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Gambling losing streak,

I’m into gambling for about months now, and in my first game I was able to generate profit enough to be happy, I continued for the rest of my 4 weeks of playing, sometimes its breakeven but I know its ok.

My friend invited me to play with him in casino this time, I have enough money to play for so I decided to say yes. Bad luck comes to me this time, at first my loss was about $500, so I know it is still fine and decided to continue, but the moment we stopped I think its too late now since I’ve already loss $3000, a very bad day for me. I’ve lost the money I’ve worked hard for.

This is an eye opener situation for me, and I’ve realized that gambling was slowly eating my brain and my money. Now I’m broke but still kickin, this can be the proof that chasing your losses is not good at all and it should be avoided. Have the same experience with me? Don’t hesitate to share and give some thoughts for those who are suffering from sitution like this.  :(

Losing streak is a common things, I think all gamblers ever experienced about that, previously I was addicted to gambling, I can spend almost everyday gambling, playing poker, blackjack, baccarat and every game, its consuming all my time and all of my money, its an eye opener when I need to buy something but got nothing in my bank account, at that point I realise I need to change or I will be sleeping on the street, and no matter how experienced you are or how good you set your strategy, you wont win in long term, gambling is supposed for entertainment not the place you can make profit

The worst is when you want to recover your losses. When you are in a bad luck and are not having fun anymore, just give it a break. Withdrawal your money, accept your loss and come back some other day to have more fun.

 Don't try to get back the money you lost, or you will end up losing more (probably)

Gambling well and staying profitable is more about when do you get out of the bad situation of chasing your losses. If you keep that in control, you could stay profitable or at least not go down so heavily. As soon as I saw the title of the post, I knew it that you'd have probably lost a lot of money gambling and hence posting this. Also, remember the golden rule "Only gamble with what you can afford to lose". If you stick to that along with some self control while on a losing streak. You should be good. Like youve mentioned in the post, that you had made an amount that you were happy with. I think you should have only gambled with those profits or a part of it and if you had a bad day, it wouldnt have been so bad. We all have bad days its just about how we deal with it and call it a day early or keep pushing hoping your luck will turn eventually. Anyways, whats sone is gone, Hope youve learnt a lesson from it and keep to it. GL.

You broke means you gamble over your own limit, all gambler will say similar thing once they lost over their own limit. This is why it is very important for us to gamble what we can afford to lose only. Nothing you can do now except admit your own mistake and move on. Dont even think to recover again because you may get on deeper loses.

A very costly eye opener for you but it isn't surprising with these kind of situations which is common among gamblers.They do only learn if they do suffer losses.
Chasing loses is always been a problem because your mind and emotion mixed up that you might able to break even on next bet which you would surely tend to bet even more
to cover up the funds that have been lost.If you aren't lucky enough then you do know the consequences goes deeper.

That's the mistake that every user does while they're new to the gambling. They don't analyze about the good and the negative effects. From the post it is clear that he have accompanied his friend, which is good. At the same time he should be clear about the games as well the winning probabilities and losing chances. Just because you won the first game can't expect the same to happen longer.

Bottom line is take a break if you find yourself in a dry spell.
There is nothing that is making us gamble and you are lucky it was only 3000$ that you lost.
The first time my best friend gambled he lost more then he could afford and had to explain it to his wife.
When I loose its only a small amount of money so I am not in the same position as you.

I've into gambling before and at first it's really fun because you can deposit and withdraw in an instant and also there are different types of games from card games, roulettes, live betting, sports betting, jackpot machine and virtual casino/racing games. In other words you will not get bored and wanting to use all the different casino games and look at what fits you and when you are earning you're going to be greedy and greedy until you hit the losing streaks and wanted to recover and recover until you lost all your money/investment.

And just like what happened to you... I get addicted and when I don't have anything I will realize the value of all the money/crypto that i've wasted. Every gambler should know his/her limitation in order to avoid future damage/risk.

When reality strike, you will finally realized that losing your hard earned money into something that just make you addicted is more regretful than losing it in some other form, chasing aggressively will make you lose more than what you allocated to, learned from that and start changing your ideas about gambling.

It's enjoyable if treated right but more on regretful when aggressions begin to conquered your mindset.

Well, in most cases the people behave opposite to this. When they lose a game in gambling, they eagerly wanted to cover the loss. So they bring more money in gambling with the hope that this time they will win and their loses will be recovered, but then again it does not happen and they again lose. If this happens repeatedly, one can lose a big amount of money in gambling.

When the intention of coming into gamling is wrong then it is not wonder that we are getting addicted to it,gambling is onlt meant to entertainment which is to give relax to our mind but most of us are in the wrong direction.

Winning or losing gambling will certainly make people addicted to that game until they get what they want or feel bored. Everyone must know the loss that he will get when losing a streak, so as not to continue thinking to the brain. If it keeps thinking in your brain it will certainly make you motivated to play again, you also have to think about your limits when playing.

Everyone who goes to a casino or log in to an online casino want's to win, that includes me, however what makes others different from the rest of the gamblers out there is there are players who just want to play, entertain themselves or kill time. They don't have a goal on how much they wan't to win, they just wan't to have fun and the money that they will spend is just enough, enough that if ever they lost it all, they still go home with a smile.

Well said, gambling without any prior understanding will surely lead to addiction. In the opening post it is said that he has won in the first event, following the same he began to loss. First event win happens with majority of the users, this isn't planned but a coincidence. When he began to loose he hasn't taken a break which is the mistake. If he had taken a break, he would've decided to quit.

That's too bad for him because he didn't realize that he was getting greedy just to win and as what you have said he hasn't taken a break in continuously losing and that was a very big mistake after all.

sorry about your loss.Buddy i will give you my honest opinion,just stop don't chase losses forget about it,concentrate on other things in your life.play what you afford to lose Good luck

Gambling Sometimes feel like having a cancer. Everytime you play, theres are something in you that keeps on growing until you become addict and cannot be stopped. It slowly eating your brain that you will never notice un untill you are on the highest stage of addiction. Canser is expensive, so is being an addict gambler.

I think you are now addicted to gambling try to refresh your mind first. Get out and smell some fresh air,  meet some friends. It may help you recover from addictiveness.

That was tough mate, it's a big loss for sure because that's out of your budget and you work hard for that money.
You are brave and honest enough to share your experience, I guess everyone can also learn from you and they should not risk a big amount
in gambling, regret always do come in the end but you are right, life must continue, we can correct our mistakes while we are still alive, we loss some
but definitely we can make some in crypto if we change our method of risking money, probably it should not be gambling.

Seek help. That's all I can say. And I mean professional help. Treat it like a clinical condition, not a psychological one. I don't have an addiction (or I do, but I have limits to what I lose) so I don't know how it feels even if I do my best to understand.

We can all offer words but we're not professional people who treat this addiction.

All I can say also is, surround yourself with friends who don't gamble. Just try not to be tempted.

I don't really have experience with gambling but I do know a lot of stories about it.

My friends usually tell me stories about his experiences about it and it is really awful. The first time he realized that he is addicted to gambling is the time that he lost a lot of money and even his family. Getting addicted to something is really hard, he said to me. He is also addicted to drugs and liquor at that time, what a way to waste my life he told me. I just answer him that it is not late, he still has time to change.

If you are in a lossing streak then that's the time you should refrain from doing gambling. Don't be too full of yourself that you are going to win even if luck is not on your side. That's addiction if you continue to gamble even in a lossing streak.

Always put in mind that gambling is not just an easy way to have profit and of course don't rely on this kind of money earning. The hardest part is what just like OP said eating your brain and money, that is the worst thing ever happen if you can't control your self in gambling.
If you are losing a small amount on gambling on that day you can stop instead of chasing on it, that what we called greediness.

Hey this is a sad story op and I really liked the fact despite the loss you’re able to stay strong, I’m positive with this attitude you’ll be able to earn back your money soon. I feel it’s harsh to say but you need to understand the basic guidelines of gambling, never play with the money you can’t afford to loose. Also lastly keep your greed in check, and you’ll not suffer losses like this.

We are in a lucky situation wherein we already realized that we are slowly being eaten by gambling and our greediness to win a lot of money out of it. In the past, I am also so close to being addicted to gambling though don't get me wrong, I already lost a lot of money and I quickly realize that I need to stop. I am not that addicted but it is still hard to stop. I needed the help of my family especially my wife, I want to stop because of them since they are also the reason why I want to earn the money.

Yeah, I know people behave opposite to this. I did the opposite as well, and learned the hard way.

It is possible to make money through gambling. It's hard, but possible. But for me it's just for fun now :)

This is the most common thing that would happen to a gambler once they don't know what to do after losing game, they think it would still fine to continue so that you could take back your loses but the truth is that you wouldn't get it back the more you play the more you will lose. Except for professional gamblers who know how to play their profit and know how to control.

Every people already aware the risk of gambling except when you're not mature enough to gamble.
So that's why , it's not recommend for the teenager to gamble because they are still thinking based on emotion.

Personally I just gamble for fun so I can control myself better than any who are not able to control it

Haha your practice is really good to be a gambler. Most of the gamblers does not care about the price, amount they have or anything. They simply close their eyes and gamble somewhere. Next about age also they don't mind if they are teenager and above they will be having some maturity while they are invesing on gambling site.
I do gamble on betting site since I know the game which i choose to make money out of it.

Young minds or not mature enough do really have that high chance on experiencing problems towards addiction and fund management problem.Emotion can really affect anyone
specially when you are just new into gambling on where you do experience such pressure and making foolish decisions which you would regret later on.
You realize your mistake when you lose money and it depends if you do take it seriously and move on or would still decide to remain and be addicted.

Money is not the problem, but if it's going to eat your mind then you need to stop because it will bring you more harm in the future.

Just stay positive, as I have said, it's only money. You can earn it, but you need to control your self or be responsible if you want to continue to gamble.

I've been in situation like this, much worst like this. But I'm glad that I was able to snap back in time and realized what's happening on my life that's why I learn to control myself and not playing all my money as f it's the end of the world and there's no more tomorrow.

Gambling could be really dangerous under the wrong hands. There are little kids losing tons of money everyday illegally gambling acting as if they are adults. There are adults who go into this so much that they take out bank loans to bet again and again with the hopes of finally hitting that big win and paying their debts back.

I really do not think gambling is for every person. There are people like me who do not exceed the amount they tailored for their fun, me personally I tried betting on 100 dollars on each deposit and it was too much, I tried 10 dollars and it wasn't enough, now I do about 25-50 depending on the game and it is seriously fun and I always stop whenever my money ends. That Is the hard part for many many people, stopping when you run out of money to gamble.

But you know what?you are more lucky than a loser because you come across this realization this early you didn’t wait to he totally hooked and become a addicted because of chasing losses

What i hope now that since in just a several months time you have find how difficult gambling can be,and it will not eat  your mind and money only instead this could eat your whole life.congratulations for this early retirement in gambling lol 😂

Good for you, if you able to bounce back after the hard fall being so engaged with gambling then you can say that controlling your emotions will be the driver on how to react with this type of entertainment activities, being self driven and always remembering that mistake can be avoided to happen again when you are already comes from the dip.

Work out as early as you can, acknowledging the bad effects of gambling will help you to avoid too much
consuming of your time and money.

Chasing loss? I can tell you are definitely feeling very tilted right now. You should have resisted the urge to gamble because it's the greed you are fighting with. It is really hard to deal with greed because it will attack your emotions and will make your brain and money be hideous. You'll only feel the urge to win or comeback, ain't know which you are preferred for.

Gambling is a very risky venture and it is not good one should go into it without adequate knowledge on how to do it properly.  You have to know that you can lose everything and we can still make money from the market also and the money you make is loses from others gamblers.

The problem is when you find yourself losing money at the beginning, you'll say it's not a problem, maybe I'm not so lucky right now and the next game I'll win it, and suddenly it happens again and you lose and then again losing money etc.. It's as you said losing streak! and finally you end up broken financially!
To save yourself from this, you should take a hard decision to stop when you feel that is your not lucky day! you shouldn't risk so much when you feel that you are not okay! gamblers should think carefully before any act they'll do with gambling.

OP was probably playing dice. You can get a losing streak there very easily and chasing your dice loss is the worst thing you can do. If it was poker or blackjack you still have a chance but dice is a wallet killer if you can't control yourself. On the positive side 3000 dollars is not much for a life changing experience. I hope you will know better and don't allow yourself to lose this much again.

