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I want to share my own technique on how I overcome my loss. You can share yours too on the comment below.

I recently experienced a heated game session on blackjack that I never experienced before due to I over extent my budget to chase loss. I was down by 200$ while my current bankroll is only 100$. Typically most user will do all in to quickly recover losses but my strategy is to slow down and bet only on craps 5$ on each number. Craps has a low house edge because your only loss is when 7 appear while the rest of the number that you didn’t choose will just result as draw.

Craps pays x2+ per win which is good to slowly recovering my losses. I just continue same bet and stop gambling for a day after I recover 50$ of my bet. I keep doing this per day until I completely recover all my loss slowly and rest for the week.

The slow down bets makes me think clearly and stop me for doing risky bet. This is most important lesson I learned on this messy situation.

Actually you were overly lucky imho.
When I lose over a certain amount, I simply stop. And I play as usual some other time, maybe I recover some of the loses, maybe I don't.
However if you are focusing too much on recovering the loses, even if you "go slow" you have a very good chance to go deeper down.
Juist don't gamble more than you afford to lose and you'll be fine.

All gamblers know that, mate, but usually they will fight their conscience to return the losses they have experienced. I personally have had a lot of bad experiences when I lost and then went all-in, what you said is the truth about we have to play slow and relax. Until I realized that I should increase my win rate instead of increasing my bet amount. So when I play the original games (Slide on Stake and X-Roulette on Rollbit), I drop the multiplier to under x1.5, it's a very powerful way to reverse my losses and keep playing slow.

It's may be good for you but not good for the bookies LOL
Imagine everyone is listening to you and able to recover whatever they lost so far, we will see the gambling industry collapsed. In gambling nothing works, the house is designed to have business from you. You were just lucky. If you really want to gain from gambling then stop gambling 😉

On the other hand, if you enjoy gambling then gamble. After all it's entertainment.

Yeah. I admit that I feel very lucky that time since my bet keeps winning and have a longer winning streak even though my bet is lower than normal bet. Slowing down works for me this time because my usual approach on this is to martingale or do all in bet to recover quickly which always result to lose but this time is different since I lose what I can’t afford to lose so I decided to slow down have different approach.

I always thinking gambling only what I can’t afford to lose but sometimes I forget this when I lose small amount and keep chasing it without noticing how much that I lose already.

What matters is staying on the game and watching your bank roll. Though betting techniques differs, playing roulette game on a low bank roll, I take lesser risks by staking little amounts on high wining possibility slots like all black or red. If that works, unlike you, I always increase my stake to secure more wins. It aches me to win with little stakes as I'll regret why I didn't stake big. So I don't stick to little amounts, however, I fluctuate the amounts from big to small and vice versa. It's all about luck and following your instincts.

According to your description you are using Martingale strategy, but unfortunately this strategy does not work as you think and when you lose a large sum you will understand it.

Each successive bet has nothing to do with the previous one. If you lose the first bet, you just start the game with a higher bet. If by the will of fate you will have several losses in a row (which is not impossible) then you will lose a large sum just trying to beat your previous losses.

We all know that but the problem is that when you are in the heat and rage of that session you don't logic with a cold head and thus it is almost impossible to stop.People do realize this after they have lost it all,then they stay thinking after that and analyzing cold headed what really happened.This was also my personal experience,one such session when I lost really big,after that I kept thinking a couple of days until I am to the conclusion that I should stop gambling or at least to play a predetermined bankroll.

It is much easier to do than to say though,it is very difficult to try and implement this in real life,otherwise if it was easy we would not have a lot of addicted gamblers.

OMG, LOL!
Well, anything else is better than Martingale :D :D
In this case, slowing down was already a huge step forward.

I ain't recovering nothing. If I already lose a big amount, then that means that that day/session is not for me. Only ever lost $20 a session so there's no point chasing those after I lost them on each week. But yeah, this strategy works if you want to get something back from what you spent on your gambling, or at least recoup some of your losses in the process. You will, most definitely, not get 100% returns on what you put out especially in gambling (unless you're really lucky and all that).

Also, how is Martingale equivalent to slowing down your bets ???

Betting is risky generally whether slow down to place bets or you are quick to place bets. But quick bets do not give you enough time to properly make analysis before betting. Slowing down to think is very advantageous, making decisions in a hurry is a major reason for bad decision making. You also should not chase after your losses, you can end up losing more. Any money you loose to betting, consider it as a win for the betting place that day, another day will be your turn.

Hehe this lesson will be painful to learn, i doubt that this is your first time losing because of not slowing down and that anger and need of recovering your losses in one hand makes you lose it all we know if you have lost money while gambling, it can be difficult to recover those losses because of our emotions. And your advice is very important for anyone that have been losing much money in gambling. But it’s also hard to apply especially if you spend much money trying to recover that money and you keep losing more since in Blackjack as in your case it’s almost 50% chance to win and 50% chance to lose on every session. I play blackjack for fun also and i start with small hand bet, i double my bet when i lose and i return to my initial bet once i win. This is a very known strategy that i use a lot and still a bit effective if you are patient enough

Slowing down is indeed very important and one of the most crucial strategies to implore when in the process of recovering losses in gambling.
But then also, from what I understand in what the OP shared with us, the type of game a gambler choose in the recovery process also has a huge role to play in thr success or failure of the recovery, different games have different house edge and I think this is where it all lies, choosing a game with a really high house edge could also mean that the recovery process might end up failing even if slow down mode was activated for the course.

Chasing losses and going all in? That's the fastest way to lose it all and I think most of those gamblers experience this same thing. That may work on your end but everyone's circumstances are different though so this isn't a guaranteed win in the end to be at breakeven. This is subjective too considering not everyone do have the appetite to have it slowly, days probably is too slow.

Same with my thoughts. It’s hard to recover your losses when you’re already at the losing edge, the best way is just to stop. Because in my own experience, even if I have to slow down, still it doesn’t change. The rest of my bets are still losing so I believe once you start losing your bets, it’s better to just stop and call it a day. Don’t wait until all your money are gone. Just gamble again when you think you are ready and always gamble at an amount you can manage to lose.

And what if you keep betting x2 and losing?

You said you stop when you recover $50 and what happens when you keep betting for 2 hours and are still down $50? I guess you keep betting indefinitely, until you get so tired that you fall asleep or something... :D

Slowing down doesn't decrease risk! You can keep betting until you eventually run out of money by playing fast or slow. Playing slow only will give you more time before the inevitable outcome.

These "advice" are hilarious.

