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

Hmm it's somehow confusing when reading it from this view, so someone can bet and still not be called a gambler? Or is the terms actually used for serious bettor rather than a one time or someone who often follow up with the acts of gambling? Am a little bit confuse and please forgive my confusion because what I felt before now that is Gambling or betting is actually the same thing as one is tied to the other.

You don't have to stake money for it to be a bet. You can bet on items, simple things like being right and receiving respect.
Betting is a part of gambling, but you can bet without any money. Friends often bet each other that they can do something and they get respect in return, or they get to eat the last candy or drink free beer at the expense of the loser.
You can bet from time to time without being a gambler, but a gambler is not someone who bets for fun. Usually this word is used to describe serious players. A guy who bets on one football match a month is not really a gambler in the full sense of the word.

For me it would be just like this:

Gambling is when you're putting money on the line with the hopes of winning more money or some other prize. Think of stuff like playing cards, slots, poker, or roulette at any casino could be online or in-house. It's all about taking a risk and hoping luck is on your side.

While betting is a bit more of specific. This happens when you are wagering money on the outcome of something. This could be a sports game, a horse race, or even things like who's gonna win an election or the Paul vs Tyson. You're basically saying, "I think this is gonna happen, and I'm willing to put my money where my finger pointing is."

So, gambling is the bigger umbrella term that covers all sorts of games of chance and probabilities, while betting is more about predicting outcomes and putting your money down accordingly.

Generally speaking, betting is the act of staking money on how something will turn out. This might be a reality TV show, an election, a horse race, or any sporting event. Typically, betting is making a prediction about a certain outcome and placing a financial wager on it.

However, the term "gambling" is broad and covers a wide range of activities. With a possibility of winning more money or doubling the amount they spend, people will stake money or other assets on a particular result. This can apply to certain games like slots, dice, or lottery, as well as casino games like roulette, poker, and blackjack.

Gambling encompasses a broader range of behaviors that also include risking money with unknown outcomes, but betting is a type of gambling since, as I've mentioned, it involves anticipating specific outcomes.

Don't jeopardize any opportunity that comes your way, because winning literally comes from unexpected projects and matches. Gambling and betting are the same thing, do not allow minor words to control one and leaving us in a confused office. There are more useful information in the space, we just have to spot out the necessary ones and ensure to make good use of them. We understand the basic information passed down to us and that will be the end for the day.

Gambling is just the broader term of any activity to risk something of value on an uncertain outcome. Betting is a specific type of gambling where people bet on a prediction. So, in that sense, betting is a subcategory of gambling. The term might be interchangeable to enjoy the activity. Some people differentiate between games that rely purely on chance (like slot machines) and those that involve some skill (like poker).

People may call it betting or gambling, but they need to understand the risks and the odds, because those are the crucial part of the activity. Wise Gamblers know the terminology and the underlying mechanics to make informed decisions. The expectation is still the same which is to win more money after risking less amount of it in the bets. Some people may not care the meaning of the terms, they only do what the want to do with their own intentions.

Well to be precise, yes betting is a form of gambling but people who bet often don't really see it as such even though in principle it's similar to chance based games. They think they can overcome chance by utilizing their knowledge of certain leagues. Is this realistic? Of course not. In the end it's more likely than not that the odds as they're fixed by bookies will get to you. It is theoretically possible to have some people that win more predictions than the ones they lose.

But it's rare as I said because if this was the most frequent case bookies wouldn't exist and we'd just all play fantasy league to see who's actually the best at predictions against each other or something. So being realistic we can't expect any form of gambling to let us win all the time, be it chance based games or betting.

Absolutely. Most people like overcomplicating very simple matters. The terms don't really matter much as long as you're doing the same thing essentially just as you've explained.


So in your books, sports betting is not gambling? Saying that bettors are not interested in gambling contradicts itself because anyone taking on sports bet is taking a gamble on the outcome of the bet.

As for house edge and other differences, I think those are minor as long as you're taking similar actions on very specific risks.

People who do sports bets are sometimes never interested in gambling.
The thing is, chance based games are in principle very similar to how bookies set the house edge for sports bets too. For Two possible outcomes, the odds are never 2.0 and 2.0 or above. They're like 1.90 and 1.95 or something. So regardless of how bets are placed in both, there's an edge. And ofc if a large bet is made on one side the odds change and the bookie shifts the multipliers.

So really there's a house edge on every online casino game. But people who like sports sometimes disregard that. I do however think that sports gambling can be a little more renowned than just chance based games of someone is reserved with how he plays. Yes it's very unlikely to keep a winning streak for very long, but it's also not impossible to have some edge over the odds if you're exceptionally good at digesting information about a league you know. It's an unrealistic expectation to have however because if everyone was so good bookies wouldn't have a reason to exist. 

