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There are some people who are dreaming to become a professional gambler like Don Johnson who won $15.2 million playing blackjack, when asked to explain what his secret was, Johnson smiled and then he explained he needed only two things to beat the house: good skills and a plan. Having skills in every battle would be a great advantage but it won't work if you do not plan something, so it is a matter of combination between skills and plans.

Every successful professional gamblers treat gambling as a sport and like disciplined athletes, they don't let their emotions get the better of them. There will be bets you win and bets you lose. If you let the excitement or sadness get to you, you will end up making bad gambling decisions.

If you are going to ask any professional gamblers how do they survive at the tables. No matter how good you are, they will tell you this: it's inevitable that you will have a bad string of results Ir even a bad year so we should always accept that we can lose the game.

Gambling facts:
There are some gamblers who believe in superstition. Every time you watch or read something about gambling, the hero of the story goes on a winning streak as soon they bet on their lucky number, or keep a lucky clover close to their heart. If you think these things work, don't gamble. As you can read on this article that explains how to win at Blackjack every time you play, superstition has nothing to do with your success rate at the table.
Source: https://www.casinosmash.com/casino-strategy/professional-gambling-secrets-2652.htm

And what's the point?

But I can tell you one. Unless you are seriously into this kind of thing, i.e. fell in love head over heels with a certain game (e.g. blackjack), it makes no sense getting into this business (if we can call it a business in the first place) just because someone has been lucky to win $15.2 million. In different terms, Don Johnson (whoever he is) started to play BJ not because he wanted to earn from it but for the simple and perhaps singular reason he liked the game

Yea, the superstition thing is quite funny when you visit the brick n mortar casinos, because some people that are playing the Slot machines, have this superstition that they must rub the screen to have good luck. You walk around there and you see people rubbing the screens and/or the side of the machines and it looks like people making love to the equipment.  ::)

Slot machines have the lowest possible return of all the games in the casinos and people still believe they can win the house with superstition. The only guaranteed method to win a bit more, is if you know how these games work, because some people will go sit in front of a new game/machine and they just drop money and play.(Study the game play and help and learn how to use the bonus system or how to unlock it)

                      As with anything in life, most success come from proper research and continued repetition and training.

Can I know how you determine someone already becomes a professional gambler? Winning a big prize like Don Johnson?
In my view, I only divide gamblers to be 2 classifications: experienced and inexperienced gamblers. There is no professional gambler as it is not a kind of job career.

AFAIK, winning a gambling game isn't always about skills and plans.
You only need the luck to win the games:
- Dice
- Slots
- Roulette
- Etc

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There are a lot of things that you need to prepare before you can be a professional gambler, and that is not just to have big money to start. But you also need to learn many things, including how you can have a strong control for yourself. Yes, some of them will believe with superstitious, but they also believe that gambling is related to luck, and they will not win if they don't have luck.

somehow some lines on the sentence gives me a little relief  , specifically on a part when you say there will be a bad year  . lately ive notice that i cant win anymore   . sometimes at win but i cant see a good green streaks anymore so resulted for me to get busted and havent withdrawed anything  .  now i know that some gamblers experiences longers losses than i  so i guess i should wait and keep on trying   .  superstious belief isnt bad though  , if you believe on it then go play gamble using it   .

Bad beats often teach us the best of lessons when it comes to gambling. It helps us improvise our strategies and better ourselves, especially in self-control which literally lacks on most gamblers who experienced a big win and is met with a series of bad events. Also, most professionals also came from humble and not-so-great beginnings, I assure you. Only a handful of people experienced quite a somewhat straight and easy way to greatness, but even them experienced lots of losses I'm sure.

Of course many people think that including me gambling regards samata entertainment, just for fun, but underneath all that a gambler has principles and methods for success and professional playing.

In self-developing gambling it's important to be a top gambler.
- For that I always think positively when gambling, positive thinking is highly prioritized to produce good to be a professional gambler.
If bad thoughts produce bad gamblers.
- the purpose if you have a goal in gambling will increase success in what you try to place a bet, meaning greed in gambling will never be successful, even though you always win in the end you willend up losing.
- this patience is the sole factor for achieving professional and successful gamblers, and also how to manage finances is very important to determine.
- a professional gambler must be realistic, this can be realistic in online casino games or direct casinos, a gambler must not expect jackpot bets, which must be risky gambling to remember.

This is what I can do if I start betting to get a professional gambler degree.

And also, in being a professional gambler you need to consider a lot of things not just when you're on game but also out of the game. Gambling isn't that easy and gambling can make you life good and better or even worse than ever. Gambling makes people so happy, contented and excited if positively affect you and sad, stress and depress when nagatively. One of the main reason why gambling is choose one of the way of earning profits is because of the idea of fast and easy learning. But what happen if you dis not have any idea or knowledge about gambling?

Being a professional gambler doesn't mean you always winning. And you always earning a lot of money. But a professional player or gambler is described as a person who has a lot of knowledge regarding the game he was into and idea on how to set limits, min or max or earnings and spendings and also how to manage your own money correctly. It's not about money but it is all about the attitude you have and posses.

Don Johnson did not reach that level of expertise, without a long string of losses, yes he won that big amount and we have seen that but he did not divulge his exact losses, skills, and planning takes years to achieve, but there are gambling forms where you only to be in control and lucky to win the game, you can be a professional gambler but that does not guaranty winning huge amount.

Having a plan to beat the house is important but what about being a professional player that wants to play poker? Wouldn't there be different plans depending on the game that you want to become a professional. I agree with the skills being involved with playing a game to have more chances of winning, in my opinion luck and skill go hand in hand when you are gambling, imagine drawing a royal flush in 5 card poker and the opponent gets the better of you and bluffs.
I do agree with players not getting  their emotions unchecked but not using emotions when they are playing for me is a missed oppurtunity, one example is in poker, having your emotions utilized to look like you are winning or losing makes things unpredictable.

Professional gambler could be like a sports/e-sports.

Participate in the tournament, especially a worldwide tournament that could be considered as a professional gambler since he play against other people who participate in the tournament and the winner of the tournament will get the prize pool, not from the bankers. And someone who always winning or win a big money, I call it an experienced gambler since he putting his money against the banker.

Since he participates a lot of tournament without using any money, he can do it that as a job.

• Getting a few percentage money from the prizepool
• Getting a payment from the organization which he entered
• Getting a payment from an advertiser on some product, mostly related to the gamble topics

That is from my perspective.

I hope everyone who aim to be a professional gambler will understand that it's a process.

Some gamblers think they can win money instantly or acquired the necessary skills in a short period of time, I am sure professional gamblers are confidence but they are always open for improvement and they always learn from their mistakes.

And professional gamblers are also losing money, I watch a movie about being a professional gambler the movie is "the rounders" and they are playing poker to survive in a daily basis. Usually if you want to be a professional gambler you should pick a game that is skilled base so that your chance of winning will be based on how good you are. and the discipline should be to the highest level so you are not going to lose all your money in just one bad day.

Absolutely this true mate because Gambling is not a professional job and must not treated as one,this is just a Hobby and only a finding luck opportunity.
Yeah on these sets but in cards and sportsbet there are another stories mate because like in Cards:

You can be a Mindful and skillful to know how your opponent reacting in each movement you did and that is a +1 factor.

in Sportsbet:

If you know and very familiar in game,players and teams the chance of predicting who will win and estimate the scores are there and this is advantage as well.

I honestly think if you get over with emotions while playing this will affect your over-all performance same as any sports and games. You sometimes bet in a game using just pure luck or just in a gist. Just accept the fact that losing is part of the risk that you have taken when you decided to gamble in the first place. As said, even profesional gamblers had their bad days and kept going on.

One thing over years I have understood and also seen the the moment you mix your emotions in gambling you end up on a losing note more frequently. Both has to be kept out and when playing professionally you should mean business that sit. If you ending on a loss you have to take a hard decision to quit before it becomes late and when you have made profit you should also know playing for long would mean that chances of losing may rise so should be quitting at right time.