As long as you can afford to lose all your money, then you can gamble as much as you want. No one will come to stop you, unless you run out of money to bet, then no choice but you have to really stop. However, in most cases, once you continue to gamble to chase your losses, in the end still you will never make it. The house has always an edge, and it should be the one that will always win and not the gamblers themselves.

Not really hilarious, have you tried the approach?  @OP not only slows down but he changed his game to a low edge game where he has a good chance of winning while trying to recover his losses.  He is still in his "can afford to lose" budget and he has proven that he is gaining some recovery. The slowing down really doesn't make sense or lessen the risk but the change of game do.  Betting on craps you have  greater chance to win against the house if you bet on each number.  So I guess it does the trick.  But as usual @OP is lucky that the 7 doesn't show frequently in his craps session.  ;D

And rightly so, but what percentage of people are able to adhere to this? You can come up with all kinds of good intentions in advance, but once you have lost the money, completely different laws apply. Then try to keep your control and self-control. In that respect, it would be easier to bet your entire bankroll on low odds, then you run less risk and then you also have no money left to recover your losses.

You are very lucky that is why should not always low to win, we need to slow down and make a rebranded strategy or calculate our risk to reward ratio so that we can know how much we are risking and how much we are winning if eventually we become lucky to win the game. I do this Everytime I make bet that is why I do make little profits and is very okay for me.

Depends what games you play. In some games like craps you mentioned, there's no strategy really, and you might as well put all in one bet because it wouldn't matter if you slowed down or not probability stays same.

But i admit that tend to do this on skill based games and sports, adrenaline from losing makes be bet even harder without thinking straight and instead of analyizing teams or fighters, i go with my gut, trying to catch big wins with high risk. Best way for me is to have a walk and breath fresh air about 30 minutes, and i shouldn't get back to my computer until i am totally cooled down. Otherwise i make bad decisions.

It is always a bad thing to chase losses so when I am on the red streak and have lost all my bankroll, I'll just stop and prevent myself from depositing again until my next gambling session schedule.  I find @OP's strategy interesting I wonder how much OP lost if the result of the roll is 7, betting $5 on each number. How many times do I need to win to recover that loss? I am not familiar with craps so this strategy stated by OP interests me.

Yes this way can reaally help you get out of your anxities, being anxious makes us to mlre things that we shouldn't, when we are about to have a lose streak, better to take a pause or maybe stop for the whole day so you can get relax and you will not get frustrated more because when you do yoh will forget to have a proper judgement.

While it is true the house edge can be very low on some of the craps bets you have available, and the fact that some of the bets can end in a draw can help you to slow down the losses you are suffering, we also need to remember that there is no guarantee you will recover any money while playing craps, in my opinion someone that feels like he is about to lose control needs to simply close the website of the casino in which they are paying and begin to do something else, as otherwise they will end up betting all the money they have in their account in an impulsive bet.

I've tried this multiple times as I mostly gamble on slots and dice and this doesn't always work out the way you wanted so on your case, you were lucky to be able to recover your loss slowly. Also, trying to bet all in to recover your loss is not always the best choice to do since you will just end up losing all of your bankroll faster.

For me, this method works depending of the gamblers luck since they could just loss the remaining balance slowly since it's doesn't usually works for us.

Actually, no matter what kind of gambling you play, if it's a game based on luck. the result is the same, depending on your luck. as another member here said, you are pretty lucky. yes, you are lucky to be able to recover your losses even if it takes days. uniquely, you are able to control yourself not to overplay. In fact, you can stop your betting session when you have made some profits. however, I'm not sure if this is a technique or. but the essence is not that, the most important thing is that you can recover your losses. plus, you can still enjoy the game session.

By the way, I think many of us know the concept like you do. however, most people find it difficult to quit when the game gets messy, or to end a gambling session when they have made a small profit and come back another time. I myself do not do it, because for me. play dice, slots, blackjack or whatever it is based on luck. just to enjoy the game, and have fun without thinking about winning or losing.

If you are playing games that are based on luck, the technique of the OP is really hard to achieve.
But maybe if it is in poker or sportsbetting, it may be true. Because you have high chance of recovering your losses if you know your games.
But it can work if you are a patient gambler, try using that technique also in hi-lo game, and bet small.
This is good if you have so much time to spare, you can recover your losses, but is it really worth spending significant amount of time recovering your losses?
Some people can devote their time especially if they lost a lot and they badly needed the lost money, but not a very good suggestion to chase your losses.

We should not aim to recover our losses, instead we have to start a new target every time we gamble and if its already on our limit and we are still losing, better to forget it and never chase any loses because you might lose more. This is gambling, a game of luck and even if you are going to slow it down there’s still no assurance to make money here so better to change your mindset and just enjoy playing.

I guess when you are down, your decision is clouded, you can't just simply slow down. On the contrary you might look for games that you can recover and win or at least gain some confidence back.

The other day I had the same experienced, had losing streak, playing roulette and slots with my $200 initial bankroll. I said I wouldn't over-extend my budget, but I can't believed that I will have that kind of bad day. Withdraw another $200, play $20 first on a slot put a max bet, win some, turn that $20 into more than $100. So play that $100 in the baccarat table, won over $400. So I was able to recover may bankroll ($200+$200) and then have some winning in my pocket. Probably just change my luck with that slot machine win, gain my confidence to play, and  change my luck.

It might able to work for you but not all people would really be ending up on getting the same results even though this game might sound really be that simple but it does still involved some luck.
You cant really be able to guarantee that you would really be able to make out some winning and recovery even on the slowest pace or manner which is something
do still matters with luck.Its not really that an assurance for it to happen for most gamblers if they are trying to make it as a recovery method.
Its one of the most non suggestible thing on gambling is on where you trying out to break or taking back on what you had lost.

Yeah, different people do have a different outcome in terms of any strategy or patterns that they will going to follow, if slowing down works on your end, it is not a guarantee that by doing the same other person will also manage to recover the losses that they've got, some might but some may not. Like you mentioned, it will depend on how luck will come up and back up your games.

A good reason if you can slow down, you will be able to re-assess what you doing wrong and try to adjust and change the strategy, but at the end it will go back to how luck will back you up.

It's good that you were able to see the solution to your problem and even better that you were able to share this solution with us. I want to note that not every player can realize his problem in a loss, and also not everyone can find a solution, much less openly share it with other players. Personally, I know a slightly different tactic, this is when, on the contrary, you double the bet every time you lose in order to win back your losses at one fine moment, but unfortunately this tactic does not always lead to a positive result, which is certainly very bad and is not a panacea in this case.

