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Have you ever had an experience betting in which you knew that you were going over the limits of you finances and still continued? I have one playing a game, it was absorbing plenty of my time and despite me knowing it, I was kind of hooked on it. It was not a financial problem, but left me wondering how easy is to actually fall into a bad habit and how difficult is to break it.

Ended up on the same situation as well before and the worst is, I was forced to borrow money because I can't stop playing and having that bet.
Well, this is bad if left uncontrolled but it's pretty normal in gambling, that's why we have to set a limit always and commit on that. Being responsible is not easy but we should practice this all the time to avoid any financial problem and gambling addiction.

Never went beyond my set weekly limit, but always, always spent hours and hours on weekends just to exhaust my budget. I guess you can count it as "going over budget" since I only usually play 1-2 hours and call it quits. But sometimes, you enjoy so much and win so much that it's just hard to end the session, though there are instances wherein I just max bet and hope for the worst just to get done for the day. Nowadays I try to develop a hobby that will force me to not go over my 1-2 hours session of dice, and hopefully I get the grasp of it.

It's one thing common to everyone out there most especially those who was found being an addict of it, it has happened to me when I took my last Savings to bet on game I was given by some professional body's thinking I will hit a fortune out it and at last happened that it wasn't the way it was predicted to be and it was like a hell to me. Ever from then I never take any game as a professional advise from anyone else, maybe I have to go through it myself and determine if it was worth putting much resources.

Lastly everyone should learn how to predict a game by their selves instead taking any games from professional body's.

I think every gambler had that experience at some point. It happened to me in my earlier gambling days when I kept on raising my bets to chase a loss. I thought martingale would save the day for me but it got worse. I ended up cutting my regular expenses for the month until the next payroll. It was a hard lesson.

I know well, particularly my hands go out of control and keeps multiplying the bet value. At some point it reaches the maximum in my wallet. That is really a big mistake, but out of my previous losses I used to do it. This have given hands as well as made me loss big. Majority of the gamblers could've got this experience.

At the beginning of my gambling, yep. All the time. I originally had set limits even before since I know how scary it can be if you go past the normal sessions and just go crazy into gambling. It was rather difficult for my wallet at the time so I had no choice but to gradually adjust myself and try to limit it to a level where I can be comfortable, as well as get used to only limiting myself to proper levels. Back then it was rather normal for me to cut my living expenses to add more money to my gambling sessions. I have had some lucky months where I win big, but the losses were still bigger in comparison.

Anything, that makes you addict is not a good thing IMO.
I mean be it’s gambling or porn, becoming an addict to something really hampers your health and behaviour.
Glad to know that , you didn’t get any financial problem in the last time you got into an addiction game. Generally people who are addicted to gambling, lose their all financial savings, so you should consider yourself lucky OP, that this didn’t happen to you.
To get away with this addiction, try to spend time with your loved ones, especially friends and family. This will definitely help to get over the gambling addiction.

Not as an adult, but as a teenager me and my group of friends were allowed to gamble in a slot machine (which was illegal because we were underage). Once I won the jackpot, which at that time would have been 10,000 pesetas, and that got me hooked. In the end, luckily I didn't have much money at the time and if I spent my pocket money, I didn't have any money to go out. I ended up leaving it by force.

Then when I grew up I understood the mathematics behind gambling and the bets I have made have been quite rational, so you can never trust and think that you are not going to have problems with gambling, although I see it as extremely unlikely at this point.

The stories we see on this forum make us realise that it's not that uncommon what you are telling us.

Almost every time when I played a long time ago, Lol, so it's really hard to break that habit or shall we say addiction.

Specially if we are in a losing streak and as gamblers, we wanted to recoup our losses very fast and so we continue to bet even if it over our budget. And the hardest part is that we continue to lost the game and now we have no money to play and then think at night on how we will get the money so that we will continue to gamble the next day.

I never reached to this extreme condition, but have already felt tempted into engaging myself into recovering losses, what inevitably would put me in a very dangerous risk situation where I could lose more money than I can afford to lose, potentially compromising my finances built along the years. Thankfully I was able to stop, accept my loss, understand that money was gone and that there wasn't anything to do on that moment to recover it. Actually it wasn't easy to think like that, but thinking about the situation on the present moment I feel much better about my decision, because I believe to have made the right or the less harmful one.

It happens to everyone after certain point when they are young and new with gambling habit. Especially I think teenagers are not good with decision making. But it must be remembered that it is so easy to fall into that trap, and its not that impossible to avoid. If you set goals and barriers within your mind for your all moves that night/week/month, you will never bankrupt yourself. Everyone gambling should focus on enjoying fun.

Am guessing the game was fun-filled, hence you being glued for a long time nonstop. If you had nothing else important to do at that moment, no one around who would require your attention at same time, and you are not playing with money you don't want to lose, I would say it is okay and healthy. In a case where these principles has been abandoned or somehow forgotten, one can be sure it is tending to an addiction.

Well I think it's a sign that you need to be careful with your gambling activity because it may continue and might ruined your life when you become addicted. Probably you need to take a break for few weeks or months until you can manage your emotional first, if you have wife or parents in your house, don't deny their advice if they say your gambling activity are too far than it does.

I found out after the game was over and spent all the money I deposited that day that I totally lost.
In the end, I knew that I had exceeded my usual financial limit because losing all the money meant that I had already lost that day.
It made me very sorry because I easily followed my emotions and couldn't stop them until my money was gone.
From there, I really learned to control myself so as not to experience it again now and in the future.

It looks like the beginning of an addiction. It does not seem very serious at the moment and it seems that the OP has been gambling for some time now, responsibly, but it is the first time that something similar has happened to him.

The good thing is that you can get out of anything:

I had gone through some desperate moments in gambling. It has always been my tendency to feel intense when I'm on a losing streak. Although I am normally successful in controlling myself, there are really moments when I end up betting huge amounts desperately. Sometimes, it ends up good. But most of the time, it simply drains my account. I think it's not only me who is actually very prone to lose control once losses are happening one after another. It is really a big challenge to say 'enough' and stop.

I have done it but only a couple of times and during those times one time only I have won big which it was last week and every other time I have lost all of my money.I think I am not addicted as 95% of the times I can control myself while playing slots but there are some times when you say just another 50 spins or just another 100 spins and without you realizing it you come to the end of your bankroll.Most of the time this bankroll is needed for me that is why I control myself but in these few times where I continue knowing the risks this last week I decided to raise the bet and won a good amount.

I'm sure everyone who bets & engages in gambling has experienced something like you, maybe I also experienced it, it was difficult to control myself, so my bet ended in disappointment, even though I won big.

I understand that gambling makes us greedy, without thinking bad things can happen at any time, without thinking we have to stop when luck is on our side, unknowingly we have fallen into a pit of defeat, to that from that experience, i can think quitting a good move bet and continuing would be bad for me, for that now if I place a bet & luck is on my side of course I have to get rid of greed and make the right decision for myself, continue or stop, thus I do not fall into the pit of defeat.

More recently, this happened to me, but I can’t say that I went beyond the limits of finance. Here's the thing: I increased my deposit over the course of several months, it was really hard because some game sessions gave plus, some minus, but in general I gradually increased it. But one day I realized that I was spending too much effort and energy on it compared to the income (I play for insignificant money), so I greatly increased the risks and completely lost my deposit. Since then, I've been on a pause in terms of betting and to be honest, I feel great since I'm free and don't have to constantly think about how which team will play and what should I do if the game doesn't go according to plan.

addiction is one of the factors that make gambling look bad enough, many of us actually continue to lose in gambling but we only experience momentary regrets but then somehow a feeling of wanting to go back to playing when they have money (personal experience), curiosity and also revenge wanting to return the money lost in gambling actually triggers us to continue playing without realizing the consequences that may be worse we will get in the future, I think getting rid of gambling addiction is just as difficult as getting rid of addiction to cigarettes and alcohol so far.

All of us fall into it, I don't think anyone here is not tempted to go over their limit, I experienced this several times it was the time that your motivation is high and you're on a trail of luck but ended up losing and you try to regain what you've lost, my worst experience is losing 70% of the token I accumulate on one bounty campaign, just when the price of that token is moving up I loss potential profit because of greed, but it's a learning lesson I always remember this, whenever I am faced with this situation.

More precisely because curiosity arises when getting a big win, because of that factor the gambler continues to play even though he loses quite often. The curiosity that arises in the mind will increasingly encourage the gambler to get money so that he can continue to play, what he has in mind is only a victory even though in reality he always loses.
Losing everything is unavoidable when one starts to get addicted, need to control emotions to prevent bigger losses, especially when you are betting on games against systems such as slot games. In contrast to games against players, because it takes skill and courage, while slot games need to control emotions because the chances of winning are very small when fighting the system.

I think one time or another, we have undergone this experience in our gambling history. We set our limits, and put enough money and then we play. But suddenly, we are hooked and we really don't know what is happening because we can't control ourselves as if someone is taking our body and telling us to continue. So yeah, I do agree that it's easy for us to really fall into this bad habit and I must admit that I become addicted to gambling even prior to involving myself in crypto and if even made me worst. But at least, now, I seldom play or gamble, just enough sports betting here and there.

-   That's what you call gambling addiction. Your body's routine is already looking for such things. Where you don't care if you exceed your betting limit, that's one of the problems of a gambler who is addicted to gambling. Losing control and self-discipline about the limit of the amount of money you bet on gambling.

But if you have the determination to apply self-control and self-discipline, chances are high that you will be able to prevent your gambling problem.

If it's only occasionally it cannot be considered a gambling addiction, its an adrenaline rush, you are very much into it because you've won and you've lost it again and you want to regain that and you think you can do that you just need the time and to increase your allocation, you are challenged to regain your losses even if realistic dictates that it's not going to be in your favor you still go for it, this what makes gambling exciting the uncertainty of what's going to happen next.

I often experience it when playing the Blackjack and Bacarrat especially when I know that I can win all my loss that time by just winning the some juicy bonus bet. I lose most of my bankroll by chasing loses by I definitely accept the loss whenever I do huge bet. Sometimes when we are in the zone, we don’t care when we lose especially when we know what will be the potential profit in case one of our bonus bet win.

I haven't been in that condition, but I know people that can gamble with their last money even if they are not expecting money from anywhere soon, they prefer to gamble with all their money and after losing they will endup regretting why they used the money to gamble, I think it's better we should always learn to control ourselves whenever we are gambling, if you can't control yourself then you are addicted to gambling which is very bad, you have to seek for help. If am gambling I always make sure I gamble with little amount I can afford to lose and immediately I finished my money then I stop immediately, I gamble when am stressed or whenever am bored.

There was a particular period when I was pressed for funds and followed blindly anything that I saw had the potential to give me quick money. I was young an widely inexperienced. I got a tip from a friend about a fixed game, which in his word were "sure odds". I played the game with all the money I had, an amount way more than I would usually spend gambling whenever I seldom play. I knew I was going over my limit, but the thought of me winning from the fixed game, the sure odds...lol, kept me going.

I think that this situation is almost every gambler because it occurs due to loss of control, and from time to time it happens, especially in the early stage of acquaintance with gambling.

To avoid this happening you need to learn to limit yourself and not succumb to temptation. By the way, this can be said not only about gambling but also other hobbies that may have a negative impact on a person.

I think almost the average gambler has the same experience as you, especially those who have a tendency towards addiction.
in my case, curiosity is too great, makes me continue to play the game until it exceeds the financial limit. there are two games that have always kept me hooked, poker and slots. i could spend hours on end.
but as you said, how easy it really is to fall into a bad habit and how hard it is to break it. the only way to break the habit of overdoing it is yourself.
In my case, ireplaced the game with another alternative and it was very effective for me. however, in the transition it takes quite a while.

I have also experienced the same if you mean betting $300 just to win $40 because of the odds given by the bookmakers. This is more than what I can afford to lose but I've tried because I'm almost sure the favored fighter is well-fit and confident to win the match.  If I did lose the bet, I'd probably think of not doing it again. As taking most of my time, I think hobby usually consumes your time.

I remember the first time I played online slots I got hooked on it. That's also the first time I stayed looking on my monitor for hours watching how the slots are rolling even though it was automated for a thousand rolls.  ;D
But luckily I didn't do it the next day. It felt wrong to me. Being idle like that and not doing anything is a waste of time and worse will leave you with a sore eye and an empty wallet.
I got the idea though on why others are getting addicted to it, it's nice to see when you hit a jackpot, it felt really good.

I don't think it's a general syndrome. I have never gone beyond my limit even though i get the urge to recover loses by staking more. What i do most times is make weekly deposits and once it gets exhausted i wait for a new week to commence . This has really helped me

I would wager to think that thats a human experience that everyone has gone through. A very unpleasant way to rediscover your own weaknesses but I cannot think of a single gambler in this community who has not had the displeasure of going through their funds, more than they expected when they started the day.

Its fine. Everyone is only human. Live and learn.

If anything, it serves as a more or less slightly painful lesson not to do it again. I would think that I am a more careful gambling enthusiast because of stupid mistakes like that. At some point you see the money losses as "lesson fees".  ;D

You can always come here to vent, though :P

Betting big amounts to recover small ones is really risky, some times it works but some times it get us on a deep hole.

I remember in the old times when bitcoin worth close to $500, i was losing 0.1 btc and decide to bet 1 btc to 90% chance to win. I was lucky and recover the 0.1 but wasn't a smart move at all. And i remember the time when i lost 0.5 btc trying to recover 0.05 in poker, that day i feel terrible, but it's the way that gambling works.

Yes definitely- I sometimes called and refer to it as the "cycle of gambling."

Unfortunately, the basic instinct of a person whenever he/she experiences a loss is to quickly recover it through gambling again. This creates a cycle wherein a person would have this hope of recovering all of his losses but in reality, he would just incur more losses in the process.

Unfortunately, this happens too many often and the remedy is to actually bring someone with you to act as your "limiter" in order to avoid going on with your limits. Another remedy is NOT to bring your credit card and only to bring a handful amount of cash to prevent from overspending.