In most cases if you are trying to regain your loses you will end up losing more and not just only in gambling but the same thing happened in trading crypto currency and Forex. All this happened because many gamblers and traders don't have or follow their money management policy because they are too emotional about loosing their money.

I think they already know this before going to gambling sites or casinos, they are not that dumb. The misconception of a lot of people to gamblers is that they think that if that certain gambler get in or access a gambling site, they will not be able to stop themselves, There are still a lot of people that can stop themselves but the thing is that they just don't care with the money that they bet most of them quickly and not slowly. They do not enjoy gambling, well some do but most of the time, they don't because they are losing.

Oh, you mean when they were under the effect of their emotion? Of course, any emotion would affect the strategy of a person because the level of confidence would depend on the level of his emotion but as long as you stick to your plan that won't be a problem. A very well plan would work only if the person who does it will follow.

No, its a bet game and a mix game in the casinos. I was not lucky that time, its hard to accept at first but i have to deal witht this one and remain positive. Its actually a huge money for me especially here in my place, but yeah lesson learned, this is the fault of my friends actually, lol.

LOL, stop blaming other people, I'm assuming you are matured enough to make a good decision.
Accepting your loss is very important but you should start accepting that the one that should be blame is non other than yourself.

Losing streak is most likely to happen if you only think of revenge. Base on your post, I know that you continued to gamble because you are thinking to get again the money you lost.

It will definitely consume your money and brain. You will be more greedy if you will win and lose. If you lose, you will more greedy and will put more money to get your lost money. I wish gamblers must know how to control themselves to prevent losing many money.

I think it happens when they lose control or become addicts, they will spend their minds, their money, their energy, to achieve impossible goals in gambling, such as recovering losses, getting rich, or something like that. addiction will eat brain and your money

Money management only works for gambling. In trading or forex you also need the full knowledge of charts and pattern before you can actually earn good from it. Gambling however is only a game of luck and controlling your emotions. If you can control yourself and restrict yourself to invest only a certain amount in gambling, then you will be safe from worst situation where people even sell their houses to coverup gambling loses.

This field only makes most of the losses only because in the beginning stage we think we are going in a good flow and making lots of money but definitely gambling will not be end in good state and it will definitely gives loss at most of the time.

Lol. I am beginning to think the new account are allowed to win some money to give them false  confidence and  encourage them to gamble more.  Gambling on new accounts and ip could prove this theory right or wrong.
This may never happen on blockchain gambling. Why not give it a try.

Indeed, this malpractice will only cause bad things not only with their savings but also with their minds, it will pollute things which not common
with normal people, if you keep doing it and chase your loses it will add more to the point that there's no point of returned anymore but to be addicted
and the end result will be depressions, regretting that you spend lots of your time engaging with wrong practice such as gambling.

Limitations will allow you to overpower the potentials of getting addicted, if you know how stop right away and treat gambling to enjoy and relax it will
not lead you to ask for more but to just satisfied your lust.

Your $3000 really isn't that much, I know people that have lost millions on gambling.  A regular casino wouldn't even bat an eye at those type of small amounts.  Gambling should be looked at as entertainment, you may get lucky but over the long run the casino will win.

Gamble money what you can afford to lose so to speak. Though I lost a pretty hefty money before and learned my lesson from that moment. I only gamble for fun now. Just use your extra money to do this.

most importantly gambling is the way of money making and it can be do with proper limitation and proper experience we can be the best Gambler at all time but most of the people using it to make a huge income then only it will gone in the wrong direction and they are addicted and lost their money also this will be the most of the people state in nowadays.

I don't ever think about cryptocurrency gambling will be a bad thing to do I will use it for my entertainment and some income also so it will be ok for me to do gambling and my opinion to people will not addicted to it at anytime.

Though is not too long I joined the gambling games casino and my experience has been negative and I intended to quit the stuff before it's become too late.

Whenever I loss in any game even in the traditional setting's I quit as much as I could to avert other losses.

It is a common problem of all gamblers out there. When we want to get back our loses, that's the time that we will just lose more than we lose at first which is not good and at the same time gambling controlling our mind now at that point because of that thought. So let's not wait that moment that when we play gambling, gambling will control our mind and we lose our control. Let's put some plan or limit before playing it.

If gambling becomes our main activity, of course our brains will be full with gambling stuffs and things. With the amount of free time that we can use on gambling, curiosity about how our luck will be will definitely dominate our minds and bad things of course will easily occur. There will be no exit point in gambling if we can't control our minds. Whether we win or lose, we will keep gambling!

On contrary, if we gamble with discipline, meaning we have the ability to control ourselves and we have proven we are have potential in gambling
then I think it will be favorable in our part if we give time to it like doing it daily, the more we gamble the better profit we will get.

I don't have the same experience as you. But you know what? You make a bad decision to continue playing gambling after you lose $500 and if you can think more, you should quit gambling at that moment, and you should leave the casino. You already have a bad experience on that day, but you always have a second chance to fix your life and not to come back to the gambling games. Chasing your losses will not easy as we say because we don't know when we can get lucky in the games. So in these situations, you need to stay away from gambling for a while, do something else that will help you to not think about gambling. Never say yes with your friend asking you to go to gambling places because you already get a big loss.

It's great that you have realized the fact that gambling is slowly eating your brain and money both. A lot of addicted gamblers do not realize that and that's why they are not able to recover from that situation. Your confession doesn't sound similar to the addicted gamblers, so congratulations! You aren't an addicted gamblers as of now!

I too had a similar experience but in stock market trading! Where I had lost almost 55% of my salary income in a single day trade. I had to borrow money from my dad to survive for that month! That experience effectively discouraged me from getting into day trade and I became an investors from trader. I stopped playing around with stocks, instead I now find good Mid-cap/high-cap companies and invest in their stocks with long term goal. So I believe having one bad experience is OK, if you learn from it and stop using the same method again! Even though it is a hard way to learn, but very effective!

they dont realize it because they are already addicted but it is possible to cure thier syndrome if they are willing to change thier life from bad to good .


based on his confessions , he said that gambling is slowly eating his brain and money .  with that being said , i think he can also be consider as an addicted gambler .

Wow, that's tough. I think it's somewhat recent also, basing on your post.

I have a similar situation that I have tried to chase some losses, and I did manage to get it, but I wasn't satisfied. I was greedy, and that's the moment I knew, I effed up. It's not a great feeling and would never be enough to return to the original state. As you said, I think a lot of people are suffering like this. Maybe it's in human nature, and we cannot escape it. All we have to do now is to save money instead of gambling or invest in the correct things, and not entertainment.

Gambling can eat your brain and money only if you have become addicted and haven't realized it yet. Your brain in this phase does not think of anything else except gambling. So you keep betting and losing money only at this stage as your brain does not think correctly. The only solution is to seek professional help at this stage.

When we didn't realize it we are ot going to seek help from anyone else,maybe people will help from others only to ask money to play more and more when they are addicted this much.

By professional help I mean to go to centers which are specialized in rehabiliting people who are addicted this much and I do not mean to ask or borrow money to gamble more which will further make the situation worse.

Even when that person did not realize what he is doing, his friends and family should tell him to go and ask for professional help in a center which is specialized in rehabiliting people from gambling.

I meant to say that gambling addict will ask for money only wheny they arr addicted but if they have circle of people who may take care of the addict then they can get out from it.

Lucky for me, I didn't get addicted in gambling because of lack of funds but gambling consumes your brain and money bit by bit. Every time you go gamble, your chances of getting addicted into it will become higher.

If you got addicted into it, I think the best thing in order to stop yourself is to consult someone who can rehabilitate yourself. You must have a mindset too that you need to stop gambling so that you will totally stop it. Your friends and relatives can help you too.

Playing gambling is clearly needed by your brain and money because it will control you will always play gambling, and without a strong foundation of expertise you just play silly.
Winning gambling is only a lucky factor that will trigger you to continue playing which makes you become an addict and in the end you will lose everything.

The only amount of brain needed is to decide where to stop.

So.. no, not much brain is necessary for this.
And if one knows where to stop, also the amounts of money played / lost are in common sense limits (common sense which depends on each and every one's pocket size).


Eating your brain and money happens when addiction comes in. And it's the same with all kind of addictions. And it can end bad.
The sad truth is that way too many players simply don't know where to stop.

A coin has two sides. For someone gambling turn to mind and wallet crushing and to other ones gambling is a teacher of logical decisions and strategy. Just like with computer games. The thing is not to take too much.

Of a truth to me gambling is a two choices.  You should understand that you are either making it or losing it.  As a newbies in will advise people to study the risk and reward first before putting your fund into gambling. If you take it too much you will be frustrated.

Sorry for your lose. I'm sure you will be eating yourself all the time by blaming yourself. It is really hard to get through loses, it will be a lesson for you and also for those who've read your story. It is true that the more you are chasing your loses, the chances are your are gonna lose more because your brain is no longer working and you are just focusing on your loses and not on the opportunities.

That's why it's important to play with some rules...

*Never gamble with money that you are not ready to lose.
*set a goal because if you don't have a goal, then is hard to know when to stop.
*If you don't feel good or aren't having fun, better take a walk.

But the problem is they never study to search about the risk and the rewards because they visit the gambling places because of their friends ask them to join. And once that person comes to the gambling area, soon or later, he will lose his money and will make him frustrated as you say. People are too late to learn about the risk in gambling because they feel have fun in gambling games, but soon, after they lose, they will finally realize that they never learn from other people experience.

I think gambling addiction is not as terrible as drug or liquor addicts. there is no need for rehabilitation or psychiatric support,
I think all players have been addicts either extreme or ordinary, but many of them escaped it because of their willingness?

This is a normal action of a typical gambler,to chase always for a win even if he got won big already still they are finding bigger.the thing is before we go to gamble we must put limitations in our mind so after that limits you will go home not empty handed

But i love what you said on the last part that we should invest in much good things than gambling

all addiction are the same and being addicted to anything is bad and dangerous because you are out of your mind .  


of course there is . heavily addicted person needs a serious treatement before their condition gets worst .


you can escape you addiction if you are trully willing to change your self  but its not easy . it takes alot of time and dedication to avoid the temptation  .

I don't see any big disadvantage happening in my life style and my health after using gambling because if we use it with some limitation definitely it will be more helpful way of money making but most of the people are addicted to eat this will be leads to some changes that you are mentioned in your topic.

I agree.Gambling will not make our lives miserable if we play it with limits.But for those people who always long for instant profits and think that gambling will be a good outlet,then it would be a big mistake.No one wins in gambling in the long term so better to play it for entertainment purposes.And once you lose in gmabling,then take a break.Because if you keep chasing your losses,you will only lose even more.

Nothing is fine when you have lost $500 at the beginning, you continue that which means you cannot control yourself when you suffer a losing streak. If I'm in that position, then I'll leave because I realize it's not a good day for me. I passed this kind of incident in the past, so with that experience, right now I'm just gambling carefully. As long as you have control in gambling, I'm sure gambling won't eat your brain and money.

that's true, bad decision if only following the desire to quickly restore the previous losing
better to rest for a while :v

Gambling is not meant to enrich the players, but the casino owners. Please seek professional help before it's too late.

That will be a big mistake for gamblers to chase their losses even if they know that they are already losses in a big amount. I hope that you know the mistake so you didn't make the same mistake and it's better to avoid playing gambling for a while because I am sure that you still get the pain of your lose. Right now, you need to take a rest and search for the other activities, or you can try to search for a job to cover your daily needs.

This is indeed true, it's not for us to make money but for them.
The edge will eat our bankroll in the long run, that's the reality so we should understand our chances in gambling and not be too desperate to win despite not having a chance. There are people who make money in gambling but it's very few, majority of gamblers still loss and you are lucky if you are belong to the few.

So sad that you have losed money. To be honest you had losed due to your greedy nature. At the beginning you were in profits. So that time you have should play patiently. But instead of it you become greedy and took more risk in order to gain more money. Eventually you had losed everything your hard work money. Really you didn't use your brain that time, you just used your money. But after lose then you are using your brain, in a result you are losing both your brain and money. So don't take high risk, invest what you can afford lose.

Do not get discouraged, a few days are lost, but others are won and won big! The important thing is to raise your head and move forward, life gives many opportunities to get up and if life gives those opportunities believe me the game will also give them! ;)

Young people, intending to make money in gambling, enter the play without experience and loose all of it. This is not a kid game so better stay back at home and master excel to earn projects on freelance. Gambling requires you so many things. It is not a function of one skill. In addition, if you have money, better invest it in ETH or ripple than giving it all away in gambling for nothing.

