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It often happens that people go out to play a variety of games of chance with a certain amount of money, but in the end they spend everything if they are gone. How to prevent which technique you base yourself on to spend no further. It's hard to just give up, people persistent in gambling that day, so they can't just tell themselves they'll try tomorrow. Why is this difficult? Is it because of greed?

The first rule in gambling is to limit your money. Use some money you can afford to lose, not more or less. You should have control yourself in gambling because the lure to get a win will bigger, especially if you lose. You will hear a sound in your ear that keeps whispers you to continue even if you lose some little money. If you decide to continue, you will lose again. But if you stop at that time, you can prevent another loss.

They need to understand martingale. Gambling is a game of chance and the house always has the most benefit. Even if you use auto bet with a 90% ratio, losing once will result in -10% loss.  

This had been discussed here so many times, but here is my honest opinion.
Because of this, greed and they should have this self-discipline. Gambling is not a kind of chasing money nor a sort of source of income. It is a game that someone looking themselves to entertain while alone. There's nothing difficult if you apply in your self how self-discipline works and know your limit on how much you are going to spend in gambling.

The psychology of losing often revolves around a 50/50 paradigm where gamblers expect the odds on bets to have near to a 50% chance of winning. Losing consistently lends the impression winning should become more probable the more someone loses. Swinging closer to a 50/50 split. And so those on a losing streak might feel compelled to continue under the expectation that their luck will inevitably shift into a winning streak. But it never does. The odds in gambling are never really close to 50/50 unless you're gambling on a coin toss and even then the numbers are questionable.

One thing people don't realize about gambling is the degree to which bookies and the house have advantages in terms of information. They know what odds to set to give themselves an advantage, while disadvantaging gamblers at the same time. The numbers you see displayed for odds are not always accurate. And that's what makes it easy for losing streaks to continue. As that is where the game can be rigged invisibly without many noticing.

You can prevent it if you have discipline or you have strong self control. The reason most people lose everything its because they’re taken by greed and thinking that they will really win and sometimes some is very desperate to earn big or recover the lose and they gamble all their money without really thinking about the consequences. To a gambler it is very difficult to resist the thought that maybe they will win if they do just act, even gamblers who have a concrete plan but still can’t resist the temptation. IMO, it really depends on the person who he/ she can control himself.

More precisely not greed but self-confidence can win in gambling, except do not have money anymore can only say "tomorrow to gamble". This is also included in the category of addiction, but if you often experience defeat even though confident then it's the same as throwing money continuously.

It's a habit that will not go away just like that, once gambling got hold of you and you have been playing for quite some time, you cannot just refrain yourself from playing because you have experienced the fun the profit, but if you have a strong will and you know your limitation that's the only possible way to do that.

There's no technique to avoid this kind of behavior, you are the only one in control of your money and you should know how much you can spend in a row / day.
Sometimes I have a limited money to play and I limit myself to that money, nothing more, it's not difficulty, you just have to have self control

When the gambling happens outside i just don't take my credit card to casino, just enough cash that i can gamble with. That helps. And these days i don't drink and gamble. It's a horrible combination that brings on greed in me and lack of judgement on how much i can play with.

Only bring a small amount of money, the amount that you can only afford to lose because if you will bring a large amount of money then you’ll get tempted to gamble them. It is important that a gambler has self-control to avoid losing everything, there will be no one who will be able to restrain oneself but only themselves so before entering gambling assess yourself if you have the self control that is needed for you not to be caught by greed.

I think the problem is not the amount of money we will spend in gambling because although we bringing small amount of money when gambling but cannot control ourself so it could be so useless and i think it's all about our behaviour while gambling that self control is necessary because it can avoid us being too greedy or deep lost and as gamblers we must have it into ourself

Mainly because of greed plus having that impulsive way of gambling which cause for them not to able to handle up their emotions towards it.
Its part of human nature to long out for money but if you do think up this way then you would just simply let yourself go to the verge of
being broke.Gambling is just for entertainment which had been said for a thousand times already but people are mistreating it on the other way.
In result? They would just simply cry out when they do experience hardship.

Get rid of this habit. A player must keep in mind that gambling is just a matter of luck and there's no guarantee that we could gain a certain profit all of the time. Setting a limit and an exact go would be a good strategy. It's just a matter of self-conviction and discipline. We should know when to stop and when to continue. Greediness won't help us succeed but it could lead us to future losses.

Main reason is greed but that’s why people tend to lose almost everything without even thinking what’s for tomorrow,and also sometimes people need to fail badly before they finally realized what’s wrong and what’s better to do meaning we need eye opener for realizations

But if we can control are desire?or even can make limit our budget in every playing?for sure we will be having a good gambling habit

I myself use the strategy to spend X amount of money for one week. I mean, I'm issuing rations to play gambling and I freely to using them with one consequence if I lose the money although I just spend them in one gambling place then I'll never try to make any deposit again.

I have to wait for the following week to play again and thus far it is really work for me. Because, I had been faced a lot of lose before and just a few times I get win so as I just thought I have to make a budget and I'm trying hard to obey it.

yeah, just budget the money when it comes to gambling when you lose that certain amount you need to stop! because you can end up broke. When the game controls you, you will not realize how much money you will lose but you your bet will go bigger every time you are losing. And even though you are winning, set a boundary so you can take home your winnings. Don't be greedy because that will be the reason of losing all your winnings.

certain games has thier own different edges  . some games have lower edges and makes it easier for you to win while there are games that have higher edge and its hard to win on them so basically people just go for the lower edge one and not trying all of the games but spending to much in one game is possible . greed is difficult to control in gambling  but we have our own strategy to possibly limit our selves from playing . my strategy is simple . i just withdrew all my balance if i want to stop and then depo again if i have a spare cash which usually occurs after a week or two

That’s what I’ve said above that forcing ourselves to spend allotted money whenever we play is the safest way to restrain ourself from losing huge because the more you lose is the more you eager to recover so if you have no any amount in pocket and no other option to play then we will stop and whenever go home that’s when we realized that we already spent enough and may try to win back on the next days and for now having a rest and figuring what’s wrong and what will be the good in next playing

If you can set the rules on how much money you can spend and how much time you can allocate you are good to go, your post applies to a gambler who cannot control how they gamble, they gamble as long as they have the means, and will not give up until they run out of funds.
Restrain is something you cultivate as you go along it's not something you put when you are starting or it will just go the drain.

TBH, I was once like that during my early days in gambling but because of that mistake, I learn and I matured as I continue to gamble.

Just be smart, when you are smart, you are not weak emotionally because you are the one controlling yourself and with proper discipline, you will be able to stop at the right time or if you needed to, whether you win or loss.


That's because of lack of self control, it'st not greed that makes people gamble despite the fact that they are already losing a lot of money, we called that stupidity and if we don't learn to discipline ourselves, we might pay the price.

This is good you know how to manage your money when it comes to gambling. The best in here to restrain ourself at a small loss is spend on what you can afford only. Never risks all your hard earn money in gambling if doing that you will end up losing all. A reminder to always control our emotions and not to be greedy at all times.

^ Definitely right, we must discipline first our selves towards gambling and avoid to become addicted to it. That was the one factor of gamblers keep going to gambling because they are chasing what they had a loss and hoping that they can manage and recover loses.
The problem as gamblers we are too much having emotion once we lose and probably we are out of our mind and possible cause, can't control our selves. Nevertheless, before starting in gambling you should know the consequences.

Setting up a budget is important to control your losses. Plan in advance how much money you would be willing to put on the table and what kind of table you would like to go for. I have seen my friends carrying credit cards and going in debt under the excitement of a casino. Play safe, play smart and control your risks

It's difficult if you don't have any money management and your goal. It's mean if you already losing some, you should stop it immediatelly and don't deposit anymore. It's also same when you already win some, you should cashed out and stop from gamble before it's too late.
But there are some people who would go big or go home. They won't stop until they can won huge money even it's took high risk to achieve

Bring plenty of money on the casino day and do budget your spending. Do not succumb under the thrill of the casino and play your hands safe. Know your fellow competition and don't get eluded with their game play. Dont spend on credit card , else expect a debt soon if you keep going like this

For me, its all about self-control or controlling your emotions. When I'm betting online or in a regular casino, I always set money ( budget), and also I have some plans when if I win or lose. When I win, I always keep and save the 50% profit and add the other percentage to my wages. But when I lose, I continue playing and try my best and luck until I have the six losing streak and stop. The other reason so that you can stop, losing a vast amount of money that you can't afford to lose and promise to your self that you won't repeat it. :)

This isn't greed or something as over expectation. I have experienced it several times, and I'll describe one such incident. I had 590 xrp in the wallet. My plan was to change it to 600 xrp. In the first attempt of playing to reach placing a 10 xrp bet I failed. This made the 590 xrp go 580. Further with small max winning probability I placed the same bet. This way the bets went on, and I never touched 600 xrp and started increasing the bet value. Finally ended with 120 xrp. This isn't greed, this is lack of control.

It seems that you didn't touch your target profit. I think you let your emotions conquer you and you are only thinking about reaching your target quota.
Considering some factors when you play can help you win. Imagine you lose most of your XRP for just 10 XRP profit. It must be a lesson learned to you.

Sometimes being contented with the holdings you have can make the situation go smoothly.

It's about your beliefs and what you know. For example I know that is impossible to win on the long term in gambling. As a matter of fact I tell myself that more rounds played = less chances to win. So this is why I always play for fun and not for anything else & I always know my spending limit. Btw that is called budgeting, not risk management. I allocate for example a percentage of my wage to gambling activities each way if I feel the need to and then I stay in that limit because it is for fun.

Accept it,yes you lost it but you can't change the things which happened and trying again will make more losses so we need to tell ourselves that its not our day and move on from the lost.Basically build your self control more over your greed.

We all have different methods on doing it but I think the easiest way is to accept your lost and try to think clearly calm yourself.
I usually do it by listening to music so I could calm myself in the worst scenarios.

I think that will depend on how those person is controlling himself in gambling. That person needs to know that gambling is very luring, and it can attract us to the deeper of the gambling itself. It requires a strong effort to control ourselves not to play more after we lose some money. That could be because of greed because when people are winning, they will want to make another winning. That happens too if they lose the money, they will recover their losses, which will hard to do.

not only it calm your self but it can also boost your confident level when you play  . you dont think twice if what side will you roll or what payout will you play or how many cryptos will you bet but all of those can come naturally  which is good because it does not make you a stressful gambler .  playing with a background music is really a good idea but you should also choose the appropriate genre  .  upbeat music is a good choice but avoid those slow/sad songs
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Based on my experienced, it is easy for me to restrain myself from spending huge amount of money in gambling by controlling myself not to be greedy and limiting the amount of money that i should only spend in playing poker because if you don't limit yourself in spending money you would get greedy and it will be difficult for you to stop playing that will result losing a huge amount of money.

You can prevent yourself from spending too much by bringing a certain amount of money, if you lose then nothing is left and you cant spend further since your money is limited.

Greed is the reason why a gambler is tempted to keep trying even he is losing his money, he want to chase the losses hoping to get it back.

Self discipline is important and dont expect to win, accept if you lose and move on.

I think the point is financial management, if you want to quit while you still have a balance in your gambling account then you will continue to playing.
Use the right amount of money to deposit, so that when your money runs out you will not continue to play again. Yeah discipline is the most important thing, it is a trait that must be possessed by gamblers. Without discipline the plan you make will be useless. and don't forget to know the risk that losses are a natural thing to happen to all gamblers.

It's pretty similar to how some people treat trading. People think they'll be able to "earn back" whatever they lost, but they don't realize that the odds are against them and people often risk everything in an attempt to earn back losses, which can end in a total loss. It's important to realize that lost money is lost, and you're really not making that money back; you're making more money. If you know you don't have good self-control, just don't gamble. There's a ton of other things to do in this world that aren't nearly as risky.

I would not put on a par greed and sports excitement. These are completely different sides of gambling. You can not call a excitement person greedy, as well as vice versa.

