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Hello to all! Another topic about casinos and games. I started playing at the Stake.com quite often. At the very beginning I thought I would just play in the evening, but one evening turned into a constant game during the day. On the first deposit, I was lucky and I took out a little, it was x3 of my deposit and I was happy. Recently, I just started making stupid deposits and trying to win something and I understand that this is self-deception, but I cannot stop and make more and more deposits. I decided to make the 1st level of VIP, but for this I need to make a turnover of 10k dollars, but I am a player with low stakes and this is difficult for me to do. You seem to understand everything that you will lose, but you go to play again. How to get rid of gambling addiction?

Basically, when you are getting win and making your deposited fund 2x, 3x or more then your greediness will work more and you will try to deposit more. That's what happened with you time.

After losing continuously, you should wait a bit and have some patience for next. Getting triggered to recover your funds will lead you to lose more. You have to keep patience that time and skip that moment and try again later.

Win or lose are the main two things in gambling and you should keep your eyes open so that you can't do anything which lead you to lose your all funds.

It is only matter of control that you need to have it, once you know it then nothing can stop you because the action is in your hand when to put a play or pause to it. The problem is that greediness  overtakes rust of the things and then you want to make easy considering you will always win. Some wins and rest of them loses in the end.

I have experienced this a lot and actually the problem is with our self-control...
I admit I have poor self-control especially when I play slots, I often run out of all my money instead of taking the winnings home. but when I lose I will try not to play for a few days and will play again when my mind starts to stabilize and forget about the previous lose.

Easy. By not gambling. Gambling is like smoking. Even if you smoke that one cig, it is only a matter of time before you become an addict again. And being an addict is binary. You either are, or not. If gambling threatens your financial well-being, then you shouldn't gamble in any circumstances. Most people win big by gambling that you see are already rich. They don't care if they lose. If the money you are going to lose is important to you, then you shouldn't be playing.

If you're talking of the respective gambling platform Stake, then you can easily get out of it. The Stake platform has got the self exclusion feature. You can contact the live support team and request for self exclusion. Further on you can't play until you once again request for the inclusion.

as much as I want to post something related to the topic I am more curious as to why aren't you using the link to https://stake.com/ but instead a link that has clck.ru in it? now, I've searched around and it seems that(at least in my understanding) clck.ru links are being used to phish, scam or spam or something like that. I might be wrong and I am not very knowledgeable about this thing. can someone clarify it for me?

Strip yourself off some extra money and see some subtle changes about decision making.

This is what I personally do whenever I find myself spending too much time and money on gambling which is just supposed to feed my entertainment. I used to gamble on breaktimes and lunch hours on the office which I never did. Before I even notice it, I'm already spending way more than my weekly budget on dice. Those $20 small deposit adds up, and that somehow struck me that what I'm doing is something bad in the making.

To combat this, I only bring a few dollars on me every day and leave my card and my phone which contains my banking info at home. It was a struggle at first but it worked thankfully. Also, finding some other things to do during your idle time also helps you steer away from the thought of gambling to win the jackpot.

Call to the specialists and clinic. This is if you ordinary man.
If you have steel will, then you can try to get rid of addiction by you own. But man, if you're already fall in that, i doubt that you are such kind of person  :)

This is not a joke, call to people or places which helping for people like you.


Weird service. You can ask to terminate your account, but you then you can ask to restore it. Lol. Typical "help" from casino.

You are the only one who could really help yourself when it comes to this and not other people.When you do plan to stop completely with gambling addiction then you should
really mean it because if you arent serious on quitting even though youre aware that you are using already too much when it comes to financial then you should do it asap
or else then you would really be entirely wreck by gambling.Dont chase up your losses and try to avoid to gamble as much as possible for now.
Winning is just temporary and the rest would be losses yet we know that gambling is heavily relying on luck.You might be lucky today and the rest will be a losing situation.

Thats the thing about gambling, it always has a way of playing tricks with your mind. You have to be extremely disciplined to escape this mind game from gambling. Once you give in to the first move, your intentions stops being your own and rather a mastermind of the betting platform or casino. You start thinking of making more and more deposits with the intentions of a big win, promotion and in no time when it begins to seem unrealistic, it turns to be a matter of recovering what was lost and in that instance, you've been sucked into the system that you can't run from.

Gambling does affect every soul for addicts, only a few% can get out of the addiction.....!

You have ambition for your first victory, so you are out of control, wanting to take everything you see, it's human, lust.

OP, how to get rid of gambling addiction is actually in your soul, not with other people, you are the initiator, you decide, you did it, you were the one who ended, Conclusion: addiction is in your soul today you want to get rid of gambling or on the contrary want you to continue, it's all in your brain and heart, you are in control, not someone else.
The drug to get rid of gambling addiction, is in yourself.

it's actually the math that says it
house law is the reason why if you play endlessly you are bound to go to zero

take Roulette, you win 36 times the stake, but the numbers in the board are 37 (there is 0) so playing endlessly you would always lose 1/37 which in the end erodes all your gains

it's hard truly math

This is clearly like Bit.ly link where when people make out some clicks then for sure that would add up for and also that link redirect to his own stake referral link https://stake.com/?c=9cc24e9c0f

@OP, you should edit that one because it is prohibited to paste up referral links.This common topic is just a cover up though.

Sorry to hear that buddy. Starting out with a decent profit when using the deposit bonus happened to me aswell a few times. And after winnings a few days you start believe that winning is very common and you can't lose. But once you lose you want to make back your loss with higher bets. I know your feeling, you think you can compensate your loss with higher bets in the future. To recover you either need to take higher risks (which also means that the chances of losing is higher) or invest more money. My best advice would be to just take a break of a few days after losing big. We need to fully recover after a loss and start gambling with a fresh mind, being to much emotionally invested is a big problem. What I find very helpfull is the panic button on most casinos. Once you press the button, you can lock yourself out for 24, 48, or 72 hours. This helps me a bit after gambling too much. Or maybe you can talk with your family, to help you take a break from gambling. Beating an addiction alone is very difficult.

Tell your mom to keep your money.
They'll surely knock you out if they know what you are doing, trust me it'll help you out unless you have a bad parents who doesnt even care for you (thats too bad already, whats more if you keep losing like shit)
Or if you're too old enough tell your wife about it or just spend it to your children, make advance payments on their school, your bills etc. That way you cant attempt on playing as you dont have the money to spend.
But if you are totally a crazy millionaire, man, I suggest to donate it on my Charity! Just go to Services Section then look for BITCOINTALK CHARITY

~Self-realizations
~Avoid gambling and other things attached to it at all cost
~Lock up your funds or something wont give you an access.You cant play if you dont have funds
~Seek for some professional help but why would spend up if you yourself can able to do that.

Addiction triggers when someones beliefs had been hyped out that he can really make himself rich through gambling which is really
a very wrong mindset.

Simple!
Don't increase your stakes, just maintain the amount of stakes you usually put because once you're betting at a higher stakes that means you will win bigger profit, and once you have bigger profit you will think you can take back your lossing bets easily with just a couple of win. That's where addiction becomes worst. Think of it just like a hobby. Gambling with low stakes will control and discipline yourself not to go further.

Block first that casino for you to avoid visiting it again and again.

if you want to get rid of it then you must be willing to sacrifice it to remove your addiction. It won't be easy for you but you need to have a progress from time to time like test first yourself that you won't visit it within a day.

And if you're successful, then double it which makes two days and then so on until you'll finally managed to avoid it which will help you remove your gambling addiction.

Look for another activity that you'll spend your time but not with money. Play computer games?

Man, he asked how to break with gambling addiction )) You should advice him something better rather then obvious things about probability ))



Going to low stakes will not help, because addiction will not disappear and anytime he can go again to high stakes. It's better to decrease amount of gambling sessions per day/week so in long term you will forget how to play in casino. Low stakes here can be just a part of such strategy. It will make it cheaper to get out of addiction.   

Your experience is a usual experience for every newbie. Hitting good multipliers at slots, first deposit

What to do next generally depends on your self-control, not thru our suggestions or advice.

Will you continue to gamble or wants to feel again that winning moment?

You probably need to work more on controlling your urges to bet more, It seems like you're winning a fair amount of games, and yet you still lose your earnings because before you know it, you bit more than you can chew. I suggest playing 3 games every day, and 3 games only. 3 losses means you can't bet for the whole day, if you win once, you can only bet two more times. That way you can secure your earnings, plus it also instills discipline so this can definitely improve your self-control.

If you're going to be more habitual in gambling, addiction would really happen on you or with other gamblers. There's a need of rehabilitation for us in order to get rid of addiction, we needed to realize our mistakes from the past so that you'll able to overcome it.
Stop right away when you still lose more money, and prevent any gambling activities for weeks. On that strategy, you eventually abstain from betting so you prevent yourself from being addicted.

Goes to show how important self-control is. It doesn't matter if you win 100 games, because if you let your greed take over your decisions, you're still going to lose these hard-earned money. Perhaps try undergoing a regimen like some of the people here are telling you, it's a good way to make sure you're not getting addicted to gambling and it instills discipline to you as well.

You are already a junior member you should know that posting a referral link in a thread is a big violation of the forum rules, you even create a tracking link so you can track how many are going to your referral link and signing in, the topic is just a cover-up to abuse and takes advantage of the topic.

OP obviously did not read or blatantly ignore the forum rules by posting a referral link with a tracking link.

The events experienced by the opening post have been experienced by many gamblers. Even when I started playing gambling I did that.
Every time we win when playing gambling, immediately stop playing gambling right away and withdraw the money we have. To prevent us
from playing again, because if we play again it is likely that we will experience a loss until all the capital we have runs out. To get rid of gambling
addiction we must be able to control our emotions when playing gambling, must be able to determine when we should stop gambling.
The key is not to play gambling too often, because if we are used to playing gambling every day, we will definitely become addicted to gambling.

I remember reading one of the old threads back then where the guy was also in the same losing path as you and he said that accepting your losses is one way to start breaking your addiction since a lot of gamblers look back at their past losses and try to recover from where they left off which rarely works. I've said this in a different thread that covers the same topic and i'll say it again since maybe it could help, look for other daily activities that takes up a lot of time so you always have something to look forward to and hopefully it'll get your mind off gambling.

Charge to experience, you already know and experienced what will happen if you can't stop your urge to gamble. Self-control and discipline will be your friend in order to get rid of gambling addiction. Don't let your urge to win back your money take over you take the loss and step out if you know you can't control your gambling habbit.

Gambling addiction is very hard to deal with. I don't think gambling discussion thread is good place to ask this because we know that we are all gambling addicts. lol. Anyways it is about self control.
You wanna make money -> gamble -> are you making money?
if yes -> keep going
if no -> try 2-3 times more and stop.

This is my overall logical circle to stop myself from losing whole my money for no reason.

You are taking too much what you can't afford to take and this is not good, this is not good when it comes to gambling, it's always been gamble what you can't afford to lose, the VIP's are for players who can afford if you cannot stop yourself from depositing then you have a real issue and you should ask for help, you are losing control of yourself.

I think that is because you found an excitement playing gambling so you start to play gambling in daylight. Besides that, you were lucky to increase your money and that makes you have a big passion to earn more money. You chase the 1st level of VIP so you decide to play longer than usual which lead you to get lost. It is normal to see someone become like you because gambling can make you like that without you realize. But you must stop as soon as possible before everything will ruin your life and you will lose all of the money because of chasing the money. At that time, gambling will not just a way to have fun but also a way to make money but you can not make it. Maybe you can do another activity and stay away from your computer or mobile phone for away so your mind will not think about gambling.

He's probably aiming for a VIP level without realizing the he already loss a lot of money because of that mindset.
To get rid of gambling addiction, seek a professional help because its hard to control it on your own and better to seek for guidance.

There's a lot of stories like this before when they gamble and make money at first but the moment they increase their wager, that's the time for them to lose money and the start of their never ending, chasing their losses. This is how gambling works, and you have to learn from this expensive experience in gambling for you to realize the importance of money and the true meaning of gambling.

Patience? What is that in gambler's dictionary? AFAIK, there is no such word in gambler's world. Even those gamblers who never tasted any winning moments, may have some plan to delay their gambling but once they experience any profitable betting then they will keep on trying just to copy that once-in-100-attempts-thing.

Even they risk only 5% of their bankroll, I am not sure they could save some of bankroll for next day's play. When you are greedy and emotionally failed, you never think about future plans; all you just want is, immediate winning and 10x returns of your bankroll.

The reason you will lose more after you win is the fact that your brain after a big win be it in slot machines which the payout varies up to 10000x or more your bet or in sport betting thinks it will happen to you again.This is where we all fail to understand that this cannot happen always and this leads to losing big after winning.Unfortunately this is common ocurrence in all of us.The only way to fight this is self control and limiting your bankroll.Also withdrawing your winnings and buying something fancy for yourself is another way you can try.

You only can get rid of the addiction because its your money and you are playing online so stay away from using the gambling sites and stop making deposits. Some gambling sites allows people to self exclude from their site for certain time period they they feel that they need a break but its completely useless when you are desperate to play more and more.

I was just wandering the type of game you might have been playing that can't let you keep your money, where you playing on Plinko game, that's too addictive and will take time to step out away from it, same thing happened to me after winning the first round, the rest hit went astray till today, it's really addictive.

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Oh boy, $10k for playing casino on stake platform, this is huge man, the only way you can fight against your addictive behavior is having some extra jobs you should be doing, if you can keep yourself busy doing work, you will hardly had time to be visiting casino platform, trust me, it works for me.

Whilst gambling addiction may be a purely psychological issue, if it is impacting your life in any way it could be time to seek professional help and support. As with most psychological issues, treatment is likely to involve cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT). CBT can help understand why gambling happens, make decisions that prevent it from happening again, and learn how to stop gambling.

you know its bad but you will keep doing it . this is the line where all can relate , i have this before but i tried to seek help for god and it was working to me .
 you dont need an exact 10k dollars to reached the bronze vip because im also a low budget player but thank god that i reached vip playing smart .
try playing 98 % chance and you will get there soon but if you feel that it was still hard you can forget that dream but you can just play gambling normaly or moderately  .

heres a thread that talks solution for  gambling addiction , hope this help you  https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5171960.0

It's normal that we experience losing and winning situation, but it's not normal if we are unrealistic beacuse that would make us addicted in gambling, be realistic, know your chances especialyl the house edge of your game. Also, learn to be discipline, even if you are too convince that you will win, always put a limit in gambling as gambling is still gambling, we never know the outcome.

I believe that gambling addiction is similar to other addictions. As such, it has an emotional component that is difficult to deal with and more so through reason, but for me what makes it impossible for me to be a gambling addict is understanding the underlying mathematics of it. I believe that anyone who truly understands that mathematics cannot develop a gambling addiction. Another thing is a person who is already addicted and has compulsive behavior, there I think it is more difficult but still, I think understanding the math would help.

To avoid this same issue with a close associate of mine, kindly stop the gambling for the now and get yourself engage with other things that won't get you addiction- https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5329440.0 -this thread can help you if you're serious about getting out of gambling addiction, remember, there are no drugs for this and "prevention is better than cure". I won yesterday and i will win today get us closer to gambling addiction. Also, if you have been addicted then seek for professional help, please.

Obviously, you are not ready and you are not in total control you always failed to realized to only play what you can afford to lose, and because of this it will cause you a lot of anxiety to the point that you do not if you are still making the right decision when depositing and playing, this is too risky and you will have depression, you need to stop and you need to get help as soon as possible.

Like what I previously mentioned, I have this theory called the 'gambler's cycle' where a gambler, regardless of the outcome of his bet, will most probably continue to gamble until he/she has depleted his resources.

The tendency is that if you won a single game in gambling, most likely, is that you would bet again due to the feeling of adrenaline and hope. Also, if you lost in a round of gambling, you would feel this tension of recovering your losses via gambling again; thus resulting to a never-ending cycle of betting.

That was the strategy of most of the casino where they will let you win at the beginning just to make you excite and look for more, then after a few more bets that would be the time you will experience loss, once you have lost your instinct will try to convince you to retrieve it back causing more losses and then you will fall in their trap. Honestly, it is hard to move out from addiction once you get into it, you will have trouble controlling your emotions but with the help of someone to guide you and look for another hobby that would benefit you, that would help a lot from moving out to your addiction.

- Yes, casinos don't seem to care about our first few wins, they often let us get a taste of our winnings, the taste of making quick money, this can also be called a business strategy to help customers stay with them longer and gamble more because we exhausted our labor and our money so quickly, we wouldn't come back while if they exhausted little by little and helped us to have more time back, their income would be higher. The general mood is that we just need a little more to get everything back and unfortunately the situation lasted as an addiction

Just like what the others says, when you are gambling always remember that the losses has the higher percentage in gambling. The thing is that when you won a jackpot today, tomorrow you will insist to gamble again and that day you will lose more than the amount of money that you've won the last day. That's the gambling world once you get addicted you will be able to continue and continue it, so you must control yourself in order to not get addicted. Always remember that the money that you've got in an easy way, it will lost also in a fastest way.

When the bet has been won then it will bet again with a bigger bet because our adrenaline feeling is higher considering the victory we just got, so indeed this will run out if you continue to bet in the hope of wanting a bigger multiplier that's precisely where I misunderstood a lot. felt this way before and I can now avoid holding back.

This cycle in gambling will definitely occur especially in addiction we find it difficult to solve the theory with the various suggestions that have been given, including ourselves, who sometimes like to be tempted when there is capital to gamble again, therefore we will not win in other words the results obtained will actually more defeat with a lot of depression.

Gambling is highly addictive but you can control your level of addiction by practicing the withdrawal method, place bets with small amount and also limit your deposit if possible set a limit timer.

actually this is true. when i notice that i have that kind of desire, i stop and close the gambling site. because if you really do follow your desire to gamble, you will not stop unless you have no more bankroll. and if you badly need the money, dont gamble it. separate the money that you can use for your gambling and only use that amount. dont be tempted to use your money for your basic needs, because it will end up badly.