I always agree that gambling is eating all our brain and money. In the beginning days it will eat only our money but over the time through addictions it will start eating up our brain too. It is not easier to quit at wish hence not getting knowing about gambling itself too good.

You mean gambling addiction is the form of brain fading ? I guess it is somewhat similar to that but not exactly. Gambling addictions may lead to brain fade, I agree but it is not about not losing control on gambling but it will lead to aggressive gambling. Probably eating up our brain will be in the sense of not controlling ourselves like normal IQ person. Yes, addicted gamblers are known for less IQ levels.

The OP have probably learned from his mistake but if he dont apply a basic strategy which will make him know the time to stop gambling at the right time he'll definitely continue to gamble in other to recover his losses and I'm saying this because I have been there before.

the worst moments is when you bet on all your property and you lose
and when you can not stop addictive game

if this is becomes our number one priority of course our brains will be full with gambling stuffs and things but i play gambling for fun and chill that makes me more relaxful

A good perspective on gambling. If you can keep that and not be addicted, then it will do good for you. Gambling sometimes is really hard to control once your system is already used to it.

in the beginning, all gamblers like that only played for fun
but over time, when you can't control it so you will become addicted

Not only it will eat your brain and money but your entirety. Your whole life, your family and everything that you have. If you don't know how to control yourself, time will come that you will be alone,  without your family, sad and broke.

For us gamblers, we must know when to stop and when to continue on betting because even the game was really intensifying and you are into catching up what you have loss, we must need to compose ourselves to pause for a while and have a better luck on next time because playing gambling is a risk that is worth it if you know how to play in moderation. Chances of loosing a great amount of money is possible if you will not be contented of what you have achieved and still strive hard for it. There is no wrong on pushing through but better know when to give up before you loose everything in a glimpse of an eye. Make gambling a part of your leisure activities which I did into the  online casino (https://to.crwd.cr/smtm) I have found that is convenient for me to play with plus I enjoy great bonus as their welcoming reward when I first did my deposit and it started to be fun and enjoyable playing with the varieties of games on it.

That's true, even if you have a lot of money if you will just gamble it you will lose it later on. Gambling is simply eating our meaningful life, corrupting all the positive things and turn it into a broken pieces. If you lose in gambling, better to quit now while there's still a chance for you to quit or less, addiction will control you.

Losing in gambling and then keep trying may lead to get corrupting all the good things of our lives. But, what about the gamblers who are all getting what they actually want from gambling ? I mean some gamblers may win and leave and some other gamblers may target for entertainments and probably good at making that possible. I guess these gamblers will never get corrupting anything in their like out of gambling. Hence, it means gambling eating all the money of the gambler is not approaching it how it should be for the case of gambling. When we do not know how to gamble then it will lead to disasters only.

This is actually common happens to the people while they gamble but some of them can forget their lost and continue their life but some of them also feel regret why they gambling and the money where you lost in gambling it was never back again so stop regretting your decission because it will make you feel even more depressed and will eat your brain and your mentally and make it valuable experience for your further step so as not to happen again in the future

I hope so. He cannot stay too long in gambling especially if he has lost in many times and I think it's better for him to get a rest for a while because playing gambling needs the stability of emotion. Many things he needs to do in gambling and he should prevent himself not to become addicted to gambling especially if his purposes are only for chasing the money and I guess that he will only get losing more money.

I feel sad for what you've said :(. Well, past is past, just continue moving on. I know that it's hard but you have no choice at all, you have to be strong. Just try looking on the brighter side for you to recover fast, It helps a lot :). Consider yourself lucky because you able to realized the mistakes you've done only at early stage unlike those addicts who already lose thousands or even millions of dollars yet continue their bad deeds. And at least, you already learned a lesson which lets you to avoid committing same mistake once and for all.

It doesn't mean that you will now quit gambling forever and ever, just be more responsible next time but if it is your choice then so be it, it was good for you after all :).

Your brain is what controls you, so if it's affected by gambling you will certainly loss.

There is no way we will win in gambling if we are not smart, we will only continue to spend money and without knowing we already spend
more than we can afford to loss. Some people suffer from financial crisis because of gambling, so let us not wait that time will come
we will experience the same, let's gamble but with control and treat it as a way to spend our free time, not to focus on it.

If its a losing streak, better to have some rest.
Its still not guaranteed that you can earn that money again in gambling since its pure of luck but if your into gambling that much, then you can still continue. If I'm the one on your position I will not gamble anymore especially if I've already loss a lot of money.

This has to be some of the worst advice I've seen anyone give to a gambling addict.
Did you really just say that he should just try again another time, because other people have won it big?

Follow that advice and you'll eventually lose everything you have.

Get some professional help and completely quit gambling without worrying about the losses you've already made.
You'll save more money by not gambling any more.

Probably because he is a gambking addict too. I don't have any evidence to prove this but I guess no one will give such advice except for those who already hooked too much because they already don't know what is right or wrong.

The situation you have experienced is not new when you endulge in gambling especially in the casino where in there is a conspiracy that  the games are manipulated.

Not actually we are manipulated, we are not smart to be in gambling that resulting into losing every time. That's their game and they are much knowledgeable compared to us but their is no manipulation happens. We can't win in here even we are good enough in gambling if we don't have luck. 

We don't know that. I can even see that this post is not that serious as it seems since we can all see that wink emoji at the end, we don't need to take this post seriously. Gambling will really eat your Brain, your money and also your time as you will be spending most of your time in the casino or in the gambling sites unless you have a gambling bot, but still.

It's not just eating money and brain, it's eating your time if you are an addicted gambler. People think of getting quick rich and that's why do gamble and after all, lose all the money. It's better to stay away from being addicted.

You are so right,  heavy addicts tend to believe that their next win is always around the corner.  The responsible thing to do is set aside a budget each week of money that you can lose without any problems.

I think its better to say that you must stay away from gambling if you don't want it to consume your brain, time, and money. The main reason why people gamble is because they want to get profit as quick as they can but its the reverse of it that is happening. They lose most if not all of their money and in the end, they will feel regret because of their actions.

Its not that easy mate as self control isour best enemy in gambling,many gamblers become addicted without their notice or they are denying that reality .

Thats it,staying away from this vices is the best option but the question is how?all of us started playing by curiosity but in the end turns out of becoming addicted

I was being in a fortunate circumstance wherein I was at that point understood that we are gradually being eaten by betting and our covetousness to win a great deal of cash out of it. Before, I am additionally so near being dependent on betting however don't misunderstand me.

I effectively lost a great deal of cash and I rapidly understand that I have to stop. I am not excessively dependent but rather it is still hard to stop. I required the assistance of my family particularly my significant other, I need to stop in view of them since they are additionally the motivation behind why I need to procure the cash.

Your title is so perfect & I agree.Gambling can't make you rich and you shouldn’t do gambling for making profit.Slowly and somehow It will cost your everything.Not just money but also you happiness.I believe gambling is the worst game in the Universe but sadly many people still believe in gambling which make me sad.                 

That wink emoji doesn't mean anything and it doesn't matter.
Giving advice like that to a potential gambling addict is just plain wrong, nothing else to say about it really.

In reality, he's probably just increasing his post count to earn more from his campaign, which is fine unless you're saying stuff like this.

Professional gamblers find out a way to recover the losses quite sooner than expected. But they all depend upon the gambling strategies they are going to incur in the further games. Winning at firsts will tempt us to earn more by gambling with more money but probably will lose them. If you have made a chunk out of gambling for months, you need to retire with that money. If we are greedy enough to earn more there are fair chances of losing more. Recurring the losses is also tough if you have a bad luck and trying the odds will complicate the situation even more and make you lose your remaining money.

Getting ourselves involved in online Gambling is quite dangerous at some times, but they seem to be more fair enough in recent times due to the developments in blockchain and smart contract technology. If you have been part of Online casinos and pokers you should have encountered few fraudulent websites which claims to offer surreal gambling experience, but they have been limited with the use of smart contracts.

When we are not affordable to money we are betting then it will cause lot of life problems to us,initially gambling luck maybe on our side but after than all our money got eaten through bets so don't try to gamble for money just look for other ways to make your money.

Affordable money is a criteria for safe gambling but eventually after some long stay with gambling it will definitely will eat your brain and money regardless of your gambling with your affordable money or not. Please note, only after long stay. It means if you gamble occasionally then you can escape from wasting your money and getting affected mentally by gambling.

Gambling is known for disturbing our attention and focus. This is possible even for new gamblers who are all not addicted to gambling yet. Because, the excitement we are getting from gambling is powerful enough to make us think about it all the times and we may not capable of focusing into our regular life. When we are thinking about something all the times then definitely we will spend for it which will lead to wasting money obviously.

Chasing after money is always something bad for every gambler because there wont be a way for such gambler to reason and it better for such person to quit for the day but if it the situation that have to do with emotion best thing such gambler can do is to take a break of about 15-20 minutes.

Having a break wont really be that bad but the results or feeling would really be just the same.If you are profiting already then its wise for you to quit but this is the hardest part
for a gambler to make. We know that we have still money on our pockets and it cant really be avoided to have the thing on mind that if we bet more we can still possibly get even more
which it ends for us to go back.

Lol he gave that advice with a lovely wink.
It is obvious that op was gambling to win money not to have fun and win if possible.
I guess if you make gambling a career, it ruins your life and turn you into an addict.

But, it is proven that you will get addicted even you will be gambling to have fun and entertainment. Your purpose of gambling will not be a concern to get addicted because gambling just need you to stay for a relatively more time with it to make you a gambling addict. Only through addiction it will eat our brain and money. If you stay away from gambling or you are not regular to gambling then you can stay safer without getting ruined your life.

Addiction will be the result of continuous gambling and it will be possible for all the gamblers regardless of why they are gambling. You can see, fun seeking gamblers also getting addicted and unable to resist themselves to stay away from gambling even after reaching their daily limits.

You're right about the profiting and feelings to be the same but the reason behind taking a break is for gambler to have a genuine thinking which will literally help him the right thing to do next maybe to continue, quit or the strategy which could help him win.

You will think most out of your brain when you will experience a loss in gambling. You mind will constantly be making you feel sad about the money you lost in gambling. If the loss is big and it happen multiple times, it can make you sick even. You should realize this and be prepared for it. In case of winnings, your mind will be relaxed and happy and it will have good effect on your life too.

Well said mate and a piece of advice,if we can prevent from being involved in this gambling world

I don’t want to be called hypocrite but being a former gambling addict(FORMER because i already passed that time,and now i am just an occasional gambler) i have encountered lots of bad things in this so i can vouch that this will only brings troubles if you continue to become one

Too much  of something is really bad no matter what it is. In playing gambling, we must know that it is either win or loose can be associated on playing it so if you think you are already loosing too much, better stop for a while and better luck next time. If you are already winning better stop and be contented because we do not know if you will be that lucky the next game. Actually I am looking for another leisure activity and the online casino you were talking about seems interesting.

This is something that makes you quick and quick. The more you think the more you come up with new tricks and strategies. In addition, gambling requires you to have prior knowledge about the thing. If you do not have prior knowledge, you would never be able to make money by winning. There is completely zero probability for that. Hence, yes it is eating out your brain and money if you are not winning.

Many games in gambling are luck based games where if you are lucky you will win else you would lose out. Only few games like cards games, poker etc does require strategy which can decide the course of whether you will win or lose it.

Yes, that's right, gambling is a means to reach the level of entertainment. Gambling is not a game to make a lot of money. A lot of what happens now is when someone considers gambling as a means to get money, they are usually trapped in an addiction. don't let yourself experience this, think and instill in ourselves that gambling is just an entertainment !!!!

Not actually. It won't eat your money if you are winning over lossing. It will eat your brain if you're not smart enough to know when to stop. I think the OP was negative because he's unfortunate to gambling. I hope his perspective can be altered.

I'm also thinking of that. How come you are able to keep off gambling eating your brain and money?

It's a matter of strategy. Just like playing a poker game (https://to.crwd.cr/smtm), don't risk too much if you are not confident that your card would win. Always be positive and let the game be controlled no one but only you.