In the very first place, why have the goal of recovering your losses? That's a DISTRACTION.

Just maintain a serious approach while playing strategy-based games and try your best to win.

If you have that goal of recovering the losses every time you played, you will just end up being pressured and that will affect your strategies.

You are playing games which you have illusion of control over and admit yourself that the house has an advantage. Unless you switch to a skill based game you are destined to lose all your money slowly forever. It is simple mathematics and worse than that, casinos can quite easily run algorithms that are designed to run you hot and cold during different time periods to entice as much of your money in as possible. The only sensible gamblers out there are those that identify the odds against them, accept that they will not make money against these casinos in the long run and stop playing. These casinos are not charities, they have huge bills to pay and all of that money is coming from the pockets of gamblers just like YOU.

There is no need trying to recover ones loss.
Most times, greed is the major factor that leads to greater loss because people want to make a hell lot of money in just a day and those that also earn salaries want to make their entire monthly salary a day so they can possibly go to the employers office and give the employer a resignation letter with a hot slap, JUST KIDDING.
I always tell me to always have a motive of closing a day with profit, no matter how small the profit might be and another thing is contentment.
Contentment is one great key to a successful trader because the moment a trader learns how to be contentment, he is half way to becoming a successful and one should also learn how to spend money on the necessary things rather than trying to show people an extravagant life he could barely afford.

It still doesn't change the fact that you are still relying on hope and luck to recover your losses go fast or slow you may recover your losses or you will not, I've done that several times sometimes I opted to take a coffee break, and think of my next sets of moves sometimes I recover my losses but most of the time I lose more, it's gambling no proven method even if you go slow, fast or take a break, just be comfortable on your losses, and you will be fine.

Good for you mate if it works for you, but I think most of us here still find it still losing in the end. Gambling is a game of chance and luck, and probably some skills, so if you think you don’t have that from the moment you start betting, then it’s hard to see profits later on when you keep on chasing your losses. It’s best to just stop gambling and cut your losses. Chasing some losses will never help you no matter how you take it slow, instead it will only increase your losses until you see yourself empty handed.

My worst day was losing all promo winnings on the Fruit Party, I have probably done over 60 bonus buys doing martingale. After 60 bonus buys my balance was drained and nothing left to chase the next bonus rounds, later I deposited more to chase losses and lost double of last lost balance. Took a break from gambling and then maxed out the Fruit Party slot after 2 months period. The main problem is to keep chasing the high multis while increasing bet size, I prefer to lose all balance but not do extra deposits. Slowing down can be replaced by taking a break if it is a rough day, IMHO.

You could recover if you bet all in 100 usd in 2 itmes and make more. why wait.  the longer you play  on the casino the higher you chances to lose.

if you want to make big money then make big bet and quit on black jack. or lose it all.

Probably, when you are already in the verge of losing, it’s better to just call it off and just come back again when you think you are ready to lose  since gambling is designed to make us lose and make the house at its profits. Unless if you are too lucky to chase all your losses and even surpass it, then it’s a working strategy for you but it will not guarantee us that we can rely on that. Or if you want to test all yourself if you can really beat the house, then go for it but always gamble on the amount you can always manage to lose.

This letter is very big for me to read and understand it very well,, sometimes when making a letter try to write brief so that the readers will read and understand you very well, that is why i put to you to understand I'm not telling how to write rather teaching you the mechanism of writing

So far you have had success doing this but you will not have that much success because this is still a luck-based game and it really depends on the character and mindset of the player, some players can think clearly while doing it fast while others cannot think clearly because of anxiety if they are slow or have taken a break, either way, it's still a luck based game, its better that you stop when having a bad day, there will be lucky sessions do not force to take back your losses by going fast or slow.

While others may find it working and profitable, but personally, I think slow down bets is only good when you are still not losing your money, but if you are already experiencing losses prior than that, then the best solution to cut your losses is certainly to stop yourself from betting. Otherwise, doing slow down bets will even chase for more losses until you end up with nothing to beat anymore. As much as I can, I won’t let myself end up completely like that.

Maybe this strategy also includes in Self-control? But in my opinion this is the strategy of every gambler who has a clear of mind, not only to return losses but also for profits, you are lucky to get them again. Because every time we chase what we have lost, we will be frustrated our emotions will be unstable, so it ended to a losing streak.

I don't think the recovery is about making smaller bets, as other user mentioned is about self-control and you need a good streak for that recovery, without the wins is impossible to recover, and if you still beating in a bad streak then the loss will be bigger and bigger.

This is why a lot of people recommend not chasing our losses and just let them go.

this is so true. what's been working for me is to bet what i can afford to lose and make a hard stop and walk away.  if i hang around gambling i will end up giving it one more try.

Technique to overcome losses? Is that really possible? Are you even sure that you really overcome your losses on the fact that we always experienced losing compared to winnings? Not because we won on that day, it means we already recover our losses.

Don't aim on recovering your losses as that was impossible unless you have won big jackpot money.

What we must maintain is to keep our winnings more regularly to happened compared to losing.

They would say its possible since they do able to do so on recovering or breaking even their losses but eventually just like the rest been saying that it isnt effective nor work from time to time or to anyone,

which means that it isnt really just right that you should believe and following up this method.Well, its your choice if you do come up with this idea and would get in line on what they are pertaining into.

One things for sure that there's no technique nor ways that you could recover up your losses in most guaranteed or sure way on doing so specially when we deal up with gambling.

To be honest, I don't really like the game of blackjack, but I understand how to play it, I just don't really like playing seriously because I only rely on feeling and luck, but to be honest, what you mean is that it depends on how we can control ourselves when we lose, so we can turn things around. more profitable, sometimes we learn from the defeat itself

You mentioned recently so you just discovered that this is a good strategy for you, so far it is but for how long this is a luck-based game even if you have a fresh mind and can think clearly that's not a guarantee that you will not be busted, I've seen gamblers meditating first to have a clear mind before playing and they get busted on the few minutes or early rounds of their bets and sometimes recover when they are feeling nervous, don't chase your losses because you think you can because in reality you really cannot.

I just think you are just lucky, even though this strategy can be successfully carried out several times but like other strategies in gambling it will not be able to run equally successfully for a long time, not because the house will always win but as humans can often experience boredom and also impatience or greed which can lead to bigger losses even though the intention is to want to cover what has been lost in the previous gambling.
And I don't have a strategy to cover losses in gambling, just let the defeat and return to gambling when the funds are available and if I can experience a bigger win than the previous defeat, it's purely because of luck.

