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September 22, 2018, 04:29:01 AM
Gambling has some benefits, but there is a lot of propaganda out there that condemns it just because a few people get addicted to it, but to deny that there are some benefits is a mistake, if you play in a physical casino you'll find friendly people there and you can make new friends, sometimes you can even make business contacts by going to the casino, that is in fact a very common practice in my country where two businessman after making a deal go to the casino to celebrate, also if you like to make sports bets you'll soon understand that you will need an advanced knowledge of mathematics and probabilities to become a winner.
Having friendly people in physical casinos doesn’t mean that a bad thing would change in good thing. The whole world admits that gambling is not good and gamblers have no respect even in their homes. Their children do not like them, because they lose all the money from which they can do many things for their families. It is a fact and not propaganda.
This question is like benefits of robbing, looting or corruption etc. because the money in gambling is also illegal and the means I mentioned are also illegal. What the different between all these? I think that there are no benefits of gambling because it is not acceptable to any society of the world and a gambler has no respect even in his home.
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September 18, 2018, 09:24:04 AM
Today evening, I was spending some free time by surfing various websites. Suddenly a website caught my attention which talks about the benefits of gambling. I was surprised because negative thoughts about gambling is so common, but positive thoughts are rare to find. So I went ahead and read the entire article. The article actually talks about the positive sides of gambling which I believe everyone should know and it made a lot of sense to me!

The article lists 7 points as the benefits of gambling:
1. Gambling Stimulates Local Economies
2. Gambling Is a Form of Entertainment
3. Gambling Can Take Place in a Safe Environment
4. You Could Win
5. Gambling Contributes to Government Budgets
6. Gambling Creates New Forms of Revenue
7. Gambling is a Form of Game Play

The article is actually a tight slap on the popular belief that "gambling is harmful to the society". So I encourage everyone on this forum to read the article and understand it, especially the non-gamblers! Gambling is not a fools-heaven, it's just another business and an opportunity to the gamblers! Hope this article would clear your mind!

Article Link: https://www.benefitsof.org/what-are-the-benefits-of-gambling/

We don't have to forget that not every person can play game without the appearance of dependence to it. So, there should be a little test maybe with the first game to understand the persons willpower to stop playing when it will be needed.
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September 18, 2018, 07:25:47 AM
Today evening, I was spending some free time by surfing various websites. Suddenly a website caught my attention which talks about the benefits of gambling. I was surprised because negative thoughts about gambling is so common, but positive thoughts are rare to find. So I went ahead and read the entire article. The article actually talks about the positive sides of gambling which I believe everyone should know and it made a lot of sense to me!

When we say gambling, it is easily judged and have a negativity impact in so many people. I am also a gambler. I like this thread because what you have said is true. But those things are not buried because of so many negative things regarding gambling. I hope this open the eyes of most people. It is not the gambling itself that is bad, it is the person that abbuse gambling.
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September 18, 2018, 07:10:45 AM
Regardless from the list on OP but in my view benefits of gambling only belongs to people who can control their emotions and desire while gambling with avoid to being an addicted but gambling will have negative impact to those who can't control their emotions and being an addicted but i think people will always be consider gambling as bad habit

According to various researches from 0.5 to 3 percent of adult population have some issues with gambling, including being addicted to it. I'm not saying it's nothing, no, actually it's a big problem and we have to do everything we can to prevent people from getting addicted. But it must be noted that the percentage of alcoholics is much higher than that of gambling addicts. More than 7 percent of the American population aged 18 and up have a drinking problem. I haven't managed to found similar info on Europe but according to the World Health Organisation, the European Union is the heaviest-drinking region in the world, so the percentage of alcoholics in Europe must be even higher. Taking the above into account, if drinking a beer or two, or a glass of wine or two, is considered okay by society, playing a game or two should be considered okay as well.
There's a line that separates the amount of how much beer intake (or gambling bets/amount) is okay and what's not considered 'too much'. The problem is, that line is rather very blurry and is very dynamic. A person, who is drinking one beer a day (or gambling for 30 minutes a day), can easily tell other people that they have more beer than they used to (or gambled more or longer than they used to) and still look acceptable and 'normal' to the society. People think that the person probably had a good time and was just trying to have fun. As time goes by, our brain gets used to that certain amount and so it seeks more just as you would seek more of it as it is enjoyable or fun. The numbers increase a bit, no one cares. It bits even more, no one bats an eye. You start to notice it, that it's okay to go higher and still be 'A-okay' to the people around you and so you increase it even more. Now you're at the number far from what you used to. At some point you would realize that no one really cares about your habits and that no matter how much you go higher, no one really cares until it starts to affect you or the people around you negatively. But at that point you're already dependent on the habit and it's too late to go back.