I've experienced it in the past and it hurts to see all the money gone on the gambling table. At that time, I saw gambling as a place to have fun when I had nothing else to do. I decided to gamble for $10 but in fact, I spent $20 more because I enjoyed the game too much. Even the defeat I experienced did not make me stop playing. And instead took the funds in my account to continue gambling. This also happens to many people because gambling can tempt us and we will easily follow the whisper in the ear to keep trying. But in the end, if we are unlucky, we will lose the money without being able to recover it.

On several occasions, I have gambled more than I expected on betting. I bet mostly on virtual games, for quick money. It was like an addiction back then cause I do bet until I finish my finances there, that's when I will only rest for that day. The only solution I came up with was starting to go to betting shops with less money that I can afford to lose willingly, not minding whether am losing or winning. Since then till now, that's the strategy I have been applying

OP; I have not fallen into the use of my finances but of my money available to bet, even not only from the bankroll, but from that extra to cover unexpected losses and it was in poker in a game called Zoom, I don't know currently but you could open a maximum of 4 tables for those years, I no longer play at the Red Spade (PS) nor do I have the rhythm of those years but the volume of hands per hour was (or is, I guess there is still that modality) between 800-1000 hands (4 tables), when you play poker, you know that in the long term run you accommodate your profits, whatever, I got hooked, I played more time than I should , anyway, I used to, so the losses increased as I played, that is, even playing nl2 and nl5 my bankroll was exceeded so many times that at a certain point I was about to resort to money that I did not have destined to play poker.

Important, played at the lowest limit 0.02 and 0.05 (zoom) but I left my comfort zone, I started playing a new modality, for all players, that type of game was an innovation at that time, so , as simple as any other style, I had to adapt myself in a modality that I did not know and from which numbers were just beginning to be obtained, fortunately I used poker traker (PT) and after several hundred thousand hands to improve things (bankroll), according to the analysis of the data obtained from PT, I should play more hours/day, so thanks to PT I was able to realize that despite being at  ROI red, the best option was to withdraw from this new modality called zoom.

The modality (zoom) was not adapted to my style of play, so I let it go, I didn't want to change my playing style from the traditional tables and adapt to a new modality for daily play, it can take months, even years.
So, sometimes I played it but to make a wager pending the end of the month or experimenting on other levels, but it is certainly quite addictive to play a hand of poker every second.

In general, one believes that the fact of being aware of a certain betting niche makes one an expert, but any small change that is made in what works for you can bring you great losses and sometimes you do not understand it because it is something that always It has worked for you and that same confidence leads you to be wrong for weeks or months, so review your betting habits or have access to game data and analyze it not only in how much you lose or win, there are many variables to look, and those mistakes are confused with the classic bad luck.

You maybe chasing to regain what you have lost. This is what happens when you have lost alot and the game is no longer fun because you are now focused to get your part of money back but something funny can happen that no matter how you chase on that day, you can't get back the lost margin and the best is to work on the habit of addiction so you can have the will to stop when you want to stop.

Yup, i've been there several times before as i've had days where i'm about to end the week with a good profit then the next day all of those profits would suddenly go back to the casino including my bankroll just because i'd lose 5-10+ times in a row. I might've mentioned it on another thread but consistency is really needed and you need some set of rules to follow so you don't go back to those bad habits which could quickly ruin your gambling budget. This thread (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5407294.0) might provide some help even though the topic is about sports betting, some of the tips can still be applied even if you're playing casino games.

that's what casinos offer gambling lovers. Some gamblers may change games frequently when they feel their luck is running out. but most gamblers have a habit of always playing only 1 or 2 games at the casino. and that is done until the money runs out.
even more, gamblers also feel what the OP feels. because enjoying the game at the casino is fun. That's what makes the gambler lose control of his time and assets.
be careful, this pleasure that is hard to stop can turn into a very harmful addiction.

It seems that most gamblers experience it themselves including, and all I experienced was high curiosity because it looked easy but I kept losing so I kept betting and until I raised the bet and slightly hoped to make up for the loss.
and what I regret after my money runs out is that I use the money I set aside for a month's needs because it happened at the beginning of the month, and after all the money runs out I regret and realize why it can be like that because it usually isn't like that. And in my opinion, although we can control ourselves in gambling and be responsible, and can also control our emotions and so on, and it is undeniable that there are times like that, surely we will experience them.

Points to stop when you have to stop, this is not easy to do when we want our lost money, getting back with some win. The pressure to win leads us to make an additional deposit, no matter the results will be lose or win. If we win, we will probably be able to stop. However, when we are lose, most will stop when the money runs out. Worst of all, some people when they run out are still continue to play, not stopping, by borrowing money which in the end adds to the problems in their lives. In my opinion, the most appropriate is to teach ourself to play a maximum of 1x in 1 week. It is the safest and limits the money that will be spent on gambling i read this suggestions many times here. So, If we lose, it's over. This will teach our brain not to get addicted. I was in the position the OP before. My bad gambling habbit makes me trapped to addicted, lucky for me i have a lot of friends here and remind me to playing safe.

Actually I have not been addicted to any bad drug till date.But a few days ago I bet several dollars on a site But the team I supported there could not win.They were a good team but ended up drawing a game against a bad team which again wiped out all the money.Now I regret that and learned my biggest lesson from there, I never gambled again.Actually gambling is a very serious addiction.This addiction leads people to destruction.

This has not happened to me for the reason that I perfectly understand the danger of such a development of events, therefore I insure myself in this way: play money (which I can afford to lose) is in a separate account. If I lose them, I don't play anymore. An easy way but it works great.

Gambling addiction is a hot topic right now. Many people from different countries are experiencing great difficulties because of this. Everyone wants to earn money in a short way and therefore they can make wrong decisions.
You must get rid of this addiction. It will not be easy to achieve this, but with new hobbies, your mind should turn to other activities  :-\

Congratulations for not chasing losses. Although you lost, you didn't keep playing in an desperate attempt to recover your money and that is always the right approach. It means you aren't an addicted or aren't developing a gambling addiction. If every players had this same conscience you had there wouldn't be problem gamblers, so everyone would be playing responsively, practicing the activity regularly, but not prejudicing themselves financially, rather just having entertainment and enjoying their time.

What you are describing is known as " Addiction", Addiction is something that happens as easily for gambling as easily it does for Tobacco as well, have you seen people with vapes? It's essential to treat it medically since at the end of the day it can be considered a disease, you can also have doctors who specialises in this particular field or what you can do is to request your doctor to go through the recent advancements in the field as well therefore they are able to treat you better, some people are naturally more inclined towards getting addictied as well, read about it more, accept and get treated for it.

I did but I think I can count how many times I did it, may it offline or online gambling, not of a casual gambler so it's manageable. The thing with addiction is that it's easy to be part of it but whenever you want to get out, there are plenty of hindrances and urge to continue, sounds ironic but as human we like the things that pleasurable even we knew it will be hard for ourselves or those around us. Gambling can hurt our financial capacity, health, family and many more.

I have also had the same experience but not really in gambling, but in my investment. Sadly it still didn’t work in the end. I guess once you know it’s beyond your control already, most likely it will end badly. Particularly in gambling, you will definitely fall on gambling addiction if you always tolerate betting more than the amount you can afford to lose, and in the end you will have financial breakdown which I think would lead to ruining our own future.

This is the sort of dangerous state that can lead you down some very dark paths when it comes to gambling. The sort of decisions that might have a huge upside but in reality the risk is probably stacked against you and can leave you in a dangerous position whether you win or lose. If you lose, you might be drawn back into gambling in a very weak attempt to scrape back some meagre winnings which don't compare to the money you put up. Some people also get attracted to the pain of losing, as weird as it sounds. If you win, you create a different type of buzz which is releasing all those happy endorphins and will encourage you to repeat that behavior in order to chase that high.

Addiction is just the force backing it up, nothing more, you discover in this kind of encounters, loosing is never a thing of concern anymore, bit the good news is that there are means or ways in which one can deal with such addiction, which is in gradual reduction of the given attention to it and finding something else worth deserving your attention as a substitute for the addiction, then little by little things begin to work out with time that you discover things you do before you no longer have interest over such addiction.

I have experienced this kind of thing.  Gambling is very engaging, we cannot notice the time when we got hooked on it.  We thought that it was just a minute when we started the gambling session but it has been really running for hours.  The thought of just another one and maybe it hits a good tumble or scatters is always there every time we said this will be the last spin.  We can often see this on the gambling streams when streamers make a normal spin.  They keep on saying that it would be the last spin but they keep on spinning.

With that(getting hooked), we failed to notice our bankroll getting depleted entirely thus we unnoticedly spends an amount way higher than our supposed to be limit.

No, I believe that has never happened to me. I have managed to keep a quite good self-control when comes to both drinking and gambling.
The one similar scenario I can think of it is when I was having a bad streak on the slots, losing all the satoshis I earned on the Freebitcoin faucet, in that occasion I realized I was getting more reckless the more satoshis I ended up losing to my bad luck, I set very high multiplier in an all-or-nothing spree.

Some months later I went through a similar situation playing slots on a different platform (I think it was called coinpot, or something like it) I was losing spin after spin and during my last chances to recover I went all or nothing.

Of course, in both occasions I lost those satoshis.  ::)

I think the majority of us have experienced this. this used to be a problem for me in the past where I'd try and win back my losses but it never end well(or at least for the majority of it). anyway, I've learned from it and am now strictly following the rules I've laid for my self so I wouldn't have to experience that problem again.

What do you mean by self-control? of the two scenarios that you do when playing slots, does it not include failed self-control. you keep on slotting and keep on losing streak. so you don't know where to stop. so there is no gap for you to pause. and you do a high multiplier, that also includes the greed you do. you also even repeat that mistake again.
The real self-control, of course, is that you have to take care of your finances, avoid doubling that is too high and set a loss limit so you can stop for a moment and think that you keep losing.

^ How many times have we discussed here that we should have self-discipline, and self-control and should not extend beyond the limit or an amount that we can afford? Though you are not experiencing financial problems today, when it comes worst, you will become at that stage even how millionaire you are. That is a road to addiction that makes your life ruined if you cannot control everything. I think you are not alone here, we have here many gamblers also experienced this but fortunately, I do not belong to them, probably because when I was here in the forum I am not fully oriented on possible negative consequences that may happen.

When emotion of being boosted up
When emotion of being too greedy
When emotion of chasing up losses

If ever these things would really be experienced and even your mind telling you that you are going beyond your limits
and you decided to ignore and tolerate it then you would definitely be doing those actions since you do know that you do still have
money despite on going into your limit.It wont be that a problem as long you dont make yourself put into financial problems
or simply keeps on doing that.

I never had an experience where I forget about my gambling plan and indulge myself in spending money way more than my planned budget.  I know gambling is really attractive so I always play with great care and self-control because the moment control slipped out of our hands, the next consequence is quite hard to control. 

I guess, at one point, we do have that moment in our gambling activities.
And it is how you handle the situation after will tell you how you can contain your situation.
When it is over your regular spending, you will usually feel excitement, agitated or nervous and all the other feelings.
But afterwards, you will understand why you opt that route because for one, you are aiming for possible winnings.

Luckily never. Because before entering the world of gambling or betting, I have convinced myself to play within a certain limit, whatever the conditions, I must not be too eager to continue gambling. Moreover, gambling funds are also relatively small, so there are direct activity restrictions when placing positions. Besides that, basically, I am also aware of who I am and how my skills in gambling are not very good. Especially if we only rely on luck, which I often don't meet it   ;D

Some are good on following their limits and never intend to go beyond those line or simply does have that kind of strong self discipline but since not all people are really that good then it would really be that

understandable that there might be some people who could stop midway of the session and there are ones who do completely stop when they dont have anymore funds into their accounts.

Its true that you arent that a dumb person not to notice that you are already going up high with your limits which is something that you should avoid on the first place.
Play according into your leisure needs and dont hope for money making.

When I was still young, I do that but now that I've grown up. I make sure that I'm always aware of my finances and the allocation that I put into gambling.

I'm not getting younger and I have to enjoy but at the same time, make sure that I can pull funds out of my pocket when I want to.

When we're feeling the sensation and joy of gambling, that's how it usually goes.

You might not have had an experience about that but I do happens to most gamblers that gamble a lots on a daily basis and if care is not taken it can cause a lots of problem that might end in addition which can be very hard to control or stopped. I once had this kind of problem before but I was able to noticed that and stopped it immediately because this had made a lots of gamblers to loss focus losing a huge sum of funds because of lack of personal control even when we have reached our daily gambling limit. It is had to stopped most time be with discipline it can be controlled.

This happened to me more than once when I got too overwhelmed with my gameplay and got too excited. I was aware that I already exceeded my limit but still enjoyed and continue playing. The first time I did it, I got a good profit so I repeat the same scenario on the next day and got huge losses. I think it's still important that we'll control our emotions and have self-discipline despite having so much fun in betting. Self control is very important.

I hope that for paxmao (OP), this is a one-off thing. He has been on the forum for many years, and I understand that he has been gambling as well. If he has been able to be gambling during these years without having problems I think it is unlikely that he will become a problem gambler now.

What I would be alert if there are things in his life that have led him to be in this kind of trance, a love breakup, a death of a loved one...

If I were him would try to abstain from gambling for a short time.

The majority of gamblers forget everything because they are lured in by big profits and there is also a continuous defeat factor so we also vent our lust to keep playing and hope to get big wins, but for sure the results will disappoint us and make all our money run out , if we are not good at taking care of ourselves and can't manage the budget we spend on gambling, you should never play gambling, but if you can control yourself and can manage your finances please have fun, but we also have to remember there are family who always await our return, so don't you ever waste all your money in gambling.

Gambling can make the gambler tempted to spend more money because of the desire to win more winning money.
If at that time they were able to win some money and realized that they had been lucky that far, they should have stopped and withdrawn the winnings instead of continuing to gamble.
And that's what makes the value of our bets even greater while we don't think about how much money has been used to gamble.
And when we lose self-control, defeat will start to come and take all the money we have won.