If a person play gambling regularly, I do not think that he will safe and will not become addicted in gambling.
May be some people whose reason of playing gambling is only to get fun and enjoyment. Their reason of playing gambling is not for making money, can prevent themselves from being addicted. Such people may have good control over their emotions, and that is the reason that  never try to exceed their limit and they can even quit gambling at any time.

If we are venturing into something that is high risk then we should limit the money we risk.
High risk venture needs proper analysis and thus you need to study what you are doing so you can make an effective strategy.
Poker is a good type of gambling, many has made fortune from it but they are smart, it's normal that there are losers and winners but as much
as possible, let's seek the winning side.

That's right. Too much of something makes bad result which we can or cannot expect so better have our self control with us as always. Well its good to try this  online casino (https://to.crwd.cr/smtm) and see if you will love it as your new activity for your leisure and enjoy the varieties of games plus the great deal of bonus that awaits you once you have done your first deposit.

You are right, and he has a chance to become addicted to gambling if he does not realize to get out from the gambling site as soon as he can. But even if their reason of playing gambling is not because the money, their chance will wide open to get addicted because we know that the more they play, the more they will curious with the winning money, and it could attract them to become addicting to gambling.

As every thing which is much to the body will discomfort body so is gambling without strictness even if the reason why the gambler play games or bet on a gambling site was for fun but I would like to correct the OP saying because what ever man overdo such thing will sooner or later eat the man's brain.

So we agree that playing gambling doesn't need to take a long time. As long as we can play with fun, we can enjoy the game, it is enough for us to play and we could quit gambling in anytime we want. But it doesn't guarantee to us to not become addicting although we know the time to quit gambling. I hope we can manage our time in gambling and don't use bigger money for bets.

Well, most gamblers experience what you've done and has been talk many times so there's nothing new with it. Some even losses more, effect is even worst but like you still kickin' and continue playing gambling. As long as you know your priority in life I guess it's fine even though lossing isn't fine.

Of course we could put our efforts to much more beneficial things for society.  This is one of the downfalls of games.  it can be video games, casino games, or sports it doesn't matter.  People will never quit playing games anyways so we might as well make it enjoyable.

I don't think it's gambling who's eating your brain and money but it's your addiction that triggers too much loss more than you expect. Gambling wasn't made for negative reason. Although a lot of people gets miserable due to gambling, it's because of their addiction. The lack the discipline to themselves.

Most people didn't realize that they are addicted already because they were enjoying too much not knowing that if they keep losing they will eventually burn out all of their money. The only reason why most people like to push their limit is that they keep telling to their selves that "if i win this, i will have to go" but it turns out that you either lost or you lose your self-control.

Gambling is become your habit when your mind accumulates it and it can be possible in any habit but it is in your hand either make it as good or bad habits.Not all the addiction is good but getting addicted to gambling is really bad habit in my opinion as you said it eats your money but you did that right initially?

Sorry to hear you got burned with gambling, richminded.  :(

Online gambling, whether it is with fiat or crypto is definitely not something to take lightly.
If you can work with self-imposed limits - it can be very fun, and there are some truly fun online communities to play with.

However, if you are prone to chase losses at additional financial cost to yourself - it is probably in your best interest to find another hobby.

Not novel advice I'm presenting here....but it is the very best advice when it comes to gambling in general.

Most of the time that happened, there's something that controlling your minds when playing, important thing to avoid when you already have this
around your minds make sure to completely overcome and quit, after this if you've got engaged there's no good thing that will happen anymore but to continue losing your money and wasting your time.

I think no addiction, but access of everything is bad. If we have addicted to gambling its not a big issues, we need to make a good strategy for gambling and I hope that even if we are addicted in gambling we can prevent ourselves from a big lost and can continue gambling in a smooth way,
The most important thing in gambling is too control our emotions and should play gambling in a limit.

We are being miscontrolled especially if we continue to gamble. Its not eating our brain, you choose to be like this. Only if you listen to yourself that you should not continue playing then for sure you will not lose that much. You can be addict in Gambling if you don’t control yourself, this is the purpose of gambling I think, to make us broke.

Yeah it possible to lose all you have in gambling we need to accept that if the gamblers isn't use selfcontrol and discipline in ourself to avoid this scenario, play gamble just for fun not for anythings else example dreaming quick rich.

Dreaming to be rich in gambling is normal and that is alright but our action should not be stupid.
We have to be smart in dealing with our strategy, there's no easy way in gambling, you might be lucky one day but the odds will stay play which is not in our favor. Being wiser will minimize the risk but being a risk taker will increase our chances to win more, it will just come, we don't need to rush things.

Continue to gamble until you find your luck but the amount spent should be based on budget all the time.

Agreed with you comrade, when the primary purpose of gambling been defeated nothing to be accepted than addiction which rather eat up the gamblers brain and money.
Sometimes ago I got addicted but thanks to a friend who helped me out in my try times.

As for me, Money is only the one being consumed. Honestly speaking, Gambling is really a mind game, once it breaks the hell out of one individual in will sure consume you not only physically but emotionally and mentally. Control is the key to avoid such breakdown, however, it's quite hard to learn and to maintain. But, there are also experiences that is good for the brain, if only we know how to learn from it.

Gambling takes away a great deal of our lives, especially if we are gambling-dependent. Over time, we lose our psyche playing and grinding, and of course we waste time, all in the hope of winning. We need to keep counting and enjoy the gambling as much as possible.

A lot of us are able to gamble in moderation without any problems.  The key is having the right balance and knowing when enough is enough.  I wouldn't say anything is a waste of time if you are having fun. 

Their are people who had lost almost everything because they were so much addicted to it and were in deep losses. In order to recover they played huge bets and finally we know the results that they end up losing everything. Hope sensible thinking prevails.

We are born in this world to spend our life happily which means in the way we want to be so if you are interested in gambling then it is not wrong but only addicted to it make problem because you are going to lose your money here for every wrong bet you are doing so if you can accept that loss then you will be okay.

The experience that will be gained is only self control will be better if you are able to realize it. That is, when you are under pressure because of a problem in your life, then you can solve the problem with self-control that remains calm even though it is under pressure from a big problem. So gambling is not always as bad as imagined, with a note if the gambler is able to learn and realize it which is not always controlled by emotions because of greed.

We are given a chance to enjoy gambling but we should understand that this does not give us the full entertainment since there is a risk involve.
Addiction is just a result of bad self management in gambling, you gamble too much and you hence you were able to spend more than you can afford to lose and without knowing our chance of winning, it will even make ourselves world in gambling.

If gambling was not made to lose, the gambling is also not made to Win Always. Its a mixture of win and lose and only those people will succeed who knows these both aspects of gambling and they will play with some plan. Even though it only a matter of luck between lose and win but if you know how to manage the money, you will be able to earn good in the end.

Why would people gamble for fun? I don't understand that. People might gamble, they gamble to have a good time, to enjoy, to be thrilled but I don't think that they are just gambling for fun, they are gambling to earn money. If they are just gambling for fun, they can use or spend that money into other things that can give them more fun than gambling.

Lets not exaggerate it. Its not eating your brain, its just making you poorer. And you are to blamed partially for this since you managed your money in a bad way. Why would you go to gamble if you can't afford to lose it in the first place? If you actually did for entertainment purpose, then gamble with those virtual coins and casinos that require no actual deposit and you play just for fun. And you probably have heard tons of stories about people losing everything when chasing their loss, but you decided to still do it.

And we also don't know the real reason behind, if you will read different opinions about that having fun while gambling, people who cares
about money mostly got engaged a lots and loses much bigger money, so it's sucking every thing and that's fun moments already replaced
by misconceptions about gambling and some malfunctions inside your mindsets.

that's gambling, when we lose and we force play to get our money back, it is the lose streak that we can get. things that have often happened, I've even experienced.

This is because our brain is thinking that we want to get our lost money back and that is when the losing streak happens. Gambling can make you greedy either if you win or you lose so the best thing to do in order for gambling not to consume your brain is just not to gamble at all.

We think we can win but we are too unrealistic since we don't really have the strategy to win or we are gambling in a game that has a house edge.
Either of the two mentioned above will never give us a win, I will only consider it's a win if we can cash out and quit gambling for good or if we can continue to gamble and winning most of the time, so in the end we will still be profitable.

Yes, most of the people usually spend more than what they can afford to lose. In fact no one want to lose money and to make more and more, but after every lose we convince ourselves to bet again and this time to make our bet double so that you return our previous bet and in this way we always exceed our gambling limit, even some time we lose everything we have in our pocket. Hence, it is too much important to have control over our emotion. That is in fact the main reason of losing money.

Gambling hypnotize people through its excitements; when people are getting attracted to gambling regardless of why they are gambling neither fun seeking nor profit seeking, they lose their consciousness and do forget their all responsibilities and duties. This lead to addictions slowly. There would be nothing wrong in calling that gambling is eating up all our brain and money.

Addiction is even not the main reason which can create problem. The most important fact which is really problematic is emotional control. If you have some control over your emotion no doubt that you can enjoy and get fun from gambling, if you are addicted of gambling but you have fully control over your emotion, then you can continue gambling very smoothly and without having big lost.

That's too frustrating. I sometimes lose all the funds I have. Gambling will just make us feel hunger, tempting to play again whenever we lose or we win. When we realized that we should stop our addiction, it was too late because we lose big amount of money already.
Well, let our bad experiences lead us to think carefully that being addicted with gambling will not bring any good to our life.

Self-control is hard in gambling despite of the strategies that you have, this is a biggest challenge for every gambler. Its sad to hear that most of the  gamblers are still playing with a lot of greed most of the time when there's a losing streak. Good to hear that OP is still ok, I believe he learned a lot from this mistake and never to do the same thing again. This is gambling, we will always fall and become broke if we keep on playing.

This how a compulsive gambler start, until he becomes so miserable, that he doesn't know how and when he stops, the moment you says that you will stop until a certain time or after you keep promising that you will stop after you regain your losses, but it's not going to happen and you will just continue to be miserable.

It's good that you have learned your lesson in gambling, what's unfortunate is that you have learnt it the hard and expensive way. Most gamblers get addicted to it because they thought they were just having fun, but as time goes by without noticing entertainment becomes greed. You keep losing and chasing for those losses makes you waste all your hard-earned money.

Play with moderation and just enjoy gambling on your free time. Do not waste too much time and money on it.

Many people think that gambling is a way to make quick money, but that's not the case. When i started gambling, i was quite happy, as i won a few round and make some quick money, but as the time passed I just lost all my funds.

What is important is you should know your limitations when you gamble, especially when you are on a winning/losing streak. Accumulating and losing profit will slowly hamper your decision making and may cause unfavorable results like what happened to you.

Knowing when to stop is the key factor in gambling. I know that it may be difficult especially when you are on the situation but only regret would follow afterwards.


Gambling can indeed, give you a quick profit IF the odds are in your favour. If you try your luck and after a few games you realized that you are on a losing streak, trying to recover those losses will only make your situation worse. Set a limitation on your winnings/losings and make it a point to have discipline over yourself and temptations.

I had been a great gambler as I used to be a Tennis player myself till I met with an injury which destroyed me completely. It may sound stupid but when I was playing the game myself, my predictions were next to great and I was able to fetch all the information lied behind the scenes and win over and over again but after I stopped playing (due to my knee surgery), I didn't win a single bet (this is what may sound stupid here but truth) and had big continuous losses which made me lose my entire life savings in it. I never went behind my losses to be recovered, I just made bets and lost them one by one, no martingale strategy, nothing. It is not a good idea to go all in with all the money you have saved in your life as it may become a life threatening experience for you when you watch them going and getting added to the gambling website's house edge bankroll.

How can we do that when most gambling games has house edge, and most gamblers play that kind of luck based games.
Odds is never on our favor, its just luck that can give temporary win.
That's right, we have to set limitation so we know how to stop, not able to control ourselves will lead to addiction.

Initially people might win the money from gambling but longer the duration more losses will be incurred and this is where people who have control will either exit or restrict them self just for the fun and not to make money from gambling.

And when you lost all of your funds, you don't have to be sad because that is what gambling did to you. We can win in the game but we can also lose in the game, and it depends on our luck. So if we can manage the money we use in the gambling game and never use too big money, then if we are losing the money, we know that is the risk of playing gambling.

When we can realize about the risk, then we can think about how much money we should use to place the bet, and we can know when we need to quit and leave the gambling place because we don't want to become addicting to gambling.