In sport betting in theory you are correct but the problem is that almost this happens.The reason for that is the referee can impact the game the way he wants if he really wants to decide the outcome of a soccer game.This happens a lot even in big games where referees are some of the best in the field.In smaller games in lower leagues this can be a major obstacle to our predictions no matter how good we think we know the teams we are betting on.

The way to make money with Gambling always goes through good psychology. It is not always possible to make the right move at the right time. However, it is very important that the mistakes do not follow one after another. Especially in games like blackjack, you have to manage the whole game very well.

I just go in reverse; I mean as people are not limiting their emotions, they cannot become professional gamblers. Either one would play in your gambling: it would be you or your emotions. When you are playing there are more than 50% of the chances to win whereas when your emotions are playing there are only 0% chances. Playing emotion-less will be possible over the experience but gamblers usually grow along with their emotion failures; I mean when they become more experienced with gambling, they are becoming more emotional.

I agree. We can play disciplined only when we are having some plan. To conquer your opponent/house, you must have some skill better than them. Simply, Martingale strategy provides you such a skill to you but when you keep on trying in long run you may lose your discipline and then you may lose.

You just need to keep on your track whenever you engage in gambling, there's a circumstances where you don't need other people to grow. Maybe sometimes, advice are helpful especially if it comes from those who are really experienced and good gamblers but I guarantee you to learn by yourself and explore things by yourself.

Gamblers need to understand things, seek information, grow, and learn from those mistakes in order for them to adapt and adjust whenever it is necessary. Being a professional gambler is a privilege to yourself, all of your mistakes and result of the gambling career is within your actions. I'm not against to those who are beginners that do not explore things and they value their greediness, I know that they will learn about that in a right time.

I knew a lot of people who are professional in gambling right now and they are now managing huge business. The effect of gambling if you're lucky and you're good at performing in gambling will really make you profitable and more good at it. You really need to budget your money and make a minimum or maximum budget to spend.

But many people who try to play gambling finally become addicted in the long term because they don't stop gambling for a while. They think that they can make money from gambling, so that makes them play more and more. Gambling can give be the way to have fun or have regret for losing their money, and if they can have control for themselves, they will not think about making money fast from gambling because that is hard to get. Many people are playing gambling without learning about how to play or how to control themselves because they are curious for the first time.

Yes, the professional also loses in gambling, and it's only a matter of time to see they will get the lost. But the professional will have more control to themselves, and they can know when they need to stop or leave gambling. Besides that, they know playing gambling without having a plan will risk their money, and that is not good for themselves.

it's very hard becoming a professional gambler for a LOT of reason.
in fact if you look practically the problem there are hundreds of casino/bookmakers and few "famous gamblers" so 99,9999% will just fail.
Plus a gambler with a good skills normally has a good skills also in other (more lucrative) stuffs... with less risk/more wealthy and more social recognition

 being a professional is different than to someone wants to earn more often  .

i dont want to be a pro but i only want to earn more often , i dont have a huge capital either so its imposible for me to be like him  . asking him or asking any pro about thier secrets is i think they will just lie because its a secret anyway   . instead they will give you common tips for gambling  and thats what we saw here   .  plan and skills are common but most of us dont have one of them    . planning is easy but its hard to be skillful in gambling

Successful gamblers does not totally share their secret, why would they when they are enjoying themselves, so those who are selling tips or picks saying they are a successful gamblers for a long period of time, they are really lying.

What we can read online is just some attitude that we should have as a gambler but in terms of strategy, we will be able to learn it along the way.

now, becoming a professional gambler is a serious job, we have to ensure we have the skills and the mindset so we would last and we will be successful in the long run.

It's true that being a professional gambler is better in your own way, don't follow other people. Because only each of us knows the abilities
and knowledge that we have. It is not easy to become a professional gambler, it takes experience and routine practice for ability we increase.
Until now I am still learning to become a professional gambler.

There's only one secrete behind successful gambler, he is lucky, and he wins often! Where is the trick, well I think that gambling professionals bet on sports, or they play poker! For first one you need to know sport you bet on, teams, last minute changes! So when you get up in the morning, first thing you do is to read some sport pages, and you do that often! You place big bets, you win big and you can live from that! Poker is a second game where someone can be a professional, to play big tournaments and win often, or at least he is on some top position and always in payout! For poker, you need to have a set of skills, and luck to win some crazy hands on river! Anyway you can start reading and betting on sports, or to sit on the table and play poker like crazy, day and night, to sharp your skills, and eventually you can become pro!
In the end I can just say one more thing, if you don't try you will not know what could happen!

I have no plan of becoming a professional gambler since I only gamble for entertainment. But for me in gambling, you also need acceptance. Yes, you got the skills, plan, and luck, but if you don't know how to accept losses, your emotions will be a big hindrance to it. Acceptance that not every time you can win. Even professional gamblers experience losing. And that's part of gambling, so if you don't accept losing, you can't be successful in gambling.

I think to be a professional gambler, it requires a good and smart mindset especially when they are in the game. And not everyone can achieve that since there's a lot of gamblers who can't separate and control their emotions. That's why I don't want to be addicted to gambling because I don't think I can handle my own emotion very well.

to be, eventually become a professional player the best way is obviously find your own method of play without following anyone's advice, is very difficult, at the beginning there will be huge losses until you will be familiar with the game techniques, i would focus on games where skills, player interaction like poker and blackjack count and i would forget purely luck games like roulette and dice

It's not necessary to lose huge money when you are still starting as you can control on the amount you will wager.
For example, you are still not confident, then you will just have to wager a small amount until you feel you already are consistent in winning.

maybe the right words are you will have more losing experience, but you will not lose more or beyond your limit.

I hope that people don't buy that tips or guide that tells it's a fast way to make money in gambling because that does not work for all people. The successful gamblers will keep their secret from other people, and if they share something, that is not related to their secret.

Sometimes, they give outdated information that does not work anymore. Besides that, if they use to subscribe to join in their premium tips, I don't think that they will be honest to share the biggest secret of them.

The professional gambler is someone who has high-skill, can limit their money, setting the mindset, have a control which is not all people can be the professional gambler.

There is only a few scenarios where I will be a professional gambler. One is I win a l ot of million dollars in Jackpot. I will then set aside 5% just for gambling for the next 20 years, but not change my tactics,,, only my bankroll amount. Show off in all the channels and gain max levels in all dice sites:P

That might be it, I guess. But looking upon someone's footstep somehow helps on your own development. The thing is, nobody can be anyone at all times, so still you have to be on top one way over the other by your own method and not by someone else's. And so you can maximize the potentiality you got in such field. One thing that an individual must remember at all cost is that, playing of emotions is as important as winning. It plays a lot specially when the game requires too much interaction. Yeah, you can be confident but sometimes you have to show uncertainty to draw in your opponents.

Everything else is good, you might get winning streak 'cause of your so-called skills and plan but you have to be wary on how you spend your winning while still staying inside the casino. Because you might go bet on pure luck based game after winning it on a skill based game, then lose it all in a flash before you knew it. Well at somepoint it is unlikely to happen when you're disciplined enough on when to go home and of course saving it.

Depends. I have my own experience where superstition helped me to get me profits. Blackjack and sportsbetting are know for its skilled way of gambling hence superstition definitely has nothing to do there. But, on all gambling types where your luck factor playing the role of deciding and finalizing everything then you may go for superstition. Superstition is know for maximizing your luck but like luck factor, the outcome of following superstition cannot be controlled. It means superstition may work or may not; exactly similar to luck factor.

All the above, by simply following superstition no one could reach the heights of professionalism in gambling. If you notice, professional gambler are existing only on skill based gambling.