That's where gambling addiction enters especially when we chase over our losses. We're at risk of being tempted when we're having good winnings and I think that's a trap that we shouldn't fall for. There's a chance that we aim for higher gains but we should keep in mind that greed could possibly take everything away from us so we should always know when to stop and when to continue and not when we have already lost our funds.

I think all who got involved in gambling do already experienced it. Some didn't end up well while some got lucky and win after they try again for the very last time. I experienced both of these scenarios but as usual most of the times I am unlucky to recover what I have previously lost.

This makes me discouraged to not ever attempt this again as it's too risky. In the end, I am still lucky that I didn't get heavily addicted and end up in a point where I took loans or sell my valuable items only to continue playing. That is what gambling all about @OP, even if you say you don't have a problem in terms of finances, you are still burning most of your time playing.

The desire to get back the lost amount and win is hard to fight, however. Some are just willing to bet 90% more to win back a 10% loss. I don't see it as an addiction but as an impulsive decision which every personality differs. You may find one person who doesn't really do this sort of martingale strategy but just keep going to the casino still.  One gambler may see it as time spent in a casino will be worth it if they win big amounts too.

Gambling is really addicting and it's very hard to resist the temptation to play more when you are having a good time with it and winning some profit. I remember when I was new to dice games and was hitting winning streaks. It got me excited because it tripled my capital, I played longer than usual until I hit some lose streaks. Because of that unacceptable quick loss, I deposited more amount trying to recover atleast my initial capital but I didn't succeed with that attempt.

Its normal for all gamblers to go beyond their financial limits, this is the spirit of gambling. I remembered then I was so addicted to gambling, I kept on playing and playing,I even gamble whole day to the extend of selling some of my properties to gamble. If I win big,its even the worst I will continue playing till the money finishes. I got so broke that I adjusted myself and now I just spend maximum one hour when gambling, winning or losingj

To some extent I would agree, but there are gamblers who chooses to have fun and so they have limits when they play and when it gone already they stop. But it is very different for those who are really hook up, as if they can't take the losses and wanted to come back for more. And since the odds are not in their favor, they are going to lose everything and then it become an addiction now and not something that you entertain yourself. From a simply hobby to become worst.

It is normal to feel so. Both gambling and everyday life include taking risks. The only thing you can do to prevent financial collapse is to be aware of how much you can sacrifice without changing your budgeted expenses. Financial mental trauma is bad, so when we gamble, we should always know when to stop and when to take a chance. Although it might be an addiction, it is still controllable.

Its something that gamblers are looking for, the high of excitement in playing even if you have that control in gambling you can't control yourself in going to the limit of your allocation, this is actually where addiction starts and the excitement usually happens when you win a big amount and you lose then you chase it, the chase is where the rush of adrenaline happens if it happens sometimes and not many times you are gambling you are still safe.

You may take a risk and play aggressive betting but these are not recommended. You may win one or two times or even more but sooner of later, you will lose big money. Also if you do not take money management into account, you're always at a risk and i haven't seen anyone who is winning consistently without money management.
Sometimes we tend to take risks but then it becomes a habit, therefore I restrict myself not to risk big in any one gambling game or bet.

Most likely majority of gamblers experienced that without noticing it.
It started when you're chasing for your losses, you tend to place higher bets every time you lose and get upset. Sometimes, when you're carried away by your winning streak, you tend to get greedy and wanting to win more.
Pretty much everyone of us who placed a bet in any gambling games have experienced that. Lucky if it isn't something that is problem for you financially, and lucky you noticed it before you get yourself into a worse situation.  

What I experienced before, of course, I've experienced exactly where the bet has exceeded the limit of the financial that has been determined but still continues, this is indeed unconsciously I do this over and over again even though there is an end to gambling always thinking why this happened, I just thought This is because of the ambition that wants to win but in the end it will be bad if you continue to do it.
For now a little control where the specified finance has become a limit and does not exceed it again, there is also a bet from the minset which I think will win so I will add it again but it will not happen again in the previous case.

I guess almost everyone in the gambling industry has ever done that at least once in their gambling sessions. I've experienced it myself and done it multiple times before. Before I usually limit myself to 100$ every week however there are instances when I will be adding more to my bankroll and get past my limit. One of the triggers that I remember why I did it is because I have a gut feeling that I will be lucky or I am sure that I will be winning on my bets which sometimes turns out wrong.

Unfortunately, that is also one of the main reasons why I was able to be more responsible for my gambling activities as I've gambled more than I can and have lost consecutively. Right now, I can say that I am more in control and a responsible gambler are I am able to stick with my limit and never try to recover losses.

There is nothing like addicting as a habit to me like having rows of games in parlaying, I personally know that it is exhausting arranging plenty of games in a row because you will have to deal with the possibilities of the win or cut and you have to deal with the emotions of long games and the bad side of it, I repeat them frequently without counting, and it gives me a headache.
Single bets are always easy to predict and win than having multiple bets however, to have many odds, you have to play it that way to have more potential cashout, but it is killing the money I do have on my bet platform.

If you are on addiction level already, I believe you need to seek for help because you can't totally handle that alone and going over your limit is your way to become addict. Early prevention is the key, always have your plan and your limit and be responsible. Gambling is about having the right discipline and those who are able to stop their gambling activities when it's over already are the one who usually succeed in gambling and the one who are having a real fun.

If you keep doing this you'll create a problem for yourself, there's enjoyment in gambling when you are playing for a long period of time you lose time and go over your limit, but you must limit this from happening, this is where the addiction starting you will not notice it until you find yourself extending your time and allocating more because you cannot reach your high when you are playing for a short period of time anymore, it happens to me in the past until I realized that it's harming my work and my family, so better stop now when you still have time.

Maybe the emotion you are feeling right now is greediness, we all have that it is on us on how we can manage it especially these time that we are continue losing our game, though we set our limit for our money so that we will not spend so much but there will comes the feeling that we will want to get that money we lose then we will exceed the limit again.

I agree. To protect yourself from the negative effects of gambling it is very important to limit yourself in your desires. Yes, you will not be able to get as much pleasure from the game because the game session will be shorter, but at the same time you will significantly reduce your expenses which in the end will not have such a significant impact on your psyche. In addition, this approach is designed to reduce the likelihood of getting addicted to gambling.

It is very difficult to say that we are addicted to gambling with others because there must be a feeling of fear of being ridiculed or called stupid by others. But since it is our own fault, we have to admit it and tell the other person the truth that we are addicted so they can start helping us. So before it all happens to us, we must pay attention to our betting limits and how long we have been gambling to get out before things turn bad. I agree that by taking early prevention, we can play gambling responsibly and will not cross the limits that we have planned before.

planning a budget for gambling and having self-control to avoid bad things after getting emotional and losing a lot of money is the best way. because when we play gambling we can control our emotions, we can definitely avoid bad things like losing more money.
but that kind of thing is also very difficult to do for an acute gambling addict who has lost all control over themselves and they have lost everything they have.

If it takes up your time and money then its not worth it anymore especially if you are not winning. its the worse feeling when you go home tired and had lost not just a large sum of money but also time. it can't affect much if you are single but if you have a family to take care of, your mood will change. losing money changes the disposition of a person. sometimes too irate. i've seem situations like this where a wife says a word about the habit will end up in a physical abuse.

To be honest I only set hight multipliers when I am almost out of chances to even recover any of the satoshis, usually when I only have for one or two spins lefts, the rest of the spins are set with a fairly moderated multiplier.

I never actually put much money at stake actually, just some bonus satoshis and faucet earned ones, so I does not affect my personal finances. However, I can tell from what I have read around here trouble gambling is something not to be underestimated when comes to ruining one's personal finances and life.

I would never want to experience that again. I did have a time when I would really want to recover my losses and that's just when I put my money to the test and just lost it all again. It was just so depressing at that time and that's the time I also realized that it shouldn't be like that and it's going to be a problem in the long run. If it becomes a habit, then that's gonna be even worse.

It's easy to fall into bad habits, really easy, for all of us. But when it comes to controlling bad habits or quitting I think there's no universal answer! It's the moment when our characters are on the life test, and I am sure that test affects all of us differently, and our actions/answers are different. So is there a bottom line? I guess it's that each of us gets into the fire (all sorts) through life, and how need to learn how to handle fire or it will eat us, we either build our character and swim or we go down the drain.

Yes, so often over my financial limit when betting on one games, I don't know what you're playing with it but seems the conditions are same with you OP sometimes my habit also hard to break. Time world spin goes so fast, and this habit must be immediately to set up so as not fall into the same hole, I've been thinking the possibility of an alarm warning can help us?

It's just so scary to see how easy it is to get into bad habits and really not know about it. I have found this out the hard way. At one point, I just became hooked and was playing all the time and all I could think about was how much was left in my bank account. I couldn't focus on anything and it just wasn't easy. I started having health problems and that's when I knew I had to change.

It took me several weeks to get myself back together but now I know that I shouldn't have played that much and when you start gambling you have to put your limit so that you will not end up over that amount. You have to take your priorities into consideration and you have to make sure you will not end up losing your life.

It all depends on self-awareness because there are really times which we do really pass out on this one and didnt been able to know or been aware on the actions that we are currently making specially if there's

some boost up in emotions or your focus is totally on that particular session of gambling and doesnt mind about other things and as you know that you do still have money on your pocket then you would eventually

spend all of those just for the sake of the current entertainment or boost up of emotions that you are currently dealing with.Regrets do always come in the end which is normal
but you should be sure that you should really able to handle out various conditions or situations which you would really be that able to encounter.

This is the main problem, many continue to chase their losses and tendency is, they will exceed on their limit which put them on a bigger risk. There’s a lot of ways to stop you from playing too much, if you already have that strategy better to commit on that and think that you should only play within your limit. Getting more high bets will put you on a more risky situation, in betting you should only based on your budget.

Exactly, this is not easy, moreover for those who have much money and many expectations from gambling. Or someone who is seeing their friend or other people being so successful from gambling, who really desired to get the instant money.  They may be eager to play more and more and believe that they will win, but in fact, they lose more and more.
This will depend on ourselves, sometimes, our difficult conditions can help us to limit ourselves to star and end gambling. must try more and more, so that we can be more discipline and control our emotions and be eager not to addict to gambling

This isn't avoidable and it's fine if we have accidentally did this for a few times but that habit must be controlled because if not then yes it will cause a problem. Enjoyment in gambling usually comes in your early tries but the game can start to become boring the longer you spend time on it and other than that, you can also lose more money so it's better to limit your exposure when playing a gambling.

Some won't notice that they are getting addicted but I think they will get curious if what being an addict feels like or what its symptoms so they will do a research. They will then find out that they are being closed to it or worst is they are already at it but maybe they can still do something to stop it.

Only will happen if you allow to do so. This is when we don't look at the time but we're liking what's happening because we're enjoying. Just like with any other hobby we do and any activity.

When you're enjoying doing it, you'll have no time looking at the time. You'll get to hooked and attached to it very easily and that's where you're finding your happiness.

For paxmao, it's a different case and it's not a financial problem when he's hooked. Only if all of the gamblers have that financial situation, no one's gonna be broke and sad if they understand their financial status.

Pretty much, I agree. Players failing to control their time, and wagering is one of the sign of getting hooked which can lead to gambling addiction.  Honestly, I experienced this kind of stuff many times, and I am thankful that I am lucky to be able to pull myself away from it.  


Recurrence is true, and being trapped in a loop is frightening.  Chasing losses isn't the only thing why gamblers get stuck on betting, it is the hopes of hitting big and profiting big made them do an endless bet of "one more thing and this is the last".

This is what is called being affected by emotions to keep trying to gamble with capital that exceeds the agreement on how much money is spent on gambling, when that happens I suggest getting out of the gambling place first and calming your mind by taking a vacation to the beach or whatever it is so that your brain You will come back refreshed without thinking about gambling and will avoid overspending on gambling.

and the crux of all these problems is self-control when playing gambling.
for all gamblers, they must have experienced something like that even though they are not acute gambling addicts but they must have experienced it by losing more money without winning even once and going home with emotions and angry after that it was the family who became the outlet for their emotions.
but i firmly believe that a lot of gamblers who can control their self-control when playing gambling and stop when the money budget for gambling is exhausted there is no need to continue and spend more money

It can be said that at once a time i was very addicted to gambling. And at that time my betting style was reckless. Where I lost a lot money. I have crossed my financial limitation and got upset there too. But gradually when I realized my mistakes I was able to bring them under control. Although it took me quite a while to understand it. Today I can say that I am a gambler but not an addicted gambler.

It is possible to gamble responsibly. I'm talking from my own experience here. But you must be consistent and careful at all times. Know what you want to do and how to deal with it. Never cross your financial limitation, or else you will end up in big trouble you could not even imagine. The lesson here is that gambling is not something you can throw yourself into recklessly and expect to come out ahead consistently. Even if you can, the long-term consequences of such an approach may be more severe than you realize. Take care of yourself and the people around you.

Being a long term gambler, of course I had experienced betting more than my allocated amount and the effect is definitely bad. I ended up wasting my time and money. But honestly, after that certain event, I realized that gambling more than your budget will never bring any good at all. Gambling is good, but as soon as you see yourself being closely attached to gambling that it’s hard for you to stop from doing it anymore, then start taking steps or ask help to stay away from gambling or refrain from gambling.

It is a good thing that many of us realized this kind of thing and enable us to stop ourselves from dragging this kind of event from happening for too long.  If this kind of activity, (betting beyond our bankroll) continues, we don't know what trouble we might face like underperforming in our jobs and tasks since gambling is already eating the majority of our 24 hours every day.  Gambling certainly ends in a loss often times so there will be a financial problem waiting for us if we had not changed our habit of betting more than what we can afford to lose.

So if we do not stop on time we might find ourselves with no jobs and no money and the worst thing, getting trapped in chasing losses.  So it is a good thing to stop and take a break for a while when we noticed that we are getting too hooked to the point that we cannot control our time and ourselves.

Simple answer to the problem is dont transfer money required for bills into the crypto you will be gambling, if its not there it cant be used up.  The ideal strategy is one you eliminate the worst odds, dont risk money that cannot be lost or it stops being a game and its really not fun at that point.

