Topic: Is Gambling A Hobby? - page 16. (Read 5935 times)

OP should have known better that gambling is subjective. Gambling can mean a scam to some people till the day they die, they will never see gambling as fun thing, social activity nor even a place to make money but see it as a place to lose, this is why some parents don't like it when they see their children indulging in it even if you are an adult person.

Some people see gambling as alternative to make money, whether we can disagree on this or agree on it, the fact remain the same that gambling is husle for some people and it works for them, no advice about gambling will make them see gambling as any other thing but money making place and their goal is always achieved, how they do this I don't understand but dedication, hardwork and believe is what I think works for them most often.

Yes, that's right, but hobby lovers definitely have rules where we have to be able to manage everything so that it is under control because a hobby is of course to relax the mind from the burden of stressful life which makes it healthy again, but if gambling becomes a hobby, most of it ends up being emotional which has a bad impact. This will definitely be a clash between family, friendship and romance, which means have to be prepared to accept the risk of gambling if can't control your finances.

I think the hobbyist should spend time on demo gambling. As it could be more dangerous going for the betting aspect of it. One shouldn't tag gambling a hobby when money is involved. Have always thought of hobby as things that didn't require the hobbyist to spend money. Reading, running, dancing, are things people love doing when they are not being paid.

Hence, if a gambler feels to be doing it as a hobby he should avoid staking money on the game. Because it will only obstruct the goal of the gambler and lead him to something else, which may advance his thoughts towards going for more money. Limiting the game is also a nice decision expected of hobbyist, it's definitely sad to regret participating in our hobby. So, the player must be careful whenever money is required.

As with anything else in life, hobbies can spiral out of control if you allow them. Hobbies should be enjoyable, something to do to have fun and de-stress; not something that will make you feel even more stressed. Gambling as hobby requires wisdom: learn when to stop. Its about recognizing your boundaries and, of course, having a great time. Like anything in life, things will get out of hand if you are unable to regulate yourself. You have to respect your money and yourself. Everything boils down to awareness. That distinguishes between an addiction and a pastime. It has to do with trust-building and honesty with oneself. It has to do with your relationships as much as money. Everything else in your life will suffer if you start to blow it with gambling. Keeping things real, man.

in my opinion, gambling understood as such cannot be a genuine entertainment, it can be if there is no money involved but when one makes a bet he always does it only for the money or for the pleasure of winning it and it is not It's easy to control this impulse many times, it's easy when you bet on an event that you can only bet on once a week where the bets are limited, now where we can all play on everything it seems impossible to me

To be honest, I don't agree if gambling is used as a hobby, because this is something different in a context that we know where hobbies have a positive impact on us, even though everyone has different hobbies and there are negative money things and positive things that can be included in the standard, but the level of the problem at its core is addiction in carrying out the hobby, let's say you like fishing, then you fish so much in the river that you don't want to go home and don't want to work because you still really want to fish, isn't that also a positive thing and becomes negative when you overdo it.

And try to reflect this on gambling, where if it aims to find pleasure in gambling it will have a positive impact because it will change our mood, but if we cross the line and overplay gambling it is not a good thing because it will have a bad impact on the environment, especially finances, so if you want gambling to be a hobby then we must be good at managing emotions, money and time to gamble so that we can gamble responsibly.

Gambling as a hobby has never been a huge trouble for some players and it's not wrong to participate on things that interest us. I've experienced that gamblers actually suffer lots of challenges when it comes with giving things they love a break. Sometimes when gaming gets to me in this manner that doesn't allow me enough time to handle other activities, avoiding the casino would be my best choice.

Most players don't harness the control of taking a nice decision, when gambling is eating up their time. Have always wondered  why, but after experiencing it, I realized how impulsive it is when a player doesn't stop and avoid gambling. This leads to problematic gambling and affects the productivity of the player.