I don't see any difference between both words. For me they mean the same thing and I don't know if there is any solid etymological explanation on why both terms should be seen as different between each other. I suppose the distinction is pure speculation by modern gamblers who have seen both terms recently and tried to develop a rational explanation to differentiate one from another. I was reading about this matter on the internet and found an interesting statement from an internet user: "in order to gamble, you have to place a bet", so both concepts are intimately interconnected in a very generic way.

You can say you are going to gamble, to bet or to wager, without any issues. People will understand what you mean, while at same time, these aren't uncommon or wrong terms to be used. They are perfectly fine, and I'm glad we have all of them, so we don't have to use the exact same word everytime we are talking about this matter.

True, gambling is a general view with a wide enough scope that linguistically speaking, betting is also a gambling activity, in my opinion like the parent of the activity of risking money with any mechanism in my understanding.

And I think it doesn't matter if it's betting or gambling with the language that matters to me, I like betting and I also like gambling and both of them I also always play, but indeed if you want to be a smart gambler at least understand what the definition is so that it is more like an insightful person in gambling because it understands what betting and gambling are in language and terms.

Gambling is a general term and betting is part of the term and for that we can still go ahead to ask when someone says he is a gambler you ask them what type of gambler is he and if he plays casinos games or just sports bets.


So for sure we need the clear off every form of misconceptions that may not arise to cause any confusion of both terms.

Whatever you call it, that can still be consider as gambling as long as you place a bet with your money with a hope of winning and multiplying that money. Gambling is very broad, and every individual have their own interpretation about it and for me sports betting are just like casino betting as both of them have the risk and always have the money involve.

Well, this is clear to me, for me sports betting is very different from games of chance, because games of chance for me are representations of roulette, slot machines and things like that, but in reality for me sports betting is sports and requires much more knowledge and technical knowledge in occasions, in fact, for me sports bets have many more possibilities of winning, because they are done with knowledge, on the other hand, in games of chance, even if you know a lot, it is not possible to win, so that in view of these things we cannot play with so much freedom, we know that games of chance are just luck and that we have to take advantage of that luck when we are on a roll, sports bets can be won knowing, very rarely it is because of luck , but it is something that is much clearer.

If you look at it from the nature of this definition it sounds different because of the difference in language, namely between betting and gambling but in fact the definition is the same, the mechanism is the same and both also bet money, it's just that we are more used to hearing that betting leans on things related to physical activity such as soccer matches, chess, boxing, volleyball, poker and other things like horse racing that we also often when choosing one of the teams to bet money on the course of a match it will be called a bet.
But meanwhile if gambling in the casino on the house game we call it gambling, and I am also often confused to define it but basically the two things are both betting money or goods to get a prize for the owner of the correct choice.

You already answered your own question there OP and that is both of them will sound weird if we interchange them but don't worry because even though not in direct terms, we still sometimes say that we gamble our money in sports and then we place a bet inside a casino.

I hope these simple sentences can still make you feel happy and contented. Another thing is maybe one of the words came out first? So, experts have no choice but to pair them with the other and people are now used to it despite the other word came out later on. This is also the reason on why Google results are showing like that but it does not mean that both words have different meanings.

What I can only say here is that people are taking this far, there is nothing different between the two of them, they are certainly the same words that you can use interchangeably and that are best fitting in a particular sentence better than each other depending on the construction of the statement. There are places you will use gambling and it will fit better, and the same thing goes for betting. And if you use them interchangeably in these places, they might not sound perfect just for the right English structuring. That's the only difference I see with them. But for the meaning, reason and purpose, they are the same thing in all ramifications.

Also, we should forget about the luck and skills here, whether the gambling aspect we are dealing with requires skills or luck, this can't still eliminate the fact that we are betting and gambling in them. Once you gamble, you are betting, and when you are betting, you are gambling because the outcome of what you bet for is not known, so you are gambling on that.

The only difference between gambling and betting is that gambling is the general name for games that involve staking money or any valuable thing, with the hope of making money if the outcome of the game is favourable. Betting on the other hand is a form of gambling just as we have other forms of gambling like poker, slot, online and physical casinos, sports betting, horse racing, dice games and many others. People can gamble on anything, what they gamble on does not change the fact that that's gambling, as long as something of value is staked and winning solely depends on the outcome of whatever is the subject of the gamble. If you ain't staking money or anything of value to gamble or bet (as you may call it), then it is not gambling,  you can call it something else because gambling involves risks.