But thats not the way gambling thinks,to different from what we wanted them to do ..our hearts are serious about the concerns but gamblers has their own dedication on what they are doing so lets pray that they will realize all of this in future

So what does this mean?we must treat gambling as enjoyable tool and not for profitable one.so the thing is when you want to gamble set yourself to enjoy and not to profit

Gambling is a way to make quick money, that is, if the odds are in your favor. But we don't know that, right? No one else does. We just try to grab and take the risk because we believe that the more we risk, the more we will gain. However, that is not always the case. The more we risk could also mean that we have more to lose. But since we want to have a comeback, then we tend to take the risk and gamble again. That's when we lose control of how much we spend, of ourselves—because of our hunger for victory.

Self-control is, indeed, easier said than done. But should we settle on that thought? I think our discipline must be greater than our hunger of winning (in gambling). We have already seen and read other's experiences regarding gambling—that there is really a huge chance of losing. And sometimes, we just don't learn from it unless we experience it firsthand but we don't have to wait for that time. It may be hard to at least minimize the habit, but if there's a will, there will always be a way.

We do makes loses in gambling but that do not mean people are not making profits.  I think the number of people that makes lose are higher than those that makes profits and that is why we are more focusing on losing than profits.

It is someone loss while the others will win, this would be the result in gambling. It is very attractive and eager to play when we win at first but we loss more than we win as we keep on playing. We've just only realize it when we run out of money in our pocket and decide to stop.
In reality, more losses will be in our part rather than of winning against the house.

True, the most difficult part in gambling is self restrain especially when we are winning during the early rounds of play.  We think that we can win again since we have experienced it but gambling is gambling, it is a game of chance. 


Not if we keep ourselves on check.  I have been playing in an online casino but I never have problem with it since I always allot a certain amount that will not hurt my family budget. 


He must be else he can watch his self ruined by gambling.

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Never been in the same situation since the only gambling I regularly engage in is lottery and that's usually just once every 1-2 months. And I go out of my way (literally) to avoid it. Walk quickly past the outlet or take a different route.

As you said yourself, the best you can get is breakeven. You're not supposed to expect to make profit out of this, it's for entertainment. You should've just set an amount to spend on it for a month and don't dip in your other savings when you lose.

Set something like 10% of your income and label that as "entertainment". Use that for everything related to entertainment like movies and gambling. When it runs out, you stop spending until it gets topped up again the next month.

That's what usually happens in the gambling, we experience a win at the early rounds so that it gives us confidence that we can get profit again. if you really are looking for profit then save you profit, by quiting for playing that day and gambling again tomorrow

I have experienced this kind of thing even recently I have been controlled by greed and of course by not being able to control myself, I have lost everything in gambling, which means gambling has eating my brain and money. Even though you quiting that day and gambling again tomorrow, it's not enough for you to get good results, because luck is the main factor even though you have many strategies in gambling.

A lucky glimpse of win  will lead us to much deeper engagement, lots of gamblers suffered with stress and too much anxiety after losing lots of money inside this activity, it's eating everything inside their minds keep thinking of how they will play well and create new strategy from time to time, but end results still the same, losing their money because greed is always there after.

Haha this is how casino investment will run around while we gamble there.

We must need to careful while we gamble and it makes profit again and again then will create the interest to put more investment in casino. If you are careful then you will be push to loose all the money buddy.

This is actually a very good suggestion. But still I believe that 10% of the total income is a bit high. If alcohol, sports.etc is included, then it can be reasonable. But it will be quite hard to keep this 10% target. Chasing the losses is a habit which is very difficult to get away. I have seen even the most experienced gamblers doing it.

The Entertainment fund is supposed to be for everything fun like treating the family out, it isn't solely for gambling. But since it's already a small portion of the income, gambling get an even smaller portion since it also have to share funds with movie tickets and restaurant bills.

IMHO any "earnings" from gambling should be added to the Savings fund which is ideally >20% of the income so that it actually do good. But yeah, if the income ain't much maybe Entertainment can be reduced to 5%.

10% target is an optional. You can set whatever amount you want but it won't help for sure. You can lose control yourself at any time during gambling and just raise your spending limit.

I Know the feeling and it's really frustrating if you lose every money that you are holding and I guess that is something we should avoid, the feeling that you have to recover the losses because of your impulsive decisions you must take and you have to think of the possible solution for that is moderation and I guess we should keep it kind he possible consequences if we exceed to our own limits and this is what I usually do I take moderation in playing in  Vegas casino (https://vegascasino.io/casino/video-slots/durian-dynamite?utm_source=ccdd) in which they allow me to enjoy their various games such as poker, black jack, slots, roulette and many more, as well as their great deal of rewards because of depositing my Bitcoins to them.

Beginner's luck as they say. It's some sort of a trap for you to engage more in gambling, before you knew it, you are already hooked into it and most of the time broke to realized that you need to get out. Self-control/discipline should be your greatest friend if you are a gambler.

Yes, there are still a lot of people that make much profit in gambling and on the contrary the number of people that make it might even be higher than those loosing. I think most people who make money from gambling never come out to say it, either some are ashamed to admit it or they just don’t want to expose too many people to the game because I know about 2 people that gambled their way out of poverty this year. One of the guys is my good friend.

Money is not easy to get, that is the reason we see many people who loose coming out to complain that gambling is not good, because it really hurts to lose money.

Yes. You should have your own discipline in gambling because if you let your emotions rule over your mind, then don't expect much profits because probably you'll just end up losing. And when you see yourself losing already, never try chasing your losses because you might only lose more at the end of the day.

I am one of those people who strongly believe gambling as a place to make money. If I am not doing it with the aim of making money, why then am I now playing? I am not disputing the fact that the game is interesting and can as well be entertaining, but the goal of playing is always to make money.

Most of you all that always blame people not to see gambling as an avenue to make money are not always been sincerely to yourselves. You incautiously play for money but you are not aware and that is the reason you feel sad whenever you make loses. If you actually play for fun alone, then you wouldn’t feel bad when you lose.

That was how you've set your mind not to be addictive in gambling, yes, don't let gambling control's you. You must have the power to control gambling addiction than you so that you can be avoided on it. Chasing lose will be triggered you on addiction, when you have a loss, then, don't mind it and forget that thing better to have fun while gambling than you make it serious and make money instead of enjoyment you've possible earn.

Yes, setting limit is just one of the ways to avoid addiction but the main way to do that is to have self control and discipline. Otherwise,  even with the set limit, there will always be urge to increase betting and with the way most gambling games now have house edge that its odds are never in favor of gamblers, gambler are always tempted to play more pending when luck shines on the.

It will only take a highly disciplined player to know when to quit because naturally with the way the game is, one could play all day, and year hoping to win without knowing that he is on the road to addiction.

The problem with majority of the people around is that they consider gambling purely a mean of making money and this is one of the main reasons why they end up loosing all their money. Someone with good financial condition does not fall or fall rarely a victim of gambling because he plays for joy. In such a case, you do not eat up your brain and rather a bar of chocolate and go happy if you win; go good if you do not.

Its funny how everyone starts off with a win and ends up trying to recover from a losing streak, sometimes gambling sucks!


Sounds like you also funded your friends play which resulted in double the loss or cost.

This doesn't just leave you broke, it destroys your life if you keeping chasing your losses and certainly affects your psychological well being.

I haven't had this experience because I avoid casinos where luck isn't on your side..and I know that no matter how good you are the house wins!

That excitement will become your worst nightmare when you get too much playing time in gambling. That chasing losses is a bad side of ourselves because we always wanted to win and we are not ready to loss even if we have set our goals. It's hard but you have to stand stronger than your emotion, gambling will totally eat you if you give chance to it so don't blame anyone but yourself for not thinking.

It's easier said than done. Telling someone who is addicted to have more control just doesn't work. Addiction is a physical thing about chemicals in your brain. If you suffer from addiction, then you need help. Not just counseling but physical distraction. Some people pick up a different addiction just to get away from a harmful one (like coffee or like nicotine).

It's not really about greed. This is a misunderstood problem in society, and guys like you don't help the situation.

Keep believing gambling as a place of income and you will come out of your nightmare the day you loose an amount that will take you months to recover from the hurt. Gambling is meant to be an entertainment and if you trace down to the history of gambling you will realize that people who played then did it more for fun.

I am not disputing that you cannot make money from gambling but don’t let your mind see it as a place for money, otherwise you get thorough hurt the day you loose and that mindset can make you commit big money because you want something big in return. Just be wise

Maybe a lot of people will agree with you. We not means if gambling is something that make money. But if someone already think gambling is be something that can be income source, he will end with bad.

Never ever to give gambling a chance as it will ruined everything inside your minds, and afterwards it will ruined also your financial status,
being to addicted to gambling will let you to lose your investment, everything inside your savings will be at risk since you can't control your
emotions anymore.

It is an open secret that gambling is a big industry and that no one can deny its potential in terms of imparting big profits but there is another dark side to that which is the risk and the house edge. Of course the risk or uncertainty will keep you in sheer ambiguity and the house edge will keep you at sought of disadvantage which is equivalent to eating your brain and money up but the best guys enjoy big fortunes as well which serves as examples for the new gamblers and so the number goes on increasing and this is the reason the industry has attained great value.

This is where discipline comes in. It also helps if the other funds would be kept away to avoid spending them. For example those for saving can be left in the bank (meaning you only withdraw a small part of your paycheck). Utilities can be enrolled for auto-deduct, again so you don't have to hold the money at home.

Instead of a credit card, maybe just use debit and put a low limit on it. That way you gamble only with the small amount in your wallet.

Gambling is for the fun only in modern world. If anyone is taking gambling as a job or only source of income, then he need to better understand the meaning of gambling. 
As per my observations, those who play for money lose more often then those who only play for fun. :)

Those are the things that a gambler should take into consideration before entering a casino or accessing an online casino.
You need to set aside the money for your necessities first and at least savings for your family.
I've learned my lesson as well on this part of my life. Lost money in actual casino and from then on, I told myself to gamble only my extra extra funds.
If you will really chase what you've lost, you will end up more broke and maybe you will lose your head in the process also.
But sometimes, only when a person experienced such struggle owed to gambling, will be the ultimate wake up call to change his ways when it comes to gambling.

I do not think gambling - eating your brain and money. Gambling is one of the most exciting online games that entertain people, while on the other hand a good way to earn money. Yes, if you play gambling, financial loss will not mean that gambling is eating people's money and brain. Where the question comes, there will be financial losses in the game of gambling. Gambling is not eating the brain and money. Rather it is a popular medium of entertainment.

I don't think so, actually I think that besides being entertaining, I hope for win and profit too in gambling. which means, I hope gambling is my income also, but in reality gambling does not make nightmare to me, I draw the conclusion that there is nothing wrong with your purpose to gambling, the important thing is you know the limits and controls

When someone has become addicted then it can happen. You can see that many people are stressed when a gambler has become addicted and they can lose all the money they have. But different when someone considers gambling as an entertainment, the gambler will be much more comfortable. This is something that depends on the nature of each gambler. The choice is only two, namely to gain a number of benefits or to get entertainment. Choose according to the characteristics, but personally I am much more agreeing to make gambling games an entertainment.

Gambling is never been a source of income and treat it as an entertainment but people are way too greedy which they do cross overboard on the border and becoming addicted and in return or the consequence they
do mess out their entire life because of that.You should be aware on the possible risk of addiction on the first place when you do tend to play gambling.Everything should really be on control if you dont like to destroy your life.

I agree with you Gilang that's good choice for all of us as community of cryptocurrencies, it is depends on our selves in gambling games but unfortunatelly it is like blaming the gambling games related with cryptocurrencies, we must make clear that gambling and gambler are something different so we can not do blaming that gambling eating your brain and the money just because of addiction of gambling games, it is bad for the growing of cryptocurrencies especially in gambling industry.

Well, the problem is US(gamblers) if we are going to be an addiction, we could not gambling industry on that matter. We have our responsibility to control our selves from addiction and we must apply self-moderated to our self just to avoid such thing that gambling might our brain and money to become an addiction. Indeed, we are the one who had a great decision and managing were right or wrong.

I could only imagine if most of the gamblers can have their responsibility to control themselves, then addiction will not happen to them. Besides that, they will get fun inside the gambling because they know that gambling can make them addicted and they will prevent the addiction.

The most thing important here is how we can control ourselves in gambling, so gambling doesn't eat our brain and our money, and we can prevent from the addiction. That is hard, it's not easy as it says, but I believe that we can do that.

