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Something just came up in my mind and I feel it will be good for me to bring it up here because it can benefit some people to make a better decision or adjust gambling habits. 

Do you take record of every game played for the year or month or week, then calculate the number of total games that was won and lose. I feel calculating the total amount of lose can help one to adjust gambling habit of playing frequently and also to reduce the amount of money that is spent on gambling. I think when the amount of lose is too much in gambling it is either affecting one financially or turning one to become addictive to gambling. 

Do you think keeping record of gambling activity will play a good role to someone's gambling lifestyle?

Yes, of course, particularly in sports betting, it's necessary to determine if we are doing well or not. If we are constantly gambling, we need to track our activity so that if there's something to improve, we can address it. Probably most of us are not keeping a record, but that's understandable as most of us are not too ambitious about being profitable in gambling; most of us are just gambling for fun.

I'm not saying I constantly keep a record, just occasionally when I feel like I have this bankroll that I want to risk and see how it results in profit or loss, just like a business, you know.

No, I don't. Maybe because I am too lazy to do it. What I do not fail to do though is to have a budget and bankroll for my gambling activities.


This is like the monitoring and evaluating in development work. Helps to modify one's behavior, to know what's working and what's not working. What I do though is to check my gambling budget after some period of time to know the rate at which my gambling budget is growing or reducing.
I think it will but most of us are either too undisciplined to do it or we don't just know how to do it.

The reality is that it is plain nonsense to keep track of every session you take if you keep playing luck based games like slot machines and roulette for example.The only games where this can be a good idea is if you play sport bets or poker which can be classified as games where skill is very much relevant.How can this be beneficial?Well for example in sport betting if you keep track of your progress you can see which type of bet is the one causing most losing bets and avoid it,you place a lot of under 2.5 goals bets and you see that more than 80% of such bets are lost ones,this is a clear indication that you should stop immediately playing that type of bet.

Recording keeping can be tasking at  some point to be that consistent at it for a full year especially.  I prefer not to keep records because it won't change anything in the lifestyle of a gambler that lacks internal discipline.

Where there are much losses made, keep records of it and seeing it everyday when he/she gets back to add another recorded loss to the piles of losses, my perception is that it can only gives him hope that he can recover those losses someday as he keeps intensifying his gambling bets.

I know a lot of persons will have a positive mindset about record keeping which I concur to the core to whatever positivity there is, but this just one of many negative aspect of my perspective to gambling record keep from a gambler with a non-disciplined lifestyle.

I've never bothered with notes about bets, maybe I should start, after all I have no idea what my "win ratio" is... it would be more prudent to have everything written down, but I just bet/play without too many worries... I'm a casual gambler, I only bet sometimes (1 or 2 times a week.)... I would like to bet and play more, but I don't have much time.

It only matters if you are playing with money that you cannot afford to lose and you are looking to make money from gambling but if your allocation is not something that will harm your lifestyle or your finances then it's useless to record, a calculation is enough.

If you stick to your budget and don't expect too much from gambling then you're good to go, the only time that I record my gambling activities is to come out with a good strategy to make my experience exciting and hoping to be rewarding.

No, im not making any tracks because i do really hate up on trying to look into my loses because i had did this thing in the past but ending up on chasing up my loses specially if i have seen that im in huge negatives.
This is why it would really be better that i wouldnt really be tracking up my spending as long im really that sticking into my gambling budget or allocation then i wont really be minding whether on how much i have lost overall. Actually this one would really be just that depending on someones preference because there are really indeed people do make out that kind of  track on which they would act out accordingly if they've seen
that it is really that have huge loses and this is the time that they will really be stopping on doing gambling on which it isnt a bad idea.

Whether you would be tracking or not, it would really be always ideal that you should really know on what you are dealing with and on what are the actions that you would really be needing to do.
You cant really just that make yourself that spending up like a madman and would be messing up in the end of the line.

No it is not making any sense. Or maybe as for me. I gamble for fun and not for business. All I care more about is my gambling budget which I have recently reduced to 2% of my weekly income. Calculating things like that is even a work for me and I do not have time for something like that. But generally speaking it is not necessary.

Nah I don’t, occasionally I even go through my sport bet history and delete most of the tickets until it’s left with small.

I don’t see any reason to be keeping tabs on what I know I do for fun - if it was something that was meant to bring food to my table consistently then I would be more willing to go through the stress of taking notes or keeping records of my wins and losses and also figuring out how to minimize losses but since it’s purely for fun and after all I don’t deposit significant amounts into my account so it would be a waste of time keeping note.

But for some casinos, they actually have wins and lose tabs for slots games or some casino games it tells you how many games you have won and how many you have lost - although they don’t tell you the amount you have won just the number of games you have lost.

There is no reason for me to record all my gambling activity, so I dont do it but maybe I will do it if I have a good reason for it.
What would be a good reason for me? Maybe something if I'm a streamer or gambling content creator so I need to record my gambling activity as I have to do it to make money.
If your main purpose is just to track your statistic, you can simply taking a note anytime you do your gambling session.
For me, tracking our own statistic can be a double edged sword.
One side it can be used for us as a reminder but on the other side, it may tempt us to chase our losses.

I don't do that because it is not important to me. This is because I gamble for fun and I don't regret my losses since I have being entertained already. It is just as if you are asking me to take record of the money that I give to people for charity which does not affect me financially.

However, I always set a gamble budget when I get paid for my gambling activities, so I already know how much it will be in 12 months time. Money used in gambling should not be counted as loss because it is an amount that you even if it get missing you don't care. There is no gambler that will use only $100 to gamble throughout the year, even if he is winning, a time will come that he will lose all of it.

I think the thread about gambling activity records has been asked before last year. --- Do you keep a record of winnings and losses in gambling? (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5471570.0)

Again, I don't keep records of my gambling income and expenditure activities, if I did it would be a shock to me because I would definitely lose more money than I win, it would also be a mental hit that you are not prepared to lose a lot of money when you see the records.

It's just like running water, there's no need to look at the record because it will have a little bad impact or for me there's no use at all.

I never write it down, because the thing that I definitely get is a lot of losses on my gambling activities, I also don't worry about the lifestyle of gambling because I have a gambling budget that regularly today works very disciplined so I can see the conclusion of how much money I might spend in one month or one year in gambling because I always use a financial budget for gambling.

But in terms of wins and losses I don't write it down because it's quite complicated and I'm too lazy to write it down, and what is meant by victory here like what I don't understand too, if it's victory when I withdraw money from the casino maybe only a little, but the victory of playing is not bad and then I play again until I lose and don't withdraw and can it be called a victory or not?

I did this before but I got lazy at doing it maybe because of the frustration that I had been losing a lot of my sports bets recently.
Will it be helpful? Yes, it is. But it requires discipline that we will keep on recording every result that we will have no matter what the outcome is. There will be times that we will get bored at doing it and we just want to play the game and enjoy it and it's probably going to happen in the long run.

For those who are starting their gambling activities, especially in the sports region, I would recommend doing this because it can help out to analyze how much we are losing or winning and somehow we will be able to answer ourselves on where the money came from or went.

After all it is quite complicated if you have to write it down I don't have time to do that and lazy too because gambling is an activity that must be in control of our finances, we can't be something that is considered big if we know we can control gambling, and yes gambling is a place of entertainment why should it be like there are financial reports, losing wins and others, anyway at Stake we have a report on how much money we bet every month without us making it ourselves.

This possibility only applies to those who do not have a gambling budget and is only intended for those who make money in gambling so that they need to see how much money is won and how much money is spent so that they will see the difference between winning and losing on their gambling activities and think that whether it is profitable or not if gambling is applied in a profit-seeking plan, one month to one year.

I think most gambling platforms nowadays have some sort of recording our every activities, specially in sports betting. However, in some cases like you play luck based games like slots or roulette and others, I'm not sure how it is recorded. And from what I see, it's just -/+ and then how much money you won/lost. But in any case, or maybe it is just me, I don't recorded my gambling activities.

It might be good though, but for me it might just complicated things for you. Just play what you can afford to lose, and if you win some money then good and keep it or as what others do, buy something out of it and not just go back to gambling again as you might lose everything including your capital.

Casino has a stats page which does this for you for easy track on your gambling activities. Before I do records of my gambling expenses since I want to control the money I’m spending but I stop doing this manually due to redundancy of work since casino provide this data already.

This is proven helpful since you can reflect based on your stats in gambling. Playing without a basis record will surely brought you to messy gambling spending that will result to addiction.

If gambling is for fun then there is no need for such record keeping and calculating  ;D

But if you have seen gambling as a source of income then you can do all that to guide you. However, who survives with gambling as source of income?

Well to calculate gambling tickets and its outcome is good for a guide to check excesses to avoid being an addict for those who are interested to stop but that involves strong emotional capacity to redirect yourself but it won't matter if a gambler calculates all that yet can't control the rate of addiction.

This has been discussed here few times already and yes, knowing what and where you spend will definitely give you an idea of what to do and not, but I don't think we need to track any of these data manually because casinos have stats page which shows overall winnings/losses or even certain time period on some so that is more than enough for a casino player and for sport bettor then it may be needed to segregate their winnings if they gamble on a platform where casino and sport betting available.

Most websites have stats in which you can easily check how much you've won and how much you've lost!
Betfair sportsbook has some really nice reports, you can check on no matter what period you've bet, and shows you the amount bet, the amount won, the returns or the losses as well as the number of bets, you can even sort them.

But rather than those what people should check would be probably how much their balances are at the end of a period, when you start losing and putting more and more and more it's a bad sign!


This is how people run into problems, they say it's fun, it doesn't matter but at the same time they stop checking how much it goes in there and soon they find out they've lost a fortune on "fun" thinking it was juts a couple of hundreds.

I was going to say something similar. As far as I remember, a few weeks ago the same question was posed by another member.

I agree with you that tracking every single bet is not something I do myself, but some people find it useful to feel more confident and make better decisions.

Moral: if it helps you, continue doing it; if it adds stress or makes you overthink in gambling, maybe it's better to take it more easily. We should be here for the fun, not to add more stress in our already stressful lives.

Actually, it’s not really a bad idea if you wish to record your gambling activities, but some people will still end up getting addicted to gambling even if they record their gambling activities, because they won’t really make use of it, so I will say that I don’t think it’s really necessary to record a gambling activity before knowing if you lose often or winning. Right from when you are gambling, if you are losing often, then you are going to know, so it’s left for you to control your gambling activity. Anyone who claims they don’t know if they are gambling more is just deceiving themselves, but it might be useful to some people.

In my opinion, knowing about the statistics that a person is having when they play, can help the person a little to see when they are not performing well and try to improve, but this should not be seen as something in which the person looks at the statistics. and you realize that you are losing a lot, so you should put in more money to recover your losses, because that is what has happened to many people, they look at the statistics and when they notice that they have a lot more losses in relation to their wins, then they think about putting in more money to recover losses, this is a serious mistake. In my case, I always play for fun, so I don't watch my statistics. I probably have a lot more losses than wins, this week alone I had 2 losing streaks, but for me that's not a problem. game for fun

I'm playing to kill time and have fun so I don't see the point of doing this.

Well, IMO it's not good to have a record or keep a track of your gambling activity. Because certainly you'll see that you have more losses than winnings and that can make you regret everything and so it will be hard to move on. But anyway, it still depend on the gambler, since we have different way of thinking and if doing this would be beneficial for you, then so be it.

         -     Well, that's a good idea, op, and as far as I can see, you'll be able to monitor the losses and winnings that come in and out of you when you do that. And through that monitoring,
I also think you will know when you should stop when you are winning or losing when you play gambling.

That's okay for me; approve that to me, and it's good that we can adopt that as gamblers in this field of cryptocurrency business too. And we can also train ourselves to
control our gambling activities.

While you record your gambling activities you can try to stream it and maybe there's some profit for you in that. If it turns out to be a good thing for you it will play a good role in your gambling lifestyle. If it comes just to recording yourself I think that only if you record yourself playing poker can be meaningful. You can look at the hands from a different perspective, analyze some important moments, and all that can improve your poker skills.

I don't see the point of recording yourself while playing lucky-based games, you can keep track of your gambling activities using a spreadsheet. And that is good if you wish better control over your bankroll and the time you spend gambling. That is a good thing for some people for sure, but I am not one of them. When I wish to have some fun gambling I will just gamble and have fun.

Recording your activities in everything, not necessary during gambling is really helpful!