A lot of gamblers really do believe in superstitions because it sometimes helped them to win a huge amount of profits by believing in lucks. But believing in superstitions doesn't make you a professional gambler because a professional gambler not only depends on luck that they always win because of their good skills in playing skill-based gambling like poker.

There are gamblers that are really good at playing cards, or dice or just very luck but even though they are making a living from gambling that does not mean that they are not making losses too, they admit that they have a string of losses it's just happen that their winnings is greater than their losses, because they have developed a certain skill and insight.

I think it wouldn't hurt to have some superstitious belief's while gambling I think some professional gambler have their own but doesn't want others to know.
As you mention they treat it as sport so they see their selves as athlete and some athlete have their own believes like praying or doing something before playing their own games.
Of course you are right that it would take skill's and plan or self control but we should also know that luck also plays it part in sports so does in gambling.

Lol, I don't believe it was just skill and "a plan" that helped him win $15.2 million. If it was skills and plans that is helping him win millions, then why isn't he a billionaire by now. Why don't we see his name on the list of richest persons? I would say he just got lucky! Luck played vital role for him on winning.

True, luck has nothing to do with those superstitious believes. Isn't it why we call it superstition (irrational believe)?

It is to believe that knowledge, skills, and plan is very important in gambling especially like Blackjack as it needs a strategy. But there is one thing we ask for every time we been in gambling and that is LUCK. To have it is a very special moment but of course, it is very important also to be smart in doing decision and it also makes no sense of having luck at all.

Professional gamblers such as the one mentioned are very objective. They seem to have the ability to turn their emotions on and off, definitely turned off when they are on the table thinking very clearly on the goal in front of them. That is something only a few people could manage doing. I admit I cannot be like that. The moment the losing streak comes, I get to break down.

Most of us want to play gambling because we want to experience some fun and by that gambling games satisfy these desires it depends on you how you will manage your games. I think one of the best ways is to handle your games which you are good with like if you are skilled in dice and poker it is better to focus on it by that you are comfortable playing and also earning a lot of money.  Even the professional gamblers experienced that they lost too but by that, they used their experience and face the problem on every game.

Me as a gambler I focus on sports gambling because it is easier to make more profit by just having predicted the right team or which team will win the game but sometimes I lose but this is not just a mistake I always back to my wrong decisions and analyze to avoid to my future next game.

Although gambling is a game of chance, it can be a good source of income for people with proper planning and disciplined play. As an ex-gambler, although I support my words "gambling is not a gain" that I have said in my previous posts, I would like to add the following. While you are gambling, you can increase your chances of making money with proper planning and disciplined compliance with the rules you set beforehand. Although this is not a permanent income method and of course it will break out at some point, it will be a very reasonable choice to save your short-term games. For this reason, if your main goal is to earn money instead of having fun, creating the right plan strategy and playing discipline will definitely help to achieve positive results.

Professional means gambling is your profession, or simply put, you do it for a living. In pure chance games, no way you can do that, but if it's in skill games, then yes.

For poker, you can do the cold reading and bluffing. If it's combined with experience, then your winning chance can be higher than average joes. However, it is still risky since one bad night can erase your income.

That is without a doubt a funny superstition but I have never seen anything like it at the place where I live.

One of the things that bothers me the most about many of those that gamble is that they never stop to think about what it is on their best interests, as you say by far the most profitable game for a casino are the slot machines and you only have to take a look at any casino to see that most of the available space is used for those machines, that should raise a red flag for anyone that is observant, because that is a clear indication that the casino wants you to play in those slot machines, and if a casino wants you to play those slot machines then that means that you should not want to play there and should look for another game.

Well, I agree with this. Gambling is gambling and no matter how long you've been playing or how experienced you are in a particular game still it will be your luck that will make you win. Skills and plans may be an advantage but that will never guarantee a winning for your skills or plans may not be appropriate in each game so, in the end, --you will still hold on your luck. Winning a huge amount will not make anyone pro or an expert, not unless if they can do it on a daily basis without a single day of loss.

If you like gambling, you want to continue to protect your privacy so others dont know it and you continue to do your as a gambler and remain in your position until no one knows, then calm down because you are a professional. :D

Professionals in general terms are those who have a profession and have high ability and integrity at their jobs. However, I dont think someone who has a lot of experience in gambling can be called a professional because gambling is not a profession but just a game. You can still be called a professional only if you are someone who works at a physical gambling site or casino because that is your job. Love your job, experienced and able to work well then you are a professional worker.

That Don Johnson story is one huge success story it's one rare story to win that amount, but I wonder what is the total cost to win that amount how much time and money did he spent before climbing to get that winning, I wonder if he can do that over and over again because luck still plays a major factor in every gambling, we seldom beat the house.

Agreed to this. I have some virtual friends who constantly joined in many online porker games (even physical one), I'm amazed how good he is. But, being professional or very skilled poker player make give you a certain win. It's always on our luck.

To be honest, I admire people who are professional gamblers. I'm not sure if they are brave enough or crazy enough to risk that much. Because if you want to make enough for living you need to take quite a big risk every day and in general you depend on luck, experience, feeling and knowledge can't help that much. Gambling is one of those activities where you never have full control. So I beleive that successful professional gambllers are incredible lucky but they have very exciting job and adrenaline takes them all the time.

Professional gamblers of course what they do is very risky where they will make big bets and the luck that is there therefore we as gamblers must be prepared what we face in gambling.
If we live only rely on gambling, it will be very difficult because we ourselves are not professionals, we are only mentally strong, but do not support big finances, so it will be even more difficult to rely on it.

Luck would always a main thing and as i said below, no matter what gambling game we are into.Luck-based or Strategy based, if this thing doesnt favor us then we would surely lose.
Gambling is a matter of win or lose and the important line i do like is that "we shouldnt let ourselves being controlled with our emotions" this thing really works
because if you do gamble just for fun then this wont really be a big issue on your side.


People should consider this fact. We do hit jackpots but to think on how much we have spent totally before hitting up that pot.Of course, luck is always been a main factor for us to
win even though we do say that plans and skills are needed but all of these would be useless if it doesnt mixed out with luck. Knowing BJ where you do need some
sort of intuition or gut feeling that your hand would bust up.

Let me say that we are on the same page here

But if BJ is like poker (I don't really know since I'm not a fan of either) and skill is involved in this game too, it is no longer a matter of chance and luck as is the case with games of chance like, for example, dice. Well, it is not the case even with these games, but it is an entirely different matter (and a can of worms, while we are at it). Regarding why he is not a billionaire by now, the market for BJ may be too small, and there can be too little money in it to become a billionaire for any single individual. Really, you can't win more money than there is, right?

I disagree if we are talking about strategy-based games.

On this type of game, you need to help your LUCK to come at you rather than LUCK will come to you. What does this mean? For example, you are having a bad day like some of your preferred cards aren't appearing on your deck, your key to winning here will be based on how you decide. A strategy that can beat the dealer's card even your set of cards is bad.

On the other hand, let's say you are lucky and you are getting good cards, it doesn't always mean you can win on that round. So luck is useless here if you can't manage to take advantage of it.

Agree, you can't call your self a gambling professional if you are playing games that requires only luck. You will have to be skilled with something and do it as a means of living. This is risky because even skilled and experienced players also have their losing streak, and I think only few are really lucky to make it and survive making gambling as a profession.

You either play it for entertainment purposes or leave it. According to my belief, there can't be any such ^professional^ gambler but disciplined, responsible gambler. A responsible gambler knows his responsibilities for the society he lives in, for his family, for his kids, for his wife, etc. One who has patience will never let his emotions drown him as he knows when to stop and when to start back. Learn patience and stop if you've won a significant amount of money, that's the only mantra to be in profits for a long time.

I agree with your point but its just common sense that you should really know on what you are doing with the game because good cards wont be utilize if you dont know on whats the game is all about.
Even its already a good situation to call but you missed that part because you do lack of that knowledge. Luck cant be called nor being affected by several factors but as said
if you do know on what you're doing, you do really have that edge against other or opponent.

