I've been going to arcades regularly for a good year and gamble away an average of around € 300 / month on machines there. In addition, I go from time to time in casinos (there I play more Blackjack at the table), so I come to about 500 € per month. Calculated over the year, that's a lot of money.
I am in my early 40s, single and have quite a lot of free time, so gambling has become a nice hobby. But I have other hobbies like sports and also friends with whom I do other things.
Financially, I earn fortunately quite good, so I have so far made no debts through gaming.
I don't usually spend hours in the Spielos either. I usually go there after work and stay for about an hour and gamble away 20-40 €. 1-2 times it was 80-100 €. Sometimes also 20 € plus. Wins rarely - only at the very beginning once 500 €. Since this has already reported many here, I think almost the machines recognize the newcomer and pour out first to make addicted.
Also at the casinos (Duisburg) I have never exceeded my limit of 250 € per evening there. Often there are also "only" 100 € loss. However, I never actually go out with a real win.
I simply enjoy playing at the machine or at the table. I've always liked to "play" - be it parlor games, card games, foosball, table tennis, etc.
Well, can this become a problem? For now, I'm taking it easy. Whether I spend the money for a new car, expensive clothes, always new technical devices (after which I feel no urge) or simply gamble away is not really important. The last shirt has no pockets.
As soon as it naturally goes into the Debt area or one spends the majority of its time only with gambling it becomes surely more critical.
I have recently seen a few documentaries about gambling addiction. There were people presented who gambled away 20,000 - 30,000 in a few years. If I look at my annual average in 2018, I'll be there in 5 years. That would then again speak more for Gambling addiction
Are there any opinions on this?
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Gambling fun or gambling addiction?
2nd Jan. 2019, at 09:18 pm CET#2
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What you describe is just the typical beginning. Everyone started small and eventually it becomes more and more. Concentrate on your other hobbies before the game will also swallow the time of these. Hard but honest!
Dundee23 wrote on 01/02/2019 21:01: This is my first post here.
I've been going to arcades regularly for a good year and gamble away an average of around €300 / month on machines there. In addition, I go from time to time in casinos (there I play more Blackjack at the table), so I come to about 500 € per month. Calculated over the year, that's a lot of money.
I'm in my early 40s, single and have quite a lot of free time, so gambling has become a nice hobby. But I have other hobbies like sports and also friends with whom I do other things.
Financially, I earn fortunately quite good, so I have so far made no debts through gaming.
I don't usually spend hours in the Spielos either. I usually go there after work and stay for about an hour and gamble away 20-40 €. 1-2 times it was 80-100 €. Sometimes also 20 € plus. Wins rarely - only at the very beginning once 500 €. Since this has already reported many here, I think almost the machines recognize the newcomer and pour out first to make addicted.
Even at the casinos (Duisburg) I have never exceeded my limit of 250 € per evening there. Often there are also "only" 100 € loss. However, I never actually go out with a real win.
I simply enjoy playing at the machine or at the table. I've always liked to "play" - be it parlor games, card games, foosball, table tennis, etc.
Well, can this become a problem? For now, I'm taking it easy. Whether I spend the money for a new car, expensive clothes, always new technical devices (after which I feel no urge) or simply gamble away is not really important. The last shirt has no pockets.
As soon as it naturally goes into the Debt area or one spends the majority of its time only with gambling it becomes surely more critical.
I have recently seen a few documentaries about gambling addiction. There were people presented who gambled away 20,000 - 30,000 in a few years. If I look at my annual average in 2018, I'll be there in 5 years. That would then again speak more for Gambling addiction
Are there any opinions on this?
take it easy old house no wife no commitments others also have hobbies that are expensive basic rule: don't run up debts "the last shirt has no pockets"
but I would stay away from the gambling halls where everyone is running around and you will never see a win like you see in the uploads here online some are gambling away a fortune
hoping to bite a big piece out of the cake (most of them have enough income/assets) and the crumbs are for us noobs always better than offline
since i gamble online i'm doing quite well financially buy paysafe gamble off to bed everything is manageable tomorrow is also another day mfg
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2nd Jan. 2019, at 11:49 pm CET#4
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I see so -> You make yourself think about whether it is good for yourself what you do! As long as you care, good! You pursue other hobbies and thus have contact with non-gamblers, if no one has addressed you there on gambling even better! You have a regular job, so you earn the money that you sometimes gamble away. Sounds stupid now but so you feel it even more when you have gambled away too much and can learn from it! -> The well-known hot stove phrase! ^^ <- You do not go gambling to earn money for a "better" life and as long as you do not become a criminal to gamble to be able to siehts for me still looks like fun zockerei!
