1. Gambling Will Kill Your Darlings
2. Gambling Will Kill Your Appetite
3. Gambling Will Kill Your Name

If there’s any activity that runs counter to everything self improvement stands for, gambling has got to be one of them. There’s way too much rooted into gambling that can really blow up in your face. It seems harmless at first but like a wildfire, it can get real out of control, destroying your financial future, marriage, relationships with others.

Look at the underlying basis of gambling.

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Getting money for doing nothing. Getting money for being of absolutely no service, value, or help to others. Relying on chance instead of your own personal responsibility.

The only reason Herman would kill himself is cause he'd think he could come back as a ghost and see some memorial for him at SBR. I dont care what you say. The only way to win in gambling. For those who may think that gambling is not as harmful as drugs or alcohol, you are wrong. It destroys families, it destroys lives, and it can lead to prison, insanity or death as surely as any other addiction. I am fortunate- I have survived. I did not do it alone.

The act itself is rooted in greed.

By constantly gambling, you constantly think – let me try to get something for nothing.

When you lose the money you’re gambling, what do you do?

Ask other people for money.

Another form of getting something for nothing.

When that option runs out, what do gamblers do?

They start stealing to support their gambling addiction.

Gambling Will Kill Your Darlings

Another form of getting something for nothing.

And here’s what most people don’t seem to notice about gambling.

The people who gamble because they need money – they lose it.

Why?

Because they’re too emotionally invested.

They’re too attached to the money they’re gambling with.

Gambling Will Kill Your Appetite

The people who “win” at gambling are the ones who ALREADY have a ton of money and don’t need the money they’re gambling with and as a result, can be a bit more objective and take more chances liberally.

But even if they win, it plants that seed into their mind that they can get something for nothing and that can start them down a very dark path. You don’t want that kind of thinking constantly going through your head.

But let’s say you don’t have a ton of money but by some long shot, you win anyways.

You still lose.

Why?

Because you’ve missed out on the opportunity to BECOME the kind of person who can find a way to serve people and earn that money instead. You miss out on developing the traits of patience, focus, vision, persistence, service, action, etc., and that in it of itself is worth more than any amount of money, to develop yourself to your highest potential.

Notice how the lotto winners, the majority of them lose it all because they have NOT become the kind of person who has developed to the point where they can handle the money. They blow it all away. They have no patience, self control, delayed gratification, etc.

Avoid gambling at all costs, even the little forms such as betting on a game with friends, poker night, scratch off tickets, because it’s so easy to make an exception and start slowly sliding down that hill, taking on more serious forms of gambling, getting a bookie, going to Vegas, etc.

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Avoid the easy way out trap that gambling takes the form of.

No matter what, you will always lose in the long run, even if you win.

Understanding the basics of the mechanics behind the economy in Counter-Strike Global Offensive is very important! At least if you are playing competitive and/or trying to improve your game.

To begin with I will give you a little tip. If you are CT and lost the first round – buy! (armor, pistol, nades). At this point in the game, the enemy team economy is also weak, and they will probably stick with SMG’s. If you lose, nothing is really lost, you will Eco on 3rd round (which you would have done anyway), but still be able to buy on the 4rd round (just don’t waste all your money on decoy nades on 1st and 2nd round). For T side it is a little more complex – if you get a plant on the first round, but lose the round, you could go for full eco on 2nd round and then full buy on 3rd round. If you lose 1st round, I would buy on 2nd though.

Now to the mechanics of the economy.

You start out with $800. Each weapon has its own weapon reward (see table below), the weaker weapon, the better reward (usually). That’s why a lot of people buy SMG’s on 2nd round – they are cheap, good against Eco players and gives higher kill rewards.

Now another thing is the objective reward, if you get on a losing streak, you will start earning more money each round. This will get reset the first round you win – so if you lose a lots of rounds, win and then lose the next round, you will most likely need to Eco again.

If you are Terrorist and dies after the timer runs out (when the bomb has not been planted), you will get 0 income. This makes it riskier to save as a Terrorist, because you could get killed after the timer runs out and then have no gun, armor or weapon the next round.

CS:GO Economy

Weapon kill rewards

Gambling Will Kill Your Name