Topic: Today starts Safer Gambling Week (Read 502 times)

As they say, it's easier said than done. Those of us who have enough patience can say that it is not that difficult to have a gambling budget and follow it but we forget that those who lack patience would barely be able to follow a budget they have made and they will always go beyond their decided limits when the urge compels them to do so. Gambling addiction is a curse, and those of us who can stay safe from it should consider ourselves lucky.

I have seen people ruining their lives because of gambling. They know they aren't financially stable and don't have a lot of money but they still can't stop themselves from gambling because the urge is too strong for them and they can't resist it. Some of them even know they are doing a wrong thing but they still can't get rid of it. As I said, it's a curse.

This is a fight of everybody, casino players. Nobody wants to have a gambler losing control of himself that leads to losing his job and having a broken family. This is an ongoing battle, and its not only for one week; it should be on a daily basis because addiction to gambling is very high compared to other vices or entertainment that involves money.
This just shows that casino-related organizations cared for gamblers; its not only money about that they are up to.

Good initiative, it might help to promote the responsible gambling instead of normalising it which are bit different. Even people who are gambling already often make mistakes with their betting behaviour so if the responsible gambling is promoted and reach out the people it could help them what is their mistake and provide them and opportunities to correct them. Usually there might be some problems due to the religious beliefs but it is for the betterment of the people to do it in the right way without being affected in any way.

If that can reach many people, the program can succeed to reminds them about responsibilities in gambling. But I am not sure if those people can stay awake while playing gambling because many people still chasing their winning and makes them just losing more money. But when they can responsibilities with their gambling activities, there will be nothing to worry because they will always reminds that gambling is just for fun. They will not insist to recover their losses or chase the winning but they just enjoy their time in gambling and they also know if they are enough gambling and must stop it before their losses becomes bigger.

The reason why there's no enforcement in other countries is because there's no point to it, people will always gamble until they reach their limit and beyond so there's no point in regulating the amount and even if the casino industry does it, the public will only see them as pretentious and trying to cover their actions which is deprave in nature already and in a business sense, is really unprofitable for them so no point for them doing any of that, regarding laws, most of the time, it's the corruption and the lobbying that's causing this kind of problem of no good regulations on gambling industry. I disagree though with the profitability of gambling industry when it's regulated, I feel like there's bound to be more taxes when people are allowed to play more than they should and officials in the government have more money that they can rake in when it's unregulated.

That is very true, most regulations in other countries usually end up in papers only, and never respected in actual events. If all the regulations and authorized protocols are being enforced and implemented, I believe there will be less problems encountered in any situation not only in gambling area.

It should not be an annual event, but it should be done on a continuous basis, because with the huge numbers of gamblers and new gamblers starting to play in casinos, the number is growing
There should be a continuous fight against addiction and, if possible, promote programs to cure addiction so gamblers who wants to come out from addiction knows where and who to reach out to, Battle against addiction should be unending for the numbers to go down.

The UK is one country that has put decent regulations on its local gambling scene. They do impose reasonable limits based on countable factors and also the big casinos are forced to contribute to these caused. Because the regulation is actually enforced, companies try to actually have a good face towards the public and do positive actions even more than mandated by law.

In other countries nothing is ever enforced. Honestly though if there's any field that is profitable for the state to enforce regulation against it surely is the gambling industry.

The article is UK-centric, as it only mentions the UK. However, I'm curious whether the article is accurate, as it mentions that only a minor percentage of 0.4% of the adult population has admitted to having gambling issues. Doesn't that percentage look way too small, or is it my idea? I was considering that a large number of people who actually face gambling issues would hardly ever admit it in public; they might even lie to themselves, even though they might be losing a ton of money on a monthly basis.

What makes me mad in this event is that the worse scam on earth called Pragmatic Play has made big banner about such week, how come they are sponsoring this project, their shitty slots to the very core of being shit in the literal meaning of the word apparently are not doing that well since they are now sponsoring such event. You can try their games in their website and see what the hell is going on there, even there in the demo they show you things like 10 consecutive buy bonus lost and after that there is one buy bonus even to get your money of that bonus, so -10 buy bonus, all lost and you can get one time money back from the 11th play, this is boring to death, and them sponsoring such event is bullshit again in the literal meaning of the world, they should be banned from being a slot provider and some really good external auditor should start auditing them, all that have done so far I don't believe them.