Though this was being mentioned several time above you yet this is the most effective way to prevent being loser of bigger amount
Greed was always being blamed from the losing and addicting but the truth is greed won’t exist if the person don’t put themselves into this situation because gambling is very provocative and many lose by challenging ho to defeat the eagerness
That’s very hypocritical word that “Don’t expect to Win” when we were in gambling better say expect to win but also expect being loser

This is because of the what if factors, they spend small amount of money, and they missed winning by a close margin or they are one roll away from winning, so they add more funds until, they realized that they already pour so much money instead of their allocated money for gambling, people never stop until they lose or until they get very tired.

Well, from what I've observed in recent weeks and the comments and advice I see on youtube and other sites, most people get into the world of investing and gambling to make a lot of money. Assuming that people enter the world of betting to win and win big money you can imagine that these people will not stop so easily whenever they lose money, they will do whatever they can to get money to keep playing. The main point a person should have is: a strategy. something like:

how much money do i have to play?

And if I lose all my money, where can I get more money without hurting my other expenses?

The person must have a plan and good management, but mainly must have a good knowledge of the game that will play

In my opinion, if you consider yourself very addicted to gambling, then you need to choose a way of playing in which you won’t put large amounts of money on your balance. And to make such a rule that after losing the entire balance, do not replenish it again during the day.

But chasing the losses will only lead us to another failure that’s why better be enough if the loss is already high and we are only looking for another losing streak
Just go home and find luck in another days but for the moment admit that you have not beat the house lol

For sure there are plenty of time that you may have chance of beating it again though be ready for more losing

I believe that every gambler has his own reasons to gamble.  Someone is trying to earn money and it is very rarely possible to do it, while someone has a sports interest.  But there are people who experience special pleasure from gambling, while there is a high probability that in this case, gambling is practically addictive and comparable to a disease.  And if such a person experiences problems and loss of funds, then he himself will never find the strength to confront himself.

Gambling is just really having 2 outcomes which is losing and winning but majority of gamblers doesn't really accept defeat that's why they do really tend to chase up loses as hard as they can where coming to a point that they don't actually stop until they lost it all and the sad part is that they do even borrow or do took a lone just to chase up their loses
and minding to take back those loss until they do make the situation even more worst.Its just a matter of good control into your finances and if you aren't really good on handing your emotions and discipline you would definitely go to this situation.

I am strongly of the opinion that an individual going to a casino house with more than enough money is one mistake you never want to make because I know for sure that there is no level of that self control would stop anyone from exhausting the money there at the casino.

The best thing you can do to be a master in controlling yourself is just to set a plan, it’s even better to be short of cash than to have more than enough that would be wasted at the casino place because you will always be tempted to try with more money when you lose, but when you are out of cash, all you will do is to dust your shoes and walk out of the place. I don’t carry my credit card about not even to a casino house that is quite too risky.

This is one of the better ways to bring a certain amount of money, but again our greed will draw in and maybe lend (or manage money at such a time) and spend again. I'm afraid there is no right solution.

Definitely it's because of the greed. The best thing to do in order to prevent losing everything is limiting the amount of money you're willing to risk. Don't spene all of your balance otherwise it'll be difficult for you to recover it and it also triggers lose in your self control. By simply playing the profit you've earned from your previous game, losing won't be an issue and once it occurs then you must stop and try to play again on the next day.

If the gambler they can't control itself that called addiction, anyway difficult to stop gambling habit even gambler know itself they spend a lot of money playing in gambling, I think nothing wrong playing gamble and lose money in every alloted from the salary for the habit fulfillment.

When we can't find a reason to escape in being addict, we should seek advice from people who are done it, or learn from those who are rich who became poor because of gambling. When  decide to play its either the gambling site have free rewards or free game, I have extra in my mobile wallet, since I have hardware wallet that all my holding are there. Since I'm not a type of playing too much due to limited time. I suggest being busy in other job makes us stay away from being addict in gambling or in anything. Make our self busy.

The best way to avoid losing all your money is to avoid being greedy and to never chase for your losses. Sometimes when we lose we always aim to either win more or to get our losses back until we don't notice that the small amount of money that is alloted for gambling now turns out to be a big lost amount. Just enjoy gambling and give your self a limit and follow that limit when gambling.

It still results to be being self conscious and addition of self restrictions.
Set out a specific amount to gamble with and this budget shouldn't be spent instantly. Put it little by little.
When you lose, don't try depositing more money or keep on pushing on. Just call it a day.
It may sound as easy as said but constantly practising helps a lot.

If you play games of chance then you need to ask yourself if you're playing for fun or for profit.

Gambling for fun:

• Set aside an amount of BTC that you are comfortable with losing, an amount that if lost will not impact your life. Deposit this amount into your game of choice.
• Do not risk the entire amount on one bet. Make many small bets so that you can have fun gambling for longer. Stay alive. This is bankroll management.
• Remember that the longer you play the more likely it is that you will lose. The odds of the game you are playing are not in your favor. Over time you will continue to lose until you have nothing. This is baked into the design of the game. Essentially you are trading BTC for entertainment.
• If you have made a profit (you won more than you deposited) then you have beaten the odds! Withdraw when you are up. Secure your profits. You will be tempted to play more and lose it all. It's not really your BTC until it's in your wallet.
• If you have lost your entire deposit then take a break. Give yourself time to clear your head. Don't try to win everything back suddenly. You probably won't win it back, but instead will lose twice as much. Take a minute to review your play, and to think about how you can improve your strategy to last longer.
• Ask yourself if gambling was a fun experience. Would you rather have spent the BTC on Netflix and popcorn? Don't expect to profit from gambling long term. Expect to lose every deposit (while having fun in the process of playing a game).

When gambling for fun you need to accept that you will most likely lose everything you deposit. The difference between a losing gambler and a winning gambler long term is the winning gambler knows they have an advantage over the casino on every bet placed. They know the odds of the game, and have information that shifts the odds in their favor. They have a statistical edge. Many people fool themselves into thinking they have an edge when they do not. When making your next bet ask yourself... if I make this same bet 1000 times can I expect to profit?

Gambling for profit:

• Know the odds of the game being played. Is the game beatable? Make positive expected value bets (bets proven to profit over time) and avoid negative expected value bets.
• Have a clear defined edge (advantage gambling). Recognize most edges won't last forever. Constantly examine and reinvent your process.
• Practice bankroll management religiously. Separate your gambling funds from your life funds/money you use to support yourself.
• Log all bets. Re-examine past bets and seriously ask: how can I make more on what I'm winning at, how can I limit losses on what I'm losing at, how can I identify new opportunities.
• Read about cognitive biases and check your emotional state before betting. Everyday people and situations can negatively affect your emotions, don't let these affect your gambling decisions. No one can block out emotions, but you can structure when you place bets to limit exposure to emotional events.
• Use the analysis of competing hypotheses or argument mapping when making decisions. Weigh all the outcomes.
• Don't let gambling compromise your health. Eat well, sleep well, exercise. Take time to be creative, make friends, and enjoy life.
• Automate everything.

If you are really engaged to this activities, you need to play smart and by doing this type of system it will lessen the chance of being busted completely. As you can stop once your allocated funds already being spend or if you already reached your target earnings, The importance of having
such strategy is to maintain your financial management, it will kill your greediness if you keep practicing such system.

Gambling house is always there open to let you play, if you lose today's funds quit and be back the following day and plan or adjust with your system.

I think we would all agree that martingale is one of the most discussed topics here on the forum and the house edge is also one of the most talked about too, which literally everyone by now understands fully too that the martingale strategy never works and the house is always the winner at the end of the day; we must need some improvement in martingale so that we may tackle the house edge if possible.

I think everyone is aware by now that martingale is a failed strategy, so why spend so much on a game that does not have any safe strategy. I only play for fun and I never spend more than $50 on any game. This amount of money is small and can be used for entertainment purpose which is the first reason behind gambling.

Playing gambling are way too fun and exciting when you're on the track of winning straight, it made me you do something unreliable which turns out to be supposed to a winning but an unfortunate loss. Restraining youself loss after loss is at some point unacceptable 'cause you want to regain yourself on the right pace. I think of three good things to somehow stop yourself losing too much money.
First thing, is that use a planner or a record in which will show you much have you lost so that you keep your record on a track and you'll have idea how much money have been lost.
Second thing, balance before you do the game, limit yourself and discipline to stop if you reach your certain quota on how much to spend.
Lastly, get yourself straight, and never ever think of how unfortunate you are on losing such money and just look forward for another day to come.

Depends on game to be fair. For example if you love playing live blackjack (which a lot of people enjoy cause it's an exciting experience), then you will find it difficult to stop without spending much because a lot of tables require high minimum bet (the lowest I have seen on most casinos is 5$ but there are maybe some dedicated tables with min 2$ bet).
In dice for example, you can bet some satoshi which games game very affordable to play for anyone + you have possibility to use faucet and play for free for a while, for example Bitsler offers bitsler coins and while playing for free you have ability to win in daily bitsler coin wagering contests.

Playing with very minimal amounts is one of the reason why you cant simply stop on playing specially on online ones thats why restraining yourself completely is somewhat hard.
Completely stopping will depend on how you do look out towards gambling,majority would had that main motive which on making money thats why losing either big or small doesnt matter or wouldnt be cared at all until you blown up your entire capital and thats the time you do completely stop for that day but if you do already have other funds then you would surely comeback on another day.

Well, in short. You should manage your self not to belong on that scenario, because restraining your self is just like having self-discipline. When you are saying your self "stop", you should stop and think about the possible consequences. If you can't restrain yourself then, you are probably become addicted and going to become poor. Indeed, gambling sites are now are very hard to defeat their house edge.

If you are playing alone or just by yourself against others, theres a very high chance that whatever winnings you gain, you will just spend it right away. Have someone with you when you play and this is not only to remind you that you need to stop and play another because you already spent a lot and lost, this is also to remind you to set aside a portion of your winnings to avoid spending it together with your initial funds.

That is we called self-discipline. In-line with that, we have to know the capability of our pocket, not tend to the point that we are able to commit debts/loans for the sake that we can just gamble which is sometimes persistent to the others. If we are able to control our lifestyle and wants, there is no reason why others couldn't do what you are doing right now.

There is something we have to think about deeply and must have to realize what is good and what is right.

This is why gambling business is too profitable because of people who do have these kind of behavior towards gambling.
They know that human beings are way too greedy most of the time which makes their business feasible plus having the edge then
most of time,outcome would always in favor with the house.Come to think that gambling is just for entertainment not a source of income
which most people usually think off thats why they do end up on a mess.

This is extremely difficult for those people who have greed within their own self.
Greedy is the besy enemy in our emotion, not only in gambling but also in much different actions.
We also need risk management in gambling because it will lead to less grediness. Like, a profit is already a profits. A loss is already a lost. We should always need to be contended.

Best idea with any new game played is set a budget to 'spend' not gamble so much, until the lessons are learnt on the game then its the price to entering the game.   After some sucess then its worth the gamble but still set a regular budget for every day or week however often its played.      If the budget is regular every day not left open then it makes the success and reasons why more obvious, its more possible to learn and remember what works when working with a set budget.

If greed is the main source of why you are playing gambling then that's a problem. Being greedy makes us losing a lot of money in the end but can also lead for you to become rich it also depends on your luck, in my experience once you already hit a jackpot then you can stop and just play again on the other day.

Everything stems from greed and our emotional attachment when it comes to money.

In gambling, the vicious cycle starts when you continuously gamble with the mindset of earning money, which would eventually cascade into losses especially if you lack the self-determination and will to stop. What makes things worse, in times of losses, you have this feeling of wanting to recover your losses but only to result into further losses.

Now the key here is to plan ahead and limit yourself when it comes to betting. I know this may be easier said than done but that is the only way in order to prevent incurring losses continuously.

Quite right, but most of people who gamble, do that to earn money. Every gambler should self realize the reason why they gamble, if answer is to earn money they should leave it asap.