Only a few could able to resist temptation for you to play even more specially if you do know that you do have money on your pocket then you wouldnt stop until you do lost up all of your money.
This is why gambling industry is really booming up or profitable business because of this kind of behavior of most gamblers.They dont stop until they do lost it all.
Its just normal for people to aim for more when they are winning and they wont be stopping until that thing happens.If youre lucky enough then you might end up profitable
if not then you will surely lost it all and the rest then will be varying if you do decide to play even longer or not.

Withdrawal every time he wins but I doubt that he can do that since the fees are gotten higher this time not unless the casino he plays has a fixed fee and doesn't rely on the network although that depends if it's affordable.
And also setting a loss limiter, like around how many losses he made, he has to stop on that day.

As in your case you can't stop playing by yourself it's better to ask someone else's help, otherwise you are going to waste all your money playing without limits. If there are close family members around you, talk to them about your addiction and ask for help. Together you will find a reasonable solution to avoid worse consequences.
But if you are alone, you need to seek for professional help or you can start training your self control skills step by step. You won't overcome this addiction instantly, but with some effort you can achieve the cure on long run.

I'd suggest you manage your funds carefully and keep track of how much you spend on gambling. Write down somewhere in a column all your sources of income and how much money they bring and in the opposite column write down your expenditures, not including gambling. Then subtract the total expenditures from total income. If what you get is + you spend that on gambling, just for fun and maybe it will even bring profit sometimes. But never spend money if the resulting number is negative.
This method is good, because this way you can actually SEE (which is much different from simply assuming, counting in your head) the real numbers, to know what you can afford, and realize that constant gambling will lead to a disaster.
Also, it can help you to decide how much exactly can you spend on gambling so that it won't affect your financial situation severely. If you do all that and even realizing that with a lot of gambling you go negative won't help you to stop - perhaps you should ask someone else to take care of your funds and seek professional help because addiction isn't something, that goes away easily.

By admitting that you were wrong putting what you cannot afford to lose and realize that it's not always winning and there's a possibility of losing a lot, you are on your way to curing yourself of your addition, now the next thing you need to do is to reach out to other gamblers who suffered from that condition and cured, there are many of these in the gambling anonymous groups, or you can contact your local professional that deals with gambling-related addiction, honesty is the best cure for any addiction.

That's good advice and you are exactly right.
Gambling addiction is just an illness of people who had obsessing in any type of gambling where can't control themselves. This commonly happened because they can't even control themselves in gambling which is a common cause of neglecting bills and expenses and using the money for gambling. And the possible consequences of selling your all assets and when there is no left it will I guess stealing money to continue gamble and possible will result of loss of house, job, car, or other personal possessions, possible your wife and kids too. That's insane.

It's better to avoid cases like this while it's too early.

This is what happens if you do not have a strong character, and you gamble without someone with strong character guiding you and explaining all the risk in gambling, but since you admit that you are doing it wrong and based on your post you want to stop gambling and want to have a cure on your gambling, the only person who can help you is a doctor who deals with this kind of problems, it's not easy but this is the only effective way to cure gambling addiction.

Doctor or psychologist wont really be that much of effective if you dont accept it first on yourself.You have to deal first with yourself before seeking out another external help.

This is a problem that cant really be easily resolved on a day because gambling addiction is something that cant really be resisted when you do know on how to access it through online
or even on physical ones.

Dont aim for making money with gambling because this is just created for entertainment but majority had always the wrong view towards it.

You have taken one of the most difficult steps when it comes to dealing with gambling addiction, you have finally realized that you have a problem, unfortunately the path that is ahead of you is very hard and you are going to need the help of your family and most likely you'll need professional help as well, there is no other way around it and there is no quick solution to your problem, this is probably going to take months or years in order to be solved and most likely it is a problem that you are going to have to deal with for the rest of your life.

Many people start gamble without having someone beside them because they are curious about what gambling games are. For the first time, curiosity will be the reason for them to playing gambling, and then, they found that gambling can give them another pleasure which makes them stay for some time. But if they realize they need to stop gambling, they need to do that fast before it is too late to stop. But if he already in gambling for a long time and want to quit gambling forever, that will need a big effort to do, including visiting the psychiatrist to ask for help.

It happens often that you will win some games in gambling and think you are now expert and can win every game. Then you start to lose but you keep on playing because of the self confidence and addiction. Ultimate not only you lose all of your profit but also the seed money. I have seen people spending money in gambling which they had saved for years and losing everything. If you can't control emotions in gambling, then gambling is not for you.

Precisely! It's very important to have a good discipline with your gambling activities.

It will fall to addiction if you are unable to control yourself and even you keep denying inside you that you are not addicted, the fact
that you keep doing it and losing more and more would somehow tell the rest. Gambling is for responsible people, enjoyment or extra sources of fund if you know how to deal with it correctly, otherwise, you'll fall to keep losing to the point of burning all your savings.

I did the same thing when I was beginning in gambling but I had lots of losses because of greediness. We all have to experience that case for us to learn from it so we'll know what decisions to make in the future. Sometimes, greediness could lead us to losses so we must appreciate and be contented once we have a good winning. You should know when to stop and when to continue and always expect that losing is a part of gambling.

If you have this thinking then you are considered a compulsive gambler, and you are out of your control and there is a big risk that your vice will lead you to dangerous activities if you are run out of money, now you've realize how hard this can be, you've done the right thing asking the right question and you can start by telling this to your loved ones and seeking professional help, there's a cure on this, just don't lose hope and become open minded.

Easier said than done.
Controlling one self when to stop especially when luck kicks in is really hard. Most of the gamblers might end up lossing everything regardless of how lucky he was as he's trying to cover the gradual loss he made while taking advantage of his luck. Greediness are always our shadow when gambling and that's the reality of It. Only a few person who are able to get out of gambling addiction. Bankruptcy is the most common reason someone had to stop gambling.

There are so many things built into casinos these days to help people to stop gambling, but most of those things are useless, because people that are addicted ....will find ways to continue gambling. In Brick n Mortar casinos.. people will ask to be banned, so when they enter the building the CCTV and security will stop them. (Problem is, these people can unban themselves or wear disguises to hide their identity)

Online casinos can also lock your account (just ask support) ..but people just create another account from another device or internet access. (playing from their mobile telephone)  ::)

You will have to decide, if you want to stop. The casinos will only try to help where they can.  :(

Following that line of thinking, I don't believe there is a cure for gambling addiction. When you're a gambler, you're a gambler for life. I believe that all gamblers (regular or occasional) enjoy the thrill of winning just as much as athletes and other adrenaline junkies.

Of course, there are those who have effectively abstained from their gambling urges, but this does not mean that they have been cured of addiction. There is a way to manage your bad habits and impulses. It wasn't until I stopped playing every few days that I was able to pursue hobbies and interests other than gambling.

From the point of view of common sense, having won big money, you need to leave the casino and not play anymore. 

However, in our actions we are not always guided by reason. 

Many medical experts say that gambling addiction is incurable, unlike nicotine or alcohol addiction.  To get rid of gambling addiction, it is not enough to have a strong will or a high IQ, since this is an emotional addiction. 

There is only one way out - to temporarily switch from gambling to other activities that are associated with drive and strong emotions.  It can be computer games, extreme or pickup.

While we are aware that this phenomenon exist, it is highly advisable to gamble using the money you allotted for it. This may be easier said than done especially in today's circumstances and online setting but if you are given the opportunity to bet in a physical casino, do not bring your credit card; just bring a handful amount of cash.

I remember back in the days, I used to accompany my brother and he forewarned me to stop him at all cost after one bet. In the same night, he managed to deplete his monthly savings and he went home blaming me for not stopping him (I really stopped him!).

Either way you will get the blame, he will blame you for not stopping him and will also blame you for stopping you just when he think he is making a good run of winning or getting lucky, you cannot stop compulsive gamblers, they always find away once they get the hang of it, they will even get angry if you force them to stopped gambling, they need help not forcing them to stop.

This is one of the reason why on first I was afraid to try gambling or any kind of gambling or even casino. Though I know how to play poker, tong its or any other kind of gambling but I just play it to entertain myself without money involved. And all I can say was even playing it without a money involved the feeling of entertainment was truly genuine and addicting. Now I practice gambling with money involved but I see to it that I do makea bet with a minimum amount.

As everyone has said, yes you will lose in the long run. But the biggest mistake people make is bet size. If you control size and you stick with levels you are comfortable with, gambling can stay fun and you increase the chance of profit.

There's where the greed kicks in. You won in the beginning and you hope that you will win again but you lose.
In gambling the chances of losing are more than winning and when you continuously lose you tend to lose all your balance on the website.
This is what happens with the most of us and the only thing to overcome this greed is self control.
You must have control on yourself and play according to the strategy and not through emotions.
You should stop playing when you start losing continuously and come back another day. There's pretty much nothing other than this.

Not at all when the game is based on luck even if there's a bet size you do care, even if you have control over the size of bet you don't have the control of the outcome. It's indeed fun but for those who make it as living it could be a little dramatic on their end.

He does not mean to say that controlling bet size = controlling the outcome.
What he want to say is that we as gambler should have our own limit by controlling our bet so no matter what will be the result then it wont affect us financially.
In other words, it is the same as the most popular quote "gamble what you can afford to lose only".

Also, controlling the size of the bet or betting what you can afford to lose is basically the right way, and it will still be fun if you only play the games or matches you like with the odds being kept in mind. I personally have tried a lot to control the size of the bet but if I don't adjust the odds then the result will still be emotional. So to keep things fun, you can't just control the size of the bet, because at least you have to adjust for other factors as well.

It's never been this easy to earn money. Pick an asset, wait for a month and double your money.
We better take advantage of this period because it won't last forever.

It is difficult to give any way to stop them from gambling even in that way I was once opposed by my own friend for being too involved in his personality even though I just wanted to save because I know he always pays monthly savings without thinking about their own family that's addiction can not be stopped immediately.
Gamblers who do not have control will continue to gamble whenever they want, even if any money will be used regardless of the future, that's what I feel sorry for when he loses all his savings will be begging with his help this behavior.

Yes, that's how I understood it.

It's known as the Golden Rule of gambling. Whatever game you pick, it is important to always follow this golden rule to avoid leaving the casino in total despair and with a financial hole larger than you can handle. It's fun to mess around and have fun for a couple of hours, but never lose sight of the fact that your whole life could change in an instant.

You should start by cutting off daily betting as it simply equals addiction. The best way to prevent gambling without addiction is to avoid gambling every day but to limit it to weekly or twice in a week gamble.

There is no guarantee that you will win daily, so why exhaust your funds? 

Your mistake is not being able to control your emotions when you are losing. Gambling about luck, we will never know when luck is on our side. try to stop playing for a while when you are losing, because if you are too pushy to play, you will lose everything in your pocket.

THIS CASINO = STAKE ?
I didn't understand which casino you were talking about because your referral link has been removed by a moderator, but since you were talking about VIP ranking I highly suspected you were talking about Stake actually. After reading answers to your post, it seems I was right.
Like you I must confess I'm currently chasing a VIP rank on Stake too. But unlike you I'm not at loss currently :) So it depends on players, you can make profits if you are a good gambler or a lucky one at least.

When people do win then that kind of emotion boost up would always comes next and if you arent aware on what you are doing then most likely you would really be
betting further and do tend to go all in to seek for more bigger wins.

Luck is the main factor and we know that this isnt something to be on our side always which means losing is inevitable.Enjoy on what youre doing.
Dont play gambling for the sake of making income because it isnt the right thing for you to do so.

The best way to get rid of gambling addiction is to understand the concept of the game, understand the game that's best for you, be mature enough to accept the result, never go over your limit and only deposit the amount you can afford to lose.
Having said that, there is some online site that provided some information and tips to gamble profitably. I single google search can help.

If you are seeking for a better chances, preparing yourself by understanding the concepts and find all those

necessary tools to improve your winning rates is very important, gambling always have risk and either you win or you lose in your
stay, you should aware yourself that emotions won't help you, most of the time following your emotions leads you to lose your money, take care of it or if you can't better to stop while you still can.

My advice for you would be, lower your pride, accept your defeat, and do better next time (but not on gambling). If you'd do this, you'll find yourself breathing freely and not disappointed anymore. You're going be productive again by thinking of another way on how to earn money and not to lose money while you're trying to earn it, if you know what I mean. Gambling addiction always triggers when a certain individual wants to greedily and unplanned to beat the house, which is clearly impossible to charge blindly.

At some point, there are people who just don't fit in the gambling industry but still insisting to be a part of it to "earn" easy money but what's always happening is the exact opposite of it.

Well duh, that is how gambling works, there aren't going to be a lot of people that are going to do business with gambling if that wasn't the case, good thing that I didn't learn the hard and I am the lucky few who won more than lose and with I have quit while I am ahead.

This is how gambling attracts players. Those who win by beginner's luck will be enticed to deposit or play more after having their first lucky win. As time goes by they will not notice that all the winnings they had are gone and the amount they have lost through gambling is more than what they have earned. People love the feeling of winning and they don't care how many times they lose, it feeds their ego and gives them unexplainable happiness whenever there is a winning day. But the truth is, it's a casino's trick to gain more players.

I totally understand what you feel, gambling addiction is very hard to quit, you can do some interesting things to divert your attention, like play football, or basketball  with your friends. if you wanna do sport along,  you could select running, actually, running is my favorite.

You should have stopped after you made a profit of 3 times your deposit. That already puts you ahead of the majority of gamblers who first lose money and then play more chasing their losses and trying to come out on top. You are already showing signals of becoming an addict if the occasional game here and there is turning into you considering becoming a VIP member. Seek help before it's too late and consider the needs of those around you who are impacted by your decisions. You'll get rid of gambling addiction when you understand what your priorities are and stop chasing a dream.           

sports is recomended the most for addicts that want to change  because in sports youl meet friends and your working out your entire body making you sweat and feel a lot better . it will make you more addicted to it and forget your bad addiction habits  .

low stake player but deposit more ? hows that . if you deposit more you are already in the 1st level of vip if that was your priority but no because you also have another priority and that was to win huge , this is something that cant be done together in my opinion .

It is normal in gambling there would be days that we would really won and days that we would lose it is part of gambling,
Don't expect that you would always win in gambling that is why most gamblers gets addicted to it.
The feeling of earning an easy money when they won and the thrill.

Actually at first that's not His intention because he just become lucky and won x3 , but the following game is Yeah the greedy part.
Actually that's the strategy of some gambling site , I think it is not beginners luck instead a Luring strategy.
Self control is the best way to win.

You need first to have a self limit. Know your limitation especially when it comes to the money that you're going to use. Usually if we experience to win few times, we thought our fate on the next game would be the same which is not, and this is the start of thinking to recover our losses.

If you want to stop your gambling addiction you need to discipline yourself and stop what you used to when you gamble.

Necessary tools to improve gambling winning rate? There's no tools that can do that other than the gambler to understand the game concept, rules and regulations.

Following emotions those help in gambling cause it created inspiration but gambling with emotion or making gambling decision through emotion is what lead to lose.

Actually you are the key to your addiction, if you can control yourself and set a certain limit then there is a possibility for you to really stop your addiction before it gets any worse. You have to control yourself and most especially your emotions when gambling because that’s the only way for you to not gamble more. Set your mind to just only play a certain amount per day and maybe that helps too.

If you think that you have become gambling addict and seriously want to leave it for some time then you can do one thing which is becoming very popular these days.You are not only one facing this problem and solution for such people is to join self exculsion scheme which stop user from placing any bet on the casino until the time period contract expires.You can check out this site Gamstop (https://www.gamstop.co.uk/)

This is helping a lot of people in this pandemic who have found gambling as entertainment purpose in starting but eventually they have become addicts and constantly loosing their money.This site bookmark your casino and whenever you enter the casino site and try to place any bet you are stopped from doing so.So you can give it a try if it can help you in any case.

This will help you to limit your losses but what OP is concerning will not get broken by this. Gamblers to play for entertainment alone will never focus on what they won in the past and never need to think about repeating that. When you are playing for fun then limiting your amount and time will help but when you deviate from that then there will be no point of such limits as your targets are repeating previous winning moments.

This helps the survival of gambling industry. If you win and then if you quit then houses will suffer but if you win and if you continue regardless of your winning or losing then houses will start making money out of you.

Part of your stay, it's not every time that you'll see positive result, you also need to consider that losing is part of the outcome.

Most gamblers aimed for much higher earnings, once they experienced winning they'll think that it will be more easy to aim for more, and that's
the problem, it will lead them to get more addicted to the game.

The feeling that they experienced it,  winning an easy money will keeps them chasing and wanting the same result.

that is the beginning of a person becoming addicted to gambling by being given a win first so that they can feel addicted to gambling and always place multiple bets with the aim of being able to win a larger amount of money.

self-confidence that is able to eliminate addiction in gambling, one of which can decide to stop the game before losing a lot and stop when you get a little profit, the point is in gambling you must be able to control yourself and not be greedy in playing

There are quite a lot of comments to stop gambling addiction in the gambling board, lmao. Of course, most gamblers will always lose in the long run, but they can win in the short run, and enjoy the game.

OP case, however, the greed made him do a mistake. The chance of winning is slim, and if he plays again, the chance is he will lose. Gambling isn't about making money, but a lifestyle. The enjoyment from the game is great, and if you control it properly, you can play for years without breaking your bank.

You know, drinking is bad if you overdo it, the taste of hangover is terribly unpleasant, but if the amount just right, you can have a good sleep.

Well start by understanding the fact that " this is all in your head"
If you do think that you are investing in Gambling a lot and you are not winning and ultimately you are loosing a considerable amount then :
1. Contact Gamcare
2. Suspend your account
3. If not possible then : Play for less
4. Play and Practice Games involving skills like Poker and black Jack. Use card counting and always remember the big hands.
Well you would never control anything without your own mindset so I do think going to companies and psychologists is futile. Always remember that there are sites which would initially give new users some credit and some slag so that they continue playing. When you know their mindset you can always outwit them.
Best of luck.


