Topic: How about your experience in taking part in the same bet with friends? - page 3. (Read 637 times)

This is actually okay. Knowing that someone came up with the same decision as you might help you to become a better gambler. You have someone to discuss your losses and your wins, and might also come up with a strategy that will benefit all of you.

Betting groups are okay only if the people in the group are positive in this venture. They are not detrimental to your financial decisions and they also tell you when to stop or when to go. These are the type of friends you want in a betting group, as you develop your gambling skills but not turn out as a degenerate at the end of the day.

In my opinion this depends on the game the person is playing, for example a person who makes sports bets, in my case I prefer to do my analyzes and bets alone. but I have seen that here in my neighborhood there are many people who have been betting on sports and that they sit and talk a lot to each other when they are analyzing the games and from what I can see they share a lot of ideas about the teams that bet on them, perhaps that be of great help to them because with many people thinking it may be easier to analyze the games and be able to obtain good results. As I'm not friends with them, I don't know if they have had good results with this system. but they have been doing this for a long time

so I suppose as they have been doing this for a long time then they are somehow making a profit, if they weren't making a profit then they would have given up by now. There are people who do not have a strong mind, they do not have a mind capable of enduring many problems without becoming mentally exhausted, so they need help from other people to be able to deal with many problems they have. So in the case of these people, it is important that they play with very responsible people who will be able to give them good advice and will not let them get on the path to addiction.

About acceptance of losses, I'm okay with it already and I am no longer being affected of it a lot but it still depends on how much I am losing but typically, they're not a lot.

I agree, you are with them when you win and when you loss. So, the frustration that you'll feel when you lose your bets.

You've got your friends back to pat on you to make you feel better.

You are right. Losses will become a less burden if we experience it together with friends. Most especially if you have some funny friends, instead of getting depressed of your losses, everything will end up as a laughing stock and just enjoy the company and eventually forget about the losses.

I think that’s the benefit having friends around while betting. You are not alone at your worst losses, simply because everyone has fair share of losses. Until you all end up forgetting about it since losses are actually expected in all types of bets. But, it’s still a good thing if you win more than losing more.

I also get that similar feeling when I hop on to a sports betting group and sometimes on the live casino tables chatting with other gamblers while playing. I feel less bad about my losses knowing others had the same bet and maybe risked bigger units too.

When you're together with your friends or a group of gamblers, the experience becomes different because our focus suddenly shifts towards having fun while the wins are only a bonus.

Yes and that's a normal feeling when we gamble and then we lose. We don't want to celebrate but instead we feel depressed, disappointed and devastated because we've just lost and that's about our emotion when the plan didn't go accordingly as we gamble.

Maybe you'll enjoy more if you're with your friends because it's not going to be all about gambling but all about the get together and bonding that you'll be having with your friends. That's the reason why many want to gamble with their friends because about the talks, discussions and bond that they've missed all along. So, if this is going to be a fun thing you should gamble with your friends and that's all about having fun because when money is involved, you'd be disappointed and this bonding might be destroyed by it.

Whether gambling alone or with my friends, that should have no big difference, at least in my own experience.

If you can't handle the loss that much, it's good to practice that behavior from now on without involving your friends. In gambling, a feeling like that is just a distraction since if you are being affected when losing, to the point, you feel much more comfortable if it's not just you lose but also your friends, might affect your ability to decide what's the best pick since you are a bit afraid or worried that you might not hit the right prediction.

Gambling with friends is a different experience than gambling solo because it makes the sports betting experience a social and competitive game at the same time. I usually share a bet with friends on a match at the same time as another group of friends bet on the opposing team, and the enthusiasm increases. In my country, young people gather in cafes and share bets for fun, and some often place large bets.

It is one of the forms of positive use of the concept of gambling, as it increases the closeness of individuals and strengthens the bonds of friendship between them. I would prefer if all types of gambling games, including slot games, were played in this group way. This reduces the cost of bets distributed among participants and does not lead to addiction or excessive play.

It is not unusual for this situation to happen if you have some gambler friends. Because friends like to hang out in a common place. And if you have a gambler friend, there will be a chat about gambling. I had a few betting friends with whom I didn't bet together much at the same place. Because I have seen that where the number of people is high, there are conflicts arise about the rules and there is no positive environment for betting. I usually try to do my own research and betting. However, I observe the predictions or researches of others with my own criteria. If there is no such situation then gambling according to my own decision. I prefer gambling in noise free places which allow me to understand the betting info. But my experience in any such betting with friends is very less.