Some difference between sportsbet and casino games is that casino games are conducted through slot machines but sports bets are conducted based on live games.  Casino game addicts are those who want to win big jackpots easily and quickly. And sports betting is done by those who love sports and place bets on their favorite teams to enhance their enjoyment. However, for both bets, huge amounts of gamblers are seen. Because everyone's preferences and goals are different

You are talking about different form of gambling that doesn’t involved money which is irrelevant on this discussion because we are on gambling discussion board which obviously the one that involves money is always in subject of discussion here.

Gambling and betting is just the same if we use the general description of both words assuming gambling with money is what we are discussing. Both involves money to risk on game with odds. The only difference is gambling usually use to describe the actual game while betting is use specifically to describe your money at stake.

There's a big difference between gambling and betting and to the best of my ability, I'll throw more insight to what I just said now. Gambling is anything that an individual willingly takes risks to get huge rewards at the end while betting is a form of gambling because in betting, you're required to stake money or a valuable in a risk to be rewarded hugely at the end. Gambling is wider than betting because different people use different things and engagements to gamble but in betting, you'll either stake money or or something else that has the same value with the amount if money expected of you.

There is not a very specific difference between gambling and betting, but what is certain is that both activities contain an element of risk and can lose the money we have. However, when talking about opportunities, gambling almost entirely relies on luck, while betting does not, because apart from relying on luck, skills in analyzing and making predictions are the main factors for someone to increase their chances of winning when placing a bet. In gambling, the odds are determined by the house or gambling organizer, so players will have little control over the gambling they do, with the exception of perhaps some types of gambling such as cards, where this type of gambling also involves skill in playing and mastery of the game. Meanwhile, in betting, someone can have more control over the bets they place.

However, apart from this, with all the risks posed by these activities, it is quite important for us to always ensure that the gambling activities and bets carried out are well controlled and do not cause significant losses or problems.

The word gambling/gamble can be used in more wider perspective than just for the actual gambling while betting usually denotes some amount of money at stake. Google shows results from the Wikipedia it's just written by someone and can be edited by anyone so if you want to look out the meaning then both defines the same with slight differences and as long as you understand what it denotes there is no issue at al.

Words matter, but we need to go deeper than just definitions. You're not wrong when you make a distinction - "gambling" and "betting" do have different flavors. But thats just the surface, the best people know that.

Its about how people think. Throw out "gambling" in a casino, and you get images of crazy odds, the whole flashy scene, not just the cards or the slots. But say "sports betting", and suddenly its about numbers, teams, who knows their stuff. Its a different mental game, even if luck is still involved.

Some folks might want to simplify things, and thats fine, but that ignores something important: the way these environments shape how people play, think, and feel. Its a complex business, one of the best, and we cant just dismiss that with simple words.

Gambling refers to the overall concept of staking something to get something on top of it, it can be anything, even if you are having a bet with someone that a certain thing would happen in the future which is also gambling, lotteries are a part of gambling as well. However, betting in general is used to refer to sports betting because when you are gambling in a casino, you make bets on games, but you don't call it betting but you call it gambling, and when you are in sports betting, you don't say I'm gambling, you say I'm betting on matches. That is probably the reason for this.

Otherwise, I don't see any reason why you can't use the word betting for gambling games but it is just more suitable to say it's gambling rather than betting even if you do make bets in it too.

I think they are all seen under gambling because the uncertainties associated with them all causes it to be gambling because in gambling you are basically dealing with uncertainties and you do not know what the outcome are going to be buy just hoping, betting is mostly associated with betting because somehow there's a level of certainties around it which isn't artificially stimulated by the site but then it's still an act of gambling so basically using the words interchangeably wouldn't be a bad idea but it's just preference.

I see gambling as the encompassing word while betting is associated with sport betting most of the time but the act of betting is still gambling because it's getting involved in an opportunity thst presents a 50/50 chances to anyone participating in the act.

The two terms interchangeably. Gambling is the generic word while betting is the specific word in gambling. You can gamble in sport and also bet in casino. Someone can say "he gambled on Chelsea against Arsenal and that is the same with bet on Chelsea against Arsenal. There is no too much different between them. They are just synonyms. But you place your bet from the performance of the team or players but gambling is randomly or unknowing  what has happened but in betting the performance of the players have be spotted so the best base on their previous games. But in gambling you just enter and start the prediction.

In my personal opinion, betting and gambling are not much different in terms of meaning when viewed from the perspective of a Google application search. Indeed, both have their differences, but basically gambling and sports betting are activities where you both place bets and the results are wins and losses.
And in sports betting we can predict who will be the winner, but in gambling we cannot predict the winning outcome.

Betting and gambling are two things that are quite different but almost similar. But even so, as you said, we don't need to bother ourselves with this because the most important thing is not how it is said, but how we can be responsible for it, whether it's betting or gambling, we have to be responsible and play within limits.

