Topic: Keeping your gambling habit a secret. - page 18. (Read 8048 times)

The most crucial aspect of gambling is being on the right track, responsible gambling. Whatever one wants to do, once it has been ascertained that the person is a responsible gambler, doesn't matter anymore. The goal is becoming smart and making changes when necessary. Relationship with others doesn't make any changes in the life of the gambler. Why should one brag over his habit, if he's on the right track. It's a matter of explanation over bragging or noise on the type of money we've made in gambling. Gambling is not something to brag about, it's a game. A gambler could win today and lose out the next time he gambles. How would he feel after bragging and lose out on the next session. Hence, no need to be ashamed of our habit. They're some gamblers who would hide their screen or minimize if someone else tries to spy on their screen.

On the previous response of a member, he said within him the person can join gambling and end up becoming compulsive on the long run. As gamblers we need to understand how people around us feel about gambling. Before unveiling our gambling habit to them, they may have shown some interest or asked us about what we always focus our mind doing on the laptop. Or after a big win, the person asks questions on the new gadgets or products the gambler is buying. How he got his money? It's then left for the gambler to share his gambling activities with the person, and add some tips, what the person needs to know regarding gambling. No need bragging about that. It's a matter of personal discussion. Not trying to convince the person to gamble. But, letting them discover the positive aspect of gambling.

There quite few advantages to keeping ones gambling open but several disadvantages. Few of the advantages I can only identify is to be able to receive help should one start developing negative habits such as gambling addiction. It is therefore important for some family members or trusted ally to be aware of ones gambling activities. Apart from these, the best is to keep gambling activities secret because it can pose a security threat to the individual. In addition, one can face some form of stereotype from people due to gambling, especially in a society where gambling is perceived to be bad.

Another aspect, just like you state, is in a case whereby gambling is banned in the country. It will really be a big problem exposing ones gambling activities when cryptocurrency makes it easy to gamble and remain anonymous.

        -  What you said, although I have never seen anyone bragging about gambling, saying that a large deposit made in a casino is bragging even though there is no need to brag, then what is bragging about? the big deposit in the casino? How can you brag about that if you didn't win at gambling? Instead, the size of the amount that you boasted about, you just lost.

Isn't it better that the amount of money you put into the casino is small or limited so that, in the end, the small amount of money you deposit in a casino grows, so at this point, you or we can brag about it because we ended up taking home a win?

Gambling also has points worth sharing, in addition to its stimulating properties, it also includes many lessons and when we go through such levels, in fact, sharing with someone is also something to express your feelings and feel more comfortable. And in a society with people of the same age who are very open-minded and who have early access to the internet, sharing gambling habits is not something but important who that person will be, a friend who listens is different from someone who gossips and talks a lot, this garden should only allow a few people to interact

that's true, because not all countries allow gambling to be carried out, so it could be from those who hide their gambling because of that, in my opinion gambling should be kept secret, because if it is publicized there is no benefit, because in my opinion most people have a point of view negative towards gambling, by publicizing their gambling habits they may get a positive view by people who also like gambling, but this rarely happens, more often there will be a lot of negative views.

I agree with that, there is no harm in showing our gambling activities, but we also have to see who is worthy of knowing about our gambling activities, because not everyone is worthy of seeing or knowing about our gambling activities, because that can bring its own problems. It is no longer unusual for a friend to borrow money and not pay it back. but this can sometimes be a problem for us. I myself have a friend like this that when he borrowed money I didn't respond because I already knew what the end would be like.

Information is power. And the more information known about you, the less private and secure your life could be. You’re right on choosing the right person to divulge certain information to.
There are people who aren’t to be trusted with certain information about yourself as that information when made privy to to these individuals, would quickly become common knowledge and known all over your vicinity. That’s pretty much why people choose to keep their affairs confidential.

It’s best to keep your affairs private and in a scenario that has the society frowning at gambling, all the more reason to share less and know who you allow into your circle.

Privacy is something that every gambler must maintain, this is not just personal secret but also about protecting oneself from bad views and unwanted things.
Not everyone perspective on gambling will be the same and not everyone considers gambling to be normal activity to do because many people consider it bad and dismiss gambling as an illegal activity.
Apart from that, when you get big win it can also trigger confiscation and for online gambling there may be hacking, this must always be alert and one way is to hide every gambling activity that we do.

