In as much as what you're saying is true, gamblers find it difficult to keep their little win to themselves. It's very difficult before you see someone win up to $1000 in gambling and people will not know. For those who are into sports betting and who do it in a betting shop, you will agree with me that before you even come to the betting office with your ticket, they already know that you've won, and even when you try to keep the win to yourself, they will tell others in the shop that someone won a certain amount in that betting shop.
I know of some fellow sports betting friends who will even be angry at you because you refused telling them you've won a bet you've previously played. People always believe that if me A can win, that they will also win and that's one serious course of addictive gambling.
People will always want them to be celebrated, and for people like me who gamble in their house before people later find out about my win, I would have spent the money and gotten something valuable for myself from gambling. I love my privacy people don't even know that I gamble, When I am in the comfort of my house, I start making a good selection of what my games look like, and since I gamble very well, I take a lot of time when selecting and arranging my games. and from what your betting sites hear, you see a lot of people exposing their wins. If you are the kind of person who bets in a betting shop, you cannot hide your victory, and people will start disturbing you for money. When you finish giving away, they will still be the ones insulting you. And if I win, I tell them, after I have used my money, anything anyone wants to say, let them say it.
You have said it all by pointing to the fact that you are a private person, my friend, you better keep it that way. Thankfully, we have the privacy option in our gambling activities by silently opening our betting apps and doing our thing in our closet in such a way that people might not even know we gamble. If this is what you love, then always do it. And if you are such who cares about giving, you can still do that on a different volition by knowing the people in need and helping them without telling them the source of your income. They do not have to know to the point that they know what you do and be using it to insult you later like you said.
Although I do not see shame here, once you are good at gambling and earn through it, those who are even begging you for the money should be the ones burying their heads in shame and not the other way around where they insult you. For what?
Alternatively, if you are such that like to go out for gambling and are only concerned about the people you would see there and who might know you, why not change location? After all, it is not everywhere you would know people that will be disturbing you. I made this last suggestion because, at times, we can't do everything in isolation, we should mingle as well too. Or else, you might kill your social life if you think you can be doing everything privately.
Privacy in gambling? That's not fixing the problem, it's hiding from it. Why the shame? Because society judges. But what if we change the damn game? Gambling, done right, is just another skill, like picking stocks or anything else. People spend money on entertainment, right?
Hiding your wins with charity donations... that's a weak move. If you're good enough to profit, own that sh*t. It's your money, earned with your head. Don't apologize. The people judging, they need to check themselves. Is it jealousy? Frustration with their own lives? Their insecurities are bleeding onto you
Moving away? Might buy you time, but it's not a solution. We gotta tackle the stigma head-on. Expose the hypocrisy. Demand honest conversations about what responsible gambling actually means. Shifting the blame won't shift the culture. We need to change the hearts and minds, not just zip codes
One thing you refuse to understand is that we are not the same person, so we can't have the same personality, and I so much respect the plight of @Baki202 which I replied to. The plights are all genuine, but the caution, control and solution that will be attributed to them could be different, and that difference could be based on our different personalities which I respect so much. You may live your life as though you do not care about others, but others can't be like you because they are not you. We have different kinds of people, some will dare you, do bad to your face and do not care at all, while others may even be worse. But you also see other people who are good and care to a fault, so people can never be the same. As it is, just as I replied in line with the context, if the solution to the whole issue is for him to gamble privately in his closest, why not? Even if he is such a private that do not want people to know what he does with his life, especially about gambling, whyn't he go for it?
Technology has helped gambling and gamblers to that extent, it is never by force we go out to gamble or be lousy about our gambling activities, especially the winnings.
Mind you, the settings of his locality matter as well, maybe it is possible he can't just risk it and not be detected by people. If the guy is a well-known person in that locality, even the agent who attended to him when he placed the best could be the one who would leak it out to other people. From there, unnecessary knowledge happens which could lead to demands and begging from him by people. And when you are a generous type, you would want to satisfy enough people to avoid further issues since it's his locality we are talking about. In light of this, it is better for him to have a concern about his gambling activities and outcomes while gambling outside even if he would be forced to do it once in a while. These are serious concerns even if you take them lightly, and you should know that everybody can't lead a life of I-don't-care-about-others you tried to preach.