Topic: gambling for fun vs gambling for the financial benefit. - page 17. (Read 2317 times)

I see gambling just for fun, I do this because I also happen to like the sport of football. By betting it will make me watch football in a special way. But of course you hope there will be a profit from what you bet, it's also strange if you bet but don't expect anything financially when you win. but still under control.

I don't play every day so I don't know exactly how much I spend, I only play football on the weekends because of football matches. If I calculate it roughly, I only spent $30 on fun gambling.

Everyone gambles of course hoping to win money, but most lose. This mostly refers to people playing casino games such as slots, table games, wheel games, or poker. Sportsbettors are kind of in a different category to me.

You gamble to have fun and should consider whatever money you took to the casino to gamble with, gone. If you come home with money, you did ok. You're not going to beat the casino for thousands every night. They'll tell you to take your business elsewhere if you did. They have the right to refuse your business.

If you are losing thousands period, it went from fun to real unless you just have millions and just don't care.

I disagree with this assertion. My humble submission is that gambling cannot be an ONLY source of income but it can be a source of income. By interpretation, only source of income connotes total reliance on a particular activity for livelihood whereas source of income connotes that it is only a channel for generating income and not a total dependence on it.

I am into sports betting, I only gamble on weekends and my concern is getting 2odds and I can boost that I am on a winning trek. Now consider that I stake $1000 on 2odds that is, $1000 x 2 is $2000. So, I am making $1000 almost every weekend. Is that not a source of income? But then, I don't rely on it for survival since I have a job devoid of risk and unpredictability which are the ingredients of gambling.





This is not the case. If you think the youths are making gambling their only source of income where do they get their staking power? Most of these youths have miniature jobs which give them money but their quest for mega money is what is luring them into gambling. I have never seen a person who is 100% dependent on gambling, whether rich or poor because in the end these gamblers always find sustainable means of livelihood. If we think people depend 100% on gambling for survival, how do they feed or survive when they don't win? This is a critical question because they don't always win.

I will not be a hypocrite here. Of course, I do want to win some money first. That's the goal. Next to it is trying to have some fun. Just like your example, I also bet in sports and that is to boost the entertainment factor of my preferred sport. But, I do hate it when the team I am betting for is losing especially while I am watching the game. I actually use curse words because I am drawn to the game and I badly want them to win because my money is on the line.
Some may not understand that but the way I see it, the sport becomes a little boring when no bet has been made.

When higher bets are on the line. For me, that takes out the fun.
Even though I still want to win, I want to keep a moderate amount that I can still tolerate even if I lose. I don't like stress because it also affects our health. I'd like an amount that even if it's losing, I can still sleep soundly at night. There are a lot of high rollers out there but we don't need to mimic them, we can just put in money that we can afford.
In my case, I am not in a rush. Many seasons will come and many games will happen in the industry of sport. We can bet for decades and just have fun with it.

It's not a matter of seeing gambling as mostly for fun or whatever, but what I really think is that any individual who loves gambling should not see gambling as a profession or an occupation that can give them a very comfortable and sustainable income. I don't really think that the essence of developing  gambling is for bettors to make money (although gamblers can make some lucky wins, which could be huge too, but not too often). Online gambling is a business set up by individuals like you and me with the aim of making profit from their business, and they usually do make a lot of profit from gamblers  losses.


Everybody always makes their own decision about how they want to handle gambling. If you handle it for fun, then only risk what you can afford to lose. If you handle it as an income source, then experience will teach you the next action to take.

Yeah, you just accept the reality that with your hopes of making a lot of money through gambling and it doesn't happen with several attempts then you just sit and realize that this ain't the way bro. You have to make yourself find something better if you're for the financial benefit and gain that you've been trying to do. But as you've developed your gambling habit already, you change your way and reason but the habit remains and so with that it becomes the way to have fun.