Thanks for the share. When you are not in rush, you have the right mind of betting because you're not doing it all of a sudden. You've planned your recovery as how you've planned to gamble. Slowing down is a good decision of recovering your losses so that you'll have the normal mindset that there is no way that you'll recover it on an instant but instead, you can still recover it if you allocate time and slowly do it on that purpose so you can track your bankroll and expenses at the same time.

I agree slow is best, spread bets over time and ideally budget to bet over a set timescale not be tempted to continually win back the money.   Last the duration rather then aim for a specific monetary target.    Its soon trouble like a carrot on a stick to aim for a set magic monetary figure, it tends not to work that way which leads to upset and further moves away the prospect of a successful strategy in the game, the game plays you is the trap to avoid :o

I know from the beginning that the gambling is made up of loves and the for you to over come losses in gambling is only for you to continue gambling and one day if you be able to win a very big amount of money you will recover all your locks so but that does not mean that you will not recover your lucks if you win bit by bit

Even at the slow down you're lucky to make the recovery. For everyone this won't work out. Gambling is all about luck, here it is being proven with the OP. Myself have got experience winning the lost fund in no time with the last few dollars, but the same gets lost the next day. So, the recovery goes useless. Any casino game will bring victory to make us happy, whether the happiness lasts or not depends on the luck. >:(

Knowing that most gambling games are based on luck, even the games that you've mentioned which are poker and sports betting, it'll be hard to achieve to recover your losses even if you try to bet small. If you aren't lucky to enough, you may not be able to recover and continue losing slowly.  

I've done this myself and apparently, sometimes you can recover your losses slowly but not all the time as you can also lose while doing it. I guess, the only good thing about this is that you can manage how much you'll lose if ever since you're playing small amounts.

What I want to add in this aspect, is that if or whenever you want to play gamble and be free in gambling, is the time we believe that you might find all the necessary precaution that way in that you know to win, and secondly I want to let you know that you can play a gamble step by step without using your budget for it in case of loss so a process whereby you played a gamble with such precaution and they haven't to lose it will not affect you in such a way someone who put all it hope and trust in one way.

You know you can also bet behind on other players' luck and win huge if you see them winning?
I see many people coming on a table and winning continuously, you can bet behind them and try their luck. My strategy is to leave a table immediately if I lose there 5 times in a row, be all those bets are bet behind. In most cases, you will win more than lose. However, gambling is for fun, only play with money you can afford to lose, so that you don't need to chase your losses and play with fresh mind next time you go to a casino website because chasing your losses will eventually lead you incur more losses and this will give too much stress to you if the money you lost was not meant (affordable) to be lost.

People getting to urge more in playing gambling and one of the reason is they wins a lot or they lose a lot of money and of course as a revenge you would like to take you money back or make another profit. It depends now on the persons perspective because some of them want to stop playing already and set a limit and some of them want to play more a lot but still hoping to win this the reason why in playing gambling ideal if you have a lot of money else you lose or didn't enjoy the game

Sometimes if you make the satistics of people who played gamble a day or who play gambling in particular month and they calculate the amount or people who win a gamblling and amount of people who loses gambling, you will know that no person that has been a beneficiary in gambling that does not lose equivalent of what it wins or achieve in the gamblling, so I believe a gamblling is a personal race which is determine by chance of luck

We will slow down or take a break for us to give our minds to relax to become ready again for our next gambling session. We will not slow down for a purpose of recovering our losses as that does not make sense to do. Instead of recovering our losses, our journey might end up worst.

Taking a break is necessary after a bitter loss t calm down our mind.

But remember when we return again to gambling, don't have a goal of recovering our losses.

Slowing down will help us recover to some extent, because we'll be very careful handling our fund. Beyond certain point once again we'll loss control and the same could end up losing. Whether it is slow gambling or fast, it is the luck that decide the winning. Even there are wins that have happened just because the person touched the max bet unknowingly. So, it is the luck and not the process.

I know that losing in gambling is very real but the extent that I am making my emphasis is the situation whereby you should have a stipulated amount of money I want to use for gambling because of when you lose the money it will not affect you and you playing it step-by-step or gradually when it happened to come to aspect of lose he will not think otherwise, so I know necessarily that gambling you can use it anytime any hour depending the way you play it

Prepare a certain amount of money for gambling so that if you lose you will not take money other than the predetermined amount. it's a good strategy to resist the urge to keep gambling when the losses keep coming. Doing gambling step by step, of course, aims so that the money doesn't disappear in an instant. But it all also depends on what the purpose of gambling is done. If it's only as entertainment, of course, profits are not really needed, but if gambling is a way to quickly make profits, you need a good strategy and money management. Don't become an addict, because that will lead to being too greedy.

Not really something new I have done and continue doing this by pausing and watching movies on Netflix and coming back after a few minutes but getting the same results, winning sometimes but losing most of the time, sometimes it made me think that its the movie I watched not the slowdown or pausing. :D

Give us an update after you made ten sessions and update us if you have a good average, if you have a good result that's good for you that doesn't mean that others will have the same results too.

That makes sense to think. If it's effective on OP so be it and I hope he will continue and be able to keep it that way. But realistically speaking, slowing down in gambling has nothing to do to recover our losses. They are just basically taking a break but the chances of losing are still there once gambled again.

There are lots of what-if scenarios in OP's given story and if unfortunate, the cycle of slowing down will just repeat without having good results.

In other words, no money is really being recovered.

It looks like @OP is too eager to recover losses which results in getting more losses.
That will not give good results, especially if we intend to recover losses and even if we think about going all-in for all money to recover losses, that is also difficult to achieve.
But @OP managed to defuse the tension by reducing the number of bets in each round but it would be better if at that point, @OP could take a break and walk out of the casino to rest and come back a few hours later or the next day.
And @OP is lucky to recover all his losses because it rarely happens to us.
If that happened to me, I would stop to rest and not continue playing, as I have done before.

Tbf, I've never actively tried to "recover" losses in cases of gambling. If it's lost, then well, it's lost, done and over. I'd rather prioritize having fun, no matter how simple or dumb the game is (or my actions are), though it's understandable if some want to actually recoup (though honestly, I'd rather you go into trading in that case instead of gambling).

After a big loss I just usually stop and go find some healing activity. It can be some reading, (usually immersive ones), sleeping, or exercising. I don't try to go back to gambling itself since, well, emotions get the best of me (and maybe for others as well). OP is pretty careful with that though since he can handle that slow recoup by playing rather often even after a big loss.