Now, now.. Is this how addiction is formed?

Yes, this is exactly how addiction is formed. If we get pleasure from something we need more of it after a certain period of time. But what is more and how long is that period of time is what matters most. For example, if you were gambling 1 hour per day 10 years ago and today you are gambling 2 hours per day, I wouldn't call that forming an addiction. Gambling 2 hours per day is still okay as long as you are not losing more than you can afford to lose. Also, it's never too late to go back. With good professional help gambling addiction can be cured. I'm personally aware of couple of examples. But those were difficult cases. In fact only a small percentage of gamblers become addicted eventually. Most people can control themselves.

well said!
I don't really think that most of the people who has the gambling (or any other addiction) problem understand that and think this includes them.
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September 18, 2018, 06:29:15 AM
Regardless from the list on OP but in my view benefits of gambling only belongs to people who can control their emotions and desire while gambling with avoid to being an addicted but gambling will have negative impact to those who can't control their emotions and being an addicted but i think people will always be consider gambling as bad habit

According to various researches from 0.5 to 3 percent of adult population have some issues with gambling, including being addicted to it. I'm not saying it's nothing, no, actually it's a big problem and we have to do everything we can to prevent people from getting addicted. But it must be noted that the percentage of alcoholics is much higher than that of gambling addicts. More than 7 percent of the American population aged 18 and up have a drinking problem. I haven't managed to found similar info on Europe but according to the World Health Organisation, the European Union is the heaviest-drinking region in the world, so the percentage of alcoholics in Europe must be even higher. Taking the above into account, if drinking a beer or two, or a glass of wine or two, is considered okay by society, playing a game or two should be considered okay as well.
There's a line that separates the amount of how much beer intake (or gambling bets/amount) is okay and what's not considered 'too much'. The problem is, that line is rather very blurry and is very dynamic. A person, who is drinking one beer a day (or gambling for 30 minutes a day), can easily tell other people that they have more beer than they used to (or gambled more or longer than they used to) and still look acceptable and 'normal' to the society. People think that the person probably had a good time and was just trying to have fun. As time goes by, our brain gets used to that certain amount and so it seeks more just as you would seek more of it as it is enjoyable or fun. The numbers increase a bit, no one cares. It bits even more, no one bats an eye. You start to notice it, that it's okay to go higher and still be 'A-okay' to the people around you and so you increase it even more. Now you're at the number far from what you used to. At some point you would realize that no one really cares about your habits and that no matter how much you go higher, no one really cares until it starts to affect you or the people around you negatively. But at that point you're already dependent on the habit and it's too late to go back.

Now, now.. Is this how addiction is formed?

Yes, this is exactly how addiction is formed. If we get pleasure from something we need more of it after a certain period of time. But what is more and how long is that period of time is what matters most. For example, if you were gambling 1 hour per day 10 years ago and today you are gambling 2 hours per day, I wouldn't call that forming an addiction. Gambling 2 hours per day is still okay as long as you are not losing more than you can afford to lose. Also, it's never too late to go back. With good professional help gambling addiction can be cured. I'm personally aware of couple of examples. But those were difficult cases. In fact only a small percentage of gamblers become addicted eventually. Most people can control themselves.
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September 18, 2018, 04:24:07 AM
Yes, some people can see the benefit but most will see gambling are evil and not worth to being fight for !

I just hope that they don't just "see" the benefit of gambling, they should be also feel and learn what can be done by Gambling in their lives. Gambling destroyed a lot of lives in the past, there will be in the near future and I hope people will be able to overcome those problems since not only themselves will be affected by that but also the people around him.
A lot of the lives destroyed by gambling to me are self-inflicted and should not in any way be put on gambling itself. People with their greedy and unrealistic mindset usually feel that gambling is a way to set them on the wealthy part and the question they always forget to ask is that. Where does that leave the owners of the casino or gambling platform ?