Yes he's , don't be greedy and enjoy the game , play for less if you do want to play but don't indulge so much in the same !

Everything that do excess will always end up on something bad but if you do it on a controlled manner or doesnt really go beyond the limits then you would be still safe.

People do commonly end up losing in gambling because they do really aim for more without minding if they should secure out those profits and enjoy the game or simply call it a day

but instead they do go further more which would really be ending up on losing those winnings back again into the house because being lucky is just temporary or doesnt last long.
Odds would be always be that high.

Most of the time greediness will overtake the person because of the hype around him when he is playing which will be the cause of his ultimate loss no doubt about that. If a person only knows that he will gonna lose everything by doing such things, he would have not to go to that place and stop himself from getting one step ahead of the door. Because after he lost that money he has, it will continue like flowing water and only drought can stop it.

It is hard to realize greeds, especially when you can enjoy the game and win for some rounds because our mind will tempt us to play some more rounds. Greeds are what we need to eliminate or control because they can ruin our day in just one or two rounds. Maybe playing with a calm can reduce the tension that comes to us, especially if we win on some rounds.
Oh, do not forget to limit the money you used in gambling, not lose all of the money.

Isn't that always? I mean, ngl, if we always won, we would never grow, which also means that whatever we're actually winning from or achieving from it, is basically the same as the rest of the achievements we got earlier on (or maybe even below it). The difference though is that the concept here in gambling is solely based on luck. You really have no control over it, even with a large enough amount of bankroll, you'd still lose as much as a regular person would.

Not to mention that since it's based on "luck" and not skill, it's easily influenced by factors such as emotions. The existence of ideas such as I can still win, I can still make a comeback is what makes gamblers lose their minds, losing more money in the process. If it was based on skill, then they'd honestly just give up instead of wasting more money tbh.

But with unlimited bankroll we can actually win if we follow a martingale strategy. I agree that there is a lot of luck involved in gambling, but also skill. The more experienced we are the better we adapt to our gambling outcomes. Managing emotions is key for success, which usually comes easier to us the longer we gamble. I still remember how devastated I felt during my first big blow ups. However now I know that the money can always be won again, its best to remain calm. As long as we don't lose borrowed money we will be fine.

A martingale strategy can be profitable, but it's very risky as well. The fact that you are doubling your stake money can create a pit you will have a hard time to get out of.

I don't know if you saw my two threads My Football Gambling System: A Betting Experiment (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5318271.0) and Betting Experiment #2: Chasing the Draw,  (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5324017.0)but I was experimenting with martingale strategies. Although both experiments would have been profitable if I had invested real money, if you take a closer look, you would notice there were instances where I was down hundreds of dollars before making a profit. Many gamblers don't have unlimited bankrolls (if they did, they wouldn't be gambling), and such a series of losses would probably make them cut their losses and give up.   

Was it  skill-based games/competitions you bet on, or luck-based ones ?
I think you should be more careful if you are depending on luck rather than skills.  When it's luck, bet with little amount you can afford to risk, and this kind of betting should be occasional. You could gradually raise your bets when you start becoming profitable and skillful. ..otherwise your bets should be with little amount you can afford to risk. It's important not to get too attached to your bet as an inexperienced bettor .And you likely not get too attached if aren't gambling in bets or taking big betting risks

I can say that because in the past when I have 0.003 btc in my account, I do not stop playing gambling instead continue playing the other gambling games. It will not take too long to see that amount is gone as I losing all of 0.003 btc in a short time. Besides that, I have other experience in other coins, which lead to me losing the amount. That is what we must do regarding playing gambling because limiting the money will prevent us from using big money while getting the fun in the gambling games. Using 10% of your income is good, so you do not lose too much money, but you have a chance to win the game, although that is not too big.

It is mostly about your conception of life and what triggers your adrenaline and your dopamine. It is said that the worst thing that can happen to a gambling addict is actually winning in the first bets because some people just get a strong push from wins and do not feel much pain when loosing, thus they are easily trapped into playing beyond their initial intentions.

You have to be able to recognise that in yourself. In my case, I know that there are certain videogames to which I can easily play more time than I should to have a life balance so I just either avoid these or I tell someone to tell me to stop after, for example, and hour of play. You may be able to try that with gambling.

Yes, stake.com. It seems to me to put 10k for the first level is a lot. As I understand it, there will be a bonus of $ 100 per level.

Let me ask you a question , How do you sustain your gambling expenses and activities ? i mean do you have your own family? or you are still single that can manage to spend more funds than saving?

- If you have family , the best way to get rid of addiction is to ask your wife to help you out.

- If you have no family then try asking your parents to get over you.

Everything is fine, after writing the first post I stopped playing. Everything turned out to be very simple, I ran out of money, or rather, my money is blocked for deposits in the casino, but I'm too lazy to go to the exchanger. I am a bachelor, I decide everything myself.

I don't know on which games you are wagering but I don't think the 10k$ mark is very difficult to reach on Stake, it only represents 200 bets of 50$ each, an average gambler could achieve that in few weeks, and a big one in few days or even hours... If you are a small gambler you can achieve that in less than one year, even with a pretty small bankroll IMO. Then you will get rakebacks on all your wagers and bonuses.

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That's good to know that you already handle your addiction and hopefully you commit on that because if you continue to gamble, it can totally ruin your life again.

We always have a bad days, so don't expect to win always and don't use the money you don't have. You have to decide and be the best version of yourself, learn from this mistakes and know that gambling is all about luck and not a good source of money.

Is this for this reason you left him a red trust feed back while he's only a Junior member?  ??? Moreover your feed back point to his current OP where we can't see any abuse. I don't think posting a referral link even with an URL shortener means markk1 is untrustable. You should turn your feed back to neutral IMO.

Good. Stopping playing gambling is the best choice for you to prevent the next losses. I hope you don't make the same mistake as before because you are lucky to realize the mistake. Next time, I do not think that you will realize that again because who knows, you make another worst mistake which you don't realize.

You should always remember that even if you are single and decide everything by yourself, that does not mean you can spend all of your money easily or borrow the money to playing gambling because some people do that to fill their wanting of playing gambling.

Good for you if you managed to stop before risking everything. Knowing the bad side effects of this vice.

Got to be extra careful as due to being bachelor you'll easy to decide, and regrets comes after every mistakes, proper balance in anything
that you are planning to do in life.

It helps to survive and keeps you away from endangering not only your finances but also your physical and mental health.

Yeah, @OP made a really good decision when he stopped gambling. When he experienced significant losses and cost a lot of money, many people were trapped to continue betting. They are even willing to go into debt to gamble. In the end they are not only lost money, but also lost his family. Many people in my village got kicked out because they couldn't stop gambling and left a lot of money from debt. Hopefully the OP will get a job that can make his life better after quitting gambling.

Sometimes it is not greed though but also a fear to lose more. Chasing losses as they say, so this is very different from greed where the motivation is to make more profit. Many more players lose because they want to chase back their losses thinking, I have already lost so much,,, surely my good fortune must be just around the corner? They forget that random probability has no memory.

And discontentment, despite winning whether small or huge amount, they won't just stop.
It's easy for us to control it but there really are severe cases for those gamblers that are having hard time for them to control it.

My experience gambling is probably almost the same as many other people here. I can win the bet one day and lose the same day because I can't quit. To be honest, gambling greed is really hard to deal with because I really want to win more. Yet if you think about it, that greed can bring havoc, which in the end can eat up everything we have won.

Gambling required good control, emotional management and realistic target. When gambling activities can be arranged with a good initial planning, it is still possible for us to get wins that will not run out on the same day.

It is most likely the fear of losing more. Some people may see it as greedy because the player keeps tossing in more. But for some who have been and experienced the same thing, they know the player is trying to gain back what he/she lost.

Betting more could signify both things but the real thing cant be determined because we don't know on whats that player do had in mind its neither being greedy or chasing up his losses.

When doing gambling then you should be aware on what are the things could possibly happen then you wont really be coming into this kind of situation.

You wont be chasing up your losses, you wont make yourself greedy.Everything should be in control and moderation so that you wont be ending up on a problem.

When they try to gain back what they lost before, that will not be easy for them because that can be the other loss of money for them. Even if you can recover what you lose, that will not fully recover because you will still have a loss in the end. If you can gain back you lose, you will be tempted and think that you will win more in the next amount to lead you to get another loss. Whenever you won, that would be your time to quit gambling and not continue gambling because that will be the way for a gambler to have another loss.

You usually keep gambling, so you should rather look at trends that at one time events. Everyone probably knows these guys who say "once I win big I go home and never play again" but that's most likely not going to happen. Saw it so often in real life casinos, they all went again even after a great night, me included :P

All without realizing it, the allure of gambling is that if you enter the gambling arena and sit, you will forget to stand.
The point is self-control when playing gambling and self-control is very important and a simple example when entering a mall or shopping center you will forget yourself when you see something nice and interesting and you will buy it every time you see it, until you don't realize it until your money runs out.

and some of them can accept pure winnings in gambling because they can control themselves and stop when they win consistently, because when winning there is little ambition to want to keep winning and want to keep playing which would actually cost him everything.
And as long as you have control over yourself, everything will be fine when you go back to playing and limit bets and win or lose you will stop according to the capital that has been provided, and stop when you win in order to get full victory.

I consider this as being greedy in gambling, your mindset tends to push more if you're too focus on your loses and greed will come telling you to chase that losses hoping that you can win it back. In gambling there's no way to always win, so you must know when to stop to avoid further losses and to protect your big wins.

Adrenaline rush for sure especially if you don't have a plan before you gamble so you tend to continue playing hoping that you might win another jackpot but a the end of the day, you lose all your money and the worst will happen. We can't continue playing for just a hope, if you the big jackpot better to stop gambling for that day.

Every gambler experienced and will experience loss and also win. I this case, we may lose several times in gambling but we also probably win several times. About how much we lose or win will depend on each gambler itself.
In this case, some reasons may influence the gmabler of winning or losing their money.
Some professional gamblers may experience many losses in the past and they could learn from their mistakes, and turn into big winning often the loss right now.
But, if we are only a gambler, with no good experiences and also risk management, analysis of our losses, and we don't take the lesson, we may often lose, moreover of we are very greedy and only pay for luck.

"Responsible gamblers know when to stop" - This is the slogan of the industry, but it is very difficult for a lot of people. You have to remember that the whole gambling scene are focused on you wagering more and more, because they get a percentage (house edge) on whatever you wager.

They will introduce "deposit bonuses" / "Gambling races" / "VIP Ranking systems" and lots of sponsored promotions to keep you wagering more and more money on their site.

Even third party slots are developed to pay you small amounts every now and again, to bait you into thinking that you might be the lucky person that would eventually win the jackpot. (The chance of that happening is very small)  ::)

This is one kind of addiction like drugs.Don't be frustrated, believe in yourself.You have to control your mind.
Today you can play 4,the next day you play 3,the very next day you play 1.Such you have to control your mind.thus you can control your mind.Give your attention to daily life and keep yourself busy with works.Weather you win or lose,don’t be greedy.
Hope you will be improved and best wish to you.

You can be categorized as a compulsive gambler because you do not know how to stop when you want to stop, you know that you should not be doing it but the urge is so strong that you cannot stop because you are thinking of the what-if scenario, you need professional help before you ruin your life and your family, the only way is to ask a family or a friend who can help you seek professional help.

Yes,,, of course I understand this, I am a gambler. We all want to win and win as much as possible, but all I am saying is that on one side, we get profits and want to grow it more (that is greed). But we generally also lose more because we want to chase our losses. The panic is usually more on the side of loss (we already lost a lot and want to reduce the loss). That is fear more than greed:)

^ Haha, that is a very clever strategy and I would love to do the same.
This is the disadvantage of playing on the digital platform. Games are already set accurate. The algorithms are almost unbreakable. That is why you had to wait until you get to the winning part. But basically, gambling addiction is treatable or curable. I had the same issues back when I was in my first employment. It was really hard at first. I had to get to the point that I lose everything, my relationship gradually went down. My people could not trust me because of my insecurities. Because I knew I did something illogical. And that is to place bets until I win. It really is hard to avoid once you are there.
The last thing I remember, I was introduced to meditation. Nevertheless, started being grateful for what I have and have peace of mind. Then resolve all the things I ruined one by one because of gambling. Now, I can tell I am contented and happy with my growth.

All of this is just a psychological problem when at the beginning of the game you will be given a victory so that greed will arise and you lose your mind to manage your money.

If you are made to lose at the beginning, chances are that what will happen you will not make a deposit again, but if the win is given, of course, you will deposit again.

Gamble Is For Fun, Not For Food

Then You have learned your lesson? That's the only thing that matters now because no matter what you do, yet we cannot bring back the past.

You can't bring back your money.

What you can benefits from this? is that if you have used the experiences wisely , then you will never Lose again and will never become addicted again.

Being addicted in a gambling is normal, but if you really exceeding the limit and you're spending to much money in it, like there's no tomorrow for you to gamble.. well that's not normal anymore .. And you should adjust as soon as possible.. because you're the one who responsible no matter what happen . And for sure time will come that it will lead you into some serious problem in the future.. better to fix what is necessary things to do while its not late.. And friendly reminder that gambling isn't a business like you can earn constantly from it,  because it's a game luck.. Just gamble what amount you can afford to lose..

Oh boy I can tell you, and the worst is when alcohol is involved :D Have been to Vegas a couple of times, started out super disciplined, ended up wasted and completely broke for the night :D Alcohol is a game changer in the most negative sense in gambling.

Never to treat gambling as main source of income, thinking that you can always do the trick and win.

Not even the so called experts can win in a daily basis, there's also days that  the strategy/system that they are using will not work, and remember that casinos always updated, they knew if there's something that sucking their bankroll.

While it's still early, better to work with yourself, assess and make sure to have the right mindset to control and limit your gambling activities.

Greed and ignorance have always been a very dangerous combination but when you have those two characteristics and you are gambling out of control then this is a big problem, I do not know why people do not make a very small research before having dreams of becoming rich when they gamble, if they did so they will understand that their dreams are never going to come true and the best part is that they are going to save themselves the pains of losing money they cannot really afford to lose.

I hope that getting addicted to gambling isn't the future for us all. There must be a future where we can use gambling responsibly and not lose it all. I agree that it is up to us to change our behaviour when we notice we gamble to much. Everybody can check for himself if he can manage a week without gambling and if he is just going to miss it or if it is getting hard to control ourself. I enjoyed gambling for many years now and believe that I could be without it. But since I am not losing large amounts there is no need to take a break.

I agree but when you gamble with friends purely for fun, then in the end if you win you can be the winnings used to eat together, right. At least I do that when I win that I can use for parties or just eating with friends, because then everything is obtained from the fun of together. But regarding winning at the beginning and then losing more often, I think it has become commonplace in gambling because even though you lose more often, if you really make gambling for fun, then losing is something they can easily overcome.

Isn't this what gambling is all about? You will lose or you will win. It all depends on your luck. Got lucky? Then stop playing and take your profit. Got spare money and can afford to lose? Then keep on playing as long as you are enjoying. Gambling is not about making profit, its more like having fun. Cherish those adrenaline rush. Think of profits as an optional bonus/reward and loss as a form of payment for the entertainment. If you are addicted, and you realize that its harming you, then speak to someone who can help you. Before that, talk to stake support and tell them disable your account.

But there's  a huge difference between having some fun and getting addicted because of too much engagements,

You should know that first and make sure that you are still in good balance in terms of your financial capabilities,
there are lots of cases where a certain person is keeps on denying that he's already an addicted gamblers.

If you find yourself keeps thinking what's the best strategy to use or what's best team/players to bet and if that's keeps lingering in your ears
you be better to go deeper and try to quit.

Treating gambling as a source of income would really be not ideal because you would just rather lost up money instead of earning it.This is just for fun and no other viable reasons
on why you do deal with it.

It is just people who are expecting that much to become rich that fast with gambling without even realizing that losing is much more evident when dealing with this thing.

Just make have some fun and don't intent to make out profits with it and mind it as a bonus that you do get aside on having fun.

Yeah, I agree. There are many benefits of gambling but using it as a source of steady income is just wrong.
This can be a hobby. This can be a source of amusement. However, this is not a viable source of income.

Well because you are chasing your losses and perhaps you can not able to get rid of gambling addiction because of that, sometimes we need to accept and move on if we lose in gambling, that is a part of the game, and gambling was designed just for fun not for milking money that you are expecting there will be an always money from them. You are very lucky if you will win successively but most commonly it rarely happens that you will always win in gambling. Just enjoy gambling if you are here for chasing money, then --gambling is not for you.

It's wrong for most of us but for people who are gifted enough to make consistent money in gambling, it's a blessing for them. It's a general advise that everyone should enjoy gambling, treat it as a entertainment and with that said, it implies that we spend money most of the time when we gamble, hence making casinos profitable in their operation.

Nah, they do not even researching that because they only dream of becoming rich from gambling. They see and read on many news that some people can become rich by hitting the jackpot, but they do not realize how much money they already spent on gambling. They only see the big result, but they do not see how those people did before until they hit the jackpot. Sometimes they forgot that luck would be behind all of these winners and they won't become like them and never realize that they will hard to become rich from gambling.

Sometimes there are gamblers who do not realize that they are addicted, because they consider playing gambling continuously is fun.
Even though without realizing it, playing excessive gambling is an addiction, usually gamblers will look for strategies to be able to win gambling.
And they can't control the finances, so if we have experienced this I agree it is best to stop gambling for a while.

I think that is because they can find the fun thing in gambling to realize the addiction. If they are late to realize, they will become addicted to gambling which will hard to solve unless they can share their problem with other people. It is normal to see a gambler search the strategies, but a gambler who already knows that the strategy is just part of enjoying the game will not try hard to find out the strategy. They will know when to stop the game and always control themselves.

This always happened to me when i play casino game like dice and slot games.. They will let me win first but afer all there's a consistent loss than winning..and until the game gets boring, i actually preferred to get some free spins because of that reason. So far there's still no changes and chance to win in it.  Lol probably I'm not lucky enough when it comes gambling?

