Topic: Gambling as an escape - page 10. (Read 4114 times)

Unfortunately most gamblers do not know that in the long run the casino will be more profitable and not the gamblers, as we often hear where many people say that we play on the casino's advantage and also as we know that the casino is the one who created all the games there which I think is very reasonable if indeed in the long run the casino will be more profitable than the gamblers who will only get wins occasionally.

As you said that gambling is actually nothing more than a place to have fun when we are bored, the reason is clear that we never know when the win will come which means there is no consistency in terms of results and of course anything that does not have a guarantee to produce always cannot be used as a place to produce.

That's what is feared, someone who gambles in a stable state at first can forget the limits, especially if someone whose mind or mental state is unstable then gambles, I think this is very vulnerable to making the situation even more messy. We know that addiction will occur when we make the wrong decision or take the wrong step, an unstable state of self allows us to make decisions without considering it, therefore it is better not to make gambling an escape because the risk is quite guaranteed in my opinion.
It's good for us to think about the future in the short or long term, remember that when addiction has occurred it will be difficult to get out of that circle, addiction can occur in a fairly long period of time and of course this is something that is detrimental not beneficial.

We must allocate some money to playing gambling so we don't use too much money and spends all of that money just to playing gambling. We can not risk the money especially when we have many things to fills so we must allocate the money that we can afford to lose. If we use gambling as an escape, we may forget to limits ourselves and there is a chance for us to use too much money to playing gambling and difficult to control the money. Besdes that, we also have a chance to become addicted to gambling in the long term if we really lose control every time we playing gambling.

We can use gambling but not for escape for anything because the risk will be bigger than we can thought. It is better we use gambling for have fun and always use limitation to control ourselves from the big lose. We will not want to see the lose becomes big so we must stick to our rules and will not let us getting deeper in gambling.

I feels that because I have similar experienced before. But I realize that gambling is just an activity to release our stress and refresh our minds from our daily routine. We can playing some gambling games without having intention to chase the winning because we realize that will make us lose too much money. We don't want that happens to us so we always use limitation to guard us from the big loss. When we can use gambling with right, we will not have a problem from the big lose while we can enjoy our time to playing gambling. We can not have a big expectation from gambling because gambling will not give us the win money easily without spending for some money.

Gambling is not a long term strategy it can be a temporary strategy and gamblers get very limited value from their experience. I use strategy when gambling and by long term planning here I mean limiting allocations and having fun. Entertainment is essential for people and if you are always busy with daily activities then there may be chances of mental breakdown so you should find peace of mind through gambling. Yes thinking of ways to make money can be a big wrong decision for gamblers but sometimes you can win a big bet. Recognizing that most of the chances of losing when gambling are within yourself can help you avoid becoming addicted and even reduce the tendency to lose more money.

Yes, that's right, as you said a gambler uses a long-term means of making money from gambling even though he has a good strategy and experience. the losses and regrets that will come behind cannot be avoided by every professional gambler. The idea is that gambling is just a place to have fun for a while, not to make money, but rather a place to get rid of boredom. In gambling, winning is not by strategy but by luck and it doesn't happen more than once.

It's impossible for any gambler to use gambling as sustainable means for a long time even if he has a good strategy, because your strategy will only work temporarily and losses will come after. It's better that a gambler does not rely solely on making profit from gambling, because the purpose of gambling is for fun and it is more on luck than any strategy or skill. For this reason bankroll management is very important so that you can limit your losses, because losses are inevitable.

Yes, as I said before, responsibility in gambling depends on how someone deals with gambling and also depends on how they understand gambling, so we cannot fully know whether someone is truly responsible or not because often it is not visible but if you want to know then you can see how they react when they lose.
On the other hand, of course it is unreasonable to expect consistent wins in gambling, there are no consistent results in an activity that runs based on probability, and because we always advise others to make gambling a place of entertainment without making winning a priority.

I think a more appropriate idea is not to make gambling an escape but to make it a choice or option that you do considering that escape tends to always be a form of action to vent anger, and for the problem of its impact it depends on how you approach it.

Yeah, when/I go we begin to see gambling as more than this, it becomes a problem for us, making us to welcome and accommodate other ideas on how to approach gambling, which of course we already know where all that ends. But when we realize that gambling is only an activity to help us relieve stress and refresh our minds probably after a long day, then we’ll be able to know just the appropriate amount of time and money that needs to go into gambling, because gambling won’t be fun anymore when we start losing more time and money than expected.

This should indeed be done, because by allocating money that we can afford to lose it is one of the right behaviors because if we are not previously prepared to lose the money we bet then it will be another story that will happen, when we are not prepared to lose it is possible that what will happen is that emotions will overflow when the results that occur do not match what we expected at the beginning, of course this triggers dangerous behavior such as loss of self-control.
Therefore, I myself do not recommend making gambling an escape from the many problems we experience, because this can trigger unwanted things as well as we know that this is a thing that has a serious risk when we make the wrong decision. In addition, I think that even though we can control ourselves well when gambling, we should not make gambling an escape, because there are also many other things that can be done which of course have lower risks.

Placing a bet with the money we can afford to lose is one thing that we must always remember so we can prevent the big loss. But many people forget this and just follow their instinct to place with more money. They think that playing gambling can be an escape to them from what they do so they can return to their daily activities after finish playing gambling. But that can gives them more problem because when they lose for some money, their minds will thinks about recovering their losses. That can makes them to keep playing gambling without stop and they will just regret when they see all of their money is gone. That is why we must be wisely when playing gambling and always remember that our reason for playing gambling is not as an escape from our routine activities but that will be just for relax and have fun for a while.