And the matter of being influenced by what we do in gambling is actually not something we have to think about because when we gamble, we never invite or suggest other people, such as our friends, to gamble together.
Sometimes it really fun to gamble with friends and feel the joy of winning and advising each other when they make mistakes that result in defeat.
But for now, I personally would prefer to carry out each gambling activity individually or not invite anyone to play or bet together.

As you said it all comes back to each individual gambler because hiding gambling activities has good benefits and there are also negative impacts and one of the positive impacts is one of the ones you mentioned but the negative impact is if you come from a country that prohibits gambling you will be considered a person who bad because gambling is against the law.
There is nothing wrong with showing our gambling to other people, but we also have to see who is worthy of knowing because otherwise news about your gambling activities will spread to everyone and for me the right person to see our gambling activities is only one of them. family members because sometimes a friend, even though they gamble together and have fun together, will end up giving us trouble themselves when they run out of funds and borrow funds from us and will never return the funds and this is one of the bad impacts.

Well that's right, I understand that as long as we don't harm others then it's our right to do whatever if we have a safe and recommended behavior or approach overall, but on the other hand like you said it's also true my friend that even though we are basically responsible gambling in our gambling activities but we can't be completely sure that people will consider us responsible gamblers, In the event that you're not sure what to do, you'll be able to take a look at this article and see if you can find any information about it.

Therefore, the conclusion of everything is as you said that it is better and safer for us to keep it a secret from others and just enjoy it ourselves, after all I think there is no point in telling people that we gamble, there is no benefit whatsoever in my opinion.

If we put aside boasting, should then a person keep gambling habit in secret? Boasting with money isnt something that is accepted by society, but what if I have deposited a thousand, and won few dollars. Should I keep that in secret on purpose (meaning if someone eventually spot a gambling game on my screen, should I immediately minimize or hide it?). What if I am not trying to boast with amount I have won, but I simply have a smile on a face that I won. Should I change it to poker face immediately? And if someone asks why I am smiling, then I should lie that I've got it by gambling. Most people here think I should do that. While I think there is nothing be ashamed of, nothing to hide, let other mind their own business.

We can turn this discussion into victory in gambling = success. Should we keep our success in secret? Athletes boast with medals all the time

Every gambler must have self-control so that they can gamble within their limits. If they lose their limits, it will make them lose their money and it will be difficult to recover their losses. If they still choose to hide their gambling activities, they really have to pay attention to this issue of self-control and not lose it because that means they could endanger their finances. Once they lose self-control, everything will fall apart, and they can use more money to gamble so that they won't have any money. Limiting money for gambling is important so that we don't gamble excessively and also that we can have money for other daily needs. That means we can balance the allocation of gambling funds and prepare them for daily needs.

I think many people should keep their gambling a secret simply because they have nothing to brag about. Either there is nothing to boast about yet or there will never be anything to boast about. When a person is long-term successful, it is usually difficult for him to restrain himself from demonstrating the material results of his success. This is a natural human desire. It’s as if a person proves to himself and those around him that he doesn’t just spend a huge amount of time on the game. But in most cases there is still nothing to be proud of.

It might not be that they are not proud just that they want to keep it separate from their public lives.  Maybe you surround yourself with people who are also gamblers amd don't want to get wrapped up in theor circle of gambling.  Meaning you would be more apt to gamble with them and not what you enjoy gambling on.  And other times it's just easier to seperate.

I say if we're talking about normal gambling habits where you gamble every now and again, I think it's not something that you should really go out of your own way to tell people about, especially since there's no real risk at all. It's still something good to let people in on especially those close to you since they can easily check you out whenever, but if you're casually gambling I don't really find the reason why I'd bother people about it.

Now the story's different when you're gambling a little more seriously, either by choice or because you're finding yourself in a deep rabbit hole that you can't easily get out of courtesy of past gambling mishaps and whatnot. If this is the case then it's much more important that you tell people closest to you about what's going on. Regardless of shame or whatever. For one, this is usually the instances in your gambling journey when you're putting a serious dent not only on your bankroll but quite possibly even your finances as well, if you're with a partner they deserve to know where your money's going so they can budget or in certain cases, help you with your addiction.