Self control is not easy to achieve and im sure that everyone will agree on that fact  because all of us did already experienced to become addicted on a certain thing not just on gambling  .  im not addicted on gambling but im addicted on social medias . i can say that it eats up my brain but it does not eat my money not unlike to gambling that they can eat both of your brain and money .

Though it is still addiction that im facing right now  .  im still on my way of combating this addiction of mine 

Well that is how we think actually if one is not a gambler or risk taker.

But, a true gambler does not think this way. Just imagine how much fun in playing and will just take it away from your possession? It will even results to depression.

This is why that gambling never stops. The fun activity made it the reason why it still present and operating even if it means that doing it illegally.

Gambling like you have consumed my brain and money. I went down to play gambling with the first 100 dollars and then my whole meaning was lost. Thus, on one side of my mind such as brain decay, money also gets exhausted. As a result, I still suffer today.
So in my opinion, gambling destroys both the brain and the money.

Thank You

That I was think too before in gambling because I think you addicted now on playing gamblinh, but if you play like twice a week or thrice it's okay and use the extra money that you have only and don't use more money to pkay gambling. Gambling addicting people once the player experienced winning in their first try until the player lose all of their money just like what happened to me last few years ago but I know now how to control my self so even Im playing gambling again Im still earn money if I total my my lose since I started this year again.

I understand and i somewhat experience this situation and now i tend to stay away from casino because i dont have self-control. I learned to accept losses because chasing it will only lead me to more losses which will sink into me when i spent all my money.

Good to know that you know this and you have decided to quit gambling. You can develop the skills and self control and then again resume the gambling. Gambling will surely eat your money and make you sad if you do not play sensibly.

Some people might say that it is easier said to be done, yeah they are right somehow but still, it depends on yourself. Actually, it is all about a matter of discipline, we became addicted because we play big, what I mean is that every time we lose we tend to retrieve it back knowing that it won't happen and that cause of everything. If you have to manage yourself at first, you might ever suffer from addiction. As a matter of fact, I use to play on crypto casino since they are undeniably irresistible due to some bonuses and features it has like the Vegas Casino (https://vegascasino.io/casino/video-slots/durian-dynamite?utm_source=ccdd). Even I play I never fall in addiction because I set a limitation for myself and most important I never think it as income but rather as entertainment.

It is better you know it already before the worst thing happens to you. Not exactly all of us are have that self-control and know our limitations, having a distance from gambling will help of not getting tempted to play again. We know already how gambling will affect our minds especially when we badly addicted to this and we might be lock-up which we are hard to escape.

If you don't mind me asking, when did you start including gambling money in your budget? Like, how long after you've started gambling?

And is it just "extra money" or you do set aside a certain amount?

Also, you are lucky you were able to manage your gambling early. I believe there are some members saying they had people leave them first.

I'm happy for you because you learned how to control yourself by stopping and staying away from gambling. To be honest, there are times that I'm getting greedy when I'm gambling especially when I'm losing money. My mistake is I don't know how t stop myself when I'm losing but that is when I'm a beginner. Now I can control myself already. Just be disciplined and self control :).

Learning from our mistakes is important, that shows we are matured enough to accept our defeat and adopt with a new strategy to still enjoy gambling but being able to limit our loses. Discipline will help us do it, not only in the losing situation but also in the winning situation.

You do it correctly. Gambling is entertainment and not a job as some newbies think. Unfortunatelly it's impossible to get an income from gambling in a regular basis, sometimes we make profit, but if we keep playing we will start losing money sooner or later.
That is why limits are important, doesn't matter the promotions, bonusses or giveways a casino offers, always respect your limit and never risk more money than you calculated at beginning for your entertainment activities. If gamblers followed this rule, all of them would be fine, without worring their families, friends or creating problems for themselves.

In this situation my recommendation is to never get back to gambling because you will quickly get back to your old habits and you will lose self control again. Even tough for now you probably think you can control yourself once you start gambling again in your mind the same kind of feelings will be triggered and your money will be lost again. If you were able to stop now then end this here and forget about gambling.

Yes, we have to gamble it wisely otherwise surely it will damage our money, even though we gamble it perfectly everything will hurt us a lot in some cases. Some times due to loos in gambling makes us more headache about gambling and for that, we have to refresh our mind by gambling free games.

In this situation your greed showed up and you had to face a major loss due to it. The first time you had profits should be the time when you re-invest 50% of your earnings into your next move(gamble) so that even if you have loss you won't mind. Did you play in a physical casino or a online casino? There are times when we invest major amount of money in honor of our pride and greed in mind which mostly leads us to face loss as you faced one.

Loosing $3000 is not that small thing and it is good that you learnt from it. Learning your lesson was much important so don't think about the loss now. It won't come back but instead try to cover that loss in other activities.

Agree too, when you are falling out of self control in Gambling, no one should advise you before you do becasue in that process gambling is eating your money and at the same time eating up your Brain. Basically, in my own case am able to control myself whenever am in action(gambling) depending whether am at lost or on the winning side, self control still the best in gambling. 

Healthy person will always have a motivation to change the mistakes that he made before. Especially in gambling, just 1% you will avoided to do a mistake and the rest 99% some gambler will do a mistake thing. I always make an evaluation when I have played a gambling, either the money thing, strategy and psychology thing cause these factors will guide me to make profit or to make my money loss, so these are very important to make an evaluation in order to when I play again later I won't do a same mistake and by the way this way works for me.

Our limits are decided by our pockets and gambling is such addictive that it calls us towards itself and waste the money from our pockets. Also here, majority of peoples gamble to have profits and not just for entertainment purpose. We can treat gambling as a mean of entertainment only if we have our pockets and bank accounts filled with billions.

It depends on each individual whether he/she knows their limit because going extreme our limits even if you are already in bad debts is the start to end up being bankrupt. Gambling is something where professionals can fill their pockets whereas newbies would empty their pockets.

I don't think so. I don't really believe in this. This will just apply to those people who are greedy to won and make money. For us who wanted to just have fun we are not like this. We will not let gambling eat our money and brain because we know our limitations.

The limitation should be applicable to gambling and your self as well. Don't let that happen into your life while you are at an early stage that will possibly be avoided. These things will possibly happen to people who always wanted easy money those greedy people that want to have instant income through hoping that they will have to earn huge income. Chasing money on gambling make things worst and might you become a gambling addict.

That's what all say at the beginning but most of them end up losing all their money on gambling because they think they are too strong mentally. Gambling is one of the most addictive things and even though it's not as addictive as drugs or alcohol you will still lose more if you start doing it rather than just not gambling at all.

Gambling can eat your brain and money if you don't know what you are doing.This happens to persons who become addicted because their braind does not think about anything else except for gambling, this opens the way to losing your money too.If this happens only professional help can cure such person.

Exactly, gambling is eating our brain and money or even worst our life if we cant control ourselves. It has been suggested many times already that we should gamble responsibly by having our own limit as well as having a self-control while gambling. Gambling should be considered as a fun way to spend our money instead of something that will make money for us. Recently I lost some money in gambling continuously but I do not feel that bad becuase what I have lost is still under my limit.

I really don’t know why we always have to learn from personal experience. Regardless of all we learn about how to avoiding loses in gambling we still end up falling victim and it sometimes looks mysterious. There’s just this thing with gambling, that makes players think they are always right in playing until all money is gone, not everyone loses out of greed, I call it determination to win.

I lost greatly in my last game and I don’t think I have learnt any lesson but rather, I am seriously contemplating on new strategies to apply that will enable me recover all that I have lost, and it will be wrong of anyone to call me greedy in this case.

To be honest, I don’t think it is gambling which is eating our brain and our money, but it is your over expectation and your green which tigers you toward lose and does not gives more earning than that you expect to have, gambling has positive impact in our life if we are losing it is our own mistake we will have to manage our internal greed for profit only, gamble with your fully senses and play with interest and enjoyment so it will make your mind even more sharper.

If you are not careful gambling can consume much of your time brainpower and money.
There are so many online casinos to play at and with all of these playoffs occurring in EPL, NBA and NHL there is tons of games to wager on.
It is not a good idea to go into a gambling mood without eating.  I find myself to be making irrational wagers when i am hungry.

Sports gambling is not a king of game that will consume much time for a gambler, however the amount risk at this kind of game is bigger compared to other forms of gambling in the internet. One can bet over $1,000 for every game or bet, and that's huge enough and you can be addicted especially if that amount is not anymore within your range, or you chase your loses.

The untoward incident as you said that was really bad day for you. Also you have taken a big risk about $3000 on one day. Then definitely you have big loss in a day. But if you use your brain and stop gambling on right time, when you have only loss $500 then may be you could save you from big loss. Actually sometime our greediness wise we have loss our all money in gambling, But perhaps you are right, gambling have more power than us, it can eat our brain and money easily, but if we control ourself then may be we could save ourself from this loss.

Gambling as your income source is something making yourself foolish, you can never get success if your purpose is to make money. If you are investing your money in a source, the source should be responsive and there should be less or no chances to lose your money. Gambling is ways either lose all your money or win it. So, it a very good place for enjoyment, fun & entertainment and brain practice as well. In contrast, it is yes, eating your brain and money.

The statement is correct after facing with some certain lose in gambling that is exactly resulting in eating your brain as well as your money. This factor does work for all the gamblers as they know that they will either win or lose a specific game. No one will realize it before facing with any lose in gambling for the first time they are doing so. Refreshing your mind with free games is what it means, it is mainly for fun.

Some say that playing without taking meals makes you more productive but in long term, you are  slowly dying. This is too much, don't chase any losses and sacrifice yourself just to achieve it. Gambling can eat your brain if you play not good, don't blame gambling for being like that because you are the one who made it try to play without greed.

Gambling should not make you depressed, is the main function is to make your mind happy and refresh isnt it? not make your mind more dizzy. the point is don't use your saving money to gamble, use special money to gamble, so even though losing it won't stress you out

I do gamblings too but not that heavy. I think the most right skill on gambling isnt the luck but the self control. If you have self control you can cut your loose. Same as not being greedy for winnings. You must learn how to control your emotions. Gambling is not about always winning we all know that but everytime we lose on a bet we have to think twice if were still going to roll the bank or just rest for awhile then come back when your mind is more calm or just cut the lose. Dont let your emotions run to your system while your playing. You have to be calm. Set a goal when gambling. If you can surpass the goal then good. But if you think not, better to take rest.

Lol if you treat gambling seriously then it may eat not only your mind and money but your totality, i mean your whole character and life

I have been engaging in gambling for long now but never got a chance to admit that i was take over by gambling,this is just part of my life and will never become my Life that's a different thing that you must realized mate

This is what happens to first-time gamblers who do not set a goal when to stop and how much money is he willing to invest or gamble if you failed to set that goal, you will end up miserable because you will try to catch all your losses and this is the only motivation that you had without thinking that you are losing a lot.

Every time a new user gets into gambling all that he have in mind is win big money out of gambling. Upon the same he could've begun to spend big money on gambling. When he experience loss through gambling, the mind won't accept it. To overcome the same user will tend to recover betting big amount and this continued process in most cases leads to addiction.

Gambling is not only eating your brain and money but it also eats your time. And I think that this is the most important factor that gamblers should considered.
I realized that I had spent a lot of time that would be useful for doing other things that would give me the possibility of acquiring and gaining knowledge.

I am sure that there are people who treat gambling seriously and they use gambling game as their source to make money. Some of them can win but the other is losing money, and they should decide to stay away from gambling if they don't want to lose the money. When you are losing money in many times, you can become stressful, and that will make you frustrated, and that means, gambling will eat your brain and money indirectly.

  If we are playing gamble to earn accumulate wealth, then we have to take the risk on spending time and money, because it will delegate a way to become aggressive on striving hard to pursue winning at our luck. Fortunately, with the help of our  knowledge and experiences we can create sensible strategy to defend our game. And I think it is about a wiseful deliberation to conquest the consequences on gambling.

I am sorry about your injury, surgery and loses mate. It’s just so unfortunate that you made this huge loss, losing all life’s savings isn’t something funny at all. So many questions running through my mind right now, Like how did it happen, what strategy did you use in playing and what kind of game could that be. I truly feel your pain.

I am surprised you didn’t use martingale strategy, I always thought those who lose everything in gambling are the ones who keep double betting but since you say you didn’t use that, I feel you should have stopped when you saw it wasn’t favorable to you. Maybe gambling luck was just no longer on your side.