The problem most of the time is that people play with money that they cannot afford to lose and that makes them play again with emotions in the hope that they will be able to recover the losses and and again these people lose money that they couldn't afford to lose


I am not going to talk about superstition because in Africa it has become something normal since centuries ago and today or at least for some years now people are realizing that certain games are necessary to have a lot of knowledge and develop a good strategy to win

Well, I guess every professional gamblers we do know today have also started from scratch and have learned their strategies or how they will cope up into circumstances throughout the journey from the experiences they have which basically composes of losses and wins but more of losses I think since experiencing loss and mistakes makes us realize or learn something that makes us a better individual which we can do apply on being a professional gambler ourselves. We must not compare ourselves into the latest professional gamblers we do know because we are all unique in our own ways and we can also be a popular and well-known gamblers by just being ourselves because playing gambling and winning it does not make it only a day unless you were really that lucky. The point is that we can all be professional gamblers by doing the thing we know that will be good or helpful to us for being a good and professional gamblers on our own ways.

I did believe in it up until now.
Although I don't win that much like your example I still do win.

One of my superstition belief is resting.
Thinking that lady luck is not my side when I experience a losing streak.
What I'd do? Rest for a while, 1 hour of break then go back.
If the results are still the same, I would rest the whole day. It is not that bad, preventing to lose more is a strategy too.

Does it really make sense that luck is very important in gambling? Additionally, about superstition, unfortunately in my country, there are still many people who believe in this superstition when playing gambling. They are searching for the lucky number or things outside of our reality or mind. It is strange to believe in such different things, superstition. But, however this is their belief and we should know and understand about it.
Personally, I do not believe in the superstition.

Same here, we cannot really put our trust only on luck. There should be efforts to become rich. There must be a way if someone trying hard. As here, good skils can be got from learning from experience, people's experience, analysis, and also lesson in every match or gambling. So, it will lead to having better skill in gambling. Additionally, plan is required to make our strategies or skill completed enough. The plan should be managed properly in order to understand exactly what should be done during gambling and what kind of decision to take at that time.

So you think that gamblers should take gambling as a profession ?  Gambling cannot be considered as a profession and it should be treated like a game only. You cannot make a living out of anything which is so much uncertain in nature. Yes, you can learn to play better with passage of time but you should have other means of earning regular income.

It's possible for someone to make a living out of gambling but only a small amount of gamblers could be that consistent in winning. Imo putting enough effort does pay off in gambling i've done it multiple times like for example when checking for the future matches that I follow I could sometimes find a value bet and usually it'll win but that doesn't mean I should rely on gambling. I don't recommend doing it but if there's people who does it until now then there's still a chance, just don't expect it to be that easy.

spoken like a true professional. his reply might sound easy to do but is hard to follow especially with different scenarios and outcome in every play and game and in the end discipline is the major factor in order to follow the plan.

If you want to become a professional gambler, you can have nothing else to focus your attention to. I agree comparing professional gamblers with athletes. They really need to undergo constant training with undivided focus. If you are just gambling for fun and can only spend an hour a day for it because you are also busy doing something else, you cannot be a professional gambler.

Being a professional gambler is not just playing for fun and spend an hour a day to play any games, but he needs to learn about a specific gambling game like a card game or sports betting. He needs to find more information about how to be a professional in the card game or other gambling game so he can practice the lesson. And he needs to spend his time longer than just to play the game because he will try so many guidance inside the course.

Yes, we need to focus on what we do so we can understand the point of the lesson so that it can help us to improve our skills. But that will not be easy because you need to practice every day, collect the information from many sources, and try the method in the game.

Its not easy to make gambling as your main source of income to earn decent money. No matter how good you are losing is inevitable even you call yourself a professional.

I think to have an edge as a gambler and be like a pro, having my own strategy and experience can help me to win in a particular game especially in sports bet. Gambling is risky but there's a way to somehow increase the chance to win and that is by learning about the game before playing and build your own strategy.

What's your definition of a professional gambler anyway?
Because being professional at something means you get paid to do it. In gambling, you can't be a professional gambler If you're not paid by someone to play gambling games like in the poker tournament.
Folks like us who gambles for leisure can't be a gambler in profession.
You can't expect gambling as the main source of your income, unless somebody is paying you to gamble then that's how you consider yourself a professional gambler.
And being one isn't easy tbh lol.

Professional gambler is the one for me the who actually spend a lot of time in gambling and his main income depends on the gambling. They keep playing constantly and many times in a day they do bet and overall at the end of the month make good amount of money which means more profit then the loss they may incurr in the gambling.

Sorry but am i missing something or your sentence is unreadable ?
I believe that those called "Professional Gamblers" are type of person in which belongs to "Gifted Child" as they have the skills that not people can acquire even how good training you do.IMO

This is the wrong belief of other people. They see gambling as a quick rich thing and they can get money on gambling instantly.

Yes there is a chance that gambling can change your life like what happened to the person OP is posted but it took him many times and many money to win that huge amount of cash. Skills and plans are 2 factors in how you can win in gambling but the main ingredient of it is luck. Maybe their plan is they aren't lucky, they will go out of the casino and go back again tomorrow and vice versa. That is a combination of planning and being lucky. Skills? There are certain games which requires skills and blackjack is one of them since it is a card games.

The Strategy Of Don Johnson is inspiring and worth knowing what were the keys to the success that allowed him to earn $ 15,078 million.

"The truth is - there isn’t any magic formula.
It all comes down to math and negotiating better terms with casinos."

He is a genius, he recommends that each player find a way to improve the odds to start winning.
Discipline and skills.

https://www.realmoneyaction.com/the-strategy-of-don-johnson-a-legend-who-won-over-15-million-on-blackjack/ (https://www.realmoneyaction.com/the-strategy-of-don-johnson-a-legend-who-won-over-15-million-on-blackjack/)

It takes time but it's possible to developed a good strategy that will help you earned from this venue of activities. It's true that losing is inevitable it's part of this business and even you are good, in some ways shit will happen to you.
Learning each strategy and find what's suits to the type of gambler like you will allow you to have an advantage. Having good control with your emotion and good management of your capital.

Unreadable? Which part? ???

I'm sorry, is it hard to comprehend? Let me rephrase it, then. If you want to become a professional gambler, you cannot divide your focus.


You are most probably wrong. Even that so-called gifted child has to undergo a tedious training or else he will still end up lesser than what he could potentially become.

It matters if you are born with a natural leaning toward something, but nothing can probably beat perseverance and determination.

Those can play an ugly trick on you

Say, you persevere in and are determined for something which you are not naturally gifted with (like being short and trying to become a world-class basketball player). Then you will only be wasting your time and effort. Put differently, blind perseverance and determination can easily turn into an exercise in stupidity and futility. You should always practice "situational awareness", so to speak, i.e. how well something fits you and how well you fit in

Well said yet we know on how reality works and we should really be aware of that for us to know that we are totally wasting of time and would be better if we do seek
for another career or goals which we do see that we do have high chances on achieving it rather than forcing up something which you do see that you really
dont have any improvement or some sort.So it do matter with self awareness or realization in most of the time.In talks of being professional in gambling industry then
it would particularly talks with skill based ones where these people do already get rid of emotions and other things to sustain themselves.

Professional gambler which may not be suitable for every gambler since most of the gamblers are betting money from their paycheck which is really bad motive.If you wanted to concentrate on gambling for full time then you need to have other source of income which will be used for your survival if you exhaust all of your saving while betting.

Games like this aren't and shouldn't supposed to be focused as a professional job nor a stable source of income. Don Johnson might only been interested with playing it and spent some of his time practicing and learning more to be good at it. But for the beginners and other users whom are amazed with him and also dreaming to be like him, I simply say you must not. Yes you can be a professional gambler in your own way, yet nowadays the chance on winning in such gambling games is less than 20% depending upon your experience.

