{"id":89,"date":"2019-02-06T14:26:22","date_gmt":"2019-02-06T14:26:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/demo.themeisle.com\/neve-zelle\/?p=89"},"modified":"2020-08-20T11:11:04","modified_gmt":"2020-08-20T11:11:04","slug":"social-gamblers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gambless.org\/it\/social-gamblers\/","title":{"rendered":"Social Gamblers"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/0h5.7c5.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/social-gambler.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-248\" width=\"145\" height=\"145\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gambless.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/social-gambler.jpg 480w, https:\/\/gambless.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/social-gambler-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/gambless.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/social-gambler-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 145px) 100vw, 145px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>If you are reading this article, chances are you are &#8211; or at least have been at some point &#8211; a social gambler.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Social Gamblers are, in a nutshell, people who <strong>enjoy<\/strong> gambling. As you can imagine, they are the vast majority of gamblers. The first to identify this category was Dr. <strong>Robert L. Cluster<\/strong> in his classification of the <a href=\"https:\/\/0h5.7c5.myftpupload.com\/2019\/10\/what-are-the-6-types-of-gambler\/\">6 types of gambler<\/a>. As he explained, Social Gamblers can be divided into two groups:<em> Casual Social Gamblers <\/em>and<em> Serious Social Gamblers<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>Casual Social Gamblers<\/strong> are people who consider gambling fun, but who bet infrequently. For them, gambling is just one of many forms of recreational activities. For example, think about a football fan: he loves <em>watching games<\/em> even if his favourite team is not playing. Occasionally, to spice things up, he places a $2 bet with all of today&#8217;s games. Or again, think about someone who has been invited by his <em>mates<\/em> to watch a boxing match. They all disagree on who will be the winner, so to make sure they can <em>brag<\/em> properly if their pick wins, they bet $10 with each others.<br>Casual Social Gamblers are people who have several other <strong>recreational<\/strong> activities. They take all the <em>positive aspects<\/em> of gambling, and hardly any of the negative ones. <\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>Serious Social Gamblers<\/strong>, on the other hand, are people who consider gambling to be a primary source of entertainment, and for this reason they gamble more <strong>frequently<\/strong>. Think of someone who likes to play cards, but needs the <em>thrill<\/em> of the wager to enjoy the game. Or for example someone who doesn&#8217;t have many hobbies, so to spend an evening of fun, drives to the Casino to <em>indulge<\/em> on Roulette and Blackjack. <br>Much like the Casual Social Gambler, this kind of gamblers can <strong>control<\/strong> their gambling habits, but needs to set a spending <strong>limit<\/strong> to make sure their gambling sessions don&#8217;t <em>harm<\/em> their finances.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Most of the times, Social Gamblers do not develop <strong>addictive behaviours<\/strong> and are <strong>disciplined<\/strong> enough to spend only a given budget for the entertainment they get in return. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, there are certain events that can turn their habits into problematic ones. A <strong>traumatic<\/strong> event, a <strong>big win<\/strong>, raised levels of <strong>stress<\/strong> at work or <strong>anxiety<\/strong> in their relationships, these can all <em>trigger<\/em> addictive behaviours toward gambling. What is important to understand is that Social Gambler is not a <em>permanent<\/em> <em>label<\/em> for an individual, but it&#8217;s to be considered as a <strong>phase<\/strong>, which can be very short or <em>everlong<\/em>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For this reasons, it is extremely important to <strong>educate<\/strong> anyone exposed to gambling, about all of its aspects and its potentially negative consequences.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you are reading this article, chances are you are &#8211; or at least have been at some point &#8211; a social gambler. Social Gamblers are, in a nutshell, people who enjoy gambling. As you can imagine, they are the vast majority of gamblers. The first to identify this category was Dr. Robert L. Cluster&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/gambless.org\/it\/social-gamblers\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Leggi tutto &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Social Gamblers<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":248,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"off","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[15,47,45,46,44],"class_list":["post-89","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gambler-types","tag-addiction","tag-behaviour","tag-casual-gamblers","tag-serious-gamblers","tag-social-gamblers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gambless.org\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gambless.org\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gambless.org\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gambless.org\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gambless.org\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/gambless.org\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":824,"href":"https:\/\/gambless.org\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89\/revisions\/824"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gambless.org\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gambless.org\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gambless.org\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gambless.org\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}