You will know if you're actually a couch potato, spend a lot time in social medias, spend to much money for unnecessary thing, wasting so much time for overthinking etc etc.

In gambling, you will know if you're either earn or loss, gamble too long or not, and spend too much money or not. It just... most people really hate being consistent and they want free life, so they will not able to track their activities day by day.

At first, I thought Op would be discussing about video recording our gambling activity. Saw a gambler who claimed to have used this method to find out the right die to choose in a dice rotating game. Aside this, holding a record of our gambling activity would help a gambler benefit hugely by giving him a view of his past and how he's been wagering money. It's just as close as writing down our expenses on an exercise book. Don't know how this works in limiting excessive spending, but it did work when I tried. Although not in gambling. Similarly a gambler would use this to critically self examine himself with a proven track record of his gambling activities.

I don't record my gambling activity because I can control myself not to playing gambling too often. If I want to playing gambling, I will use some money that I can afford to lose. I will not use too much money to playing gambling because I know that will make me lose that money.

If you thinks recording your gambling activity can helps you to control your gambling habit, you can try it and see what is the result for you. But you needs to have discipline to record your gambling activity every time you finish playing gambling. You must stick to your plan and not use too much money to control your gambling habit.

If you can control yourself in gambling, you will lose your money. That will effects to your financial and reduce your saving in your bank account.

It is on a case-to-case basis. I have a friend who monitors everything regarding finances, what he spends, and how long he spends his time on casinos.
And there are others who allocate what they spend in casinos in terms of money and time, and they follow that strictly so they do not need to be recorded; they already know what to expect, and its result.
I'm more of the latter; I follow my budget and my time, and I don't have to worry anymore, and I don't have to bother anymore.

When you think of recording, you are already serious about gambling. Therefore, it should affect your lifestyle because when you are serious, you are putting in time and effort in order to win. This is like an experiment on your part: you record and evaluate, and every time you see some mistakes, you try to improve until you achieve your desired goal, which is to win consistently. I believe this record-keeping is most applicable in sports betting, but not in games played by luck like roulette, dice, and other popular games that have a house edge.

Degenerate gamblers are never the one who plan and map out their activities or record them to keep track of their wins/losses. They come in for the quick dopamine rush and leave once they bust to find more money to bust again.

Because as soon as they start charting their losses (because profits are rare), they start to understand how horribly they have been losing money from a long time and how much they could have saved by not gambling. Because this hurts their ego, they will never attempt to do it unless they want to change their habits.

However many youtubers who are showing of casinos in their channel do track their games.

There is a possibility that recording carried out in gambling activities will create discipline in gamblers. but maybe some gamblers won't do that. including me also not keeping records, whether it be from winnings or money that I have deposited into the casino.
I only allocate weekly for gambling. So whether I win or lose, I won't deposit again if the allocation I deposited has run out. There is no record of how much I have deposited into the casino during the gambling I have done.
not sure if it helps gamblers who implement their record-keeping.

To answer your question, yes, I do record all my activity in gambling or all I do in gambling. I have created my own spread sheet that will fit me, and I've created such a complex spread sheet that is recording my gambling activities. Well, I do this because I want to keep track of whether the capital I put into gambling is earning or not. For example, I have a tab in my spread sheet for the month of January, so I have allocated funds for my gambling for the whole month, and for every bet, whether I lose or win, I record it so that I can see if I'm nearing losing all the funds I have or if I already doubled my capital. It will be a good practice to do because a gambler will be aware of its own gambling activity and to also prevent too much gambling and too much losses.

I don't know if a gambler who records changes his gambling style? Because I myself do not do this, if you want to see more data then in the casino also actually we can see our gambling activities from deposits/withdrawals and winning/losing bets.

So I don't need to do that and don't need to bother manually doing it, I'm not a calculating person in gambling because this is clearly for fun.
I'm just limiting and trying to manage my bankroll so that's better than your record keeping.

It won't have any impact even if you record and calculate your losses, because when you become a gambling addict you will just continue betting because you don't care about the results you lose. After all, on the gambling platform there is also your gambling history,so you can also control and record it there. But after all, even  though the gambling platform has your betting history, but in reality you will still gamble without any plans to stop. But indeed, because you have experience in betting, then ofcourse you will have strategies and tactics that you believe are good for yourself. So, to change your  own betting style is your own experience, and not about recording losses or anything like that.

I think I saw other topics having the same concern but yes I do have a record of my gambling expenses weekly. One reason is of course, to track the amounts I've been engaging and to avoid  greed and bigger loss. There are times we would be not able to control ourselves in gambling because of our emotions but that's a normal thing and is common to many of us. However, if you're aware of how things are going with your gambling finances, at least it would help you decide whether to continue or take a pause already than to push things to be in accordance with your own will.
It should be strengthening one's discipline however, reality is that such thing is dependent with oneself. If you tend to cross your borderlines even once, then expect that you'd do it more often.  If you are tracking everything and not following the boundaries then you are just wasting your time.

I do not know some people can take gambling seriously. No need to record losses before you will know how much you spend if you have bankroll management. Something like having records of my winnings, losses and of the amount I use to gamble will let me think that I am taking gambling seriously. If I have a business that is generating money for me, I can be serious and have this kind of record but in gambling, I can not have it because it does not even make any sense and it can not help me manage my bankroll on gambling.

This shows how you didn’t understand how the recording works. Recording your gambling progress makes you organized and properly manage the risk you are taking. Most of the people that became addicted are those not looking with their expenses and just aiming for chase loss.

With a record in hard, it can give you an idea on what amount you are losing that will give you control for your next gambling since you are already on losing more money.

I do recording until now to track my PnL. I usually gamble more when I’m near on breakeven while slow down when I’m in profit or terrible lose. This records gives me an idea on the frequency of my gambling.

Going by your suggestion it could be a very good and helpful idea but its really sad that the disadvantage of this can be in the fact that it may become a reason some people would want to get addicted, they would want to chase their losses having realize how much they have lost over a very short period of time and for those who has got little or no control in their gambling activities, they end up chasing losses and turn out addicted at the end of the day. For those who are really disciplined enough, it will help them a whole lot both in their risk management, their ability to be able to control how much they get to spend over a period of time gambling and you can be sure they are a not doin much more than the can handle and possibly spot some mistakes if thereby any at any point such that they will be able to get to get a better approach that will help them eliminate such mistakes and not allow it happen again. Even in trading and other works of life its always a good thing to making sure you are journaling to be able to make sure you are you keep a track record which can always be refrenced in the near future for the purpose it will be serving.

I don't see any benefits it has in keeping records for the games played because you will only be served with a numbers of failed attempts on bets you have played and you will be seeing all these from time to time and gets discouraged that gambling is just a waste of time and money, after realizing for the rate of losses, also, i don't see any positive benefit or serious and interesting implication for doing this, for how long could one keep on compiling the records and on what purpose.

Some might see it as good something, but to me, that's the worst thing for me to get myself involved in. Aside from being time-consuming, it's also painful to realise after checking your last-year record of how much you have spent in gambling and how much was realised, and it's nothing compared, which, if you are to take the fun part aside, you can say that it was a very bad decision you have made over the past year as the money wagered in all games put together could have been put to good use in another thing.

We recommend that we record the history of all gambling every month, including sports gambling and slots, dice and others. This step aims to accumulate all expenditure of funds used for gambling, unless you limit gambling funds from the start by allocating a small portion of your income. Recording gambling history is important for manage finances to avoid addiction to gambling. We call this part of the anticipatory avoidance of the influence of gambling, so we added the anticipatory step point in the self-regulation to avoid the influence of gambling.

Yep, doing such things can bring more focus towards to our gambling activities than what's supposed to be that can even leads to a kind of addiction so better not to do such unless you're thinking that you're spending too much money then track the expenses to find out the truth apart from that keeping it simple is the best strategy cause we don't have any control over the results of betting.

That can only help a reasonable gambler and not the addicted type but the addicted gambler would look at the record and think of himself to win all the loses one day. But the gambler that is not addicted and have other plans to execute would look at it and encouraged himself to stop gambling because for him it is because of the gambling he might have not completed most of his is plans so the best way to do to achieve his goals is to minimize his gambling habit or stopped it.

And as a strategy, it might not work for all because everyone has different mindset to gamble.

So do I, I don't also see by benefits in keeping records of your winning or loss. It still makes you as a gambler to keep on gambling especially when you are losing, it makes you to gamble more because you might think to gain back your losses. However the best way to stay safe is never to check your gamble records. There are people who can't afford to know their gamble records, mostly the lose records. A responsible gambler don't need to check his records because he's a responsible gambler, only an addicted gambler checks his gamble records and when he's losing more than his winnings, he begins to chase lose.

But make it sure that you wont really be that making yourself that impulsive on the moment that you've seen that you are losing that much. The only issue with this kind of behavior on tallying all the gambling record you do have is that you would really be able to see on how much you have lost. Just like on what others been saying on the earlier page that just make it sure that you wont really be that losing that cool and control
on the moment that you are seeing the total money that you have lost. This is the only issue that you would really be needing to control because at the moment that you have seen yourself having that kind of reaction
then it would be better that you should be having that control and discipline. Then it would really be wise that you should be having that kind of tracking.

It would really be just that common sense that on the moment that you would be finding yourself spending that much on which you are already having that kind of regret
then this is where self control would really be kicking in.

Money loves to be counted. In any activity in which money is involved, it is necessary to keep records in order to have an idea of ​​​​current and annual profits and losses. Gambling is no exception, because in this type of activity everything revolves around money. Gambling without money is impossible.

I'm not sure that most gamblers will do this (keep track of gambling expenses). Only a few who treat this as work and not momentary entertainment are able to keep such records of expenses and income. Moreover, over the course of a year or several years. I believe that most will not accept this into their gambler arsenal.

I’m not sure that this "will play a good role to someone's gambling lifestyle", but it will make us realize the amounts that are spent on gambling. Well, or, the amounts that are won (net profit).

Though this theory may sound cool, but I'm one of those who think that keeping records of your gambling lost or winning have nothing to do with  your financial capability of being either buoyant or not, inasmuch as you are able to abide by the rules of always gambling what you can afford to lose, as it's only when a person fails to adhere to gambling what he can always lose that he is likely to go bankrupt, as keeping records only helps you to know how much you were able to spend through out the entire year, and know how much won and lost.

Moreover, a person can still not keep records and yet be a reasonable gamble, hence, this is not a tool which could be considered, but a tool for measuring ones personal statistical monthly/yearly gambling records.

Yes, I believe that keeping track of your games can have a very good effect on your results, and, accordingly, on your life in general. I think a very important point can be to take into account the days when you make losing bets. For example, every Wednesday after training you make not very good bets that incur losses. Because you get very tired and brain efficiency drops and you may not make the most successful bet. This is just an example. This may be different for everyone. Therefore, accounting is very necessary if a person gambles often and for him it is not just entertainment

No, I do not record my game activity but the site I am playing with do the task.  It also shows the total wagered, total deposits, and amount withdrawn.  So I do not jot down all the details of my gambling activities, I just look for my gambling activity history and I can easily calculate if I am winning or not and for how much.



Losing huge amount of money in gambling will really affect anyone that just have an exact amount of earnings to support his daily needs.  Continuous losses can lead to financial devastation that can ruin one's life.  Worst, if the person becomes addicted to gambling because he won't have any control over his gambling activities and just continues to gamble until he loses all.


Having records is indeed a help for gamblers who are into responsible gambling.  But I do not think it will be of any help to people who are not into moderating their gambling activities.

If I do it, it might increase stress and overthinking because I see such a large gambling activity, this does not need to be done, there is no need to trace the previous gambling activity, especially if you record it in 1 year, I might be surprised. Lol

Well that's the most important thing is to maintain control over the bets that are made, don't be too aggressively, however we must have our own responsibilities, even I don't think that the record of gambling activities can have a positive impact on us.

yes, It can, I mean, there are people who would definitely feel more cautious, more aware and in control of their gambling lifestyle if they kept a record of everything they do especially the money they put out when they are gambling, which could lead to a healthier gambling lifestyle. there are also people who will think that keeping a record of their gambling activity is unnecessary but still be able to have a healthy gambling lifestyle.

I don't calculate how frequently I gamble many times because I think it is u necessary. What u very important to me is to make sure I calculate how frequently I win bets and my losses because this is what has been making me to check the list and know I had a clean win for the previous months.

