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> I am quite... what's the English word for someone who gets way too excited from the thrill of gambling and forgoes the caution?

I think degen is the common term that used here. It's short for degenerate.

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> I think degen is the common term that used here.

Sir, I think you mixed up your HN account with 4Chan...

"degenerate fuckin gambler" is a common term predating 4chan

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/degenerate#Adjective

>(of a gambler) Addictive or compulsive.

I guess you're getting downvoted because people think you mean HN by "here", but you meant amongst gamblers. And you're right, it is the most apt term gp was looking for.

I definitely was not. "Courageous", "adventurous", "risk-taking", "reckless", "impudent", "bold", "daring", but with something that would mean "...almost and even to a fault or own peril", but without an inherent negative moral connotation is what I was looking for.

It doesn't have an inherent negative moral connotation when used amongst gamblers. It's been reclaimed, so to speak. But I suppose we're not amongst gamblers here, so, fair enough.

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