Good for you if you can manage to do this. Many gamblers I suppose cannot easily feel at ease when the losses are increasing. I myself can testify that there is really that strong urge, that itch, to try to quickly recover all of them, at once if possible. This is probably the reason why the Martingale strategy was developed and widely used until now even if it is already proven that it is not a sound strategy. Sometimes, many gamblers cannot just accept that they're losing. For as long as they have the money, they will always try to recover them, and as quickly as possible.

Good advice here because all of us needs this to have , but the problem is that how can we afford to slow down when eagerness comes to place?
the main issue in this is that we often seek to win when the truth is losses is what we have gotten .
maybe try to analyze our self first , try to understand our thoughts and our dedication , if it is to win or to enjoy.

I think gambling requires a certain amount of luck because all of the games in the casino had a house edge that gives the casino owners a slight advantage over players, it is still risky betting a smaller amount of money while trying to recover losses since the house edge for the game is still the same. Over the long run, I think some players might still lose all of their remaining money if they got unlucky while trying to recover their losses.

then yes  , OP had been into gambling for such a time and now with realization on how to manage His losses, meaning that he had been into many things before and now learn His lessons.
actually this is what most gamblers must do but if we can manage to accept the fact that it is not easy and need perseverance and full dedication to succeed .
and discipline mate , because no matter how big or small the luck if you cannot control yourself from playing then everything will gone in after the luck.

I am not 100% sure how it is in Blackjack, but I imagine it is similar, if not the same as in Poker. A good bankroll management implies betting smaller when you have losses, in the case of Poker going down a level, and I imagine that the case you mention is similar.

In the same way, when you have profits you can bet bigger, because the point is to have a minimum of x times the bet, so you avoid the risk of bankruptcy in case of a bad streak.

Of course, I prefer to manage my bankroll by betting EV+. With EV- games, no matter how well you manage the bankroll, the long term tendency is going to be losing, although with good management the money will last longer.

You slowing down those not really mean you will win back your loss, I don't really know how many times you have tried the strategy and it works for you, if it's just once or twice then I can say it's just a luck, but if it happens frequently then I can say the pattern works for you. If am losing in a bet, I don't even try to win back my loss at that moment because I will keep on losing, no matter how I slow down, the only thing I do whenever I noticed I already lose enough money is to stop gambling at that moment and come back later.

The best advice will always be...  not to chase your losses, but your strategy is more focused on slowing down your own emotions. When players lose a lot of money, the emotions like "anger" kick in... and they want to have the last say or some kind of revenge... and that is the worst place to be in.

I also switch to something "smaller" ... to calm my emotions, when I hit a losing streak. If I can control that situation... I tend to hit something bigger to perk up my mood.  ;)

That is a good strategy.I have learned by playing slot machines that chances are higher when you are playing with the smallest available bet to play longer and thus having more chances to get the bonus round or feature game and maybe to win big.This is not assured when you play with a big bet as a huge balance is needed to play longer at that bet although usually the slot machine in the bonus round or feature game tends to give you much better winnings when you are playing with a big bet but that is a high risk.

I think there are a lot of people who use that strategy in crypto gambling. Because I know a gambler who has a little resemblance to what you do to recover from a loss somehow.

His strategy is that he only has a limit on the amount of his bet in each game he plays, and when that is reached, he moves to other casino games. Apart from that, when he wins a jackpot in gambling when he returns to playing again, he will first spend a week and then he will gamble again.

Slowing down and going back to smaller size bets is a nice idea to try and recover our losses. I might give it a try next time I face a bad gambling evening. There a few issues however for me when it comes to recovering losses in one session. First of all, I am a huge fan of martingale strategies, so whenever I face a loss I kind of have to double my betting sizes to recover all my previous losses. The problem here is that this leads to large bets fairly quickly when suffering a few losses in a row. Normally I don't believe in loss streaks, but there are evenings for me where I can't get into the greens at all, no matter how hard I try. Usually when facing too many losses I tend to switch games and start from scratch. Going from Black Jack to Roulette or Dice, is a good switch for me. Slowing down could also be a good idea when facing a loss streak, this would help with the issue of losing a lot of money quickly due to doubling up every bet. Instead of trying to recover our previous losses in one single bet, the idea would be now to stick to smaller bets and recover over a longer period of time. Another problem is also my head, whenever losing 3-4 times in a row my brain keeps telling me it's only one more round for me to win. It feels a bit like I deserve to win now because I lost so much already, which is of course not true. The rounds are not connected and the casino doesn't know how much I lost or won, the chances are always the same.

For me it is better to quit and restrategize after a big lose. Trying to recover your loss can be counterproductive. You might be tempted to stake more than your budget or your limit when you are gunning to recover your losses. But slowing down and betting in less risky games might also be a fair option as all long as it is not above your budget or limit. But from my experience, the more I try to chase my losses it is the more I go deeper into losses. Therefore, I have learnt to take a break or go home after incurring some losses. It gives me the strength and strategy to come back and enjoy my game and not necessarily to pursue my losses.     

Right I also find it more aggressive betting through Martingale strategy as you have more chance of losing through it and can also go beyond your budget but don't know it somehow works for some players and they recommend it but for me it's not good so avoid it according to me as well.

It's easy to say but it's actually difficult when you are in that situation.
Recently, I had the same experience, I am losing a lot of my bets in sports and even when the games are not over yet, I am trying to chase the losses already.
When you have access to the site, emotional control seems to be going away from you.
You just want to take back whatever amount was gone until you are satisfied or you lose everything.
Although it can be done, it will not be an easy task, it needs strict discipline.

Sometimes acceptance about what might possible happen is really needed but its really hard to do this especially if we are been challenge by those loses and we want to get back on those down time. Although other didn't get a best result, but some other people got intense result but expect that this scenario happens on whales. So if you are not a whale we should manage our expectation and avoid all excessive things.

It's like the known tip of "take it easy". As you slow down, it's not all about giving up but giving up is also another step forward for someone who's been into losses.
But in your case, if you've taken your time and took easy as you slowed down the process of taking back your losses. It's something to take into account that you really have to take one step at a time and don't be too furious if you're on a losing streak. The timing will be in your favor if you don't take things hastily.

Martigale is good, but probably just in theory. In practice, with the house edge ensuring that all gamblers will become losers, I believe Martingale makes larger and faster the possibility of going to ZERO. Plus it's not very good for your sanity. I would choose to buy Bitcoin at ATH, and HODL through with a -70% loss during the bear market over doubling my bet everytime it's a loss then seeing it become another loss, then another and another and another!

