no turning back, so yeah, I did not regret knowing about gambling cause without it, there would be no wise people playing with their tricks on the planet. 

If I have regrets about gambling, I will not be a regular poster in the gambling board neither will I be responding to this. Everything about gambling is fun from signing up on casinos, join the community to debate, rants and banter about gambling in general. It is always a pleasant experience if you do it responsibly.

Hope you are not addicted to gambling? because those that are addicted to it that sound the way you sound now  because they don't control their emotion whenever they find themselves experiencing losses in their gambling. Once you notice that your losses is getting too much in your betting, you can take  a break to study some games you use to watch whenever matches is going on in the field and, from there you can know some teams that are very strong and the ones that are not strong.

If you are not careful you will not know that you are addicted to gambling unless you share your experience to people like the way you shared it now for people to know that you are addicted to gambling which you need to control it before it will lead you to nothing in your family.

A person who blames others because he become a gambler is like a child. He knows that gambling don't give him winnings everytime, but because his friend played and won, he wants it. But if his expectations don't match, he blames his friend, that's a mistake. Because everyone can offer anything, but the decision comes from themselves. He should be aware of this.

I don't know about other gamblers but there are sometimes that I regret why I ever involved myself with gambling, usually when I make crazy loses that I didn't actually plan for. I'm not an addict but we all know that even as a responsible gambler, there are times that you'd just go off your usual gambling ways and start gambling wild, this doesn't make you an addict though. So whenever I find myself in this state and then on the process loses a huge amount, I usually start regretting the reason I learned how to gamble.

it's a bit like humans want to control all aspects of their lives
as if it was possible to control what you'll come up with in the way and what you won't
I like the idea of discovering everything possible about the world, the good and the bad, and then choosing what I like, what I want to stick to and what I want to let go
with gambling is the same...

It is possible that you spent money that you can't afford to lose.  Regret is an indication that the gamber have spent too much or made a wrong call during his activity.  Thus making the lost wager tagged as money that can't afford to lose.


I think this is the right thing, if we have to blame someone, blame ourselves in not controlling our gambling activity.  No one forces us to gamble, it is our own voluntary decision that we gamble in order to win some amount while having fun.  If it goes out of control, it is not the person who introduced gambling to us fault but it is ourselves since we are the one controlling our decision and the one making the decision when we do our gambling actitivies.

Most people will automatically say no but that is just because they love gambling.  Anyone who is addicted and/or lose consistently obviously should say yes.  If not done correctly gambling can ruin lives so I get it.  But if done correctly and done for entertainment with money you put aside for "entertainment" than I don't see losing as a huge issue

To be honest, when i experienced a big losses in gambling then i feel regret knowing about it. But when i think it logically, i don't blame anyone from which guy i learned it because it is of course my own responsibility for losses or win in the gambling, so someone should not blamed for my own mistakes. Nobody forced your friend to involve with it so he/she has no right to blame anyone.