Topic: How can we help beginners not to get addicted - page 35. (Read 4088 times)

The reason why many people get caught up in the world of gambling and become addicted is because they often ignore the side effects of irresponsible gambling. Gambling without applying certain restrictions, so they get carried away by gambling and get trapped in it. And to prevent ourselves from irresponsible gambling activities, so that our finances and life balance are maintained. So there is truth in what the OP said, that we as gamblers must really understand what gambling is and the negative impact of gambling addiction itself. Because whether gambling is good or not depends on who plays it.

and as long as we still frequently engage in gambling activities, it means we still have the potential to become gambling addicts, and therefore, as a responsible gambler, it is quite important to always ensure that the gambling activities carried out are well controlled and maintained. .

Many people have also asked why does someone become addicted to something? In my opinion, from the things I have seen over my years, it is that when people have financial problems, they have love problems, they have problems at school, at work and in their family. so these people become depressed and look for a refuge, something that for a few minutes or hours makes them forget about all the problems they have been having, so if they consume a lot of alcohol and forget about the problems for a few hours, then they will consume alcohol constantly, If they take drugs for a few hours and forget about their problems for a few hours, then they are taking drugs constantly. so this is the same thing that happens with gambling

When people, for example, have financial problems, they want to earn more money to change their lives, so they look at advertisements about gambling, they start to get involved with gambling. see how many people you have seen who are rich who have won the lottery, you will see that it is a very small number, this is because the majority of people who win the lottery are poor people who started buying lottery tickets many years ago and always hoping to One day they win and become rich. they buy lottery tickets because they want to stop being poor


source: https://bigthink.com/the-present/poor-americans-lottery/

But even though they are aware of this, most poor people buy lottery tickets every day. By this I mean that the economic factor can lead someone to become addicted, but with the help of their family that person could be cured. but see that there are few cases of people who buy lottery tickets who have become addicted to gambling, while there are many cases of people who have become addicted to casino games such as roulette, blackjack, sports betting. and the reason in my opinion is simple: they are people who stopped doing things in the real world and focused only on things in the online world, particularly gambling. People who have a lot of fun in the real world don't become addicted, even though they are constantly playing in casinos.

Tons of articles, contents, and infographics exist on the internet discussing the negative effects of gambling. Education is already there, and the information regarding the negative effects of gambling addiction also exists. It's not the education nor resources that's lacking which turns harmless gambling into addiction, but rather the self-control and discipline of each individuals falling victim to such a state.

Frankly I think it's also in the desperation of each individual to make huge money in such a quick time that drives them to come back into gambling and put in what they can't afford into it. Remove that desire of making a lot of money and you'll find yourself just enjoying what you're doing and still finding time to do other things.

Casinos do not encourage gambling addiction, but they are silently rooting for every member to gamble as more often as they want so they can continue to take advantage of their funds, big or small. This is not new anymore as casinos are running a business, so it’s expected that they will do a lot of promotion and offer different bonuses so that gamblers will become more addicted and eventually bet most of their funds.

While rules encourage these gamblers to gamble responsibly, but casinos on the other hand will also do their best to make these gamblers attracted in their games through introducing new and exciting games that will become irresistible to the eyes of the gamblers. Hence, the rate of gambling addiction will remain high due to the actions made by the casinos.

There's an old saying "repetition is the mother of learning". And now when I have small children, it is clearer to me than ever, it's up to us to constantly repeat to them what is good and what is not, and they will learn eventually. But we need to be persistent and never stop repeating to them all the important things.

I guess it's the same with gambling beginners, all we can do is repeat and point out all the dangers of gambling, to talk about responsible gambling and what that means. Of course, the first rule is "never play with money you can't afford to lose", the first and the most important rule in my opinion. Once people cross that limit it's hard to go back to normal.

Awareness is very necessary and taken the time to study and learn anything we want to venture into before we jump on it so that we can know the risk involved and how to avoid any possible problem that will come along the way, sometimes those newbies that fall into addictions are overly occupied with the greed  factor that consume them so much and while the focus on the winning and profits of the games instead of them to study how to avoid the risk involved in gambling, so some times it has to do with a lot of that studies to say above the addictions tendency of gambling.

The majority of those with addiction know very much about the effects of addiction, yet they choose to purposely ignore all the warnings and continue their unhealthy activities.

For example, some of them know that if they start chasing losses or start to think of gambling as a means to earn passive income, they`ll become addicted to it, yet they still make deposits with the mindset that they are going to multiply that initial deposit into something big, but in the end, they'll end up being trapped in gambling.

The only thing we could do for them is to remind them to gamble what they could only afford to lose, and to take breaks from gambling if it is affecting their life.
I have few friends and work mates who gamble, and I would just watch them gamble since they know their limit they would stop when they had enough, but if I think that they are spending too much on it that it is affecting how they act around with other people then I would talk to them and give them advice.
It happened before one of my friend lost too much in gambling and he only told it to me since he doesn't want his family and partner to know about it, and I told him that he should stay out for awhile and learn to quit if he is losing too much from it, only deposit an amount that he could afford to lose and that amount shouldn't affect their family budget, and never to chase what he lose.

Yes and no. Yes, the reason why a lot people get addicted to gambling is probably because they lack awareness about the addictive possibility of gambling, and No sometimes despite the person knowing all the dangers gambling has they can still become addicted to it if they start gambling. I think one of the reason why people get addicted despite being aware and understand the dangers of gambling is that they lack self control, also, I've read articles in the past about how there are people who are genetically more prone to addiction than other people.