How about curiosity? We know that when we are curious about something, we will find the right answer. I think that is happening in gambling. People tend to play because of fun things, but on the other side, people are curious about how they can win. That makes them curious about the games, and that makes them play using a lot of money. So I think it's because of the curiosity and greed that makes people cannot stop gambling. As long as they can hold themselves from those two things, they will not spend too much money.

I think that when we lose a small amount we don’t care much and we don’t restrain ourselves from continuing to play.A good thing to do to restrain yourself from not playing again is to place the sport bets you will play and then go out with friends or family and do not think about betting anymore for the day until you see the results,this is what I do.It works so far for me in sports.I don’t know about roulette and slots.

I think this is where discipline is highly necessary.  Going with extra cash or even a credit card to a casino house for someone who is disciplined is not supposed to be a problem at all because the time spent or to be spent on gambling is not meant up be decided by the money.

It is the responsibility of a player to be able to specify the number of hours he intends to spend on the game and should easily be able to say good bye when necessary. I can recall a lot of times I go to casino houses with money and return back home with the money without exhausting it not as though there are no games to play but because I choose to put a stop to the games.

I don’t think that this practice is such common among all gamblers, maybe a few persons that are yet to master their habit of self-control. Its necessarily not greed because I have been fortunate to be in the midst of people like this and some do not even play for money but to quit is always a problem for them and I practically understand such feelings because I have been a victim before.

There was a time in my life I would plan my schedule on how I would play my game and I end up never keeping to the plan and I realized I had problems itself control. The first thing I did was to address my challenge and look out for the solution. I am glad that today I have become a better version of me.

Mostly I redeposited my winnings and then bust it. I solve this by creating a paper wallet and just withdraw a part of the winnings to that. By doing that I can't easily redeposit and just keep the winnings.

To restrain yourself on spending a lot of money in playing or gambling, before you go to a gambling session you must set first your limits on how much you will just spend on gambling and how much also are you planning to win or to lose., because if you bring all of your money you will become greed of this and that would be bad. As a gambler I've saw and experience many times that I am a short temper and because of greediness I've lost all of my money in my pocket. I hope this lesson must teach you on how proper gambling was and how to limit yourself.

There are lots of other factors which are influencing gamblers to spend more, but I too guess greed must be the prime one for a pushing a gambler to get start with gambling. If there is no chances of earning from gambling then I guess there would have been a gambling industry like what we are having today. Greed plays a vital role is destroying a gambler's plan first and then a gambler's life itself too.

Sounds like a working idea. Previously I have heard people are blocking gambling sites to prevent themselves from gambling. I read some ISP/modem setting are also being used for blocking gambling sites. When we gamble under parental or any family member guidelines, we may easily stop after some times of gambling, regardless of we make losses or profits.

I have seen many gamblers who are all finding it hard to stop even their main motive is entertainment and not making money out of gambling. I mean it would be too hard for all the gamblers and it does not need to be only hard for the gamblers who gamble for money. Gambling's addicting nature play a role making gamblers persisting with gambling and that addiction may happen when you gamble for money or you gamble for fun; no exceptions.

I guess quitting gambling completely could be the only solution for not spending money in gambling. Because, all gamblers may fail one day or other in controlling them from spending big money in gambling.

What I doing sometime is playing with my wife,we go to casino together or even online gambling so she will be telling me if the amount spent is enough .
And also if we are in winning,she will ask me to go home and stop playing so we saved the money and not letting lose everytime .i don’t know if someone’s doing the same but for me?its my way of saving myself from becoming greed

The way I handle things is as follows (as a poker player).

First I'll play a low stakes table for a while just clearing up the fishes, getting myself warm before heading over to the 5/10 or 10/20 table.

Here, I'll sit at the table that has the most fish and least pros (if known). This automatically reduces my odds of losing by a large degree.

Once done, I'll set myself a threshold of how much of my stack I'm willing to lose, e.g. 50-75%, depending on who I'm playing with.

If I'm against solid opposition, I'll cut my losses at 50%, whereas if I'm just getting a bad beat against noobs I'll hang in there until 75%.

I know the statistics, so it's not hard for me to cut my losses, since I know that my wins represent an average across time. I can take the hit.

This is another good idea of going out with family if you cannot resist yourself and still want to play. So your family will let you know and will ensure you move away after certain amount if lost. This way you would be in a fair deal of leveraging the gambling and also restricting the losses as well.

i don't need to restrain myself from gambling because i know my limit,i can also carry myself to refuse any form of greediness and lust to win big or lose big.

before gambling i condition my mind to not look for big winnings instead just enjoy the game and dont let gambling eats me

having those?i am free from those bad effect mentioned

This should be the mindset of all gamblers, you can carry your self and manage it well from gambling and of course know the limit that you have. It is very simple that gamblers restrain their selves because of the greediness and lack of control over their selves. Anyway, looks like all replies that I read in previous replies was all saying it is because of greediness which is too obvious. Just enjoy and don't chase money in gambling.

First of all they need to be happy if they lost small amount while doing this because most people's greediness and chasing habit will let them to go hard as much as they can until they lose everything.Yes it is going to be harder if we lose our money but realizing that it is not new or not only happening with you will ease the thing and the right thing to do is stop gambling when the lost amount is small.

I sincerely agree that gambling can be very addictive but gladly, over 80% of gamblers are not suffering from addiction because they understand the concept of clarity of purpose. If you understand the reason to which you are gambling then I do not see any bone of contention.

The idea is to know the right point necessary to put a stop to a game. It's as simple as that.  Those gambling for money also understand when to pause their game and same goes to those playing for fun. The people who find it difficult to quit are confused set of people in my opinion and I believe they need a better understanding of gambling.

Going with friends or families won't help much expecially if they are players/gamblers too.
They might motivate you to play more and disregard the loss as being small. Thus, convincing you that the next play will bring big wining. Before you know it, you have played more than you expected to put in.

That is why we need to control ourselves from those who ask us to play more. If we cannot control ourselves, we will use our time to play gambling longer than we can think, and we will spend more money to gamble. If we are going to gambling places with our friends, we need to tell them that we are not going to spend too much time and money in the gambling place because we care about ourselves. We should remind our friends too, so they don't have to spend more money, and we can prevent big losses.

actually we all have different views when it comes gamblers. And for me i understand why some of them didn't make a rest to stop playing. because in my view for them time is the most important and that how they set their limits, wherein because of being busy also in another work thats why they keep forcing to play just to regain losses or to obtain profits in small of time.  .in fact that's what I'm  doing also when i have a vacant time. Lol  Wherein just to make more profits and etc.  I don't mind what will happen. but it doesn't mean i have no limitations because it all set.  And my vacant time is one of my limit when it comes gamble. .

it could also be caused because it has become a daily hobby, right? it might be a good thing for them to fill free time, especially if it is a gamble that is concerned with sports. it can stimulate adrenaline and be an interesting spectacle. Some people might continue to do it because they want to cover up their losses, but things like that are really hard to stop, especially if you have enough free time.

No doubt a wife could be your best partner to gamble in casino she will always give you good suggestion as she asks you to stop gambling at earning huge it helps you a lot to save money as those who become greedy to earn more actually lose their whole money that's why we should gamble but with care and at single miner lose don't play again to recover your lost.

There are several betting strategies out there but I think what you need to focus on is setting the "budget" you'd be using for your gambling spree. Nothing to large whose loss would impact the rest of your living budget. From there you can decide how to bet, whether you keep raising whenever you win, etc.

The most difficult thing is to fight yourself and control yourself, you are hard on yourself and consistency must be applied seriously so that when playing gambling can minimize bad habits in betting and do not let you become a gambling addict because it will bring your destruction. . .
You have to intend to play gambling just to have fun and occupy yourself with positive things so that it doesn't get swept away by gambling that makes you want to play again and that's because you feel curious that makes you want to come back again and want to try to win it and that's what I experienced .

The only way to do is have as much as you can afford to lose at a time in the gambling balance. If you are going to have a gambling session and doesn't want to lose more than say 200k Satoshi, then keep exactly that amount in your gambling balance. Keeping more than what you desire will lead to imbalance and will force you to bet more to recover the lost amount.

You may keep your attitude at its original form until you face losses. I mean to say you can be positive and you may continue your gambling for the reason of finding fun out of your gambling but when you face losses your emotions will come into play and it will start occupying all your positive energy which makes you to start thinking about how to recover your losses so that you will go for whatever possible ways at the moment to recover your losses.

I'm just speaking out of my own experience, I always failing to control myself not to spend money into gambling for the reason of recovering my early losses. If I would have thought about loss is the loss and I should accept that loss then I would not have gone for spending my hard earned money.

I wouldn't say it's very hard to defeat their house edge, in fact I would rather say it's pretty easy. You just need to withdraw your initial investment once you made some profits. This way you're only gambling your gains and you can't lose anything at the end of the day, hence the house edge had been defeated.

It is not because of greed but rather the lack of discipline of a person.  Every one of us have greed on its own level.  Whether we let it to take over our minds depends on our capability to control ourselves.  And controlling oneself is not that easy especially when we are not accustomed to it.

Kinda true. But discipline can only grow with experience not by being forceful. Since, gambling is sometimes rewarding, there are other emotions at play like fear of missing out on winnings. Hence, many can't leave it unless they experience much losses from gambling.

I guess this thing will be done by someone who just new to gambling, for those who have a long time to spend their money into gambling will never do that. They are tend to save their money first and come tomorrow when they find a much lose. Because they will know, gambling is not about strategy thing but for almost 50% it is depend on luck, so just thinking when we don't have 50% lucky when play gambling it will be worst IMO.

Different with someone who just new into gambling, they won't know how to spend their money well or even they will depend on their lust to play it. Just a few people who can think they should be come again tomorrow or at least he has to stop the gambling for a while to make his brain get a comfortable thinking. I guess it will be like that, I just revealed from my perspective and me, I'm not a gambling addict because I'll play it if I have money only.

Fighting oneself is the hardest job in the world. Because we know our weaknesses but not how to tackle it. Greed is an inherent quality :D but yeah, one should analyse his condition about how a bet might affect him financially. For new gamblers it will be tough to learn but with experience these habits gets embedded into us.

I'm thinking the same. OP, that's what you have to practice and be discplined when you gamble. Set an amount that you are okay to gamble with until you lose everything during that day.

And when you have lost all of it, put it on your mind that you won't gamble anymore within that day because you have reached your threshold as you lose but if you can maintain that within the day, continue and enjoy it.

It's very hard. I have tried to put such limits on myself like to block casinos and apps to gamble. But later found ways and loop holes to gamble. I think it's just close to impossible to sit at rest after a losing streak specially when we still have balance to gamble and reach our imaginary "recovery".

It seldom happens because the excitement is still there, you don't have funds but your mind just want to continue,  this is something that can be considered a trap, if you cannot tame it, you will just end adding more, a gambler should have a cooling period after the high emotion of losing and winning.

It all depends on how addicted you are. All gamblers are addicted to it to a certain extent, if you are highly enthusiastic or obsessed with gambling you will struggle to stop especially when you are losing and there is extra cash at your reach. If you are at this stage, you may want to seek professional advice and counselling.
Gambling should be a pass time activity, where you should be in total control of your emotions and make informed decisions at the different.
A lot of gamblers struggle with moderation and end up walking along the extremes; they are either all in or out completely.

Well it depends oh how that person addicted if it's in extreme level then maybe it's also hard to stop them from spending too much money and yes it is because their greed, when a person get addicted to something many bad habits will developed to them like being greedy, uncontrolled emotion and such things, i also gone through addiction in betting and spend too much money but before it gets deeper i control myself and realize the wrong im doing.

I know that I'm a gambling addict before but I slowly get rid of it. I do control myself from playing, I know it's hard but it is what it takes. I did some limitations from my self, Like If I lose a certain amount this day I will stop playing and just come back tomorrow. Putting the limit into myself didn't restrict my everyday gambling activities. It just reduced my addiction that it came to the point that it is very normal to me. There's a time that I don't even bother if I don't play some gambling. It's effective for me.