There are some people, by their nature they detest anything thag is involved in gambling, it might not be because of the things you mentioned but because of what they have learnt or observe from someone that was ones addicter to gambling, the fear and phobia leave in them that anytime they see someone they like gambles, they disapprove it immediately but gambling is more than the things they have learn about gambling, it's actually cool to be a gambler.

Gambling can be for relaxation but how many people do you think are doing that? If you check casino, majority are there for the money unless you mean physical casino where people do some extra activities other than gambling, some business associates comes to casino to discuss business and other things. You can see that such kind of things doesn't happened in online casino and by population, the number of online casino exceed the number of people that gambles in physical casino.

Any forms of addiction will really be that leading into those kind of situation on which a certain individual would really be that suffering on which we know that on the moment or time that you cant be able to think up well
and made things accordingly which is really that not right anymore then this will really be the primary thing that makes someone do experience that bad conditions in life. People will really be that starting on making up some realizations on the time or moment that they are experiencing tough situations on which it will really be that to late for them since the damage had already been done. It will really be always recommended that on the moment that you do touch up gambling then better to make yourself that responsible so that you would really be ending up on having no problems in correlated into it.

Gambling should really be fun and not something stressful, because on the moment or time that you do make yourself having that kind of situation on which on the time that it will really be that resulting
into those bad conditions then its better that trying to quit as much as possible and never tend to look back if you do really like on having a life without having some financial problems.
Actually it will really be that all depending on someones mindset on how they will really be able to make out decisions.

Instead of focusing on writing off gambling totally or quitting try to cut down the risks you take..a lot of people go about this the wrong way..as someone who earns 100 dollars monthly, you shouldn't gamble with more than 5 dollars, you must always remember that you are not rich and if you continue to take huge risks there might be severe consequences.. gambling is a 50/50 thing, anything can happen at the end of the day no matter how sure you think anything might be...take responsible risks and just focus on enjoying the game instead of trying to make it a source of income.

It's the fact that gambling isn't just for entertainment alone, they can make money off it and so that it makes them get addicted easily because they get the drive to want to make money off it and persist to doing more and even going all in at some point especially if they have got the funds like you did mentioned.

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Gambling addicts or drug addicts have brains that work in the same way, so we can consider both as dangerous. A person who is addicted to drugs is not behaving normally if he is not able to take drugs on time, whereas a person who is addicted to gambling is not able to gamble due to lack of money then he is behaving like a person who is addicted to drugs. All of us involved in gambling should make new gamblers aware of these things. There are no restrictions on gambling, but new gamblers must be careful not to overdo it in the beginning. If someone comes to me about gambling, I may be able to guide him in the right direction, but if he does not like my direction after I have given it, and if he gambles as he wishes, it is not my failure. So apart from learning from others, we should also be aware of ourselves.

Anything that raises awareness is always welcome, any cause that helps to understand the game and have the right guidance must be supported... there is no education about gambling and it is the main mistake at least for those who do not know how to control their finances, and in that same way make the gambling niche something less dark.

Poker has been able to remove itself a bit from the grey scene that surrounds it, without being exempt from controversy, but it is the niche that has best achieved this in the sense of image.

Good to see some people are taking the approach to raise awareness about safe gambling.
Every other country should follow UK and raise awarness about safer gambling too.
People have been getting addicted and taking wrong steps and ending up in trouble.
Kids are trying to gamble, losing their time and skills which could have been utilized elsewhere.
Elderly are losing their retirement money but all of these could be eliminated with take safer gambling practices.
It has become atmost important to raise such awareness whether it be through campaigns or social media or anything.

Gambling with debt not only increases financial stress, it also has a serious negative impact on mental and physical health. Because in gambling we always have to use money that we can afford to lose, because it will not always give us profit.
Many gamblers think that they will definitely win now, and they gamble with debt, but how can they be sure that they will win now. And this is what gamblers do wrong.
And gambling with debt leads to losing everything and then they cannot repay the debt in any way. Currently, there are many gamblers who gamble with debt and after losing everything, they sell their houses to pay off the debt, some engage in theft, and some even commit suicide after losing everything and cannot pay the debt.
Therefore, gambling addiction destroys a person from all sides, so to avoid its addiction and prevent it, awareness and self-control are very important.

I've seen about this before, which I think is a good initiative, and although from what I see in the link it seems to be UK-centric, it is a European initiative. It should be extended to everyone so that it starts to have some impact, which I understand today must be very limited because even for gamblers like us, we either had no idea or it sounded a little bit like a fringe thing.