I believe that most people already know what gambling is all about before going into it. Those people who get addicted to gambling do so out of ignorance and a lack of self-discipline. Also, addiction to gambling is somewhat a decision made by the gambler and not anyone else. As a newbie who has an interest in gambling, it's an obligation to properly learn the risks and disadvantages that are involved in gambling. Failure to do so means that the person is allowing his or her self to get caught up and probably face the problem of gambling addiction. 

In my opinion, a gambler has the obligation to learn properly about gambling and ways that they can not become compulsive gamblers. If a newbie learns the important stuff about gambling before going into it, they at least will not become core victims of addiction, and if my chance is that they are getting addicted, they can easily realize themselves and make a u-turn. Take, for example, some people who had bad investments in crypto or crypto trading; most of them were people who lacked concrete knowledge about crypto investment and trading. 

The particular point you have presented is actually reasonable but I don't think any casino would give such guidelines to a gambler in the first place for gambling. Because no company in the world wants to let the profits go out of his hands. It's not just for the gambling casino sector, if you look at every social media or every mobile company there is a competition to keep users on their site for longer.
So I don't think any casino will take any action in this direction. Moreover, if you see most of the casinos want to increase the user attraction by offering attractive offers through more bonuses and various contests. And definitely, the casino can make more profit for an addicted gambler. I think the first and last rule a gambler should follow to control his addiction from the beginning is never to gamble what he don't afford to lose, and of course to control his Greed.

Do you know the problem we have today it is because many people do see gambling as a what is not right because of the impact of disadvantages is the higher than the advantages aspect of it, it is you as a gambler that have the Ultimate right to quit from gambling because you know what you have benefiting and you also know what you are not benefiting from gambling that is why it is very understanding and the reasonable for you to have a book record in our gambling to know the statistics of what we have achieved in gambling and they also know what we have not achieved in gambling when you have that record you will know if you are making well in gambling or not and that we determine if you will stop gambling or not so do not allow someone to decide to you on gambling because it is a race and a personal interest

We all have a long way to go when it comes to gambling and we should apply common sense. We have addictions that are strongly based on our control, I'll rather stay focused and become consistent in the market because I know what I'm striving for and this is mainly profits and accomplishments. Don't expose your strategies to your colleagues, it's advisable to maintain the rapid flow of profits coming in. Gamblers knows what they're getting themselves into when they decides to place wagers on games.

Yes the gambling companies benefit from addicted gamblers so much because once they have any amount of money in their hands their next thought will go straight to gambling because they always have the mind set of winning once they gamble even when they don't win. If more awareness is created by gambling companies it may affect their business a little because a lot of gambling addicts will minimise their gambling activities that alone can affect the sales of the company who depend on the constant staking of gamblers for more profit so this is the reason why the gambling companies can only show you the rules but they can never monitor you even though you are losing millions because they will remain in business once you keep losing in your bets.

18 to 21 age is something that considered to be legal age on which considered to be matured or already been allowed to do such stuffs but doesnt mean that they would really be that exempt when it comes to addiction on which we know that this is really that something that could still affect those people. Good thing about dealing up with gambling with older age is that you are aware about its pros and cons which is unlike into those people who are really that just not matured on which they are really that too impulsive but of course there would really be no guarantees.
How can we help beginners? There's no way that we could help and just like been said by others then it would really be something that cant be predicted on what those people would be doing.

Doesn't that speak negatively about gambling houses and casinos because at some point we have to understand the effects and impact of gambling addictions on the society at large, what the level of the risk of having Access to casinos to the society of becoming addicted is how the casinos make revenue or that they business depends on that to survive.
Gambling should be taken as fun and something to do for spare time and to pass time instead becoming to much involved to it to the extent of becoming addicted to gambling, the casino should be able to generate their income via the normal gambler's stake and other services that the casino render rather than making such ends need by activities of addicts.

It is important that a person is above 18 before they start gambling, i believe underage gambling contributes to addiction, because when someone is younger than the accepted age, they find it hard to control themselves or to understand the dangers of gambling addiction, and they grow with this and become addicts.

It is also worth mentioning that parents have a role to play in making sure their children understand what gambling really is and the dangers of addiction. People who become addicts often began gambling with the thought that they would become rich from it, so it is good they understand the fun side of it from the beginning.

Sometimes understanding the game is not really the main problem, but for most people who get addicted to gambling so easily, if you check their lives very well, there might be other areas to which they are also addicted. This is one thing, and I think it's just a matter of self-control and determination. 
 
As a gambler, you always need to have a budget and limits to when you are supposed to stop and days when you are not supposed to gamble.
 
If you don't have a budget and limit, there is always a high possibility that you can easily get addicted to gambling without even noticing it, and if the person is also the type who has a limit but it's hard for them to keep their own set rules, it's advised that the person should work on himself in the aspect of self-control.

IMO I don't think it's only a newbie in gamble that can be addicted to gamble, even when you know/understand the risk and what gamble vis you might still get addicted ones you over react on your gambling practices. However you might be addicted and still feel like nothing is happening because you just started.
This question is critical though but in my own opinion I think that the gamble company benefits from everyone ones they are losing their money on gambe, although we believed that the company is just there to give us the means of entertainment but a lot of people are misusing the opportunity.

How can we help? The only thing we can do is to make up some advises and tips but in the end of the day, they are the only ones who could really make decisions for themselves since they are the ones who had been holding their own body and their mind on whatever the things that they are dealing off with. There's nothing we can do if they would really be that deciding on trying out to continue on doing gambling
despite of the conditions that they are really that experiencing. Addiction is something a thing that you cant really be able to get out once you do get shackled with it.
You cant really just that make yourself that too careless because you would really be able to be unaware that you are already been consumed gradually.