First and foremost, have your budget set whenever you sit to play/gamble. Don't cross the set budget in order to cover your losses and expect a big win. I think before you play to win, you should play to minimize your losses. Also, now a days their are limit option available, especially on online betting platforms where you can limit your spending. Also, listen to your mind , not heart ! Don't use credit card too !

Yes, I agree with what you said; need to budget your money in every gamble/game that you do. That budget is only for that day or for that game. Also, don't overspend the other currency that you have, especially in online gambling. Additionally, don't catch your losses if you have a bad day/ bad game, stop even your budget money is not totally consumed or over because you need to relax and calm down so that you can think very well. Frustration is one of the enemies of a gambler.  :)

We cannot do anything with people who have addicted to gambling at any level. They will not listen to what we suggest because they want to play more and more. Yes, they have big greed to win more money, but they never realize that to win in gambling will need great luck. Maybe if they lose everything can open their eyes about what they did before was wrong. But that is too late to stop, and it will be hard to stop the bad habit, although that still possible.

@ethereumhunter this is exactly the problem of addicted gamblers. They still think they can win in the long term if they are lucky. But it doesn't work like that as it is statistically proven that they will lose money if they keep playing game because of that house edge. They need to understand this. If you give them hope that they will win if luck is on their side then that will act as fuel for them to keep risking their hard-earned money.

You have said a billion dollars thing. It is most difficult for us to control our feelings, desires and emotions. In fact, majority cannot do that rather we all fail after a certain limit exceeds, which varies from individual to individual. Anyone who learns the art of controlling oneself and becomes master of his own, he becomes a master of this world too. Gambling actually pumps those desires.

Not really greed in its strict sense but the desire to earn quick and easy. That may not really be greed.

I'm afraid there is no complicated technique needed. It is all about the individual's self-control. If you go to a casino and you have the tendency to gamble more than you plan, you go there with the exact amount of money needed. That is a simple way of doing risk management in case you will be too hooked up with your game that you forget or don't care anymore how much money you spend.

That’s why it’s advisable to bring certain money and no credit cards or anything that can give you access to your money,this is for Live casino

But if you are playing online better have someone beside you either your wife or someone you trusted,let them hold all your resources  and told them never to give you those for a Tim being that you are playing or after the game so you can prevent from spending another amount

the best thing a gambler can do to reduce loss is to have a discipline a wife or a trusted someone can't guarantee that they can prevent you to stop and in worst
case scenario you could end up fighting them just by doing what you told them(I experience this kind of scenario first hand and me and my friend never talked to
each other for a while). discipline is one of the most important things a gambler should have if they ever want to reduce their losses.

With this I absolutely agreed mate because the longer we play the higher the chance of losing,based on my own experience when I won in the very first hours of playing and I didn’t stop?the end is I will start losing and in just a matter of time I am zero balanced

This teaches me to be contented and start to tell myself that if I won atleast double or triple of my capital I will certainly lave the table or the site and try again the next days or weeks.

And now this gives me smaller success everytime I played,though still losing is there because no perfect gambling

If this can be done then gambler is safe from harming his financial savings. Cooling periods is very important it can balance your emotions and the actual amount of money that you can afford to lose. Gambling as being noticed as risky entertaining activities can messed up with you if not being treated correctly. Most of those aggressive gamblers ending up as addicted to this industry suffered from losing everything. Financially and emotionally stress can be avoided if you know when to stop and quit away from the house.

This is true, and it is the only possible way to keep ourselves within the limits. My wallet control is in the hands of my girl. She only gives me fund, and the fund is not on my wish. She used to calculate and send very little. Most of the time what I receive is just 10 xrp.

I think that's one of the most effective tip anyone has given so far on this topic, lol. If you're having trouble with controlling gambling urges, bring your wife with you. Women are usually a lot more sound when it comes to spending money and also, it'll be really hard to make them spend more than what they think is enough. That is, if you get them to even allow to gamble in the first place.

Why would you even allow a female member of the family to gamble? Women are a important section of the community and they need to take care of their homes and children before thinking about playing with their luck for money. It may sound orthodox compared to the feminazi's but it iswhat is better for their lives and families.

Back on topic, I think the best way to restrain from losses and more losses is to channel your hatred to make yourself stop gambling. It would work for a short period of time because soon the greed for making money will overcome the hatred and you will be playing again. But you would have saved some money in the process.

if you do not want to spend in one time, yeah, only carry money that can afford to lose, and certainly not greedy. because the most important thing about gambling is self-control. it's just discipline in gambling, it doesn't mean you will avoid losing. if it's hard to do, you must have someone who can control you well.

It is hard to control, but most of the time, you need someone to accompany you that will remind you that you have done enough. Basically, deciding all by yourself will be hard in terms of gambling, most of the time we have the feeling of continuing even if we don't have that much balance, as a result, we lose everything. If we can't control ourselves, others might do so. But for me it seems impossible to have someone just to remind us about it. It is much efficient if we really do practice self control and discipline.

Yeah, when you lose control, then you will see your money will flow to them and you will have a difficulty to recover your money. The more you can control yourself, the more you can save your money, and you can leave the casino at any time. The discipline will be difficult to do if you don't have the power to control yourself because gambling is very tempted every people who stay in that place for a long time. We will spend more and more money without thinking that our money has a limit.

In gambling battles, it's up to gambling sites, my habits prefer like online gambling, ball, poker, and dice.
In the dice game I am not in a hurry to deposit too much money, enough for the first and second rounds, from the first and second money, I must have a way to win.

If it also doesn't win, still loses I won't enter the next deposit, stop playing gambling.

Get enough rest, tomorrow think of a new gambling site and understand first.
Habit, that's where the peak of victory for me.

This is my experience in dice, another story with poker and soccer matches.

its difficult when your emotion is already controlling your mind, you can do a lot of things that you will regret later.
That's the reality, we need to be matured when gambling so we can always make the right decision when we are in the winning or losing situation.
Yes, you do different approach with that, and you can only think clearly if you emotion will not manipulate your mind.

In gambling, there's always a game plan and its the mind that will have to initiate that.

The reality remains the same. Most of the gamblers become addict and eventually ruin their lives. The importance of self-control and discipline is alien to such people. Rather they cant help themselves because their brain stops working long before anyone knows. It is easy to say stay calm during harsh times but far difficult to do in real life. Money can bring a lot of pain when lost.

To prevent or atleast minimize it we need discipline set some limits or rules for yourself. Something like if you hit a certain amount of loss just stop playing. Yes, obviously it is a nature of human we have greed and excitement or the will to win back what you have loss, we can't avoid it completely but I guess we can minimize it.

Still discipline matters for this kind of topic

We have been in gambling for how many years and we experienced a lot of losing yet we learn nothing but to continue our old ways,why not be mature and learn from the experiences?of course Gambling is needed for us to find luck and to have fun but this must have obligation to control our desires,having enough restrictions is best to save us from continuously losing

To help restraining your losses in playing games or gambling it would be better to have range on how much you can lose on that day or give an range on the amount you want to take before you go home. This will help you to manage your money and funds on how much will you spend on that day and setting also the amount you can win on that day. But for a legit gambler it is difficult to do and as usual it is because of greed, most of the gamblers spend all of their funds in order to get back their losses and that is also the reason why they are getting too much loss so setting an range will help us to lessen this kind of greediness.

That's easy just bring a friend and only allocate funds when gambling don't bring credit card your friend is the one to stop you to get a loan from loan shark, this is for offline casinos, it's a different story for online casinos because you are the one to control your funds, you can have a friend to play with you online and he'll be the one to remind you when you are losing and had the urge to add more funds.

This is known as chasing your losses and is the cause of many of gamblers losing all their bankroll because of it.
Restraint is very difficult because once you start losing just a small amount of $2 you want to try and recover this and it seems at the time to be easy enough too. But then it has a snowball effect if you then lose $5 then $10 then $25 when trying to recover your losses.
It is a crippling situation to be in and dont wish this upon anyone who runs into this which effects people mentality.

People will not listen if you tell them to stop playing gambling for them to stop losing profits, that is not going to work, the more say that, the more they are going to play gambling no matter what it cost to them. Let them play, let them experience things that they are not expecting at all in order for them to stop playing gambling by themselves, experience will be the one who will help them realize that forcing themselves to gambling even though they are losing will not help them to attain being a professional gambler's title to make profits in gambling most of the time.

It is like a person who is smoking, he won't stop until he got lung cancer.

What if you just withdraw those remaining balances on your account? that could help yourself from avoiding further losses and this can be practiced every time you gamble.

It won't come instantly but once you made this time and time again, you can adopt this as your attitude when you gamble. And you can check the situation if you can actually recover your losses but if you analyzed that you can't, decide on it and tell yourself and it's no longer valid to continue.

Lack of self discipline is the reason why you can't stop.
You cannot stop when you are winning or you can stop when you are losing, both showed an attitude that a gamble lacks discipline.

When you are gambling, understand the risk is the first thing you have to consider so you will be able to manage yourself properly.
When you matured and you become responsible, gambling might become easy on your part as you are willing to stop anytime based on your game plan.
Every gambler has to learn when they make mistakes, otherwise they will have a very short journey and a very bad experience in gambling.

For gambling indeed we must be able to hold ourselves when it loses while playing. because a few times when gambling people suffer losses they will continue to play until they get a profit. but just the opposite where all their money runs out. the initial plan they must make when playing gambling. how much money should you stop? how much profit do we want to get ?. because without it there is no satisfaction or we will not stop playing

I have seen a lot of female gamblers. Gone are the days people thought gambling was only for men, I think the search for money has gone way beyond a specific gender, everyone is a hustler these days and there's no policy that restricts female gender from gambling anyway, so it's an opened game for everyone and I advise you erase that ideology of gambling for men alone completely from your mind because you are still dwelling in the past with such belief.

Restraining from loses would be much easier if we understand and follow the basic rules of gambling.

There's absolutely no reason to exonerate oneself from gambling since there are still big time successful gamblers. For instance, its often said that never gamble with an amount of money you cannot afford to lose, but a lot of gamblers disobey this rule and yet expect to be free from loses.

It might help, but not totally the help we are expecting. Losing a big streak will left you with a huge struck of lightning, you'll be staring at the emptiness thinking of that lose. A certain lose could either make you addicted or afraid of gambling, you could repeat a thousand times to yourself that you will quit when you lose again, but you are going to repeat it all over again until there is nothing left.

Addiction is the problem, self-discipline can't heal it if it's too late, and if a certain individual is not serious about getting himself a rehab.

that is why i think before i depo and gamble . id say to my mind that what if i loose ? will i still recover my losses  ? instead i only use free money to gamble and limit the time that i depo or use my own hard cash  . i think ill only have the guts to depo my own cash when i have an extra money aside from the budget money that ill be using the whole weekend  . not just loss but a certain wins can also make you tempted to try again until you loose and you want recovery  .

The question is do we really need or follow those rules?i will ask you straight mate,can you handle telling yourself and acting on that?when you say when to stop and how much money we need to allot on this?

No mate this is not the right manner how people gamble that’s why discipline will take part and without this surely we will fail in our target attitude whenever we wanna gamble

Being greed especially in gambling plays a very big role because if you are a greedy gambler, chances of going out winning is close to zero (or maybe zero).

Discipline and self control are the 2 traits that a gambler must have in order to prevent situations like this to happen. It is not called persistent too but pure greediness trust me ;). If you are gambling online, the best thing to do is just deposit funds that you will be ok if you lose them all because chances of losing in gambling is higher but if you are gambling on a casino do the same as online gambling. Just get a certain amount of money that you will be ok if you lose them.

That will not be a good idea to continue to play because they don't know when they will get the win. Even if a gambler wins the games, the passion for continuing to play will always there and still telling them to continue. That is why if you cannot control yourself, you will end with losing all of the money. We can make a target on how much profit we want to get, but still, if we are in the gambling games, it is too difficult to reach that target. You can reach your win target but only if you have big luck and that is a small chance to see you have big luck.