This is reality on which if ever you do plan on playing out on a certain budget then you should stick into that and its true that the amount should be converted into crypto form is just enough on that
certain gambling sessions and never intend to convert those left amounts or simply with those fiat been reserved to be paid up on the bills and as long you do have that kind of control then you wont
really be putting up yourself into some gambling problems specially with finances.Betting comes to high when you are already spending up money which arent intended for that thing.
Always remind yourself or in control that you do have need to allocate or left something for your bill,savings  and some sort of investment.

The sad truth is this happens for real. Those gamblers that have been itching with their hands can't stop it because all they want to do is to gamble.
Even the money is for the bills or anything that has been allocated for, they don't mind it and they'll just push for the satisfaction or thought that it might grow.

Knowing your limitation is always the key and awareness that we are over our limit is very important, the bottom line is to control you may go over your limit this is understandable, but it should not be too frequent, if it is very frequent you will cross the line of your limitation and you will find yourself hooked in gambling because the dopamine effect is already high that it's very hard to bring down that level, one or two times in a month is the safe level of going over the limit.

I've experienced what the OP did. Initially I was a typical person who was good at managing my finances even in gambling. but one time i had a winning streak and got a high return. I don't know what got into me and in the end I risked it all. and I said that if one more time I win this bet then I will stop for some time. but it turns out I lost the bet.
I regret that action. and I stopped betting beyond my limits. but after some time i did it again. but this time I lost the bet. and I implemented a compensation strategy. where I double my bet so that when I win my lost capital can come back in one win. That's where I lost even more money.
It's hard to break this habit of mine. but now I can control myself more. now I bet properly. and somehow now I'm luckier.

I haven't experienced it yet, thankfully. But I know some people who were so hooked about a particular betting game or game in general to the point that it consumed most of his time and even money. It was really confusing at first because you'll really wonder why some people choose to spend their money over something that they don't really need and not worthwhile in your perspective. But I got to understand them the moment a close friend opened up about why he spends so much over a video game accessory. This was because it was his joy and he experiences satisfaction whenever he buy something and even bet related to that online video game.

He said it was addicting to the point that he don't notice his accumulated expenses during those times he was so hooked with it. He is just lucky that he managed to see his bad behaviors along the way such as overspending before he even got too much addicted and dependent on it. You can easily fall into the cycle of continuous playing and betting, however, it is hard to break the chain once you are on it.

It's been four days since the author created this thread, but he hasn't commented on it. It would be interesting if he could eventually say whether it was just a one-off thing that he was able to control. In my case it has happened to me sometimes to stay betting longer than expected but nothing serious. Better to be alert because you never know if you can make a big hole in your finances by getting carried away without stopping in time.

I've done that and landed into debt. If I haven't chosen to go beyond my ability, now I couldn't have experienced much of financial stress. Just because of the debt I was in a situation to earn additional to my day job. If not what I earn is enough to have a normal life. Anyhow its all my fate to experience such situation. Maybe I could've lost it somewhere else, if I haven't lost on gambling. This is how I pacify myself when I get into financial stress.

I always manage to limit myself. Because I know why I gamble. I'm looking for enough dopamine to make me forget about work stress and other trivial little things. That's all. I don't want too much and I know what I want. That's why I always manage to limit myself. I never gamble with borrowed money. If I want to play a lot of games, I split my budget into smaller amounts and play more games. But I definitely don't push my limits.

Ask yourself why you gamble. Give an honest answer to your own question. Redesign your behavior and habits based on your answer. If you gain awareness, you will not exceed your limits.

That is definitely the best solution but unfortunately the people who are used to gambling cannot stay that long without gambling and thus they deposit money that are supposed to pay other things with the thinking that they will win money this time and then they will withdraw the initial amount.Unfortunately this gets you like a spiral down completely and you get into a really bad situation.However I have seen people that when they have lost a huge amount of money and saw that they are risking their family life they immediately found the will to quit and I admire such persons.

have experienced this many times before , I remember when I was working at construction site that we and many co workers tries to gamble our weekly pays , I mostly gamble them all and losses , going home with nothing and my wife is so angry that almost leave me for good.

but now that we are mature enough about gambling? never that i exceeded from my limits in which allocated by my wife at least weekly .

I sympathize with you and wish you to get out of this situation as soon as possible. There is another point of view that helps to be optimistic: I know that many people who take out a loan (mostly a mortgage) find themselves in a situation of lack of money and this changes their mind set. This makes them think about additional sources of income and as a result they become more active and either start a successful career or business.

You are absolutely right. Mortgage loans not only make families stronger but also make people think about increasing their income. I personally know several people who have taken out mortgages and made significant strides that they would not likely have made if they had not pursued a better life. I also have acquaintances who have a parent's home and in the last 10 years they have accomplished nothing as they spend their money on useless things.

And on the contrary, that's what we could call the point of addiction zone, and by that, I mean fully knowing you have got to a gambling stage whereby it's difficult to give up even when it's costing you using money budgeted for a different item. Because at this stage, it's very easy to control with all matter of seriousness and discipline, as I was once in this shoe years back while playing cards then in college, of which I lost the 1st round, 2nd and 3rd, and had to borrowed money with the sole aim of winning to repay back but unfortunately lost again, and that was when my eyes got opened, because in such cases you will never realise yourself until you are fully broke, which is why i will always advise people to know when to stop while gambling, because this is not a good experience  anyone should go through

Mortgages could be a good motivation to strive harder and to earn bigger. It might take a long time before you finish and clear things out but you'll feel relieved as you see the fruit of your labor. It's better if we're putting our hard-earned money on investments and assets so we'll know where our funds usually go. If we'll be more responsible in managing our finances, we could have more assets and liabilities.

People have different motivations. While mortgage loans inspire some people to work harder its not a wise decision to pay way higher to a house that they can actually get for half its price.

Staying in parents house while married seem an abussive behavior. It only means this couple has no intention of becoming independent. Not the kind that should be gambling too.

It's all about the mindset, really.

Most people are afraid to take a leap of faith because they have hard-wired their brain to think that all they can ever achieve is their current state, and that they do not have anything further to achieve. Those who take out loans and establish businesses are the ones who are successful because they have a clear path that they want to walk on, no matter how rough the road is. Well there are also daredevils that take out a loan and bet it on gambling, and you know what happens next to these guys :D

I think it's our own fault too and I think we will be aware if where we will land if we keep on betting above our limits. I experience it before where I said to myself that I will only take a loan to pay my bills if ever I lose the last money I have in my wallet but im lucky it didn't end that way but my last game did end up really well. You can say instead that if not because of your debt, you can be able to have an extra income which some of it can be spend in gambling for you to have fun and there is no need for you to touch your main income.

If you didn't lose in gambling, the money can be lost/spend on some things which you can see up untill now ex; a gadget. Isn't that much better?

I don't really agree with you. If you don't have money for your own home and have to rent it, a mortgage is a great solution. People who do not have enough motivation are unlikely to decide to do this as well as to improve their lives for the better because of their indecision. Inflation in many countries is currently higher than the official rate, so the overpayment for a mortgage loan is not as high as it seems.

and in the end the money will still run out for some purposes even though it does not lose in gambling. If losing money in gambling will certainly make us mentally disturbed and will continue to think about it, this will be a psychological burden and will disrupt all activities carried out. But if money is lost or used up due to spending things that are really needed such as gadgets, it is an achievement and there will be no mental burden.
Doing gambling should really be with common sense and do not make greedy bets. how much money will run out in the end.

Luckily I have never put myself in this position.  As a financial advisor who obviously teaches people about money and proper investing for a living, I'm always hyper sensitive to gambling away too much of my money.  Anytime I make a bet, I make sure it's an amount that I am prepared to completely lose.  Quite frankly when I make a bet I say goodbye to that money and hope for the best.

a sweet initial win always makes us addicted, the more often we get a win, the greater our guts to place a higher bet value.  this has become a habit for those who are so addicted to gambling that it is used as a hobby to entertain themselves because they already know the consequences when they gamble.

In addition to different motivations, there is also a different worldview about living with parents  ;) More recently, it was considered a sign of a healthy family when a young couple lives with one of their parents because grandparents can help a lot in case of having children. But now it is considered normal when a couple has one child, they are at work all the time, and their child is exposed to the propaganda of blue-haired schizophrenics in kindergarten.

A responsible gambler should be able to know when it's enough and when to continue gambling especially when loosing becaomes the of the day, a gambker must give notion to himself that luck and expertissm aren't working at the moment and in such time, what's good is just to pause and quit, but due to addiction and lack to self control, some gamblers go ahead to give on themselves the worst experience in gambling without realising, just by stupidity of oneself, such gamblers should never be mistaken to entrust finances with.

Yes, I have had such life situations.  It was not an offline game, but in an online casino.  

The casino was located on the first floor of a nightclub.  In my youth, I loved to visit this nightclub to dance and meet beautiful girls.  At the entrance, along with a ticket to a nightclub, all visitors were given a free casino bonus.  

This bonus gave the opportunity to make one free bet on roulette.  I sometimes used this bonus, but always lost.  However, once I won at roulette.  This brought me trouble.  I became interested in playing roulette and began to win constantly.   Over time, I lost interest in dancing and beautiful girls.  I was only interested in gambling.  In addition, I became addicted to alcohol, as I noticed that in order to win, I need to be in a special altered state of consciousness.  

Over time, I began not only to win, but also to lose.  I developed a gambling addiction that I had a hard time getting rid of.

Those standards that you've mentioned won't be followed if the gambler is already hooked on it. Just take the example given by the OP, he's no problem with the amount he has spent to gamble and it won't be a way for him to be poor.
But look at the story he's got that he's hooked and didn't noticed it, and that's the reality for most of us. We gamble and forget that we're controlling ourselves when we're already in that situation.

I'm not and that was because I always put a limit on how much I spent.
But, I see some people just like you ended up overspending, and for some reason;
 - financial capabilities
 - betting addiction
 - no limitation

If you are a rich person or somewhat financially stable, you don't need to worry about exceeding the limits for at least you are having fun and the pleasure of doing it.

Even if you are rich then speaking about limitation or infinite funds is never been possible.You could really be finding yourself sleeping on the streets if you do make that huge losses over a period of time.Yes, it might be

long time before it do happens but when the time comes then you would surely regret which you do put yourself into a condition which it shouldnt happen if you had just that right or good self control.'
Everything which is excessive is never been good even not just speaking with gambling but also in other things as well.

Betting high would already be considered if you are surpassing into your limit and its impossible that you arent aware of that but you had just ignored it.

When we want to chase up on our previous defeat, it will not be easy because our emotions will increase. At that time, our level of self-control will also decrease and in the end, we will not be able to take care of ourselves and instead get caught up in gambling and forget when. We have to stop. There is a possibility that we will also increase the number of bets because we think that increasing the amount of money we can win will also increase if we win in the next round. And no one will know if we can win in the next round or lose. So forget it if you want to recover your losses. It will never be easy.

Even if you are rich, if you exceed the limit, it will definitely be affect your financial, especially if it happens often later it will make your wealth decrease and you will start to get addicted.
So far I'm still able to stay at the limit even though it's not an easy thing, especially when I want to achieve several targets.

The thing with gambling is that you can lose a lot of money very quickly.

It can be orders of magnitude more expensive than other vices, so it's a good idea to keep it in check at all times.

Yes, it all happens in no time. Particularly with dice it can be experienced often. Just now lost 0.014BTC playing Dice. I don't know why we don't have mindset to stop gambling when we're on the losing side. I started at 0.014BTC and within few rolls it came down to 0.008BTC. By then my mind wasn't ready to accept, but I look for the 0.014BTC and ended with empty wallet.

I think in this case when people jump into gambling, of course they must be aware that gambling is one thing that will definitely eat up your money, and that is the risk of gambling itself.
We should not be naive in expecting profits from gambling because it is very clear that it is impossible to happen.
Apart from the impact of addiction and other things it is the effect of gambling itself. when they don't want that to happen then don't really set foot in gambling if you're still naive and don't want negative things to come your way.

I think people already know that but the urge and the hope that they will hit it big this time is what keeps them coming back.I played a lot a slot machine in FUN mode to collect some data for 1000 spins for example how many bonus rounds I would get and it gave me like 6 which is near 170 spins for a bonus.When I got to play for REAL money though the bonus did not fall for 800 spins so this made me mad and since that day I have realized that you can't win big in gambling and I have not played since then,most events like this would kill everyone dreams and make them quit gambling.

Why did you decide that it is impossible to make a profit from gambling? When I have time to make a few bets, I play for small money, it won't hurt me if I lose and maybe that's why with small stakes I manage to win more often than I lose. But with big stakes, everything is bad for me and I cannot achieve positive results. Therefore, I treat gambling as entertainment.

In this case you know what gambling is for and you do it for entertainment only so that's when the goal is for what to expect more. The advantage here is just a bonus from the entertainment you play.
Indeed there are some of us who make profits there, but that is only a small part of all who gamble and it is a fact that indeed we cannot rely on and hope for profits when we gamble.

That's a pretty good study but I think for slots there are usually no official calculations and you've already felt it because it seems like an algorithm like this will never be 100 percent correct because we know that slots are one that really only depends on luck, right? round calculation.

You can make a profit on gambling if you own a casino. But the mathematical basis of gambling is such that the player always loses at a distance, haven't you heard anything about this? But you are doing the right thing by evaluating gambling as entertainment - in this case, everything is fair and everyone is happy: the player pays money and receives entertainment in return.

Never ever consider yourself to be that profitable on longer runs considering that house edge would be always there.Its true that whenever someone do think about spending up money on gambling then they should
think that they are paying for the entertainment that they do able to gain or experience so that you wont really be thinking about on the money you had spent or lost.If you dont like to lose money then you shouldn't
touch gambling in the first place.Of course which control of ones self when it comes to finances is really that crucial or really that important.You cant really just spent out money just like there's no tomorrow.
Never ever go beyond your limits specially on financial state or manner because you would be fucked up if you are doing it excessively.