This is why it's really not good to always chase your losses. If you can't stay away from gambling, at least employ some sort of bankroll management system, like alloting just 3% of your monthly allowance to betting and never spending more than that in casinos within the month.

Also, try checking out these 5 Sports Betting Mistakes to Avoid (https://www.bitcoinsportsbetting.co.uk/news/common-sports-betting-mistakes/).

If you look up the internet about the worth of gambling industry and the top gamblers of the world, you would realize how instrumental gambling could be in making you one among the richest gamblers. There are people who have made names in gambling and have made billions so it is not that you will loose everything in gambling. Things could also be the other way around. However to be on the safe side, I agree with you over the precautions you have mentioned.

You are right in that no one should spend most of his/her free time on gambling. There are other things worthy of being engaged with, including studying. However, people that use gambling for recreational purposes can't abandon it completely. For some people it's the best way of relaxing, and they can do their main jobs better, and they can study better after spending some time gambling. Maybe it's a risky way of relaxing, but so are bungee jumping, rock climbing, skydiving and many others, not to mention drinking alcohol beverages and taking drugs.

People can't live without relaxation, but they should make sure that those activities are not eating their brain and money, not harming their health and are not hazardous to their lives.

Lol,  your story is quite funny, it’s not good to be addicted to gambling. If you’re addicted To gambling you’re likely going to end up a loser. Just learn to control yourself and bet wisely.  You shouldn’t bet everything you have in your pocket,  there are bad days,  and when days like this happens, you just have to stop betting immediately and wait for another day, cause chasing the loss just like you have said will lead to further losses. I know some people that are addicted to gambling (not as friends) and I can tell you it’s a really bad thing cause it leads them to doing things they are not supposed to do.

  Addiction is not good for anything if you are addicting of anything you will want all the time best from it so in some cases it goes good for us but sometimes it can be wrong for us, we should not put any stress about gambling to our mind just enjoy it and play for your benefit so you will feel good with gambling.

I don’t think so I think it is much better to spend your time in gambling more than spending in other activities, those people who don’t gamble more they think about some bad activities so better spend your time in gambling it makes our mind useful and sharp, when you gamble we use our mind to get the idea of the opponent so this way we are polishing our skills of gambling.

Oh, come one? You only think the negative side. Do you think continuous gambling can make yourself relax and think straight? There are other activities that don't involve spending too much money, like hanging out with your friends, doing some aerobics, painting, drawing, etc., that can make yourself busy just to stay away from getting addicted in gambling. Change your mindset man it won't help you in the end even if you are a billionaire.

Yes you are right gambling will definitely make the brain to be stressed more than any other type of field but the money making is probably in your hands because everyone had the success in something but how we can take it to a profit till the end is there main thing for everyone

I know that feeling. It's like a strong magnet that pulls you to that gambling site or casino after your losses. It won't let you sleep and it will make you think about it for a few days thinking that a few spins or rolls, you can retrieve your money back and win maybe more. But that is also not good if you go back playing again because for me stopping after you first loss is for your own good. $3k is so much money to me but playing again could lose 10x more than that so be very, very careful.

Which part of my post made you wright "I don’t think so"? Please, read it again and you'll see that there's nothing you can disagree with.

Also, what "opponent" are talking about? The house? Apart from a poker game I don't know where can we find an "opponent". I agree, to an extent, that we can be "polishing our skills" while playing poker, but that hardly can be applied to other gambling activities. That's not to say that other games are not relaxing, they are, but how can you polish your skills playing dice or minesweeper? :)

gambling must be for fun so there is no need to torture your brain and try to invent the system to cheat the casino. just relax and play.

That is an easy theory but when you have lost a lot, you will not be able to relax and no longer have fun. Making a strategy in gambling is important even though it is luck that will determine the outcome and that is enough to make the brain mess because of the strong desire to take back what has been lost.

They say it is like a quick sand, the more you fight the more you get sucked into that hole. I don't often gamble but I also experience the same. The urge to immediately recover what you've lost is too hard to resist. One measure I take to prevent that from happening to me is not bringing too much money.

True, the thing will be difficult to manage when we face heavy losses or when we get financial problems in our real life. Because gambling is part of our hobby, we may choose it as a way to solve our problems and that can be a starting point for falling as an addict instead of as entertainment purpose only.

Chasing back losses is not the right way to play gambling because it will add to the loss we experience. Preferably, relax the money we have lost by gambling and stop for a moment to refresh the mind. Following your passions will only make things worse.

That's the action of an indiscipline gambler, when we do that, most of the time we will end up losing.
Because of our frustration and our inability to accept loses, instead of spending what is budgeted, we will loss more money.

Yes, it's 100% true I agree with this statement. "Gambling Eating your Brain and Money" gambling once destroyed people. Gambling is not a good game. Money is lost in gambling. Gambling is like an addiction. All of us should refrain from playing gambling. Because of gambling, there is a great loss of identity in its own ignorance. Money is money and gambling is the same thing. So I would have to refrain from gambling as much as I can.

Brain and money are clearly needed in gambling, and usually it happens for those who are serious and expect victory in gambling.
and whatever the reason for gambling will end up losing if you don't stop at the right time, and try to play just for fun or just entertainment so you are not too focused and not consumed by the brain and stop when you win.

Lol. If someone is unable to accept their losses, then they shouldn't be gambling in the first place. Gambling will eat you alive if you invest your emotions in it so you have to first make yourself aware of what can and will happen before you start that first bet. A lot of people are living proof of how disastrous gambling can be for people who take too seriously and make it a big part of their lives.

Yes, one who isn't ready to accept loss should not get into gambling. Rather than emotions one will get much loss out of gambling which is more than eating the brain and money when they are with good luck and out of greed losing what they've earned through luck. I've experienced similar thing with dice where I earned 0.005btc with just 0.0001btc as base amount. Out of luck lost the 0.005btc and further spend 0.005btc out of greed to get back the lost fund.

If i be you maybe i will take a rest for a moment because actually lose all profit that we gain sometime make us tired like that we feel really waste our time and do it again will make it worse. But this is just if i who in that condition.

This is a very important point. Everyone is aware of it, but it is very difficult to practise in reality. No one starts a game, expecting to lose. Everyone dream about winning big and therefore when someone has to deal with consecutive losses he becomes incapable of doing rational thinking. Emotions get the better of him, and he forgets his limits.

Its not an isolated cases, most gamblers especially the addicted ones cant refrain themselves from chasing their losses and if you dont have control you might really end up as one of those who dont think about the consequences of their action.

Well I experienced the same situation but the money involve was not that much. After experiencing such loss I decided to stop spending my hard earned money in gambling but it didnt happen sooner as its not that easy to resist especially if you used to do it often. I think it takes months before I completely get rid my gambling hobby, fortunately I was able to control myself now everytime im in the mood to gamble.

I think it is quick sand for those who do not understand about it a lot. Suppose I do not know who to drive a car and if I sit on the driving seat, I would end up either hitting someone or would drive a very pathetic and shaky way. So yeah, if you do not know how to make money in gambling, you should not be a part of it because the more you try to make money in gambling, the more you loose it.

Good thing I had never bet such high amounts, I could hardly earn 500 dollars a month. I do know how is it like to lose, with all the money in my pocket full when I enter gambling and when I got out I am broke, that hurts and still I never learned a damned thing about surrendering and chase to get back what I have lose. Good for you you have stopped such terrible habit. I remember my brother when he sold of his valuables in order to get back on his feet, but the sad thing is he still lose. Now he quit gambling and he is going to work abroad and I am happy for him. Anyone can change their lifestyle hope mine comes next.

But then again, if you will be thinking of it, that means you are losing too even if that is a small amount. You might think that bringing money in a small amount can stop you from gambling, as you've said it is like quicksand. Gambling is one of the hardest things to keep your distance on especially if you already know how great it can be when you already won.

With gambling when we miss our limit automatically our funds get eaten up. In my experience it is truly a hard task to stay within limits. Myself always used to set a limit, but I have never stopped within that. Even today I set a limit of 0.01 btc, when lost I was unable to quit. Further continued and lost 0.01btc again. This happens, even I've mentioned in several threads we need to be within limits.

When we are losing in gambling, it doesn't mean we can continue to play the game because it will make us become a stress to see how much money we lose. That will make us feel that we have a big problem because of losing the money and that will make our brain will full of the stress, and when we see the amount of the money, it will add more stress to us because we could think how we are going to recover that loss.

You are talking about the psychological scenario of a gambler. Normally people think it is good to treat gambling as a way of pure entertainment but not everyone think like that and many people try to make money at gambling which often leads them to loss and the urge to recover the losses make them more prone towards loss which is a dangerous situation for gamblers. So yeah, in such a case, you can say that gambling is equivalent to eating up your brain.

That refers to emotional battle including each person's psychological aspects in handling gambling. If you had enough to bet for gambling, then if you're not using your brain wisely; you're capable of being dominated by gambling desires. It will control you eventually, so you became addicted to fun games on gambling without knowing that you're overpowered. This will control you, and in the long run it will become a disease which cannot be cured easily because most stories like those crypto casino addicts tend to be loss much in gambling rather than spending money for their families.

I agree, I guess this happens to almost all gamblers in an effort to get back the losses, I think they don't intend to gamble more than what they have they're just trying to recover the losses but still didn't have the luck instead they lose more. I think it is better to rest for a while from gambling instead of pushing in getting back those losses because you might lose again even more.

Yes, the psychological scenario will give an effect to the gambler itself whether they can win or they are losing the money. But indirectly, when they see other people can win in one game, they will think that they can get win too. And that will make us have a big passion for continuing the game, and if we cannot win, then we will be stress. That will be their problem if they cannot treat gambling as a way to have fun and in the end, they will only lose more and more money, and they can become addicted.

It's very hard to stop yourself from further gambling when you have already lost a lot of money. Having a rest is a good decision but it's very hard to convince yourself to do it.

Using "FREE MONEY" will save you with this kind of problem, we will not think about how much money we already lose if using "FREE MONEY". You should know don't use your financial for a gamble, because if you lost you will be a trouble position. Just like investing, I only used my money already earn at online to investing at crypto, if i losing capital from failed trading i will just fine.

I also consider gambling as way of getting money because we can have fun from anything but don’t lose the opportunity to game as gambling has so many chances for us, it only eat your mind if you only think about profit and worry about it, no this is not good you will have to gamble with relaxed mind and keep it in your mind that every profit has risk of lose but we will have to make it only profit for us by playing well.

True indeed. What is worst here is that when we lose quite big amount of money we panic and as we panic we lose concentration and focus and whether it is bad luck or incident we lose all the more and makes our brain in turmoil and makes us crazy. We feel depress and irritable and we could not think well. It is really dangerous to reach this kind of situation.

I agree, this is mostly the mistakes of gamblers, they tend to bet higher after winning the first game, they think it will be a winning streak but in the end it turns out to be a losing streak and they lose more that what they won. Also as a newbie it would be best if they bet with small amount or maybe observe first how the game goes instead on betting right away even without knowing how the game works. Gambling is not a joke that you can just bet and bet and rely on luck because that would mean you'll lose more that what you can afford.

There are so many people who have been going to through this phase due to the gambling. If you show your consistency in gambling then you must be suffering from heavy loss. Every gambler starts gambling with small funds and after winning some games they collect some amount of funds they going to think they become a good gambler and then they will make this thing to their full-time job.

And according to the time, they will start to lose the amount and after a certain time later they will start to suffer from losses, debts. So don't be much active in gambling. When you play continuously then you must lose your bets. So keep yourself stay away from the gambling as much as you keep long.

Everyone has different perspectives but may I not agree with your opinion about gambling. Why would do you think spending most of the time in gambling will make our mind sharp, I think this is a false perspective because of your stay most of the time in gambling then you must lose big amount gambling and after that, you never stop this thing then the higher probability to face the heavy debts. Consistency in gambling makes you more addicted to gambling to play more. So instead of playing regularly, you have to play It when you just want to try your luck without expecting more. This kind of mentality never makes you addicted to gambling.

There are so many stories like this, and going to gambling for the first time is a real test of one's character, you cannot survive it if you have a very weak character and do not have strong family support and relationship, you will end up miserable and in poverty if you cannot battle this demon.

Someone will never understand the gambling sectors, someone always like spreading negativity and someone positivity. In my viewpoints sports betting can be beneficial if done correctly, rest of the only time waste. Finally, It's up to you how you manage it. A true gambler always makes a profit, that's very sure.

