Can ban but won't be able to totally eradicate. Might as well earn that revenue.

Never start.

I grew up with cinapek background. Got bunch of cinapek friends, cinapek relatives, all of them like want to gamble each every week, let it be pokers, cards or TOTO/Magnum.

I just dont like it.

So sometimes they got topic to sembang kacang and it's awkward for me to understand what are they buying big or small.
But i think that's best for me. I just dont like it and i never gamble, i set everything in my life.

I only gamble money that I don't mind losing

When I say don't mind losing, I let it go lah. Dont even think about winning it back.

Stock is different than in casino. Because even if shares drop, you still own the shares. If you buy margin then addiction can fast come.

Buy shares like buy a car only. wun get addicted even you know the value drops and the car is still there.

margin and casino are not. once lose then you will lose a lot and addiction will come and you want to win back.

Like heroin, the surge of pleasure very fast but very addictive.

I really need to quit for real this time.
No more looking at how much I gain/lose.

Im selling whatever I have left and restart my life.

I only gamble in 4D and occasionally football during World Cup season

For me, it's up to the person's self control

I have friends who gamble in Genting every week. Always look for me to borrow money because always lose. Already gave them warning to stop borrowing from me as I am not their ATM

so never start talking to girls
then why you earn so much money for if you not ejaculate at the end of it

I only gamble with money I dont mind losing

my dad has been gambling since i was schooling... he lost everything, his business, our house, cars... got into loan sharks, ran away to other town to start anew, but still buying toto, magnum, dmc...

gambling addiction like u said cannot be helped. he is now in SG alone working his ass at 67 yo to fund his addiction coming back once in a month when he felt like it... most of his salary will go to sentosa and mbs...

its the andrenalin and hes not getting tired of it anytime soon

why would he? that's his heroin

There is bad side & good side of the gambling. While majority will feels that the gambling has more negative influence, it doesn't mean that gambling itself do not do good at all.

When I'm coaching my younger generation (limiting them to play during CNY only), I let them decide themselves the good & bad. I tell them to harness the good side of the gambling instead of being controlled by the gambling on the bad side.

What good do gambling do ? Daily decision making.
When you got a good cards - you focus on offense / leverage.
When you got a bad cards - you focus on damage control - as long as not losing the most = win.

In life, we will not get the best case scenario all the time, when we are in such position, be ready to optimize the scenario. When we are at the bad condition, we don't focus on the winning, we focus on defense / minimize the losses as much as possible. It trains brain on the strategy play almost akin to chess games - card games like lavi, chor dai dee, poker (etc).

2nd - it simulates the maths. You will be dealing with +-x/ at each games & you will be so serious with it because you are dealing with real money.

The bad thing of gambling - it is zero sum games. You do not create value to society & world. This element need to be discovered by gamblers themselves. Once they got bored winning/losing the money from/to their close family / relative / friends, they will cease to engage in gambling.

For the vast majority, it may sound too complicated. The best way to protect them will be asking them not to start.

It is just like drug - if you abuse the drug usage & you will become a junky . However, if you are trained to handle drug with correct dosage for medical purpose, ppl will know you as a pharmacist.

But u might win 3.5x more mah.. Hehe.. Gambling is like that.. A lot of risks involved