Topic: Most likely category of people to become Gambling addicts. - page 7. (Read 706 times)

- Be careful introducing gambling to teens, especially young male teens.


> Mostly, if they didn't come from wealthy family they want to be rich in short way. We can't accuse them because they want to be socialised and the money is their prior problem. I had many friends from high school till university which have a serious addict problem.  When they win they bought new clothes, accesories or they went to date. Basicly easy money is so sweety for them instead of getting by hard working.

And there is a specific about "males" because .

> We can say male life tough than female economically. Most of countries male has to handle home things. If they aren't married they have to impress their crush with surprise and some sort of gifts. Once they have a problem with income gambling seems like their way out. I can't accuse them because life is sooooo tough.

- Be Careful introducing gambling to people with some certain "Personality Characteristics".


> You know, I can say that many people in my country Turkey are like this. With economic crisis and high inflation they are looking a way out for a long time. Side hustles, cryptos, forex and gambling most of them making their move by hearing from their relatives. And they say they are not addicted can you believe



> They are people like double-edged knives. Either they win or lose but the result would be so huge. But if they win no matter what at the end they will lose at some point. Because they don't know how or when to stop.

- Be careful introducing gambling to people who have a good access to enough money and no discipline in spending, they may not mind gambling to win money, but for other reasons, and because of their good access to money, they may just become addicted without even knowing.

> Definitely, those who don't know the value of money will screw up if they play. There are many examples of this.

- Be careful introducing gambling to someone who you know is poor and needs a better way to earn a livelihood. The person may mistake gambling as a way to earn a living.

> You are not showing them way out; you are leading the way to worst pit

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On your list, I consider this one because I have seen one personally from an acquaintance, the guy has a good business but is always prone to spending he doesn't care about money because he has a continuous flow of money, once gambling was introduced to this guy he was challenged to make gambling as another source of income not knowing the odds and the house edge.
The guy thought that he has found a good method through martingale, the well-known newbie traps, he become a gambling addict, it took him a lot of money to realize that he is losing a lot of money, glad that the guy comes to his senses before it becomes too late to stop.

There’s a risk introducing a young people to gambling, since you didn’t know if they can handle their emotion or they can easily get hyped and addicted to something because emotion is one of the hardest thing to control when gambling. This is also why I don’t force anyone to gamble, I let them decide on their own though there are time that I teach them how to play a specific game, but not to the point that I encourage them to play more.

bottomline, don't introduce gambling to anyone. better mind your own business. because in reality, any type of person can become addict to gambling so long he is into playing. even some people who can contain themselves have the possibility to be addicted with their games, if they forget the reason why they are into gambling in the first place.

If you are a person who does have that kind of behavior or characteristics on pushing up yourself into something thats inside of your mind then you would definitely be going into a path on which you would be experiencing lots of problems.This is why its never been that recommendable on having this kind of behavior on which it would really be making yourself to be more addicted or prone into it and would hardly be able to keep away or avoid from it.There are several types which had been mentioned already but i do agree for this add up because it is one of the most common mindset and behavior of a particular person or gambler
on which he dont mind much on how much he do spend up and wasnt aware on what he's doing.

One characteristic that is not on your list is a happy-go-lucky guy who doesn't care about money all they want is challenges once you introduce this type of person and challenge him to make money out of gambling or tried to beat the house, he will accept the challenge and pour in money that he has, he is also prone to chasing his losses.
This type of person has a weak character and once you lead him to gamble he will go astray and may lose everything much more if he wins on the first try or experiences a gambler's luck he will always come back, to prove how good he is.

Gambling activities should be for people who see it as fun and not for people who can easily get addicted through one of the weaknesses which OP mentioned. Discipline is what it all boils down to,exposing gambling to someone who spends extravagant will lead him to great loss.

Poor people always think that gambling is a means of hustling and they put all their mind and hope in making profit from it,without knowing that it will only make them get more poorer due to addition and wrong mindset. I have seen this before when a poor man got addicted in gambling and sold off his little belonging just to gamble.

Poor people get addicted to gambling very easily. Since they don’t have the brains to get rich from the normal ways like working, gambling is their only chance to get rich because gambling mostly requires no skills as it is only based on the player’s luck. Obviously the games are designed to make the casinos rich taking the money from the pocket of the players, these addicts get poorer and poorer while they expect to get richer. It is a brilliant business.

What I know is that people do not actually introduce gamble to someone directly like that, you may just notice it yourself, through advertisements or probably because you see your father or brother gambling. Or it may be through seeing people in your area going to casino or betting agents, like your friends. Many people will see it as fun, while some people will see it as trying their luck with little amount of money, but some people can get use it to, know more about online gambling and the start of addiction might begin.

In summary, just don't introduce it to anyone that you know that are not capable of controlling their emotions because you'll never know on up to what point they can control themselves.

Because the time might even come that you'll be the one to be blamed by those people whom you've introduced gambling. That's not a new story and there have been cases like that they were blamed and made it looked bad because they've just introduced those addicted gamblers to gambling.

Avoid being the trigger of others that may fall into gambling addiction if you don't want to get involved and be blamed for.

Myself introduced gambling to my girlfriend, and she started to gamble regularly. Bets doesn't go higher than $1 and initially she enjoyed it as she didn't experience loss. Later started to loss, and requests me to recover her loss for her. I used to recover playing with bigger bets and one day lost big. From that day she completely stopped gambling, not even for fun she doesn't gamble. I mention this just to state what is being said in the OP is true, men easily turns addictive. Good for the men is to concentrate on sports betting than casino games.

You will agree that some category of people will most probably become addicted to gambling if exposed to it than some other people. If you are the type that likes to refer and tell people to try out new things, you should avoid encouraging this category of people listed below to try out gambling even as a way to relax or for fun.

- Be careful introducing gambling to teens, especially young male teens.
And there is a specific about "males" because . source

- Be Careful introducing gambling to people with some certain "Personality Characteristics".
People that you notice have a poor opinion of themselves, source

- Be careful introducing gambling to people who have a good access to enough money and no discipline in spending, they may not mind gambling to win money, but for other reasons, and because of their good access to money, they may just become addicted without even knowing.

- Be careful introducing gambling to someone who you know is poor and needs a better way to earn a livelihood. The person may mistake gambling as a way to earn a living.

- Be careful introducing gambling to your friend who you know easily gets addicted to new things.

- Be careful introducing gambling to your friend who you know has a drug use problem.

In general, I know some forum users may like to respond saying we should be careful generally who we introduce gambling to, which is true, but since may not possibly be avoided, there are some categories of person's that we should be on the look out for in the society.

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