The difference between betting and gambling is that in betting the bets are placed on an event and the result is based on the actions of the players, affected by their expertise. In gambling a wager is placed on an event that his outcome rely only on luck.

Looking at this from my own personal perspective, and from the little research I was able to make from Google, I'm made to understand that betting is a kind of game where stakes are made base on the skills of the player likely to influence the possible outcome of that event, whereas, gambling is a kind of game where stakes are made without a clue of what it's possible outcome is likely to be (i.e Outcome base on luck).

Hence, In summary, I think the perfect simple definition about this two words is that while "Betting is a game base on skills (i.e soccer, basketball e.t.c), on the other hand, gambling is a game base on luck (i.e Roulette, Dice)""

They're too different things to me as I have always see sport bet as betting and when I gamble on casino as gambling. Gambling doesn't depend on what you know but on luck and you can get this when you play games in the casino but sport betting depends on what you know about the sport that you're betting on. When you're gambling and betting you can see the difference. I do the two but mostly sport betting and I can tell that the two have different feelings when you're doing them.

When gambling on casino, you'll know you don't have any advantage oveothe house as it's the house that have the upper hand. Both gambling and betting have similarities as you're risking your money when you're doing the two of them but know the difference that casino gambling doesn't depend on your knowledge. Casino gambling is more hard to predict than sport betting, you can predict sport games

both are gambling activities. because basically gambling is a form of risking something such as money or goods for good luck.
So I will assume both are the same thing even though the game operations will be different. Sports betting and also betting on horse racing will have a different sensation from playing in a casino, whether it's an online game or an offline casino.

Both are the same because we use money to place bets. But the difference is that when we play casino games, we play live and see the results directly, while for sports betting, we have to wait until the match is over, or we can stop our bet and cash out the money in the middle of the match in progress.

But that wasn't a problem because we were still gambling. We use money to win, but that doesn't guarantee we will win. The most important thing in gambling is that we can control ourselves well. Don't use a lot of money to gamble.

Anything that uses money when we play any game is gambling, whatever the name. We don't need to be confused about the difference because it is a gambling game.

It's just the same for me too and I don't mind. But I always use the word "sports betting" whenever I am using it in a sentence because "sports gambling" sounds weird to me, it won't just rhyme in my ears. But both are under gambling so what you may have found is just a weird thing, something a gambling nerd might do.
Talk to someone else and I don't think they will mind using both words or mixing them up because both are just talking about risk. Anyway, maybe there are gamblers who use this to avoid confusion when they discuss things but I don't think it will still be an issue in this era where the gambling industry is growing.
When someone says "I am gambling." The other person could just simply ask if it is sports or casino.

In my opinion, today they are considered the same thing.
Until a while ago, before gambling games became popular on the internet, we could even have a very clear distinction between them:

• Casinos: These were more focused on games of chance with their cards, dice and slot machines;
• Betting sites: Which were predominantly based on sports betting.

However, just before the pandemic, we already had many sites also exploring gambling, and after Covid isolated these people even more at home, without being able to go to a casino, this niche market evolved a lot and today we have both in the same place. website, mixed in such a way that it can no longer be said that they are different things.

Exactly. There is no use complicating things. Betting and gambling basically refer to the same thing. You bet, you gamble, you are doing exactly the same thing. Making a bet on dice is the same thing as making a bet on a football match. They're both gambling. So you're actually saying the same thing when you say you're gambling on dice and football.

We are all gamblers here whether we are exclusively betting on sports matches or on casino games. I can see no gain in complicating the words we use.

Betting and gambling are the same to me because they both involve staking an amount of money in the hopes to win against the risk of losing. No need to complicate it because no gambler in a casino will be refused playing if he uses the word that he wants to place a bet, or a sports bettor refused placing a bet if they use the word that he/she wants to gamble.  

If you choose to call it betting, bet responsibly and if you want to call it gambling too, gamble responsibly because that is what is more important. 

I don't think there's anything to stress about the distinction about betting and gambling since they both infer the same thing although betting is more unique to sports and casinos. Gambling is more of an umbrella term for any activity that one takes that involves a significant amount of risks back by little to no guarantees.

If you take trades without adequate convictions, you're basically gambling even though it wasn't done in a casino oe a sports betting site. It's the same with high risks investments as well.

On a lighter note, The meaning to these words are really what we give to them. AFAIK, someone coined the terms. How you use it is what matters.

I think betting is a sub-genre of the Gambling industry, so to speak, where both are ventures you do with the premise of granting you a large prize of mostly monetary gains, in exchange for a small amount at stake and a high, sometimes even magnanimous odds you'd have to beat. But since for the most part, betting is primarily 50/50, especially in the case of sportsbetting, it gets that distinction between gambling.