It is too late to be professional at this, there are a lot of ways to earn more than he earned. Be professional on those instead.

In as much there is a system or strategies that worked for you as a gambler means you should be proud to be with a secret in gambling. Most of the strategies other gamblers had used aren't valid again for the purpose of bug fixed. Some popular strategies which had been used aren't working any longer and if new strategies are fond should be kept for such gambler. Most of my gambling are purely done with my eyes opened and not taking anyone input into my gambling. Be yourself while into gambling, make that decision which can eanr you good profit.

I assume we all have a working brain, sufficient amount of common sense, and enough awareness.

You do not expect a fish to dream of playing with the birds in the sky. A blind man can dream all he wants but that won't include him joining the professional baseball league as a pitcher. You know what I'm talking about?

you have to know if you actually have an edge. The only way to do that is with CLV.  I would not recommend considering betting as a profession until you can achieve +EV on a regular basis.

Read black cat in a coal cellar and see if you are the black cat.

While practice made it perfect yet being a gifted in such way is indeed,because even those who practice constantly still not reaching the top of their career because they have no gift of being that great.

You made Basketball as example but why there are very few players like Micheal Jordan and Kobe Bryant? because they are gifted and thats it.

you need to ensure that you'll put some limit, it is not right to continue risking and losing money if you are not seeing any improvement.
When you are into gambling and you fee you are professional, you are not relying on lucky, you feel what you are doing is like investing and like in real life when we are into business we take the risk but we honestly evaluate if the business we are venturing is making us profitable or not.



Hard Work Beats Talent  (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IZIyE6iShe8), you don't believe on that, don't you?

See you don't need to be a professional gambler , you have to be a smart gambler .

Take into account your positive and negative outcome, prize , losses .

You need to try and keep track of your winnings and losses. .. don't just go in and get addicted. This will be very bad for you , for the long term.

I do think you should even use a little bit of mathematics to try and find out in which game your chances of winning are high.

That depends on how you see it, if your job is gambling or your main source of income is gambling, then it's nice to call yourself a professional gambler as that will eventually become your profession.

you'll need to do and have that if you are a professional gambler, all you do properly calculated to determine your chances and make a decision only when you think you have a good chance of winning.


you do, because when you are gambling, it's all about how to analyze a certain situation and make a timely decision which would usually result to a win.

I was thinking, what is your basis to be called a professional gambler? For me being a professional gambler is being successful in life because of the gambling, that's it, gambling could be the reason for you to become successful in life and that is why you have called as a professional gambler

The superstition is quite funny, I am once thinking that way before, when I saw numbers for many times when I am going in the casino then I will bet for it. I am thinking that it was my lucky number at that time  ;D, I think some people also think that way, LOL.
Actually the word professional is not only associated with the word career, some people who are experts in doing something can be called a professional, professional killer? There is no career as a killer but they are called professionals.

How come there's no professional on gambling scene there are people make this as a career and you can read on this article about professional gamblers and what they do https://www.888casino.com/blog/casino-tips/professional-gambler.

And you can also read here the 6 type of gamblers maybe you can define by reading this article on what kind of gamblers are you https://www.healthyplace.com/addictions/gambling-addiction/types-of-gamblers-compulsive-gamblers-and-more

There are also professional poker players which we can see being televised by national television and by this we can really see that professionals in gambling industry exist.

I am happy the way I am playing now. I intend to gamble for entertainment and not for making money. I play because I love the excitement and the urge to win.

Whatever my skills are I am happy with it and I donot want to break my head for a game or two.

But apart from that, you should also use them accordingly

Ironically, it is mostly through luck that you find your "natural leaning toward something", not through the things you mentioned. Otherwise, there wouldn't be such a thing as mid-life crisis at 40 something. People go to college to get a degree and start on a career only to understand in a decade or two later that this is not what they ever wanted. So much for a working brain, common sense and awareness


In real life, though, there are fifty million shades of gray

There are professional gamblers out there as difficult as it may seem to believe, while there are games that are completely based on luck and as such it is impossible to earn profits from them over the long term due to the house edge, there are certain games in which you can apply a strategy and be profitable over the long term even when you consider the house edge, however it is not easy at all to become a professional gambler and anyone that is considering gambling as a profession should probably think about it twice before actually trying to follow that path.

We can find one successful person who followed this strategy but there are millions out there who failed while following the same so never try to be a professional gambler at all, enjoy the gambling experience and level everything there when you get out from the site or physical casino then just lead your normal life.

Of course! You can have all the plans and strategies in the world and the best attitude ever and still fail. These do help but don't make you a winner.

OP mentioned superstition. That doesn't help for sure. THe only good thing it can do is give you confidence but confidence is a double edged sword. It can be good or bad depending on the situation. Luck isn't a measurable thing so I won't even talk about it.

Nice caught!
Literally speaking, he can't delete this thread. Maybe he may put this in archive.

Out of all replies, this one caught my attention. Though OP for me have a good intention in putting up this discussion. He should not make plagiarised content. To prevent, he should quote or give some citation about those copied content.

If he continuously doing this, probably he might be banned in this forum.

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We don't have the same luck. You may have the chance to win thousand times but others hasn't luck. The best way to be a professional gambler is to play in moderation. Play what you want to lose and don't make it as your livelihood. If there is few chance to win, don't lose all your funds right out there. Remember gambling is made not to please players but to pissed off players.

Actually, there's nothing wrong in trying to be someone that you like but be sure you have the right plan and strategy just like what Don Johnson said. Of course there are millions are already failing to be a professional gambler because the chances are too slim for us average gamblers and the fact that it has destroyed someone's life because of pushing their limits. We can't be Don Johnson but at least we try—just don't push yourself too much if you know you can't beat the house.

It would be just more better if we dont set those kind of specific goals like hitting jackpot or making yourself rich with gambling.Why? this would just trigger out desperation and in case you do lost then you would pursue
that you should take it back to break even and proceed to your goal.It is always better not to mind everything specially to get rich with gambling, just play and enjoy on what you are doing since you do play
for the sake of entertainment and winning is really just a bonus if your lucky enough and since it do shows that Blackjack is the main topic in op then this do particularly mixed up with some skills
and not all would really be having that.

I'm not sure I understand your point

However, I wouldn't call either Micheal Jordan or Kobe Bryant short with their listed heights of 1.98 m (I checked, yeah). Well, maybe they are not the tallest basketball players on the planet, but I doubt they would be able to accomplish their feats if they were just like ordinary men in height. But don't make an obvious logical fallacy of assuming that just being tall enough guarantees your success as a basketball player (which you seem to be doing anyway). Being tall is only one of the gifts you have to possess, necessary but definitely not sufficient

Your statement seems inconsistent, mate!!
If you know you can't be Don Johnson why you still force yourself to do his way?
Even if you have the same plan or strategy and you do them properly, it is hard to have the same result.
In my view, it is better to not dream be another person, just gamble in your own way and set target realistically.

But, still you get my point, right? :)
All I'm saying is just try at least but if you can't beat the house then stop, you might find yourself chasing losses in the long run. And for us average, I mean average gamblers who can't compete with the price they bet as a professional gamblers is enough reason already to stop thinking we can be like Don Johnson. I hope you get my point there. ;)

Many people want to play gambling and one of the first struggles into the world of gambling, if you are a beginner, is the strategy and the technique you will use because most of the people already gained the strategy that is suitable for them and as a beginner it's not bad if you are trying to adopt their kind of gambling games because by that you can learn how do they make more money and by that you are slowly developing your own strategy too which is good. In gambling, it is better if you will focus in a game that is you like and it is easier to you to master avoid playing too much game and you try all of those it is looks like you are wasting your time and money which is not good as a gambler your goal is to make more earning not to lose too much money. Still, it depend on you how you will win every situation sometimes having too much experience makes you stronger.