That will just gives them more problem without they realize because they will risk more and more money without thinks that can make them lose all of the money. They will difficult to get out from gambling and will gets addicted to gambling without knowing that they are one of the addicted person to gambling. It needs awareness from us to realize that gambling is just parts of our life and must not use gambling as an escape way. We know that gambling can tempt us easily to keeps playing gambling so we must be careful and always remember that we are playing gambling because we want to have fun. Yes, limitation will be the key for us to keeps aware and not trying to playing gambling more and more.

Yes, that is something that we must remember when we playing gambling so we don't have to gets more stresses and losing all of the money. We don't want to gets the same experience like other people which is lose the money so we must take care of ourselves and not lets the temptation calling us to return to casino. That is why we don't have to think gambling is an escape way from our daily activities because that will gives us more problems without we realizes. We can only use gambling as a way to have fun and enjoy our spare time so we can release the stresses and refresh our minds.

Gambling is not just a bad way out of depression or boredom. It is literally the same as running down a hill. Yes, of course it is always fun to spend huge amounts of money and reassure yourself that there is a chance to win. But can money really bring happiness to a person in this case? I don't think so. It is not for nothing that statistics are full of stories about lucky people who won the lottery becoming even more unhappy because of money. And I believe that this is true.

Of course, you can consider this issue in this way. By analogy with substitution therapy. This is used to treat drug addiction. Only in our example, a person wants to hide not from addiction, but from conditional grief. Will he be able to drown out his feelings and distract himself from them with gambling? Maybe. In the case of conversion to religion, this is guaranteed. Although, of course, a lot depends on the person himself.

One of the main mistakes on why people do really end up miserable with gambling on which they do really that believe on that this is something that they could really be able to sustain themselves.
This is the reason on why they do really put up themselves into hard situation specially on finances. On the moment that you do find yourself trying out to make gambling as a form of living
then you are really that bound into that inevitable thing on which losing up that huge amount of money. Gambling could really be that something that trying out to ease up some boredom
or simply escape from reality but it will really be just that like that and dont expect something that even more because this will really be just that make you desperate.

The point is if the money you called extra bucks are what you can not afford to lose, then there is no need for you to risk it on gambe because if you lose them all you will chase after it, and you might probably lose more or be in depts. However, a lot of gamblers (mostly the new gamblers) believed that gamble is were they can get quick and free money that's why they mostly put all their hopes on their tickets. Although gamble is for fun and you might probably win from it but the truth is that you do not need to put your hope on the games you stake.

But what if these troubles are connected with lack of money and boredom (nothing to do)?

The only thing that can help a person escape from adversity is a re-focus of attention/activity. This can be religion, alcohol, gambling or anything. It all depends on the degree of passion for this type of activity. The issue of "destructive" hobbies, such as alcohol and gambling, is a separate topic for discussion. But purely theoretically, gambling is suitable for solving the problem of "escape". This is far from the best solution, but still, it works and in order to "endure" one problem, sometimes you have to create another. Like walking on the fine line of gambling, balancing between passion and winnings, as well as addiction and losses.

From stress, grief and failures, one should turn not to gambling or alcohol or even drugs, but to religion. It just seems like an anachronism to many in the modern world, but this is the only thing that can really help a person. Gambling is entertainment, adrenaline, a chance to win a large sum of money, but definitely not a refuge from adversity.

Back to each person individually in dealing with gambling and maybe control will be formed when they prepare themselves much more responsibly in spending money in gambling. Expecting consistent wins in gambling is impossible and that's why it takes control in handling emotions to be more responsible. There is no hope of making money consistently in gambling so getting involved in it is much better just for fun.

People say escape from the gambling they are doing but they don't realize that it will actually cause problems. Gambling must be in accordance with the prepared budget and you can control yourself to stop when the budget runs out, so that people can be more responsible for the gambling they do.

I think the take home point should be, never use gambling as your ONLY means of escape from stress or boredom. I used this term because sometimes, gambling can actually be a pretty good and effective way to relieve stress, but not when you make it habitual and an everyday activity one should still have other ways to relieve stress or clear your head so that you won’t have to always depend on gambling for that, because when one dedicates too much time to gambling, it then begins to get really difficult to control one’s self and that’s how addictive gambling starts. So it’s better to avoid it than sorting for means to quit it.

I used to use gambling as an escape from reality. I also went through a period of gambling addiction, a time when I was incredibly irrational and considered gambling as a source of constant income (and not as entertainment).

Now all this is in the past. Yes, I still love to re-watch the James Bond movie "Casino Royale". I like the atmosphere of a traditional casino, men in tailcoats, charming girls in cocktail dresses, serious and silent dealers, the atmosphere of luxury and wealth.... I am still as romantic as before!

However, in relation to online casinos I maintain a pragmatic approach, I carefully study all the terms of the game and gambling for me is no longer an escape from reality.

Yes, that is a common misconception held by most gamblers, especially beginners, which in the end, this misunderstanding is certain to trigger addiction, so in the end, instead of getting the income they expect, what happens is the opposite, meaning they actually lose a lot of money, and in fact, even though they have various preparations as you have mentioned, such as strategy, risk management and the size of each bet, gambling can never be used as a place to earn income.

To multiply money, yes, it is possible, but only occasionally when you are lucky and in the long run, the situation will usually reverse, meaning that the number of losses is usually much greater than the wins, so get rid of all unrealistic expectations in gambling, it will only have a lot of bad impacts on your life.