That's right, hobbies are usually done to entertain ourselves and seem to have no negative side or bad impact, but with gambling it can have a negative side where losing money can trigger our emotions which can lead us to actions that are at great risk. Gambling has quite serious side effects, moreover gambling can indeed make players become addicted and forget reasonable limits so that the stakes are their own lives that can become messy. It is not strange for many people to have their lives fall apart because of gambling but that is the fault of the individual himself.
It would be nice if we could have a hobby that could make money or profit, even though gambling has the opportunity to make money but it is not certain, therefore it is better not to make gambling a hobby, it is better to find another hobby that is indeed a risk or the impact is not too bad for ourselves, after all there are still many other things that can be used as a hobby, even if you have enough money I don't think you should make gambling a hobby, but if there are people who make gambling a hobby just hope they can control everything so that no serious problems occur.

Hobby can make people happy and have a good impact on having positive activities that they like. But everyone's views are different, I respect that. My view is that gambling is not a complete hobby, it could be the effect of a heavy addict who enjoys the sensation of betting, but the effect is mostly bad, not positive. In today's internet world, hobbies that can make money are extraordinary, such as being positive content creators. This is more supportive of being able to earn money. It's just capital for creative ideas, but if we gamble we have to have capital to bet and the rest is just hoping to win or end up losing. If you can't control most of the bad impacts will come

Defeat in gambling is indeed something that is avoided and hated by gamblers, but in reality, gamblers cannot avoid the defeat that often occurs there and the victory that is dreamed of and awaited by all gamblers is very difficult to achieve.
That's right, people who have a lot of money and they make gambling one of their hobbies is a wrong analysis, indeed at first they will feel happy every time they play gambling and placing bets is not a problem for them, but if they often lose in gambling for a long time, maybe they will realize by themselves that their hobby which they consider is a disaster for their life.

It does come down to a level of self control, but even at the extremes it could still be defined as a hobby. You could have someone who is a mini train railway enthusiast who puts all their money into that activity to the same degree as someone you might define as having a gambling problem. Just because people associate gambling with a nefarious activity does not exclude it from being a hobby too. It's better if you keep all your hobbies under control and not let it invade your whole lifestyle, but that would not be limited to gambling. Unless you are aspiring to become a professional player in a skilled game like poker, then you can only ever really gamble casually because it will eventually eat up all of your cash if you let it.

Hobby is something people do when they are free and the main purpose is for a good emotional satisfaction that enables someone to be free from over thinking of future problems, so how does this relate to gambling, gambling can streas individual emotionally and for me anything that involves emotional stress is not a hobby, although individual perception differs however, be it as it may gambling can not be a hobby most times gamblers refer addiction to hobby, hobby can not triger you spend unrealistic funds but gambing do, i have checked and recheck there is know connection between the two, i have heard people say that they gamble for fun but i dont believe that because it is almost impossible for anyone to spend money in gambling without the expectation of winning so in real sense gambling is not a hobby.

I consider that when things get out of control they will never be a hobby or anything fun , Especially because what is lost is money and that is already something delicate, therefore when we decide to do things right we must have great money management so as not to lose it completely, fun at the casino can depend on ourselves, we can play once or twice a Week , but we should still make reasonable bets and not something that harms us, if we play every day the most probable thing is that we will have an impressive money leak, then it is not something profitable , I would not say that it is a hobby, I would define it as adult fun.

Can you name at least one hobby that is not accompanied by addiction? No matter who I look at, everyone's hobby (if they have one) is of great importance. Garden lovers almost cry if they are unable to grow their favorite variety of tomatoes, similarly with flower lovers, how collectors suffer from the absence of some nonsense in their collection is difficult to describe in words, etc. It is obvious to me that if a person does something voluntarily, spends time, energy and money on it, then he has an addiction to it.

Somehow someone considers gambling as a lifestyle or as a hobby, but gambling will indeed be a place to relieve stress when used appropriately and what exactly is the end goal.

