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Topic: Gambling and Betting. Why the Distinction? - page 5. (Read 468 times)

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I was today years old when I found out that if betting and gambling isn't exactly the same thing. If you Google the word betting most of the  results will be in regards to sports betting. Also Google the word gambling and you will see most results refer to casino games. In my own opinion whether we bet on the outcome of a sports event or we bet on games of luck and skill in the casino, they are both the same thing. Which is why I wonder why there is this distinction between the two? Why can't we say casino betting just as we say sports betting or sports gambling just as we refer to the casino when we talk about gambling? I know it sounds weird saying casino betting or sports gambling but what do you think about this?
Op from my own perspective I will rather consider the difference as a mere semantics because ordinarily in our local settings we see both gambling and betting to mean the same thing because both words are trying to portray same thing .just like when someone is trying to distinguish between indoor and outdoor games , the two here are trying to define sports but both of them are being performed in different places.

When you place a bet for the sole purpose of getting something in return is also the same when you gamble in a casino house for the sole purpose of getting something in return.the both talk about trying lucks but the process of achieving it might differ.
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Well to me i still don't see any much difference in them since both are all luck based game and when it dispute the gambling theorem them we can have them being classified separately. In sport betting after having all games selected, there odds are being multiplied by the total amount staked to give a potential winning and these depends on luck for someone to win.
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You are right.

If people are competing, you will bet on who will be the winner. But in casino it is different because no competition.

We may see some few difference between sport bets and in house games and one of the notable discrifesy is in the area of house edge in casinos games, which is not present in sport bets since the result of a live match can not be minupulated to favor the house unlike in in house casino games where the casino interests is always put first before the gambler which is included in the terms of service as house edge.
If you look for difference in the odds in casinos and sport bets and compare it with the probability/chance of a gambler to win, you will notice that sport betting sites odds are lower than casinos odds. The low odd in sport betting site is the house edge.
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I was today years old when I found out that if betting and gambling isn't exactly the same thing. If you Google the word betting most of the  results will be in regards to sports betting. Also Google the word gambling and you will see most results refer to casino games. In my own opinion whether we bet on the outcome of a sports event or we bet on games of luck and skill in the casino, they are both the same thing. Which is why I wonder why there is this distinction between the two? Why can't we say casino betting just as we say sports betting or sports gambling just as we refer to the casino when we talk about gambling? I know it sounds weird saying casino betting or sports gambling but what do you think about this?
We may see some few difference between sport bets and in house games and one of the notable discrifesy is in the area of house edge in casinos games, which is not present in sport bets since the result of a live match can not be minupulated to favor the house unlike in in house casino games where the casino interests is always put first before the gambler which is included in the terms of service as house edge.

But aside from this notable point above we may likely not need to make so much differentiation between sport betting and in house casino games since both rely and depend on a number of similar factors and outcomes of events.
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I was today years old when I found out that if betting and gambling isn't exactly the same thing. If you Google the word betting most of the  results will be in regards to sports betting. Also Google the word gambling and you will see most results refer to casino games. In my own opinion whether we bet on the outcome of a sports event or we bet on games of luck and skill in the casino, they are both the same thing. Which is why I wonder why there is this distinction between the two? Why can't we say casino betting just as we say sports betting or sports gambling just as we refer to the casino when we talk about gambling? I know it sounds weird saying casino betting or sports gambling but what do you think about this?
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