Once you want to play a gmabling make sure that you have certain amount of money only that you use in playing and oncs it lose don't try to get from your funds because it is only cause for a player to lose everything they have.  Controlling self is the key to not lose all of player funds. For sure if you have control you can prevent losing and you will get profit for sure because you are not greedy by the profit.

Putting a possible % of target profit on a certain amount of capital will do it and sticking with the capital limit that won't you go broke if you lose will do it. The limitation is the key to not going broke or to restrain yourself from spending more assets on playing gambling.

There are many gamblers who put themselves to a limit to avoid such great loss. I even myself put myself into limits when I play gambling, I'm not ready to go broke myself especially that I experienced it before because of addiction in gambling.

if you are into Gambling to win ,then theres no need to play different games because if luck is for you ,one game is enough to get the good amount of winnings

but if you are into enjoyment?then go around and play certain games you think will bring you happiness .

but both needs budget that is enough for us to lose,because if your plenty of money will spent then tomorrow family will starve?that's not the right way of playing for me

That's not correct, control is just being discipline in gambling but what you need to do to win is to be consistent with choosing a winning bets, when you keep winning and you have a proper bankroll management, you might win even in the long run, but there's always no assurance that you will always end up profitable due to the nature of gambling which is very unpredictable and risky.

Stopping yourself is very hard once you start to lose a small amount of money in your bankroll. The best way to avoid spending most of your money is to bring an amount that you can afford to lose and by doing that you will not force yourself to spend any amount that you might regret spending later.

Having a self-control is very important to someone who's having a patience problem especially in gambling and trading.

That is correct. But even with this seemingly effective strategy, I have known a lot of people here in my country where they will still go overboard and end up walking home or hitching a ride because there is not a penny left with them. That is very common here. They go to the gambling house or any other gambling place for that matter such as a billiard club, a cockfighting arena, or even just a friend's house where they can play cards, set aside a little amount for their fare going home, and end up losing everything down to their last piece of coin.

Yes i also follow that guide which is spend only the money that you can afford to lose, i remember i set this discipline when i nearly get addicted in gambling, i spend too much money because i think that time that i will win every game i play, well im really good at games that's why, but in the end i just spend too much money and regret it later on so after i got the discipline of mine i start to stop playing gambling games well not really i just lessen the time i play, it is really true once you experience the fun you cant get over with it.

Well, mostly, it's because of greed. But no particular technique can prevent one to bet more and more and more. The good thing is, there's something that we can do about it—self-discipline.

It may be in the form of limiting the amount of money and time that one will use when he bets. By setting such limitations, one may be reminded that he should stop once that particular quota (whether time or money) has been met. It's not easy, but it's simple.

Yes i agree i also think self discipline is the key to prevent all bad things, i think if s person has a discipline in the first place he/she will not spend and waste money on something that they cant ensure if they can win, well if cant stop itself from playing then it was good to set an limitation to know when to stop but it is possible if the person has also full control to itself.

That is the best thing to do however the things is it is easy to be said than to be done, what I mean is that when we were on that situation admit that sometimes we lose our cool and we will not able to control our emotions. Anyway, in my case I would limit my bankroll that is enough to satisfy my gameplay and spend only the money I can afford to lose.

This problem with your patience always turned you out to be more aggressive when you lose amount that you can't afford to forget. Instead of quitting you will going to proceed and deposit more, making things more complicated and placing you to bankruptcy. All you need to have is good control with your attitude, don't set your mind that you are able to recover your loses if you still have money to use to continue your game.

I am glad you ended it very well, nothing beats us having self control and knowing when and how to put a stop to a game because depending on someone to control our gambling habit is absolutely a weird act and this will definitely be an unpleasant method for controlling losses in gambling.

I have been fortunate to see few  gamblers that thought using a third party to control their unhealthy gambling habit would be a way to stop loses but they later realized it’s not a solution at all because there are times you feel like gambling and the person that accompanies is not available. The best is just to learn it and its only by self-control or self discipline.

I think it’s very wrong to even advice anyone to stop gambling. I would also not listen to anyone who dishes out this kind of advice because it does not make any sense. What happens to successful gamblers? How did they become successful and if there can be a good number of people cashing out on a daily basis in gambling, then why scare people away from gambling.

It’s just better gamblers are advised to be extraordinarily careful and also players should be thought to be contented with whatever profit they make because from experience, the habit of trying to double bet in order to make more profit which is a very wrong habit.

Yes a very wrong habit but this is the most common thing or target of most gamblers in the first place which is to double up their money.
No, its not wrong to advice anyone to stop gambling since we know on whats the common outcome for those who addicted on it but even
you do tell them its just pointless because they wouldn't really listen at all no matter how you do convince them.Gambling is for fun and
redirecting the true essence of it to make it as a source of income is already a big mistake.

Can help somehow because as he mentioned while he has a balance on his account, he couldn't help himself to continue and recover those losses. That's the best resort if he can't stop, pull out all of his balances to settle.

There's always a solution as long as the person involved is willing to help himself as well. Avoid the huge losing streak with those suggestions that we've made and I think that he can survive it as long as he's willing.

I think the third party play a very important role in gambling habits and it is not weird to interfere the third party as they will always guide you in case of your bad habits and gradually you will get trained to control your habits and also they will not allow you to lose all your income, so at the beginning let the others to control your habits in gambling and then learn it yourself.

That is exactly mate pretty nice explanations and thoughts so it's clear discipline and self control is the key to prevent loses in gambling with out that two factor for sure gambler is becoming a greedy and possible to goes into addiction to everything they have.

It wont really be easy nor effective on that  kind of method because you as a player and do had the full control of your funds
wont really be easily affected by other people decisions if they would tend to stop you.Your own discipline will really vary
into these kind of times if you are sensible enough to handle out your funds and managing it well.

It is pretty hard though. Restraining yourself out of something that urges you to play even more feels like heavy in feelings. I do not think everyone can do that. Because it still relies on personal behavior of the individual. Not everyone has a discipline of the other gambler. Though they can be educated but they cannot be disciplined because it is still in their own end to take the action.

In order to stay safe of loss and pain, it is best for a gambler to play with that much amount only which, if lost would hardly affect him in any way. The amount of bet matters the most. It is not easy to stay calm when a good number of bucks are lost. Gambling is more addictive than you can imagine because it involves money. Everyone wants more by doing less and recover all the losses, which is not possible but gamblers do try.

I would like to add, maybe what you want to say i that gamble the money that you can afford to lose, well i guess to that it's hard for a person that experience gambling to let go of it easily or contain their self without playing and when they lose they will try to recover the money they lose and end up that they lose more money that's why being self controlled and having a great discipline is important to a person, so they can set their limits and know where should they stop and when shouldn't play.

It's easy to say but difficult to apply, you are right about having discipline and self control of a person to prevent them to spend farther more but what if that person don't possess that kind of discipline?, Well i guess that's the time that a person needs a guide or someone that can give them advice, prevent them from doing such thing, simply a person that is also by their side to always remind them and guide them to a better path that will not let them be in a wrong way, i'm referring to a family because family is the one that a person's most valuable aspect and i think if a person has a strong sense of family then i think he/she will think of them before spending and wasting too much money, he/she will just spend the money to the family than wasting them in gambling or anything else.

It's a little difficult when we've played and there our emotions and ambitions cannot be resisted. although at first we have rules that have been made when it touches how much we have to stop, but sometimes we ourselves are carried away so that we spend all our money. I often experience this and in the end when we lose we regret it.when not playing we can make rules but when playing there our emotions can not stop

rules are only in mind before playing and starts losing or winning ,but when we seat in the table and start dealing?no there are no rules but eagerness and greed

i hate to say this but all gamblers has this attitude not unless the very discipline players who knows how to limit himself and know where to stand and leave the table,for me thats what we can call a perfect gambler

It is very rare to find gamblers that can handle such situations,I remember myself way back when I was still addicted in gambling that I often saying to cut of the budget or limit myself but after few bets and take losing streak things change and it’s goes unlimited again lol

But not now since the time I woke up from doing such,now I can say I am changed and can handle the desire of continuous playing when my budget is getting low,that’s what made me decide to quit and stop

Well you're right, sometimes planning ahead before playing is hard to apply if you're in actual game especially if you cant control your emotions. Greed and chasing losses are the main reasons why we often tempted to keep playing and forget what we plan. We need self control and discipline, set a limit on your money to spend or much better bring only what you plan to use.

We can say that because we experience that.
Even me, I made a lot of mistakes or doing the same mistake again and again that made me chase my loses and end up nothing.
Everytime we ran out of money, we always regret and promise not to do the same mistake again but unfortunately, we are at it again, so I think it would really take time and mastery on how to control your feelings so you can avoid making a very bad decision.

Descipline is very difficult to acquire once a person is drowned with gambling habits, limiting or controlling themselves is a big struggle. In eliminating this bad attitude, we need to look back on things that's very important to us, especially our family that binds us all the time. Once there's a financial problems I think, a gambler should keep in mind that family is more important than gambling so it should be the first priority and nothing else is beyond.

At least your friend is listening to you?i mean whenever you approach him to stop?

Well that’s what I am doing now when I wanna gamble.i try to find someone closes to me for making a job,and that is to remind me to stop whenever I am losing enough money ,and tell him not to stop asking me to go until I find myself way out

That's the very example of emotional gambling, once you keep trying to recover your loses you will engaged yourself to a great danger of becoming addicted. As a good response to this matter, having a limited bankroll will have such impact. You can't continue if you don't have anything left inside your wallet, better than have a lots of bankroll and ends you up into complete bankruptcy.

People like that are having a problem with self-control and no one could ever help them no matter what you do, it is only them who can help themselves. I wouldn't be surprised if some of them that you know will end up of being left with their loved ones or end up homeless or even worst being a suicidal because no one help them. It would be better to practice the self-control to yourself at the early stage to save your future.

I would use the term what you can afford to lose than a small money.

Gamblers who risk a decent amount of money will get more thrill and satisfaction in gambling, so regardless of the amount they gamble as long as they can afford it, that's alright, but, discipline is very important so they will not go beyond their limit, going beyond the limit all the time or even most of the time will result to a miserable life as a gambler.

In reality it will be hard to control your emotion and many professionals failed on this one simply because gambling is too good for them that they think they will succeed on a short period of time. When you are on the level of excitement you tend to play more even if you are losing money, if you want to limit yourself then play without greed and start helping yourself to create a strategy in gambling.

Well, it needs to set limitations, though quite natural for every gambler but not really in the position that everyone takes this seriously instead, they'll go what they have in their pocket and gamble. It is their own disposition but we'd trying to say is that we have to be looked at first what would be the possible result for this. We can't win something if we never lose and risk something also, but the most important is to know until when cause we can't just lose everything for this sake.

I think that will only happen in the beginning, but if we can realize that we must have control for ourselves, we will try to learn to control emotions and ambitions. Yes, it is difficult, and no one can do this in a short time because that will need the practice to control ourselves. Without practicing to control emotion and ambitions, we will spend all our money without stopping the game. There's a lot of things that we need to do to restain ourselves from spending the money and control yourself to prevent the big lose.

If we have no control over these things then we are the only person will suffer from the results,yes its hard to stop bets but its not impossible to do,so keep yourself aware of things which is happening while you are betting when you feel that you are slipping from the limits you have drawn then its time to stop no matter you won or lose at that moment.

We do make mistakes but we are also given a chance to learn and correct that mistake since when we are gambling, we are not just doing that one time, we do it most of the time depending on our interest so if we just learn, there will be no problem that we will face.

yes we might lose and that's normal, but with discipline, we will not lose more than the amount that we should risk.

The fact that gambling itself is addictive thing , I feel there's no way to prevent such actions / emotions to go allin in the end instead betting with small amount only as it planned before.

Everyone can claiming that with their way like 'only bring the money in fixed and put the rest of the money you have elsewhere, somewhere that you can't reach out.'
Or by thinking 'that's okay to lose this time , you can recover next time with cooler head later' or any other ways / 'techniques as you wish , but I just think such preventions way might work for one or two times only.