 This very important because it enable me to analyze the way I gamble and see whether I am going to try my luck to tye next month or have to take a rest since too much gambling has it own problem which might not be known until we get to the outcome. This helps me a lot to stay safe and stay careful if I am gambling too much or I have to relinquish from gambling for the next month.

If the recording is done consistently and indeed the recording also includes an evaluation of wins and losses,
it may be able to help gamblers manage their games and bets so that they are not far from the limits that have been made.

But all this time I have personally never recorded my game.
I only play when I am in need of entertainment and do not keep track of how much I spend, because there is very little allocation used for gambling.

But it's a good idea to keep a record of your gambling activity, to find out how you perform when making bets and some gambling games.
That will be quite important data for your gambling.

This will work in different ways depending on the mindset of the gambler, the gambler that has a repentant mindset would feel sorry for his activities and try mending his way to become a more responsible gambler or even quit gambling until he/she can effectively control their urge.

The revenge minded gambler will swear with the last drop of his blood that he must recover everything the casino has stolen from him, it will even make the person increase his pressure and chase it with all tactics and finances available, this will lead to terrible addiction and bigger funds loss. I am in this category, so I don't dare calculate what I loose, I calculate more what I would gain.

This helped me solve my addiction issues when it was going out of hand. I calculated what I would gain if I quitted gambling for a while with my monthly paycheck. It encouraged me to do better and quit gambling for almost three years before returning a more disciplined gambler till date. I know so well that If I had dared calculated my losses, I would've been totally destroyed by gambling addiction by now.

This is an easy stats to keep considering the fact that, gambling sites have got history on all your gambling activities. You’ve just got to look up that function on the gambling site your gambling with, use the right filter to define a period of activity and you would have all your gambling data avail to you. It really isn’t a hard thing to do.
You can proceed to doing the maths with them profit and losses to know just how well your doing or not and what action to take to that effect. It could also help in planning your gambling budget as, this is a necessity for those who are more drawn to gambling. It keeps you in check and guides against gambling addiction.

I get why some folks wanna track all their gambling stats down to the penny.  But me? I just play a little here and there to unwind and pass the time.  The sites I use make it easy enough to peek at my wins and losses if Im curious.  But keeping some elaborate spreadsheet feels like it would suck the fun right outta things.  Im no accountant, I just wanna kick back and see where my luck takes me.  Maybe I end up a few bucks ahead, maybe a few behind and  at the end of the day if I was entertained, I call it a win.

If you gamble for one year and you never take records of games you bet on, you don't need anyone to tell you that you are making losses or profits, you will know how far you are doing because if you are betting and you are winning, your profits will be increasing and so your account balance but if you are losing your games, your balance will continue to remain zero, that should tell you straight away that you are not making money from and gambling and should take a break.

However, if you want to be professional about your gambling tracks,you can take a snapshot of your deposit in every month from your initial deposit. Most gamblers makes deposit to casino mostly to know their initial bankroll, this method is helpful and you can make deposit during the beginning of the month and withdrawal the end of the month, you will know if you have been making progress or just dashing money to casino.

I do not think it is necessary to do this by hand anymore, any casino will have your gambling history available to you from the moment you began gambling there, so the only thing you need to do is to take a look and see if there is any deviation from your plans, and if there is, you need to try to remember what caused you to lose more money that day, see if this is a common occurrence and take the necessary actions to prevent this from happening again.

Some people will say yes and others will say no including me.
A complete record of previous wins and losses could have a negative impact on me personally, if it show that I wins often then it could make me careless because I am too confident when place another bet.
And if there are more losses on the record, it could make me chase the previous losses.
For me, Money Management when gambling is more important than keeping the record of our gambling activity.

At any accounts, being consistent in gambling would always lost you more that winning and that is why we always have to bet with affordable amount so that when it gets lost we don't have to go over and recount all of it and regret at its end.

If gamblers can stipulate a gambling budget based on their incomes, there would definitely be no need for keep historical gambling records unless it has become to affect your savings.

And if it is just about loosing more than winning but not affecting our incomes and savings, then the need for review would only be valid to just keep that memory and not to readjust our gambling habits hence we are comfortable anr not addicted to gambling.

And it will somewhat put pressure on you mentally if you will see how big losses is already, so for me it really doesn't make sense to log everything. Just have it in mind an estimate of your win or losses and that's it. You don't need to get overzealous with your gambling activity that even at sleep you have to think whether you have put everything right or you're just cheating yourself because you don't want to see your losses.

Right, you might also have that perceptive to chase and try to recoup your losses because you have it in record. And this could really turn ugly and bad for you if you this. So for me, I will not spend and wasting time doing this practice.

Of course it will, but it will also depend on your purpose for doing that.
I do have my monitoring before when I'm still new to gambling and I did this for the purpose of helping myself to be more responsible but sooner or later I was not able to update it anymore since I already know how to handle my emotion and I already know how to be more responsible. I believe this can be a big help if you're still a beginner gambler.

That would really be something that would reflect out into your mind on which on the moment that you've seen that you are losing that much or having that big amount then the main thing that comes up into your mind is on how you would really be able to recover those loses and this would really be crawling up into your mind until your emotion would really be kicking in and then it would really be pushing you to do such stuff and this is where things becomes messy on the moment that you would really be tolerating such emotion. This is why it would be better  that you dont track your gambling activity and would really be just that playing according into your budget or allocation on the moment that you do play and dont look back on what you have lost.

If you are really just that spending on the amount on what you can afford to lose  then you wont really be that someone whose that stressful despite of the loses you do have
because you had already that accepted your fate already on which this one is really that a good behavior rather than on trying to peek with those loses you do have.

I think it is beneficial to keep a record of all games played and their outcomes. Having clear records allows a person to be conscious of the frequency of their gambling activity and the amount of money they either lose or gain from the games.

Keeping records like these helps people put together a jigsaw puzzle of their gambling activities. When losses loom large, if they come up as pictures in this jigsaw puzzle, it could be a sign to reconsider and probably change how gambling is done. Viewing financial transactions can be addictive and lead to a pathological situation, so making proper adjustments based on the images can help avoid financial overload and addiction susceptibility.

In my view, chronicling gambling exploits may pave the way for crafting effective strategies or prudent judgment calls. Knowing discernible patterns of victory and defeat could tip one off on when to draw the line or dial down the stakes. All in all, I opine that jotting down details of gambling escapades is a sagacious measure; it can assist one in steering clear of losing their hold on the situation while still indulging in such leisure pursuits with equilibrium.

I generally keep a record of how much I've spent, and that's about it. For gambling specifically I just record the amount I deposit to the casino and write it off as a loss already. It moves depending on how much was leftover during my last session so I guess I also probably should record that. Idk if it helped or not since I've been doing it always, but I suppose it has made managing money a lot easier since everything is always written out. Have a hard time arranging things if I don't.

Casino live games platforms like Evolution usually offer that, each slot has his own history however it's hard for slots to monitor it if you are playing to several games. Slots provider are not offering a central history for all their games played unlike live casino games providers unfortunately. So you would need to use an Excel files or something like that if your casino doesn't offer such feature. But when you play at slots it's almost impossible since usually hundreds rolls are made in one single session, and sometimes even more if you need to play a very long session for a promotion or a tournament
 

I don't record at all and that's why I feel that every penny spent on gambling should just be accepted to go away. There is no need for me to track them all.

As before I gamble, I've already accepted the fate of it so either win or lose, they all not going to my records.

As a person I think it will help you to be more organized. But for a gambling lifestyle, probably but I see more major help to being a person and not a gambler.

The idea that OP thinks is no different from a CCTV record where when you see someone else enter your house and rob you when you are sleeping at night, you will feel stressed because the person is gone. other household items.

That means it can and does cause stress when the OP actually does that, so therefore, it's better not to see how much money has been lost gambling. It's okay that you just know that you lose a lot gambling and you have an idea about the amount rather than seeing the amount, which is too big.

One must not keep record to control their gambling habit and as a responsible gambler what they can also applies is to mark out days, weeks or month to be gambling let say if one can decides to gamble twice per week or four times per month with a channelled amount, like a fixed amount to be used for gambling for those durations given to themselves with this method you can easily know much you are spending for gambling or not spending much, although sometimes one could be touched to stake higher than the amount set aside for the gamble but whomever that does that is not applying responsible gambling practice.

Are you trying to make life and living more complicated? you can choose to keep track of your gambling activities but making it a habit to start keeping a record every time you gamble sounds cumbersome. There are other areas of life where your bookkeeping skills wil really be needed.

In gambling, it is rare and almost impossible that you win more times than you loose except you are cheating, so what is the point in trying to keep a record of your gambling activities when you know what to expect. You will mostly see that you have lost more times than you have won.

In a way I keep a tally of my wins and losses every time I gamble, which as of late isn't that often any more. I do this in adjacent to this system I have imposed upon myself to make sure that my losses are kept in check and my wins are kept safe, so it's not like I record them on a book and keep track of them religiously per se, more so mental counting, "Oh I won 3 times already? Guess I should call it a day then" or "3 losses already? That's a quitter right there"

I keep telling people in this forum about this system I have that I'm not even gonna talk more about it anymore, just gonna gloss over that all because it technically counts as "keeping records of your games" lol.

Personally, I like the idea of keeping record of gambling activity, losses and winnings. It helps you to find how much money you are losing or making from it, so you can adjust your short, medium and long term goals based on it regards your finances. To lose control over your gambling's history prevents you from managing your funds efficiently and realistically.

I think nobody wants to lose track of their money in a point they don't have a single penny on their pockets anymore, because they don't know or don't remember where it has gone... I believe to record expenses is important not only regards gambling activity, but regards every other areas of your personal life. That is how you can organize your finances, define budgets accurately, so you can have a chance to make your portfolio grow along the years.

Recording activities will make a gambler to entertain fear in them, because when keep going back to track your records on amount you had lost and spent on gambling you might be forced to stop gambling especially those who are applying good gambling practice but for those who are known to be addicted gamblers may see it as strength to propel them to recover what they hard already lost, it makes them revived their energy to keep putting pressure to gambling after seeing that they had lost series of money to that gambling site or to any gambling platform.

It can turn out to be good or bad, mostly depending on the personality and the reaction the gambler has to losses, because in the end, it is very likely a summary of one's gambling activity in a month or a week would show losses. According to those losses the gambler can either decide to use less money and reduce their chances of winning big,.but also curving those losses. On the other hand, a bad reaction aster seeing a streak of losses on a spreadsheet could unleash a very negative feeling or urge to get all that money back from the casino. The result would be inevitably a  spiral down further economical instability.

This is a topic which has been touched in other threads and my opinion continues to be the same: it is better to let go losses and move on, otherwise, we are in danger of trying to chase after them, either at slow or fast pace.

if we decide to do such thing then we may decide not to gamble anymore because we all know that there is more lose than wining in gambling, meaning if we properly understand the meaning of keeping those record, it will kill our moral or causes us  emotional problem.  so it's better off not to practice such thing than starting up .

although I can no deny the fact that such strategy may help some people, but in my case I find it not worthy of trying at all. the aspect I dislike about this strategy, is that the more you try to check out your previous games the more you lose interest in gambling because there will be more lose which the amount would have been used for other important things. but the strategy is also good in the sense that it will spice you up to take correction from the past mistakes and organise a more accurate prediction tips than before.
 

It's good to track your bets regularly or even the amount you spend on gambling because it's easy for gamblers to break their limit and overspend while playing.

Even for casual gamblers, it's worth having one and it doesn't take much effort to get started since you can search for templates.

One of the few downsides I can recall is that it gets tedious if you're the kind of gambler who intensely gambles.

I think it is great idea to keep record of your gambling activities including your wins and losses too. With tracking your gambling history will help you to identify patterns which you made and can give you a will to make good decisions about your gambling habits. Abd with calculating your total losses you can realize financial impact of your gambling habits and can motivate to reduce your spending. Further more recognizing emotions of losses can help you avoid developing addictive behavior for gambling. Keep record can serve as valuable tool for responsible gambling allow you to set boundaries and make good choices about your gambling activities. It is simple yet effective way to promote accountability and mindfulness in your gambling lifestyle.

Yes, it is very helpful, but unfortunately it is rare for gamblers to take notes every time they gamble. Someone who considers gambling as a game of fun does not need to record every loss they experience because if someone considers gambling as a game of fun they will not exceed the limit which causes their finances to be disrupted and the gambling they play will remain safe but if someone considers gambling as a place to make money they must record the losses they experience in order to manage their gambling well and prevent experiencing large losses.