There's no shame in asking for help especially when you need it. So don't be too stingy to ask for help. Trust me when I say these people that care about you would rather see you recover then pick yourself back up than get all the money you lost and then die in the process.

The influenced person has to pay the price of being responsible for his gambling activities. Hiding your gambling habit for the sake of some other people getting influenced by you, is cool, but that's not a thing to bother about. They're other reasons why people shouldn't disclose their gambling habit. Not saying yours isn't good enough, at least you've got the people at heart and won't feel comfortable letting others go into gambling prematurely and get addicted. By the way, depending on your personality, don't know what your response would be if someone points fingers at you that you caused his gambling addiction. Like many people already did recently. Especially in the forum where there are few threads discussing about people regretting and blaming others for their failure to be responsible gamblers.

Maintaining a good family and retaining the love we have for our children, can be a better reason why a gambler should hide his habit. Our family may not understand the reason behind why we gamble. And it could cause some trouble between spouses. Avoiding such trouble requires that a gambler keeps his habit mute. Gambling alone isn't fun, as you said Iroh, yet hiding from people won't stop the person from enjoying gambling with friends. The aim is not hiding it from everyone, but the few people who he doesn't want to know of his gambling lifestyle. People do this due to the type of life they portray to the society. Disclosing or gambling openly for everyone to know can only invade the person's personally lifestyle in the society. And the gambler won't be comfortable around his environment, based on what people say about him being a gambler.

I agree with this opinion, there are reasons why most people prefer to gamble in secret. From experience, some of these reasons will suffice here;

First, when family and friends don't support gambling, the gambler will prefer to gamble in secret to avoid misunderstandings with family or friends.

In addition, most gamblers must have shown a negative attitude after losing a bet and then vowed never to gamble again. Since they are addicted, they prefer to gamble in secret not to make it open to friends he promised that he will not gamble again.

Furthermore, it is more convenient to gamble in secret, especially in sports betting. Someone can easily and conveniently place a bet at home instead of going to a shop.

The above reasons justify that keeping gambling a secret depends on the personal idiosyncrasies of the gambler. However, in my thinking, it is best to gamble in secret since it will be bad to exhibit obnoxious behavior in public after losing a bet and that will make people attribute any misfortune to you to gambling since they know you are a gambler but when people don't know they find it hard to relate gambling to any misfortune that may happen to the bettor.

Keeping your gambling habit secret is optional as it varies amongst gamblers. It all depends on the person gambling. Your point of keeping it a secret for fear of influencing others. I don’t think it would any fault of yours if someone else get influenced without you putting any effort into doing so.
People enjoy gambling with friends as it could be enjoyable winning and losing with friends around having cheers and boos when there’s a win and when there’s a loss.

There are some activities that aren’t just fun when done alone.

a normal circumstances I think that many people do keep their very secret because they don't want to review it to anybody even some people to who is a gambler they also keep their gambling strategies severely secret so that nobody will know whatever thing they are doing all the method they use in Winning gamblance so it is honorable ing or method of keeping your Bitcoin in your wallet that can review whatever secret then have and then when they review their secret they are open it or their fellow guys will be able to understand their source of winning gambling and the source of making money

Thats true mate and I think it also depends on the nature of your society too, because where am from gambling is actually a fun activity and people tend to be even proud of their gambling habits, I mean there are family that even gamble and it's seem actually normal and reason with me if someone is staying in such an environment would the person even care about whether to keep his habits secret or not? So I think the environment also matter because for the case of a place where this is actually opposite of what I gave insight on then I think definitely there would be contemplation on the secrecy of their gambling habits.

You're right. People hide their gambling habits because of varied reasons. It is not only about the bad stigma in our society, people hide it may be caused by other reasons. Some gamblers don't want their children to follow their gambling habits. While other may keep it secretly because they don't want the wife to feel worried about the habits. Yes, some people prefer to hide it to avoid bad impacts on their close people. I think we can't blame them, it is their right to hide or to tell others about the gambling habits.

We don't need to debate whether we must tell others about our gambling habits or not, it is purely individual rights and personal choice. I think we are free to choose hiding our gambling habits. However, we must know that it also has consequence. If there are no people know our gambling habits, we must deal with ourselves when we have problems on them. For the example, if we are addicted, then no one can help us because they don't know our habits at all.