In the very long run ... I doubt you can resist from the greedy nature that always come up in your head , human nature is set to never feel satisfied, if you can't be responsible in gambling better to stay away .

I dint think that it is ever  right to involve emotions in gambling in the first instance,  but sadly,  we all make this mistake several times for one reason or the other and I consider this habit really disturbing because it causes us so much loses and we are never ready to learn sadly.

The only people that have been able to gamble successfully without emotions are those that have been in the game for many years and I believe that they may have learnt from past experiences. Most times I promise myself I would play without emotions and the game just has a way of getting me confused and I end up repeating the same mistake.

Staying away must be a perfect solution for restraining ourselves at a small losses and not to spend big money there after. But, it will not work when your greedy leads you. Only responsible gamblers do control themselves and so their greediness too. When you are having full control on your gambling activities then you may stay away from gambling or may quit after some small losses itself.

Definitely that's because of greed and also trying to cut back their losses. I have also lost many a times whole of my bankroll just trying to earn few cents over a dollar and lost all the bankroll chasing that bad decision. What I try to do is I decide the amount that I am gonna risk right before starting the session and if I lose then I just go out or do something else,but never chase that loss.

Yes. We often make losses most of the time because of our own greed. We should not tolerate being greedy because if we do, we will keep on losing all the time. What i always do is to set an amount that i can afford to lose so that when i gamble and lose my money, it won't affect me that much. I try not to chase all my losses because it won't still do good. Instead, i just go home and gamble again on the other day.

I don’t think that I even buy that idea there of having someone that will assist one in playing when one is not sick or dead,  and like you mentioned and I agree if anyone must go with this option, then the person assisting in plating has to be a family member. There can still never be anything as much as handling it by ourselves.

Gambling is meant to be a game played and enjoyed privately.  Carrying someone along would be risky since there are so many things that could be picked by the person.  I insist and advise players to learn how to be disciplined and stay in control of their games and to stop depending on people for guidance.

I came here hoping for a good article, but instead I see it's just a low effort thread.... too bad!

Therefore... my also loweffort two cents are these... The only thing you can do to stop at low loss is unplug the internet or have someone else to it for you.

Yeah but for this, you must find a true friend who can give you the right suggestion most of the Time people get jealous and gives bad ideas that's why we should only choose the right game and to stop at on right time. When you are feeling that you are looking more than your limited amount then you should stop at once but much better to make limits before getting into gambling.

The addiction sometimes come when one had won some games at the early stage of getting into gambling, there will come the expectation  after a while that other times will come as one plays, It get more difficult to stop when one realized how he had been spent so much and at least get a win a long time. Gambling give higher risk to try anything and thats how we some across a lot of gambling game and invention such as cock fight etc.

So you won't to prevent spending all your money when you go out to play game of chances? Well its really simple. Just take the amount of coins you are willing to spend. That is it. If you don't have extra money with you, you won't be overspending when gambling, right?
Its hard to give up because of greed. They think they can get rich real quick within a short period of time.

Being greedy means that you could not control your emotions and always try to get more and more money which will make you to chase your losses all the time which is totally loss, and I do not think that controlling your greed will make you loss but instead it will keep you away from further damages to your economy, so just think once before taking any decision about gambling.

Yes it is greed or lust that cannot be controlled and it is a carelessness when betting, and that is the main problem in gambling. But when we play with full control then at least we will not spend all the money on the same day and to stop will not be something that is difficult to do, because problems like this will be easy to avoid when we have self-control and also a good mindset.

There is one thing we need to think first, are we doing good in gambling? Cause if not, we can't easily escape from reality. We are all living with that greed but somehow we can't able to control this cause it is really influencing and mostly it dictates to our mind. The bad thing is that it results in no good at all, instead, it gives losses all the time.

What makes common in gambling is that people never give concern about how much they lose but rather to seek the possible amount win. Of course, I don't want to remember my losses but rather to count my wins to give my self courage and keep gambling.

I had a friend that smashed the wall with his right hand at every loss.
He usually stopped after breaking some bones.

it was super painfull way to avoid bigger losses, but quite effective for him.

[I still find it a bit stupid)

 A small loss would be money spare and only that.   If you lose profits then that also is a fair gamble, the worst loss and not acceptable as a choice is gambling money that is not spare or available to risk as a loss.
    Thats how to keep losses spare, only gamble the money you are not using.   The biggest danger is on pay day from bad budgeting of money, I would advise only forwarding a small amount from wages to the gamble account.   If you use a set amount each week, even when you may not gamble that week you are giving yourself a set allocation to get lucky or not.   When the gamble account is no longer funded then you leave the tables, since you are never manually funding the account there is no choice to mistake how much you might pay in.    

 Basic advice would be then, separate the time you gamble from the setup of your gamble money.   If you budget everything together then it would be weighed against the worth of money needed for food, energy, clothes, travel and so on.   You are not as likely to spend too much when being sensible in allocation, do not gamble at the same time as deciding this fixed amount to pay to transfer every week.   When you gamble, never pay in at that time and if the account has no money you must wait for the next week when its funded automatically.

I think you have a good point, that is not only for gambling but also can apply on trading our assets. Always remember that our bet, invest, stakes etc are directly proportional on how much we gain or lose.

People never tend to look at that, they keep doing what they think right rather than to point out what went wrong. They keep spending their money even they commit debts cause in their mind is that... for someday they will win big and recover those losses which I don't think if it will happen so. It sounds like gambling might mentally change us and our paradigms towards gambling change as well.

You're right. Self-discipline is really the key in almost everything so that there will be no unwanted results in the end.

However, we can't deny the fact that having self-discipline is and will always be challenging. With that said, I think it's also better to have someone who knows your gambling activity and will constantly remind you on when to stop or to continue. Just keeping it to ourselves alone may not be very effective. But when we have someone telling us enough is enough, then we'll find it easier to stop and walk away from the temptation brought about by gambling.

Greed, most of the time that is the shortest answer. Some say because of efficiency since earning money in gambling is not that hard but the thing is that it is not that easy to get a profit, it is just easy to do it. Discipline is the first answer to the problem. Self-control is another thing but I just hope all you people can afford the money you are gambling.

What's the purpose of gambling?

Right, to get excitement and personal enjoyment which are the emotions we are looking after. It makes sense to trade like an emotionless trading war machine since we are there for making profits (while emotions can lead to wrong or suboptimal decisions), but not in gambling. So the whole idea of gambling without emotions kinda beats its very purpose, i.e. to get some emotions when you feel bored and tired

There's no techniques that will work once an individual do become addicted in gambling. Because the root cause of becoming an addicted gambler is greed. People wants easy money without undergoing hardwork to become more established and stable in life. They only think gambling can solve financial problems while the reality is It will not do good in the long run. I have seen several gamblers who became broke due to excessive bets and lost of self control in gambling.

Couple if ways if people want to avoid getting to be addicted and still want to gambling. It is that first just carry limited money in the wallets as this will help you to just lose minimum amount. Secondly gamble with family as this will put some restriction on you while gambling.

I've found that when gambling and playing games of chance, the only way to preserve money and not play until all your money is gone, is to set a pre-determined LIMIT. If you just play until you are tired or run out of money then you will surely run out of it.

By setting a limit on how much you win / lose you are placing a limit on your greed, the thing most important in turning a profit in gambling.

I mostly agree that the self-help techniques are useless in case of real addiction

As people who could help themselves wouldn't become addicts in the first place. With that said, though, I can't agree that greed is at the root of the gambling addiction. Addiction works on a physiological level (think a knee-jerk reaction here) while greed is an entirely conscious phenomenon

If greed were indeed the cause of this kind of addiction, then losing enough would suffice to understand that you can't win, and thus you would soon stop gambling in pretty much the same way people quit trading after being disappointed by recurrent losses. But since this is not the case, greed cannot possibly make you into a gambling addict

It's in fact mostly because they win. When you lose each time, you'll give up because you never win anything. You'll think it's just a losing game and move on. But when you win small gains from time to time, you'll go on.

you can say that getting rid of gambling after falling to its addiction is a lot difficult than many of us can understand. Nothing is impossible but certain tasks are difficult to the level of impossible. A gambler can turn his back on to gambling anytime he likes to, it is just a matter of strong will. Majority lacks this and these are the people who eventually lose everything and live a painful life.

That is a so-called cause and effect relationship. Basically, it affects everyone who's thinking "keep trying " and lose again...
Some people don't understand how gambling affects our mindset. Though we are into positive of winning and getting back our losses, it is also a reason why we always been like to gamble again and again. It is really difficult to step back and leave in gambling when in our minds still on the set and wants to risk again for a chance to win.

Lol, I have tried these methods and they kinda fail when I'm like too tempted to make a bet. For me, bank fixed deposits work fine. One can set up auto debit from bank for bills so they will not be even able to touch those funds for gambling before they are debited for good reasons. Also saving money in fixed deposit works as it won't let you withdraw money you save.

I had a good idea to make this article good, but I don't have much time so I'm not achieving, I'm very sorry.

besides, I don't think it will help shutting down the internet, it will simply find a way to play more, stronger measures must be taken, primarily on a psychic basis.

This may work, for some time

But it doesn't solve the main issue, i.e. someone being reckless with their money. Yes, we can take money from children, and they won't be able to spend it on something stupid. But we expect them to grow up in due course and be responsible for their actions on their own. In this way, setting up obstacles that would prevent you from reckless spending is more like fighting with symptoms rather than the disease itself (read, you will lose this fight in the end)

Obviously it's because of greed. Human nature is based positive attitude and we always think it's our day. When we are earning light profits we try to go full repeatedly thinking that it's our day and then end up losing everything. Similarly if we face one or two losses we still remain optimistic. I think best is to merely go out with less money. Don't keep a lot of money in your gambling account. Whenever you win something try to withdraw it as soon as possible. This is the trick to restrain yourself.

Along with greed, what is important is that one should know that no matter how much they win, they will not be happy. And even if they lose, they will continue to live life. So it's not like without that profit they want, they won't survive! That's a way I suppress my temptations to bet more.

I very much agree with this.

Putting up obstacles might not help you instantly to fully restrain yourself in gambling but the more time you spend in something else, i.e. doing another hobby, you will realize that you don't need that obstacle anymore, instead you're going to free yourself on using that because you've found the thing that would benefit you in the long run, which you thought that was gambling, but sadly not.

There is this saying goes "Don't make a promise when you are happy and don't decide when you're mad or sad", meaning you don't have to shut yourself on a single thing, sometimes you opened the wrong door and forget to open the right one.

But here's the catch. Time makes people mature.

If we take money away from kids so that they won't spend $1000 on a toy car, they may whine a bit. Let's say I won't give him that much money for the next 10 years, after that, if I give him $1000, would he spend the same amount on a toy car?

Time is flowing all the time. So the habit would never be constant, it will fade.

If we lock ourselves from gambling, we are not treating the gambling problem which you are correct at, but at the same time, I'm not gambling for a long time (even if that's forcefully) and it will instill a habit in me for not to gamble and after months, I just won't gamble and I don't even have to force myself to.

Definitely it's a good decision, just use the amount that you just can afford to lose then after that just stop, I know it is hard to apply but once that we have discipline by playing gambling with that kind of strategy then we can lessen our loses, and at the same time high chance of winning because we can have some amount for another day to use to play again and try our luck for next time we play.

But that will be still difficult to hope to get the win because nobody will know if they can win or not. We might expect to win, but the results still hard to predict as, in gambling, we could only enjoy the game than to think about winning. But at least, I agree with your saying that we can have lessened our loses on that day and we still have the money to be played the next day.

Maybe people who use this strategy are not much because once we are playing gambling, we can forget everything, including how much money we should use. We only stop playing gambling when our money is gone, but we will come back on the other day.

That’s the attitude of a occasional gamblers to let go when they lose and realize that there is something wrong and this will save them from losing more.