Your perspective is both refreshing and insightful, emphasizing how gambling with friends goes beyond financial results, to enhance social bonds and create lasting memories. The concept of using gambling as a form of "risk management" through the support of friends. I like it!
It demonstrates how shared experiences can enrich gambling, highlighting the balance between risk, reward, and the strength of relationships. So, it remains to find good friends 

Actually it would really be just that depending on what kind of friend you do really have because not all friends would really be taking up seriously or would be making some arguments in the time that they would be losing up their bet against you. Although i do have that kind of experience with my friends that there would be some sort of argument but not on the time or moment that it would be ending up on a conflict.
Most of them are really that having that sportmanship or do really that easily accept their defeat. This is why we cant really be able to generalize up things basing up on what we do able to observe
in other situations.

If you do find out that your friend is something like this then it would be wise on trying out to avoid things. Just like you've said that if you dont like for those relationship to be not shattered
then it would be wise that you should really be avoid it at all cost.

One thing I don't do is playing bet against my friends and I would advice everyone not to engage in such, it's a silly thing to do by engaging in it, it can shatter your relationship relationship with your friends and if it doesn't then you would be sentimental about the bet.

Although I engaging in playing same bet as my friends, I have a friend who is great in sport betting and I do get games from him which I stake on

We all can agree that gambling is all about betting with the money you can afford to lose, if you don't have the mind to let' go of the money, why gamble it in the first place? You will definitely be emotional when you lose amount that you need and depression is unavoidable if you don't have the means to make another one, this is why you should never even try gambling if you can't let go of that money.



Whether you involved your friends or you are just a solo gambler, if you used the money you cannot afford to lose, you will cry alone when your friends are not with you. You can't bet your school fees with your rich friends and you think you will have a rest of mind? You can't because the risk is high. The basis of safe gambling is when you have nothing to lose with that wager money, with such amount you can enjoy gambling alone and with friends, that's when you see your friends as motivation to make good predictions.

Playing gambling with friends the feeling is always different when it ends up to be lose, this is the same feelings in school when their is a mass failure, nobody feels bad about it but one thing about playing the same gambling game with friends after playing some games if they ends up not to be successful one won't be willing to still play the same game with friends to avoid continuous lose. Even if the feeling is different when gambling is played with friends, it is unwise to keep on playing because of no hard feelings about the lose. Playing gambling with friends is another way of getting addicted if one is not careful,  especially when you are surrounded with friends that can't do without playing gambling.

I think that gambling has the chance of losing as a risk that is part of this type of activity.
if a loss creates stress, if you feel "angry", if you can't risk that money... it's right to stop and not play.

I rarely placed bets with friends. Symbolic amounts just to follow and support a certain event/player/team.
These are personal choices and finding "a point of agreement" (I put the result x and you put y) always leads to real disasters

When we Play games with friends without any elements of gambling such betting on the games or Staking whatever on the games outcome is when the game becomes fun, since there will be absence of greed at some point and also the need to play with casual mindsets.


But once we stake any amount on the games results, such as what we normally do with the cards games where some people put money down on the games outcome, that point it becomes full blown gambling with greed which takes away fun from that activities and at that point I don't encourage friends to involve in such.

The experience of participating in the same bet with friends will definitely be good. Everyone's experience in betting is not the same if you have a few friends and everyone knows the rules then there will be no stress while betting. If we friends participate in the same bet then our relationship will be good and we will gain some experience. If three or four friends bet together, everyone will not lose one will definitely win. Betting in this way will not create any pressure in the person and everyone will enjoy but for this the money limit should be small.

Yes, I have the same experience as you when I playing gambling with my friends. We have a good times together playing gambling in the same table and enjoy our cola. That makes us relaxed and enjoy the moment without thinks about other things that makes us busy. We don't feels pressure each other because we knows that we used our spare time together playing gambling, although we play different gambling games. But sometimes we place a bet in the same teams because in my friends circle, we have three friends that knows about many teams better than the other friends. We can win many times but we always place the bet with the money we can afford. We never try to breaks our rules and always remind each other because we don't wants to see addiction comes to us.

In this situation, if one person loses, everyone loses, so there is nothing to gain. But what I have tried to focus when I lose a bet myself, I feel like maybe I didn't do good research or decision making that I regret. When at the same time we lost the bet after consulting friends, there were other friends like me who had wrong idea or our research was wrong due to which we lost that bet. At that moment  we can become more aware of our mistakes. Also, when I place a bet I fell i don't get it back so that I don't have to regret later. But when I bet with friends I feel quite comfortable to bet in a festive atmosphere which gives me great pleasure at times.