I think there is always two sides to everything. When it comes to gambling, it is a $530 billion industry on one side and has produce billionaires who have made names in Poker and other games. On the other hand, the money that is won by one individual in gambling is the money lost by another without any prospect of recovery. So the loss is often interpreted in negative light by many people but this is what happens. This is actually good for economy from a capitalist point of view.

I always set a monetary limit before I walk into a casino. It's usually $20-$50 maximum. Whether I win or lose, I don't spend more than that, otherwise I'll be very angry with myself.

  You are doing well it will save your money in case of lose but if you are confident and you know you are earning it is good if you increase your amount because it will give you benefit later, I like gambling because I know it saves my time instead of wasting my time in playing other useless games I prefer gambling and it increases my income every day.

gambling should be for fun and when it begins eating your brain and money maybe it's time to visit a doctor if you can't stop youself?

Correct gambling eating brain and money if the gambler did not how control itself its become addecting. Some of people get in that situstion because they trest gambling as source of income and become a greedy.

If they treat gambling as what you said, then it's only a matter of time before they can be addicted to gambling and I think they even didn't realize about that. They only want to play in many games without wanting to stop for a while for just take a rest or calm down their mind after they lose. We should not follow what they did because we will become addicting too if we cannot stop in gambling games.

Agreed, not some even mostly people have that thinking that gambling give them money if they do it as a source of income, but in fact gambling finish their money and we can't understand it and when we understand it then time has been finished just like our money.   

You entirely missed my first point which is "I don't often gamble". That means when I lose with that small capital I brought, I do not try to come back and win them back immediately. I only play when I feel like it or when some friends invites for a get together.

That's a wrong thinking, you'll never enjoy gambling if you treat it as a source of income.
The mindset of the people who are dumb in gambling has to change, we cannot be too ambitious in making money in gambling as most likely it will only end up us having a big problem, financial problem to be specific, we cannot beat them, we only spend, so instead of chasing the money, just enjoy.

Not a true but a strategic one, the knowledge you keep about a specific game and the practice you have done many times will increase your chances of winning. And situations get extreme and interesting when your opponent is also a well experienced gambler will always give you tough time. Gambling results are negative if you are not working properly as it required but works when you do it correctly.

Look at it this way, a lot of us aren't even enjoying our day jobs where we get consistent income. Imagine with gambling as your main source for spending. You wouldn't have it consistently so there will be times when you'll end up really frustrated. The more you try hard to make money out of it, the more it will bea source of disappointment.

I guess you need to lower the limits for about 0.001 btc and don't send more money if you lose all of 0.001 btc. Besides that, you will need to control yourself in gambling because I see that sometimes, you are hard to say stop for yourself, and that makes you are losing more money. That will be your only chance to prevent more losses from gambling so you can quit from gambling if you run out of the money.

All was gone after realizing that it's just a misconceptions regarding to this activities, when you finally realize you already lose much, there's always a room to restore yourself and moved away from this activity while you still have enough time, forget about this mentality and move on to your life, gambling is not a bread and butter type of business, find real job instead.

I tried to gamble today without attaching any emotions to it. I played two time and I win and I decided to stop for day and I didn't think this type of gambling can eat my brain up. I have no any positive or negative feelings to what I do in gambling sites.

We can't expect a winning game in gambling dude, realization and regrets will came late and nothing to brought back. We did it already and so we never have the right to claim any faults we have in our life. This is to think that gambling won't be consider as a source of income and probably not a certain place that we can make money to sustain our needs. If we go gambling, just consider this as a fun game, nothing more, if you win much better but if not, just keep it.

Sometimes it's too late to realize all these things, we are seeing a good opportunity to win and we thought we can do it, but the game of chance will not give a chance to win every bet, the odds are bigger for you to win, so if you don't have control, you will lose everything.

No matter how much we are depositing to gambling site we will be tempted to deposit more if you are lost all the amounts earlier that is called addiction and it is so hard to to control our mind with the things we are addicted to it but it is possible when we realise the real problem of getting addicted to the gambling.

If it is difficult to break gambling addict and gambling addiction is related to drug addict then it is good not to go into gambling in the first place! Why it is dangerous to go into gambling if you know it will become addictions to you is that it involves money and if you keep, keeping the addiction then you should know that on a long run you will be a poor man but if you see gambling as fun then addictive will not be there.

 Yes, I tried to play gambling, the more I lose the more I want to play I think I still playing that time because Im hoping for winning a one big time but I still ended of lose all my money. but still we are not same situation because I only lose for small amount like 5-20$ only.

But we can still limit and control it, by the help of ourself because we always have a choice to start and stop the choices is always there just think and do if what is the much better dicission that make our life happy and success at the end.

Exactly, if we play without limit and control then it meant we have come on that way where we become addicted very soon, We should limitation ourself especially in gambling, as you said i agree with you, to make our life happy and successful at the end.   

The reason for getting addicted to something is just we are getting happier by doing that it's like fun but many people who can't afford but still want to gamble alot to make more and more money which is the problem here. We can easily that gambling cannot be addictive and we see it as funny but it is hard to to implement on the real life who were doing gambling money thing for years.

This rule is very helpful, before you gamble just practice and accept it first if what will be the possibility may happen. So if you gamble you know some limitations, dont expect too much in gambling, and there are two things should happen you may lose or you win.

Don't you think your friend betray you for not guiding you enough while you are gambling, does he explain everything that you want to know about gambling in the casino since this is your first time take this lesson hard, gambling is for entertainment only not something that you will take to make money and run after your loss.

If you have an open mind in many aspects, you will realize that there is something wrong in the gambling and you will figure out and try to fix it. You can feel yourself affect on the addicting to gambling and you have a will to solve the problem, and besides that, you want to reduce your time in the gambling so it will also reduce your money to lose.

Yes it is true there is no need to take tension about gambling you can win or you cam lose but don’t take it on your health, just have patience and try to gamble with fun, when you gamble just stay calm and put your full effort, in gambling knowledge matters allot if you have knowledge about the game you are playing, you will be able to enjoy it and will be able to play with fully fun.

It's good to have fun despite of having no assurance of winning, but we can't stop the probability of being emotional after losing huge amount of money in gambling. Although you're having fun at first, yet you eventually forgot how to control yourself that's why you tend to be addicted. You've been control financially and emotional which is your brain that's associated with emotions.

There is no way emotions will not be involved especially if you are losing more than you win. Gambling should just be done with the money we can afford to bear if we lose them!  If we played gambling as business there is no way bp will not enter into you body. I agree with those that said,” that gambling is the riskiest investments”, and we should accept this as a fact.

Playing gambling as a business aside investing into bankroll of genuine gambling site is the fastest way of creating ones early grave since the house will always win.
With that been said, honestly no real gambler will only gamble with the money he can afford to loose but the step of avoid been bankruptcy or run into debt in gambling start from the every first time ones beginning the gambling journey before it get out of control but most people focus on the reward and get slaughtered just like crypto trading investment.

Note : this is what I did to save myself from addiction and over spending in gambling.

Of course it is not healthy if a person being addicted to anything, including gambling. However eating brain for me is a wrong word, even if it is just figurative sentence. Brain stay the same, it just concentrates on things, which are not that common.

Its not litterally mean that gambling ates our brain but what the speech mean is that gambling leads to addiction . 

thats actually true to some but for the majority i dont think that they will become addicted on gambling because gambling is expensive as it needs capital everytime you play   . 

if i will be addicted i will only choose the addiction that does not cost me anything  so that i can sustain my addiction but i dont want because that is bad  .

I still play gambling but i do it moderately  .

Sometimes we will only realize the mistakes we committed after we lose our money just like the experience of op. He is now reminding gamblers to become responsible when they gamble, set limitation and dont gamble because you want to earn money. Regrets are always in the end thus if you dont want to lose your hard-earned money, think what really gambling is and what it can do to your life if you have no control.

It's consuming your brain and instead of using it in a much proper ways gambling addicted persons focus with wrong things and just wanted to keep playing to the point that even yourself will be forgotten just to please the pleasure of playing gambling, normal activities of the brain will not be the same anymore when you are too much into gambling.

Gambling is risky when you are not prepare to stop when you lose more than what your earn or invest with a particular gambling site or platform. We need to have an idea to take risk cautious as we could do in order for us to earn and learn when we are losing.

It is just a matter of acceptance of course every gambler.come to experience this kind of unfortunate events but it is not the reason that one should quit or feel like one should not gamble especially that one has already been having a lot of fun on it. I have been into this situation but I still do gamble. I lose and I accepted it because one thing that is very important to me is that I enjoy and I can also share good fortunes by buying food if being lucky in gambling.

Indeed risk is here, but the strange thing is every gambler know that and while it they do play gambling. Take a risk with money and we use our brain till the end to win the game, but in the end our luck decide it that we can win or not. Every thing is unique with us in playing gambling, but we can't quit playing gambling.

Yes gambling can be stressing and people can lose money but if they find a good strategy sometimes that can change all and bring a profit and i think mostly the gambling eating the time of people and money, but all depends on what choose to bet and on luck.

I think that is the right way to describe that. If you do not know a gambling addict since I do because I am addicted to gambling in the past. We will be finding our way to gamble, and no one can stop us even if it is my parents. It might be the graduation of my cousin or my little sister I don't care. If my friends ask me to gamble, I will and you will not be able to think of other things besides gambling especially if you are not playing for a while, a while means days, even hours.

Yes, see gambling is prediction one which we cannot able to guess how much we are going to make, so we shouldn't additive to it, so always try to plan to gamble with a little amount of the money. Which we should quit gambling once we lost money.

It's an obvious advice but very hard to do. When you lose over and over again it's pretty hard to stop yourself and quit. It requires a huge self control to quit after several losses.

No they are not eating their time but gambling gives us mind relaxation and give us an opportunity to make money along with enjoyment, we should work well along with having good environment, when you are gambling try to win but never forget that lost and profit is part of business so just relax and gamble with your fully capacity

But in the end it will eating the time too, well you gamble just for fun but there comes a time when your mindset or emotion is affected by a profit that at least must be obtained, so when that happens and you only get a losing streak in gambling, then it's just will waste your time because gambling has been eating money and also your brain.

Although very tempting when you are on a winning run I kept my control and always thinks that it's not my lucky day everyday, and you know what it worked for me, the worst thing is getting out of your control and losing track of your bet, don't count your losses and your winning, you will be disappointed if you keep doing this.

Just always think about your future and don't let emotions devour you because once you're satisfied in each round you're playing, you will lose control. That's the starts of being addicted to gambling and it's hard to treat that kind of behavior. Don't play games that needed higher chances to win the game, play a game that needs your intelligence and ability to think a strategy.

You lost of control in gambling & you did not mind that you lose already a big amount. But its okay, for now on you can learn from your mistake & I think for now you will control your money if you play again on casino.

that's the point, i have crashed my bankroll already 2 times... i have decided to start a new try after some weeks of a break to get a bit distance. now i have started to play in an other way... following my strategy and if i lose, i stop for the day and take a break. with emotions you only lose more and more trying to get the loss quick back. psychology and emotions are the most important things you have to control when it comes to gambling. its similar to trading... :)

Everyone needs to realize that no one can win everyday in gambling and no one can lose everyday/ all days in gambling. If we know this we can easily plan our games and do not take unnecessary risks after wining good amounts. If you go in gambling without any thinking and plan, then for sure gambling will overcome you and the loses will make you worry and bring tension.

What you just shared is a proof that many gamblers can't handle their emotion as they are gambling.

I have experienced this many times already but lucky for me, I can control how much I can spend in gambling. I don't want to spend many money and time in gambling because it can make my hard earned money lost in an instant.

But it actually could be controlled and it could be also become an experience to which one could become a good gambler knowing that gambling should only be considered as for fun. Of course this is take life especially if one is having much time and just want it their time to past by while gambling.

Chasing lost in gambling can only avoided when you playing gambling except if you want to continue losing more of your money and that is the only way for the gambling company to make their own profit at the end of the day. It is always advisable to gamble with what you can afford to lose.

True, inside gambling when you lose your control it's possible to lose everything, there's a lots of gamblers who suffered from this same issue without any reason they will continue to proceed and spend out their money inside gambling sites, it's a critical situation when a person don't realize the bad effect of gambling as it's dominating the system inside your brain.