As for how gambling is used as a hobby, it may start from games or bets that are just to release stress.
I myself do a few games just to fill my free time, and don't really take gambling seriously.

Gambling as a hobby or not depends on how their initial goal is, if it is indeed a hobby then there will be no pressure to always have to win or get profits.
But if gambling aims to earn more income, it will be a different story and there will be more pressure going on.

If we talk as a whole then yes what you say is true that overall gambling is an activity that has an impact that tends to be negative, or what it means is that the negative and positive impacts are not balanced because overall the negative impacts are far worse than the positive benefits, and also the majority of people involved in gambling most of them experience these negative impacts, only a few of them are really in the safe zone. And I believe that one of the reasons is because the object of winning in gambling is money which we all always need money which in the end the object often makes gamblers lose their way and fall into unconsciousness.

And I also agree that gambling cannot be made into a hobby because after all the activity is too risky to always be done frequently in the long run, and it cannot be denied that even if for example in the beginning you were a responsible gambler but it is possible to eventually experience many downturns due to the adverse effects of gambling, because gambling has a lot of temptations that look tempting that can make gamblers fall into it unconsciously, so we better think rationally to find a reasonable answer that gambling cannot or should not be made into a hobby.

However, gambling should not be considered as a hobby because most likely what will happen is our money being drained, in my opinion. Even though we have certain limits, there is a chance that we can lose control and that can result in our money being lost in just one gambling session. When gambling is done every day, I think it is a gambling addiction, because when gamblers gamble every day, it is very possible that they will not be able to stop gambling. Apart from that, I think gambling every day can make your finances messy because there is a big possibility that the pull of gambling can make someone forget themselves or as you said, approach a gambling addiction.

indeed spending a lot of time gambling is certainly not good, apart from that I think gambling can divert our focus, sometimes when we are busy gambling we can forget about other things because we are already carried away by the atmosphere of gambling and of course that will make us focus only on gambling while there are There are other things to pay attention to besides gambling. with those who experience big losses, of course they take actions that are not considered.

Yes, we have different views about it but for me, gambling should not be considered a hobby, unlike sports activities as it has way different results, and most of the time it is negative. If a person says gambling is good it simply means that he/she is doing well and not addicted to it but those people who say negative might possibly be experiencing bad about it. That all can be possible but thinking of doing this every day is not good anymore and is close to addiction which should not happen to us. Too much time spent in gambling has never ended in a good story, most of them make terrible mistakes causing big losses and compromise their financial capabilities.

But hobby can be done more often than we only use it occasionally. You see when someone like football and use football as his hobby, he will playing football too often than the other activities. If he can treat football as a sport, he will not playing gambling too often but only playing gambling if he have a spare time.

He will playing football when he wants and he can fills his spare time with other activities. He knows that football is one activity that he can use in his spare time but not too often because he must have more energy to play. But no matters what, if someone can treat gambling as an entertainment, he will not lose much money and that is what he needs to remembers.

Most people can't use gambling in a good manner because once they feels the fun, they will forget with all the things that they must do in gambling. That makes them spends too much money without thinks about the other needs in their daily life. Gambling as a hobby needs more money so that can impact to our financial and we may spends a lot of money just to fills our wanting.

That will not be good for him because he will not knows when he can wins in gambling instead will have big chance to lose the money. If he lose that money in gambling, whether he use gambling as a hobby or habit, that will makes him frustrate seeing his money lost in gambling. Not many people have good habit in gambling so that should makes us thinks how we can treat gambling as an entertainment. You should thinks twice if you wants to use gambling as a hobby because in this matters, you will use much money more than usual.

Nope, in my view gambling is a style of life rather than a hobby. True and abstracted gamblers will bet on everything even on tomorrow's whether and it doesn't matter with whom and where. They are  gambling in the sake of process which is part of their psychologic life. I'm not in their class. For me personally gambling is a kinf of  "hash-time"  session when spending  my leisure time.