This is gambling and the earlier people started accepting that fact that there is nothing like winning in gambling except you are just very lucky which is rare to a very large extent, then the better it would be for them to have the right mindset when it comes to gambling or not even just gambling at all if they cannot control themselves.
I don’t think that there are any benefits of gambling. Many people committed suicides because of their debts in gambling. When they lose money and even everything in gambling and there is no source of overcoming these debts then they commit suicide. They are free but the problem is for their families. Now tell me what are the benefits of gambling?

So do you mean that there are some people getting rich from gambling is not a benefit? Casinos also giving a chance for people to get a job, it is also a benefit. The most simple thing, getting new friends while you are gambling is not a benefit as well?
I wonder why do you think gambling as a very bad thing with no benefits at all.
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September 18, 2018, 01:17:47 AM
Yes, some people can see the benefit but most will see gambling are evil and not worth to being fight for !

I just hope that they don't just "see" the benefit of gambling, they should be also feel and learn what can be done by Gambling in their lives. Gambling destroyed a lot of lives in the past, there will be in the near future and I hope people will be able to overcome those problems since not only themselves will be affected by that but also the people around him.
A lot of the lives destroyed by gambling to me are self-inflicted and should not in any way be put on gambling itself. People with their greedy and unrealistic mindset usually feel that gambling is a way to set them on the wealthy part and the question they always forget to ask is that. Where does that leave the owners of the casino or gambling platform ?

This is gambling and the earlier people started accepting that fact that there is nothing like winning in gambling except you are just very lucky which is rare to a very large extent, then the better it would be for them to have the right mindset when it comes to gambling or not even just gambling at all if they cannot control themselves.
I don’t think that there are any benefits of gambling. Many people committed suicides because of their debts in gambling. When they lose money and even everything in gambling and there is no source of overcoming these debts then they commit suicide. They are free but the problem is for their families. Now tell me what are the benefits of gambling?
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September 17, 2018, 05:16:35 AM
Gambling has some benefits, but there is a lot of propaganda out there that condemns it just because a few people get addicted to it, but to deny that there are some benefits is a mistake, if you play in a physical casino you'll find friendly people there and you can make new friends, sometimes you can even make business contacts by going to the casino, that is in fact a very common practice in my country where two businessman after making a deal go to the casino to celebrate, also if you like to make sports bets you'll soon understand that you will need an advanced knowledge of mathematics and probabilities to become a winner.
Having friendly people in physical casinos doesn’t mean that a bad thing would change in good thing. The whole world admits that gambling is not good and gamblers have no respect even in their homes. Their children do not like them, because they lose all the money from which they can do many things for their families. It is a fact and not propaganda.
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September 15, 2018, 06:20:01 AM
I am not agree with the fact that gambling is a business or profession. It do not require any basic knowledge or education


Gambling and luck based games relate to statistics and probability which is a form of mathematics going back hundreds of years.   I studied it in college, its definitely a valid logically built business style.   It might not be how people play it but a business can certainly stop to analyse and structure their regular games to feature games that are profitable while also giving a chance to win far larger amounts then the stakes given by customers.    A simple lottery is very commonly operated by many local governments as its quite predictable and seen as a social activity, the other more varied games relate similarly
Seriously? You learn gambling in campus, maybe your country does legalize casino gambling or anything else maybe?
If that is the case then there is indeed a point if there is a section for analyzing in gambling and it is indeed related to math-related calculations, but not all countries legalize gambling and not all campuses have a gambling curriculum. But by having a lot of friends in gambling, I can also conclude if the gambling is indeed enough to be an additional income if they consistently win gambling and I have many friends like that, so gambling is not entirely detrimental, because there are still many people who take advantage of gambling, so gambling can be said to be a profession and business too.
Unless maybe to have some strategy to help you prolong your game by putting into check some form of probability and using that to gamble, I really do not see how this would in any way help anyone when it comes to gambling, Irrespective of your knowledge in mathematics or whatever, it still all balls down to luck and for what I can see so far, a lot of people who tend to rely on something to favor them in gambling are the ones who usually end up as an addict quickly.
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September 15, 2018, 05:30:30 AM
In addition to making money, gambling can also train us to be able to control emotions well. We can also get new friends there who might be our relationship for business. But of course there is a bad impact from gambling, besides losing money we will also be trapped and addicted to continue gambling if we are not able to control emotions, even worse we will begin to owe to gamble. So we must be wiser to take the positive side of the gambling game.
If you gamble just for fun and not for making money then you will enjoy gambling and that is the only benefit of gambling that you visit a casino with your friends and family members. Benefit of having some enjoyment with your lovers and apart from this there is no other benefit of gambling. Gambling is a bad thing and the whole world admits that gambling is not good.
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September 13, 2018, 05:29:04 PM
Gambling has some benefits, but there is a lot of propaganda out there that condemns it just because a few people get addicted to it, but to deny that there are some benefits is a mistake, if you play in a physical casino you'll find friendly people there and you can make new friends, sometimes you can even make business contacts by going to the casino, that is in fact a very common practice in my country where two businessman after making a deal go to the casino to celebrate, also if you like to make sports bets you'll soon understand that you will need an advanced knowledge of mathematics and probabilities to become a winner.