This is part of the emotion of the people if they got a good outcome when they tried they look confident and becomes too much optimistic that it might happen the same way again. This time it becomes greedy like we want to deposit more because there's a chance you will get more than this or can triple more than that your money that's why many people getting addicted on gambling. If you don't have any self-awareness or self-management about your trading there's a chance all of that hard work becomes back to zero. One of the best secrets is always limit yourself and don't exceed too much.

You can mention this again! Gambling already has a way to play with our psychology when we are sober,,, much less to say when our minds are all muddled up with a bit of tipsy drinking. But I really hate drunk gamblers the most, they are angry when they win and even angrier when they lose puff!

Chinese New Year family get togethers over mahjong. That is the worst;)

Very deadly mindset you have here.

No offense but I have to disagree with you here. Okay, so let's say that you'll eat with your friends when you won against them but did you ever think what would they do when they won, will they do the same? if yes, then you got good friends because they still treat you after you lose, however, it's not that good if you lost a big amount of money, but if they didn't treat you after you lose, I guess that's unfair for you because you're so kind and they are not.

In my opinion, good friends will never play gambling with you like have bigger bets, they will but they will just going to agree to use only small bets just for fun and not to make it a living.

But is your family really playing mahjong for money? When I was a young child I played at the birthdays of my gradparents 4-in-a-row against their guests. I made quite a few bucks there. Maybe that was the reason why I tried out poker, but with much worse results. :D

Making loss in gambling doesn't mean that you are unlucky. You should learn when to stop. Don't move with the greediness, it will always make you loss. 'OP' said that he has gained profit while he started gambling. But things gone wrong while he wanted to make more without quitting there. The same thing happens with most of the gambler. In order to avoid gambling addiction, OP should stop gambling for a while and engage himself with other activities in regular life.

Seems that the site you are playing knew how to allure you, it's hard to quit when you think that you have enough luck to win more right? But along the way losing streak start to show up and not to allow you to win in consecutive bets. That's the time your aggressiveness will
hit you and you'll find yourself losing again.

Luck based games really needs luck and good discipline to win some decent amount, practice controlling your emotions it gives good chance winning from your gambling activities.

Not only with gambling. With anything and everything if their is usage of alcohol, then things won't be happening normal. When it comes to gambling, it is money associated and the same makes the person get anger in a much faster sense than in a normal state. This leads to further tension around the region and the co-gamblers will find it a disturbance. This is why there are gambling houses with restrictions for alcohol consumption. :D

Any addiction is always a big problem on someones life no exception this is why handling yourself carefully and making out decisions in life should really be put up in mind.
Gambling is for entertainment and dont go overboard and stick to your limits and stick into your finances and priorities because if you are sensible towards your actions then
i dont see for someone to make out some problems in regards to this.

Of course,,, I do not know anyone who plays mahjong (in real life) without money! It is good game for family especially older aunties and uncles. You bet one time and can play for a long time, even longer than poker. So you can play all night for a smaller bankroll:) Poker can lose maybe 10 rounds in half an hour if everybody plays fast!

See, this addiction is the worst addiction of everything. Gambling addiction is really really very costly when it comes to players like us who are from middle class because we think we can change our financial status overnight, but it simply doesn't happen, our greed which is there in every human being, will pull us to gamble again. There's no proven method to just eradicate the addiction completely, and hence, best is to relax your mind, take a break from your daily routine and go for a lovely trip or something, put your mind into good hobbies, read stories, watch some movies of your favorite genres. It will take time, a long time since it's an addiction of the highest venomous in nature.

Indeed. We know that we must prevent the addiction by not playing too often and always managing the money.
We must have control for ourselves in playing gambling. If we lose that, we risk so many things, not just our lives, because people around us will affect us.
Greediness will be one thing that we must control not to become bigger and possess us.
When we can handle a good, we can play gambling without worry about anything. Besides that, we need to rest after we play for some time because that can give us time to reduce the tension.

you have to take it as what it is: a game

if you consider it a game and play only occasionally to pass the time, it becomes difficult for it to become an addiction

on the other hand, if you think you can win easy money, click them according to addiction

at the game you never win as a profit, you always go at a loss

When someone wins there are only two choices to stop or continue betting, but what is worrying is that there is no control. That should be aware of, but if you are aware of it and can control yourself then today's win then choose to continue betting I think it will be fine, without having to stop to take a vacation or something. These kinds of things will usually be easy for experienced gamblers to notice, but those who are still not that easy to realize then obviously, they need someone close by so that the wins don't lead to losing streaks.

If you don't use your brain and practice self-control while gambling, all your wins today will just be funding for your next losses tomorrow. That's the truth. Everyone must be mindful of how much they spend on gambling, as well as their wins and losses. From there, you will have to make a plan that you will religiously follow to make your gambling experience fun and at the same time profitable.

It's always need to account that every action you take have corresponding effects to your gambling activities,
 choosing between entertainment and trying to earn from this activities is tough to balance.

Like what you have said, it's hard to have a continuous win most of the time instead of winning you just find yourself pushing
your luck, greediness and unable to control yourself are the very common problem of every gamblers.

Take your side and make sure to avoid making a big mistake losing huge amount of savings, also prevent engaging too much as
addiction always behind you.

That’s why we always need to monitor our gambling activities because playing too much will just put you on your losing trend. We can’t win always in gambling, this is the truth and I’m pretty sure every gambling account online is being monitored so expect to lose some if you already accumulate your profit. If you’re lucky today doesn’t mean you can still be lucky the next day, so don’t gamble that much and be responsible.

You are right. Having good self-control and be realistic are crucial things in gambling, they can determine how we do with gambling. There are many bad impacts that we can get in gamblings if we cannot think realistically and control ourselves well, such as being addicted or suddenly experiencing big losses. Of course, the winning today just become the losses money tomorrow if we cannot manage it properly. We can be greedy if we have bad self-control, then losing all the money got from winning today in the next day. Losing all only in a day, yes it is possible.

I admit the important point when we are going to gamble is how we control our emotions and always use our brains to play gambling. because
sometimes I play gambling following emotions. And finally made all my money out, from my mistake I can learn a lot that if we play gambling
it is better if our emotions are controlled. So we can know when to stop. Despite the fact, I admit that it is very difficult to do, several times
I failed to control my emotions. Indeed, sometimes it takes a process for us to be able to control our emotions when playing gambling.

Indeed it's very hard to balance entertainment and desire for winnings at same time. Sometimes gamblers just can't accept the fact they have lost and that the game is over, so if they lose, it won't be entertaining in any ways, and like in OP's case, more and more bets follow ahead, although the gambler can't risk money anymore.
It takes a lot of time, practice and lost funds until some gamblers can start controlling themselves during gambling matches and feeling amused even after a hard day of loss.

In my opinion, gamblers always lose in the end, even though they may have tasted victory at the beginning, and the end is always tragic and will continue to accept defeat, maybe even go broke.
We must realize that the house will always win if we go with the flow without us realizing it and controlling it, then we will often accept defeat.
If you win, that's a good time to win and leave as fast as you can.
If you continue playing, consider betting more conservatively so as not to lose the money you have won, because sooner or later your luck will be lost if you don't stop playing.
A very effective control is that you can stop when luck or victory is on your side and not be tempted to continue playing.

That sounds rough, but I can feel you. It is to get distracted by gambling to a point where you forget all the important things around you. As you said, online gambling makes it even harder because of its easy accessibility. One cure is indeed to once lose it all, but for some that's not even enough and they keep playing to a point where they are literally left with nothing or even debt.

Anyway, good to hear you made it! Let's be careful! :)

Yes, that is what we should do with the gambling games.
That way can prevent us from the addiction and we can enjoy playing the game.
If you try to spend more time than usual, you need to think about the risk that can become bigger and the fact is you will use more money.
It is normal to win on this day and lose the next day as we do not know when our luck will come and we do not have to try hard on the gambling games.

If they win, I guess they will play for more and not many of them decide to stop betting because many of them want to get more winning.
That will be the sign to us of losing control and if we really do not know when to stop gambling, we will lose control for that day, and if you do that many times in the gambling games, your addiction will become bigger.
No matter if that gambler has experience or not, he really needs to control his mind and leave the place before it is too late.

Unfortunately our brains are always deceived by their initial feelings and triumphs, instead of logically analyzing we only have temporary luck and won't be able to do the same thing tomorrow, second chance is still something we like to think more, make money in such a light and simple way, an emotion that is hard to deny even when we know this is wrong. A fun gambling experience is always relatively difficult because loss and emotions are so contradictory, desperately need an alternative stimulating activity such as a sport or video game

Winning once is like you are testing the engine of a car, accelerating but not yet running. What I am trying to say was winning once is the accelerating process of a person who are gambling, it is the first step that lead him to take another game again knowing and believing that he will going to win again. Actually, winning once give an enjoyment and comfortability to a gambling to continue playing, but the sense of gambling was it wasn't always the winning but more often happening was losing.

Greed to get more is one of the reasons why you are not able to get out of gambling. The first deposit earned you 3x profit and after that, you wanted to make more is nothing but greed. Addiction follows greed and gambling is considered one of the worst kinds of addiction. What you can do is to take some professional help if you are really interested in coping up with this kind of addiction.

I know you do not because of the negative trust you have received from @acroman08.

Gambling responsibly it is easier to do than what many people think, you need to take a certain number of steps to make sure that you would never get addicted to gambling, one of the easiest steps that you can take is to separate the money that you're going to use to gamble from the rest of your money that way in the case you happen to lose all the money that you have deposited in the casino you do not touch the rest of your money, if you can control yourself and avoid to deposit. The more money into the casino after you have decided how much money you wanted to gamble during that week then that is a clear sign that you are never going to get addicted to gambling.

Make sense, the example was true. Same with your mentality that after you win you think that you can repeat it again and again.

Some actually win not once but possible more but in the end they also lose everything, bringing them to play more and chase every amount that
they've loss along the way, sad true that instead of learning more gamblers continue up to losing everything that they've got.

Gambling site owners continue to win, first taste of winning allure those gamblers to keep coming back!

Gambling starts as a fun game with risk managers and gradually grows into been a addict for those who goes deeper into it. What a scheme. For me I can't bet what I can't afford to loose. What is gambling if I can't boast of a common win or make constant loose.

I have been tempted on several counts to bet beyond what I can risk out. But on a long run I tried applying risk management to ensure I don't loose all my fortune to gambling

True.
You shouldn't bet if you don't have the money that you're very fine to lose. That should be remembered by everyone that if you don't have money, just don't gamble.
It won't lessen yourself being a person, you just have to let go and lower your pride.

We arent talking about pride but rather those intents that you do have in mind on becoming rich via gambling and this is the most common thing that we can see on everyone who do gamble.
Some might really be just playing for fun but majority are on the opposite side.Dont make yourself greedy and dont chase up losses because these are the most common mistake
on where people do able to commit.Its not good for long term and if you do won amounts then think off that these are just bonuses out of those leisure that you had get.
Dont make it as a main source of income and stick on whats the real purpose of gambling in the first place.

Back then, i was a fulltime gambler. Win some and lose some, there were even when i won a bit money, but in the end i've lost it all after 1 week later and it wiped out all of my winnings before include my bankroll. Then i realized i can't always like this, then decided to gamble what i can afford to lose without chasing my loss before (although many times i still wanna chasing that).

I can learn from your experience that gambling cannot be a source of income, because as you experience in the end the victory you get can be lost
if you play gambling in the long run. And there is no point in catching up with the losses we experience when playing gambling. Because it only causes
even greater losses. I agree it is better to gamble what we can afford to lose is so much better.

Greed is really hard to overcome especially when you are already addicted to gambling. You can't forget that time you've won so you can't stop thinking about doing it again and your inner self tells you to deposit more to have bigger profits. The risk of losing does not come to your mind, you will just chase your losses thinking that it is easy to recover if you will win.

Self-discipline is a big factor to get rid of someone's gambling addiction. Even if there are already people ready to help him stay away from it, but the gambler himself is not determined to quit gambling and still think of it often then he will still go back to that habit.

Is there any difference in terms of profitability? You are still gambling according to your statement, the only difference was the money you are risking is not that pretty much significant. I do gamble but very rare nowadays since I already tired of the win & lose cycle. At the end of the day, I'm only get tired and stress whenever I lose even though I'm only risking small amount of money.

Well you are not addicted to gambling you can stop whenever you want to, something other gamblers are finding it hard to do, gambling is something that should not depress you it should be fun and exciting, small or big amount it should be something that will relax us, if it's not then it's time to stop or only do this if you want to.

Yes, it is. When he is addicted to gambling, that will be hard to stop anytime.
Besides that, he will only think to play gambling and use more money.
Before you are late to realize, you need to take a break when you feel tired and do not stress with your loss because playing gambling will only give you result, win or lose.
So it is better to enjoy the games and do not chase for the winning because that will be too hard.

Limit yourself to a certain amount of funds for gambling, and even go as far as closing any easy access to your funds that you're not planning to gamble on, so for instance if you lost $1k in a day/week you stop and wait for another day or week, this could help you to minimize gambling as a revenge to get your lost money back which usually gets gamblers trapped in a very long gambling sessions which will eventually make you addicted.

Generally if you gamble for more than 1-2 hours a day you should be really careful about your gambling habits as it starts from 2-3 hours a day and could increase to 5 or more hours a day if you got that much enough time to kill.

from your story, actually the one who is wrong is yourself.  You tell us that you are out of control! so your weakness is in "self-control".  gambling is designed to make you addicted and curious ^{(no debate)} but if you can manage your emotions and yourself greed then you will definitely not loss.

winning once but losing many times is a sad thing.

To me, that's still sort of pride if you have a thinking like that. Majority of us can't really make it as the main source of our income because we just can't and we know how risky to rely on it.
Gamble sometimes and be sure to it that if you've won, you'll enjoy your profits before it's taken back again by the casino.

Ever since my first win in a bet, I have been finding it hard to win again. It's very pathetic hoping and believing that am going to win again. It saddens my heart that I have spent much more money than what I have collected from my first win of bet.
How I wish I could let go of this stupid addiction to gambling. Am been bankrupt because of it (gambling)

You've been bankcrupt so you have to learn from that experience, it's you who are in control of yourself, so be smart and be matured in facing your problem. It's alright to gamble as long as you are discipline and in control, but if not, that would ruin your life.

Winning is not hard, but we have to realize that in the long run we will still lose, so don't be greedy, enjoy the moment, don't count your loses a lot as it would not affect you if you are just gambling what you can afford to lose, a win today has to be enjoyed as tomorrow is another day, if you lose next time, stop and gamble again tommorrow, in short never chase your loses.

You could've quit but I understand that quitting on something is going to be a difficult one because habits die hard. I don't like the idea that you are still gambling altogether but hey at the least you are keeping your addiction from becoming destructive at bay but this is not a sustainable long-term especially if you plan to have a family.

A week late but oh well There's no skill involved in gambling. It's all about luck. Managing our emotions? Martingale strategies? Those are about handling your bankroll, your money, not about gambling. Gambling would always follow that 50/50 chance, no matter what. Odds may skew to lower your chances of winning (increased odds) but it would never increase your chances of winning.

Stop playing with odds stacked against you. Stop going for the big wins, but accumulate small ones. No one wins in a game that has the odds stacked against you, it's a minuscule chance and it probably wouldn't even be worth it risking the money you have. But hey, if you're in it to enjoy it's a whatever for me, but if you have that mentality that your saddened and depressed cause of the money you spent, stop betting big with high odds, and start betting slowly instead.

I'm very sorry for you. Maybe it is a solution to go to some special group where gamblers come together helping each other? Maybee the first step to go there will be hard, but I think it will be +EV in the long run. Stay clean!

The first time we gamble, we can easily win and attract us to play again on the other days. We will think that playing gambling is easy because we can win the games. But we will hard to win again and even if we try more and more, that will not give us a bigger chance besides losing more money. The risk that we will get because of trying to play more is only losing the money and we will not have a bigger chance to recover the lost money. You can try to stop gambling for a while and trying doing something that is not related to gambling. You need to prevent your mind from thinking about gambling and that is why you need to make yourself busy with the other activity.

Sorry with what you've going through but it's the effect of our action and we should have been cautious with our decisions before we proceeded.

You have decided to gamble and it's very common that you're going to have more chance of losing. And if you're not too careful with what you do and you didn't secured your profits and instead you gambled with more than what you have, you're checkmate and did it wrongly.

I have heard of something like this, from what I can recall there is only one for the alcoholics but I think there are other support groups that does this, maybe that person can find the right support group but I believe that family should be doing that because they understand the person the most but their weakness is that they don't understand that someone is sick.

I think our mind likes to play tricks on us. We always focus more on the winnings than on the losing chances. We see the potential profits and already take it for granted. It looks like our mind under values risk and over values rewards. It therefore very important that we keep our personal risk management in check. Maybe our friends or family can help us to control our gambling habits. Avoiding a gambling addiction or helping us to fight it is very important. We can't do it on our own.

most gambling players will only win at the beginning of the game and after feeling satisfaction in the game, of course they will bet even more in the hope of winning big prizes and addiction like this is what makes gambling players unable to get away from the game and dreams of becoming rich spontaneously made them unaware of the future poverty.
 In fact, if you think about it, gambling is very detrimental, because in math alone the chances of winning gambling are very small, especially if there are a lot of players. the reasons why players often lose, in my opinion there are several factors:
1. because the dealer has a bigger capital than the players 2. The player does not know to calculate the probability of the type of play
3.Players do not know when the cut loss limit is.
4. Players don't know when to stop when they win (players will be greedy)

We win and lose in gambling... it's like a normal process! I see so many topics about crying over gambling losses, and some of them are ok as some guidelines for all future gamblers to be, how things can go wrong if you are not careful! But most of these threads (with most of the comments) is pure garbage!

It's not gambling advice as much it's life advice, don't do anything if you are not aware of possible consequences! And when things get chaotic crying can't help...

They don't actually cry because of a simple loss only, they cry because they spend more than their budget, and that made them regret, and for some, they even made the problem worst because instead of stopping, they borrowed money hoping they'll win back the loses, result, big disaster.

