Gambling Myths that we often hear - page 8.

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Quote from: Renampun on August 09, 2022, 11:25:55 AM

because I read this and this topic, I am very curious about what actually influences many people to play gambling and an interesting fact is that people start gambling because of the words (myths) that are often said by their friends or family...

Myths or it starts with just a simple fun game from a circle of friends.
First, they don't put bets, they only punish the loser with something hard to do or tell a secret. Then it could lead to the next phase where money is involved.

Quote from: Renampun on August 09, 2022, 11:25:55 AM

I agree with the research above because it was my first time playing gambling because of an invitation from my friend who said "gambling is a way to make money". now the days have passed and until now I still gamble but with controlled portions.

I'm a little curious, are there any mythical sentences above that make you all start gambling and can't stop gambling or even because the sentence above makes you a gambling addict or even stop gambling?

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Myth 10: Teens Don’t Gamble, Only Older People Gamble
>> Fact: Gambling is a bigger problem among teens than it is in adults.

This. Defying what my Uncles and Aunts used to say.
I want to prove I can win a card game against them even though I am still young because it's all mathematics and at the same time prove that I am good with Math too, back when I was just a teen.

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That myth 1.
I haven't heard it from anybody but the usual call if it's related to gambling, it's always been addictive and we all knew it. Be it a gambler or not, we all tend to see the ending of it as an addictive activity.

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Quote from: Renampun on August 09, 2022, 11:25:55 AM

Myth 10: Teens Don’t Gamble, Only Older People Gamble
>> Fact: Gambling is a bigger problem among teens than it is in adults.

I think teenagers can still be controlled compared to adults, because adults who already have money and are well-established can use their money at will to do everything without seeing the next impact (experience on my own parents)

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Quote from: Renampun on August 09, 2022, 11:25:55 AM

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Myth 1: Gambling Isn’t Addictive
>> Fact: Gambling is designed to be addictive.

Gambling was not designed to get you addict, but it is designed to collect money from you and seriously Casinos don't want you to get addict because they will surely lose a loyal player once you got addict when can no longer control yourself you can become a liability for them and that might affect the casino itself.

Gambling is not addictive if you know how to control yourself, this is the hardest part every time we gamble, to limit ourselves with gambling activities. Those myths somehow are true, but of course there's always a better solution and answer for those kind of situation, you just need to remain focus with your plan and always gamble within your limit.

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Quote from: Renampun on August 09, 2022, 11:25:55 AM

Myth 3: If You Keep Playing, You Will Eventually Win Your Money Back.
>> Fact: The longer someone remains in active gambling addiction, the greater the losses.

I think this is the main reason why people are addicted to gambling, after losing money they believe if they keep on gambling they will keep later recover the amount which they lose, I believe that's the mindset most gambler's are always having most expecially the once that are addicted to gambling, which at the end if they calculate the amount they have lost and the once they have win, their lost will be far more than their win.

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Quote from: Renampun on August 09, 2022, 11:25:55 AM

Myth 1: Gambling Isn’t Addictive
>> Fact: Gambling is designed to be addictive.

Myth 2: Gambling Is a Way to Make Money
>> Fact: The house always wins, especially when it comes to compulsive gamblers.

I keep holding on to these two myths and preaching them to all my friends who just starting to gamble, they should know the truth about these two myths the worst thing that can happen to you is when it is already too late to find that these myths are really not true when it comes to gambling, responsible gambling starts when you know some of these myths are not true and you are gambling based on facts about gambling.

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Quote from: Wind_FURY on August 10, 2022, 07:07:30 AM

If that's a myth, no one believes it. It's simple common sense that gambling is NOT a way to make money for us mere plebs.

Maybe for you, gambling is not for making money. Believe it or not, I thought about gambling to earn money, and thought at point 11, maybe I'm lucky and can win today, and keep playing until I lose everything. This is just one example of what I've experienced before. If I tell about the gambling habits where I live, there are those who really gamble to have a lot of money. This is wrong thinking if we are talking with other gambler here, but it's true, newbie gambler or uneducated gambler will make gambling as their job, even gambling with money from loan or betting with their house.

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Some of these "myths" are NOT actually myths. They're simply common sense.

Quote from: Renampun on August 09, 2022, 11:25:55 AM

Myth 1: Gambling Isn’t Addictive
>> Fact: Gambling is designed to be addictive.

I believe it's designed to be entertaining, like a video game. But it's addictive only for some groups people, to the majority, I believe not.

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Myth 2: Gambling Is a Way to Make Money
>> Fact: The house always wins, especially when it comes to compulsive gamblers.

If that's a myth, no one believes it. It's simple common sense that gambling is NOT a way to make money for us mere plebs.