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3rd Jan. 2019, at 01:03 pm CET#5
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Hello, I'm in exactly the same situation, 40, single, happy. I started gambling with Skat when I was 10 years old. It was always about money. During the BW time I could increase my military pay very well, because I have mostly excluded the other, because I was simply better I don't think I had to pay for a single beer during the time, the others always had to pay. The memories are good.
At the moment I daddel now and then in the Spielbank Berlin Roulette and machines and at home in various online casinos. But I'm one of the low-rollers, mostly it's stakes around the 50 ct - 2 euros. If the money is gone (deposit usually around 50 euros), then that's just the way it is. I do not reload
If I spent 250 Euro for 3 bottles of good whisky a month, like I did in the past, then that's just the way it was. I see the gambling as a hobby, hobbies cost money in most cases but you have to be careful that it does not degenerate with the expenses. You should have a little bit of control and be able to see the big picture. Should it get out of hand, you have certainly exceeded the point where it is healthy and thus the facts of addiction satisfaction occurs. Is with sex just like with paragliding, I can overdo it virtually anywhere and healthy that is no longer
That is a very narrow degree from my point of view, one is faster in the addiction landed than one thinks. began with me with 18Jahren, at that time 4DM in pub in the date box thrown and Knapp 400DM won, that was the beginning...In the meantime I was also to the therapy because it was extreme.Meanwhile I have a fixed amount of money from 50 to 75 € in the month Investiere if the way is then there are no further deposits or arcade, at least I have so my Zockerei at least since well 7Jahren under "control" And if times what wins I also manage to treat me of it what useful instead of it again to Verpulvern, that was different in the past.
I think the most important thing is that you pay your bills. Salary comes and everything is paid. Rent, Insurance, cell phone, etc. Then fuel, food and pay attention to special expenses of the month (birthdays, car service). After that you can gamble and has no pressure or stress and if you are without pressure and without stress it runs much better (I win so more)
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I've been going to arcades regularly for a good year and gamble away an average of around € 300 / month on machines there. In addition, I go from time to time in casinos (there I play more Blackjack at the table), so I come to about 500 € per month. Calculated over the year, that's a lot of money.
I am in my early 40s, single and have quite a lot of free time, so gambling has become a nice hobby. But I have other hobbies like sports and also friends with whom I do other things.
Financially, I earn fortunately quite good, so I have so far made no debts through gaming.
I don't usually spend hours in the Spielos either. I usually go there after work and stay for about an hour and gamble away 20-40 €. 1-2 times it was 80-100 €. Sometimes also 20 € plus. Wins rarely - only at the very beginning once 500 €. Since this has already reported many here, I think almost the machines recognize the newcomer and pour out first to make addicted.
Also at the casinos (Duisburg) I have never exceeded my limit of 250 € per evening there. Often there are also "only" 100 € loss. However, I never actually go out with a real win.
I simply enjoy playing at the machine or at the table. I've always liked to "play" - be it parlor games, card games, foosball, table tennis, etc.
Well, can this become a problem? For now, I'm taking it easy. Whether I spend the money for a new car, expensive clothes, always new technical devices (after which I feel no urge) or simply gamble away is not really important. The last shirt has no pockets.
As soon as it naturally goes into the Debt area or one spends the majority of its time only with gambling it becomes surely more critical.
I have recently seen a few documentaries about gambling addiction. There were people presented who gambled away 20,000 - 30,000 in a few years. If I look at my annual average in 2018, I'll be there in 5 years. That would then again speak more for Gambling addiction
Are there any opinions on this?
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take it easy old house no wife no commitments others also have hobbies that are expensive basic rule: don't run up debts "the last shirt has no pockets"
but I would stay away from the gambling halls where everyone is running around and you will never see a win like you see in the uploads here online some are gambling away a fortune
hoping to bite a big piece out of the cake (most of them have enough income/assets) and the crumbs are for us noobs always better than offline
since i gamble online i'm doing quite well financially buy paysafe gamble off to bed everything is manageable tomorrow is also another day mfg
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At the moment I daddel now and then in the Spielbank Berlin Roulette and machines and at home in various online casinos. But I'm one of the low-rollers, mostly it's stakes around the 50 ct - 2 euros. If the money is gone (deposit usually around 50 euros), then that's just the way it is. I do not reload
If I spent 250 Euro for 3 bottles of good whisky a month, like I did in the past, then that's just the way it was. I see the gambling as a hobby, hobbies cost money in most cases but you have to be careful that it does not degenerate with the expenses. You should have a little bit of control and be able to see the big picture. Should it get out of hand, you have certainly exceeded the point where it is healthy and thus the facts of addiction satisfaction occurs. Is with sex just like with paragliding, I can overdo it virtually anywhere and healthy that is no longer
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