As a gambler, you must understand that gambling involve high-low chances of getting money. The more you lose, the more you gamble in the name of recovering your lost.
And also the problem is that most people see gambling as a way of earning a living. And they end up been addicted to gamble. Which lead them into lending money from people, and they end up at a debtor.

For what I can see those that become addicted to gambling have two problems, if you do not have both of them then the probabilities of becoming addicted to gambling drop dramatically, the first is to understand the probabilities of the games, if you do so then it is unlikely you will gamble to try to get money as you know that is incredibly hard to do do, the second is an inability to control your impulses, people that gamble compulsively have a history of being unable to control themselves in other activities and this means they have a high chance of becoming addicted if they ever gamble.

You need to understand everything inside in order to know how will you able to compensate from this venue.

Bad interpretation but reality as it is, the more you lose the more you play back trying to recover and win some.


Another bad view, it isn't at all. You lose more than you win.

The after effects after getting addicted to this activities, you need to control if you don't want to fall.

I feel that not all comments are garbage...
similar threads will keep appearing because each person has a different time and we don't know when the bad luck will come. OP is an example where his bad luck comes when he can't control himself, if we don't keep remembering topics like this then chances are bad luck like OP will happen to me and maybe you too.

Not only defeat will keep you betting, because when you have won and got a big profit basically greed will keep you betting and you can never feel enough of the profits that have been obtained. By the way, I have experienced both things that in the end it all just ended in a bankruptcy and the stress that tortures everyday life. Gambling basically only requires awareness and control, if these two things are well prepared, then I think winning and losing gambling will at least not stress you out and still make gambling fun at least for yourself.

Yes, you are right because our mind will respond to the winning than our losses. The mind will say that the next round will be ours and we should still playing to double our winning. That can lead us to double the bet because we expect another winning although our heart knows that we do not have a big chance to win. Our mind is blind because of the winning.

If we have friends besides us, they will warn us to get out of the place as soon as possible before it is too late to realize that we are losing big money.

It's quite unfortunate that I got myself gambling this much. Spending all my savings, hoping that I will recover all my losses back. Getting myself busy with something will solve all this gambling addiction. I need time to rehabilitate myself. I'll try and put it all into practice "all the advice''

Good, I am sure you can do that. I pray for you can solve the problem. You must leave gambling, anything related to gambling, make yourself busy working hard to recover all your losses. I am sure you have a second chance to recover all your savings and you will forget that you have addicted to gambling. You can ask your family or friends to help you rehabilitate yourself because that will not be easy to pass the rehabilitation alone.

Loosing is part of the experience in gambling. You wouldn't expect to win always no matter how good you are in predicting where a game would end.

Gambling when misplaced grows into an addict and at this point it takes a whole lot of discipline to break off such chain. I still recommend you limit the amount you deposit. And keep your stake little because greed controls the human emotions.

Yes, definitely, we can't win all the time in gambling. And even if you are really that good, you're going to experience a losing skid, that's how everything works in this world.

That's why we really need to be very discipline otherwise, it might lead to addiction and then lose of money in the process. Control your emotions, if you are winning already then withdraw some and play on the next day.

Maybe try to have a countermeasure that if you won, you will save no matter what. Maybe when you won x3, set aside the amount you deposit as your saving then try not to used it again. When you lose continuously set a limit to yourself and set a limit that you deposit next. If you still not won or recover your lose until the your limit was reached, try to stop because there is another day to play.
How to get rid? For me it is by having a discipline. Like when you tell yourself to stop, you will stop even though how much you wanted it because it is for your own sake.

It's useless to play gambling if you still losing on the game like the faith telling you it's not for you sometimes it's better if we analyze those mistakes in gambling this is the reason why we commonly lose. It's good if we keep trying to monitor those deposits and withdrawals by that you find out are you still profitable or not. If not I think it's good to decide if your money is more important than other things such as your needs. This is the reason why we need to gamble responsibly.

You need to work it out, if you continually losing, assess and observe if how would you overtake your emotions.

It's very important to understand your situations most gamblers who fall to addiction are gamblers who are being controlled by their emotions, thinking that it would be better to push their luck instead of quitting for a while and chill to cool down.

If gambling isn't enjoyable best to keep yourself away from it, find other place to use your money instead of wasting it.

Just goes to show how important self-control is in ensuring that your wins are secured. No matter how big or small your wins are, if you can't control your gambling habits you'll lose them all one day. I was like this in the past, until I decided to follow a regimen in gambling that would allow me to discipline myself and instill control so I don't drag out my gambling sessions until 4 am in the morning.

You win today, and if you've lost whats been won yesterday then it is a big thing. It gives you some form of experience and makes you have control. When you're losing more than what you've won, then you're out of your control.

Winning for a day and losing continuously happens when we're at the urge of recovering the loss. We should not do it. Just need to take a break and this might help to analyse yourself and make a winning and have control than losing often.

Easy to say that we control our urge to gamble especially if we are trying to recover losses, I have seen people that have done this and now they are still trying to "control" their urges to no avail. Best way to not lose in gambling is to not paly at all and if you come across this post and see this, don't play even if it is for entertainment because if you don't know if you can control yourself when the going gets bad then you will probably lose more money than you could've expected.

There is a study where they tried to chart the money that is when someone is gambling and they observed a downward slope pattern as the player continues to gamble which proves @MCobian's point that you will lose money as time goes on if you continue to chase your losses.

Aside from their losses, I guess people are crying because of disappointments they get because you know, people are always excited doing things for the first time but gambling surprises them always. Most of the gamblers mindset is that if you have a big funds, you can somehow make it, like defeat the house and make profits in the long run, but it is the opposite of it, instead of making profits, you ended up making regrets and sad moments in your life.

I understand what you are experiencing right now because not only you have experienced this.
There are also users here or I should say gamblers that are winning on the first time and because of that, they are being pushed to gamble more since there is a part of their mind saying that "when they play with more money, there will be a higher of chance for them winning more money". You will be forced to deposit more because of that and in the end you will realize your mistake. You will only realize it when you lost lots of money already.

There are 2 options.
1. Learn how to control yourself when you are gambling.
2. Not to gamble at all.

I tried to gamble and got addicted but luckily it didn't took that long for me to quit gambling. Its because I learned to control myself in a short span of time thus, I quit gambling when I realize that I'm losing too much money on it already.

Gambling is addicting especially if you're lucky enough to win. But lets face the fact that is not going to be the case everytime we play thus we tend to lose and its up to us on how we control and limit ourselves to avoid further losses or worse become addicted.

I think not to gamble at all would be the solution if you are determine to get rid the gambling habit. It wont be easy at first but you will used to it if you diversify and focus yourself into other ativities.

Losing is part of betting on sports, but consistently losing your money is more likely down to bad habits than just bad luck. And fixing these bad betting habits from your game will realise an immediate shoot-up in your profitability. Poor money management, lack of focus, lack of patience and emotive betting are the reasons people tend to lose more than winning.

Losing money will be the result that we will get if we are trying to chase the losses and if you do not want to get that loss, you must stop as soon as possible before something worst happens to you. We should stop right away when we win and do not try to continue playing because the chance to lose the win money will be bigger. And never try to chase your losses because that can attract more losses sooner or later.

Almost our luck will always be at a very high level in the early stages due to house domination, they are intentionally creating such random victories to attract more of us, instead of observing the trap behind, intelligence and excitement keep driving us to bet more. Control theory and practice are never in sync, maybe we should cut off the idea of gambling early it will be easier to give up addiction, maintaining a control effort only makes more difficult situations happen, very few people can can preserve a cold mood in gambling

Stop when you win and enjoy those profits, instead of trying to push for more luck and try to recover your past loses. It's important to
understand that your winning chance is far lesser compare to the house.

If you manage to quit after to you get something, sooner you'll learn the right attitude towards this activities, your winning chance will increase along the way.

Just need to appreciate small profits is better than losing your entire bankroll due to your greediness.

Yes, because instead of focusing on continuing in gambling, we will start realizing why we are gambling. Most people never get chances to enjoy their profits and that is the reason they never think about stopping for the day. A good gambling activity must include prioritizing securing the profits.

I guess once gamblers get practice to stopping at right time and then withdrawing profits then definitely they will start looking for stopping for the day rather than finding chances for simply continuing. Only the first time is too harder to start with.

You should really be aware on things that you are dealing with specially with gambling where money is really at stake from time to time but well if you do really mind on getting some
entertainment then this wont be an issue and as long you do able to handle out your finances then that what matter most.Losses are common but at least you are already
prepared for that because in gambling it isnt always talking about being a winner but most of the time you would really be on the losser side.Always mind on how to secure your
profits and use them on another day and dont push your luck because this isnt something that a human can alterate on.

House edge is literally that. On average it just takes money from your account one by one small by small which means you will end up losing in the long run. If a game you play has a house edge that means there is nothing you can do to make yourself a winner n the long run. Sure you can win time to time in the middle, sure you can go 10x more than what you deposited, if you get out at that moment that will be fine and people will be fine with that, however reality is that if you end up with gambling more and more, mathematically it is 100% guaranteed that you will lose all of your money.

Some people know this and gamble accordingly, you either lose all of your money and have fun, but you may also just win and get out as well, those are the options of a real gambler, without those options you may have nothing in your hands. Know this fact, and act accordingly.

Being a greedy gambler will only be bad for the gambler's finance in the end. Chasing losses is not the right way to cover previous losses because it does not rule out the possibility of us spending 3 times as much money when our emotion are out of control. Many people may find it easy to say not to be greedy, but the truth is we can't stop after winning. Control over gambling is necessary, but many people can't do as well as suggested.

Basically, you don't have to take things easy or think it's easy to win. I mean, when you have won several wins or won streaks in the same way, then you should not go crazy about it and always realize that your method or strategy does not always guarantee future victories. Therefore, awareness and control must come first if you don't want to go bankrupt in the end. Beware!

Everytime we play we should feel like it's the first time, always respecting both the money and the time we put into the game. Yes, one day we're ahead and one day we're behind but the intelligent mind knows when to take risks and when avoid that at all costs.
Never believe that something it's easy in life, because it's not!

Also following your game plan if ever you've been hitting those wins. You should be able to secure your profits so if ever losing streak comes, you're able to at least enjoy every single bits of your winnings.
That's also part of control because you know how to control yourself if you are about to take out your profits.

Self control is also important when you are gambling rather than being greedy which shows that you don't have self control. Even though you may not win back your money back that you have lose in gambling  but still you will be able to enjoy the amount you won today even though you may lose it the next time you bet.

Some gamblers will not satisfy their winning instead of getting more wins, and I guess we already have that experience before. Yes, we do not have a big chance to win compared to the house, but some of us are still trying to against the house and the result is many of us losing the money.

Controlling ourselves in this part will be important because that helps us learn the right thing that we need to do, especially if we can win. It is better to get small profits than never because not many gamblers can win and profit from gambling games.

We will forget how many times we spend the money as we only want to recover the loss. I am sure we've been there before and many of us slumped at that moment but many of us can rise and trying to control ourselves because we do not want to have the same experience. Whenever our emotion becomes bigger, that will make us rush and greedy to get more winning, giving us the chance to lose more money. We lose control because of greediness and we lose money.

Or a much better choice is not to play at all, you don't lose money and you don't win and in gambling, losing is much more frequent than winning. You save yourself from stress over the losses and you still have the money to spend on otber things like investing.

That's only possible if you are not a gambler, but if you are a gambler, you mind will always be looking of the entertainment gambling could bring to you, actually it's not bad to gamble, we just have to be smart by being responsible and knowing how to control ourselves. More losing experience, that's normal but sometimes we win big time and that could give us the best entertainmnet or fulfillment as a gambler.

If Only we can deny the call of gambling then for sure we will not be talking around this section of the forum right?

We are here because we gamble , and we tend to lose than winning but in the end of the day ? we still manage to live and not becoming a addicted gambler and that is what important than everything advised here.

Play with moderation , Play with self control, Play with allotted amount only.

Unfortunately that is not the real case for most people here. We gamble and we make profits or losses but not all the people are coming out of gambling without getting addicted; most people keep trying to recover their losses to neutralize their bankroll but ending up addicted.

If we are able to follow these then probably we never need this kind of discussion at first hand. We had similar kind of discussion previously for numerous times still 90% of gamblers here never learn any lesson out of them and that is the reason why people make such kind of topics more often.

At this moment, not playing gambling will be the best solution to save the bitcoin or altcoin that we have because we will have the opportunity to make a big profit from bitcoin and altcoin. Besides that, we do not have to stress to see the money is gone in the gambling table instead, we can wait for the next increases in the price or use the coin for trading to make the amount bigger than before. Hopefully, we will know what we need to do related to the current situations.

I wish it worked that easy :) You cannot simply get rid of it. Even though you clearly understand that gambling is NOT a way of earning and never was. You have to play in order to obtain your daily dose of gambling addiction.

I spent my time into other activities like playing online games and playing sports here in our place and that is the reason why I easily removed my gambling habits and I completely removed my gambling addiction.

Gambling is really addicting that is why before you gamble, you must know the consequences that you might face whenever you lose. As for my experience, winning in gambling makes you addicted and after consecutive wins you will suffer consecutive losses too. If you really want to remove gambling addiction, spending time into other activities is the best decision like you said.

It's not as easy as they say, but it will be easy for those who have serious intentions and can control themselves not to chase defeat.
Gambling is like a hypnosis once playing and winning several times will be addictive and will continue to play with the ambition to continue to win and without realizing it, if you continue to play then you will receive more losses.
and there is no choice if you continue to lose it is better to stop playing and forget about the defeat that happened before it got too far.

It is common thing in gambling to either luck to make you win or the gambling site will let you win by system.
I know that This is accusation but that is what comes to my mind since then , I love to win but also i accept to be a loser.

I have lose many times but i also win many chances , I am lucky? no but I know the discipline .

Yes, you include one of the lucky people in gambling.
But if you know the discipline, you are really lucky because not many of us can have discipline and accept no matter what the result is.
Accepting is hard, making many gamblers still trying to chase the winning and recover their losses.
We can win today, but that will no guarantee us to still win in the next few days instead, we can lose the money, so be careful in gambling and always control yourself by having discipline.

I think one of the best things to do to prevent gambling addiction could be making bets with a very little amount. It helps one have the control of it. I was making bets with a big amount in the past and it caused me to be addicted to it. Because when I lost money, I was trying to recover it as soon as possible. After I've realized what I was doing was wrong, I've started making bets with a little amount. Now, I don't try to recover immediately when I lose as I don't take a big risk.

Well, I can understand how you feel. I am not sure if I have the right solution, but something like this seems to be making the most sense. I believe that it is better not to have a large amount of money in gambling if you do not want to get addicted to it. A gambler loses his true self in the casino. The sad part is that he is not aware of this fact until it’s too late.

Gambling is enjoyable only when you enjoy gambling.  ;)

Even you use small amount of fund if you bet continuously sooner or later you'll find yourself addicted to the game.

Most definitely you are trying to chased your loses, losing huge amount of money create aggressiveness inside us.

Very human nature, thinking that once you hit it you'll be able to recover but when luck permits you greed follow and not to allow you to qui but to continue then lose it back again.

Good thing with adjusting is you can simply forget about your loses if the amount is more smaller than before.

Move forward and try to enjoy instead of trying to recover it right away.

Addiction does not look at how much is your bet amount, addiction will come when you are out of control.
Even if you are betting small amount only, but if you cant control yourself then you are addicted.
What happened to you in the past was not because you bet big amount, but it was because you think that you can recover your loses by betting bigger than before.
It is also because you think that you'll win eventually if you keep trying.

Addiction does not limit your gambling amount whether you started gambling with small amount but ended up losing and continue depositing more and more money to just have "fun" but rather you see yourself later on coming back for more until you've accumulated more money lost.
The only way to avoid addiction is when you notice it as soon as possible and take action on it or just have control over yourself when you're gambling. Whether you lose or win, you must be able to know when to stop as greed is one of reason why addiction existed.

Good way of knowing that you are already addicted, keep adding to your bankroll without fearing of losing your money. Most of the time gamblers forget about limitations, they'll keep trying over and over waiting for luck to show up and let them recover their money.

Adjusting and controlling yourself to avoid risking much higher amount of stake, you need to acknowledge your limitations before it's too late for you to manage everything.

Good balance will help you to control and limits your loses.

I don't think that the casinos'/websites rig their games on purpose. That's not the case, gambling itself is made in a way that the majority of its user lose, while only a tiny percentage may actually win.

It's based on chances, simple mathematics of probabilities, sometimes you win, sometimes you lose.

Yes, sometimes we win and sometimes we loss. We need to know when to stop. This is the important thing with gambling. If you've stopped when you're winning then it is fine you go with a profit. If you stop when you're on the losing side you'll end with loss, but if the mind thinks of recovering the loss then it is gonna lead you into debt. As mentioned only a tiny percentage are winners whereas the majority are just players.

Trading in fact is harder than you think and I doubt that many people can maintain their profit for extra money. Just do not gambling and do your work. Besides, there are many other hobbies which are more interesting than gambling. You can do sport, listen to music, learn guitar or study more about the cryptocurrency world.

If you want to make money, why not stop gambling and start to invest knowledge and wisdom for youself. It is better than gambling a hudred time even though the progress may be long. But good things take time.

@OP, it's not your gambling addiction but an addiction to get to that VIP level for which you played so hard or else, you took your losses at heart due to which you think that a person will lose more often. No doubt that a gambler can't be successful in long duration gambling but that long is for how long, that can only be decided by the gambler. So it's better that you leave gambling if you're not comfortable with it and let other gamblers do what they want to do.

Well right, and you have a point -- the more often you will stay on gambling the high chances that you will lose, perhaps that is the reason we have a golden rule in gambling ^{[gamble of what you can afford]} so that we have a limit of what we spend on gambling. Because gambling is not designed for a source of income, either for chasing money that you have lost, if you are very paranoid of chasing everything in gambling of course you will become a VIP account because you have deposited a lot because of what you have the intention to gain profit but the fact, gambling does not work like that, it is just entertainment.