Trust be told, most of us come into gambling for the very first time with the hopes that, we could win often. The financial benefits becomes the drag but after a lot of failed attempts at a win, you begin to understand that, the markets and odds out there are out to get you. You might win, it’s possible but, not often.
Having that conclusion, you begin to reorientate yourself and check your habits about gambling. Win it comes to fun and financial benefits, the financial benefits always comes first but when you just can’t make it, your attitude towards acceptance should always be, “what the hell” “some days are like that”. Be good!

Maybe it can be treated the same because both have their own risks and gambling will also be related to luck.

Betting on a sports match will give me entertainment and also profit if the team I support wins.
And it's not just about winning, but I enjoy the game, winning or losing is normal.

As you said, we will learn new things when starting to bet,
this will be quite an amazing experience and can improve the strategy and analysis that will be done.

The majority here will say that it's just for fun but those that have been living off through gambling and became experts on it then will say the opposite.

I have no idea. Just as the typical amounts that I'm good to lose because if I get serious on it, I don't know where I'll be picking up myself if ever the plan doesn't go well.

And with that, I don't want that to happen to myself so it's random amount and depending on the mood if I have to gamble. My mind changes from time to time so, really have no figure at all.

This is seriously common with some future traders. I have a friend who usually lose to future trading which I introduced sport gambling to. He goes against it has he said it's a serious gambling where one can easily get addicted. But he never see himself getting addicted to future trading where he loses and still continue to play hoping to make profit soon. I don't see reasons why we should marked gambling as being bad if we can trade crypto without fear.

And aside the fun money is also involve at the same time because no body will tell me that when they gamble they don't expect anything in return, everything about life is risky and we all know how gambling works and getting money from it is not a really bad idea for me. Since as it is everyone is just trying to survive. And I gamble because I want money from it even if i don't win every time but at least I still enjoy playing and being expectant that I might get lucky with a win and if I don't I continue untill I will get my next win and that is how you get money from it.

That the truth if I should gamble all my attention willbe the money i will win from it i don't usually have any business with the selected games. Money is important. And if I should lose any ticket it pains me to the extent I will look very unhappy but with time I will losing up later and still check for games later and see if I could choose and bet on anyone. People usually say trading is dangerous but my problem they always see everything wrong with does that enjoy gambling. And I will continue to say this their are people that are benefactors of gambling.

The gambler who doing the gambling was mostly to make the money,only the rich people use the gambling as the entertainment one.The most of the thread discussed not to take the gambling as livelihood,but the gamblers had the good gambling strategy can able to make the difference between the poor and rich gamblers.The gamblers who are ready to entertain by just watching other people games,they can do the watch of their friends game instead of spending money additionally on their game.The gamblers who want to make money can able to play the game in the real world so can multiple their money in the gambling site.

If you are planning to get some financial top up from gambling, then you might end up losing the amount you are having that you want to top up. When gambling, there is no assurance that you are going to win, so anything can happen at any moment. You have equal chances of winning and losing, and if you are gambling for financial top up, then you might end up being addicted to gambling at any moment. That's why we should be careful when gambling, and we shouldn’t be desperate to make money from gambling.

The same thing happens in my neighborhood, most of the youths now take gambling as a source of income. There are some people that don’t have jobs, and they depend on gambling for survival. Some of them will wake up and head to a physical gambling shop, where they will spend the rest of the day, which doesn’t make any sense to me. Why will you make gambling your only source of income? But what I notice is that all of them are addicted to gambling, some of them do crazy things just because they want to gamble.

LOL very good joke   or I should say "funny" lmao. More seriously, it could also be fun to try to win money even if you fail. In trading most people lose money and nobody say it's dangerous, it can destroy your life, traders have to be extremly cautious, it can lead to addiction, etc. So I think gambling should at least not be treated in a worse way than that. And betting on events is usually more funny and interesting because it leads you to be involved and to learn things that you would have not even heard about if you haven't bet on this event.