I once had an experience with which I thought at the end: how stupid was I? I registered a new provider and I had received a few bonus chips in the casino. I think these chips weren't real. I went to the casino to play blackjack and won one round after the other. "It's not real money"… omg. Until I was at a balance to get the highest chip possible (a white one) which I bet and lost. A few hundred dollars left when I understood it was real :-) At that point, every game was too high.

This is a must for you because you are a financial advisor and it doesn't feel right if you advise people but the same advice cant be applied to yourself. It feels like we are only lying this way. At first glance, gambling can be viewed differently from investing but both activities involved money and too much money being put on something isn't healthy anymore but all must be done only in moderation or within our capacity.

If we are poor, our limits will also be small but if we are rich then we also need to adjust it a little higher. I like the idea on how you play gambling. You already say a farewell to your money lol. It seems you already know when they will head to but sometimes the less we expect the more we will win.

Bad habits are more easier to develop than the good once and even worst still, an attempt to let go for good. The bad once are always so thrilling and carries so much promises to fulfil in a shot time than the good onces that comes rather creeping although, more potent.

I recall a time I was deep into gambling, I had a limit in my mind, a predetermined stop where am supposed to assume all he'll have broke loose and was to head home but you suddenly have a sense of home.
"You've been loosing all these rounds and the circle should be complete to start making some wins" and so you continue playing but in reality, more and more loses becomes my fate.

Bad habits.

If you arent that good on having that self control and even deep inside where your mind is telling you already to stop but when emotions do kick in because you do believe that after a series of losses there would be

those winnings next in line which would be commonly the main mindset of most people who do gamble.Regrets is always come at the end and you do only realize when its already too late.

Sometimes we do play as much as we could because we know that we do have money to spent and we do love to have that entertainment but of course everything should really be in controlled manner.

This is what I mean, no matter how hard gamblers make bets and gambling, the winner is the gambling house. and actually this has become an open secret I think because no matter how much money we have and no matter how much theory we master, it is clear that this will not be able to fight the gambling house because we are not the opponent if we want to compare profit and loss.
Gambling when you are ready to lose because for me money can still be found but fun cannot be measured and when I like to gamble even though I lose money then it doesn't matter to me. But with a note, use the money as necessary because we also have to manage finances and don't have to use all of it for gambling.

That is the risk of gambling because in reality, we are actually playing against the house which is definitely hard and challenging to beat. We can't also blame gamblers for continuously betting because there's still a small hope of hitting the jackpot or winning a huge amount of profit only if we'll get lucky. But if we gamble using a certain strategy regularly, I don't think it will work in the long run. There's no specific strategy that could make a gambler win consistently in gambling.

This happens to everyone who steps into bigger amounts. I used to bet always 10-20$ and once i won a bet of 4000$ i started going crazy and betting big 500$-1000$ and this is when things get crazy you just cannot stop and cannot get back to ordinary amounts like before and this causes huge problems

Been there, done that. I've had some instances like that in the past when I'm still struggling to hold my patience and limit for the game, I know that I've spent over my limits, but I cannot break it easily because I was thinking that I need to gather it back or at least take half what I've lost. Eventually, it leads me to more losses and never got it back. As they say, regrets always comes last.

As you already understood, I am one of those who tries to see both sides of the coin. In general, living a quiet 10 years and spending money on nonsense is not so bad. I think as a person from the same country from which I am, you will understand me.


Yes, the problem of gamblers is that very rarely one of them has a real goal and is ready to stop - even if he was lucky and was able to double or ten times the borrowed money, he still continues to play until he loses completely. In the case of business, everything happens adequately - even the endless expansion of the business is more justified than the endless gambling.

From my own experience once I made some Profits in soccer betting for a start I quickly quit and close my betting App to avoid greediness or losing the already won profits, also after I lost my bet for the day I will quit for that day and wait for another opportunity next day to avoid losing my account while trying to reclaim my lost funds which can also lead to streak of more losses, although it involves alot of self discipline because of emotions and greed attached to bettings, it's a pity that some gamblers who are addicted continues to gamble till all their account is bankrupted.

I had some experience having the same situation as you. Mostly I tend to over time and make myself overbudget when I really like a new game that I am playing. Having a constant win and enjoying a new game really makes me entertained and even I go over budget, I'm only spending only another half of my next gambling budget, I guess I also have a control even I'm going over budget. In my case, I think I can't control myself playing again and again but I'm strong in managing my finance about gambling. I think you should set yourself up a planner of gambling hours and If you spend over time on playing, Have yourself a overtime limit like 1 hour maximum.

You can think of this loss (even though you didn't really lose anything) as a payment for not regretting later "what if if I continued to play, I would win even more money"  ;) In addition, these few hundred dollars are unlikely to fundamentally change something in your life. I always treat such spending in this way - you got emotions and some chance of a bigger win, maybe next time you will be more lucky.

It means you are totally addicted. If you can't be satisfied with small balances sorry you should get support. I answer yes to your question. I was having a hard time at one time and i gambled all my money and things started to get worse. I was in debt over and over and i was in a dead end. Every gamble you play by pushing your financial limits will plunge you into the swamp. You need to draw your boundaries. Even if you don't have financial problems spending your free time with gambling causes severe addiction. You should do this just for fun. When you get carried away you are very likely to lose what you have without realizing it. It is very easy to have a bad habit. Because it may seem difficult to achieve but it is actually easy. This is exactly what fascinates us. The advice i can give you is to spend your time with sports, nature walks, exploring new places. Break things down and fix them. Read a book. Clear your mind of bad thoughts.

If you do really have those thoughts which is pertaining on possible future results or outcome then its up to someones self whether they would be tolerating such emotion or not.
Some might be good on handling out various conditions and some aren't thats why outcomes and results will really vary on case to case basis.When you do bet high or surpassing into
your limit then of course it would really be accompanied with those results or consequences which you would really experience later on.
You cant really just spend up huge money which is far beyond your limits because you do know on whats next.

This is exactly what I experienced today, I made a huge profit from my bet so I felt it was my Lucky day since I could make double of my staking capital within the first half of the game because it was in a soccer bet. I decided to double the amount of my stake with additional funds just to win big since the luck was already there but I ended up losing everything including the profit I made in the first bet all because I couldn't hold on to my joy. We should always learn to control our emotions when it comes to gambling because the zeal to win will always be there but the loss is an unending thing that makes the game more dangerous.

All addictions bring financial ruing to the one that is addicted so this is not something exclusive to gambling at all, what happens is that a single moment of weakness is all what it is necessary for people to make a huge mistake and lose a lot of money.

And if that person is not mature enough to understand that whatever money they have lost at the casino is impossible to recover then they may try to chase their losses and that is when the money they can lose can increase dramatically, because in their desire to get their money back they will have to risk a lot of money in the process.

Actually if you look at things like this then we can't blame the gamblers because in this case I am also a gambler even though I don't always gamble but it is clear that when I bet and play I can be said to be one of those gamblers and there is no need to blame myself for that. this has become an option and I have realized that something like this must happen.
As I said before winning is just a bonus in gambling because what is sought first is fun. Maybe this doesn't really apply to other people but I think of it that way.

The problem that occurs when they cannot manage their finances, so that it will be difficult for them financially. I think it's not only in gambling that someone becomes financially difficult, in all things the same thing will happen when we can't manage well.
I have a friend who works, but he is still struggling financially. I compared with another friend who has the same salary, but he can still have savings. This proves that managing something well can save us from something that is not desirable.

Mostly we experience this kind of scenario when we are facing a huge amount of loss or tons of losing streak because there's a chance that you will make revenge gameplay and make a huge amount of bet just expecting you will make your money back from the losses at the same time but of course, it is a risk play there's a chance you will lose up more double or triple that your profit or just gain the profit back again and make a stop to play gambling, mostly we stop when we don't have enough funds that's why when playing gambling always set a limit.

Actually, It doesn't usually happen when we are on a losing streak on our gambling activities but also when we are on a winning streak. It can sound weird but it is true. There are gamblers who will gamble more than what they can afford when they are on a winning streak as they felt that they are extremely lucky. Some may withdraw all their winnings then come back with more than the amount they won and continue gambling in the hope that they'll win more than they already won. As we all know, the reason behind this is greed.

It’s easy at first to say to put limit but once we’re into it maybe in winning or losing streak we wanted to do more in terms of winning to earn more while in losing to win back all that we lose. We must have a good discipline to really stop when we set a limit. What I do now is use my account when in fact my partner will see or will receive a notification about some transfers if ever I planto deposit again some amount, in this point there will be someone who will do everything to stop me. Actually it’s our deal to help me avoid too much gambling and I also allowed him to check my casino transactions so we will not be into fight.

I agree, it could start when you're on the losing side and most gamblers don't like to end their session on a loss so they end up chasing their losses as long as they still have a bankroll going but doing so would always make it worse since the longer we play the better it gets for the casino.

It's not easy to say that this happened to everyone that's gambling but I think a lot of people have been there, when your profits are rolling in and your bankroll is piling up quite nicely you can't help but increase your betting size as well and go for riskier plays which can easily backfire if you start losing a few bets in a row.

It is not just when you win big in gambling that you go beyond your limits of betting. Sometimes when you make an extra or big cash from your job or business you tend to stake higher because you have more than enough to spend. Once I had a big allowance for an outstanding performance at my work place and I was going home with enough money, I had to use part of the money which was above my limits on gambling.

I also had an experience when a friend gave me some numbers and assured me that they were sure bets. Although I had already reached my gambling limit for the week, I had to still sourced for more funds to stake those sure bet. But the truth was that I lost that money and Iearnt my lessons the hard way.

It's a common feeling of using "free money". It's not really free but when you are given something unexpected you tend to be careless with it, thinking what's the worst that can happen?

It's a really bad way of thinking about anything of value because when you win something or get a lot of money from your investment, it's yours, just like it would be if you worked for every dollar. Being careless with it is plain stupid. If you ever get carried by emotion take a step back, sleep on it. After a few days you'll learn the true value of the money you're betting and will go back to your normal $20 bets. If they gave you 4k chances are it will happen again without you going crazy betting 1k.

This is not surprising as most of the gamblers have developed gambling addiction and lose a lot but some have managed to make it right and now they are already disciplined gamblers who have manage to limit their finances when it comes to gambling. Even myself is not an exception. I used to gamble a lot and sometimes end up losing all my penny. But when I start building my own family, I realized that gambling addiction will always make me put in losses throughout gambling.

Regret do always come at the end.You wont really be learning unless you do experience unfortunate events which is most likely the case for most people who do end up on this road.
You are simply being addicted to gambling if you do really come into a point on which you cant really stop yourself on playing despite on having those consecutive losses which it is
really just common sense or totally depends on your self will that you should stop unless if those amounts is already allocated for that session but if you are already that
getting into those limitation or beyond your border line then it would be better to make yourself avoid gambling for some time.

Maybe I misunderstood you, but how does this relate to the case under discussion? It was bonus money, and despite the fact that he managed to increase it significantly (if you count it as a percentage), it was still a small amount. Personally, I never gamble for significant amounts and do not advise anyone to do so.

I think this is a very common occurrence especially if you happen to gamble at a physical casino, I say this because at a physical casino every single detail is designed and arranged in such a way that it makes you to bet way more money than what you had in your mind during that day, and I say this from experience because one night I lost more money in a single session than in several other sessions, and at the end I wondered how it happened? However since that has never happened again it is obvious that I do not have any kind of gambling issue, it is just that in that particular day I just lost a little bit my self-control and that had some important consequences for myself.

and good that found your priority , these is not easy mate because indeed that gambling is addicting and many have not managed to win against them so better to stay focus in your family and children than thinking about gambling for now , we can always gamble once we have enough funds to spare and lose but for now? our priority will be our family and this is what must we do.

it is what we called ? Easy said than Done lol.

People keeps saying like do this and do that, act like this and act like that, gamble with this and gamble with that.

but if they will be on the shoes of gamblers? they will be more BS than the normal gamblers.

we should understand the attitude inside gambling addiction , most of them does not choose to become one but they have just dump into it because this is gambling tactic .

That is true, it can happen very well in a physical casinos because of how they are designed like not seeing the outside light, condusive building and pleasuring gambling events and so on. But also it can happen in an online casino too as long as you are making some profit or getting addicted and resulting to losses. This is one of the most important things we should keep in check to know if self exclusion would be best to do. Self exclusion is not only for people that are losing money, but also for any other addiction too, just like this case.

There is nothing hard about it to many people as long as they are following the rules, or as long as they have made mistake in the past and corrected it into a gambling habit that would favour them.

Betting is like signing a contract with devil. Permit me to put it that way. Once you are addicted to it, you can hardly withdraw despite knowing that you are spending above your set limit. I was also in the same situation until I request my local betting sites to lock my account temporary. If you are going extra mile beyond control over betting I would advise you to do same and take a break for a while.

The right philosophy that allows you to play and not be upset if you lose. Nobody likes to lose, but it's easier when you do it just for fun. If you treat this as income, then these will be bets on a large amount and big losses in case of a loss, but whether it will be possible to win is another question. I am the same player, and this is just entertainment for me.

Gaming is good and fun but could also be bad if care is not taken. Don't ever let it get to you to avoid issues for yourself, it starts as little, but might degenerate after a while. In my case, gaming has been good and I trade it responsibly without wrecking myself financially or letting it steal my precious time. If you notice you are spending more time on it, try to adjust. Maybe you will set a timer that will be notifying you promptly to avoid the excesses it could cause.

It is easy for these type of addictions to creep up on you, but recognizing that you are spending too much time on one particular thing is essential to breaking the cycle. Then again, in the example that you gave it is not necessarily a bad thing - all too often people go out and spend ridiculous amounts of money on other activities to fill their time, which aren't necessarily good value for money, just because they want to copy a celebrity or think they need to do something action packed every day. It can be much more wise to acknowledge you like playing games a few hours per day, where you might otherwise have been frittering money away elsewhere. It's finding the right balance and portion control.

If you can be responsible when you play gambling, it will be okay and not have a bad effect. But most people will experience excessive pleasure, and gradually, they will lose responsibility for themselves, so if they don't stop right, it will have a bad effect. Not to mention if they become addicted if they play gambling for a long time because that has happened to many people. We must remember never to go over the limit so that we don't lose a lot of money in one play.