Is it really about get to a certain level, let's say the VIP level as the quote portrays or its about winning.
Let's establish a fact here before I go any further, gambling is completely a thing of choice and by every means legal so long as your within the gambling age of your nation's jurisdiction. Back to what I was trying to say,
Gambling for me at a certain stage in my life was all about winning. I won't say I was addicted to it but my mind was really set on winning every bet I placed and along the line, after loosing much with few wins, it became a way for me to test my prediction skills and more fun. So, I put out what I won't think twice about loosing and enjoy the results which ever way it goes. I think gambling is better that way.

Yes, trading is difficult but that will depend on how you can learn to trade because I see many new people can get their profit in trading, although not much depend on other traders. If they can stop gambling for a while and try to make money from trading, they will have that chance to make a profit, but that with the term and conditions.

I agree that doing something besides gambling can prevent them from becoming addicting to gambling and they do not have to try playing gambling.

You need to acknowledge when to stop, no matter if you are winning or losing. The basic is to have a strategy, let's suppose that you double/triple your bet, your best move would be to cash out your earnings and continue playing with your initial bet. The same goes for losing, if you end up losing more games than you regularly do, it's best to stop for the day and not proceed, risking more money.

I agree with you, gambling for a position on a casino leaderboard or just for a rank on that casino. I understand that there can be value in having a better rank, like there will be better rake back and maybe better deposit options. But it doesn't make sense to lose money just for that. These ranks come on their own, we should gamble for profits and to relax, not for a rank.

I agree with you mate, it is a must that we have a control over the amount of price that we are willing to risk as a bet in every gambling application or game that we are opt to put a bet on however, when a person was being addicted when gambling i bet that there was something that we can do to make him realize about it. It is himself who can figure it out of what should be the best thing to do. I experience in gambling that I have win once but suddenly i guess my luck in gambling did work for a few times because i have lose it often.

That's exactly how gambling should be taken and that's what I meant in my words as well. I never said not to go for those higher ranks but that should only be achieved with bigger bets if that gambler has got enough to lose and won't even regret about the same because if he regrets later for what he did, it means it was just an addiction or more of an obsession to go for that rank and nothing.

Usually it happens to those who play gambling not too far away, and realize it after knowing that gambling will do more to accept defeat than win and all of this happens unnoticed.
The importance of Self-Control and awareness when betting on gambling is the most important thing to implement before doing it to realize and once you accept your winnings you should stop and not continue playing because it will cost you everything.
because when you win it will trigger the ambition to continue to win which will keep you playing which will make you suffer because curiosity will bring you back, so self-control and awareness are needed when betting.

A person using their common sense is very aware this is the case but a person operating under the belief that they can somehow become profitable with gambling and that it does not understand the math behind the games is going to make all kind of mistakes and run the risk of becoming addicted to gambling, this is why whenever we engage in an activity that requires a continuous influx of cash in order to function it needs to be studied carefully otherwise we take the risk of making mistakes that will affect our lives in a significant way.

Yeah, if we take a moment to realize what kind of algorithm must be running behind the screens of our gambling activities then we may never get back to gambling; because it is a business for the owners but only for the player it may be fun filled entertainment or income generating resource but when the ball is on their court, there are less possibilities for those games to end up in our favor.

We may gamble frequently but we should not try for same old type of winning moments. Accept whatever results we are facing everyday and continue for a new day with fresh mindset, if you cannot have such a habit then better quit.

That will put your attention into other things and it's mandatory if you're finding yourself that's already going to become addicted in gambling. It's not that easy but if you want to solve it, you have to revert your attention into other things because it's one of the easiest solution that you can do to help yourself.

Sometimes, we can not see if we become addicted to gambling because when someone feels excited about something and they do that many times, he will not think about the effect. But other people will see if we become addicted because something changes to ourselves. In this way, if they really care about that person, they can tell him or ask him to do other things so that person can distract his mind not to think about gambling.

To begin with, I would advise you to change your lifestyle, e.g. go travelling for a month. A change of scenery should do you good.

Very often a gambling addict is simply unable to cope with their misfortune alone, so it is better to seek professional help. Gambling addiction can be compared to tobacco smoking. Someone can easily quit smoking on their own and someone needs psychological help and even medication to relieve stress.

Most of the time, it's the other people who see and observe your behaviors.

Not common to a gambler to see his addiction, most of us if not all are always in denial, we keeps saying that we are just having fun but we already losing amont of money that more than we think we can spend to this activities.

Always better to listen if there's concern people who advise you to stop and find other sources of entertainment.

You have turned into an addict and you lose control of yourself, this will harm you if you cannot stop yourself in time, glad that you admit that you are addicted and you are asking how to get rid of addiction, the first thing you need to do is to ask help from your loved ones and get professional help, you need personalized healing and consultation to get rid of your addiction.

We're blind to look at ourselves if we're about to become addicted. We're excited and we don't care about the surroundings and what's matter to us is that we're enjoying and we keep doing what we want to do and just as the other reasons of addicted gamblers, they wouldn't care what others will say to them as long as they're pushing what they think is right and what they like to do.

This is true when you do it often, the more times you gamble the higher the chance you'll lose and stop getting emotional through every lost, but the good thing about this is when you're winning you get a ton of money, but sometimes it is okay to just accept the loss and reset your mind set before trying again, winning few times can get someone addicted but its not the reason why we lose much, we lose much from trying to regain what we lost and as it grows higher the more you want to try and get it back. If you can eliminate the mindset of trying to pursue your loss and try to earn again you can do well and stop chasing pavement.

This is the importance of limiting the time to play gambling and also limiting the amount of money we use for gambling. Without restrictions,
people will not care about other people's advice, they will continue to play gambling. They play with emotions which only lead to the loss of
the person. What's scary is that sometimes people are addicted, not realizing they are addicted.

I hope that we can listen to others to know what is a change in ourselves and we are not too late to stop that before everything is ruin. A gambler will find it hard to see his addiction because he washed away in the enjoyment of gambling games while other people will clearly see the difference.

We can win today, but we can lose the next day, so we need to be careful in the gambling games and always manage the money before we lose all of the money.

We are excited to play gambling, so we do not want to listen to others and think that they are talking too much about us. But if they care for us, they will not stop to tell us to stop and get out of the place.

Emotional control and E.Q., in my opinion is essential for a gambler to possess in cases wherein extremes are happening. Winning is an extreme, and so is losing. If you win, there is a mad rush of adrenaline and the thought of going all in because of one win would be a disaster. One wrong bet and you will be tempted to do it again and again, with the idea that you are not yet in the losing streak and you just have to do it all over. Hundreds of dollars later you will learn it the hard way that all your winnings are gone and that you need to go home losing money that you should have used to something more important than gambling.

Set your limit then follow the limit no matter how hard it is. In that case, you have control. Consider yourself lucky already when you win. On the stated situation when you win x3 of your deposit, it makes you hype that you can do the same thing or you can win again and with that you keep on making deposit even though you have consecutive losses. You let your emotions drive you which is not a good practice at all. Aside from setting limit, try to remind yourself the real "value" of money nowadays. It is very hard to earn money as well as the expenses on everyday living. Gambling will be still gambling even you play or not, even you win or lose.

If you want to start gambling or betting or whatever game where real money is involved then what you need most is self discipline. Only use money that you can afford to lose. Let's say you have 200$ that you don't need and you want to try some sports betting with it. You picked your favorite teams but you were unlucky and despite good odds you lost your bets and the money is gone. The worst thing you can do now is to try to make up for that loss by risking more money with the next bet, because you may lose this too and maybe that was already money that you actually needed for you daily needs and is now missing.
So never get carried away. If your budget is gone, wait until you have some spare money again until you place your next bet or you will end up like those sad old dudes that are sitting in front of the gambling machines in the gas stations the whole day long.

It's not the responsibility of the other to keep reminding the other gamblers that have been found to be addicted. They're not in the position to tell continuously and care for you all of the time.
They're also getting tired if the person they're reminding doesn't stop.

Doesn't matter how many advices are given, at the end of the day the decision to stop playing is totally up to the individual. Only the addicted gambler can take a new direction on this life through his free will. Once this happens, then all the help others could do is welcome and worthful. But if the first step isn't taken by the gambler and he keeps obsessed for the game, no one can stop and preventing him from gambling.
And of course, he can't blame the lack of advices and help from others for his own mistakes.

If you have a good friend and are close and always beside you, they will always remind us not to play gambling regularly because of the risk inside gambling. Although that is not their responsibility, they can still do that because we are best friends and best friends will do anything for their best friend.

But related to gambling, maybe that will difficult for that gambler to listen to others, but I am sure his best friend will not stop to remind him. It is good if we have a friend like that.

Those friend of us will also get tired if that person don't listen. We have our limitation and not all the time we're going to keep on reminding that person.
It's not our job to keep reminding them specially if we've been reminding them even before, so be it. If we stop reminding them, it's their problem anymore.

Yes I agree with you, we can't change people, it's even difficult to change ourselves so why we should try to change other people? It's a losing game most of the time, only will from the person could change him, we can only help him and accompany him in his journey but not changing  him against his own will.

A show of concern because there are people who are really that mindful on telling other people or giving out some advise for their good but for me i wont really be tending
to tell nor dictate others on how they do deal up with their decisions in life.Its their choice and we do have our own will on what are the things we should do
unless if you are close to me neither my friend or part of the family then i might really be giving out some words.Its up to them if they would accept or would
just simply ignore and proceed on.

you might need to work on your belief system because thats basically whats giving you more strength to continue it so you can recover your lost money. its like a chain, you cant win the addiction battle if you want to recover and having more hopes to win more and bigger. the more hope for recovery the more addicted you will be.

The urge is overtaking your self-control and this is bad and a sign that you are out of your control and you can make a lot of bad decisions and you already are making bad decisions now, but since you admit that you are doing it all wrong and asked a question how to get rid of it, you wanted to be out of your urge to continue gambling this way.
the only people that can help you is your family and a consultation with a professional, there are also a lot of anonymous group that deals with gambling they too can offer a big help for you to recover.

I don't think family can really help gambling addicts because if they were able to do it the gambler would have never become addict before. Usually family monitoring just leads to hidden behaviors and lies, it hardly prevents this kind of things to happen or to continue.  

That's right. We showed care for the others but if they keep rejecting us, there's no way to push yourself to them. What's done is done and that should be enough care that you've shown for them.
Let them be what they want to do and do things that you want to do.

Losing is not the biggest problem if you lose while betting smaller then when you win, I always think the best gamblers manage their money to accumulate wins into streaks.   So if you can stay regular rather then chasing wins you will not end up with a bad game strategy, thats probably the most common mistake any person can make.    The simple way to start into this frame of mind is write down your reasonable hours of gaming and keep to them, dont extend past them win or lose you are just a player between those hours and then let yourself off the hook when the time is up.    Learn to appreciate the game not just the money won, this will make you a better player in the end.   Bad habits can occur anywhere so reset your behaviour, avoid being tired if you are trying to learn a new game or play differently and come back another day or week however long it takes for you to feel comfortable.

What I did when I'm losing money when I'm still gambling is that, before I start I always put in my mind that whenever I lose I will not try to recover my lost money.

Sometimes it will depend on your mindset, how can you control yourself and your strategies and plans. If you lose, don't ever try to recover it because most of the time you will end up losing more money and not only that the addiction will becoming higher. For me, I believe that when I gamble I will always lose so maybe that also helped me in a way not to gamble again and recover the losses I have.

I guess not. The best friend can be tired but that does not mean they will stop remind us and take care of us. But we must realize by ourselves that we break our limit and make our best friend feel tired. If we can not have those feeling, our mind become hard like a rock. That means we are in a heavy addiction without having a chance to admit that we need help.
Maybe that is the last thing that we can do for them, and the rest will be up to them.

Chasing after your losses will be the worst strategy to follow when you are gambling. It never works and in the end it will leave you in financial ruin. IMO, the best thing to do when you are losing continuously is to take a break, and admit that it simply isn't your lucky day. If you are losing on a continuous basis and still continuing with the game, then you will end up in a very difficult position. If you want to chase your losses, then do it the next day, and not on the same day.

I don't know what to say if there are people like that that will care for you until the end even if you're too hard-headed and keep on ignoring their reminder.
Well, if you have that kind of friend, it's a gem.

I don't really now think that it's about the money that people get hooked to it, it's about the unlimited power they feel they have over their fate and pocket, with a few bets they can make as much money they want and psychologically they make themselves feel richer with every win on strike, it's hard to go off such an adrenaline. It's more about people's need of getting a distraction from their in real life problems, which they must understand they should face and live a healthy life instead of trying to find an escape in activities like gambling which leads to loss of funds, health, adds more burden and hence should be avoided at all costs!

Although I do not have people like that, I am sure that person really exists and really cares about his best friend and will do anything for the relationship. Yes, it is like we found a gem and we must not let that person go away from beside us. We really need a person like that to help each other because having a friend like that will be a blessing to us.

I thought that you have because you keep insisting that people shouldn't stop reminding someone to stop if they've been already reminded for a long time. There really are people that are existing like that but everyone has their own limitation and won't stay for that long.
That's the reality of life, they won't just stay for you because there are other things to focus with their time and attention.

When the first try you looks easy to win but after few time giving betting site you loss all your money, I think enough how much money loss so far in betting site, there are never have chance for you to get win more and earn profit in betting. Although you an expert in betting site never have any chance for you to win always.

The problem with addictions is that it is easy to quit for one day but it is way more difficult to quit for good, as you say most of the time the life of the person that has some gambling problems is dominated by gambling and a change of scenery could be good for them, this is why you need to involvement of the family to help the addicted to recover, but many times those that are gambling addicts hide this from their families thinking they can do it on their own, and as you may guess very few people escape addiction when they try to do everything on their own.

But if it's sports betting and the gambler can time his bets well, I'm sure there are still gamblers out there who at least have a higher winning percentage. If they can make their luck factor well and in a few tries to win big, maybe the profit will be enough to cover their living expenses for the next few days and then, the gambler can come back another time that basically the gambler has good control.

I'm trying to be a responsible gambler and not bet high amounts, at least I try not to. Speaking from experience, what you've said is one of the best advice someone can follow. I used to play crash on Bustabit, after losing two games in a row, I decided to play a third time, betting everything I had on the account, in an effort to recoup my losses.

The result? I lost, three times in a row and was left with no balance. Trying to recoup your loss is probably the worst strategy someone can follow when gambling, let that be a lesson to all of us. I completely abandoned Bustabit after that and took a break from any games whatsoever.

I believe that as long as you have the will, You can escape gambling addiction. Escaping gambling addiction isn't a one-day process, This is why taking rehab in a rehabilitation center takes months or even years before you get out. I am an ex gambling addict and I suffered countless losses before I realized to myself that I need to stop.  I take the slow process of removing the addiction into my body, I didn't take the fast process because I know that the effectiveness of it is so low. Being helped by your family member is a great plus in recovering yourself but It is doable even if you do it alone.

No, I do not have a person like what I describe but I have friends who almost like that and I am happy and grateful that they still giving their support to me and I also give the same to them. Well, life is not perfect, but we make it perfect with our friends.

When we won something in our life, we can celebrate with them, and if we lose something, they will beside us and help us not too sad.

At the first time, people can win easily from the gambling games, but for the next rounds or days, they will not win easily as before because that is just an attraction from the casino to make you back to their place. When you continue playing in their place, that is the sign for them that you are curious about the games and the winning to serve you better to give you a good experience in their place.

I can feel you here mate because we both have the same experience and also I died once from gambling but now I am Reborn and i become relieved .
Exactly coz we can't fight addiction on our Own because the desire and the Lust will always there, we can't just say We will Quit and just like that.
Family is our shield and support to go through .

You are talking about gambling as if there is no cure to addiction to gambling, I disagree that it is only possible if you are not a gambler, there are rehabilitation for addiction and I am pretty sure that even gamblers can quit entirely in gambling.

I believe that there's a cure for being addicted in gambling and taking meds has nothing to do with it but rather controlling yourself and set limitation on yourself of how long (time) you're supposed to expose yourself in gambling could help. It is not an easy process believe me, it takes time and there is nothing who can help you out this but nothing than yourself and having a self descipline.  And its nice to hear such an inspiring story of a successful  exit from being a gambling addict, it really help a lot.

all addictions can be cured including gambling addiction, but it is not an easy matter to get rid of gambling from a habit that we have been doing for a long time because there are several reasons people do gambling including to find joy and forget about problems, to find self-justification (that we are a superior) , getting extra money from winning and maybe gambling helps us socialize, overcoming depression or boredom and so on, then when all these things we have found, will it be easy to let it go back? of course not because over time it will continue to bother us psychologically and try to revive the addiction in us to go back to gambling.

I've not been losing anything since last year and you know why?
Because I've stopped gambling on casinos (only enjoying a lot betting on sports where I've a strict bankroll management)
I'm so tempted to play again but I'm afraid of losing, therefore I'll have to set a strategy or define how much I want to gamble. Or I simply have to stay out of casinos.

I guess you have good control for yourself so you do not gamble on casinos. We should have control like you and not gambling too often to prevent the big loss.
Be careful because the temptation can become bigger without realizing it, especially if you see many gamblers can win from the games.
I hope you do not lose your control and can still prevent playing gambling instead of holding your funds.
If you afraid of losing, you can stay away from casinos and do something else to let your mind do not think about gambling.

Your self will is the best cure with this kind of addiction, it's very difficult as mentioned
person who suffer from this addiction really needs good attentions.

Aside from yourself, the support from your love ones are also adding the weight for much quicker recoveries. Taking step towards
your own relief start with you.

Those inspiring stories also helps to alarm people who are still engaged with this kind of problem.

Avoiding casinos but still gambling on sportsbooks I think the risk of losing is still there, because betting on a sportsbook will not eliminate the risk of losing up to 100%. But indeed, with you having a strict bankroll management, it will certainly be good because at least you will only bet with money that is ready to lose and that way, you will not gamble too often because gambling is not something that must be prioritized.

