Topic: Gambling is not a steady income haven - page 26. (Read 4000 times)

It might be difficult to help cure them, but we have to keep trying because he needs help from others to escape his gambling addiction. Maybe we can talk to him privately to find out how bad his gambling addiction is so we can figure out where to start. After that, we can ask for help from professionals if we really don't find a way and while accompanying him to visit professionals, we must be able to convince him that we will not leave him.

But we also can't force him to cure his gambling addiction when he refuses our help and chooses to be alone. But we might be able to seek other help from the people around him so that they give their attention to that person so that he can accept our explanation that he has a gambling addiction and must be cured immediately.

If his family still has great care and always gives the best then he will definitely trust his family even though he is a gambling addict.
It all depends on what and who is doing it because gambling addicts actually still have a sense of trust in the people closest to them.
Yes, gambling addiction comes from oneself as well as the recovery of gambling addiction also comes from the mind of an addict himself.
If the thoughts and beliefs of an addict are still able to think about the people around them such as family and relatives then he can still heal on his own, but all of that requires time and support so he can't have it instantly.

If you needs a steady means of income flow then try not to limit yourself only to gambling, there are other things you can get engaged doing that will source more income to you, but if you already feels you've got enough to be coming in for you in gambling and is enough to make a living then you can embrace the risk but just that it's not always advisible to put all eggs on the same basket, we must have more than one steady means to flow of income in case of unforseen circumstances.

It's not, you are definitely correct. It just leads to chaos in terms of financially and mentally. Stressful days will certainly happen and this means you are forgetting the daily needs of your body. Exercise, healthy food, and so on. Then you start feeling depressed about how bad your luck is when you keep on losing until you finally lost all your money.
There's no such thing as a steady income in gambling, the gamblers must remember it is just something to add excitement to their hobbies and should not be like a daily basis duty. When I look at the chatbox at Stake.com, I always see people who are telling the site is rigged just because they lost their bet. That's the start of addiction when you blame it all on the gambling site itself even though we all know it's our fault for being too greedy or chasing our losses.

I think most who take gambling consider it as a job and others just pure leisure and if by chance luck do hit on them, they become rich in it, though it's likely hitting a moon with stick or a rare case. I think I agree on that since most gamblers are likely keeping it on themselves and they tend to stick to the habit and they got addicted. I wonder who are in their right mind that thinks gambling is a way to have an steady income, literally it is not.

So, where do their money come from if they were not even having job in real life? I guess that if some lucky gamblers who have been winning big prize were not using gambling as their job. They will never have money left in their pockey if they were doing it. I didn't think those take gambling as a job.
It's more like for entertaining purpose only. You play, you fun and you win. it's all about how luck you are.

People shall have tried to avoid being addicted to the gambling. There's no person that can be trusted not even your close person or your family.
They may start to blame you for that. The addiction was coming from yourself. You are the party who can prevent it and not others.

Or are they just smart enough to quit while they're ahead and never looked back when they already have the dough? Only those who had the self-control to leave when they already benefited are the ones who make it big in gambling - that or being a gambling operator. Those you see on poker already have their money built before they decided to go 'professional' in the said field. Having said that, they have stacks to spend and can still get by in their lives even though they lose tournaments after tournaments.

The only success you'll get in gambling is when you are the house and that's it.

That's for sure, it's not gonna be an easy road for them if that's what they want to try. Because these professional gamblers have their own respective ways as well and if you'll ask for their experiences, it's not just all about roses but also has its thorns.
But if it worked for them, that doesn't mean that it's gonna work for everyone. I guess it's just gonna be that some people are born to become like them and many are born just to gamble for recreation.

Few people have been lucky enough to become filthy rich through gambling. Did these people take gambling as a form of job until they eventually became rich? We may never know though.

The best thing about gambling to keep you from being addicted is to have a trusted person who you can talk to about your gambling. It is part of being a responsible gambler.

It's hard to be a gambler whose sole goal is to have fun, even if you had such a plan from the start. I did, but after a while the addiction kicked in and took a toll on my budget. Oh, I realize it's just experience, but after that I started to work around this by reducing the intensity of gambling. In the end I succeeded, yes I succeeded in becoming a responsible gambler even though I could still lose bets.

So even if someone does not gamble for fun, but when they are able to take responsibility for their gambling then it is a great option for a gambler to have. Get rid of the gambling rich plan, it's not the most likely plan to come true.


I understand that the luck factor has an influence on a gambler's win or loss. I'm not going to dispute that assumption, but when they say skill-based gambling is won 100% by luck, that's wrong and I don't agree with it.

please don't classify them all together, there are lots of people out there who make a good living from gambling ^{(such as those who are good at poker, blackjack, or other skill-based gambling)}

The point is, don't gamble without preparation, don't gamble just by relying on luck, everything needs tricks and the ability to read good odds.  only smart gamblers can make a stable profit in gambling but it's different from stupid and greedy gamblers.

