Today's blog was inspired by an event that happened to me last weekend.. It was on a Saturday morning, just on my bed thinking of my life on how I'll manage the little money I have till I get something tangible, when a close friend of mine, stumble to my house and was showing me the money he won from sports betting. He explained to me how him and some group of friends paid Euros to someone account and they were delivered a sure game directly from the play makers outside the country... I was so surprised that sure games still existed. The reason I believed the story was when I heard the predictions was a foreign source. so I had to beg to partake in Saturdays share of the sure games. My friend had to use all his earnings of Friday's winning to partake this time...** Game never even start, we don they plan to buy land for choba, Portharcourt and car with our money ** Well, we did the necessary things and the game kicked off.. You need to see the way I was loading and reloading my browser..
By 2pm, about 7 games out of 15games has entered, see jubilation in my house, I was so happy thinking this is a medium, God wants to use and bless me. I started regretting why I'd not increase my stake. So, i decided to take a nap for sometime, I was even dreaming seeing myself in my dream house from the money, Only for me to wake up in the evening and see Red - Red all over my bet9ja account. It was looking like those primary school report card with red pen all over.
That was my bitter experience this weekend, so that was what brought about this article I am writing on.
** DANGERS OF GAMBLING **
Football betting is one of the most popular thing among youths of this days in our country. About 70% to 80% of our youths are great football lovers and thereby making football betting a very lucrative business.
** In BBN Efe's voice: **
Base on logistics, it has been revealed that the reason why people indulge in sports betting is because of greed, the desire for fast money and high rate of unemployment in the country, lack of finance, peer pressure, passion for the games etc.
Each of these sports betting center are always over crowded with students (universities and secondary), touts even the old men are not left aside because they have left there usual pool betting to online betting. You need to see the passion in the eyes of this youths whenever they are forecasting matches, you will mistake them for people preparing for shell interview.
As my friend will always say, ** whether we like it or yes ** bet9ja, surebet, lionsbet, winnersbet and the rest of them are are all gambling.
** According to Georges pomidou quote **
three ways to get wrecked financially: technicians, gambling and ladies. The most sure way is with technicians, the fastest is by gambling but the most exciting way is by ladies.
Besides the quick cash people realise from gambling and how it has been able to control some die hard fans that are always known for fighting like ..........???? whenever they loose in champions league, it has its dangerous effects that has eaten into the fabrics of our society among the youths.
** Wrong mindset about money: **
Majority of the people engaged in sports betting , sees it as a quick source of making money and has made them lazy. They always have this believe that a day will surely come, when there luck will shine and they will hit alabi millions.. I start to wonder, how many millionaires have this people seen around them that won all the millions they keep wishing for.
** Poverty: **
Betting is a two way things, it can make you rich in a minute and can wreck you off your last cent in the next minutes..
** High blood pressure :**
Do you know, you have a better chance of having high blood pressure when you loose by one game especially when you're close to winning millions you have always be dreaming of. It brings about depression, anger and frustration.
** Waste of money : **
Many people go as far as selling there properties, using money meant for books and fees to indulge in sport betting all in the name of playing one "Mumu" sure game someone cooked up to defraud people.
** Lack of vision and creativity . **
There is no way someone can be creative or use his initiative to produce anything meaningful, when he spends all his time forecasting matches like weather forecaster. Little by little, you begin to loose your purpose and vision because you are already soaked in this fantasy world of winning millions some day. Come to think of it, the owners of all these sports bet sites are billionaires. It was out of there creativity and initiative that they developed a betting sites.
Sincerely speaking
Betters try to make there living out of hope and it's not good. Betting money is never a reliable source of income. I accept the fact it can be used to settle some bills but it's just temporary, It goes the same way it came. Because you will definitely want to increase your staking power when you win a big amount of money.
** To all sport betting addicts, please, try and be more useful with your time. If Bill Gates was busy gambling, I don't believe we will even see the computer for betting website at all. So, try and be creative and make an impact in people's life. The world has so many problems and you can be a problem solver. Just start up something and the sky will be your limit **
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"three ways to get wrecked financially: technicians, gambling and ladies. The most sure way is with technicians, the fastest is by gambling but the most exciting way is by ladies"
Please i don't understand technicians here
Technicians doesn't mean d usual technician... I mean people that has handwork .
I have a cousin who has exhibited serious addictive tendencies to merrybet. He has been called for series of family meetings to curb this but all to no avail. It pains my heart to watch such a brilliant boy waste this way. This is just one of such cases of our youths' going down the drain as a result of gambling. I think it has to do with laziness, wanting to get rich with out corresponding diligence , a habit of slothfulness.
Nasoo , is affecting guys so well
This is so funny
Nice lesson
This was nicely written. We can't continue to overlook the damage that the said gambling is wrecking in our nation.
I have no doubt that you be expert for betting thing...LOL....your analysis really spelt it out, i always feel sorry for the youths who suddenly fall in love with EPL not because of the exitement and fun of it, but because that they trade their time, fund, health for financial gain that appear on in mirage to them. But can we blame them?