Gambling is a pretty broad concept so to speak, you can gamble about anything with anything at stake as well, and depending on the situation, you'd always be tempted to take up on it, betting on the other hand is more on the money side, since it's just a subgenre of the even larger gambling school of thought. Plus you also have to remember that in gambling, the results are almost always instantaneous or on the go, but betting on the other hand would need to have something else resolve first before a winner could be declared, a certain parameter so to speak, like a team winning a game, a certain number popping up at a particular date/time, there are a lot of things you can place a bet on, as long as it's vaguely deterministic, could be profiteered with, and is fair for both players.

Whatever you choose to call it, gambling or betting, they are the same to me. Both words are interchangeable in a sentence.

Casino games and sports betting are not the same. Sports betting isn’t all luck. It takes skill and knowledge to be good at sports betting even with all that you still need a little bit of luck. Unlike slot games, there is no such thing as house advantage in sports betting. The game cannot be said to be rigged to favour the casino. The odds of you winning or losing depends on your analysis and predictions.

You the distinction between betting and gambling mainly lies in the context and perceived connotations. “Betting” is often specifically associated with wagering on the outcomes of events, typically sports, implying a degree of skill or knowledge about the event. “Gambling,” however, is broader and encompasses betting but is more commonly linked to games of chance, like those found in casinos. The difference also reflects cultural and linguistic nuances, where certain terms have evolved to carry specific associations. Despite the technical similarities, both involve risking money on uncertain outcomes the distinct terminology helps categorize the types of activities and their social and legal contexts. So, while it may seem arbitrary, these distinctions help clarify the nature of the activity being discussed.

Well, making a bet (or bets) is part of gambling. Whether we are playing a card game, spinning a roulette, buying a lottery ticket, or betting on a sports match, we are engaging in gambling by making a bet with the hope of winning something in return.

There is a difference between these two words, but basically, both have a similar meaning, I guess we can say there is a subtle difference between the two. Maybe the bet is more for skilled gambling games, but as I wrote above, it's all gambling when we place a bet and risk money on an uncertain outcome.

What I experienced, compared to betting, gambling is often wrong, and even though these two things do seem the same, there are several things that differentiate between gambling and betting.

Gambling refers to a process whereby an individual stakes some cash or something of value on the haphazard happening of an occasion or event, expecting a profit. Most of the time, this takes place in casinos, slot machines, or lottery games where no skill is involved, and everything is based on chance. In the meantime, betting is a kind of activity in which a person puts money or valuables on an event or match hoping to win some amount. However, betting is not entirely based on chance because it generally takes place when someone has some information about the game or match, and chances of success can be estimated. For instance, sports wagering where one may place bets grounded on their awareness about an individual squad or player.

Gambling typically relies more heavily on luck, whereas betting can be influenced by a person's expertise or an analytical approach.

Betting is a form of gambling; gambling isn't a form of betting. To make things a little clearer, from how I see things, the difference is due to etymological reasons, not because there's much difference between these two words. You're betting on sports, betting over who's going to win the game; thus, sport's betting, but you can't call it sports gambling; that doesn't make too much sense, does it? They are similar words to describe the act of gambling, but their usage depends on your form of gambling.

It is that from the first moment we are in a casino it is already a decision making, the fact of putting money to play is a decision making under which we know that that money can be lost, and from there we only have to accept what can pass, there is no need to complicate anything, for everything we can do I believe that the best thing is to bet on sports, because in the Lao sports that they know the most they are the ones that win the most, when I bet on big games, when they play in countries, for example for the World Cup, for the Euro Cup, for me all of these are games that Represent high betting rates, what is difficult for me to predict is the final score, I can say who can win, but the score is something for more experts.

Betting is an activity within the gambling.

You want to gamble? Place your bet.

It's quite weird to use the terms, 'casino betting or sports gambling' because from my own layman understanding, gambling involves a person's actions of taking risk while betting only involves placing a wager or staking a sum of money all in the hope to make some profit from the outcome of an event that is totally unpredictable.
Gambling is more action oriented, hence the risk level involved, whereas, betting is more of a decision based involvement, the result of the outcome has little to do with the amount staked on ones predictions.

Gambling and Betting are both different, words but similar.
Gambling involves more risk than betting. Gambling involves risking a certain amount on an event which the outcome is unknown (uncertain) without any clue whereas Betting involves risking on an event based on your predictions on odds  present and the skill or performance of the team or player.

Gambling involves a wide range of games ( events) mostly poker, casinos, but Betting is specific and relates about a particular game.