^{(anyway, the owner of a gambling site cannot be sure that he will always make a profit, he has to spend a lot of money every month)}

Still in the speculation stage and I think the opportunity to get wealth in gambling is very impossible, especially for gamblers who only rely on small capital to make a lot of money. Relying on any gambling, both slots and soccer betting will not lead us to wealth and if asked why many people are still gambling maybe because to spend time having fun and they have other sources of income that do not rely on gambling to make permanent money.

Only a handful of people who get wealth from gambling, but I am sure they have a business that is managed and does not fully rely on gambling to generate profits and achieve wealth. How can people become richer in gambling if they only rely on small bets and do not have a source of fixed income.

To cure people who are addicted to gambling are almost very difficult and even life will end in much worse. Gambling will have problems if people do not have a job and will continue to hallucinate to get a victory, so it will sell all the assets they have to play gambling every day. This mindset will produce a big impact on someone, moreover there are no restrictions when they are involved in gambling.

But it's different from people who have a big business and people who gamble on the basis of awareness in enjoying gambling, because most of them only spend time having fun with their friends and colleagues. Sometimes they get a jeckpot when gambling and placing a big bet so that it gets a win over the big bet.

Even skill-based games are somehow dependent on luck as per people believe it.  One good example is in the game of poker, the initial card is affected by luck, how you play it is affected by skill, and how people react to a bluff is also affected by luck.  Not saying cards on flops and their relation to your card are affected by chance.

Another example is sports betting, luck is also the variable here, no matter how skilled a person is in determining the better player or team, it can be meddled by some variable.   So the chance of winning can also be affected by luck getting these variables to your side.


I think the result on both physical and online casino have the same variation.  It is either we win, or lose or draw.  The only difference is the personal experience.

The risk will indeed be greater, who is not ready for the gambling industry, he will be selected. For me to be able to get big wins in gambling, it will be an advantage that probably won't come twice. I prefer to divert these large profits to other investments. and for gambling only use a minimum of money that doesn't matter when the money is gone.

Once the person wins a good amount of gambling they think that the gambling games are on their side upon playing which is not always happening not all day they have the chance to win a game it has lower odds chance of winning but it's not on the zero, better to make a steady income for a proper cashflow and use that extra money to serve for additional excitement for your life which is playing gambling. Gambling for me seems for the people who have money and are not desperate to have money. There is no haven in the gambling industry its all about risk and spending time and money, to win or to lose.

Things actually depends on our perception about gambling. Our mindset towards it would play a vital role on how we see it. I admit that when I was a beginner, I have thought that gambling could change my life for an instance. I've seen it as a gateway to success because that's how my friends introduced it to me. I didn't expect that I could lose a lot because of it. Time have taught me that we shouldn't expect too much from gambling because not everyone would be too lucky on it and we could have different fates when it comes to gambling.
If we see gambling as a source of entertainment. then we already know how to put limitations but seeing it as a source of huge income, we're in the wrong path having the wrong mindset.

I do not agree if you say all gamblers win because they are lucky, you have to think of something different when you gamble with your skills in physical casino. If you play at an online casino, especially on luck-based gambling, then your victory is determined by luck, but instead you definitely need expertise in skill-based gambling. So don't assume they are all the same, it must be wrong.

I only agree about the goal of gambling, it's having fun, but a lot of people don't have that kind of goal because they tend to think about money. The results that gambler can get at physical casinos and online casinos are definitely different, never the same and of course it is about certain games that require them to have expertise.

I think about it, but not about many other gamblers.

Just few percentage of people are gambling just for fun now, higher percentage are gambling because they want to be making money for survival from gambling, and other are gambling to get rich, that's why most people easily get addicted to gambling when they start gambling, their target is to get rich from gambling, and if you are having that kind of target, then you get addicted easily because you won't want to give up even when you are losing money, that's why it's just better we gamble just for fun.

Some people gamble and made huge amounts of money, and after making the money they go ahead to extablish a business which they will be steady income from it. But after some people win huge amounts of money, they will keep on gambling with it thinking its going to increase and at the end they will end up losing everything again.

absolutely, and in simple term, you cannot presume a predictable income and steadily if your source is playing the casino with a very unpredictable and unsteady result. You can either win big one time and then lose it all the next if you gamble irresponsibly. If you want the result to be consistent, it's true to manage a casino, or at least manage your gambling like a casino. Treating ievery bet on a series of it not individually, YOu just your wins as a whole. You could have a losing day but overall a wining month. That's what I mean. You can only do that if you manage risk well and you have your gambling systematized.

I quite agree with almost what @borovichok said, it's you that seems not to understand him. He didn't completely condemn owning a gambling house but showed consideration for the challenges that one could face or should be prepared to face, though you are saying it as if it's easy to just go into the gambling business. Every business has its challenges and we just don't dabble in them, we have to plan and be budget conscious. A lot of people want to establish one business or another but the resources are not there, especially the money.

All the promotions, employees as you said, and also the setting up of the casinos itself required huge money. Do you know how much they register and get regulated? What if the business did not thrive for years? These are the factors the guy was trying to explain and considered paid job as the easiest way other than planning to own a casino.