Topic: I think gambling is inbuilt, kids don't learn it anywhere, they do it! - page 6. (Read 1623 times)

But if you gamble frequently, you really have to have self-control because, without self-control, you will only get into gambling problems. Something inherent in gambling, such as the desire to win, is within every gambler and only wise gamblers will not think too much about winning because they know that winning will not be easy. We really have to gamble responsibly, especially if we gamble regularly so it requires more self-control. Gamblers can indeed win from gambling but they also have to realize that it will not be easy so they don't need to try hard to get it. Maybe they can try it in skill-based gambling games so they can continue to hone their skills to win even though they still rely on luck.

Yes, that's a well known fact. It's funny at the same time because as you said it's good that you experienced it when you were young.
At least you didn't lose a lot of money that way 

I definitely feel lucky because even though I thought I would have more money and gamble more during the period I mentioned, I actually feel very lucky that I experienced this addiction during my student years and didn't reach a threshold that could be considered a crisis due to not having enough money or income. Also, as someone who had a gambling addiction before but managed to overcome it I would like to remind that it is very easy to become addicted to gambling but it is very difficult to get rid of this addiction and I support your last sentence with this thought.


Although gambling is an expensive form of fun I also agree that it requires knowledge and experience depending on the type. Especially for gambling with sports betting, it is very important to have information about the preferred sport to have information about the preferred teams and to know what the preferred betting results are depending on the matches. Thinking that sports bets with very low odds have a high probability of winning and placing sports bets accordingly often causes the person to lose. Therefore, I think that gambling should not be done without knowledge and experience especially in options that require knowledge and experience such as sports betting.


Yes, football is a type of sport that has a much wider betting scale compared to other sports and is generally known as the most followed type of sport. For this reason, many people prefer football for sports betting.

Of course, gambling isn't something that can always be winnable and when many people gamble, unfortunately, they only focus on winnings. Naturally, after losing a bet gambling addiction occurs when the person continues gambling by making more ambitious mistakes in order to regain the money he/she lost. Everyone who gambles should know that in gambling there is as much chance of losing as there is of winning and the chain of gain or loss never lasts forever.

Government would always be government from their actions and inactions. It is a normal thing for the government to take drastic measures to promote her citizens from being indexed by any means but it is left for the people to follow suit or do their own will.

As for children, they do or practice what they see. Little wonder some movies always warn with caution "not for children below 18" so therefore, those kids must have seen somebody around them doing such or from movies and are now acostomed to them. Kids are very curious and are ready to get to any extent just to proof the truth.

Yes, gambling is already inbuilt in us, even in kids that are never exposed in real casinos or any places wherein betting is available. But with the presence of social media, kids become aware earlier than what we expected. Even playing with simple games in their smart phones can be a start of their betting experience with a small amount of money together with their online playmates. That is how the social media can cause early influence on the kids and they will continue to do that until they reach a legal age to finally gamble in a legal betting site. If they won't be guided properly with their guardians, that's when gambling addiction becomes a threat for them.

I don't see anything inbuilt about gambling, all we have to do is to make sure that we don't bet too regularly. Gambling is not something we tell people around just to show off what we had made so far from it. We need to keep things personal and don't allow unnecessary things to affect our gambling lifestyle. We need to try as much to gamble like a professional that we tend to be not just anyhow. The more we gamble, the more we can understand about what gambling is all about. Making profits as a gambler can sometimes be more of luck and you will need to do some findings to know some kind games that frequently gives you profits.

We stake to earn good money from the system, often we lose and it's left for us to either bet again or move on and wait patiently for another day, because different days comes with different opportunities. We are acquainted and knows the next unpredicted moves of gambling. Knowledge is key information and with the possession of these basic knowledge, one can reduced the means of losses and embraced good streams of earning from the system. Everything done are followed by gradual steps. Gambling requires a gambler to understand the system and knows how to comprehend the situation he or she faced.

No one can stop you, especially when it involves money. Since winning money is purely luck-based, people will always want to try their luck. While gambling does carry some risk, it has, in one way or another, benefited a great deal of people. This is evident in the efforts made by gambling websites to sell their products. You're set if your gaming habits have an arbitrary limit. The world is becoming smarter; you're not even 18 yet and you're gambling, yet most gambling websites don't require a KYC to properly verify an individual's age. On top of that, the children want to earn money, thus the simplest method for them to get money is gambling with small amount of money bets can be placed. And gambling at a very young age is not advisable.

There needs to be some sort of thesis and tests done on this before we could come to a real conclusion. Anything else would be just made up and guesses. Wagering or betting between each other and gambling on sports games are not the same thing. The idea of "I do not think you can jump from this height" to wager with our friends and joke around is not the same as "Bayern will win this, I bet 100 bucks on it", those are two very different things.

So, I would say yeah betting with our friends on would you or won't you etc etc is inbuilt and even if we remove every single person the world above age of 1 year, so all the babies grow up together and build a whole new society somehow, I can guarantee you that they will bet with each other, but betting on sports is not that common for them and would probably not happen. That's a whole another system of thing, and didn't really happen until much later in human society as well, the whole casino mindset I mean.