Well said. Plus, by doubling, each new loss is way bigger, in a (desperate) attempt to recover all the previous (and ever increasing) loses.
Indeed, the sure path of getting very fast to zero.

The tale of tortoise and how he won the race against the hare is one big emphasis on how taking things slow can encourage a recovery for losses incurred. It is almost as if energy in the form of momentum is gained during this period.
It is paramount one keeps the eyes on the price and seek ways to navigate the losses inorder to avoid much loss.
New ideas and strategies will be made revealed if one can listen during the slowing down period.

Well to some people martingale works; that is the idea of betting twice as what you've lost in order to be able to recover from your losses. On my end, I won't suggest it because of the risk involved with it. Some people are using strategies of such with the same idea. But to the extent I view it, that's just frustration dominating a gambler. I quite of cool down when I am losing. I am taking a pause because maybe that is not my day. Oushing through would give you a bigger chance to lose more, that's just how gambling works.
There's still a difference. Gambling is different from what the story is implying; perseverance, meaning, consistency will give you the bright outcome. However, no matter how consistent of a gambler you are; if you are not lucky, you'd lose. No matter how you slow things down, if you'd lose then you'll lose. That is why moderation should be the key not to win afterwards but to moderate your losses until fate sides on you.

It's impossible to have several losses in a row playing the all red or black numbers. All my years playing roulette game, I've not experienced such a serial loss, but I'd agree with you that its possible if I continued choosing specific numbers in a row. However they is no connection between  a previous win or loss with my next game. I only pointed that it feels bad to win with small stake, a kind of regret why I didn't stake big, which will trigger the urge to stake big. Sometimes it works and its a faster strategy to increase my bank roll.

OP, your experience make me to believe that, I can also recover from my losses but it will be difficult for me in this few weeks to the end of this year 2022 to recover them. I will start applying this strategy you just mentioned here because I have lost so much money on gamble that is making me to doubt myself, if I will be able to recover all those money before the end of next year. I used to gamble with big money, I guess I will reduce the amount of money I use to gamble to see if I will experience something good from my bet.

When you bet in the casino, it is normal to lose, if you are not aware of that, you are not doing well. What the OP says is that in one session, I understand he means one session, when you have had losses and try to recover by betting the same or more, as most people do, what you have to do is make smaller bets, and if you have positive results and recover, then go back to the initial bet size.

You are talking about recovering your losses in the long run and that is not possible because of the House Edge. Gambling should only be done with money that you don't need and don't mind losing, and thinking that you can make some extra money from time to time, but it's not a good way to make money.

The OP's main focus on his post is on the slowing down of bets and not on the changing the game with lower house edge so I get why the advice sounds hilarious to other gamblers.

Reducing your bet would only guarantee longer playing time and probably add more fun to it but don't expect a higher chance of winning unless you also switch to a game with higher RTP.

Nah, it just because you're lucky, so you can recover your losses. Slots has nothing to do if you're use martingale strategy, anti martingale strategy, etc etc since slots has house edge and it make the house always win. If there's a gambler who can find a way to win in slots, he can easily make profit and ruin every casino since these casino will suffer bankruptcy. I already suffer many losses, but I don't mind about it since it's what is gambling.

That is the exact method I adopted in gambling I set a daily limit of the amount of my total fund for bettings once my loss is equal or exceeded the daily limit I quit for the day because tomorrow is another day and there are more opportunities ahead, there isn't any need to start or continue gambling in a bid to recover my losses else I might lose more this is my personal experience, as for the OP bet recovery experience, I believe it's more of luck, another gambler might tread the path of the OP in a bid to recover the loses unfortunately will ended up losing or rekting the whole fund, always bet with the amount of money you can afford to lose.

Instead of replacing it with slow bets, you should stop immediately and don't even think about recovering your losses with slow bets. But maybe it is the best strategy for you because I see you can recover slowly. But not everyone can do it and it's better to stop immediately and do something else to divert your mind from recovering your losses. But I realize that we all need to rest after losing a lot and if you decide it's for the best, you still have to be careful because it won't always work out for you.

I'm not sure about it but from I can see that's not technique to use when you want to recover your lose, because techniquly, if you stop betting or lower your bet amount you won't be able to recover your lose, If you lose you need to recover and recovering needs more money and higher bet amounts. So I guess you were just lucky if you could recover your lose by using this technique. Howver changing the game or the bet can be a good solution for people to play new games with open mind to recover the money they lose, but I don't think if slowing down helps anyone.

After losing a bet, various things come to mind. Especially why I bet more. Why didn't i take that opportunity, etc., Various questions started to arise in my mind. However, the most common mistake for a gamblers is trying to recover from a loss. The suggestion given by the OP here can certainly be good. But if a gambler can control himself gambling from that position then success can be expected. I think it is more appropriate to try to recover a certain amount of money gradually, rather than trying to recover quickly can lost all of your assets.

 This is just a successful streak, which can just as easily be replaced by an unsuccessful one. If there is a fixed deposit, and it happened that it was lost, but what is the point of playing further? This almost always leads to the same result, and many of the stories told here do not teach anything, you have to lose twice as much to stop. Well, maybe this is not the worst case, if you were able to stop, then this is already a good sign.

Thanks for sharing your experiences with us.  I think you're helping teach a very valuable lesson here.  I'm lucky to personally not have any sort of addiction to gambling, nor do I normally be big amounts of money, but for those who do, I can see it being very easy trying to chase your losses with that feeling "I've got to at least get back to where I started". 

This is a good lesson that goes for quite a few things, including investing in cryptocurrency or stocks for that matter. Slow and steady wins the race.

Actually, the martingale technique doesn't have to always double your bet in every round or spin. we adopt it by combining it with several other tricks. so, this technique does not always have to be forced to double it. you can also involve your experience, whatever the stakes. if for football there is a multibet. we can involve experience, when is it time to double up with the martinggale technique and when to stop betting for a moment. it depends on how you try to outsmart it plus involve your experience.

There is nothing wrong with any technique, what is wrong is when it is difficult to control our emotions which are carried away by the atmosphere during a gambling session. as long as technique and luck are on our side, we cannot avoid even big wins. or maybe the opposite happens, if we force to reverse losses.
or, the trick that Op shared in this thread you can apply. But the question is, can you do it? and I think this is the challenge.

In the grand scheme of things it doesn't matter if you make 10 bets with 10% of your money or 20 bets with 5%. The odds remain the same and it's true that house edge takes a greater toll on your win the more bets you make.