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Myth 3: If You Keep Playing, You Will Eventually Win Your Money Back.
>> Fact: The longer someone remains in active gambling addiction, the greater the losses.

That's not a myth. Everyone knows you lose if you keep playing.

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Myth 4: If You Can Afford It, Compulsive Gambling Isn’t Really a Problem.
>> Fact: Compulsive gambling is a symptom of underlying emotional and coping problems.

Compulsive gambling is an addiction, it's not merely emotional or coping problems. Sometimes it's genetic.

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Myth 6: Knowing a Game Well Increases Your Odds of Winning
>> Fact: Gambling games are designed to not have any aspect that will increase the odds of winning purely out of knowledge or skill.

It depends on the game. If you can control the edge, and if you can avoid the house or the player having an edge on you, then it increases your odds of winning.

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Myth 9: All Gamblers Engage in Criminal Behavior
>> Fact: Gamblers who seek and accept help can recover before they have to resort to criminal activity to finance their gambling.

Fact, many gamblers are rich and don't need to engage in criminal behavior. There are also professional gamblers who gamble for profit.

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Myth 11: Feeling Lucky Means You’re Going to Win
>> Fact: Distorted beliefs about luck are a key mechanism in developing gambling addiction.

Who invented this "myth"?

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The only thing that keeps people coming back is the false hope that this time they are going to hit a big win.This is for normal people who do not believe superstitions and thus none of these myths relate to them.For the other type of persons who may be impacted by different beliefs,to each one of them may be affected by any of these myths.

That 3rd myth is the most destructive of every other to health,money,family and work life,by chasing your losses you keep losing more so I would definitely not follow it as a bare minimum in order to not suffer such destructive actions.

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Quote from: Oshosondy on August 10, 2022, 05:23:37 AM

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@Davidvictorson, we all know that is a lie, if someone is losing, better to stop gambling for that time and wait until later, also if a gambler won, hebdoesnjkt need to continue to gamble that day because it may end up losing all.

None of us can know what awaits us in gambling in 5-10 minutes, but we do know that the casino has an advantage over the user, which means that with the increasing number of attempts to play the probability that you will lose more money than you earn increases. That is why you should treat gambling as an entertainment and not an opportunity to make money. There are many other less risky activities to earn money.

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Myth 3: If You Keep Playing, You Will Eventually Win Your Money Back.
>> Fact: The longer someone remains in active gambling addiction, the greater the losses.

This Myth 3 is simply the reason I nearly dropped out of school that year before I eventually come to realized the fact that the longer I keep playing to win, the more I will keep on counting my losses. I could remember a friend who used to geared me up with this myth and I foolishly believed. But come to think of it, what's the motive behind these myths? I mean why can't we be truthful to ourselves on the realities of gambling? Is it necessary to deceive ourselves with the myths? Smh

If we don't play we don't have a chance to win... simple as that! If we keep playing we have some chances and we hope that we will hit something big eventually... before we get busted! The fact is that a lot depends on someone's character and how someones gamble and which games... if you choose some skill-based game with time you will get more skilled and you will have higher chances of winning when it comes to how much profit/loss you can have that depends from the bankroll you have for gambling! There are people who never gamble a lot, they have some bankroll that's going up or down, but they never have big losses as some others who are chasing big wins with lucky-based games!

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Myth 3: If You Keep Playing, You Will Eventually Win Your Money Back.
>> Fact: The longer someone remains in active gambling addiction, the greater the losses.

Another way to put the myth is if you play every day you will eventually recover all the money you have lot from the previous days. Or maybe something in the line of double the money you may have lost. I also want to add that another myth may be that if you have good intentions of what to do with the money, you will eventually win with. Such good intentions may include giving a percentage to the poor or using your winnings to payoff some debts.

Haha. I haven't met a single person who thinks that good intentions for using the money they win will help them win at gambling. That's absurd.

For that matter, many religions believe that gambling and alcohol are inventions of the devil. Therefore, it is more logical to believe that if you use the money you win for debauchery, it will increase your chances of winning.)

If gambling and alcohol is believed to be the invention of the evil, so does money too should be seen that way, and they should stay away from money. I have not seen a religion that thought that way though, most religions do not talk about gambling than saying people should just avoid it because it can result to financial problem to addicts.

@Davidvictorson, we all know that is a lie, if someone is losing, better to stop gambling for that time and wait until later, also if a gambler won, hebdoesnjkt need to continue to gamble that day because it may end up losing all.

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Quote from: Renampun on August 09, 2022, 11:25:55 AM

Myth 3: If You Keep Playing, You Will Eventually Win Your Money Back.
>> Fact: The longer someone remains in active gambling addiction, the greater the losses.