There is no guarantee that you will become successful gambler.just because you follow some strategy. Even successful professional gamblers, and they are very rare, don't have a receipe that works for everyone.
Many tried and failed to make for their living just on gambling, this is not an easy job.
Everyone of us is unique, even in gambling so you need to have your own ways and to my opinion gambling at first place should be fun.

It's only possible to be a professional gambler if you are playing a game that has a skill element, e.g. blackjack, baccarat, poker and sports betting.

There might be a few others, but I'm not aware of them.

I've been a professional poker player for around a decade now, mostly playing at brick and mortar casinos, and believe me there is a huge difference between the average fish and a pro.

A pro can literally bankrupt a fish pretty easily while playing on the low stakes tables, whereas it's not possible to take advanced of such a skill disparity with most gambling games, e.g. lottery, crash or hi-lo. So don't even bother trying to be a "pro" at these games, because you'll fail.

This strategy can be used in physical casino to make more money if we got enough skills but we may get caught at some point so we have to move to different casinos in time to time to bankrupt the amateurs. ;D

I agree, Not every one of us can make the recipe works for us. We do have different attributes on ourselves and some strategy does have a requirement of our personal traits like being patient, having a cool when the game is not going into the plan, and many more. Sometimes the environment is also a factor. Though this can give us experiences that can lead us to become a successful gambler someday. A built strategy that you are following can also be tweak by you yourself to make it more efficient on your personal use.

It is actually the same as the investment, no guarantee to take profits even if you have applied some strategies. But in investment, it is mostly about strategy and skills. While in gambling, sometimes you need luck factor to be successful. There are skill-based games and luck-based games in gambling. So, it is not only about strategy and skills but also luck factor to be required. That makes very rare to see successful professional gamblers till now.

Losing the game is always a possibility because gambling is risky. We must not always expect that we will always win. Thay is why I am not depending on playing when it comes in earning money.


Too much emotion is not good at all things. Like for example decisions made when you're anger. It can be a cause of losing your money or saying anything bad against your opponent or your friends around you.

Then you will never be a professional gambler if you are too emotional.

as a professional, your job is to always follow the game plan, and that you have to effectively implement it while you are gambling.
think yourself like a professional killer where the job is to kill a specific person, if that killer allows his emotion to ruin the job, that would not make the job successful since it will eventually affect the decision making.

as a professional gambler, it's always that our mind that is followed, and our emotional will be properly controlled.

I dont know on why people do really have that kind of aim to become a professional gambler since we do know that odds would really be always against on us but there are people who are really like to dive in into this venture.Its true that not all ways would really be easily applied because there are really circumstances that would greatly affect on the plans that had been set out earlier.Experience would really be the best teacher but be sure that you arent over exerting yourself specially on gambling field since we know on how this thing will wreck you up so bad when things turn opposite on what you had expected.

   If you play with your head instead with your feelings you have more chances to win! I agree with both of you,
there's no room for emotions on gambling table! In poker emotions will show what cards you have, are you weak
or strong, poker is not for emotional people. 
   I think I have a cool head, but I don't wish to be a professional gambler. I think except cool head you need
to have steal nerves, and I think with high blinds I can't have steal nerves.

People aim to be professional gamblers because it's a matter of entertainment or passion for them. It's like an online game, even though you aren't guaranteed to be a professional pro player, you still aim it because it is your passion. Gaming is one of your passion that makes you happy in your life, and at some point, it's a stress reliever.

If you reach the title of being a professional gambler, meaning, every circumstance and problem that will occur in your life will be handled easily since you obtain the masteries of being a gambler. So definitely, before aiming the title, they already experienced a lot since being a beginner in gambling.

In games like poker in which you are playing against another player and not against the house the casino could care less about who wins and who loses, if you are playing in a tournament then they keep a portion of the money that each player used to buy in the tournament, and if you're playing for cash the house keeps a percentage of each pot that you play so they are obtaining profits regardless of the winner and the losers, but if you are playing against the house like you do in blackjack then you can be sure that they are monitoring every single one of your movements and if you are using a strategy like card counting to obtain an edge over the casino you are going to eventually be thrown out of the casino.

I agree to what you are saying, each gambler is different from another gambler,there are gamblers who are so serious on their gambling that they become one, like a card reader in blackjack, they spend a lot of time and efforts to become one their dedication is very huge and they know that gambling is for them even if they wasted a lot of money.

Every gambler has their own way for playing and everyone is different than the others by their thought and playing style. If you go to casinos just for entertainment and to spend your leisure time then you don’t need to be a professional.  but if you want to take gambling as your profession, then you must need some extra knowledge about it and you have to spend a lot of time to acquire that kind of skill. IMO everyone can be professional on their own way.  if you have enough knowledge about what you are doing and luck helps you then I think you can become a professional gambler too.

You can increase your chance of winning by increase your skills on playing card games but still you can't win all the games so be careful even if you are playing a game where you are familiar with because its the real money you are going to lofe if the things are not going well.

You can use your emotions to your advantage

If someone truly lacks any emotion (like a heavily sedated person), he lacks energy to do anything. In this manner, being emotional and able to manage your emotions productively, i.e. give your impulses a direction, is a by far better option than lacking that moving force altogether. And then we arrive at a somewhat paradoxical conclusion, that a professional is not the one who lacks emotion or is less emotional than the rest of the pack, but rather the one who can direct the power of their emotion toward a certain goal even if it means appearing totally emotionless from the outside. Naturally, if there is more power, more can be done with it

We make mistakes and that is just nature of us being human.

But we should not forget that gambling is not something that we are 100% in control. There are things that are inevitable since we are gambling. It is all on us how we will be dealing with what is happening and what needs to be done. Decision skills, experience, knowledge are really important, don't forget self-control.

That's why gambling is important

Think of it as a sandbox of sorts, i.e. a place where you can feel with your skin being literally in the game (e.g. dice) that you are not in control but rather a defenseless victim of forces which are beyond your control, random or otherwise. It is important because people are control freaks in life, while gambling helps them (us) realize how little control we actually have over the course of everyday events

For me, betting (not gambling in general) is not really different from trading. It's just a common mistake that people want to place many bets in a day even on a match where they're not sure who will win the match.
Not only that, if you lost a bet, sometimes you will be triggered to try to recover as fast as you can, even on the same day.

This can make you broke if you cannot find a match that you believe in but still insists on placing a bet.

Sure there is no 100% control/win in betting except on fixed match but money and risk management, also emotion control will be the answer for that.

I don't think realization of one's powerlessness might help in everyday life. Gambling is important, but it should work in completely opposite way, in which such realization is beyond thinking of inability to control something. Gambling rather trains your skill to control yourself and your decisions. Only then you are starting to understand that it is only thing you should control while being in uncontrollable space. It is all about self-control, it is pursuing you, control is everywhere, in every aspect.

Any genuine knowledge helps

It just allows you to make fewer mistakes, whether you are powerless or not. If you are, luck is likely your only hope and chance. If you are not, you should take advantage of what powers you have. Moreover, it lets you clearly see the line between these two states and then make rational choices. If you are a smart observer, gambling can be an eye-opener to you, and allow you to let go of illusions you might have. As it translates to other areas of life, I think it is a good thing

I like how people think of gambling in this manner. Unlike those who kept losing and blames gambling for their losses. This is how serious gambling for some people and how'd they treat it.

Once, you understand the plan and how you will execute it, you have goals to make, and that will take time to be reached. It may look easy when you see professional gambler moves but you'll never know how many ups and downs they went through.

Exactly, and that plan should not only be limited into winning, one that is realistic should also have an exit plan when things did not go based on your expectation, that's the way on how to minimize the risk.


They'll never reached at that position easily, they also have times that they struggle but they learn from their mistakes so they have acquired such skills that they can use to make them profitable in gambling.