I prefer not to do it all in a single bet because there's a psychological barrier against doing it and that's what casino uses to make profit. In reality if you divide everything into 2 bets and your first bet is a win the probability of the second one also being a win is lower so you'll either stop and take that win or you take additional risk.

A player who instead divides his money into 100 bets will only get more entertainment out of it. There won't be any increase in win probability. It's funny how we tend to think that if we have more rolls we have more chance of winning back the money lost.

My way of recovering a loss is slightly similar to this and that is; I too change my game from another one if I feel that I want to recover my bets (also because of the house edge differences). However, there are times where I stick on one game but I change my strategy. Instead of continuous martingale, I switch on flat betting with adjusted multipliers or vice versa.

In gambling, it is important to stay patient even though we are already losing most of our bankroll. I know this is hard to do at first but trust me and the OP. This is worth it if ever we want to stay longer in the game and if we possibly want to recover what we have lost earlier.

What makes you think that if you divide your bankroll into two bets and your first bet turns out to be a winning one, the probability that the second one will also turn out to be a winning one will be lower?

In my opinion, the win/loss of each individual bet has nothing to do with the previous bet. Whether a bet wins or not depends on the algorithm that distributes the rewards.

If everything were as you describe, the martingale strategy would constantly lead to a win, but this does not happen.

Giving a break has always worked well for me. Many people just keep on gambling like nothing happened but the reality is that if you give a break then it should be doing great for you. Many people forget that the best thing to do would be making sure that you are working towards making sure you "forget" what you lost.

If you give a break, all that anger, all that need to recover, all that stress basically everything that comes with the loss at gambling will get lower and lower with time. This means, after a week of your big loss you will not feel the same way and after a month you won't even remember it. So, giving a break is always much better.

Easier said than done. Perhaps we all have that intention to take it easy when we lose, but how often does it happen in practice that we go beyond all our own imposed limits in the hope of winning back the losses? Very often. You can have a certain management over your own bank balance, but the value of this is zero if you can't stick to this strategy yourself. Even experienced gamblers continue to make mistakes with this.

And that what makes gambling business so damn profitable on which this kind of behavior is one of the main reason on why this business is sustainable because gamblers are really that minding on finding ways on breaking

even their losses or trying to get it back via some various strategies and ways which it would really make you some sort of desperate man because of these kind of motives which it isnt a must when you do gamble.
If you do want to recover your losses then you arent playing gambling for the sake of entertainment but rather you are here for the sake of money.

When you do lose then you should easily move on and dont tend to chase up losses or minding on getting those money back.It would really be just making you desperate.

That's correct. There are various variation from the rule. Still the main Martingale is doubling.


Actually the fact we try to make one bet more meaningful, the fact we think that at a certain point there's a bigger chance to see high value or low, is imho a mistake. The random generator doesn't care what was the previous number. And all this makes "the technique" wrong. At least this is how I see it.
Am I wrong?

The best action is to stop when you feel that losing streak is non-stop, instead of being aggressive to find ways to recover stopping will limit you to lose more, though I see the point where taking things slowly might re-create a good gambling strategy that might work, but it isn't a guarantee that you will be able to recover your losses, chances that it will trigger your aggressiveness is always possible.

You need to understand all the risk while you are in gambling, no doubt that gamblers always finding ways how to win either you are just playing to have some fun or you are aiming for huge amount of money, both sides will add entertainment and enjoyment if you will manage
to stop with some money to cash out as a reward for your gambling.

I'm most interested in this topic and it keeps catching my eye at every instance I get to be in it's page.
I wouldn't have to relate this your topic to more of gambling but rather to that of trading and I could always remember my first win and first major loss on trading derivatives when I made my two thousand dollars ($2000) with 48 full hours and this was really done with ease but in qhest of trying to make the money a round figure of $2600 so I can withdraw $2500 and still have upto $100 dollar drive me into reckless trading and I made a whole series of loss after I lost the money upto $400 I started revenge trading just to cover up my loss but I ended up making lot more losses and I had to slow then and reviver my loss in 2 weeks.

Once I was a gambling addict so I know exactly how it feels to chase and win then to lose all again. It's a cycle you go though, never ending. It's been long ago. To stop it, I had to unsubscribe from all the gambling websites, I was taking mental support from specialist, most importantly friends and relatives were supporting me to stop it. Without them I could not fight it back.

Good thing was that I did not lose everything but my life was fairly mess. But since I recovered mentally, I did not gamble for long years until few years ago started again with sportsbet and some other crypto casinos. This time I was in full control of myself. Most of the time it was just pure fun but then getting bored, although I enjoyed the poker tournament we used to have with SWS or SWG (forgot the site name) SWCPoker. Eventually, I stopped logging in the accounts. I can not remember when was the last time I logged in before yesterday or the day before yesterday in bitcasino to join their bitcoin price prediction 😂

From my experience I suggest everyone, learn to stop it when you feel you are not enjoying it anymore. Don't do it for money. Gambling is not a business or job. It's entertainment you take when you are bored and time to spare. The price you pay are the deposits you make. So don't call it lose but call it a payment for the entertainment.

This is what im doing on which i do experience out losing streaks like very bad then i do really stop out immediately which is something that a gambler should do but we know that most cases where we do really

fail up on doing so because the thing we do have in mind is on how to recover those losses pretty fast, and if you are in low balance or bankroll or having empty then you would be surely be tending to

make out another deposit which would really worsen up the situation for more. This is why you should really be wise in regarding your actions.

We can't be sure of making recovery just on slowing down the betting process. Betting needs to be done by taking break when one feels that the luck isn't favouring. Slowing down Betting is good, because fast bets bring win as well as empty the wallet in no time. When betting is slowed down, automatically the person will think of his bet value and play carefully. This could lower the chance of losing to some extent as well prolong the wallet getting emptied.

Interesting report!
Unfortunately, I believe most people lack that same discipline.

In fact it is quite the opposite, most people, when they lose, try to recover the money lost as soon as possible to return to betting on profit, and unfortunately this only makes them lose more money, as they are taken by the emotion of anger and they cannot reason properly.

In a game of dice or slots, for example, it is still common for many people to use techniques such as the martingale, which consists of always doubling the lost bet in order to recover the value in the next round.

Thanks for your advice and I admire your self-control, congratulations on making conscious plays.

That's a good technique since other gamblers would be encouraged to increase their bet size but then again it's tough to recover on casino games overall the longer you play though so at best you just have to cut them off because if not it could go on for very long.

I also do the same technique on sports betting if I still have a good pick on that same day I would lower my bet size by a lot for example if my average bet would be like 10 coins then the reduced bet size would be around 2 or 3.