But things changes if we are talking about regular gamblers and those addicted because for sure the more they lose is the more eagerness of winning and won’t stop until losing everything

This is the sad reality of gambling and the only chance to remain safe?be responsible gambler and always look for way out and not to get in

Yes, I agree because once they become addicted to gambling, they can't stop it even the consequence is losing everything. But that's in the side of an addicted gambler, but if you are not addicted to gambling and just trying to have some fun, try to have some budget that you afford it to lose because if you want to earn/ have some profit, it's precarious. :)

Exactly if you lose small so you will hope to win next but we will have to control this greed of hoping to earn even more. A person when gamble he wants to earn more and more he will be excited what can happen next so great will never finish but it’s important to control your emotions and your greed if you want to earn from gambling.

But does it really?

As I'm inclined to think, typically people don't change much after they are adults, which is somewhere in their late 20's or early 30's. Time changes people but not necessarily for the better. When you are set in your ways, they are kinda set in stone. Otherwise, drug addiction could be easily cured by simple abstinence, but it doesn't work that way. If you are an addict (alcohol, drugs, gambles, whatever), it is more often than not for life. You can stand back but you may relapse into your addiction at any time, which basically means your addiction didn't go anywhere and is still with you

You already answered that is because of greed. I once had this desire, I really wanted to have all the money on the table and beat others but I didn't realize that that desire was destroying me.

I often go home with no money, I really really want to have all my opponent's money, as time went by I was able to control myself because there was one event that required me to change my vices.

there are not many ways to not lose money on gambling, controlling emotion sometimes just buying time to not lose at one time, but at least it's good to get luck in another day. management is certainly very important not to lose a lot of money and of course, that's about greed.

First and foremost, before you can understand why some people end up losing or spending all their money gambling, you should know that there are different types of gamblers. We have people who don't really mind risking some amount of money without and others who can also risk all their money on gambling.  And the nature of people who gamble is greed.  Greed is what makes it difficult for people to avoid losing all their gambling capital at that particular moment.  In addition to this, personal control is the only way someone can actually stop him/herself from losing all his/her money used for gambling.

   If a person lose his money at first try so it means thae he need to take break and think about to recover lose but keep one thing in mind this try should only be to recover your lose not to become greedy player who want to make money only. As much as possible gamblers should enjoy gambling than putting stress of winning on their mind and lose the remaining money as well so just control before its too late.

There is a question why they are soo much in greed? Why they can't control themselves? And you're right, we can't point out clearly what makes them be like that until such time that they'll talk to you. We are living with greed for sure but we'd try also to manage it and place in the proper way which I believe this was the hardest part of our life.

Losing is already a part of our life in gambling, and not even to mention that those successful gamblers for how many times they'd lose before they got there. But they never give up and lost their patience cause controlling our emotions is can't be instant, it needs practice.

if you loss on first try then why try again on the second try ? if not then try again on the third try  . if you still not hit it , that is the time to take a break to unwind but not to think about your losses   .  its hard to not get greedy while you are trying to get back what you loss  . if your unlucky  , you will end up lossing more . 

If your first purpose was to have fun, then stick to it. It's only a bonus if you win money. But if you loses continuously, then stop already. It's to prevent yourself from losing more. The thing is when you keep on losing, you tend to get irritated and it affects your emotion. So the best thing here is to stop. Stop gambling for a while and let yourself to cool down to avoid losing more

No matter what, the situation will change if he can win, and that will make his greediness will be bigger than before. He needs to be careful of that, so he didn't continue playing gambling, but he will stop to play. It will difficult to do if his confidence becomes bigger too because sometimes that will influence our decision in gambling, so many of us still decide to play more games. That will affect our emotions because once the confidence is bigger, the greediness will be also bigger and voila. Everything will change.

Majorly when people lose their first thing is to play further in order to recover the lost money as many just play to win or make money from it . On other hand if someone just takes limited amount and no cards then they can just play to that amount and if they lost they will have to go back .

There are several reasons why this happens, the most obvious people bring too much money to the casinos, now you can have access to your money in many forms, like credit cards or even the app of your bank on your smart phone and this creates the temptation to gamble with more money than you should, the solution is easy do not bring anything of value to the casino you are not willing to lose.

Another factor is that casinos know this an they try to exploit it, many casinos offer free drinks to gamblers which are making important bets, this is not a courtesy it is a trap, what they are expecting is that you do not think rationally and you decide to gamble even more money, but the solution to this is easy as well, do not drink while you gamble.

It all depends on who plays it and must really play gambling just for fun, but it is not a guarantee and as long as you have the capital you will continue to play because the most difficult is to control yourself and when playing losing, it will arouse a sense Curious that makes you want to continue playing and in reality it will make you lose everything.

and the way that I often experience is to bring enough capital and I prepared beforehand, and if I lose because the capital runs out I stop playing even though there is a feeling of wanting to keep playing but cannot continue because there is no capital, and if I win it is my luck.

I hope you can make it and can control your emotions along the way of losing your capital. It is good to set some limitation but somehow it can be changed especially when we are in addiction pushing ourselves to stay in the table and used our extra money set aside. Yes, it depends on how we bring the situation into right, keeping ourselves aware of what it happens to us (either we used up already our capital) we can still avoid the worse thing to happen to get into debts or loans.

but how?while a gambler is losing the mind set change and what we want is to play and play,nothing behind our mind but to get back the losses.

until we finally out of money and nothing to do but to leave the table,after that we will feel the bitterness that if we stop playing at least there are still some amount left in your pocket lol..

In order to restrain oneself from not bring the precious assets to gambling place, the person must understand the worth of his holding himself. Once he realize that, obviously he wont take any risks with them. Greed is the strongest factor here which blinds players and they make big bets. Money is indeed the most attractive thing of this world. Recovering loss becomes passion and winning it for free is addictive.

According to me those who play with limited amount really do well because running after yours lose and to recover this lose you can lose all your money so better make plan and spend only limited amount and try to play with care and enjoyment, after finishing your limited amount just take your hands back and stop for while it will save a lot of money for you.

That is a very challenging cause if you are in gambling addiction you can't simply escape from temptation and try to take away in order to continue in gambling. This is how important we know our limitations and the best thing we can do is to admit our failure and losses. We have to clearly set our minds that we have to know and understand the word enough, and for that, we never suffer consequences in the later part.

In most of the times, auto do  not sometimes contribute to higher  or greater winning, it lack strategical implementation.
If even they understand the martingale, a player who doesn't have restrictions will end up putting their next coin in when they loss. What truly matters is self control.

True self control and discipline not to spend much money in gambling. Without discipline within ourselves, we could experience more losses in gambling. Even they understand martingale in playing it needs luck to win the game.

It is not that gambling needs luck but that is the basis of almost all of the gambling games out there. Without this and a sprinkle of skill and experience, I don't think you would be able to win your bets. It is true that there are these strategies like martingale and other strategies being modified, that may win you some games, some profits but I don't think it is that effective most of the time. You want to gamble but don't want to lose your money? Download gambling applications into your mobile phone, you can be a billionaire in those games.

It is easy to say that but to be honest, gamblers doesn't think like that. Most gamblers are gambling because they want money, they want profit aside from the fun which is their secondary reason why they are gambling.

If you lose more money, it is hard to stop until you still have money in my experience. The best thing to do when you are gambling is that get a small amount of money already so that you can't gamble anymore if you lose your money on that day.

This is a complicated issue

As most people are very well aware that they can't win in dice other than through luck, they knowingly come to play mostly for fun and excitement at first. It is only later, probably after they have already won something, their attitude changes more toward the "profit" aspect of gambling, even if this process of "change" happens unconsciously. People can't quite understand when and how such a change takes place, but this lack of understanding doesn't make it less real. And then they turn greedy, stop playing for fun and start chasing their losses (which are a given). The results are predictably devastating


If you can stick to your guns, so to speak, no matter what, that is, to avoid falling into the trap of greed described above, you should be ok

Exactly it's important to have control over your emotions you must have to handle your greed of wining. Play with patience and earn if you know you can play well.  Lose and win are part of gambling but if you see you once lost better hold on and wait to become relax, it’s foolish to jump in the river when you already know you gonna die, be disciplined and gamble with planning.

Gambling is a magical and enchanted to those who dare to enter its realm, I mean, even you have the strongest mindset that you will not chase your losses, you'll find yourself chasing it and doing whatever it takes to win it back (mostly impossible) or it will take a lot of money to lose before you could "take" back what you have lost from it. Addiction is a choice that you've bitten with a clouded mind, and wake up on the blinding light of it.

And you continue to walk even you can't see nothing, you keep on betting, you are willing to steal money or scam someone just for you to have something to gamble, and that is addiction which you can't restrain in an instant, it takes pure courage, dedication, and self-love.

Well it works great. Last week I won in total 0.5 with playing dice and i deposited everytime i won something like 0.05 to that wallet and now its still safe in there. If I withdrawed that to a normal wallet, it was gone by now

Yeah, I definitely like your poetic phrase

But the matter is more mundane than you make it look, and therefore requires a more practical and earthly approach (read, something actually working). The thing is, you don't necessarily need to have the strongest mindset to avoid chasing losses. All you need is a proper perspective and attitude. In simple words, as long as you play for fun and personal amusement, you won't be inclined to chase losses

However, if you do feel inclined to start off on that path after having encountered an embarrassing streak of losing rolls, you are obviously no longer playing for fun as the pleasure you felt from the process itself now turns into something else, namely the hunt for profits and certain results. This is the tipping point where you should stop and think whether it is what you are looking for in the game

This is the part where it is all get magical (tricky) let's say you are just playing gambling just for fun and personal amusement with a proper perspective and attitude, like what you have said, but once you win, let's say a jackpot (assuming), that's gonna rock your world up, and you will not notice that you don't gamble anymore for fun, and the proper perspective and attitude you've got will be all gone just because of money.

All you wanted to have is money, your eyes and your hearts desires only for money, that is why gambling is a very complicated hobby, you don't even know what you are or who you are.

Yes, that's where greed will most certainly kick in

In other words, something unexpected happens (as otherwise you wouldn't be playing for personal enjoyment only), and that instantly kicks you out from the cozy environment you set up for yourself. But that's not something which you can't notice (as it is going to "rock your world up"). And since you do notice the inescapable change in your attitude, you can't remain in that frame anymore, so your only option is to stop gambling and run (without looking back)

You really did well that winning and saving in your wallet saved your profit as if you would become greedy and spend your earning you just lost all your income in useless activities. But you won and got the safe profit that's your good luck and wise planning, so we all should spend a small amount and before spending just stay in limit otherwise you will lose all your savings in greed.

The trick is also that you can't easily access the paper wallet to load it and spend it again. For now I have done this for a few years and i am still happy about it.

I only load the paper wallet to cashed it out for euro's.

the question is can we really stick to the original plan?when talking about gambling?i tend to disagree mate because its easy to say that we will manage to have fun but if we starts to lose?thats the start of looking to win back the losses,and i must know that because i use to be an addict so i can feel the gamblers for not sticking to the plans.

That is so on the mark. Keeping one’s greed and desire to have more after winning some money for free is not easy at all. Gamblers want to experience winning again and again and for that they are supposed to play again and again. But it its not possible to win a lot. Most of the times, players are destined to face loss. And with losses, gamblers develop the habit of recovering them, which again leads to addiction.

Based on my experienced, i restrain myself just to have a small lost and not spending more money is by limiting and bringing the only amount of money that i need to spend at the casino. By that it could help myself from being greedy and continue to play gambling all night at the casino.

indeed when we are in the game we will be difficult to control emotions and of course, the best way is limit the amount, or bring money that can afford to lose, so we do not spend all the money in one game.

You need to control yourself for not being emotions in gambling because that will be the hardest part to stop gambling. You will face the hard situations if you get lost in some money or win some money because you will say to yourself that the next change will be mine. But if you cannot hold your emotions and leave the gambling games, then you will see another loss in the next game, and that will affect your money.