As long as we can learn from that mistake, we will not make the same mistake because we already did that, and I think that can give us more experience to face different situations. And related to gambling, we should realize that we need to have control in the game so we can prevent using more money, and we can avoid making a mistake by spending the money.

Yes. As long as that they can see that they can make it, it is for them to decide whenever they want to retire.

Just like the normal success stories that we see.

But there's something odd when people hear success stories of professional gamblers.

That depends on the person hearing it, but i must agree that majority would not believe that a gambler is successful because most of us think that when we gamble, we always lose money, only gamblers would really understand as they know what gambling is and they know it's possible to win as well.

That's like a taboo and lies within our society.

Anything that relates with gambling, many will raise eyebrows and will look down to the person even though he became a successful base on his own grind.

That must be the usual practice of professional gambler, when you are matured enough then you will never lose your control on emotion which will be very important for being stable while gambling. If you are too stable while gambling then you will never go for chasing your losses. Most gamblers are losing all their bankroll when they try to recover their previous losses. So, if we start accepting losses then we go for fresh attempts which may lead to profits as we may gamble without any emotion failures.

Only for the people who have sufficient experience in gambling, will be able to accept losses and then move-on. People who are emotionally weak definitely will go for chasing losses which again leading to further losses. So, only experienced gamblers can become professional gamblers. It means you must need your own time to become as a professional gambler.

^ Being a professional gambler for me is not all about the winnings and losing or probably how much time you spend in a casino instead it is all about attitude. Having control over yourself when or how to start and ends your gambling session is one of the factors that made someone a professional gambler for he knows when to stop when things don't go in favor of him and not getting emotional nor addicted to the game. Professional gamblers should also know how to accept losing regardless of how much is it as long as it doesn't hurt him nor feel any regrets afterward. Nevertheless, being a professional gambler for me is an attitude of knowing and executing his own gambling limitation in whatever aspect.

Unfortunately, not all gamblers can do that. Many gamblers, especially new gamblers who don't have more experience in gambling, will find it hard to accept losses and move on. They will be back to that gambling place, playing more games, and use more money, and if they lose again, they will come back in another day. Slowly, they will become addicted to gambling, and if they don't realize as soon as possible, they will be too late to get out from gambling.

In order to avoid mistakes person should do only one thing and that is doing absolutely nothing. It works with all kind of persons whether they are able to learn or not. Doing "fewer mistakes" during gambling time still may lead to big losses. Can you gain some experience after you lost, can you realize what you did wrong? It depends on character of the particular person. Playing gambling games happens simultaneously with playing against yourself, against person's emotions. If they are stronger than person, the loss will be even more painful. Of course, by overcoming every time such severe obstacles person is getting stronger until he wins or completely loses. The latter is more likely to happen in the long-term. That is why gambling should be played for fun rather than for self-training. Anything we do for fun not necessarily should be used in everyday life.

I am sure about that. But the difference is the professional gamblers can learn from their mistake, and they can survive in their hard situations so they can recover their loss. But for other people, they will feel difficult to get the lesson from the mistake, and they still playing more to try to recover their loss. It is difficult to be professional gambling as we need more than calm down, patience, and have a skills because that will also need good control and have risk management so we can know when to play and stop gambling.

That's simply not so

Doing nothing can be just like any other "regular" mistake out there. Or even worse since "it is the greatest of all mistakes to do nothing because you can only do little". Fewer means fewer, any way you may try to reinterpret the meaning will be an exercise in sophistry. Regarding learning your lesson, the answer is, of course, a pronounced yes. If you are playing a game of chance (e.g. the proverbial dice), you may realize that you are setting yourself up for a failure if you are in for a long haul, and thus stop gambling altogether. Whether a person's emotions are stronger than their character, whether they should play for fun, etc is non sequitur here

Here's the thing about mistakes and betting.

You can learn a lot of things from your mistakes, just like the past bets you've done and the same as mistakes, you want to get back from the bets you've lost in the past. But the thing is you don't know when will you reach something without making mistakes, the same as you bet your money and don't know when you will lose or win. Mistakes and losing in gambling is inevitable, you just keep on going.



And that is also why some people don't want to gamble at all.

True because there's a saying that you can't make everyone happy or you can't please everyone, some would hate you even if there is no reason.
If we don't want to be judge, then let us not listen to people who does not even know what we are doing and let us not allow them to affect us negatively.

This disbelief comes from the fact that many gamblers lie about their earnings, in my experience when I went to physical casinos before this pandemic most people claimed to be long term winners and that is impossible, I could understand if a few of them actually earned money, but they wanted me to believe almost everyone was a winner? I simply do not buy it, they are simply lying to themselves in order to feel better and hide their losses, but this can be a very dangerous behaviour as deep down they know the truth and they could take unnecessary risks to recover their money.

People may avoid gambling, and for good reasons

However, they can't internalize why they should until they actually try it out. Basically, there are two types of knowledge (and the way it is acquired), the so-called book knowledge and experiential learning. With respect to gambling, the first type you acquire via reading a stats textbook, for example, while the other type by actually gambling and probably losing. And while the book knowledge could probably help you correctly assess your chances in, say, dice, this knowledge is rather limited as it cannot be easily transferred to other areas of personal experience. The experiential learning, on the other hand, can be effortlessly applied to any other area where it can possibly be applied because you internalize this type of knowledge, i.e. it becomes part of you, and you start to use it, to live by it, even without consciously choosing so or thinking about it

No matter how easy the gambling theory is, it won't be easy to win a lot of money in gambling.  In gambling games you will have a level of emotion that can sometimes not be controlled, so that it can make you lose.

Gambling isn't as easy as the theory you say.  And as great as any person who masters the theory of gambling still does not have a guarantee to always win.

1% Theory - 99% Luck is gambling.

Even the theory side is not enough to beat the house edge which takes juice from bankroll over the long term. There are alternative trading strategies that can beat the odds of "being lucky" in gambling but the traders have the right mindset to beat the negativity, unlike gamblers. Lucky gamblers are the winners, the rest will lose it is just a matter of time.

On paper I have beaten the odds several times, applying this logic in practice is the hardest part of the story. So I always understand the role of luck and never bet more than I can afford to lose. Controlling the bankroll is not equal to controlling your long-term gambling budget if we look from an economical perspective. Not everyone thinks about this side, unfortunately. Just bet and run...

Anyway, many gamblers can not learn from their mistakes, so they make another mistake. The biggest mistake that we always make is we still use big money in gambling because we want to make money from gambling. We should realize that in gambling, we will hard to win the games unless we are in the right time to get the luck comes to us. So no matter what, losing and winning will be there in gambling, so be careful.

it is Discipline and Mind setting,thats the problem of those gamblers that you are mentioning here.

I Should know because i use to be like them wayback years.

Lucky that i have learned my lesson before my family completely broken and now we are living much better and with full support.

Gambling must be a place for those who can manage their desire and needs,and never for the greed.

It's normal to lose in gambling You need to know how to gamble before you start. We have to monitor different sites of the game only then we can understand gambling and earn. If you don't understand, you will lose more. Therefore, in the beginning you have to bet a little then you have to increase the amount of betting slowly This will enable us to control everything on our own and deal with the situation. The rules of gambling must be followed.

It's not necessary to do that, success in gambling does not require you have to gamble in different site, one site is enough as long as you believe that it's reputable, then you just develop your strategy and improve it so it will make you profitable and you will become a professional gambler in the long run.

Greed will surely mess up everything if you do let it control you because this will mold up into certain actions that arent already right for you to take.
Gambling is never been considered as a source of income or do make yourself rich so easily unless if you are extremely lucky then you might hit it up but dont ever chase that thing
because it will surely just mess up your entire life.Being pro doesnt only mean that you are good on a game but also it do also mean on other aspects like
you do already know on whats gambling and on how to control yourself on it.