Gambling is staking your money and expect to win by chance but in Betting skills are involved, especially in Football Betting we use our skills and also past performance of teams to make our predictions this gives a clear point about what Betting means.

I think the distinction is logical and important for people to be clear on what kind of activity they are going to partake in. You know.
There will be people who would not like to completely go in with the gambling budget and gamble all their money away in some casino games like blackjack or slots. I have the idea much of the people who try to avoid casino games do so, because they are aware of their low chances to profit out of them. On the other hand, in betting one is not directly going against the house, so there are more chances to profit out betting, in the case one knows what one is doing and the intuition of one is good enough to increase the changes of success.

Whatever the preferences on those topics, it is okey to make a clear distinction.

On a side note, I have got more accumulated wager on casino games than sport betting, I never considered myself to be as sharp as others to correctly guess matches. 

The distinction between gambling and betting often hinges on the level of skill or knowledge involved. Gambling typically involves games of chance, while betting often involves predicting outcomes based on some level of analysis or information, such as in sports betting.

Seriously, this actually needs to be explained.

 The issue begins with the fact that you have flaws with the semantics of the words, and that leads to the grammar itself.

Since, in our academic preparation we are taught language, spelling and grammar, and with that having a clear understanding of our language we can understand it.

This is an example that you can extend to many activities of daily life, which use similar nouns.

Now, I think that's where your confusion comes from, since nouns are accompanied by adjectives to give meaning to the sentence, so one of the reasons why you fall into that elementary school boy confusion is that you didn't go to school or it's a matter of your language or culture.

But in any case, the noun casino, or sport becomes an adjective (or vice versa) the moment you use it, depending on how you are expressing yourself.

So, in the jargon, or Anglo-Saxon grammar, this differentiation is important and binding to the action in relation to the differentiation of the fact in a casino or sports betting.  Hence, its use for grammar or slang in the corresponding niche.

I sincerely think that you are not a native speaker of English or your culture uses another type of jargon, it could also be that you do not have the slightest idea of what a chance bet and a sports bet are in their mathematical principles.

In short, it makes more sense to have asked the difference between "bettor and gambler", since these in themselves define the previous point, in fact they are similar but very different in the individual as such.

Betting on a competition is different from gambling in a casino, but both still falls under the same thing to me, they are both called gambling because you can't see what the outcome will be, and you are to use money hoping for the result to be just as you predicted.

This to me feels like something no one should rely on, since you can't always be right you should be more serious with your jobs than to gamble, and risk only what you can afford to lose, gambling only makes sense if you can get fun out of it.

The only reason why i still gamble is because I make some money when I dont expect and I also enjoy some games and they keep me busy on my free hours.

I don't think there's much difference between both, because they almost play same roles,you can bet on sports and still gamble on games which are on same vein, nevertheless they are both experiencing predictions and staking..
But I want to say this as I may see it that when you talk about betting it also literally means gambling cause your spending a particular amount you may have for fun or chances of winning but then when you talk about gambling it's the core factor here,and it involves a lot like loosing,lucks,winnings and so on so there's no big deal about any distinction between the both,they are all just a game of excitement and fun.

Often, the "betting" versus "gambling" distinction seems unnecessary. Sports betting seems more methodical, like predicting the winner with data. Casino gaming is luck-based. iIts about risk and reward. Chance always exists.

Presentation makes the difference. "Casino gambling" may seem unsavory. "Sports betting" sounds better - strategic, knowledgeable, almost like investing. However, betting on red or your favorite team is still a gamble.

Stop worrying about language. Both are about excitement, tremendous wins, and losses. "Betting" and "gambling" are important, but smartness and recognizing your limitations are crucial. Being responsible at the casino or watching the game is crucial. Its fun to take risks, right?

you're absolutely right. There isn't any big difference between gambling and betting  only that one is kind of related to sports betting and the other to casino gambling by the process are all the same and the aim is all centered at trying out your luck to see if your predictions are going to be correct or not. Either you can it gambling or betting, at the end of the day, you will end up placing your money to guarantee that you've actually placed a bet or gambled to win something in return

Both means that you're wagering and that means gambling, betting, or if there are some other term used for that.

Your example is right mate, you bet and casinos use the term and when it's about in general description and explanation of what a gambler should do, they're using the term gambling.

And I hope that OP won't get confused with it as there's no need to dig that much with the meaning of both.

Even in casinos, they use the word bet, like they say no more bets accepted, or please put your bets now.. With sports, that's the same, we do bet but it's on  bookie and it's automated, but you are right, it's all the same. OP just trying to make things clear on his mind but since it's both gambling, both also have the same risk.