I agree with you, there can also be some pronzi scams like Bitconnect with fake afiliations where you will lose out in the end.
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September 13, 2018, 11:38:46 AM
Gambling has some benefits, but there is a lot of propaganda out there that condemns it just because a few people get addicted to it, but to deny that there are some benefits is a mistake, if you play in a physical casino you'll find friendly people there and you can make new friends, sometimes you can even make business contacts by going to the casino, that is in fact a very common practice in my country where two businessman after making a deal go to the casino to celebrate, also if you like to make sports bets you'll soon understand that you will need an advanced knowledge of mathematics and probabilities to become a winner.
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September 13, 2018, 09:52:16 AM
Well, that was a good explanation there mate. Gambling is good if you know your limitations and you have self-discipline. But If you are already addicted and always loosing all your financial, like earning plus not focusing on your daily routines like to go to work and forgetting to take care of yourself. Then that's the time to stop. Take a break and Smell some fresh air outside think!
There are also things that are important in gambling that remain the same discussion as in terms of discipline. Send people successfully using the marks of people who are disciplined and do not want to take advantage of a lot of time in any problem.
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September 13, 2018, 09:08:43 AM
In addition to making money, gambling can also train us to be able to control emotions well. We can also get new friends there who might be our relationship for business. But of course there is a bad impact from gambling, besides losing money we will also be trapped and addicted to continue gambling if we are not able to control emotions, even worse we will begin to owe to gamble. So we must be wiser to take the positive side of the gambling game.

It is hard to take the positive side of gambling. It is like you look for a needle in a hay stack. Only thing we could do is try not to get addicted. As long as money involved in this game, we would come back in hope of making a fortune from gambling. In my country, gambling is portrayed as a very bad thing. If you let others know that you are a gambler then, it will only do bad for your career.
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September 13, 2018, 07:24:16 AM
In addition to making money, gambling can also train us to be able to control emotions well. We can also get new friends there who might be our relationship for business. But of course there is a bad impact from gambling, besides losing money we will also be trapped and addicted to continue gambling if we are not able to control emotions, even worse we will begin to owe to gamble. So we must be wiser to take the positive side of the gambling game.
So pretty much what you are saying is that it is also a gamble to be able to reap the positive effects of gambling. I agree with that and I think there are different ways to get these positive effects without having to indulge into gambling at all. Gambling does not offer anything unique that we cannot get from other experiences so there is literally no reason to gamble and no excuse to be addicted to it. People just don't have this initial idea so they indulge in gambling.

In terms of making new friends, I have observed that all you can get from this environment is nothing but shallow friendship. It can easily break as it was never deep to start with. I wouldn't even consider those people as 'friends', I would consider them as 'playmates'. I started labeling people correctly so I know where they belong in my life. Friends that you picked up from some bad habit are pretty much just your mates in that part of life and nothing else. They are not able to support you in any other life aspect and they can't give you emotional support as well. Friends (as in actual friends) are quite rare and that's what makes them special. The rest of what you consider "friends" aren't really your friends and will drift off right when you stop doing what you usually do together, in this case, gambling.