Got to admit his cleverness. Most of the gamblers develop the habit of playing this game more because of winnings. They start believing that this can bring them some money regularly. But that is not true even a bit. Gambling is a harmful game if played without limits. The loss also increases if the asset are digital ones. As the value of crypto coins keep on changing, the gone coin is equal to gone investment.

Still, the point here is we are still going to lose all our money even we do this, for example, you have a $100 worth of tokens or fiat if you are playing in a actual casino, everyday you are just using $25 and after you lost it you will stop and try another day, you spent 4 days in gambling and still, luck is not on your side, you lost your $100 in 4 days. What we have to do is, not to gamble what we can afford to lose in a day, instead we have to distant ourselves in gambling once we've lost couple of times already, or we will lose all the money we have in a certain amount of time needed.

That is an example when you play casino, of course, it is difficult to get luck there, while in sports betting games in 4 days I will certainly get luck, because sports betting is still predictable.

Every gambler is highly aware of the unpredictable nature of gambling besides its evil nature and bad connotation. There is no one who can totally ignore greed while gambling. Those who don’t face big losses are the ones who manage their greed very well and do not let it day dream about massive profits. Even if gamblers are playing for entertainment, still they would not mind winning some good money.

No one minds winning free money

And still more so for winning big money (like hitting a jackpot or whatever). But it is one thing to be aware of this possibility and a completely different one to actually go for it. In the latter case, you are no longer playing for fun, i.e. getting pleasure from the process of playing itself. Instead, you are now trying to achieve something, to reach a certain goal (like a big win or a jackpot). This is the beginning of your fall, which may well end in developing a strong gambling addiction when you eventually start losing

I can advise every gambler to make a paper wallet and wd anytime a part of the winnings to it.

A wallet where you can lock funds for a X time should also be great but don't know if that exists.

Addicted gamblers wont lock their own funds into a paper wallet, even if they do it then they will always have other coins on other wallet to gamble. No matter what kind of tools they use to avoid greedy after winning, it wont work for such addicted gamblers. The only way to avoid greedy is self-control but of course it is almost impossible for addicted gamblers as they wont be addicted to gambling if they have good self-control lol.

Same thing I thought also.
For most addicted gamblers, it's easier said than done. If they can willingly get a loan to gamble or use their feeding money to gamble then then getting a paper wallet is nothing less
Though only a few or even lesser will set their mind to it and actually stick to it.

It’s good if there is such kind of wallet present but I guess there isn’t. I think time deposit can also help because you can’t get the money before it’s maturity date so if a gambler won big time might as well try doing a time deposit.

If you're passionate about gambling, if you're lucky and wise enough, then it is a possible source of money for you. You should not gamble when you're alone, and it will urge you to spend more money while you're sad. It is not easy to control your emotions when something is bothering you while losing a certain amount of money.

If you're alone, find someone who will support you in gambling, even your friends. Gambling helps you to have a lot of friends, and it will enhance your social skills.


Not all people in this world are the same; maybe some of them have a tough time trying to control their temper or emotions. Not everyone can do self-discipline, as long as you enlighten them on what self-discipline is. In that case, you can now limit yourself to spending a minimum amount of money.

Self control is hard to obtain so the best thing to do in order to prevent from getting losses is to just not gamble at all :D.

If a gambler is winning, they can't prevent themselves from becoming greedy because their adrenaline is increasing and they become more greedy and want to win more money. Because of this, most of the gamblers end up losing all of their money instead of going home with some profits.

Identify your priority. You should never spoiled yourself in buying stuffs which you don't need though you want it. Instead, you should pay attention on your needs such as food, bills, and etc. As long as possible, try not to browse to different merchandise werher it's offline or online thus you won't be tempted to buy stuffs which is not necessary and worth it to be bought by yourself.

Its the best solution really but sometimes we are tempted to play especially if we dont have other activities to enjoy with. Gambling is exciting plus the fact that you can earn money while enjoying the game makes us keep playing. But this is not the case if you're addicted or dont have self control, greed is the first reason why you keep playing its either to chase your losses or the eagerness to win.

Some people are doing the "second" and "third" try with double risk in order to quickly break even, that's catastrophic and it'll make it harder to stop later on.

This is like committing suicide because they would definitely have not recovered with first loss and playing more with double money means much risk now of losing the higher money and also coming back on road if they have lost huge money already in gambling.

It will be a good practices if you will just have a limit on how much you will lose and there is also a limit on winning on how much you can win and if you already get the limitations on both winning and lossing then you may called it in a day in which if you lose then go back again tomorrow because maybe this is not your time yet, or if you win a huge amount of money then you can stop it also and go back again tomorrow because maybe if you still continue you may suffer losses.

All of these suggestions are good but I think the only real way to prevent yourself from using funds you cannot and should not use is to have a trusted friend or family member monitor your wallet and income. I know it sounds stupid but me and my friends we sort of monitor each other, of course not to the point we control the money since none of us are gambling.

But if you have addiction. Ask your wife or husband or boyfriend to hold all your money. Trust me,,, this is the only way.

i can feel your point mate because we i have this before with my wife when i become addicted and it really help

but not all person can handle this because at some point we had a big arguing when doing this and almost come to the extent that we are ending for separation but good it didnt come.

so better to try this but if not functioning then stop before you turn from friends to enemy.

Online casino or an actual casino, they are just the same, you're going to lose most of the time because that is how it works, and about your sports betting, I'm certainly sure that your prediction on it is not always as accurate for you to win most of the rounds, I'm sure you rely on your luck making you guess random bets in sports betting, correct me if I'm wrong.

Lucky for you if it is really true that you have your luck in your side whenever you need it.

Online casinos are almost the same as real casinos, because both the casinos have got their own house edge which assures of a certain percentage as profit to the house even when there is more number of gamblers experiencing winning streak. With sports betting upon the knowledge one has got, it is easy to make predictions and win. Even with sports betting unpredictable results come out of the game if we're unlucky as said in the above quote.

Yes, it's sports betting that we feel easy but it’s not as easy as we consider it for betting we will have to make research and then gamble. Getting on different sports needs sports knowledge and information. When you realize that you are losing then you should stop gambling than being greedy and gambling continuously.

Gamblers think that games like roulette, slots and dice are luck based but let me share a little secret with you. If not all then most of the houses are capable of manipulating the outcomes of these games. So nothing is actually pure luck in gambling. House is also an enemy at times. Sports bets are the best ones as no one can really manipulate outcomes. Though there is match fixing but it is different story.

unfortunately most gamblers ha no self control and we can find that in casino's and other gambling areas.

people are betting as if there is no tomorrow and after losing everything thats the only time regret will come and they will blame gambling instead of blaming their stupid greediness .

I always stop playing when I start losing. Usually I will start playing with small bets first. This is where I will see whether that day I will easily win or lose easily. I also will not try to win continuously when playing. This is very dangerous because the system of online gambling will definitely read our victory and turn it into a complete defeat. So my advice is to play with the smallest bet possible.You must be familiar with this. Because it's not easy. Often we feel excellence when we start winning. So don't be too confident because our opponent is a system.

I seriously believe that family and friends should be kept away from gambling in all aspects. They should never ever get effected by your habit of playing this game and whenever you go to gamble, just think about them one and you wont play for sure. After getting into this game, it is an intellectual move to take help from the nearest ones as they would definitely help but the best is to not put yourself and them in such situations.

Gamblers who have a good mindsets can go and step out without hurting too much of their money, those who are careful and not being too emotional attach to gambling have a good views and able to stop once they are already satisfied either they win some or lose the point of getting the entertainment is the one that they are focus. Always make sure that you are in this kind of thinking and you always have good control of yourself when gambling to avoid bankruptcy.

What for? this will just make things more worst than ever, you cannot lock a person in prison without him thinking about escaping, same goes to the gamblers, if that wallet do exist, let's just say it does, even when they lock it up, they will think for another way to have extra cash for them to play gambling while they are waiting their funds to be unlock, doesn't change anything at all.

That's the beginning of disaster when you start to think recovering your losses in the past .. in the first try ...

There's bigger chance for you to busted everything instead recover everything. It's hard to leave once you've get in gambling... it's hard to refuse to continue playing after you have lost even small amount of money only , not sure if you can handle the emotions, the desire in gambling people mostly lured by the quick profit process but ignored the high risk behind it.

It is indeed difficult to break after a loss, therefore it is important to conduct management on our gambling. I don't care to use any strategy like martingale, parlay, etc. But I will try to be disciplined and stop when the profit or loss limit is reached that day, then play again tomorrow.

Is this difficult? no, you just have to manage your emotions and gambling.v

To manage the emotions and gambling is very hard, and only a few gamblers who can do that. Once we involve in gambling, there is a hunger to make us satisfied with winning, which it's not too big to get it. The most gambler will lose because they cannot manage the emotions, and that is the big mistake that gamblers did in gambling. Without having good control for themselves, they only lose their money slowly, and they will not realize how much money they lose.

You have a point there, it is not the money but the gambler’s determination to play that is the root cause. Locking away amounts wont do any god at all. Actually, this can make gambler frustrated too by having money but unable to use it. He will go for borrowing from others. So the problem remain unsolved ultimately. The only way to restrain oneself is by understanding the dangers this activity has.

I believe that many factors play into the hand. First of all, it’s not really greed, it’s more like excitement, and the desire to win back which is very much associated with losses.
The fact is that when we win, we get a feeling of invincibility, omnipotence, luck on our side, we forget about math.
We begin to lose control of our own emotions, continuing to play and ultimately losing everything, because you cannot win against the casino.
Therefore, you need to set clear goals and clear boundaries before each gambling.

Yes, greed is the major reason obviously. However, the only way I can see this and the solution is to actually experience losses, experience consequences of them for a substantial amount of time to actually value and understand the weight of the risk of gambling.

Few years ago, I used to bet amount as high as 0.02 btc at risks like 3x or 5x and I knew I couldn't win in long run and still didn't stop.

Now, I have stopped even betting 0.0001 btc bet on 98% winning chance at the last moment and I believe this control I got only from my experiences.

You are right. Often gamblers lose control because their predictions are defeated by the system. This often makes people emotional and out of control. You know what the ending is like. They will definitely make more deposits with the aim to avenge their losses. And they play emotionally, it's like standing on the edge of a cliff.

So those who lose control over their emotions and gamble will surely make lose so when you think about starting gambling just make sure that you are having high amount of knowledge along with good mental control while gambling. When you once spend some money then take idea either you can win or not if you feel you are not having enough knowledge you should first learn then gamble again.

With this attitude generally people tend to lose money a lot as they think it’s easy to make money or they will average out the money by playing more games and winning it but unfortunately it does not happen that way and people end up losing lot of money in the process which is like the sad part about it .

Having enough knowledge in a pure based luck game like DICE will not change the fact that you're going to lose so many times no matter how many time you tried it with different knowledge you have in your pocket, but if it's a strategic game like poker, you might have some good chance of winning if you're really good at it, but don't expect too much since the house edge wins always.

at many points you are right and actually those are valid points on why many fails in gambling ,but let us not forget that sometimes greed is always part of these failures because not all time its the feeling of luck and invincibility when we are winning.

there are some part of us whos looking for many wins not only because we are lucky but because it was the demand of our mind and emotion so its more like combination of all you said and greed also.

Martingale plays this urge to perfection

You make a roll, and you expectedly lose. Well, maybe after a couple of rolls, or even a dozen, it doesn't really matter (you get the point). Then you double or even triple your last bet so as not only to recover what you lost at a previous roll (a series of rolls) but also earn something above that

If you ask me, this is the right way to handle your losses in case you are actually going to chase them. In other words, martingale is the way to deal with your emotions as you come prepared for the losses (even though this approach doesn't guarantee you won't bust later, of course)

Martingale is not best for me because I long for big win and want to play longer, with martingale, I could wipe my bankroll if I am not too lucky and if I win, I will just win a small amount, not satisfying at all. Everyone have their experience on this method for sure but for me its not working anymore, and one thing I learn is never chase your loses in a fast manner, its not wise.