Ofcourse it is easy to fall for gambling since it is so addictive it makes us want to gamble more.
And yes it has happened to most of us that once we sit for gambling at some point we all would have gambled more than out limits.
Because thats how we all learn not to spend more than we can afford to lose.
It's a tough lesson to learn but without that we keep on losing our precious money.

We have to go through such a situation for us to learn our lesson. We will not be able to learn how to have self-control and self-discipline if we will not experience losing. Most of us have been through that kind of situation where we felt overwhelmed and lost control. This scenario usually happens to beginners who sometimes disregard the risks of gambling hoping that they will have a consistent profit. Greed is human nature so we should know how to deal with it.

We should know how to deal with greed, self-control is the main factor to avoid losing huge chunks of your money, though it's true that most of the time newbies got overwhelmed thinking that they can beat the house and suck huge amount of money out from their luck, not realizing that it will be the start of their doom playing inside.

If you know how to control, you can put proper discipline in each gambling participation that you'll going thru.

From that, you will be able to avoid betting big, you will stay with the strategy or patterns that you created or following for your gambling activities.

this issue of crossing the line doesn't just happen to newbies, in most cases it happens to people who are already playing for a long time, because games have one thing: the more time we dedicate to it, the more money we start to put into it and the more we sink because we start to lose more money in the game, but this process is not fast, and something that takes some time to find that we start spending more time in the game and we start to lose more money in the game, that's why I said that people who are the longest in the game and who are the most people who spend the most time in the game and who lose the most money in the game. in my case, for example, there was a time when I spent a lot of time in the game and it took me time to realize and stop it

The problem is this is easier said than done. Self-control is definitely something that is difficult especially for those who are always in the mood and rely on such things in gambling.
We often say self-control but sometimes when gambling is done and we have lost quite a lot, things like that will forget by themselves because we have been carried away by emotions.

Yes, this had always been the case that people do really find out for this to be that easy to be done when you are on the foot of those people who are addicted to gambling.You would definitely not able to have those

self control and awareness of your actions if you are on the condition where you are just thinking on to play gambling no matter what.Some might do able to control themselves but there are people who cant really just

do even it do really sounds basic on having that discipline and good control.You cant really just get out of it if you do have that greediness inside your mind.

That is an early sign of addiction, it is not good not to have a limit to how much you can wager and if such a limit is not set one will frequently go overboard and spent a lot of money gambling without even knowing, most especially if you have a huge balance.

Gambling is a highly fun activity and that can easily get someone tempted to keep playing so one needs high discipline to manage properly when playing in other not to fall into financially tight corners.

Just set your own limits, no excuses if you go past the limit consider it a loss at that point regardless of any game report you cannot consider gambling capital thats not available as any kind of win.   Close it for the day and move onto other things, it does take some discipline but the main point is to always take anything past that limit as the wall for gambling on that day.   A set amount every day is way more healthy then risking it all on just 1 night.

I cannot agree more, I can attest to that, saying self-control is very easy but applying it during the game is not.  Gambling games is addictive and easy to get hooked by them.  I also experience the things when I got too hooked on gambling that I spend all the money in my bankroll where originally I mean to spend it for 4 sessions.  Since the game became intense, I failed to stop even though my mind say to stop lol.  I always say to myself to have self-control but sometimes it failed to work.


A really good piece of advice, accepting it as a loss enables us to avoid chasing losses.  This kind of acceptance made me move forward and restart my gambling session as if nothing happens before.


Depends on how we react to the incident of getting past our financial limit. If we accept it and made it learning then we can avoid a higher risk level of chasing losses.  Just like what STT stated, consider it as a loss and accept it.

We always end up gambling more than we can afford to lose because we keep chasing the losses and expect to finally win and double or triple the profits. This is the reason why we need to set a limit when we gamble to avoid too much losses that may result into financial breakdown. Gambling is not bad as long as you always gamble on your extra money and not on the finances that are used to pay for other matters.

But in this case, addressing it as an experience when it's all gone and regrets don't actually change anything.
I agree more with what @seleme said by not making deposits that he can't afford to gamble because obviously this is the same as digging his own grave, especially since we know that gambling is not certain because it relies on luck.

Gambling does heavily rely on luck but people do ignores that thing and just focused on making money and this is what most people do commit out mistakes and this is where realization do comes at the end.
I do disagree that regrets doesnt change anything, we might be saying technically but on the other hand which these regrets could really make someone do improve in terms of real experiences and
awareness about the truth about gambling.This is where you do really know on when how to deposit and when to withdraw if you are in profits or completely stop when you do lost all of your bankroll.
Always had limits and have control in everything specially into these various conditions or situations.

if you have this mind set then yeah  i think this will happen mate, but if we knew those coming? then better to leave it before you lose.
I once become a gambler (but not addicted) though I realized the consequences earlier before dying deep to addiction .
learning is part of everything we enters , but of course the most important thing is to analyze and realized everything before it gets worst .

It needs self-control and commitment otherwise, no matter how we set limits, that is still possible to break.
Honestly, once we had fallen into addiction, it was really hard to get out of it. Temptation is one reason why we can't and making a habit to keep on the limit at the start helps us to avoid going through that addiction. But yes, it really matters how we handle ourselves in gambling because many people have been spending on gambling, however, they are still able to manage themselves.

Indeed, it won't change anything but we have gained valuable experience so we hope not to repeat it in the future. By knowing the amount of the budget for gambling, we must try not to exceed that budget amount so that we can strive to comply. By learning to manage the amount of the budget, we can minimize the risk of loss that will be our loss so that we will not exceed the limits that we have previously set. That way, we can take care of ourselves while playing gambling and keep problems away that may arise later.

Set a limit is good but it will be useless if we have no good self control because we may lose control while gambling due to our own feeling/emotion that may make us bet over our limit. For me, having a great self control is the first and the main key to avoid worst case in gambling including the one discussed in this topic. Once we have a great self control, any other things including limit will be following automatically.

This is what makes it seem as if theory doesn't really apply when we're at stake. We know that when we are too excited there will obviously be more desire that arises so these words that already exist about self-control are just a passing wind that sometimes this becomes difficult for yourself in the end.
Self-control is easy when we don't think about anything and we can think we can control ourselves but when we're in an intense game rally it's obviously a slightly different story because sometimes emotions cover everything.

Yes I had similar experiences myself in the past. Whenever I lost a big bet, I felt really bad about it and looked for smaller more risky bets to recover my losses. My problem was that I went into too many of those bets and I lost control over it. In sum the small bets were larger than my initial bet, and because they were more risky I usually lost more money. It took me a few months to identify my problems and find ways to correct them. The first step that helped me was to have less money at the casino and sports betting site. Like that my chances are smaller that I spent too much money in a week with gambling. The second step was to have more control over my bets by keeping track of them. I started writing down all my bets in an excel file to see how much money I bet, win and lose. This helped me the most to not fall into bad habits.

In addition to setting limits, even if a person is perfectly disciplined and does not go beyond it, it is sometimes necessary to take a vacation from gambling.
I am familiar with the situation when a gambler plays almost every day, while he has a weekly limit and he "stretches" it sometimes for almost the whole week. At the same time, even if he is not playing at the moment, he is still "involved" in gambling - he plans future gaming sessions, keeps track of expenses, etc. In my opinion, even this is an unhealthy situation, because in life you have to think about many other things. Therefore, in order to clear the mind, it is useful to take a complete vacation from gambling, for example, for a month.

Let's give it another look from this approach, when bettings become too high, regret becomes inevitable for a gambler, this is when you begin to see a number of side effects in the live of an addicted gambler that let the whole gambling got to override his personal integrity and control, it has been a rare occurrence in situations where an addicted gambler turns not to gamble again in a lifetime, just almost same spirit back it up with those addicted to alcohol, once into the system is a lifetime contract of both good and worst seasons in gambling.

more precisely is not being able to control emotions or poor emotional control. but all of that is understandable because gambling addicts always can't control their emotions while playing at the gambling table. they will always be dissatisfied with what he has got or did at that time. he will not think how much bet he will give what is important to him is the satisfaction of continuing to play and subconsciously they continue to lose all his money

Very difficult to find people who do not have such experience in betting. Everyone has faced this kind of situation at one time more or less. I have also seen gamblers who lose their gambling money as soon as they make a deposit. Their gambling style is very strange they are participating multiple game in one time and their gambling continues until they run out of money and when the gambling ends they suffer from regret.

Saying about the actual experience is indeed quite good but on the other hand we must know the characteristics of ourselves because sometimes for gamblers who say about the experience, they always get carried away into the atmosphere of the game and forget what was said before about the experience.
Although there are indeed a few people who learn from mistakes, there are still many people who never learn from it which makes them repeat the same mistakes.

We could really say up things when we arent playing but on the time that we are on the actual thing or condition then there are probabilities which those plan of yours would suddenly changed and this is very pretty common where people do spent up money which is beyond their limits and ending up on losing it all and realize on the things that they have done wrong but its already too late.

When we do speak about limitation then this wont really be just good for gambling but also in other things as well on which you could able to control or have that discipline
which you do know on when to stop and when to leave.

I don't see anything wrong when a player plays betting becomes too high as long as the history proves that the player has more number of wins than the number of losses. I think we share the same location, there is this guy that has been trending on Twitter with the Mayor of Ekiti in Nigeria for giving bookies a headache with the number of winning tickets he has been playing back to back and these are not just small wins, they are in Millions (Naira) and virtually give his betting code to others to play, he help lots of people (usually as a giveaway as they used to say) to prove he doesn't post edited slips, judging from this example, I don't see anything bad in this kind of playing because he also accrues loss times but the winning rate is bigger.

This makes sense. Most people who entered gambling really did experience the good and bad sides of it. Of course, there would be days that they won't constantly win which means a loss of fund on their end. There will be several times they will experience the ups and downs of gambling and that's totally normal because that's the reality. They can't always have it all. We can't always make the odds side on our favor because everything comes with risk the moment we try something.

The rate percentage of losses and winnings now just depends on their gambling style and strategy and to what kind of gambler they are. If they are impulsive and do not really practice certain techniques, they will most likely suffer losses most frequently. If they are calculated and strategic gambler, there will be a higher chance that they will win because they minimize the margin or error. If they would be lucky, the odds will be with them which could further increase the probability of their wins. Overall, this matter lies on how responsible the gambler is on betting and risking what he have.

Correct, I mean when you think about it then it is easy to see that gambling is in fact designed in such a way to try to make gamblers to spend more money than what they want, and we cannot blame casinos for this as it is completely natural they want to get more profits out of each gambler, so it is up to each of us to realize what it is happening and avoid betting more money than what we can afford to lose, because if we do then the temptation to gamble more and more money to recover the money we have lost already will be too difficult to resist.

IMO, nobody succeeds in gambling either though.
What do you mean by fail btw? That people who always have a lossing bet? And if your definition by success in gambling is winning 1-3 times out of a thousand bucks that you lose in gambling, I'm pretty sure that's not success though.
I have not seen in my life a broke a*s gambler who eventually became rich and stay rich his whole life and never to return in gambling. But, I have seen so many rich people who can gamble huge amount of money. However, these people won't get easily broke as their businesses keeps on running, and most importantly, it is not the gambling that makes them successful and they are not even called successful gambler lol.

it is not about something that site is concern but what we are talking is about our self , meaning our capacity to maintain our gambling experience and activities and not to become addicted or not letting to lose more than we allocate because it is easy said than done to control our betting when we are already  in the middle of the game.

Yes, that's true and I think it's because of the temptation of gambling that they can't learn from mistakes so they keep playing without thinking about their mistakes.
Even though we've experienced defeats before, it doesn't mean we can't avoid losing again because when we play the next day, we can avoid bigger losses than before.
So having previous experience can help us learn better to avoid getting the same defeat.
And it will also prevent us from other problems that can arise in gambling such as gambling addiction.

In fact, only certain people can learn from mistakes because there are many who say things like that but they are just words.
The temptation to gamble is so great if it has fallen into this and I personally don't want to be naive because I still continue to do the same thing even though I often say self-control and learn about mistakes that have been passed but mistakes still keep happening.

We can certainly learn from the mistakes we have made or from other people's stories so that we apply them to ourselves.
And although the temptation to gamble is so great, we will not easily fall into that temptation because we have learned a lot from the experiences of many people and ourselves.
It will help us to have self-control so that we will not make mistakes like before.
Maybe it takes time but it's worth doing to avoid bigger losses.

It seems to me that very few people are able to learn from the mistakes of others, because it's like learning to ride a bike without a bike. Most of us can only learn from our own mistakes, it's just that each of us has a different attitude to the money we lose - some of us get it easily, and some of us have to work hard to get it. Someone may have a mental disorder that does not allow him to control his behavior when playing gambling and no matter how much experience he has he will never learn to control himself. In my opinion it is all very individual.

That is true. Until we realize that we are spending more than usual time on gambling, we tend to spend more than we can afford to lose on gambling.
Fortunately, I realized this fact just after the initial few months when I started gambling.
It hit me hard when I found out the money I lost in gambling and a point of self realization struck my mind that whatever we do, we have to lose our money in gambling eventually.
So I took a break from gambling started fresh with a fixed budget for gambling. So far it's going good.

When I was attracted to gambling in the beginning, I was very happy. But when I started to gamble for a long time, once a moment everything in my life was starting random. I spent about 10-12 hours in gambling. But when I realized that it was addiction, I tried to take some breaks myself and later I was able to control it even though it was very tough. Now I gamble at a specified time and I spend my wining gambling money for the fun or entertainment.

So true, you will realize things after you already lose a lot, but at the beginning the only thing that is important for you is how you enjoy your gambling, win or lose you keep coming back and do the same routine. You are lucky if you make an earlier decision to assess yourself and start looking with your finances, it will give you an idea of how much time and money that you are wasting while doing the everyday routines.

It's important to know and observe your self-control. If that kind of emotion is no longer inside you, the chance that you are really engaging too much needs to be cope up.

It's always you to decide, or I mean your self-will, to help yourself.