This Myth 3 is simply the reason I nearly dropped out of school that year before I eventually come to realized the fact that the longer I keep playing to win, the more I will keep on counting my losses. I could remember a friend who used to geared me up with this myth and I foolishly believed. But come to think of it, what's the motive behind these myths? I mean why can't we be truthful to ourselves on the realities of gambling? Is it necessary to deceive ourselves with the myths? Smh

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Myth 3: If You Keep Playing, You Will Eventually Win Your Money Back.
>> Fact: The longer someone remains in active gambling addiction, the greater the losses.

Another way to put the myth is if you play every day you will eventually recover all the money you have lot from the previous days. Or maybe something in the line of double the money you may have lost. I also want to add that another myth may be that if you have good intentions of what to do with the money, you will eventually win with. Such good intentions may include giving a percentage to the poor or using your winnings to payoff some debts.

Haha. I haven't met a single person who thinks that good intentions for using the money they win will help them win at gambling. That's absurd.

For that matter, many religions believe that gambling and alcohol are inventions of the devil. Therefore, it is more logical to believe that if you use the money you win for debauchery, it will increase your chances of winning.)

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I have to admit, these facts are real and I happened to experienced one of them a few days ago but I'm not playing with money rather I was just upgrading my item in my MMORPG game which has some 50/50 chance of success and failure. Fact number 11 got me because I was convinced that I'm gonna extend my power that day because I feel like it was my day but the result was contrary because it fails misserably and my character power decrease dramatically.

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Quote from: adzino on August 09, 2022, 09:24:58 PM

Like you said, it is because of those myth people starts or can't stop gambling. They first start gambling thinking that it is a one time thing and won't get addicted. But somehow they win some bets and becomes addicted to gambling. The adrenaline rush they get is what makes them come back to gambling. And then after few wins, they think that they can actually start making some quick money and get rich over night. They still keep on believing that they aren't addicted because "they can't get addicted to gambling".

in a gambling place it can indeed provide additional money but it can't always be like that because in a gambling place all possibilities can happen and there is no guarantee to always get a win, because sometimes you can get a loss until the money you have runs out or goes bankrupt, so it's better to stay careful Be careful when you want to gamble and don't be too influenced or have to be able to control yourself.

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Yes, I agree with you.

Gambling addiction can be cured. However, this is not easy. This is due to the fact that addiction in a person does not arise just like that. Something very important is missing in his life.

For example, a person may lack drive and passion. Therefore, it is easiest to replace one dependency with another dependency. For example, you can do a street pickup (seducing beautiful girls). You can engage in extreme sports (observing safety precautions). You can also start playing computer games.

The second dependence will be already weaker than the first and will not bring much harm to a person.

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Quote from: Renampun on August 09, 2022, 11:25:55 AM

Myth 3: If You Keep Playing, You Will Eventually Win Your Money Back.
>> Fact: The longer someone remains in active gambling addiction, the greater the losses.

Another way to put the myth is if you play every day you will eventually recover all the money you have lot from the previous days. Or maybe something in the line of double the money you may have lost. I also want to add that another myth may be that if you have good intentions of what to do with the money, you will eventually win with. Such good intentions may include giving a percentage to the poor or using your winnings to payoff some debts.

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Quote from: Renampun on August 09, 2022, 11:25:55 AM

Myth 6: Knowing a Game Well Increases Your Odds of Winning
>> Fact: Gambling games are designed to not have any aspect that will increase the odds of winning purely out of knowledge or skill.

Gambling is a game of luck so there is no such thing as "purely" or "guaranteed" return on it but there are types of gambling that will give you more chance of profit if you knew it well.

Like in sportsbetting, you don't bet randomly on some teams if you have proper knowledge about the matchup.

While in poker games, if you're unlucky with your cards you can still turn the table if you're good at bluffing your opponents.

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Quote from: Wapfika on August 10, 2022, 01:44:49 AM

All Gamblers Engage in Criminal Behavior
>> Fact: Gamblers who seek and accept help can recover before they have to resort to criminal activity to finance their gambling.

I think they should add compulsive to this myth because not all gamblers need to seek and recover since most of the gambler is just playing for fun. Only compulsive gambler can do such thing and actually this can be categorized as fact and not a myth anymore because people with gambling addiction is really resorting to criminal activity if they are lack of funds.

I agree with you. A lot depends on the person himself, his understanding of values and upbringing. There is a huge number of gamblers who have never deliberately violated the laws and will not do so even if they have debts. So it is better to say that gambling addiction can encourage people with a low moral regulator of behavior to break the law in order to find money to gamble.

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