People need to be disciplined if they want to record their gambling, but it is rare to find people who are truly disciplined in doing this, even though this actually has a big impact on financial management and we can control our money so we don't gamble excessively. Sometimes people find it difficult to control their finances because they are not aware of the money they have lost, which causes them to experience unstoppable losses because they do not see how much time they spend gambling.

It does. It will always be essential if you keep track of your gambling activities as well as your gambling expenditures for you to be fully aware how far you have been gambling in terms of financial status. Especially for the married man, it is important to get a record of your gambling expenses to avoid getting short with all the necessary expenses in the household.
It is not that we are trying to avoid ourselves from getting addicted as our primary concern in doing this, but it is basically to control our gambling expenses.
No matter how many hours you spend on gambling each week, as long as your expenditures are within the reach, I think you're always gonna be fine.

Of course, accounting will be a good practice for those who identify gambling as a way to make money. If a person regularly analyzes winnings and losses, making calculations of profits or losses, then this should be a good signal for him whether it is worth continuing to gamble. In addition, an indicator will be the calculation of the amount he "earns,"  whether the amount really suits him or if it just trifles. However, I am sure that such indicators will vary from month to month. But if the statistics are still unprofitable, then it would be fair to abandon games and stop considering them as "earnings”.
For those people who play for fun and understand that games are just a moment of luck and nothing more, no accounting is needed.

Track our gambling activities will be important to know how much money we can use to gambling. But that will not easy as it say because we must discipline to manage our money and will not break our rules. The key here is how to allocates your money to be used for playing gambling and with your expenses so you will not use much money to playing gambling while you can fills your daily needs.

Track gambling activities can also helps us to check how much our losses and wins so we can start reducing our losses by limits our money to playing gambling. Maybe it will difficult for the first time because we must write all of things related our gambling activities so we can do that as our daily routine. But that will worth to do as that can be our helps to control our gambling activities.

I don't actively do it because I already have a program that does it for me, Poker Tracker.

But it seems to me that the average casino user is not going to do it because the way they bet is more emotional than rational. If someone were to use a similar program or use an Excel to keep track of total bets, wins and losses, they would see a clear tendency to lose money in the long run. The more you bet the more money you lose. So the logical conclusion would be to stop betting. But as I say, as successful as the gambling industry is, I think most gamblers don't even want to see that. They want to keep betting for the thrill of the game.

The truth is that I've never taken a record of my gambling activities and I don't think I will start now because I see no reason for it. But regarding your question, I say that it can't be bad keeping records. Keeping records whether useful or not can't harm you, especially such like this that can be used to evaluate one's performance for improvement.

But I hope the keeper of this kind of record can actually utilize it because if you keep it from now till 50 years, if you are not finding the purpose for it to achieve the goal of evaluation, then that is a waste. I said that because I have a few friends who keep records at random, but most times, the moment they have the record is the moment they forget it there, to the point that they have too many records stored but still not improving in their gambling.

On another thought too, this can lightly be recorded in our minds, and when we are serious about a change or improvement, we can easily achieve that without recording too much. I often do this silently and immediately I cite an error, I correct it in my next try and it has been positive in all my online risky activities.

No matter how small their budget is for gambling, in my opinion it is mandatory to record their activities in their expenditure as a reminder to them, if they experience continuous losses they will reflect on what they have recorded so far and how much they have spent so far. to gamble. In fact, people who have played sometimes find it difficult to control their money because they lose when they play and at that time they continue to add to their deposit to play again, this is what makes them fall deeper into bankruptcy.

Instead of having to take notes in my opinion it is quite complicated, because sometimes it is very lazy to write especially talking about gambling which incidentally will forget about something else when you want or have played.

It's better to do budgeting and gambling, for example in one month you will use how many percent for gambling so you don't need to record every time you deposit, it's quite complicated, because if you already have a budget maybe you will also easily calculate the exact amount you will use for gambling either one month one year or however long you will be able to see the probability of spending.

Discipline people will budget their monthly money for gambling, so they already know how much money they can afford to lose. Sometime they track their gambling activities.

But, indiscipline people will not budget their monthly money, they will spend how much money they want. If they didn't budgeting, I really doubt they want to track their gambling activities since it require more effort.

I could be discipline even if I will not track my gambling activities. What I would do is very simple, I'll allocate a certain percentage of my income to gamble and when I consume it all, I will take a break and will start again once I have an income. IMO, the point of tracking our activities is to determine the profitability, so if we were able to mange our bankroll right and our tracking report resulted to a profit ( like more wins than losses) then that's the time we have to consider making gambling as serious venture, but I'm referring to gambling that we can use our skills, like sports betting.

       -     You have a point, mate, even if it's just for me, and since I'm not addicted to gambling, but I only play when I want to have fun or pass the time, I also think that I don't need it.
I will record the gambling I do, especially if the money I gamble is limited.

That's what a responsible gambler is supposed to be, right? That's why I do the same; it's also a good habit to get used to because we can control the money we want to lose while gambling, and it's really just a bonus if we're lucky enough to win in the end while gambling.

When a gambler forgets to track how he's been spending or wagering money in the casino. It'll be a difficult time for the player to know if he's been making nice monetary moves or not. The period spent in recording these expenses also helps in reminding the gambler the importance of staying cautious about his gambling habit. Writing down numerous times huge amount of money in the record openly shows the gambler he's been making mistakes. And as well, know, where all his money has been headed to. It's better known than not aware. This then pushes the player to cut down his expenses. As a daily reminder works magic in changing people's bad gambling habit. It's quite a responsive means of examining our gambling behavior.

For accuracy, since the recording should be done immediately after every gambling session of the day, I don't think there is a possibility of such a thing leading to gambling addiction; it's just record-taking after all and nothing more than that.
 
Let's take, for instance, if I gamble three times a week and each day I gamble, I bring out my notepad and take record of the activity, both the loss and the winning of that very day, and such a record continues for the whole week until it extends to the end of the year.
 
It will only take me a little time to compile the entire record to see if I have been spending more on gambling or if I have actually won something over that period. I don't see this leading to gambling addiction from my own point of view.

Sorry, but I do not think keeping such record will play any positive role In a gambler's lifestyle, or in that life of the gambler rather.

I personally have always believed that some things in life are better left either said or unrecorded, and our gambling activities are one of those things I believe that it's better not to keep a record of it, most especially if you don't want to ever feel heartbroken that you may start to or want to consider quitting gambling, this opinion may be completely different for some other people, but it is the best for me because, I do not gamble majorly as a means of making money, I sometimes gamble just to have fun, and it makes no sense keeping a record of money I spent on just to have fun.

Probably this method can be useful for some people because they can calculated how much money they spent in gamble but unfortunately it won't work for me and previously i have been done it and just like majority people at here that my lost statistics is higher than my winning statistics but i just realized what i am done is useless for me because when i see the amount of money i have spent on gambling it stresses me out then after that i have decide to stopped doing that because for me self control and discipline is more necessary in gambling besides that i never set my mind to gamble to earn money because it can makes me under pressure while i am lost so for me just gamble with money that can afford to lost and for fun and entertainment and if i am lucky then i would be very happy and cashout my money but if i am lost then let it be and leave the game

Not everyone can keep a record of gambling activities especially those who become addicted to gambling. But there are some people who occasionally gamble they definitely keep this in mind. A few days ago i saw someone's gambling records but there were more wins than losses. I forbade him to always bet on gambling but he was more encouraged by this record. When you have a high winning record you will always rush to place bets on gambling.

Anytime we see winning more than our lose we will always be happy to gamble more because we have a good gamble records. When one is a responsible gambler he will not be worried to check his bet history because he already knows he's a responsible gambler. One who's not a responsible gambler shouldn't check his gamble records because it might make him or her to chase his loses.

But make it sure that you wont really be able to make yourself that being impulsive at the moment that you are seeing that your loses is keeping on piling up, because usually people do become that impulsive at the moment that they would really be able to see for themselves that their loses is getting bigger then this is where they would really be that becoming even more impulsive about on the actions that they are making. Instead on trying out to see those tracking for the sake of monitoring that they should stop but it do ended up on that different situation on which they are really that ending up on chasing up those loses because they've seen that they
had lost so much. If  you could be able to control that urge then its good but if you do saw that you are already that chasing then this one isnt that good for you.

Tracking with your gambling activity is something not really that a bad idea as long you do able to control your mind and emotions then there would really be no issues for you to be able
to encounter because the only shit thing that could happen is on the moment that you would really be chasing up your loses.

Maybe, I can't say for sure, because I've never tried it at all. however, it seems that having gambling management is a very good thing for gamblers. specifically, for those who actively bet regardless of the type of game. Well, whatever the gamblers' ideas, the bottom line is that the gambling we do doesn't have a bad impact. the point is, maybe this idea will really help us gamblers. however, I really have never done it. The problem is, it all depends on how we act about this hobby. I mean, if we as gamblers don't have good control over the gambling we do, whatever idea we have for managing gambling, whether it's like what you discussed in this discussion, we will always encounter various obstacles.

But there's no harm for someone to try it, even though it's not a mandatory habit. That's why I'm saying that it's possible that we can apply things like this to help us, even though we always encounter obstacles and difficulties in controlling the gambling we do. This idea can help, but it all comes back to the gamblers. The problem is, something that is not mandatory is difficult for us to conceptualize. Even staying committed and consistent is quite complicated for us to apply, especially when we bet, whether we win or lose. So, so that ideas like the ones we discuss run as they should. It requires commitment and consistency in its implementation, especially for someone who actively gambles.

What's the whole point of keeping these records???

Is this going to be used as some kind of evidence that your bookie is scamming you or something ::)

Tbh, sorry to say this but this sounds amateurish because the second you start counting your losses over a session of gambling...trust me the next step will be you trying to recover that money... and if you ask any experienced gambler, they will tell you it never ends in your favor when it comes to chasing losses!!

Though not to overlook gambling history, this act can actually help to establish which markets you are making profits or know which markets hit you the most so that you can avoid...

I think that he just wants to keep track of how much money he lost on a given month. Some people need that to stop dreaming and go back to solid ground.

I don't do that because I treat each session as a separate event. When I end it, I withdraw the money and next time I start playing I remember that last time and how much I made/lost.

I do not not think keeping such records will be of help to some people, it might even make things worse. I remember my early days in the university when I would gamble without any wins, I didn't feel good about it. The few times I won were just like a compensation for all the bad days, keeping such records would not be helping matters.

What then is the point of keeping records of your gambling activities if you aren't going to restrict your gambling activities? Gamblers who chase losses already know that they have more losses than they've won so far but they keep playing hoping to cover up such losses. Keeping such gambling records might be useful to some people, but many others would be triggered or motivated by such records to gamble even more than they should.

Yes, just like me on which it is really something that i dont want to do on the moment that i have lost money on which i wont really be tending to look back because it would really be that making things worst on which on the moment that you've seen that your loses are becoming bigger then it would really be that impulsive and the worst thing is that you would really be that playing even more on which it would be causing even more loses.
This is why it would be important that on the moment that you are playing gambling then you should really be that not tending to look back on how much you do lost. Just make it sure that the amounts that you are using is really just that only on the amount that you can afford to lose and not something that spending your life savings on which majority is really that been doing and this is why they do mess up.

You should really be that careful when it comes to gambling whether you would really be tracking your activity or not. The main key on here is that moderation and control with your mind and emotions.
Because if you dont have these things then most likely you would really be that losing money and something that could mess up your life if you wont be that careful on the actions that you are taking.
This is why you should really be that considerable on taking up such decisions or steps.

Those who chase their losses are addicted gamblers, and addicted gamblers don't care about such things, they never keep records. Record-keeping gamblers are responsible and disciplined gamblers because when you keep records of your gambling wins and losses and the deposits and withdrawals, it means that you want to understand how much you are spending, how much you have lost or won, and what you need to do to improve your gambling habits so that you don't lose a lot of money, maybe gamble less or with less money.

Besides, this is only done by gamblers who are gambling for money, they care about their wins and losses because they are in it for the profits, those who gamble for fun and to get some entertainment would barely need to keep records of their wins and losses, for them, if they win, it's a bonus, and if they lose, it's just their gambling budget being lost.