You have a good point, man. Football is one of the top-rated games in the world and I believe that more people win based on the options they pick or their predictions from football, because football has more options than other games in casinos, but still I have no doubt that winning doesn't come all the time in gambling. Some days are meant for gamblers to lose, and some days are meant for gamblers to win, and still it isn't a good idea for gamblers to over gamble just to recover the lost ones (it's going to make them lose more).

True, although gambling basically depends on luck but if you have absolutely no experience then I'm sure you will suffer more losses, especially if you are too serious or ambitious in gambling. And also yes experience and skills will be very useful if you do skill-based gambling such as sports for example, because it is true there skills and knowledge are needed, it will be useful to increase your chances of luck.

So before betting I hope you can learn about the skills or knowledge that is needed, by doing research first about the club you are going to choose, see their performance and match histroy, if indeed it looks promising enough then you can start your bet, no need with a large amount, but just allocate a budget that you can be responsible for if you lose in the end, because still even though this is skill-based gambling and knowledge you will still need a little luck for the final result, so with a minimal budget then at least you will not experience a large enough loss if you end up losing.

Yes now that I look back at it, most of my childhood memories consist of gambling bets not with money but with toys that we seems to enjoy back then,
Not fully knowing that we are already gambling at an early age we just think that it was a game and it is not bad since we are playing and paying with toys not with money.
P.S I am talking about cards and marble ball.

If you have proper dedication to do something  then anyone can't stop you. Few months previous I don't know what is gambling but now I do gamble. I am not that much kind of professional gamble but I do gambling. My gambling journey studied from YouTube advertisement. I share this in in a post the advertisement was 1xbet advertisement. I am not 18 + now but I do gambling scenes something 6 months or maybe before that. I know this is against gambling rules but my dedication to do something that's help me to learn about gambling. I belong from a middle class family. Gambling help me a lot to be a self depended person. I am not only the person who gamble under 18 I have many friends who also gamble. If you have property dedication to learn and if you know how to many management then kids also do it. We are I sport lovers and maximum of us used to gamble in sports. Because of loving sports too much we have quite experience in games and because of the experience we take risk for sports beting.

I agree with you that gambling is not possible without knowledge and less experience leads to more risk. Sports betting requires a lot of knowledge To understand sports betting you should be familiar with the betting types and markets. Betting on game dust often varies from place to place so make sure you familiarize yourself with the types of bets and markets available for sports betting before you put your money on the line or else you risk losing more money than making money. Betting on game dust often varies from place to place.

Since you said you became addicted to gambling and used your entire pocket money for betting if you would have continued betting then you would have done the same as an adult.
It's good that you were able to give up the gambling addiction because it would have ruined your life otherwise.
This shows how easy it is to get started with gambling and get addicted to it while how difficult it is to leave this habit.

It will be a memory that will never be forgotten because maybe many of us gambled secretly so our parents wouldn't know. And it's a story that we can tell again when we're hanging out with our old friends so that the memories will come back. But indeed, childhood is full of many things, especially gambling, which we may not realize at that time that what we do with our friends is gambling. We still keep repeating it with our friends because we like the game. As children, we get money from our parents to gamble with our friends.

If we are to track back how we all started with gambling, some of our stories will be funny because then we were young and things we then were not to be compared to how we behave now in gambling, children were mostly restricted from gambling, because of the requirements for money in other to gamble, you have your own privilege of gambling even when no one knows about that, but I wonder where you got your money from then to gamble

Yes, the biggest reason for we started to sports betting was that we all follow football matches closely, we constantly comment on the matches and we are all interested in football. Even though I have earned good money from time to time by betting on sports I don't think that a person can constantly make a profit in gambling because after a certain point we can see that the loss amount increases and exceeds the gained amount. Of course, it is possible to earn money even if not regularly but unfortunately it isn't possible to win constantly even if you have intense interest and knowledge in any sport. This is the nature of gambling and unfortunately as I mentioned it applies to everyone at some point, regardless of interest and level of knowledge.

You mean teachers were encouraging kids to gamble? OMG. I can't believe it's possible anywhere. Those teachers should be fired, in my opinion.


You are right. Well, not in my case. No one told me not to gamble when I was a kid, so, I didn't even know it was a bad thing to do. And I gambled once; three of us, 10-year-old kids chipped in on one lottery ticket, and we actually won like 10 times of the ticket price, but I'd never gambled since then until I was like 30. But maybe if I knew it was something forbidden for kids to do, I'd gamble more, idk.

Cant make out that conclusion though yet im a sports guy in elementary days which i do really have interest with NBA and this is what sport im really that a fan of, but you do have some point that sooner or later on which you would really be able to engage yourself into something like gambling or betting on which it could be avoidable depending on what kind of type of person are you.
There are really things which you cant really be able to resist on trying out on the time that curiosity would really be kicking in. Its up to you whether you would really be avoiding or would really be engaging on controlled manner. There are ones who could really just make out bets but occasionally, there are ones who would turn out to be a heavy bettor.

It would really be that according into your own interest and the severity of betting amount will really be according on how addicted you are with betting.
Its true that even on how hard our parents would really be doing such monitoring but due to easy access nowadays and too much exposure then its impossible that
you could totally hide it from them.