Topic: Gambling problem - page 17. (Read 90354 times)

I am that person, never had a problem this days. When I started gambling, it's a normal thing that I was addicted, but I was able to fight that addiction and now I am a more matured gambler as experience teaches me how to be. Enjoying is the key since gambling is an entertainment, if ever you have a problem then you must solve that early, otherwise you will suffer that longer and you will live a very stressful life.

Yes let's not generalize that most of the gamblers does have problem at all. There are gamblers who manage to gambler freely, because they have enough to gamble and it is not affecting their families with their habit or addiction. It just depends on the gambler on how he can take things very light and by setting priorities.

There are wise gamblers who manage to win in the long run with gambling and they know that losing will come to them. But what they are doing is every time they are going to have enough winnings, they are saving it and securing it already. So when the time of losing is going to come, they do have save it already.

And that problem would be losing money in the end. I don't think anybody wins in gambling but the house itself. There are more losers than winners you can count. This is why casinos are still standing and never ever close. They build bigger and bigger casinos and they are so extravagant because they have so much money. People just think they will win against the casino, but they will never ever win against it.

At least I know what my purpose is, I cannot make gambling for a living and I have already accepted that a long time ago, I know my capacity and it seems like I am not making a profitable job if I continue fighting for it. Really hard to focus on money when gambling is really not for you, it's better to accept that it's only for fun so you can enjoy it.

Oh well you are right with it. And it depends to each individual on how they are going to take it seriously. There are people who are making gambling as a way to kill their boredom and there are ones who are making it for real living but whatever they are going to choose, problems will still come out in different circumstances.

You make it sound as if everyone that gamble has some kind of gambling problem and that is not true, we can gamble responsibly without becoming addicted, in fact most people that gamble are able to control themselves, those that are addicted to gambling are just a minority.

Gambling anyway is such an "useless" thing to do. It is addictive, and you can never win in the long run (in poker you can). I think my plan to quitting is quit slowly, im gonna play some of the best freerolls for a few weeks now, but cash out all my winnings to bitcoin. Best way to quit thing like poker imo is to reduce and reduce it until ou don't even notice it's gone. I'm only 18 right now, and come from a fairly wealthy family, and I haven't spent my poker winnings on anything yet, so I have plenty of money. But I am planning to get a job though, in the summer.

It is a good thing that you have realized you spend too much time gaining nothing in poker games.  Well probably some winnings but it would be way more if you use it to do a job .  I wonder if you really stop playing which I hope so, If you do it easily then you are not addicted to the game.  And just one more thing, gambling is not a sickness, gambling addiction is.

I used to gamble for fun. With friends, everyone put a dollar on the table, it was fun. Then the next year I found Zynga poker in facebook. I was crushing the tables, but playing too high and therefore going broke every time.

After summer I discovered csgopoker, where I could play for money. I was playing in freerolls and under dollar tables. I was satisfied by small wins.

Then I realized how good I had actually become, and I upped the stakes. I ran up bankrolls up to 500$, but always ended up bust. I took small loans from my friends and grinded back a small bankroll responsibly, always paid back with interest.

Then I finally hit the heater of my life. I was playing well, running well, I ran 5$ up to 2500$. It felt like I was on the top of the world, playing 50$ table mostly, all the way up to 200$ table. Then I decided to cash out, which was the best decion I could have made.

After that, it's just all been one long downswing in poker. I win some freeroll, run up a bankroll and bust it again the next day. This cycle has been going on now for a year total. Playing 3-8 hours of poker a day and winning nothing.

So this year I decided to do it. Quit poker. I have come to realization that poker has ruined my life. It's taking way too much of my time and it's causing me to stress all the time. I'm still up around 3000USD from poker, but I don't think that its worth all the time that playing poker has taken from me. It has become an addiction, like I have to play, no matter what stakes or what game.
I truly think gambling is a sickness.

The thing is how long a gambler will be afford to lose one million dollars. But they can lose all $1 million within one day itself too. But I do not think they will be having another $ 1 million for next day. So, one day are other gambling problem will start even for a rich gambler who is affording to lose millions in gambling.

reduces play in gambling it would be very difficult for people who have been addicted. possible for people who have been addicted, lost several hundred dollars tibu is not a problem for them. but, it will probably make them in trouble, consciously or not. however, by trying to stop or reduce the activity in gambling, it might make you out of trouble.

You dont really need to overcome those gambling habit. All you need is to gamble less or dont at all when you have nothing to afford to lose, the key will always be what you can afford to lose, if you could afford to lose 1 million USD then just go ahead as you are risking alot you could get alot in return as well

Indeed a gambling problem would be a great hurdle to overcome. Especially if you are losing a lot of money in gambling and not really getting back your deposit everytime. Stop gambling is a good solution but not really. In the end you'll just go back to it and lose more. Probably whats a good plan is to gamble less and do not gamble more than what you can't afford to lose.

It;s not complicated as you think because we all have experience having a problem with gambling. Some have solve it early while some still fighting for the growing problem until now, in the end, we will realize that the only solution with our problem is stop gambling. It will not do good for us if we are already addicted as the control is necessary which we do not have.

Everyone takes responsibility about his decision at gamble and not at all. Its pretty complicated discussion. 

I would definitely disagree with it, gambling addiction is a serious problem and no one will help you if you will not accept your problem and you will not seek help. Addiction like this needs immediate attention as the longer you bring it the more you will suffer from it, your family can help if you cannot afford to hire the service of the professionals but be honest.

This "unlimited" is a symptom of gambling problems. Before going into unlimited, we need to realize our gambling addiction else no one will be there to help us.

Gambling addictions are the worst problem of our lifetime because not just money and time we're going to lose, we will lose everything in our life including our relationships.

There are people who can actually control themselves when they gamble but there are some also that doesn't able to control their own emotion when they are gambling already. And a lot of gambling problems are coming out from different gamblers, like in career, family and other relationship where they are making their addiction as their priority.

we should realize about the risk and we should control by not become addicted, i am sure that actually people can control their self when they playing gambling but they are tempted with the big prizes and it makes them to keep playing gambling. the gambling problem is the one of the biggest problem that we have if we are involve with gambling industry and we need to handle with good.