Why do you think it’s mandatory? Keeping gambling records is optional, and I don’t have any record of my gambling activities, all what I have is gambling budget, and immediately I used up the budget which I set to gamble with in a day, week, or month, then am going to stop gambling for that moment because I know have already reached my limit. But am not discouraging keeping gambling records, but you shouldn’t say it’s mandatory, maybe people that didn’t keep their gambling records won’t gamble responsibly, or will end up being addicted to gambling. I will say most gamblers hardly keep their gambling records, I can’t imagine writing down if I win in a particular bet or lose.

Keeping a record is a good practice because it will be beneficial for evaluating your gambling activities for a specific period. It will also help in budgeting and fund allocation to gambling. But I see this action as unnecessary and time-wasting because I gamble with an insignificant part of my income. I don't also need to keep records to be a responsible gambler because I gamble constantly with what I can afford to lose. The gambling history in my account is enough to show how I have gambled over time. I can only keep records of my business activities, gambling is merely for fun.

Anyway, I think people suffering from gambling disorders should consider recording their gambling activities. This move will go a long way in helping them to track how they have fared over a while. Addiction therapists might need this information to determine how far these people are recovering from addiction. This information will be beneficial for the therapist to know the next therapy to administer on his patients.

Yes of course not only in gambling, keeping tracks of records of an activities can be very good as it shows how much of your progress and success along side with your weakness , which will enable you to make an adjustment or readjustment, such practice is a very crucial one when it comes to gambling it keeps you in check of how much of your resources, energy and time that you are allocating to gambling in order for you not to form a victim of indulging irresponsible gambling practice. Thanks @ the op for bringing or reminding us of the important of records keeping as regards to our gambling activities.

Most or I would say all casinos now have the betting history and records of your bets inside their platform, this feature is very important in all casinos and would show you detailed betting information for last 6 months or more. Usually most gamblers are using different casinos at the same time, so all you have to do is calculating the total amount from all the casinos. I really suggest for anyone to keep record on your gambling bets and activity, for a main reason which is monitoring your activities to control them.
Personally, I have even recorded video clips on my bets, especially higher stake bets, eventually, having a total statement about that would happen you adjust it much easier. Mostly, you would see how much did you spend and how much you could withdraw from gambling.

Isnt it a standard thing? About bet history and on how much you have bet or simply your gambling stats? Yes, there might be some cut-off with those information but most of them would really be showing those histories on which you could really be able to check out on which means that you would really be needing to tally manually on your own because you could directly check it out for yourself whether you had already spend up that much or not. Some couldnt really be able to see or check it out but it would really be that hard to believe on. Just like on what most people been saying on here is that having a tracking is good but
make it sure that you wont really be that losing your cool on the moment that you have seen that you are losing that big. People do mess up their lives on the moment that they've seen
that they had lost so much and trying out now to recover it on which this is a huge mistake that to be done.

You are right because when someone lose some money, their minds will telling them to try to recover their lost money, no matter if they deposits more money. They must control themselves and trying to leave the casino before it's too late for them to realizes that they getting deeper in the casino. They must prevent the big lose that can happens so with stops playing gambling, they can holds their lose and will not gets more losses. They can record their gambling activities but they must do that every time they playing gambling and that will not easy as they can reminds about their wins or lose.

Tracking your gambling activity can helps you to realizes that you must not use too much money to playing gambling. There are no guarantee you can wins easily in gambling but you can lose your money in short time. You choose what you wants but you must realizes about the risks behinds of playing gambling excessively. Besides that, you must control your mind and emotions so you will not get tempts from gambling easily.

When I make investments, like a few ones I am currently into, or if I add more money to my business, I always keep track of the monthly turnovers. If I am making a budget for my needs and spending every month, I keep records on frequent occasions, but in terms of gambling, I don't keep any records. I can only have a budget to spend $5 today on gambling, but after that, nothing like record-keeping. I can't even remember the exact amount I won in my last spot bet unless I go back to my casino to check for the record there. 

I don't actually think that keeping a record of one's gambling activity can help the person be a better gambler.

Yes, if one tracks his weekly or monthly gambling activities and calculates the total amount of dollars he has lost and won gambling in those days, he will know for himself whether he should continue gambling. I tracked my activity for a few days and saw that my losses were very high since then I have reduced the amount of gambling. Having a bad gambling addiction I made a decision to take out a bank loan to gamble which gave me a huge hit and motivated me to quit gambling. weaning yourself off gambling can be a smart task by monitoring gambling activity

I believe it's not worth it to track how much money someone losses in gambling in a given month because such approach can dishearten some gamblers and it may cause fear in their mind if they lose a lot of money.

The fear of loss always create negative vibes and those negative vibes won't allow anyone to win even next month. Such gamblers end up losing even more next month or somehow get addicted to tracking of those losses.

Interestingly said, talking about the record strategy it's effective as it may seem. Just confirming from you about how effective it could be in pointing out how hard we've lost in gambling and as well lead us to reduce our gambling habit. But, in your statement above, was wondering if the addiction which led to going for loan came after you've been recording your activities or before? Just curious. Needful to understand carefully how effective this would be in minimizing gambling addiction and promote self examination for gamblers.

Usually people track and record how much money they lose in gambling because they never realize that gambling is full of risks, so when they experience defeat there is a different feeling within them, namely that they feel they have lost, it is clear that they are not really prepare themselves thoroughly when gambling, at least consciously accepting all the risks when gambling so that there is no need to record, let alone record losses and money that has been lost in gambling, it is clear that it will be useless.

Another reason for those who record and record all their losses is because they want to try to get back the money they lost by continuing to play and hope to get a big win to be able to return all the money they have lost, but in fact it is rare for anyone to stop when they lose. gamblers get big wins, because greedy behavior will definitely make them keep trying to get more and there will be no end until they really run out of all their money and assets, they will realize that what they are doing is useless, all gamblers should be able to enjoy gambling as something fun and also make sure to use money that is ready to lose, it is much safer.

It’s a good practice. But I feel many gamblers are lazy like me. For us doing so much hard work is really a pain. Yes, how we can measure the profits is that if we deposit more and withdraw less, then we can consider that as making losses, and on the other hand, if we win bets and make good withdrawals, then we consider that as profit. I am at least doing this for many years. But to be honest, keeping records can really help you to manage your finances and do strategic gambling.

I agree; I've never bothered keeping a record and probably never will. I set a budget and try to stick to it; everything else is completely optional. First of all, I don't really care about what my winning ratio is; thus, I don't feel like there's a need for me to record my bets, whether that's sports betting or regular casino games. What's most important to me is how much money I've spent and how much I've won or lost during my time at the casino, something that is offered in your account's statistics.

If we are diligent enough, then we can do it, record every money we use for gambling, but if not then that's no problem, because as said, this is optional. Just by setting a budget, in my opinion, it helps us at least have an idea of ​​how much money we spend on gambling every month.
In my opinion, the most important thing is how we can control ourselves as best as possible. because even if we record every expense we make every time we gamble and at the same time we can't control ourselves, then in my opinion it will also seem useless. Maybe we even get stressed every time we see the money we spent in our notes. That's not good for our mentality in my opinion. But once again this is a choice where if we want then we can do it, and if not that's not a problem either. Because the most important thing is how we can control ourselves as best as possible when gambling.

Sometimes that can be a little harmful because we would be seeing things as if they were patterns or as if it were something that must be fulfilled and if we train our Brain to see things as a Pattern I think it can go wrong, I say this from my own experience, at first when I played dice I did a control like this, of course with each movement I would write it down, not record it, it just took me more time,  in this case things turn out the same but as we look for errors and say what would have happened if we had made another move? maybe the result would have been the Same , because of what they call: "house advantage".

The only reason for recording gambling activities imo is to track how much is lost and to realize when to stop, when it is enough for this week or month. All other stats are so random and unconstant, that it is impossible to build any analisys on that. I hope everyone understand, that there is no win strategy from result analysis in gambling.

Yes, it can be very useful and able to have positive impact on gamblers who really have wise and responsible attitude towards all the results of gambling activities that have been carried out and of course they can take into account what should be done in the future to improve.
But for those who have quite high emotional temperament and gamblers who measure everything in terms of profits and are unable to accept any bad results, I would say that it is not recommended.
I think that those who are more easily emotional in certain conditions and are unable to accept every bad result or the amount of loss that is certain when calculating the amount of loss can make them feel like they don't accept it and in the end they feel emotional about betting again to recover the loss.
This kind of thing is quite worrying and whatever it is, if gamblers cannot behave well it will only have worse impact.

After all, this is just game and gamble, if always do it with excessive ambition it can also give you deep disappointment because gambling always makes the gamblers themselves have very small chance of winning.
It better to forget about wins and losses, think about coming to deposit money just to have fun and this can be much more meaningful.

Absolutely right, I also don't understand how strategies can be in general in gambling where slots and roulette, or betting ged bets.
Therefore, there is no point in collecting statistics.

The only thing that needs to be recorded and analyzed is your income and expenses for the casino.
To understand how much I can spend next month on gambling, and so that there is no damage to my usual household expenses, such as Food and Rent.

Rather than recording the number of losses and the number of wins, I’d say record the amount you lose and the amount you win. This is how you can truly tell if you’re on the winning side or on the losing side. And I know that this will help curb gambling addiction and activities if the gambler notices that over the past months, despite not feeling like they’ve been losing, they have actually lost a lot.

For gambling enthusiasts or people who frequently gamble every day and have even made gambling their hobby, it is certainly not wrong to want to record the number of losses and wins they have experienced while gambling. But for those who only gamble for entertainment with small capital, I think people like that will not make notes about it because maybe they consider it to be something that is not important. But if this can relieve a little of his addiction to gambling, of course it's not a problem to make a few notes for himself as a final reference.

No, because I don't see any benefits we get from doing this. But what will happen is that it only reminds us of the losses we experience which could bother our minds and frustrate us. Of course, I don't say I was afraid of remembering those things but I choose to forget all those bad experiences that I have rather than it always appears in my mind. To forget helps to start a new beginning by doing it in the right way and by learning from the mistakes we made in the past.

I don't know if someone did this give them huge changes or make them win more. But what I believe that it is not necessary to do is because keeping it in our memory couldn't help but instead, it will only give us a reason to hate ourselves.

Yes ofcourse. In fact tracking your expenses is a good habit and helps you to manage your money.
At the same time, you need to be well determined to control yourself from gambling when you see that your losses are going out of your budget.
You also need to plan out in advance in case you see more number of losses than expected.
Keeping a track of your gambling activity will not only help you monitor your losses but will also prevent you from becoming a gambling addict.

This is only applicable for those huge capital gamblers in order to monitor their progress, keeping a record is safe and secure as well as the visibility will be more clear if a gambler got massive wins or loss. However, this might stress a person upon seeing the trend with gambling records because not most of the time you'll be lucky enough to showcase the winning streak. Losing streak might have affect your gambling lifestyle, the same manner with different hard core gamblers. Meanwhile, I wouldn't suggest this to soft hearted gambler because they'll be affected emotionally if can't handle during stressful situations.

Not necessarily. You can still track your gambling activities even without starting with a small amount. It’s up to you. As a gambler, sometimes we ambitiously think we can turn gambling into a sustainable activity, like making a living from it. If that is the goal, you cannot just start with a large amount of money without ensuring you can already do it. You need to be consistent to be profitable, so you need to experiment first by starting with a small amount and then gradually increasing when you feel confident that you are making money.

What's important is that you don't let your emotions affect your game plan. You need to be smart and follow your strategy with discipline, so you won't panic when you experience a losing streak.

Keeping a record of gambling activities is really important because every losing or winning situation and saving all the activities can surely bring good for future. Most of the times we don't like to keep records especially when we lose. But if you keep a record of all the times you lose at gambling, it will be easier for you to conduct yourself more carefully in the future.
As important as keeping a tally of every loss is for you, keeping a record of your wins anywhere will give you a strong sense of self-confidence. Basically your experience increases with time and the desire to win but the experience of losing should fade away.

You are right mate. As far as gambling is concerned, what everyone one needs is self control and not records from the past gambling activities. Every gambler have had their bad days in gambling and they alone understood how it made them feel. Such feeling should be enough to make them be more careful in their next gambling session and gamble under control in order not to exceed a certain amount or time duration. Ignoring this very important attribute to just keep records of all gambling activities will only make the gambler gamble more.

We don't need to wait till our losses become huge before we decide on the right steps to take. Gambling right is supposed to be something every gambler should take seriously irrespective of the size of your income. Is it better we stop gambling when enough damages have been done already? A conscious mindset everyday we gamble is what we need to stay safe.