This is only applicable if we do talk about strategy based ones but wont really be surely applied to those games like dice,roulette and slots .Of course we would go always to the site which been used by the majority to assure ourselves that we are hanging out on a legit platform or site but it isnt bad to test out other platforms or site.Its just a matter of preference though because its normal for a certain user to find up a place
on where he do make himself comfortable while he do play.

Just like trading, this is the right way to about everything we do.

Make sure everything you do, you do it professionally in a way best known to you. Stick to the gambling strategy that works for you, and avoid pundits or prediction webpages.
While maintaining being a professional gambler, do ensure to avoid addictiion in gambling.

Are you sure it is like trading? I doubt if gambling is the same as trading, so it isn't comparable.
Not all gambling games are really about skills, strategies, or hard efforts. Some need luck only, that's what we call luck-based games. While in trading, we must not find luck-based trading type.  ;)

Yes. It's good if you aren't addicted whether you are professional or beginner.
Addiction means you play excessively, and it isn't really good for your health & financial condition.

Yes, I think the problem will be there as many gamblers still not realize, especially for people who new in gambling. We should limit ourselves in gambling before it's too late to realize. Once we late, we cannot save anything we have, but we will regret to lost what we have.

It's okay if you already have experience in way back years, so you don't have to get the same experience, and that can make you aware when you play gambling. Although greed will be there too, as long as we can hold ourselves for searching more money after we win, we will not trying to use another money to play gambling.

Like what OP says, we just need skill and a plan. Because with both things you will have a chance to minimize a risk and get a win as much as possible. So to apply a skill and a plan we need more times, it means you have to stay with one gambling site in order to you know the ins and out of the gambling sites. We have to aware that gambling is not a trading or investing, which is mean you don't need to choose many gambling sites to play. It will be different if you choose more than one portfolio to invest even to trade, at least will prevent you to get many loses.

Always keep your strategy do not put all your money in the game, because there will always a chance that you might be lose, so manage your money, we cannot prevent losing so mych but we can minimize it, so that even when we lose, we still have money to buy our necessities and for us to have more bet.

Of course, I was pointing on the skilled based games, not the luck based games as I don't see a gambler called a professional dicer or a roulette player.
No one wins in that kind of gambling consistently, so its useless to develop our skills.

Testing means you are are still not contended with the site you are using, but eventually you will find your favorite site and that you are comfortable playing with them, as a professional gambler, you go with the best site and that you feel you are having a great performance in terms of profitability.

Strategy to make us win more often, or strategy to control our money so that losing one big hit will be avoided.

We must control our actions so we can still gamble especially in a physical casinos. Yes we may be professional in a way that we play fair against some other players, we follow the rules ,etc but how we also behave when we feel that we are betrayed or all of the players joined together against you or if we ran out of money then we still want to play.

I suppose you are talking about your own psychology.
In this case, the only thing that will be important for you is to adhere to the strategy. Indeed, in the case of blackjack, nothing more than mathematics works.
You must understand your chances at every moment in time in the game, and not make mistakes. The main thing is not to drink, but professional players know this.  :D

You must calculate the probability or chances you have in each round, that's the only thing that will avoid you for a huge loss.

But if you're just gambling without and references and basis like probabilities of winning, it might lose your money. Games like blackjack and poker require a strategy for winning but not all of it might work always.
Here are some kind of blackjack basic principles and strategies; https://wizardofodds.com/games/blackjack/strategy/4-decks/

You don't have to avoid predictions from people who can be helpful to you.

It's your choice to bet with their predictions or just simply read and extract what they are feeding to their followers. In my opinion, those predictions are not bad at all unless they're milking from it and the accuracy is pretty low.

But as long as they give it for free and they don't ask anything in return, you read, you decide to follow or not.

Human beings become good at the things they spend most time on automatically. If you spend hours everyday gambling, you will become an expert on it, your intuitions will improve as well as your maturity level, controlling power, everything will improve as you gain more experience and the key is to stop when you are ahead and to limit it when you are at loss.

It doesn't happen automatically

Automatically you can only learn how to click the mouse, i.e. very simple motor skills. Everything else requires conscious effort and toil, day in and day out. Advanced skills don't come on their own, and spending hours gambling (or doing any other activity, for the record) is not a guarantee of developing your skills at it at all, as in "some people say they have 20 years experience, when in reality, they have 1 year's experience repeated 20 times"

There's nothing wrong with believing in the thoughts about beating the house in order to win allot. It is just hard to accept that the probability of gamblers to win vs house is too low that most of the gambling games, machines, are designed in their advantage.

Perhaps, you might discover your own personal way of becoming a professional gambler (Gambler that always wins), especially by mastering the games such as memorizing the entire deck of cards so if you are playing poker, you have a slight advantage compared to your competitor. In addition, you might want to study psychology to read peoples mind such as playing in blackjack to predict your advantage against the unrevealed card of the house.

From my point of view, everything is wrong with such beliefs

Overconfidence and complacency could quickly lead to complete loss of your balance. I mean if you just gamble with the false hope of winning. Put differently, thinking that you can beat the house won't help you actually beat it. You should develop and utilize a workable strategy that wouldn't be based on fantasy and wishful thinking. Instead, it should be based on solid statistical grounds. That alone will prevent you from wasting your shekels and then regretting it badly. If you can't come up with this kind of strategy, then play for fun only and the excitement of it

I am not sure if you can become an expert on it but you can become an expert of the losses, and that is the way that you can do to lose your money in shortly.
If you have controlled for yourself, I am sure that will work like a charm, but the matter is, not all of us can do that, and I believe that only works for some gambler who already have much experience in gambling.
It is very difficult to be a professional gambler because that will need so many things in our journey, and many of us will get lost of their funds. I think you need to think more if you want to become a professional gambler.

In the past, I would have done a lot of research on strategies, tips and features of games, as you mentioned. But then I realized that all of this spoils the fun of the job. I cannot enjoy any games I am playing. Then I stopped looking for a strategy for gambling. I now enjoy more while gambling with less money.

But of course I can't say the same for betting. Betting requires research first and surveillance. According to the game you play, it is necessary to mention some important points such as performance analysis, the condition of the injured and penalized players.

Probably the biggest mistake that leads people to the path of addiction or at least to lose a lot of money is simply their inability to accept defeat, for many accepting defeat is very hard because they will think of themselves as losers but when it comes to gambling once you lose your money you should accept it, the casino won get over it, and yet people cannot accept that, they want to recover the money that they have lost and the only way to do that is to keep betting not realizing that they are making their losses even larger, then they will begin to implement something like martingale which brings the promise of never losing again against the casino until it fails and you lose all your capital instead of a small portion of it.

It may be that what you say is true and is experienced by some gamblers in general. Nevertheless, I am very confident that defeat and victory will cause symptoms of addiction in the player. If a gambler cant accept defeat, it is not appropriate for him to gamble and that is not the place. Gambling is not a place to avoid problems because I think this is a wrong perception. Self-control of a problematic player is very unstable, this will increase the chance of a more severe defeat.

If you are talking about sports gambling then i understand there are many strategies and as a fan of the game and if you wagged on the sport you might not enjoy the game like you used to in a relaxing manner but for some it will give you the added rush to watch the match. If you are talking about casino games what strategies you are talking about because apart from dice and roulette i am not an expert of other casino games.

Sports betting is much complex than it appears, sure the injury and other inside information will pay dividends while wagging a bet.

When that person loses their money, they will want to get the money back by playing more rounds, and that will be the way where can lead them to get another loss. They don't realize about getting more losses, but after they lose all of their money, they will see it that is because they cannot accept the losses, and decide to play more to recover the losses. We should learn from the other mistake so we can prevent ourselves from becoming addiction because once we get an addict, it is very difficult to get out of the addiction. Before it is too late for us to realize, it is better to prevent so we can play gambling without the worry about the addiction.