Quick bets using large amounts of money will only give you faster losses, especially if we often experience consecutive losses.
We could benefit from such a bet but if the tension rises, we can get triggered and in the end, we will lose a lot.
But when the betting slows down, it will make us think that it will take a long time to recover from previous losses and can make us impatient to wait round after round and we can go back to using big bets and fast.
If you want to reduce tension, think about stopping or taking a break because your tension will decrease.

Yeah, slowing down is a good way of reducing losses, I see it to be the best technique for loss control. It gives you insight into how the previous bet resulted in a loss. But after a break, I think it is good to change the betting strategy sometimes because the mistake many people make is repeating a strategy that fails them often and often. And their desire to get back their loss skyrockets in such a way that they are left with nothing at the end of the day. Slowing down may help, but changing the strategy is another important thing to note.

Good for you and you're lucky to recover your losses by doing that technique. However, most of us here don't have the same patience and luck as you because usually everytime we're in losing streak, we're losing our patience as well and desperately doing a bet (such as martingale) to recover our losses fast.

If you are able to recover your past losses through this strategy it doesn't mean it will also work to other gamblers. But atleast it has a good result for you even we know that the house always win.

Mine is slowly lessen my bet and tries to go around other games , I don't concentrate in single game because I know that if I am lucky I will win not because of my better understanding in that said game but it is what needs to happen.


So why need to play only one game and Lose when you can completely enjoy the day with experiencing multiple platform and tries if where is the luck going that day?

with also that we can practice our skills in each games right?

It's actually not considered desparate. It's simply the process in which the Martingale System follows, probably because "reasons". Mathematically considerations, it should be laughable. We plebs must truly understand that the house edge makes it sure that everyone will be long term losers. Psychological considerations, plebs should avoid it or go home without your salary.

OP, gave the best advice. SLOW DOWN. Go back to the casino when you are happier, calmer, luckier.

We often experience successive losses but only a few of us stop immediately but continue to increase the amount of money to bet. That doesn't limit the amount of money to gamble but will increase the risk of loss that we can get later, especially if we try to increase the number of bets. With all the risks that will arise in gambling, we should realize that winning large amounts of money will not always work and that's where we should be able to prevent ourselves from continuing to gamble.

And even though we can get entertainment and fun, it won't be worth continuing if we still get defeats, especially losing streaks. So we should use our gambling time, get entertainment and fun, and get out in time to avoid even bigger losses.

And most of us, when we lose all of our money, we then stop, we will not try to get back our losses. I know your strategy is working for you, but it is still risky since you will not always win, meaning if you do not win, you'll be losing more. The strategy to overcome losses is only to set a limit for yourself. When you lose, you lose you will not get it back unless you are lucky like you are talking to. If I lose (within my set limit), I immediately stop. I don't chase around my losses as I know that I will be losing more. Also, the only strategy that I use when winning is when I lose 30% of my winning (total accumulated winning), I will stop, which is enough for today.

Recovering losses sooner or later is not really a good thing to do. It is true that many gamblers will try to recover their losses either by increasing the intensity of their betting or perhaps by increasing the amount of their bets. Both are not even good, because in the end you are no longer gambling for fun but to return your losses.

Another possibility is that you will increase the number of losses without you knowing it, and the mistakes will always come too late. I also tried to recover losses, but it was only up to a point that I realized it wasn't the best idea to gamble.

So, the OP's strategy is the opposite for martingale. Either way might turn out to be a good or bad strategy to recover losses and trying to turn the table around.
One of the most usual thing I know in terms of gambling is, it's really hard to recover your losses. It will probably going to take more money and guts to do it. I kinda admire how the OP was so patient with doing small bets trying to recover losses, I've done that before when I was regularly engaged into gambling, but most of the time, it doesn't work for me. I either lose patience or lose everything in the process lol.

I don't believe that because losses cannot be recovered even by slowing down the game, it's just possible that he will always be lucky, but this will not always be smooth during recovery, except that you can lose because of uncertain pursuits.

I have to let go of everything that is played in gambling, for example if you lose then I have to let it go because this is luck, so if you win it is luck from a gambling game, so I have been chasing losses as long as it is uncertain for me.

To be frank, gambling is not a do or die affair, anytime I tell gamblers to break anytime they gamble with too much loss or when they encounter losses consecutively, I tell them to catch a break, it will speed up your brain recovery and not only that, it will help you think perfectly and you don't make bad decisions on and on times without number, only a jobless and addicted person will want to spend the rest of the day gambling.

I'm not too much fan of Casinos games but as a Sports person that I am, my bets followed season, I take breaks when players are also on break in big leagues, I don't jump on other leagues because of small changes that will make me loose what I have earned at the end of a season. The concluded World Cup, for example, has ended, I am currently on break and will resume when EPL, La Liga and UEFA Champions or Europa League resume and not that I will start as soon as they resume, I will watch and see how the leagues have changed because I expect to see some transition as soon as they all resume back.

There's a higher probability that it will be a good strategy than bad in my opinion, because such a strategy encourages, and abides by the simple concept of Capital Preservation. We can't recover losses if we lost all of our capital, no? 8)


It will be very hard to recover your losses if you play those casino games with high house edge, like slot machines. They're merely for entertainment, and winning in them is just a bonus. If you want some opportunity to recover losses, play low house edge games and games that offer you a chance to win through skill and strategy. BlackJack and Craps are these games.

I think the best thing to do after losing money is just to take a break, anyone that think their is any way or strategy to recover loss is already addicted to gambling. Addicted gamblers never accept their loss, they believe they can win back the amount they have lost and if they change pattern and countinue to gamble and they  will keep on losing. everyday won't really be our lucky day, incase if you notice you have being playing and losing, just take a break that day and fight back another time.
If you want to use anger to win back your lose in gambling, then you will keep on losing, your chances of winning back your money will be very slim, when gambling don't always have it in mind that you want to win back your losses, just gamble with free mind, gamble because you want to have fun and not because you want to make money.

Stop when you still have some balance left? I think this one is hard to achieve. There will always be an urge to play again thinking that we still have a balance left in our accounts unless maybe if we will withdraw it to our personal wallets. That should cut the urge somehow but I agree that this method is best to minimize a loss.

Once we lose a couple of times it could be a sign that we are unlucky for this day and we shouldn't insist to bet more because if we do then we can ended up getting busted. There will always be tomorrow but for now, maybe it's time for us to unwind and then do other things which are also necessary, only to have a well balanced life.