If you don't keep a record or don't check it, do it once and you will know how much you have gambled in six months or one month, how much money you have lost, and how much money you have won if you have an idea. If you are losing more than you are winning, then you will think about spending your hard-earned money on a different activity or a place where you are not sure that you will ever win. No matter how much money one has, I don't think any person can close their eyes and invest their money somewhere.

Whether circumstances are good or bad, in good conditions, the money spent is not known and there is no regret. Already keep track of your activities so that you can realize how much you have been spending on your activity and whether it has been costly or not.

If you're doing that, it's a good move because it gives you an idea of how much money you're losing and how much money you're winning. bet and we win we may make the same bet again and we win even if it doesn't happen every time but it is easy and this way the chances of winning also increase and most of all, the important thing is that we keep track of whether we are making a profit or a loss.

First of all, I am against gambling, I think gambling should not be considered a good habit, it is a risky path where there is a chance of falling at any time but still, those who play, those who play carefully, do not lose much more than those who gamble blindly and lose and only realize it when they are empty. So keeping track of the process might help.

This is a great way to get a gambler away from gambling. Everything in history is recorded or stored. If records or data are to be kept, a gambler keeps a record of his losses or wins. Then he will come to realize at some point, the difference between his victory and defeat and how he has destroyed his own life. With this record book, a gambler can easily take account of the profit and loss happening in his life and he can easily wean himself from gambling by seeing this information.

Do you really think that an addict will stop gambling after seeing the numbers? It's like hoping that someone ugly will stop trying to get a date after seeing his face in the mirror :D
I know a guy who smokes 2 packs a day and one time when we were having a beer I did the math and told him how much money he's losing monthly and yearly and that he could save up for a new car or something if he quit. He was surprised how much that was, but did it stop him from smoking? No!
I don't record my wins and losses, but I have a rough estimate in the back of my head. I don't need to check it to know I'm doing good.

Partly, you have a good point with your opinion but that doesn't fit to most gamblers not all people can adopt with your mindset. We can't motivate a person by just saying don't let emotion affect the game plan, yes it really will affect by most weak hearted individuals. Their aim is always winnings, because they always thought gambling could profit them all the time, that's why frustrations always happens just because they're ambitious and got a wrong perspectives. It's hard for a gambler to become smarter enough, maybe if they'll mature enough and experience should be the most important aspects.

What ever it is, recording of gambling activity would do for the rich same it'll do for the low roller. Nothing differentiates these players when it comes to strategical moves. Money is the only unique thing about these two types of players. Hence, if a low roller learns to track his gambling activity, he'll get the following benefits; documentation, change in wagering habit, if.high, and references. Gamblers who keep records feel a bit more accountable to how much has left them for gambling reasons. This can minimize the rate a player involves in the gambling. Players who don't keep record may not have the hardcopy of their gambling activities. Casinos also shows on dashboard how much a player has spent gambling.

When it comes to tracking then it would really be applicable to all or something that do talks about having no exemption with this kind of thing. It is really just depending on how someone would really be applying those things on the moment that they would do gambling. It would really be always significant that you would be needing to have that kind of moderation and control towards gambling specially on the moment that you would really be spending money with it or else you would really be that putting yourself into those potential problems or issues on the moment that you would really be that impulsive or losing up control on the moment that you would really be playing or doing gambling. Everything should be traced up and should be in control so that you wont really be facing up any issues or problems.

I remember when I was deeply into gambling, it was actually the records of the bets that I have placed that actually opened my eyes and view that my habits are actually getting of hands because if it was just me I was actually confident and okay thinking my habits are still okay but it wasn't until I decided to check the records that I knew something was actually wrong and I needed to adjust it.

Anything that helps you to track your overall performance and how much money you are spending is cool, and everyone has their own way that does the trick for them.
Although i don't understand how that would differ from personal statistics that most casinos are already offering and tracking. Maybe if you want to track the games you are losing more than you realise, because i am pretty sure we don't need a wonder what games are bringing us most money, as we tend to go for those automatically.

But i can't be the only one that would need to cut out some games where i am losing more than i realize, because i mostly remember the winnings only.

If you are planing to go ahead and do this. May i suggest searching for betting tracker templates from google sheets. I have some of those ready if i ever need to watch my gambling closely. Currently i have just made customised google sheet for balancing my budget, which includes gambling, and that's are working just fine.

If you are mostly betting online, it is now quite easy to track your spending habits as you can already see it in your deposit history. Now, if you want to know that you are getting something out of it, you can check the withdrawal history if your betting activities are really worth your time.

Recording may be good for others but if you feel you don't have the time for it, you can always observe how much you are allocating to your gambling activities per week or per month. And how much is going back. If you feel you are spending much without getting most of it, better contemplate if you still want to live with this kind of lifestyle.

In terms of business, a yearly profit or loss is calculated by calculating how much I sold, how much I bought, how much product is left, and I think it should be calculated in the same way in gambling. Like how many gambles I played in a month, how many results went in my favor, how many went against me, how many matches I won, how much profit, how many losses, how much loss. If we can calculate in this way then at the end of every month we will have a clear idea whether we are moving in the right direction or in the wrong direction in gambling. I think most gamblers do not calculate this but it is very important for every gambler.

This should be done easily by all gamblers but in fact many people are too lazy to calculate all their gambling activities, for example if they spend all their money they may have calculated it all and in fact most gamblers always store everything in their brain memory rather than recording it, indeed There's nothing wrong with doing this because it can help manage our finances properly so we don't gamble excessively and regularly limit our budget so we don't become addicted to gambling or other bad things that could happen to us if we don't try to do that.

Every gambler's view is never the same but they can do it if they want, after all not many people like mathematics or calculations, even I am a little happy with calculations but I still don't calculate all my gambling activities starting from my expenses. The wins I got were even different, to be honest, I have another way, namely just using a mindset to be able to overcome myself so that I remain well controlled, I only think that the gambling I do is just for entertainment, that's why I only gamble on weekends with a predetermined budget and most importantly using money I was ready to lose so there was no need for me to calculate everything.

Yeah the online digital casino do have such features, but not sure if every gambler cares to utilize such tool to their own good. It's been there for over these years where most people get addicted to gambling. Confirming how little in number people who care about this feature is, and it works for them. However, I know of some people who won't put extra effort towards implementing this if they weren't computing the data themselves. Let's say a player can memorize easily what he wrote down on inserted on a computer, than the provision made in the casino. It's more like an obligatory behavior to help gamblers stay always in touch with their gambling ethics.

At first I wanted to agree with you, but now I think that not all casino or betting games are solved by luck. For example, poker has many strategies and you can follow a different style of play: aggressive or passive, for example. And these styles can be different in terms of profitability for one person. If a poker player records his results, he will be able to understand in which style it is more profitable for him to play. Thus, it makes sense to write your gambling results in a notebook, because this way you can learn more about yourself and your statistics.

Well, what you said is true. If one actually keeps track of their gambling losses for like a year, the person can realize that they have actually lost a lot of money, and it could even be more significant than the profits that were made, but all the same, I can say that 80%–90% of gamblers don't do that. Everyone is carried away by the sense of winning and fun that is derived from gambling activities, so they don't care much about how much is lost or won. But even if you keep such records, what will you do with them? Well, the question is, what are you keeping the record for? Is it so that you will stop gambling or what? Just enjoy your gambling as fun and focus on a more serious source of income to replenish your account with the money you spend on fun activities (perhaps gambling). 

It plays an important role but many gamblers will try to just play the game and won't record it anymore. I am one of those who gave up on recording my betting history because it's another work that I always forget to do. Might as well just stop it and try to remember the amount I lost in a week and use that as my record if I am in profits or in loss.
In sports that have a long season before it ends, it can become a nauseous thing to do especially if you know to yourself that you are on a losing streak. Recording the results becomes a lazy thing to do because we don't want to remember the loss that we had. But there was a time I completed recorded one event and I think that was during the FIBA basketball games. The results are low profits because of how unpredictable the games are.

Nobody likes doing math. But knowing where your money goes is a must. Whether its poker or picking stocks, if you're losing, you gotta know how much. Its a wake-up call, a reality check. It keeps you honest. It keeps you from getting in over your head.

Some people like to throw a few bucks around for fun. Nothing wrong with that. Weekends, after work, set a limit, have some fun. But thats the key word: limit. Thats where your family comes in. They'll tell you straight if you're going overboard.

Remember, you're only gambling with what you can afford to lose. Thats the golden rule. You're not betting the rent money or your kid's college fund. You're respecting yourself, your family, and your wallet. Thats what I call being responsible. Thats how you gamble smart and keep it fun.

So are you indirectly saying we should treat gambling the same way we treat our other businesses? The same method we use to know if the business is making profit or not, and if yes, how about if the one is not making any good profit from gambling based on the records he has gathered over the month?
 
What will you suggest the person do? Should he change his betting pattern or should he stop gambling completely? I'm just asking because, from your explanation, it's obvious you want gambling to be treated the same way we treat our business, which means we should also consider it as a means of generating income.

No, I don’t think that this can in any way affect the gambler’s behavior. It seems to me quite easy to roughly imagine how much you spend on gambling per day/week and project it over the year. Anyone can do this easily, but the problem is that people are comfortable with such spending. By the way, the same can be done with spending on street coffee, beer in a bar or junk food - if you look at the scale of the year, the waste turns out to be quite significant. But did this stop anyone from spending so much?

You can choose on how you treat gambling. Because if you are not profitable on it, then obviously you have not future when you are treating it like a business as you are just fighting a losing battle. However, if you have the skills and you have proven you can use it in gambling to be profitable, then that's the time to consider being serious in gambling and try to make a living on it.

Though in reality, gamblers losses in the long run, at least the majority as it didn't say all. still it depends on the game it self, for example, poker, you can gamble with this game, right? And do you believe that there are successful gamblers in poker?

You can see this list with The Most Successful Gamblers Ever (https://casino.borgataonline.com/en/blog/most-successful-gamblers/)

Well obviously same thing can be applied to anything, and tracking your spending or overspending in a day / week / month or a year to get it under control is recommended by every financial expert out there. Even most banks in here offer to track where the user's money is going monthly or yearly in their apps, if users give their consent. Like this:
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Not everyone have the gift to roughly imagining how much they are spending. I am not even sure how many people struggle on that, but given how many people are probably on the spectrum and have problems with concepts like time, i reckon it's significant amount of people. Different people need different tools,

On the other hand trusting that everyone could do that roughly estimate in their head never works for some people, but just does the opposite, because just winging it is how some people get in trouble with money in the first place.

If someone is immensively rich and have money to burn for anything or if they indeed can handle stuff like this in their heads, then they obviously need any tools for that. Rest of us do, saying that they don't is ableism.

I like the idea of doing personal appraisals for things like gambling that can have huge impact on the finances of an individual. If this is taken seriously, I think it will help the gambler to follow the part of moderation which is highly needed to protect the bankroll. But the challenge is that it is not always easy to do and not many gamblers will find any use of the data so gotten. Another problem is that this might discourage some gamblers from concentrating in gambling especially when they notice that their loss is far higher than the wins.

Yes, it is quite easy to guess a gambler who often experiences defeat in his life will look 180° changed, initially the family looks very harmonious, the needs in the family are met or fine and the gambler looks so happy but on the contrary when the gambler often loses in gambling the changes will be very clear in the family and in himself, namely life problems that include financial lines and life problems that include relationships between family members that are getting worse hit by many problems.

And back again according to the title above, recording gambling activities can be seen how we see a gambler who is betting at a casino whether he has been able to set limits or allocate funds to be used when gambling according to the abilities of the gambler, usually gamblers will allocate their funds when they have left their money for daily needs and only use the remaining money if they want to gamble because maybe he is just for fun so he doesn't really expect to win there.

I have lost already my track for my wins and all of my losses. It's not going to work on me if I get track of them.

Because for sure that upon looking at the stats, they're just going to make me disappointed from having those more losses than wins.

Who's a gambler that has more wins? most of us have got more losses instead and that's why if you want to track them for that purpose, you're free to do that.

So do you record your gambling activities? Such data might help a person to make decision if he can afford to continue and how much he might be able to bet. But I find it wrong, as this is sort of going from the end. A person must first make a decision how much he can spend on gambling, instead of making a decision how much more he can bet, as this might look like chasing loss. I dont quite understand how can it impact on finances actually. If a person wants to gamble, he will do it anyway. But evaluating finances from «I have lost/gambled already for this amount, now I can not or can gamble for that amount more» is a red flag from my point of view.

