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Anyone else here impulse gamble?

After a bad day of trading, I sometimes hit the dice and try to go positive. Most of the time I end up losing even more. I can't control it.

The only impulse gambling I do is maybe buying a scratcher when I'm in a newspaper shop.
I try to plan online gambling, doesn't get out of hand that way ;)

Besides, playing if you're feeling bad isn't a great idea to begin with.

I have gambled on impulse in the past. Sometimes it works but my biggest losses are from gambling on an impulse. The best thing is to have a set plan on when to stop and stick to it or you will lose too much.

Yes I agree. I should not deposit much BTC unless I am ready to lose all of it. Good idea to prevent scam gambling sites too

I don't think it works more or less from normal gambling?

Impulse gambling is the real problem in gambling iif you ask me. You can't control yourself and will put your family, friends, loved ones in danger. I do have these when I was in high school, but not gambling, online games, I just stop playing when I don't have any money to pay for the rent. And I do it everyday because I can't control it, then after that I found a way to get out of that by finding myself a new responsibility. But I did not totally forget about it, I still play sometimes but not like in the past.

When your mind is out of control than better to avoid gambling with bigger amount because mostly you may not control yourself and end up losing more money. So when you lose some money from other trades then try to involve yourself in other outdoor activities. When you lose some money then mind always in a hurry to recover those losses and may go for bigger bets in gambling and end up lose even more money.

You need to focus when you gamble, when you are in bad mood you tend to can't control your emotions and the more you lose the more you want to win it more, it's better to not gamble when you are in bad mood, it's not going to release your stress but adding your stress

So you know that you are pretty much addicted and using gambling as vent to relive your stress and do nothing about it?
Or it is not a problem for you at all?

Best advice I can give you, I know it is easy for me to say it, but listen: try to stop, while you still can, and you have money to spare.
From my experience I know that it won't be better, only worse.

It is correct when one is not in a good mode then should avoid gambling otherwise they can't focus on whatever the strategy they want to use it. After some losses, if you continue gambling then most people will tend to recover their money as soon as possible, and in that mindset, they can't stick to their strategy and end up lose more money. Always play gambling games when you're more relaxed so you can concentrate on your games.

I think all gambling is considered impulse gambling. Is it not? I mean, who decides that they're going to go(probably) lose money in a week or two? It's on the impulse that you can(possibly) win money that you go gambling.

I've been there. Quite a lot of times. I also lose more when I do this and just end up losing a lot more than I lost in trading or on my sports betting. Dice is a killer really. You are better off just doing a yolo bet and wage all of your bankroll in one go and see what happens. I also can't control it sometimes, maybe the trick is not think about it since that's what I do when I lose.

gamble to vent frustration over the loss in trading it's the wrong thing better to defuse emotions by stopping the activities associated online and calm down.
I gamble if I still have more money in my pocket because I more priority main needs than pleasure, it's my impulse to gambling.

Yeah, same.
What usually happens to me is that I have a really rough day at work or something, and then I seek some rewards through gambling.
Of course, without even thinking about my actions or its potential to destroy my finances, i start gambling.
Usually, it ends always very badly, with me losing all of my money.

But now I've learned to control this gambling binge. I know that gambling won't work in the long run, so I only view it as entertainment.
Strictly entertainment, because if i go for the profit, i'll lose like always.
Think of gambling as a treat, not something you can make money out of. Just like eating candies ;)

This is usual for the most of the people because in reality they starts doing work without study and help or any suggestion by anyone .
In the beginning I also get loss in the trading and I also get entered in the gambling by mistake and lost my all deposits .
Here most better thing to make earning is that  we need experience of find and loss .
Here you already made loss , now it is time to think to do in better way .
Here I will advice to buy altcoins at bid of low price and then place it for the sell at high rate in advance ( this is 100% working stretagy for me to make earning ) .
I tried every ways of trading and gambling but at the last I found only trading which results into Profit for , when you want to buy any altcoin then make sure that altcoin is at the low price in the month .

Never play with an impulse of your feelings. the stupid point of that is even you know after loosing you feel extremly bad, also about yourself.
So think on this everytime you get tilt.  ;)

I can relate to this!
I end up impulsively betting on sports with an urge to get rich quick scheme if I see crazy odds.The impulsive behavior is due to either bad that at work or most of the times its just trying to recover previous losses.This is not good for life anyway,first indications that you're allowing yourself to get addicted to gambling.

some people believe that if you starting the day with bad things then it will bringing bad things too in the whole of day and i think you have to control your desire because trying to recover your losses from trading with do gambling is a bad mistakes and it will makes you lost more money

Same here
After losing so much on the nba I move to betting on esports hoping to climb my way back up. I win some and lose some  but after that experience I learned to manage my bets and don't try to chase my losses. I think it's because of greed too that's why this is happening because we want to gain back what we lost instead of moving on.

No part of us where not able to control emotions very badly, because we have lost money can't be restored in gambling, we tend to do in any way to take it out, the better we stop and do not think about at all for some time, and back with new thoughts and new capital to gamble.

That's the thing, you shouldn't try to hit goals when gambling because you could waste all your fund trying to reach them. Just go in it to waste some time, or have some fun. All with small amounts each time, win or lose, just get away quickly.

But that is the problem here, impulse gamblers can't control themselves. It is the worst way you can be a gambler. If you are an impulse gambler, you are not thinking straight, you just think that gambling is your thing and no one will stol you from doing it. You do things so you can gamble like borrowing or even being a thief. It is the type of gambler where they are like attracting by the casino like a magnet amd they will never mind because they like it, they have no control and needs a treatment by psychologists.

Getting professional help is not a bad idea if you can't help yourself. First step is to accept that you're impulsive with gambling through, but I don't disagree. If someone can't set limits to his gambling and instead sets fails at self set goals (that are doomed to fail), then getting help would be needed.

I did this before and when I'm in mood and doesn't have something to do my money/bitcoin I just want to do this when I'm at rage.


That's why it is called impulse as you will have no control for it and most of the time we do have the same result with it, we are having hard time to win with this type of gambling.

If you do enjoy it then its just fine since playing gambling in times of frustration or stress does really relief it and if you only lose small amounts then it should be fine but if we are already talking about big amounts of lose then better to change that habit and instead you are striving hard to make profits on trading you are just losing them on playing gambling which its just a pointless thing to do afterall. Only play if you do tired on making trading since we do really need it for sometimes.

Yes I tried impulse gambling and it's really hard to control when I think I'm lucky enough. I'm losing on my own control when doing this. But just like you OP and others I'm also falling into the same result of frustration and I don't want to keep on going further because it can be worse.

Yeah mate, its fine as long as small amounts only. But if you are really streass, I don't think that one should gamble at all. Because when you are stress, you can control your emotions and maybe you will loss big amount. So its also not good I think. I once do it when I was stress from work and play on weekends, but it just added another stress on my mind when I loss.

Yep that will be fine if you are going to do this method with small amount. Because you can have big chance of winning with this method and the chance of losing will not be that heavy if you are going to do this thing. Since op mentioned that he can't control it, that's a problem already. You should focus more for resolving this addiction first before the positive result of doing this method.