Indeed mate

Once you say gambling its already bounds the word betting because you can play a game without any wages, or you are just an expectation in that game, in terms of betting this could be independent not to have gambling because sometimes betting you are just having a bet without a return this happens but most of the time people doing bet because they want to have a gains against their opponent, seems like those are the difference of those two.

I don't want to put so much of things to think of when they're obviously just the same. Whatever term you use, they're both having the same meaning.

So don't stress out with that.

If you say that you're sports gambling, sports betting or casino betting or casino gambling. Do they have the same meaning?

Yes, they do. And that's why it's nonsense to think of their meaning when you actually do them and whatever term you use, you do it.

Lol...You know what? One thing I've learned in life is that, at times, the more you look, the less you see, and the more you seek, the more you confuse yourself. Why not take it simple, for you not to get yourself confused? Next time, I advise you to visit your dictionary for the words that are misleading to you, and not Google to avoid random and unverified teachings, except you would use Google's dictionary, which will still serve the same purpose.

Frankly, betting and gambling are the same thing, there can't be a controversy here, because Betting is a form of Gambling. When you gamble, you bet on something, and when you bet on something, you are actually gambling. The two are even more than synonyms, they are the same thing that fits a sentence or write-up differently. Do not let sports betting and casinos deceive you, it's not a big deal to silence the betting in casino labelling.

As a matter of fact, gamblers are betting on games of choice in casinos.

Gambling is all about luck.

Betting is also all about luck.

They both have two sides to their results, it's either you win or you lose, it smells risky all around, so therefore, it is still a gamble.

By the way, what will this differentiate do to gamblers? I don't get, it's not as if there is a strategy to betting or to gambling here that we need to learn, it is simply a waste of time.

It's better to think more about how much you will be willing to lose than win, always risk only what you can afford to lose and that's all.

To me casino gambling is associated with diverses of gaming activities while sports bets are specifically sport activities which is not associated with other games such as the cards, poker or in general the electronics and the video games including the lottery games in the Casinos games of which it does not determine the winner by the teams as it maybe in the sport games but of personal skills situated on the casino games.

Well, I have always believed this two words have a distinction, and I've always tried my best to apply this this differences in my posts and comments, I personally have always believe gambling to be more related to playing casino and slot games, which we do generally refer to as games of luck, or game of chances.

While on the other hand, I've always tried to relate anything like betting to sports, price predictions of currencies, like predicting what price bitcoin will be trading at; at a certain period or time, this is betting.

So, in essence, or in the nutshell, we can say that betting is when we predict the outcome of a sports match, or just about anything, and stake some money on that our predicted outcome, which we stand to lose just at the end, that thing end up not turning out the way we predicted it.
While gambling, we can refer to this as staking on games where we get the result or outcome in real live mode, or in just about a second or two, example, like casino games and slot machines, where I click a button this second, and by next second, we get to know whether we won or not.

when we refer to gambling, we usually refer to activities in casinos, for example poker, slots and other games, because in general gambling is an activity where someone risks something to get money from something that is uncertain and in short term. meanwhile, when we say betting, it usually refers to a sportsbook, where someone has an agreement with the bookmaker to place their predictions on a match, and usually this will involve analysis and later the winner will get money. however, on several occasions, many gamblers incorrectly mention these two things, and say that betting is the same as gambling, yeah that is wrong but usually it is not too much of a problem.

It makes sense because if you break down the word to sentence usage;

-I made a bet.
It kind of indicates that a quick action was taken.

- I gambled.
It kind of indicates a slower action taken that involved some skills.

Maybe I am just overthinking again

Both the same but I guess if you are betting on a 5000-1 longshot you are technically gambling more than if you bet on a 2-1 favorite. Slots are a total gamble as well, where a game such as blackjack has a skill factor in it. Maybe that's the difference? A game with or without skill involved determines the difference?

In my estimation, this is just semantics. Betting and gambling can be used interchangeably depending on the context and the audience. Why it looks like there is a distinction is because it has been used over time. When I play slots, I wager some money on it which is also betting. When I go to the physical bet shop to bet on a weekend match, I tell them that I am there to gamble.

They may sound different or defined different but in general, they are all gambling. The only difference between  them is that betting deals with sports while gambling deals with casino games and many others that fits in. So no matter which you prefer to play, you will still be a gambler there's no word like better. Gambling or betting It still depends much on your luck weather you will win or not that's how it all works.

Sports betting is a niche in the gambling industry, but when someone says gambling, what comes to mind is the traditional casino gambling with games like poker, blackjack, roulette, etc. Lottery and bingo games are also considered gambling, but they aren't hardcore gambling, just a really modest version of gambling. You have to bear in mind that traditional gambling is way older than sports betting, maybe that's why many people make a distinction between the two. Personally I put sports betting somewhere between old school casino gambling and the lottery/bingo/keno games.