All of us have more loss than our wins therefore it'll be hard for me to start to track my losses, I don't want anything that is going to affect me when I think of the money that I'm losing. I can track my victorys but not my losses. If I track them then I'll stop gambling as it'll look like I don't know what I should be using my money to do but I enjoy gambling. I do it for the entrainment and it makes me happy. If I notice that I'm over gambling, I'll just stop for something.

If I track my wins it will make me to know when I'm in profits and it give me some motivation to continue playing. I already know that I'm going to lose when I'm gambling but the times that I'm going to win, I don't know and can't tell as gambling is unpredictable but when we lose they're predicted before the games ends. I'll not stop anybody from recording what they're doing but I'll do mine when winning.

Yes!!!
Writing down bets made is very important in sports betting for any serious bettor. Writing down relevant information such as the teams or athletes involved, the odds, the amount bet, the type of bet, the date and time of the bet, among other pertinent details is already an exaggeration, but believe me... the more data you have, the better it will be to develop your future strategies.

By doing this, you can monitor your performance, analyze your results and identify patterns that worked or others that did not. In other words, by reviewing your notes, you can identify errors or flaws in your strategies and then discard what makes you lose money, improve your betting skills and enhance your decision-making in what works for you.

Not to mention, of course, financial control, because if you keep a detailed record of how much you bet and what the result was, you will be able to manage your bankroll and avoid impulsive or overly risky bets.

I think it depends on the nature of the gambler and how they take gambling. If a person is gambling just for entertainment and to have some fun, they don't need to keep track of anything because such gamblers would generally have a fixed budget that they would use and have nothing more than that to spend on their gambling activities, even if they don't have a fixed budget, they know when they need to stop.

On a contrary, if a gambler is gambling for profits, they tend to spend more money than they start gambling with because they usually get lost in the game and get carried away after losing and try to recover their losses by chasing them, they need to have a count of how much they are spending on each gambling session because they will need to have a look after the month or the year ends so that they realize what they have been doing.

If someone has been gambling for a long time (at least a year) and still intends to maintain this habit, without making records, I think he will get into trouble, if not he is already in. The records must include the number of bets (approximately) and the size of the bet amounts compared to the number/amounts of wins, which will also indicate the number/percentage of losses. This follows financial management, even if losses are greater than profits, because it gives the gambler a comprehensive view of the movement of his gambling activity.

It is unfortunate to admit that few people do this, and I am almost certain that none of the gambling addicts dared to do so for fear of feeling more shame in front of themselves.

If it's with a lifestyle, there is a possibility that it can make someone's life better through this matter. Not entirely with gambling but through how we're going to record things that we are. Maybe at work or you can boast of it later on that you're able to track your wins and losses. If that's the case for most of the gamblers that we've got records of our past wins and losses, it means that we're able to have some recording skills and we're not afraid of looking at it as we write it wherever we want to.

For me, I think that the best thing to do is to do what you think is necessary for you. If that helps you from your daily life or somehow to your life then just do what you have used to do. Because no one is going to record them for you but only you. But for the side of those that don't record, I don't do that as well. Since there are records history from the casinos like stake, we can easily track it out there and save it for keeps and go back to them later.

Taking record of gambling activities is not even the major thing one must think about as crucial, many of lost their mindset because of gambling too much. Our gambling activities can really help us to watch and stay careful about gambling, giving us the sense of adjusting so we don't fall too quick to gambling especially when we might not get any outcome as far as possible. One also need to record all the wins we have been making and the losses too because this is what is going to make us give account on how much we are spending in gambling and how much we are also earning or losing at the same time.

To track how much money you're spending in gambling is okay. If you have a problem by spending and budgeting your money, you need to put that in paper so that you'll see and notice how much you're into it. But if you don't do that and become a reckless gambler, you really need some help. Not just for yourself but for entire lifestyle that you're living up. So, it's not only going to help you with your lifestyle but also in mindset.

For which that you'll do everything and keep the details provided and in paper so whenever there's a need to backtrack, you have got what it takes. The sense of recording will not be seen the effect of it immediately but in times that you need to look back, there it goes and you will thank yourself that you have developed it through gambling in some other activities that you might do.

It depends on how the gambler can keep up with this activity. As it will consume time recording, most of the time, this task becomes tedious to the person, and so he can only do this at the beginning of his mission. But later on, he won't keep up with this task. So better look for much sustainable approach. That you believe will truly help you in your gambling journey such as allocating weekly budget and stick to it. Only deposit the amount that you think won't jeopardize your funds.

It will consume time, yes but I'd say that it's not a lot of time that you gotta be spending and allotting on it writing your $1-$5 losses for each bet there. That's okay if your time is very valuable and you can't do these recordings so you've got your own reasons not to record them anymore. But whichever is going to help you a better person, a better gambler, you have to do it for your own sake.

And as you've said about allocating weekly budget, there's still a need for you to remember to how much it should be done. With that, I guess it will force you to do record of your budget being allotted there. If it's coming from your salary then you have to slash that out and put it in record. Otherwise, you can do however you want and you're free to gamble and enjoy it without having the need to think of how much you're allotting on it.

Disappointed is all I believe one will only get by tracking their gambling record. It's not easy to look at how much you have wasted in gambling; the amount during your time of playing might appear very small, but if you are to add all the records together, the sum that it will amount to might trigger a little hatred within yourself. 
 
On a scale of 1–10, if we are to check how much people spend on gambling and how they actually win, we will have to realise that 8 out of that 10 might be under those who are just feeding the gambling with their losses.

Doing this could help nothing aside from causing disappointment or frustration to the gambler. If we are in a business this is necessary to track where it is going but in gambling, we are just tracking how much we lose which is absolutely some kind of wasting our time and the result is just getting mad. That is a crazy reason for this and I can't imagine someone making this for that seek in the end they only find out that she/he is losing millions while just winning hundreds.

Knowing how much you have lost and that which you have made from gambling is something we would consider very important because it may actually be very instrumental to helping us know how to   help you stay responsible gambling but it wouldn't be of enough help if we get to keep up with it so much such that we end up want to chase   loss especially when we see that our losses are exceeding our profits then it will turn out a big problem because to everyone can be bale to handle that long enough before addiction eventually sets in as gambler and we all know hoe much gambling addiction can be damaging.

Yes, and those bad or good experiences will be a reference for you to play gambling more carefully and responsibly. If a gambler often loses in playing, then he must think with common sense that in fact winning in gambling is very difficult to get and if he is winning at that time, then immediately thinking about stopping is the best decision.

That's one downside of recording everything. You will be frustrated when you see how much the losses are but the positive side is when you see those you can also decide if you want to continue or not. No records means you may forget about your other losses which could also mean that you will keep on gambling thinking you have not yet lost a lot of money.
Well, gamblers have different points of view when it comes to their gambling habit. Some just like to live by the day and do not care if they win or lose while other like this kind of strategy of recording things especially if they want to make a living out of it.

Keeping records has been the best reminder to minimize excessive gambling. It helps the player to recall his losses and puts him on a level of thought that'll change how he wagers money. The disappointing aspect of this strategy is not much. It's actually a nice practice for people to scan through themselves how much have been lost within a range of period. I don't think the losses will come as a surprise when written or recorded on a sheet. The player already have gone through the losses when he did on the casino machine. During recording he'll only reflect on his reaction when such money got lost. This time of self examination will go a long way in helping the gambler think of his gambling habit.

that's true, after all the gambling that is done is definitely more often the case of losing money rather than making money, of course by recording the gambling activities they do of course they will see how much money they have lost gambling, while the money made in gambling will not be much, of course This will make them disappointed because more frequent losses will make them annoyed, but maybe if they spontaneously realize the losses that have occurred they can stop gambling, but if they don't care about the many losses that have occurred they will continue to gamble again.
It cannot be hidden that there will definitely be more losses than wins, therefore I don't think there is a need to record gambling activities unless the person is very strict with finances or expenses. However, for those who are strict with their financial expenses, I don't think they will gamble often because it will only waste their money for nothing.

Op this is complete waste of time why should a gambler sit down to calculate the amount of game played in a month or year. It's seem as though you are calculating to get back at you loss, because after making your calculations you are likely to arrive at a conclusion that you have lost more than your win, and making such calculation for a year, this might leave you heart broken. I don't gamble much but if I want to I might spend more than an hour depending on how luck hits me with my small stakes. There is no need to access such data when you gamble with small stakes and for fun, except you give room for greed and irresponsible gambling then you should be bordered about how much you have wasted and make Amendments to your addiction.

One thing is certain thy everything we do has both the advantage and as well as the disadvantages but regardless, we all hope that the advantages should always outweigh the disadvantages and I’m now using myself as a case study as to how I was able to cut down on my gambling activities and it has really helped me so much because there was a time I had a reasonable win in my local currency and it seems that was the last major win back then and I had to take some time off to calculate my losses as compared to my winnings and it seems I was in the winning side and continued gambling not until I was losing badly against the casino and had to take a break and cut down on my gambling until I made another great win and ever since then, I’ve always tried my best to stay profitable against the casino and the moment I’m on a win even if it’s $10 against the casino, I even try to take a break and when I’m $10 in loss I also try to take a break and this principle has helped me stay in balance in the gambling industry.

Maybe by write his lose or wins in the file can explain him about how much money he already used to playing gambling. That file can also helps him to calculate how much lose and wins he already got so he can start to reduce his money to prevents the big lose.

He must accepts his lose and not trying to gets his lost money by keeps playing gambling more than usual. He will not have a big chance to gets his money back instead will lose more money. But some people will not wants to write their gambling activity in a file because they thinks that's not important. I also not makes a file to record my gambling activity because I don't playing gambling too often and only use small money. If we only use gambling for have fun and only playing gambling occasionally, we don't have to record our gambling activity.

We can look on this from different angle - those who record gambling activities, might realize how much they have already lost, and their wish to play back that amount might grow stronger. It will be something that spurs them to continue, to try to win. A number that will often pulsate in their mind and remind to gamble. A reminder that will alarm them to always have money for gambling.

The record carried out can also be a reminder that too much has been spent on gambling. and they should be able to regret why they wasted large amounts of money and they can stop.
but what happens is not like that, I'm sure more gamblers don't consider recording all their expenses in gambling. gamblers will always have money to allocate for gambling, there is no need to record everything because it probably won't have much of an impact.

I only track the amount that I deposit and withdrawn to all of my gambling activities, I am tracking it in both Fiat and crypto at the time that I moved it.
I just want to see how much I win or lose, and also compare the value of crypto that I moved at that time to the current value.

That's the point, if the gamblers can't accept all the loss they made in gambling, it means they bet too bigger. If they only gamble what they can afford to lose, they will not disappointed when they see the result.

If they lose, the amount they loss would be bigger and they will think twice to make money through gambling. Except if they're stupid, so they don't have brain to think and making wise decision.

So, what's the result? are you in profit or loss?

Our memory is not so bad that it is necessary to record gambling activities, especially when things involve money, our memory of gains and losses, it is quite deeply imprinted in the feeling and it is impossible to forget how this activity took place but following this reasoning, I feel even more fearful about recording the history of gambling when I believe that quite a few people have been deeply psychologically haunted when their emotions were not cherished in gambling. Recording our fears will only prevent us from being able to escape the past, we should not immerse ourselves in that activity too much.

Everyone's memory has a different measure, if a gambler has a high and strong memory in recording, then the previous experience that has occurred will be a better reference for the future, but if the gambler has a low memory in recording experiences, then this will only be underestimated because he cannot learn or find a good solution to the experience from before.

YES in business, record-keeping is important because the company must calculate profits and expenses if it does not do this, its finances can be chaotic.

Records in gambling will not have any impact, with you being disciplined and responsible it is more than enough imo, because surely defeat will see it in these records, will this not add more frustration?

Just have more money then play for fun, if there is no money then don't force this will make you addicted because it is too forceful.

To record your gamblings daily, weekly and monthly is not the issue but can you face the mental disorder of the results when you lost enough and later found out. I will prefer not to record them and once I forget them let it be. Because if I gather all the records and she that I have loss enough, I will not be happy. And addicted gamblers would not care about the loss so there will be no adjustment even they see the records. And all what they will like to do is to win their loss and that is where they will chase their loss to lose more. It is better to plan yourself well and play gamble with respect and not with habitual. Once gambling becomes an habit then it is very hard for that gambler to control himself.

ajiz138 Gambling and business record-keeping are not the same.