I never really believed in the idea of "controlling your emotions". There's only Stoicism (which is displaying no emotion/feelings during misfortunes) and the oppression of your emotions. You can never control your emotions as they come to you naturally (and that's what makes humans superior to other animals).
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September 12, 2018, 10:54:27 AM
In addition to making money, gambling can also train us to be able to control emotions well. We can also get new friends there who might be our relationship for business. But of course there is a bad impact from gambling, besides losing money we will also be trapped and addicted to continue gambling if we are not able to control emotions, even worse we will begin to owe to gamble. So we must be wiser to take the positive side of the gambling game.
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September 11, 2018, 08:16:24 AM
Yes, some people can see the benefit but most will see gambling are evil and not worth to being fight for !

I just hope that they don't just "see" the benefit of gambling, they should be also feel and learn what can be done by Gambling in their lives. Gambling destroyed a lot of lives in the past, there will be in the near future and I hope people will be able to overcome those problems since not only themselves will be affected by that but also the people around him.
A lot of the lives destroyed by gambling to me are self-inflicted and should not in any way be put on gambling itself. People with their greedy and unrealistic mindset usually feel that gambling is a way to set them on the wealthy part and the question they always forget to ask is that. Where does that leave the owners of the casino or gambling platform ?

This is gambling and the earlier people started accepting that fact that there is nothing like winning in gambling except you are just very lucky which is rare to a very large extent, then the better it would be for them to have the right mindset when it comes to gambling or not even just gambling at all if they cannot control themselves.
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September 10, 2018, 09:50:25 AM
Regardless from the list on OP but in my view benefits of gambling only belongs to people who can control their emotions and desire while gambling with avoid to being an addicted but gambling will have negative impact to those who can't control their emotions and being an addicted but i think people will always be consider gambling as bad habit

According to various researches from 0.5 to 3 percent of adult population have some issues with gambling, including being addicted to it. I'm not saying it's nothing, no, actually it's a big problem and we have to do everything we can to prevent people from getting addicted. But it must be noted that the percentage of alcoholics is much higher than that of gambling addicts. More than 7 percent of the American population aged 18 and up have a drinking problem. I haven't managed to found similar info on Europe but according to the World Health Organisation, the European Union is the heaviest-drinking region in the world, so the percentage of alcoholics in Europe must be even higher. Taking the above into account, if drinking a beer or two, or a glass of wine or two, is considered okay by society, playing a game or two should be considered okay as well.
There's a line that separates the amount of how much beer intake (or gambling bets/amount) is okay and what's not considered 'too much'. The problem is, that line is rather very blurry and is very dynamic. A person, who is drinking one beer a day (or gambling for 30 minutes a day), can easily tell other people that they have more beer than they used to (or gambled more or longer than they used to) and still look acceptable and 'normal' to the society. People think that the person probably had a good time and was just trying to have fun. As time goes by, our brain gets used to that certain amount and so it seeks more just as you would seek more of it as it is enjoyable or fun. The numbers increase a bit, no one cares. It bits even more, no one bats an eye. You start to notice it, that it's okay to go higher and still be 'A-okay' to the people around you and so you increase it even more. Now you're at the number far from what you used to. At some point you would realize that no one really cares about your habits and that no matter how much you go higher, no one really cares until it starts to affect you or the people around you negatively. But at that point you're already dependent on the habit and it's too late to go back.

Now, now.. Is this how addiction is formed?
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September 10, 2018, 08:14:05 AM
To be honest, our society is still divided regarding gambling but we have like 3 big casino's and some minor one and even lotteries which "gives" a lot of money to our government to help them build projects like infrastructures (highways, roads etc).

In a sense, it has benefits, but my only problem is that I can't feel any significant changes as reports keeps coming in that the money just goes to the pocket of corrupt government officials. So as far as I'm concern, yes there could be benefits, but I do hope that our governments really used the funds from gambling to help alleviate peoples lives in our country.
When viewed from household and financial advantages, for example, you win in a match, you will get money. Your money can make your household happy and money can make your money safe
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September 10, 2018, 05:34:07 AM
Gambling is definitely a form of entertainment for me, for instance playing Multi-Wheel Roulette Gold puts me in a good mood whenever I'm playing especially if I'm winning big bucks!
Good thing you see it as a form of entertainment, and I hope you are being truthful to yourself. It is normal to feel good when you win big from gambling, no doubt, but what is important is to never forget that as much as you might want to win big even with the entertainment which is something I feel is a cover-up for most people, forgetting that aspect where gambling can make you lose a lot and the chances are high can make you make regrettable decisions.
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