[Crayzee]

or out of the closet?
around your wives or girlfriends, family members? friends?
just curious
i have to be secretive for the most part

[BuddyBear]

I am secretive....i shudder to think how my folks would react if they knew how much I gambled or think about these games. My parents frown heavily on gambling. My g/f knows about it but doesn't like it at all....as for friends, a number of close friends i have know about it and also play but mostly poker though. Even so, it's not something i readily admit to and when people ask me, I am quick to deny any serious time spent with gambling besides an occasional super bowl bet.

[Dark Horse]

I just say I invest. My wife and good friends know what that means. Others start asking about the stock market.

[jjgold]

closet with family and casual friends

I will make a video about it tomorrow, never tell people you gamble

[bigboydan]

Nope, If somebody asks I tell them I gamble. No big deal about that at all.

[jjgold]

Owned I will let hank Webber explain tomorrow in a video

Never tell pepole you gamble

[Dark Horse]

Don't tell people what they don't need to know. This is America. A country one step removed from being a police state. A country where they can already lock you up for nothing, without the right to a trial, and throw away the key.

If the last months have taught me anything it is that, with this administration, never think it can't get any worse than it already is. The people in charge of this country are out of their f*cking minds.

[onlooker]

Nope, most everyone I know, knows I bet on sports. Even though the wife dont want to know what I bet on the games, she knows I do it.

[Halo]

I don't really talk about it but I think people know... Whenever I see a really big upset I always say out loud "Oh my gosh the money line on that game was like +XXXX" and people that gamble know. Everyone else just wonders what your talking about.

[Dawoofdaddy]

I talk about it much less than prior years.

[imgv94]

When I really love a play I try to get everyone I know involved..

[jjgold]

Nope, most everyone I know, knows I bet on sports. Even though the wife dont want to know what I bet on the games, she knows I do it.

That is why your an outcast and people look at you different

[moonbeam]

Hank Webber Videos

over 500 times **** -105
under 500 times **** -105

nice guy

[Arilou]

I'll tell anyone who wants to know that I gamble. What I won't tell them is HOW I gamble...

[moonbeam]

my family think I do some serious business in the internet well, thats right! My friends and my girlfriend know that I gamble but don´t know details. It´s no problem except of the weekends when she want´s to go out and I want to gamble

[Ganchrow]

If you're professional or semi-professional sports bettor (meaning you consistently make enough money to live on or at least to significantly supplement your income) then I can certainly see wanting to keep certain aspects of your professional life to yourself (in the same way one might not report on all these goings-on at an office to friends).

On the other hand, if you're a recreational gambling betting on sports as a hobby, then you really do need to ask yourself why you might be worried about others discovering your pastime. Is it because you're afraid that they might not react well to learning how much time and money you spend betting? Do you keep your fishing habit secret, too?

I tend to be a fairly confidential person myself, but I nevertheless believe that if you keep your gambling secret you need to take a long, hard, introspective look at yourself and figure out just why it is you might be hesitant to let others know you gamble.

[JoshW]

I am much more open than I used to be. Honesty with yourself and others is the best way to live if you can swing it. If something is important to you then it should at least be tolerated by anyone worth being in a relationship with or friends with.

[betplom]

How do you make your avatar move like that? Thought I had dropped a blotter mid-morning and had forgotten for a second there when I saw it shifting like that.

It's a ".gif" image. They usually move, do a google search for ".gifs"
or ".gif images" and you can find many free images to download.

try here:
http://www.gifworks.com/

[louis]

Absolutely do not tell anyone you are gambling online. Telling them you gamble in a regular casino, ie. Las Vegas, Mississippi, Indian Casino, is fine.

Your friends can turn you in to the local FBI office, and if the office is bored they can seize your computer and launch an investigation which would be very unpleasant even if they don't arrest you.

Sure they haven't gone after individual bettors yet, but as we have seen things can change suddenly, and if the information is already out you are gaming online, it will be too late.

My lawyer has told me I am not doing anything illegal, but so what, I don't want to be investigated, so only a couple very very close people know what I am doing.

[jjgold]

Fishing and gambling are not in the same league as hobbies

Gambling is not healthy and fishing is, gambling way more stressful also. I have seen guys have heart attacks over $20 bets but have not seen guys have heart issues fishing.

What is more accepted? Of course fishing

Ganch your way off, recreational gambling can lead to destruction, recreational fishing cannot.

Ganch your drinking today

[Ganchrow]

Thanks, I know about gif images, but Ganch has had that avatar for awhile, so wasn't sure if he some quick way to make any avatar shift around like a gif since I am very far from being computer savvy.

You must be seeing things ... my avatar's not moving.

[durito]

Your friends can turn you in to the local FBI office, and if the office is bored they can seize your computer and launch an investigation which would be very unpleasant even if they don't arrest you.

that wouldn't be much of a friend

[Ganchrow]

Fishing and gambling are not in the same league as hobbies

Gambling is not healthy and fishing is, gambling way more stressful also. I have seen guys have heart attacks over $20 bets but have not seen guys have heart issues fishing.

What is more accepted? Of course fishing

Ganch your way off, recreational gambling can lead to destruction, recreational fishing cannot.

Ganch your drinking today

I'd expect that gambling does not have an adverse effect upon the lives od the vast majority people who do gamble. For such people gambling is much like fishing. It's recreational, and if they lose they're ultimately no more upset about it than someone who fails to catch any fish.

The problem begins to appears when a person is unable to treat gambling like fishing or another casual pastime and instead it becomes an all-consuming and potentially ruinous endeavor.

So the point is that if you find yourself unwilling or unable to talk honestly about your gambling with other people, then you may well have a problem.

[BuddyBear]

Sorry but gambling online right or wrong is perceived as a huge anti-social type behavior that can cause serious long term problems if not controlled for. Just ask any mental health professional. Think about in a regular day how much time you spend with this "hobby." In terms of researching games, watching games, placing bets on games, talking with others about it, going on forums, and just thinking about these games......by the end of the day, you've squandered a good 6 to 7 hours gamblig online if we define gambling online through a broad subset of activities related to the concept.

Why do you think people say they bet the SB or bet March Madness or something big like that....b/c it is socially acceptable and considered to be part of the American experience. No big deal to throw down $20 on the Super Bowl. Sorry but gambling on an obscure Mountain West basketball game on a Tuesday night will not be received quite as warmly.

If anything, if you are doing this for a living, I would probably be more open since after all, it's natural for people to tell one another what they do for a living.....Doing this like many of us are doing it on here well that's a completely different story. I would be willing to bet that if we compared online gamblers with non-online gamblers we would find big difference in tems of things like diversity of activities, we may find differences in exercise levels and other social habits, and probably even things like number of friends may be different. I know b/c I spend a lot of time with this, it creates a time displacement effect.

I don't think I would be going around telling people I bet online....

[jjgold]

Great Post Buddy, gambling for the most part is frowned upon. I love when posters wear hats, jackets and shirts from gambling entities. I swear that must look real cool.

"SBR Sportsbook Review" on my fukkin back or a hat saying ABC Casino, ect. Yeh that looks real great basically implying your a fukkin degenerate and telling the whole world you are and finally telling everyone your involved with online gambling or any type of gambling for the matter.

If SBR sent me a fukkin jacket, shirt, hat, ect I swear I would burn it.

[Crayzee]

i've told the frigging books over the years not to mail me me any crap
but they always do !

[pags11]

I'm fairly secretive...

[jjgold]

Here is a video about hiding your gambling

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gx1MT8OgGd0

[imgv94]

No sound?

[jjgold]

I heard sound, check your speakers Ace