If we play/gamble we should in the first play that we can be lose or win. It's practical way to not gamble if you don't want losing. I admire how discipline you are for stopping yourself gambling. If you want to come back playing I think the first thing you should do is to have limitations and allocate of your some extra money for gambling. Don't give all of your savings for gamble so what ever happens, you win or lose, atleast you secure yourselves and have fun at the same time. It's okay to have fun sometimes but gamble responsibly. Because it is true that in some days we win but in gamble we lose often. That's the reality.

Good for your side that you have those type of friends that won't get tired reminding you if you need it.
That's what friends are for, in good times and bad times, you have to be with them and those are only the truest people and friend that you've found.

Yep, gambling responsibly, carefully, and wisely, based on our own risk and fund management.
This includes many things about how to gamble wisely and carefully.
People in Gambling are commonly only focusing on the result, the first day he may be long and he is still curious, losing and losing again, and then getting depression. Or, on the first day, he is lucky enough and then tries other gamblings and day to days are losing at all. This is bad enough to go this far.
 I agree that if we are doing gambling, we must be responsible for any kinds of risks that we may get

That's why everyone is asked to gamble responsibly. The risks involved in gambling are real although we never really want to go too far. Gambling problem often arise at the end after the player begin to realize that his gambling activity has crossed the line. In essence, bet according to your financial mean and as much as you can afford to lose because that's how gambler can avoid the problem that exist in gambling.

The risk of loss will be there, but if we have control and know how much money we can use to bet, that can reduce the chance of losing big money.
Besides that, if we can analyze the team or the player, we can know how big our risk and how we can avoid the big risk.
With betting on a sportsbook, at least we can place the bet in the sports that we really know the team or the player, so we do not waste our money on something that we do not know.
It can help us to reduce the risk and also we will have more chances to win.

I agree.

Curing gambling addiction is hard, but it is indeed curable by rehabilitation and therapy. First, if you'll not admit that your Gambling habits are not addiction, you're not gonna be better because you have to admit it and trust the process of removing away your addiction. Now, people are often says that they do play gambling because of boredom, just their pastime, etc... these are mere excuses, or maybe it is indeed true, but these are also the precautions you could consider to avoid getting yourself involve in gambling anymore which I believe is also a cure.

Instead of randomly deciding to play gambling because you're bored, why not make a plan for tomorrow or everyday for you to entertain yourself in a way that you'll never lose your money.

Like I wrote, I enjoy very much betting on football and I think that when the major European competitions will be over also my sports gambling activity will close fro the summer. And I'm not planning to go back to casinos anytime soon.
One never knows if that temptation is small enough to be controlled and suppressed or else.

Gambler have never stop any more with how many time loss and their statistic playing on stake account example more loss than profit but keep to bet without care with their money, I think some one have hobbies as gambling and have some other for income with gambling. But remember not any way your profit consistent with gambling.

That's right. The first degree of recovery from any addiction is admitting there is a problem to deal with. If a person does not acknowledge that there is a problem or tries to blame it on others, it will never be solved.

I have met many strong people in my life who have managed to beat various addictions that are much stronger than gambling addiction. So everything is in our hands, we just need to make an effort.

I think sports betting games help us to have better restrictions and control than conventional gambling games that have fast game speed because the time per game is relatively long, besides, the analysis combined with our understanding of the game is enough to give us an advantage in betting. However, you say very precisely that greed sometimes gets bigger, for a few moments when our awareness delves into gambling, mistakes are already hard to erase, so avoiding the whisper of gambling is better.

After admitting the process of recovering are relying with how the person believes that he can be helped. There are different treatment  from this wide cases of addictions.

Some can just moveaway for awhile and find ways to enjoy their time with the company of their friends and love ones,
while for some they needed closer attentions from experts.

Either way, the person are accountable in each  actions that he'll going to take while undergoing treatment.

I think someone who knows when to stop gambling is the winner because he has full control over himself so he does not try to search for the other gambling games just to win.
It is good if you do not have a plan to back to the casino and I think it is better to enjoy yourself with the other things and who knows, you can make money from that things

If you can control yourself, you can play any gambling games, not just sports betting or conventional gambling games because you will know about the limitations you must use to prevent the big loss.
In sports betting, you need to have analysis to search for the right team with a chance to win.
What we always prevent is the greediness that can come to us in the winning time.
If you let the greediness stay longer in yourself, you will see that you will lose the money in the next rounds, even your winning money.

This is nice to hear, stopping your gambling addiction is a process and it is one that takes very long, but as you said it all starts with a decision, the addicted gambler needs to realize how much he is damaging himself and start the process of healing himself, it is not easy at all and the temptation is always going to be there but it can be overcome by a strong desire to stop gambling, unfortunately just as there are many that can get out of a gambling addiction there are also cases of people unable to do this and they end up losing way more than their money as their families eventually leave them as they cannot deal with their addiction anymore.

You should be aware on any actions that you do made because this would be a deciding factor neither you would mess up your life or not specially if dealing with market.

Gambling is should really be for fun but other people do take it into another level where they do expect that they can make out guaranteed profits to it until they have lost and break
those expectation which would trigger out another impulsive behavior.

Dont mind about making money but rather mind on the fun that you had attained. Winning is just a bonus and you do have to put that in mind.

This. You win when you know when to stop. If you can't stop, you will never win. Don't be greedy neither. You had a lucky streak? That's great. Now learn to realize your profits and move on because if you keep playing you'll lose that sweet winnings. Betting as a job is very stressful, if you are doing this to make money you are also doing it wrong imo.

That is very important and you'll never find success in real life if you are not comfortable with what you did.
We don't need to be overly disappointed for the losses but rather to keep smiling and think that this is how gambling works. That is why we use money that we can afford to lose from our hands. Although how much we tried our best still doesn't enough to win, LUCK is really what we need for.

Unfortunately, most gamblers forget this. If a player is constantly waiting to win and this does not happen for a long time, the emotional background gradually changes in the opposite direction and the brain is trying to protect its master from the negative influence from the outside connects its defense mechanisms, which lead to a wrong perception of reality because of what man has lost complete control of himself.  

I slightly agree, instead of the opposite direction I think it slowly shifts your mindset to an aggressive direction since you've been expecting a different outcome for quite some time and it becomes demoralizing when the situation rarely goes in your favor so we tend to get greedy and go all out.

Looking back at some of our fun gambling times does sound nice but most gamblers view it the other way around and take it way too serious since there's money on the line.

That's why we do not have to use betting as a job because we can not always win the games every day.
There will be a time for us to lose and we do not know how much money we will lose, but that should be big money to lose.
Greedy is something that we must avoid. Otherwise, we will never enjoy our winning money because we will attract to play more rounds.
Stopping gambling while we have that money will be recommended because we can cash out the money and use it for buying what we want.

It seems to me that such psychological addictions as gambling initially infects those people who have nothing special to value (family, career, other interesting occupation). Gambling is not a chemical addiction and if at a certain moment a person cannot stop for the sake of his family, then most likely he initially did not particularly value it.

This is true, because I've been asked by my girl why can't you value us. Atleast thinking of our family why don't you get out of gambling. Never and ever think gambling as a fun factor, because the after effects will cause massive loss in terms of financial and psychologically. Even now at times I feel blank thinking of my gambling activities.

If you have been playing(gambling) for a long time and you happen to get a day to win some games I think anyone would want to push their luck to try chase those loses you had some time back :P to turn them into profits.

But like everyone says, the house always wins which is why losing is always guaranteed because greed follows winners and emotions follow loses who go all in to wipe out their account.

Many people just keep on playing and therefore they loose what ever they have earned in profit. If someone is addicted to gambling and its impossible for him/her to stay away from gambling, then the best bet is to move the profits out of the gambling site and keep on playing with the seed money. This way even if you loose all your seed money after playing  few games, you still have your profits secured in a safe place.

I think saying "The Casino always wins" is just there to make us feel better after losing. Because it is not true, there are plenty of people who won in the casinos and managed to take their profit and stop gambling. It all comes down to how good we control ourself and how good we have our emotions in check. Once we are in the green and won a few games then we start to feel that everything will be going into our favour. We keep focusing too much on the winnings and forget about the risks involved. I think one good way to try and focus more on a gambling is to work with limits for our weekly money we use for gambling.

" casino always wins " can make everyone scared to gamble because they understand it incorectly .
 it cannot make me feel better when i loose but " casinos are meant for entertaintment " sounded better to me after a loss .
 its true that when we are lucky the luck continue because i experience playing continously when im lucky in few games that i can won for more rounds but does not work when i started with a red streaks but the hard part is to figure out when our luck ends .

Since you know that 10K wagering amount looks too high according to your financial status then you shouldn't have such goal of reaching VIP status. Make your goals realistic which applies to the gambling as well or else its like hitting a jackpot or lottery so you solely rely on your luck to reach that. You win and you lose so make sure you play with the amount which is not comes from your entire savings.

Just like trading, set your stop loss or cut loss. For example, if you already commit three consecutive losses within an hour or within the day of your gambling, no more hesitation, no more questions, stop gambling then try it on the next day. I do not know if you believe in luck but somehow I believe in it. We are not lucky everyday so everyday will not be our day. Another, get rid of gambling by trying to give value on our time and money. Instead of gambling all day, we can spent our time like studying trading. Instead of putting our extra money on gambling we can try to invest in promising coins.

Yes, I agree - it's a very good idea! 

The gambling addiction arises from the lack of adrenaline. 

Man is born a fighter, warrior and hunter. 

A calm and measured life destroys and kills him.  Trading and investing are activities that are associated with drive and excitement.  At the same time, while trading, you continue to control your life, and do not rely entirely on fate and luck. 

The negative side of gambling is the formation of learned helplessness, when there is no correlation between a person's actions and his victories and achievements.

I disagree.

Our brain does not protect us from negative influence that we develop in our mind, in fact, the brain generates on what we called "dopamine" that triggers either greed or any kind of pleasure, so technically when you're being greedy, it is the brain that leads you to addiction because it is what you wanted to do, remember, we control our own body. So whatever we command to the brain, it will follow if we will include some actions.

Reaching a goal like a special status on a casino can have one benefits like getting better rake back and maybe paying smaller fees. But these are just percentages of our winning. If in the quest to reach that status we turn our wins into losses than it's definitely not worth it. We need to gamble responsible and in accordance with our net worth. If our bankroll is only 10k than we should never bet all of it, the risk of losing it all is just too high.

We know there is a small amount of people that can actually earn money from gambling in the casino while not relying on their luck, but the number of such people is so limited and their expertise is so extensive that it is almost impossible for most people to try to imitate that kind of performance and yet that is what we see all the time, people think they not only can get entertainment out of gambling but that they can obtain profits as well and that is when their capital is truly going to be at risk.

I would say if your net worth is over million then you are ready to go with $10K bet but for someone who is having $1000 as their monthly salary then they should not try it and just play sensibly according to your value as you said. Gambling made for fun while people took it too serious and considered it as a race for small promotions and VIP level to exhaust their whole savings.

Gambling sites or casinos would definitely be making those kind of perks and promotions but actually the real intent for that is to deplete out your finance or life savings which same as you said.

This had been a common marketing stuff on where it do looks interesting and gamblers do look that it is their advantage but actually it is  really on their disadvantage on long term.

If you got lucky then you might able to pull some profits but most of the time you would really be on the opposite direction.Its up to you on how you would handle things up.

Lack of fund management and emotional failure easily make you loss even when you're lucky. I've experienced it several times. Another thing that leads to loss is the targeted gambling. Just enjoy the profit, never set a target and gamble. This ends in losing than wins.

There are some people who have succeeded in making a lot of money from gambling not because of luck. But they do have expertise in the gambling
game, and it's really not easy for us to imitate them. Therefore, don't ever think gambling can be used as a job, because if we think like that, in the end
we will be stressed. Because the more we try to pursue profit in gambling games, it is likely that the capital we use to play gambling will run out.
So until now I have never played gambling to be able to make a profit, but I play gambling only for entertainment.

Gambling sites and casinos are also a business so they are doing their best to reap the profits so no one can be blamed, so it all comes to the end user who take decisions about money they are going to spend for betting. Gambling is for everyone but don't get just attracted to the few perks which is beyond your limits because it can put an complete end to your gambling life or even your life as well.

It is natural for casinos to offer promotions to their clients and this is not because they want to ruin them it is because if they do not offer those kind of promotions then people are simply going to move out to other casinos that do, it is important to remember that casinos do not really make us gamble, that is our decision and we must always strive to control ourselves, after all gambling is just another form of getting some fun and if we cannot take it that way then maybe it is a better idea to not gamble.

Personal experience would tell me that not being a disciplined gambler and just letting your emotions get over you would lead to disastrous things. If we are going to hear all those testimonials from people who have experienced winning and losing, we might be able to see the same pattern. Where the person won and then instead of stopping and getting the price and walking out, he or she continued to gamble and continued until the ran out of their winnings and their gambling money. That is why, I think, gambling places and gambling regulatory boards started programs that basically is out to control gambling behavior in an attempt to prevent people from gambling too much.

That is right. The end-user will need to have responsibility for their money if they want to gamble because if they lose their money, that will be their mistake. They need to know their limits and not try to break that to make them in trouble. So whenever they win, they need to stop gamble and do not continue playing for some rounds because that will not always win. Only we will know when we must stop and if we do not know about that, we can not prevent the loss and ruin our lives.

Well said. Self control and discipline are the key to prevent addiction. However, it is easier said than done so gamblers must know these by themselves and rigorously uphold such principles when playing.

Most of the people cannot control greed and addiction. Thats why casinos and sportsbooks are making big in the world

But with control and a plan good and decent money can be made

in my opinion it is very difficult to overcome addiction in gambling because there are many factors that will certainly make people continue to gamble, one of which is the memory of when they won the gambling so that there will be a sense of continuing to do it and psychological factors will certainly be very influential if someone who is addicted to gambling arrives suddenly stop gambling so that many people will ask him about it and gradually it will greatly affect the mental psychology of the gambler so that he is likely to gamble again. I think the only way to stop gambling is to keep ourselves busy with work and also family, worshiping God can certainly be quite an effective solution to stay away from gambling.

We know but we cannot; that is the point of gambling which leads to huge success for gambling houses and gamblers do suffer in the end. Houses are usually letting gamblers to win once or twice which become as a wrong example for same gambler and for others as well and then everyone keeps trying for repeating that.

No, you cannot. Even you make some money, you will lose it within that day or next day. That is gambling, you cannot escape. If you want to escape then you need to quit at right time.

Sounds practical and interesting. I tried to keep myself busier but after certain time, I get bored and I end up gambling again. Worshiping to God is something new, I never tried.

Even so, at least I believe there are still a lot of them gamblers out there who lose today but then more often to win. Because, if not a single person or even a single gambler was not that lucky, maybe the gambling industry would not have gotten bigger. Indeed, they are gambling just for fun, but would they be comfortable if the results were always losing? Because in fact, when you play online games that basically don't cost you anything to enter but when you keep getting lost, are you comfortable playing there? I'm sure not, so with the continuing development of the gambling industry I'm sure there are still many gamblers out there who have a professional style of play at least have a better winning percentage than losing.

Good point, know your limits is what everyone should keep in mind when they gamble while they are winning or losing. And if someone wants to leave the casino with profit then they need to know when to stop as well even though the money is little its not too bad as going with empty pocket due to greed.

Even with a better plan, I've not seen a single gambler making it big against a casino except only a few in number who either won through lotteries or by sheer luck. Without luck, even smartness won't work in casinos and the most oversmart gambler who thinks he's smart enough to beat the odds, gets beaten up by the house edge and loses to the casino in the long run. That's why, stopping at some point is very necessary so to enjoy the winnings because if a gambler continues to gamble, he'll do nothing but help out the casinos in taking away his money from him because of his greed.

Most gamblers, especially new gamblers, do not know when they must stop gambling because gambling is very attractive that can seduce them to still playing gambling and use more money. Our job is to control ourselves and say stop to us because we do not want to lose money. And if we win from gambling, we must stop before we lose the win money because of playing for another round.

Unfortunately, not many of them can know when to stop instead of playing gambling because they think it is no problem to lose for some bucks after winning some money. I think that is not recommended because the chance for us to lose all of the win money will be big and we do not know if we can still win in the next rounds.

Most of the gamblers always wanted to earn before leaving the house, the problem is greed conquers them.

Instead of quitting while they still got something in their wallets, contentment issue as they'll go for more, thinking that they can add
more winnings while luck still beside them, not realizing that house knows how to play with your emotions the longer you stay the higher chances that you'll leave empty pocket.

These mentioned features were the reason why I believe gambling is not for everybody because everything that is said to be a game of chance doesn't guarantee the chance of winning or making money through but if we looking into gambling very well I think it somehow teaches us about the nature that ones can not always win in life we just have to bare the lost and be strong untill it sunny day.

I do believe that gambling is for everyone but not all seem to be lucky and could win. People had come into gambling for one reason and that to go home with money in their pocket but the reality is that most gamblers go home with nothing left. Gamblers who live in greediness and no sense of contentment are prone to this.
I have a lot of friends like this and it was normal seeing them to go home with an empty wallet.

You have to control your emotions when it comes to gambling don't be discouraged. The result does not directly depend on the player's strategy or skill although bets are not controllable the player realizes that they are it is a fact that can lead to their misuse it is better to stop gambling if the amount of damage is high if the trader the participating gambler is respectful of the rules he can legally run a profitable casino business. Going forward with your own experience will not always be profitable even if it is a loss we have try to overcome it with alternative steps.

All the casino games have an negative expected value for the gambler. This so called House edge is what makes casino profitable. But this doesn't mean that we are always going to lose money. It only means that if we gamble long enough we will lose more games than we win. We as gamblers can't change that, but what we can change is how much money we lose and how much money we win. Our goal should be to win more that we lose by changing our bet size.