There is nothing completely wrong keeping in check of our gambling activities where taken such tracks of our gambling activities doesn't make it seems to be treated the same way we treats out other businesses but rather for me it shows how much of our activities in terms of time, energy and resources we are allocating the gambling and if possibly we are incurring more losses than winning there is a need to take a break or probably change strategy and possibly quite if gambling has become problematic to you, this is what I see as an essential for keeping records or tracks or our gambling activities. Yeah definitely we are going to have different opinions as regards to this.

There is nothing really wrong if a gambler records the amounts he enters into gambling from the money he loses and the money he wins. Now, to your question, if there is frustration when there are records, my answer to that is that the gambler may feel a sense of failure; he will always see the mistake he made in gambling because he will see the amount of money he lost gambling. especially if it is a large amount.

Of course, he will think and feel regret that he should have used the large amount that he lost for something more important. So, for me, I also think that it is not important if we don't record what we do in gambling. It is probably enough that we know and learn from what we did wrong in gambling.

Yes its true that there's nothing wrong on having those records for them to have that good track into their gambling just for them to make out some actions on the moment that they've seen that they are already at into their limit on which its really that good but only into those people who are really that good when it comes to self control. YOu would really be the ones who would really be dictating on what are the things that you should really be doing and not really just that making yourself that too careless on making decisions specially on playing even more just because you do tend to chase up your loses.

For me then it wont really be that much necessary on having those tracks because you had already that seen those things on the site itself and it would really be possibly
that makes you impulsive on the time that you would really be making yourself chasing up those loses or trying on doing so. This is why you should
really be careful with this kind of situation.

It is not as if gamblers have too much of a choice, since all the casinos in which I have ever gambled keep records of every single one of the bets you have made over the years and just a little bit of curiosity is needed for a person to see those records, in my opinion if a person looks at those numbers and they begin to experiment regret then it is obvious they have wagered too much money over the years, I say this because I constantly monitor those numbers and I am fine with what I see.

Casinois a business and every record of gamblers win and losses will be kept because it is computerized for them to have prove of past bets of wins and losses. In case there is any problem the government wi ask for those records and if they cannot provide it, it shows that they are not transparent enough to their customers or government. In our own gambling lives, I don't think that it is relevant. What is important is that we should only gamble with an amount of the money that we can afford to lose, so that it will not affect our mentality a d emotions.

I never knew gambling had turned a business or  career opportunity that people now take inventory of themselves and ascertain where to improve on and if we're doing well.

Personally, I attach little or no strings to gambling activities, and I don't see the need to bother myself with my performance in it since I gamble with amounts I can loose.

I see taking inventory of gambling activities for the purpose of improvement as an addiction seeker, when you keep improving on your i involvements might lead to more dedication to the cause and more trouble for the gamble in the long run.

yes, I keep statistics on my games because I allocate a certain budget for them for a month or quarter, it’s easier to control finances. I wouldn’t say that I have problems with addiction since the budgets for games are very modest and not large. Rather, it’s just not big hobbies, for example, my friend spends much more per quarter on fishing than I do on gambling, so everything is very relative. But those who are just starting to get involved in gambling should definitely keep statistics in order to soberly assess their chances and results.

That scale could be accurate.

But that's true, it's the most of us that we're spending a lot of money in gambling and you might not able to take it upon doing a tracking of these records of how much we allot money on it.

That's why for me, I have just accepted the fact that I've spent and lost a lot on it. I've won some but the joy that I've got with that was seem to be worth it temporarily. And after realizing everything, you'll get to be frustrated with how's your spending habits through gambling and as well as the results.

I don’t keep track of every single bet, but at the start of the month I will look at my wagering statistics and record in a spreadsheet how much profit or loss I’ve made in the previous month. Looking back, my stats are always trending negative but what I earn through referrals, cashback, and other benefits still makes me profitable. Having these stats is useful because it gives me an idea of how much I can afford to lose.

If you're a responsible gambler there is no need for recording your gambling activities because you're only having fun. And if you actually want to check your gambling activities you also don't need to record anything down. After all, all casino has their bet history where you can access the data of all your gambling activity in that casino. So there is no point recording his losses in a file, what the op needs is restructure his mind so that he don't exceed his limit gambling and there will be no need to record his gambling activities. When you make small stakes and gamble responsibly, you won't even be interested in checking you bet history because you are still within your risk tolerance zone.

That's why we must learn how to becomes responsible gambler so we don't have any problem when playing gambling. We don't have to recording our gambling activities because we can responsible with ourselves in gambling. We can hold ourselves from the temptation in gambling and we will not trying to wins the games because we understand that can makes us forgets with our responsibility in gambling.

We should know how to treat gambling by using the money we can afford so we can prevents our lose not to becomes big. That's one of the way from many ways that we can do to avoids the big lose. Some people thinks that they can record their gambling activities so they can monitor how far they playing gambling and what they needs to keeps holding themselves from playing gambling too often.

Had similar conversation with a friend. Everyone requires money to maintain their habits. Regardless of how much time it consumes the player he'd have to spend to achieve the fun he wants. Using the fishermen as an instance, many of them fuel and hire boats to go fishing. It's also a gamble because some days may not be grassy, a sea of fish may have shifted to a different location, the fishers may not catch enough to cover for what they spent in accumulating facilities needed for fishing. So, gamblers can view gambling as something that worths being recorded. It consists of win or lose. To balance the activity one must be conscious of what fuels the progression of the activity.

Record keeping in gambling or any thing that we are doing that involves money is good because it helps to give us an insight in how our money is being spent. Without a record, we might be misusing money without knowing because there is no records to look at. The last record I monitor is how much I used for the week because I check my gambling record weekly. If I have not made any profits for the week, then I will watch how I'm gambling for the next week more carefully so I do not misuse money for two weeks straight. If I have a net lost for two weeks, I might not gamble until I have enough spare money to allocate to gambling without it affecting my other expenses. I know gambling is not a business to give you profits but you should not be losing money always to gambling or you should just stop gambling.

Recording finances is indeed a good thing to do because it is one of the ways of managing money that must be done, but in my opinion, recording the finances allocated to gambling is not necessary because it is predictable that what will be recorded more is the money spent. because with wins and losses of course losses will occur more often, therefore it is impossible for anyone to keep track of finances involving gambling, but the more often they get money from gambling, that is less likely.

It's true what you said, as much as possible we must minimize the loss of money in gambling. By not doing it too much is one way to avoid addiction which could have bad impacts in the future. Recording gambling activities is everyone's right, whatever is done of their own free will, but the point is that we must be able to limit the gambling we do, because it will not work to make money by gambling because losses will occur more often. We must remember not to do so. Excessive gambling can harm us.

Well, in fairness, this is irrelevant to gambling itself, but if we think of accountability in a way, then it could be a useful means for gambling evaluation. Other than this, I do not see any importance here, it is just a distraction if the truth is told. I am, however, indifferent about this if all factors and considerations are weighed, and whether you have the records or not, you may win or lose in gambling, there is no solution to that. So what strong purpose will that record serve? We also can immediately know how we are doing regarding gambling activities through the account account history. Something as simple as that should not even be made complicated in my opinion.

This account history is also filterable, so we can easily know how we are doing at a specific period. If not for evaluation, then it should be for other purposes which I much concur with that I do not know.

It is good if you are not stressed about the defeat you experienced in the previous month because the thing to consider is that it would be bad if you were not prepared for the results of the defeat you experienced. Because in this way, of course a person will become stressed and it may also become increasingly difficult to control themselves.  Because when they know how much they have lost,the worry is that they will try to bet more and more often to cover or take back what they have lost previously. But yes,  if you have good management and can control yourself well, then of course that will be good for your finances too, because you can manage them in the right way.

There are gamblers that will not hesitate to stop gambling when they check their gamble records and they sees that they are the ones losing. They will stop right away and never to gamble for a long time. Keep records is good though, still there are gamblers that can't be satisfied with the results they got from their check, if a gambler is losing from gamble, its probably because of the strategy he is using or luck is not with him. However gamble and business are different things, if you are losing from the business you cam quite it and do another business and same thing also applies to gamble, when you are not winning from gamble its better tk change the prediction pattern or pray for luck.

There are many gamblers that can estimate their loses even if it is not the exact amount but they can estimate that they have loss enough amount of money in gambling yet they are still excited to play gamble. It is easy to talk but it is hard to stopped and that is gambling for you. To stop gambling is not about keeping records but your responsibilities would make you to know that it is not good to gamble all days when you have other things to do. And that is where responsible and irresponsible gamblers would come to play. Addicted gamblers gamble more when they are losing and when they wins they take the wins to go out and enjoy themselves by carrying women and paying hotels. And when the Cash got finished then they would come back again to the drawing board of gambling.

People who are new to gambling don't understand that if they are winning then they should quit but they play to win more for the joy of winning and thus they lose a good amount of money in the end. Gambling looks very interesting and fun but all the interest is lost when you deal with a multi-amount gamble and you play more to recover it. If you can't stop yourself from gambling, it means that you are addicted to gambling. Even if you cover all your losses, you still can't stop playing because it's an addiction you got used to.

While there are positives to gambling, one negative is that when you lose, you look at your past records and feel even sadder. It is good if people start gambling responsibly and carefully after looking at their previous gambling history, but if they don't, there is no point.

A gambler who handles his gambling activities responsibly may not have to bother about recording them. Because there will be no much impacts doing it. Except for the sake of reference. However, when a player finds it hard to record his gambling sessions while experiencing tough times with his games, then he wouldn't recognize his difficulties in gambling. Recording of gambling activities have to be related to the correction of excessive gambling.

 It'll refresh in the player's memory whenever he pens down his activities. Only a handful of addicts will be able to control or moderate their compulsive gambling habit after reading through multiple records of losses. Although this helps self examination for all, but addicts hardly keep records of their actions. They're mainly concerned on ways to further their gambling engagements.

But if a person gambles for fun and can afford to lose couple of hundreds per session, should he also make records and make future corrections? I have said several times that for me gambling is similar to spending. Spending on entertainment. I dont gamble frequently. I consider it as going to a cinema for example. For example I dont remember how much I have spend last time at cinema on tickets or snacks. Even if I do remember it, when next time I go to cinema, I wont focus on that previously I have spend a lot, and now I must take small popcorn box instead of large. If this is for fun, should a person make records and limit himself?

Real gamblers don't do this because there is no strong reason to consider doing that. Maybe we do this if this would change the outcome but nothing as this won't increase our chance of having luck, we just remember bad things in the past that would only destroy our day. Besides, nobody had it prove that they changed their styles upon doing this. If there is one thing we would like to change or correct is how we think about gambling where it was just for fun. But if we keep on thinking about growing our money, this is not the solution instead, it creates more problems financially and mentally.

I couldn't imagine someone doing this especially if you lose, you will never spend time finding where you are wrong but expect to do the same story again.

It can be the first step in identifying the addiction and the associated losses due to gambling. While there are many who are doing this for publishing on youtube or streaming it, regular gamblers should start doing it as well.

Once the person goes through the recordings and see the money they could have saved, the attempt to control the addiction will come from within. Outside people will no longer need to bother then about their habits.

But then there are those people who think that changing the method to gamble means that the casino cannot "track" them anymore, which is utter bullshit. Recording and reviewing might increase their chances of gambling more and more.

Any gambler knows approximately how much money he spends on gambling and how much money he wins without keeping any records. Of course, I used to keep a record of winnings/losses, but then I realized that it doesn't make any sense. In my opinion than to engage in keeping statistics is better to introduce in your gambling experience limitation of funds for gambling. This is more useful for any gambler than keeping statistics.

I can't understand why we have to record the bet which we made. On the maximum gambling site, we can see the bet history. As we can see in the bet history there is no need to make a record of that. And after many a bet if we want to record those it will be a waste of time, nothing else.

Record keeping is a very important thing. This is a must do. I would say that this is important for gambling, but in principle, it is important for many areas of our lives. For example, in trading it is necessary to do this. It is especially important to record your unsuccessful games. Of course, recording the results of games like roulette is pointless, because there are no strategies. But in sports betting this is a vital necessity. This is necessary primarily in order to improve your strategy. Only by collecting statistics on your failures can you somehow improve your strategy.