I personally, I don't get in this act often, I only place bet when I have the money but if there's no money at the moment I will withdraw. The little time have observed about people who spend their whole day in a casino shop; they're jobless people who don't have anything to do and seeing them their makes me think they gamble for the money, that's my thought towards those people.
When you're talking about financial end we're actually referring to source of income like where you get your daily money from and gambling can never serve as a daily end so there's no need for this agurment, you only win a bet when it's your lucky day and not always so it can never be a source of income, observe people who take gambling so serious as a lifetime job, then you make your conclusion if gambling can be a source of income.  

I have always understand gambling as an unpredictable and risky game which has made me never to think of to depend in gambling for financial support.  I think gambling should be played just to have fun and never to take it serious to make steady income from it. The mindset of how people see gambling really matters a lot , when their is a wrong mindset toward gambling you will just assume that gambling can be a form of gaining financial support. Since gambling is a game of lose and win, this should be the reason why people need to be careful with manner how they gambling because anything can happen. Their is no guarantee that winning will take place in every in gambling,  this is why gambling needs to be considered as a game of fun.

In my case, I bet on sports for fun and also to make money and extend my gaming time. for example, when I deposit 20$ at the casino and I know that those 20$ are for 1 month and I won't put in more money if I lose before another month starts, so I make a lot of effort so that with each bet I make, I can get it right and make a profit, because in my opinion, although gambling should be seen as fun, this does not mean that a person should keep putting money in casinos and play games that he knows nothing about and lose. I don't see things that way, in my opinion people should value their money, and one way to value their money is that when they deposit money in a casino

Even if they get it into their heads that the money they are depositing in the casino is to have fun, they still have to work hard to win more and that money becomes bigger, no one likes to lose, say that someone lost 20 games and won nothing and this person had fun, I think it's absurd. So people play to win, even if they don't win money, winning is something rewarding and in casinos we all look for victories, consequently when we win a lot the money in our account increases considerably. There's nothing wrong with people playing games thinking about making money, the problem will be if the person keeps playing too much to the point of forgetting that there is life in the real world and that you shouldn't use money to pay bills and put it into games . If the person has discipline and good bankroll management, then the person can play thinking about making a profit and there will be no problem.

Many people are contradictory gambling and also gambling is something that we don't do without having the thought of benefiting from it whoever that said gambling is for entertainment or gambling is for fun I think that person is misquoting gambling because the average use that participate in gambling almost everyday and the every hour they do so because they want to benefit they need money that is why whenever they lose in gambling they became pissed off or upset whosoever that said by it plays gambling because of fun I think that person is lying or he's saying on true for people who participate and also acknowledge gambling as a source of revenue

Exactly! Many people are being hyprocrites or gamblers, saying they are doing gambling just for fun so they can't be called addicted or hoping for financial benefit from gambling. Honestly, I would say I'm not hoping to win in a gamble as long as I'm enjoying it, because I don't want to hope and expect so that it wouldn't hurt if, for instance, I still don't win anything at the end of the day. But it's not that I waste money for fun or entertainment; I allocated a budget wherein no matter what happens in my gambling session, that money will not affect my financial state, more like that money is meant for gambling, so either I win or not, it doesn't matter.

Of course I'm a human too; sometimes I feel frustration, but it's normal. As long as I can maintain myself by using only the allocated money from Ganblin, it's alright. So yeah, gambling can be both fun and a financial benefit; it will depend on the gamblers how they implement it for themselves.

If I put more than I've budgeted then I don't find fun anymore in gambling except such game is won and then I can say the risk was worth it therby bringing the fun back so at that point the fun is dependent on the outcome of the game I had played earlier, anything so at that point I don't consider gambling just fun but business.

I personally see gambling both as fun and for financial to up and this is relative to what's at risk at the moment but then I still make sure not to take unnecessary risk so as not to get to the point of depression or been sad due to losses I suffer from the loss is any of the game just Incas I lose any of such games. But then I make sure to to be too financially dependent on the exception of the gambling proceeds but rather gamble for fun more often than I do for the financial benefits but it's still doesn't take away the expectancies.