I am pretty aware that this can happens very easy while betting and I have made this kind of error a come of times wasting good profit in matter of seconds (litterally).
This Is related to several things... Much probably I was tired or just greedy. However its really hard have "self control" or avoid Just a fat finger while betting. I see personally just one solution: cold wallet and betting limits.

So cool that you were able to notice this and recognized you were addicted on your own, because I know one of the worst effects of gambling is that you don't even realize you're addicted. Looking at the time you spent alone in the casino is scary as even working time does not last that long. I mean, you woke up and went to work that starts at 8:00 a.m and ends at 4:00 p.m., that's 8 hours of work and having spent all of it in that place will exhaust you after work, but you spent 10 hours on gambling which is a dangerous thing that can finish someone's life, I will totally quit if I get to this point.

Excessive level of imagination can make someone lose control in the current situation this will make someone have a strong grip he will not succeed but because of the power of curiosity he is willing to make him fall in love with the same hole. our can keep things like that away when we gamble, get rid of your frustration and start with caution because we can't hit the croupier with a high emotional level. I never bet beyond the ability of my capital because luck will not be on our side if the emotional level is too high.

I am somehow confused about what you are trying to say until you stated something about limiting ourselves and not betting beyond our financial capability which is somehow I partially agree.  Betting all our finances on gambling isn't a good thing since if we got unlucky can drain our stash and we will be left with nothing to pay our monthly dues, daily needs, and other stuff that requires money.  We should only allocate funds that are free and we can afford to lose.


I believe almost every gambler had experienced this kind of thing.  There will always come a time when we lose grip of ourselves, probably by emotions or just sheer recklessness, and bet an amount that is way more than what we planned in our gambling activity.  The good thing about these experiences is that it wakes us up before anything much worse happen.  This experience enable us to see the horror that awaits when we lost control of ourselves on the bigger picture.

You're unsure when luck will be on your side. But that's a good style that you have and set of rule, you don't have to gamble with all that you have with your capital.

And that means that you're allocating specific amount as you gamble because that's what you think is right.

As long as you're in the capacity of the money you have and the amount you're set to gamble, that's how it should be.

By making a lot of mistakes and being able to learn a lot from mistakes, it will help us to develop our abilities and in this case, if we often play gambling, maybe it will help us to be able to have good self-control.
And if we already have good self-control, we will not be easily tempted by offers from casinos so we just play moderately and stop as soon as we get the pleasure.
Yes, it will go back to each individual on how they can control themselves so they don't get caught up in gambling.
And no matter how difficult it is to control ourselves, we must continue to learn to carry ourselves well when playing gambling and the most important thing is that we don't use bets that cross the line.

Almost everyone has experienced it, doing something that has exceeded the limit will indeed have a bad impact on our finances.
I personally now prefer small bets that can make my game duration longer and if I get bored I will stop without having to spend a lot of money.

What I know is that gambling is not mandatory so it's not needed. Before these crypto casinos exist we already face difficult times in our lives and those already taught us a valuable lesson. You now know what to do next, this is why there are people who don't engage in crypto gambling because they know that they can be addictive.

Gambling might be known like that (to be addictive) but it will also depend on the gambling company first if how can they promote themselves and it also depend on the people that views it but a well marketed gambling site and offers a good service, bonus and then no kyc will always be hot to the eyes on the people. That is the first step for them to fall in gambling.

Damn, 10 - 12 hours every day is definitely a high number of hours you had spent on gambling.
It's good that you had the self control to come out of it and gamble within your limits. It must have been hard though.
In my case, even if I win any amount from gambling I spend it again on gambling itself.
Thus I spend less on gambling and more on other things.

As I said before, words may be easy but from many cases that have happened when we have entered and are already in the intense category in a game of self-control, this seems to be nonsense.
I say this because I do feel that way and it's likely that I'm not the only one who feels the same way because not a few people say self-control but still have to carry on with the flow when it comes to gambling.

I don't think it's a game because some gamblers can control themselves during gambling and won't lose control.
I also experienced it before but I think if we want to try to learn to control ourselves, we can master it and will not experience what other people experience.
So I think it will depend on the will to have self-control while playing gambling and will not lose the power to stay in control.
It may take some time before we really get the hang of it and we must keep learning.

I have not yet become addicted to any gambling or any game that would waste my huge time. Because I give more priority to my time.  So I don't indulge myself in bad addictions like gambling.  When I have some free time I go to some trusted gambling site to gamble.  This may be once or twice a week. so i haven’t any experience like your story of wasting time by playing any game

This is in fact true, it is optimal to learn from the mistakes of others as this will save you a lot of suffering, time wasted, money, energy and psychological distress, but very few people can do this, but this means the ones which can do so hold a tremendous advantage over the rest of the population, as they can live easier and more productive lives without too much of an effort, which in part explains why people think that life can be very unfair as they have to go through all kind of troubles while others are able to avoid them completely.

Only a few have that kind of mentality to understand the side effects of being too much engage with gambling. Even there are videos and articles that are available, only a few will take time to use it a basis. They will continue and think that it will be a different outcome for them, after having huge losses and they already realize the mistake, it is already late and they already losses a lot.

Gambling/betting without control can lead you to over exceed from your target budget, anticipating more mistakes and more money to lose if you are unable to work it out.

What I mean in the game here is when we are in an intense rally in gambling because I also don't think gambling is just a game because it is much more than that.
As for learning to control it's good and I also did that but come on only a few people can do that from start to finish and I won't be naive about it because the comparison is only 1 compared to so many gamblers who can control themselves in gambling.
Self-control is good and the will to control oneself is actually what everyone wants but only a few people succeed with that right.

It is important to not ignore the warning signals because if you do you will have a harder time leaving your gambling issues.

It seems to me that you came very close to develop a gambling addiction but you were able to see what was happening to you and avoid the worst possible outcome, and while it now seems that you have your gambling under control I think it is a good idea to see if you can remain very long periods of time without gambling at all, so you can prove to yourself that you are finally above your past issues.

sometimes it is about attitude and behavior and also the community or the family that brought us, because it is the influence that we gather along the way so we might or not got addicted , or sometimes it is also about how we are dealing with friends  because they are sometimes the Bad Influence that let us decide into something much worst .
so better to do it or not? no one really care but our family and our self .

I really don’t understand fully your opinion . But I understand you mean that no one will give you good advice, not even your friends.  Only you and your family can give you good advice to help you avoid gambling . Your argument may be true.  And many times this happens.

actually my full sentiment is that People around us makes things complicated , who build us to become addicted are those  people .
 
and also ? it is not that no one will give you good advice but it is that we are still the one to decide , so no matter how good or bad the advise ?yet we are the one that will make it matter mate, and also the main Idea here is never to become addicted .

It's often difficult to accept a loss when gambling, and when you're playing the game, it always appears that you're about to win, which is why you keep spending until you reach your limit. When you have exceeded your limit and are at a loss, you may consider going further; this is why most people continue to spend beyond their limits, believing they will win, only to lose more than they expected.

They are more aggressive to recover those losses and believing that as long as they have funds they still have that chance, similar when winning they are also kept on pushing for more, trying to exceed and make more money instead of quitting and enjoying the amount that they already got, we do have differences in terms of judgement but if not all most of us already experienced exceeding from our target limits and regret in losing a huge amount of money.

It's more on how you'll going to take and control yourself, to avoid heavy gaming and losing a lot.

This often happens to me, even though I have a plan that my losses should be up to this point, but it doesn't follow when I'm actually in the gambling game. Maybe that's how we play, we are always carried by our emotions.

But we should control it as a crypto gambling gambler. So that we can limit our gambling loss as a gambler.


That's the big problem for us gamblers here in cryptocurrency, the kind of thing that while we're losing betting on gambling, this is the reason we think that we can recover even if we lose, we're still betting.

I imagine that everybody who has been gambling for a while has gone through this. We say to ourselves, "Just one more game". And before you know it, we are over our budget. We've already exceeded the amount of time we agreed we would spend betting after just one more game. I believe that this behavior is motivated by both the excitement of the game and the perceived reward.

"Just one more game" is a phrase we often say and it makes us not realize that it is the beginning of our next defeat. One more game will make us even more curious, especially if the results are not what we expected and can make us come back the next day. Whatever result we get, if we still say that sentence, I don't think it will always work for us and maybe the result will be very different. Therefore, if we want to stop, we must be able to try to stop immediately and not say the sentence.

You are exactly right in this.I also when I lose a lot of money I say to myself a similar phrase to it and mine is "Just 100 more auto spins to win the bonus" and this keeps being repeated until I lose all of my money.Luckily for me though it has been near three weeks I have not touch a slot with real money as I got a huge bad luck the last time I played that made me think cold headed that these games are created against me so why continue to play them.So far it has worked but slots are so addictive and the providers come up with all sort of game play mechanics that makes you come back in no time.

Ever wonder why gamblers bet more than they could reasonably afford? What is going on in their minds? I believe there is a type of addicting factor involved, and I'm not talking about just the excitement of the game.

Maybe it is the buzz. Maybe it's the thrill. Maybe it's the relaxation that you feel after a win. Maybe it's the sense of accomplishment that gambling provides. But whatever it is, I believe that if we can't control this factor, we will see a repeated cycle in which we fall deeper and deeper in debt and become progressively more and more unable to control our compulsive gambling behavior.

So how can we stop the cycle? I believe that the solution is to develop a spending plan that you can commit to and use as a guide when the urge to gamble arises. You need to decide how much you can afford to spend on gambling on an average basis. Write it down and then set limits that you can live with. Each time you gamble, take a mental look at your spending plan and decide whether you can keep to it. If you are out of money, don't gamble. Make a list of activities you could substitute for gambling, and pick one of them. Choose something you enjoy that is fun, but affordable. This is the method I'm currently trying to apply.

When a gambler spends more time in gambling from a certain time frame, gambling addiction is seen in him to some extent. And this kind of incident is seen frequently in almost all gamblers to a lesser or greater extent. However, spending a lot of time in gambling is not bring what you have expect. So ignoring all these things gambling can bring the big success.

If it only just happens to others and has the same mindset as you, there are no addictions happening, honestly. But because we all have different mindsets, it was too hard to influence others and be like you. Limitations and self-control is very important in gambling but most of the time, it was been ignored due to some temptation, especially when we win and it comes to our mind that we are lucky all day. Yet, it was unfortunate that it can't be and usually end up losing all the winnings.

It's true that if you ask for advice, some people will give you bad advice and some people will give you good advice. It does not matter who gave the advice.  Because everyone has his own way of thinking according to which he can take all his actions and decisions . So one should always give preference to own decision

The moment you asked for an opinion, you should always be ready for the different suggestions from the people. There would really be various perspectives because each differs from one another. They experienced something that the others didn't and therefore they will have unique thoughts and viewpoint that could affect their judgment.

The advices you read here in forum and you hear in your everyday lives could be positive or negative. Now, it's just really up to you whether you follow those advices or just see through them and still decide on your own. After all, not every advices here are guaranteed to be correct and foolproof. You are still responsible of your own actions and for the consequences that come with it.

I agree with you.  If anyone asks in a forum for any advice.  So since there are millions of users, surely different people will publish there in different ways.  This is normal, because every person has different thoughts.  So if this happens to me, I will read each user's opinion and from there I will take a better quality opinion and with that I will research that opinion myself and then make a decision.

People will only advise you based on their own experiences and preferences. Some might be acceptable while others will be offensive but once you as for their opinion, you must be ready to listen and accept it though it might hurt your feelings or might not be in favor of you. Just be sure to take and follow the advice that will help you grow and make you create good and reasonable decisions in such a field.

This is always be the case on gambling because there is no determined right or wrong strategy here since it's a luck based game. Anyone claiming that there strategy is working and other should follow is surely didn't know what he is saying because there is no fixed working strategy in gambling since it was designed to be an unpredictable.

Following the person comfortable strategy is really the best because there is really no fixed working strategy here.

I also experienced this situation but if this is left uncontrolled then expected something bad since you were using more than the amount or your an amount limit that you can afford to lose in gambling. I'm sure you know what will happen if you did spend more than the amount you can afford to lose more than once and it is very bad or worse that your wife might leave you because of it or you will be in greate debt that may cause suicide, going to prison if this continues to happen. The reason why many people give opinions that are bad when it comes to gambling is because gambling means taking risk to increase the money double, triple or much more.

If i ask for any advice for my own purpose here. then i must focus the high reputable person advices. coz i believe they have huge experience then others . that’s why i have must follow them and also i research there advice from my own thinking and experience . Then it makes me feel more stable

Since gamblers have more control over luck. So gambling with your own thoughts doesn't always work out. So I think it is better for those who are experienced to judge the difference between other thoughts and own thoughts. If this difference can be determined then comparatively of winnings in gambling increases to a great extent.

People will advise even not always from their own experience, people love to advise. We have a society of experts on all issues, all the masters advises to someone, but for themselves these tips do not work. ) To some extent this is a joke, there are definitely people whose advice will help solve many issues, you just need to be able to find the best and most suitable advice for yourself. I like to say that you should always think with your own head, no one will give you better advice than yourself!

As long as you are open to any open criticism, the very chance that you might take the best advice coming from your love ones or even from the experts. It's a case to case situation, but most of the time I also believe with your statement, there are people who love to advice, but applying that advice with their own situations will kick their ass high.

Everything still relies on how you will take the situation and how will you adjust and apply certain information when you already cross the bridge.

More on self-will and how will you execute the changes that's needed for you to avoid making mistakes.

It is true that some suggestions will always be received. Each person can share their different opinion from one place. But there is suitable advice to be combined with your intellect. In this case you must think with logic. Because whatever decision you take will be effective. Just realize that no one can understand better than yourself. Depending on your financial situation you have to decide what should you do.

You are right. Things like that are common to everyone when they are gambling. because there is a high level of pleasure and curiosity in every bet. So it's no wonder that sometimes we get out of control until we unconsciously or consciously spend money or bets that exceed our capabilities. but usually experiences like this are also important in learning so that we can control ourselves more in the future. but if I'm honest. in fact I've done something like that a few times or even many times. It's very hard to get out of this habit. but luckily lately i have more control over myself.