This is about the little difference in the kind of mode of the game like in sports, we are talking about teams in competition and so it will be convenient to use betting on for it to say this is what will happen at the end and we attach money to it or a condition to it to be sacrificed by the other gambler especially in offline gambling. But in casino it is more like an individual with the house game and so that is where the difference come as gambling to win the house on the game it has presented. However, the act for both is gambling because they involve staking of money.

Your explanation matches my instincts. I was thinking same thing. Both are thesame just as you have said that placing a bet for the sole purpose of getting something in return also also applicable when we gamble on casino. The sole porpos of gambling is for fun and making money in return so whichever way, all are thesame. Gambling and betting are same thing just depends on how people sees it.

As for me, I actually sees it as the same thing, just that what separate their comparison is that in sport betting, since both teams are playing against each other, you can use the expression that you are betting on this or that particular team to win.

While in the casino, their is no competition between any team, or anybody, but both of them are still gambling to me, since it all have the same attributes, because you can get addicted by any of them, and to be frank, I sees all of them as gambling, wether football, basketball, tennis or casino 

I think both would fell on the same industry, because casino and sportsbook belong to the gambling industry.

They may be called differently but what we are doing is just gambling. Betting and gambling, that's the same IMO.
Nothing to complicate here, just take it simple, and instead, spend that time finding a way to win in gambling, not it's meaning or anything. 

Gambling is the general term use when you are risking money while betting is the specific term when you place a money on any gambling platform. Therefore you can categorize betting as form of gambling.

You can use the word bet on any gambling games including casino games or sportsbook. Betting is not exclusive to sportsbook alone.

Lastly, it’s not weird to say casino betting you place bets on any casino games, it’s just typically being mention on sportsbook because they just incorporate betting on sports that’s why it’s called sports betting or rather betting on sports.

You will often hear the casino dealer says “Please place your bets” or “Bets are close, no more bets” therefore it’s being use on casino either.

Gambling pertains about putting up some money to earn money or simply it is really just that in overall the same concept that you are betting on something to win something.
It do really just turns out that betting is really that commonly be considered or use in sports betting rather than the term used when you do deal up with those things rather than on casino games.
If we do really tend to dig throughly or something that in-depth understanding then it is really just that all the same and this is something just in default. Why do bother if betting and gambling is just the same?
Of course as long money is involved then you are really that risking up your money to win money. It do only differs on how its been done because sports betting and casino games are totally different to each other.

The difference between sports betting and random casino games is that in betting you can do at least some analysis and at least somehow predict the outcome of the match, but in random casino games the outcome of the game is completely random and therefore completely unpredictable. Based on this, in sports betting there is a small percentage of people who are profitable in the long term, and in casino games such as dice or roulette there are no people who are profitable in the long term. Therefore, it makes no sense to play dice or roulette, counting on long-term winnings. I can theoretically admit that there are such phenomenal people who can be long-term profitable at roulette, but my mind refuses to believe it.

Gambling is the general term, if you look at the definition of gambling in Google, it says there that you're wagering something of value on a random event with the intent of winning of winning something else of value, those are the exact word for word on the first result which means that gambling is the term and betting is just a type of gambling. Betting is still wagering of value to a not so random event because it depends on who's the likely winner since there's skills involved but still, it's still totally random as underdog winnings can still happen, that's why they god odds right? If you really want to specify the distinction, maybe you can put betting as a subtype of another subtype and that subtype being the not so totally random subtype. I don't know the reason for the need for the distinction though, I don't even believe you can even get confused because one is an activity (betting) and the other is what you call that activity (gambling).

It's just the same. It may be that betting is more associated with sports betting, but betting is a general term that refers to making a bet. And that's what you do in all of gambling, whether it's sports betting or dice, crash, poker, slots, etc. They're all gambling and for you to be able to join or play and get a chance to win, the main thing that you need to do is to bet. In the context of gambling, to bet is the same as to gamble. Betting and gambling mean the same thing.

Well, OP, you already searched for the difference between gambling and betting, so you should already know the difference between them and the meaning of each of them. Gambling is more on games that can be seen in casinos, baccarat, slot games, and many more games that originated in casinos, and they are games that require staking of money in order to play, while betting is where you are staking money on "someone" or a team, meaning your winnings depend on a person or an animal. In sports betting, you will bet on a certain team on who will win, or in boxing, you will bet on a person that you think will win. In example, in horse racing, you will bet on a specific horse you think will win.

See the difference now? In gambling games, you will be the one that determines your winnings because you will be the one that plays, while in betting, you will bet on someone that you think will make you win.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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?