There is no guarantee that people will win all the time succeed at risk. But if you can't control your emotions, you can't win at any casino gamblers usually change themselves and when they lose today they try to win again it's more about controlling yourself than losing money. If gamblers think negatively it will have a detrimental effect on their gambling.

I guess you're still naive of some facts about gambling cause as crypto day trading is not for everyone so is gambling and if gambling is for every the young with minors would have been allowed to gamble. Besides, some gambling sites won't have integrated some gambling responsibly assistance protocol.
Having said that, when it comes to gambling everyone is greed cause buzz always took over but buzz control is what is needed when a gambler is in such a situation.

Winning is doable if you know how to stay with the plan, your bankroll also safe if you know how to control everything while playing.

The more you continue playing the more the house edge take the advantage, but if you have the right mindset and you know how to control yourself
during your stay, the chance is much better for you limit your lose or to grab decent profits.

All about how you execute your strategy the right way.

At the end of the day those programs are a waste of time, and this is because it is widely known that the first step that a person needs to take if they want to control their addiction is to have the desire to do it, no amount of programs and money spent is going to change this reality, after all even if a person was not allowed to gamble temporarily in a casino they can just move on to the next one and still lose all their money with the difference that instead of losing their money in a single casino they lose it at many casinos.

Sadly, most people with gambling addictions never kick the habit, even after bankrupting their family and hurting their relationships. I think the best way to approach gambling is to consider it paying for entertainment. In my opinion, gambling becomes a problem when people think they can do it for a source of income. Everyone dreams of getting rich overnight with some luck, but it just doesn’t work that way and luck is a word unsuccessful people use to justify their lack of success to themselves. Don’t let luck determine your worth.

I have always been amused by this fact. These programs-restrictions that casinos provide indicate their understanding of the problems and that the casino cares about the players, but considering the number of casinos available for online gambling, from the outside it looks absurd and even ridiculous (like a gate in the middle of a huge field).

People wont realize until they had messed up their own lives because of gambling.People would just simply ignore the current situation theyre in as long they do have money but

in the times where everything is lost in terms of financial then this is where the sad story begins.You are right that we should mind that we are paying for entertainment

dont expect for some returns or winnings because this emotion will be just a trigger out for you to get addicted.

But all gamblers' addictions are not just leading to sad stories but some of them cost even their life.
If you go for finding out the root cause of everything, then you will find an old winning moment. Most gamblers set that as a benchmark and then chasing it.

Even it it has a lot of pitfalls, I appreciate that idea. We always must realize the fact that no one should care about us like how we are doing but that is not the case of gamblers. So, I believe at least some gambling houses are having such kind of restriction to care about their gamblers. We must appreciate them for such initiative regardless of it is successful or not.

You definitely are referring to people who are irresponsible in gambling, I believe most gamblers are responsible that's why only a few are messing their life, and yet the government wants to prevent this from happening so they ban gambling, but we are lucky if we live in a country where gambling is not banned.


We learn from our mistakes, it's important so we will be able to enjoy gambling, if not then we will suffer more problems.
However, I don't think that we should just treat gambling as entertainment because it could also give an opportunity to be successful for gamlbers who have the skills.

In fact, the opposite is true. There are not many players who have a sufficient level of self-control and are familiar with probability theory, game theory and mathematical expectation. Everyone else, no matter how hard they try and what strategies they use, still loses. This is why gambling is banned by governments in many countries.

Of course gambling will mess a lot with your own situation and condition, sometimes the control of that responsibility will be lost if we don't realize it, well there the government doesn't want anything like that so I'm sure gambling will be banned in many countries because it will become a criminal in the future so I think we just need to control and avoid what the government doesn't want.
I myself, gambling is prohibited in my country, but always playing this secretly can still be tricked, especially if only online casinos are often played.

If you just want to reach the VIP level 1 or any VIP level with certain threshold then you can simply use the below trick.
Instead of making deposits again and again and instead of betting in big numbers you can simply bet in very small numbers such as $0.1
You can then increase your winning chance by decreasing the betting odds so that you win the maximum time.
This will increase your wagering requirement with lowest risk of losing.

We do have different governments globally and there would be some will banning it and some would see this business to be relevant for the sake of tax returns which i cant really blame off because
these businesses will really generate huge amount and this one would be relevant in terms of taxation.So it does depend but there are government who are really much concern with
their citizens situation and trying to avoid them into such possible addiction but we know that each of them would be different so it would varies.
Gambling is for entertainment and people are just really going into those certain extent which it shouldnt must.

First time when new gambler try with gambling give way how looks easy to win, later never have chance to get win because the rule never give you get much profit than your fund, I think stop gambling and never loss your money in gambling and try with trading is better than gambling site. You can see how much loss with profit earn in gambling site.

That is exactly what it is, I have always thought that things like this are nothing more but a way to generate positive PR, people that are not really thinking about the effectiveness of a policy and that only care about the message being sent think this is a step on the right direction when in fact it does nothing to solve the problem, and for people like me that care about the effectiveness of the laws and regulations being passed this is just a waste of time.

It is because of beginners luck and he's not yet used to losing and it's making his experience easy unlike the other gamblers who been gambling for a long time.
The advantage if a gambler becomes a trader is that he's aware of the risk and that's an easy take to the market but still has to learn how to analyze.

yes, that is a good strategy to increase your wagering requirements. but of course, it needs patience to accomplish this. just enjoy your game even if you are betting in small amount. this is a nice trick if you don't want to lose a lot of money before reaching the VIP level.


are you sure that only few gamblers are irresponsible?  i believe otherwise.  though we don't have stats pertaining to this figure. but there are so many lives ruined or broken owed to gambling addiction.

The beginners luck is a big attraction of gambling sites. Myself too experienced it during my initial days of gambling. This drives the beginners go further with big funds. Myself had good luck, but the same didn't last as I don't have control on money management. Later the mind never accept the defeat and want the lost funds back. In the race of recovering the funds I'm running for years.

One who has experienced the losses on gambling can easily stand a chance to profit and experiment trading.

In trading, you can apply some strategies like chart reading or some fundamental analysis but with gambling there is no strategy at all that is applicable. If you are unlucky, you will lose whatever strategy you will apply into it.

First time gamblers are very happy when they are winning in the first time and that feeling will make them addicted into it. I felt that too. I won consecutive times when I'm gambling as a newbie but as time goes by, I lose my first capital that I put. I tried to put another one since I want to recover my losses but still I lose. Gladly, I realize quickly that putting more money will not lead me to winning more profits but to lose more money.

In the beginning, the new gambler will have a chance to win the game because the casino wants to attract them to play more and spend more money. If that gambler can manage their emotion and their money with the limitations, they will know that it is just tempting from the casino that wants them to come back and play longer. They can try to stop gambling just after they win and leave the place without feeling to play more rounds because that can make them lose their win money.

It's a way to attract newcomers, they'll enjoy thinking that it's easy to win and they can continue doing it over and over.

If they've got the right skills and even they are new to this activities, having the right perceptions gives them the chance
to earn something good inside the house.
Right attitude and have a good overview with all the possibilities, it's in need to have good self control if you want to win over the house.

Well, if time is the essence here then we can simply use the autobet feature which is mostly present in all the websites.
Using autobet with such low amounts would keep betting the small amounts and keep increasing the wagered amount.
I got to know this from one of the gambling contests I took part in  ;D

Although they're not using it to attract literally to the new gamblers and potential customers that they might have. It's just a common belief that we're having when we knew somebody gambles for the first time.
And with the transition from gambling to trading, I agree. He'll be getting the idea of taking a risk as trading has that as well but it's different from the usual gambling activity that he/she was introduced.

For newcomers, that will be seducing to still playing gambling and use more money to win. If newcomers can not take care of themselves, they will lose their money but they will come back in the next few days.

But if they do not have control, they will only get many losses and not get good things inside the house. That will make them disappointed with the result.

Usually, newcomers do not have good self control, which can lead them to lose their money because if they lose control, they can not survive in the gambling games. That is why we need to learn about self control, especially in gambling games, because I am sure that no one will want to lose from gambling.

Do you still some of those "newcomers" who usually played a lot without worrying anything about money? As I see many for some  quite time now, due to this thing called SABONG ONLINE or better called as Cock Fighting... I have seen many on facebook chasing their loss and more newcomers are being seduce by thr pot which is actually big for a low bet.
Imagine they just keep chasing it lol. That's also the reason why I'm notninto this kind of games when I'm jot the player lol

Yes, casinos use a variety of techniques to lure a gambler into gambling. 

For example, very often casinos offer bonuses or free chips to potential players.  The biggest danger is winning and losing self-control. 

Casinos are designed to enrich the casino itself, not the players.  You need to be aware of this.  Otherwise, you will lose a large amount of money.  Play gambling for fun, not for profit. 

If your goal is to earn money, start your own business or get a high-paying job.

I guess some of those "newcomers" will not worry about their money because they still curious about the gambling game, even if they already win so much money before. They can have a big curiosity if they lose their money and chase their losses and use more money. Today we can win, and the next day, we can lose our money.

Yes, what you are saying is right. But unfortunately, not many of them realize that and still trying to get the bonus by deposit more money. I am sure we know the risk of playing gambling, but we are not thinking much about that, instead still playing gambling and winning the games. Yes, playing gambling is just to have fun and get entertainment, and if you feel that is enough to gambling, you must stop gambling and leave it. You can come back on the other days.

Gambling is a Killer, mean this will kill what ever you desire .

You can count in fingers those who can make their target win and the majority? Losses almost all their funds.

experience will teach you everything , but only if you can adjust from everything you gain and lose.

Gambling will only kill if the gambler is addicted to it, but it can sometimes provide incredible profit sometimes and in my opinion, can sure be a big help in someone getting rich but it should be played in caution and in playing gambling I believe it should always be an extra of free money you certainly OK for you to lose because if you don't it is surely not enjoyable anymore, Gambling is should be treated as a game for fun only and not as a source of someone's income.

Take control of your emotions, gambling becomes a habit that is difficult to break if we often get victories. But if we keep losing while gambling, our emotions will be difficult to control, what are on our mind are to get the victory. The consciousness wants to quit the habit of gambling when we continue to lose. To get rid of your gambling addiction, you have to find other activities that can eliminate the desire to gamble, like playing online games or exercising in your spare time.

the most important thing so you can profit from gambling is to be able to control yourself.  when you win big try to stop playing and continue tomorrow.  many gamblers who lost are those who are greedy and don't want to stop playing until the capital is completely depleted.

Trust me, if you have good self-control then you don't think gambling is a killer. 

If we don't control ourselves from addiction, it is clearly be going to that way. But I don't let myself be like that and as long as we are still in control of our minds, it is too far from happening. It should be in limitation and we have to consider and think this every time we gamble.

And the other thing is that we don't have to chase our losses because this is a common reason why we make ourselves out of control. 

In general, our habits are formed by a relatively long process of playing, it is not necessary to distinguish too clearly the path of winning and losing when both of these paths create a common habit, which is gambling to continue to seek new sensations and experiences, curiosity is the source of experiences but it is also the beginning of addiction. In the long run, the gambling service industry has always been a profitable business, which means we only increase our chances of losing, not having the conditions to win regularly

The thing with beginners luck is that due to the fact that you have not gambled for long the variance in your results is going to be at the highest point of your gambling life, some are very unlucky when they gamble and they may never gamble again because of it, but when someone gets lucky at the beginning of their gambling journey they may actually think there is a way for them to beat the casino and that is when they use a big amount of capital only to lose it all later as they have not realized yet the power of the house edge.

Dont really believe on that beginners luck since odds of a veteran one and a newbie would really be just the same when we do talk about luck based type games.
It is just been created on that kind of call when someone is totally new on playing and did able to make some good hits but its not really that making
some difference at all but if we do talk about strategic based ones then you could eventually say that winning percentage or chance is much more higher
into those people who had really that experienced on a particular games.

Nobody is fortunate that it continues forever. I agree with you. Luck is only part of the many factors that influence it. So don't use luck as the main factor in gambling because in the end you will lose. Call it also like trading activities, maybe people will be lucky, but fundamental technical analysis is absolutely necessary.
I've read that if you gamble you need expertise. Read a lot and of course practice is one way to train yourself. But your mental skills also really need to be mastered, remember not to be greedy. Because this is a very difficult thing for people to have.

Putting ones greed habit to check is a very difficult thing to handle for every gambler.
Though it not a good to idea to use luck as the main factor in gambling in other to think outside the box but there are still some games in gambling that have nothing to do with your level of training or expertise cause that needed is to understand the game rules and regulations.

The luck is the same but the variance is not, lets use this market as an example, bitcoin is the best coin in the market and lets suppose we want to compare its results against a completely new coin, we are going to find out that the new coin moves more abruptly than bitcoin and that is completely natural as the coin is new, this happens as well when you gamble, someone that has gambled for a long time will have their results come very close to the expected probabilities while a newbie could get very different results simply because the law of large numbers did not had the time to take effect yet.

At a short distance, you can play a plus for luck, but you have to stop, otherwise you will lose everything. We must stop playing in time.
From my own experience, I noticed that sometimes it works, if you take, for example, the last few months of the game, it is quite possible to play a small plus.

Gambling is not a killer, but human greed is the real killer.  If you are able to control the desire to keep winning and use your logic that it is impossible to keep winning while gambling, you will surely stop when you have won and will continue playing tomorrow.

In simple words, discipline, some gamblers would rather go all out tonight and depression later, it's actually hard to know when to stop because of the fear of missing out but discipline is definitely the only trait one must have in order to be successful.

Ok, so let's say that you stayed in profit after some period of the game and stopped in time. What to do next? Never gamble so as not to give them a chance to win back your winnings?  ;D It's just that I often come across such a point of view that the main thing will stop in time, but for some reason no one writes what to do next.

Absolutely correct, the only killer is ourselves when it comes to gambling or maybe in most other activities. Gambling is killer is a saying from those who cant accept the worst result of gambling, those who think that gambling will give them easy money, etc.

However, we do have a position on this because people who believe that the only way to prevent this is to prohibit gambling with others are not in favor of it because they are earning money and also having a good time while doing so. According to logic, the most serious problem with addiction is within ourselves; if we are unable to control our behavior, we have a serious problem. As a result, people argue that banning gambling will only serve to prevent it; however, the real problem is within ourselves; as a result, we should learn to control our behavior, which I understand is difficult, but it is a better option than banning gambling altogether.

There is a very good feature film directed by Gaidai "Twelve Chairs".  The main role in it was played by the Georgian actor Archil Gomiashvili. 

Archil was not a gambler.  However, one time he ended up in a casino in Las Vegas.  He walked over to the roulette table. 

Archil Gomiashvili made a bet on the number.  He won!  Then he put all the winnings on the same number.  And again he won!  Then he bet a third time and won again. 

He managed to win a very large amount of money. 

He no longer acted in films. 

He also never played roulette again. 

He invested the money he won in the business.  He opened a gorgeous Georgian restaurant.  Archil did not tempt fate. 

If you have won a very large amount of money, then you do not need to gamble anymore.  This will lead to frustration.

Sometimes this is true, but basically when the gambler can control the way he plays, it is very likely that events such as losing more often can be minimized. In this context maybe I will focus more on sports betting as I often do, sometimes I don't have the control to catch up or take back what has been lost by trying to bet with big odds. So the result is always disappointing or obviously the result is losing more often, but when I start calmly which means not looking for big odds, then it is very possible to lose and win not to be something much different, at least the percentage of winning and losing is not much different that I it will still be fine.

It's all a game of volatility and EV.

A lot of the short term gains/losses that you see in gambling is the variance of the game playing tricks. But in the long run, your return profile will certainly return to what the actual EV of the game is.

Given that games are generally -EV, it makes sense that you would lose more often in the long run. That's for sure.

There are quite a few instances that prove that gambling may offer you the opportunity of easy money, however, that's not always the case, since the majority of people actually end up losing money in the long-term. I refrain from gambling large amounts, and mostly stick to games such as Crash, Dice or in the worst case scenario, Roulette.

Most times I wonder how people get so comfortable gambling with huge amounts without considering  if the end up losing everything before their very eye. I just wish people would come to understand that gambling isn't an investment and as such it's not worth risking that much everyday can't be a lucky day and most times the lucky day comes un announced.

Some are aware and some arent and this is how they do spend up their funds believing that gambling could really make out some profits for them but once reality slapped you into the face then this is
where you would say that gambling isnt really good when you are really just aiming for profits and going for long term. Spend on the amounts that you could afford to lose as always and never intent to go that far if you dont know on how to manage your finances or simply you've been able to spent up your savings because you do just like to play for that very common reason.
House do always win and also luck isnt always on our side so its not really that good on attaching to gambling for that long.

Like any addiction, the only way to rid yourself of it is to truly want it and going "cold turkey" is probably the only way to do it. Hopefully the sites that you use offer some kind of opt-out mechanism as I've found those pretty helpful in the past. If you can self exclude then go for the maximum time allowed and simply find some other hobby to keep yourself busy instead, maybe download a free or cheap game (without microtransactions!) that can keep you entertained instead or head to twitch to watch other people as a form of free tv channel. Ultimately you need to learn how to break the habit yourself, try to identify any triggers that draw you back in and stay busy so your mind does not wander back to gambling.

I continued to gamble because I had a dream to win in a short time, and I was given a big win, and after that I was given a loss.
and I keep playing because I feel I have experienced victory before after accepting defeat so I keep playing hoping I will win the game again, and keep doing it until doomsday, and still the one who will profit and be rich is the bookie.
and without realizing it, gambling is like that even though winning in the end will lose too, even without realizing it will receive more losses than wins. ;D

if you practice good risk management and pay attention to your total cash/limit your losses you won't lose it all
this is where gambling and trading are similar

Also to take note that whenever you do deal with gambling then don't think up some sort of things like trading or investing thing because it is really just totally out of the scope because you would really act

out that you are investing but well it isn't really a bad idea though because setting out limitations would really be that helpful for your side on not to mess up yourself or wreck in terms of finances.

You wouldn't be have no any problems if you do handle that well in regards to your money because gambling is simply losing everything.