Many of us have thought of phrases like this because I often get them. But soon, I diverted such thoughts because it would not be worth it. Besides, I once tried to follow that thought but got lost.

Yes, I agree that slots are very addictive and only we can say no to continue the next spin. The phrase "only 1 or 2 more rounds to play" is a temptation that we often experience and is very difficult to avoid, especially if we have won.

It was only a matter of time before the gambler eventually became addicted and he would not notice. Gambling addiction can come anytime, especially when we are too busy playing for a long time. And when that happens, we will be even more engrossed in playing gambling without seeing whether there are changes that we experience or realize. But if you can stop the fun of playing, you can at least prevent gambling addiction from coming to you so you won't have any problems later.

In my case I do not blame newbies when they make the mistake of thinking they can actually become profitable when they gamble, my problem is that some of those newbies never really learn their lesson, they lose all of their capital and instead of thinking that this is a trend that is going to continue they believe that this was an exception, so the next time they gather some money they gamble once again with the intention of becoming profitable, then at some point they realize all the money they have lost and then they keep gambling hoping to recover it, and by that point there is a very high chance that they are already addicted to gambling.

The entire gambling industry creates games, machines, systems, etc, that create an illusion that the gambler might win big next time, and try to be as addictive as possible.

On the other side you have the cold, boring math that tells the gambler that it will lose all the money in the long term. There's also no money in pushing this side, so the message rarely gets to the gambler, other than "Gamble Responsibly" or similar.

It's hard for some people to just rationalize this, and act accordingly. Many people will just follow the fantasy because it's designed to be more attractive than reality, which is quite boring in comparison.

Anything in "excess" always have a negative impact, it is every gambler's responsibility to handle the manner in which they played but I'm curious to ask, from your comment, what do you have to say when a player has more wins than the number of losses and the player decided to spend more of it is time than the expected time, will that be considered as addiction?
You know the nature of gamblers and greed is what drives our hormones, if the games are in their favour, they will likely play more than the time they set for them self but the wise ones will exit as soon as they hit 3 losses in a row but the addicted ones don't usually stop until they blow up what they have all won to the house.

Indeed, anything that is too much and beyond control is harmful. That's why they always say that always do things in moderation and responsibly. Because if you won't establish boundaries and limitations, you'll just end up hurting yourself in the process and it might lead into something serious that is more difficult to address such as being addicted to it.

Addiction is cannot be treated overnight and you might as well do your very best to avoid falling victim of it. For me, despite the percentage of winnings is greater than the losses, one must not go beyond his budget allocated for gambling especially if he already spend the amount intended for it and that is what he can only afford to lose. The phrase "one more game" is actually a deadly one because it could be continuous until you no longer notice you are being caught up playing. Just set a specific time frame for playing and a specific amount for your budget in gambling and do not ever think of going beyond it to ensure you'll keep your discipline intact. 

In general, in some ways, gambling turns out to be similar to an ordinary drug, after trying which it is already very difficult to return to a “normal” life, especially if you are lucky at first.
It seems to me that the chance to "get addicted" to gambling is much less if you lose at first.

It really depends but there is a high chance that almost every beginner will experience this because he/she doesn't know yet how to control things while gambling as there are some factors that we need to consider to avoid such extremes like emotions and proper mindset to know how to set your boundaries to avoid getting over your limits, so that your finances won't be disturbed as that will cause more problems.

It is very true, when we are in the middle of gambling, there are many things that influence our thoughts, especially when we are in physical casinos, music, alcoholic beverages, the fun of seeing pretty girls, all that is very rewarding, so In general, people always look for a way to forget about simple things, money at that time is seen by them as something secondary, what matters is adrenaline, and that 'happens in an online casino, sometimes the reason is not present but emcoines it, then when we play and for example we are using the martingale technique it goes very high and that is the dangerous thing, because if everything is lost the fun ends.

Well, sometimes that is the case, because each person takes a loss in various ways, if it is a person who does not care much, well yes, it may not matter to him and he will not play again, but if he is a person who temperament is quite proud and that he does not like to lose in any aspect, that same ego that he has makes him go in the wrong direction, because he does not accept that a system takes his money and that he cannot beat it, so sometimes the fact of losing At first, people can be encouraged by this vice of gambling addiction, that is why it is so difficult to determine human behavior, even so a couple who has been married for more than 50 years, when you ask them if they know each other each other, both say that they still need to meet.

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It should be noted that only once did I lose control of what I was betting and even though it was in a figure that did not allow me to lose, I still bet it, but many thoughts went through my mind about how I was going to recover that money, finally the last shot made me win, and I didn't recover all of it, but I did recover a lot of it, and although I came out with a loss, it wasn't as much as I was going to lose, and that fact made me comfort myself, and at the same time it helped me decide that I was never going to play that way again.

That's probably because beginners will not think too much about winning and only have a curiosity that makes them end up playing gambling. And because of that curiosity, they will not use too much emotion and just want to play gambling and learn to feel the fun. In addition, it may be that the casino deliberately gives the winnings to the beginners to draw them deeper into gambling and in the end, the beginners deposit the money to get more fun. This will allow beginners who previously only used a little money to return to deposit more money to play gambling.

The most important thing is that you did learn to control your emotions and desires. It seems to me that all gamblers have to go through it, just someone understands it after one big loss, and someone after ten. I also learned to control my emotions through such a "negative" experience. By the way this experience helps not only in gambling but also in trading and investing.

Learning to gamble responsibly is a process, after all there are not many people that actually use a budget to manage their finances and as such when they begin to gamble it is very natural they end up betting way more money than what they thought they will spend, however once you go through this experience once then it is easy to see what is happening and then you can begin to establish a budget for your gambling activities which you will always respect, as now you already know what it may happen if you decide to not do it.

The problem with what you say is that in gambling we often get carried away by our emotions. You get a budget, but then you go to the casino and skip it, chasing losses or for some other reason. If we were all perfectly rational, nobody would have a problem with gambling. The problem is that we are not.

I don't like to pamper anyone for doing bad, so I blame anyone whether a newbie or not for letting themselves get addicted. We should always be conscious, or else we will be fooled by what we are doing. I've been a newbie in many gambling and I had reached the verge of being addicted for the purpose of making money after a lot of losses in the past. But my discipline and consciousness helped me to retrace my steps back.

In a nutshell, we should not be blinded by anything, including gambling, we should do things responsibly regardless of being newbies or professionals rather than making excuses.

The big problem is we are not indeed! We tend to be one, but once we step our fit inside gambling, we mostly forget our plans and goals. Either we get tempted in trying to win more or to recover our losses instead of sticking with our plans. If only gamblers can really manage this part of their activities, it might lessen the chance of losing big, but reality wise and why we keep seeing more and more casinos being open from time to time.

Casino owner knows how to play with the emotions and once they've been in control, they can easily make more money with the business.

Not know how to control is the key factor why casino is keep collecting more paycheck from the gamblers.

Many gamblers sometimes try to return the capital they have lost by making more deposits but still lose and don't get a win so that without them realizing it when they don't have anything, even the money they have spent on gambling is too much and ends up making a lot of money. their mentality fell.

Casino owners usually give instructions to their developer programmers to provide high curiosity with a small winning presentation that makes gamblers more addicted.

It's the other way around, truth is beginners are only thinking about winning without thinking carefully and curiosity rides with that fact that's why they end up playing much longer but I agree with that fact that sometimes casino intentionally let their customers win to have that their pleasures without knowing that one or two of those customers are just beginners, that said pleasures is the key to unlock their deep desires to win more but in reality they kept on losing because greed is already controlling them, they want to have that money back that's why they usually ends up giving the casino more money.

Some gamblers can't control their money or accept their loss. I saw most pro gamblers have this kind of principle where they won't gamble more than XX amount in one game, no matter what. In too many cases, people gamble with money they can't afford, willing to take a debt to make back their loss in the previous gambles, on the silver lining of luck to win in the next games.
It's the same in every section. Poor ability to control your money, easy to comfort yourself to the least possible scenario.

Right. I think that in gambling (if so a beginner made a mistake - came here for money and not for entertainment), you must first come up with strategies, test them, and only then spend real money trying to put these strategies into practice. Roughly speaking, you need to have some serious reason to assume that you will win. It is naive to think that millions of gamblers are unprofitable, but it is you who will be profitable "for no reason." But beginners continue to play losing their money and turn into addicted gamblers as a result.

This is common mistake of the newbie because when they are starting to see streamers in different social media and streaming platforms they are promoting the gambling casino and they think it is just easy to make a bet that's why they got the courage to play and deposit of course because of the persuasion of the paid streamers that they can really earn money but of course, there's a contract with it like for the deposited amount and show off the stream, at the same time is the possible risk losing their money and winning a double or more with their deposit, that's why always gambling responsively it is good to make an investment with the knowledge first in gambling strategy and management before taking a risk.

It can be but not only that  because they think that if more gamblers can be attracted then their casino earnings will increase rapidly. Moreover, a gambler takes various measures to keep him going for a long time in the casino. They are also kept very close to the things that the Gamblers might want. In general, they refer to the casino as a small fantasy paradise.

I agree, casino owners always wanted to make sure in keeping the gamblers around and also to add more people to use the platforms, they will take good care of any lapses that may distract the gamblers and may choose to change place, Like what you said they are also looking for good promotions and any bonuses that can keep the business more competitive.

But moreover, they are always keen on improving their securities as it is the first line to assure the client that they can enjoy with a safe environment.

I have experience with it although I don't think it will be exactly what you want to hear. I hit my gambling threshold in a day because I wanted to catch up on my previous losses. Ignoring the greater risk of loss actually made me even more lost when I realized my ATM was empty.

Obviously this is a bad habit of gambling, but I've realized that and haven't repeated it since. To this day, I wouldn't feel the need to make more deposits in case I lost on the first deposit. I will stop and come back another time and opportunity, this will definitely control the emotions a little.

I actually do understand how you must have felt hitting your gambling threshold all in a single day while trying to recover your lost funds, because thats one thing most people fail to understand about gambling, that gambling is never a do or die affair, of which sometimes is good to learn how to accept defeat while we bounce back to restrategize, come back and try again.

NOTE: Gambling is not a do or die affair..

If we keep chasing our luck and the reward, we will always end up losing more, and more than we know, we lost everything we have. That is why if we want to gamble, we should always bring only an amount of money allocated for gambling so that if we lose, we’ll just call it a day since we have no other money left to play the game. No choice but to go home after that.

Dont chase up your losses
Dont chase up on winning
Dont chase up on having profits

Play when you do seek out for leisure and dont mind about money.
Winning is just a bonus but dont make yourself believe that it would really be that sustainable or something
that could make you rich.Its a wrong mindset as always.

I just see something like "Gambling is not do or die affair" maybe that is the way you see gambling but some gamblers do not really care if it's we kill them or put them in big danger or not. Gambling can be very addictive and we should understand that gambling in some persons had become habit so reaching a threshold and exceeding that is not really a problem to most of us since we are always prepared to take the worse that could ever happen from our gambling experience. Everyone with how they gamble and see it entirely. 

Useful advice but it is very difficult for most people to do something like this, and this is because during a great deal of our lives we do what we can to obtain more money, so gambling just for fun without actually caring about whether we win or lose is very hard for most people.

And while eventually the majority can learn to gamble responsibly there is a small group of people which are incapable of this, and they will keep chasing their losses when they gamble and this means they will most likely at some point in time become addicted to it.

If at the time the beginners win, they can stop immediately, I don't think it will make them suffer a big loss because of the greed that gets bigger as their number of wins increases. Casinos letting newbies win some money know that in the end, irresponsible newbies will return to where they were and play with more money because newbies think that it could give them a chance to win more money. And it is because of greed that beginners have to endure many losses.

It seems to me that the first thing every gambler must understand is that the casino earns either its owner or the one who is lucky (but that rarely happens). From a mathematical point of view, any player in the long run will lose all his money. Therefore, to consider gambling as an income is the biggest misconception. You need to learn to enjoy the game itself and forget about trying to win back his past losses.

Yes, that would be better to do than suffer a lot of defeat without realizing it. We have to prevent greed from coming and really have to pay attention that gambling is not about trying to win. Maybe gambling can give us pleasure but don't forget gambling can also give us sadness when we experience defeat. And before that happens to us, we better prevent it. And don't deposit more money if you don't want to see a lot of losses.

Both winning and losing in gambling can lead you to ruin. You have to come back from there by controlling yourself. For example, if you win, you can gamble more with your winning money to win more. On the other hand, even if you lose, you will have to pursue to recover your lost money. If you can successfully control gambling between these two things, then your losses can be greatly reduced.

I think we all here as a gambler have our own share of story when it comes to going overboard even if we knew the risks and the situation we're in. Almost all stories are really similar so I won't bother sharing mine but the important thing is that, just like yours, I managed to stop that habit because it could potentially hurt my savings if I will just let myself dive and chase the losses with the hopes of covering it up or earn.

By the way, if we talk about preliminary preparation, there are many different casino simulator programs. In the place of beginners, I would hone my strategies with the help of such programs than spend money in a real casino to find out what is already clear right away - you can’t come up with a strategy to beat the casino. But people act irrationally...

Many gamblers deposit other funds in the hope of recovering at least 50% of the impact of previous losses so using money exceeds the daily threshold to gamble, if the aim is to cover previous losses then it causes another loss because you can't control yourself to stop when you have used the funds others to gamble.

If you win, you better leave the game immediately, withdraw the winning money, and enjoy it because it will not be easy to win another amount of winning money. And if you lose several times and almost halve the money you previously had, it's better to leave the game immediately because your emotions may rise and make you want to recover your losses. It can also make you experience a loss that might be bigger. And I agree that, in this case, self-control will be necessary so that we do not risk losing a large amount of money.

You are right. it is important to be able to hold back and step back for a moment and prepare to return with a calm mind. but it is very difficult to stop, especially if we have suffered a lot of losses and we even want to double the bet so that we can reverse our lost capital. so this is where we really have to be good at holding back our own feelings that want to reverse capital in a fast time. when we have feelings like that we are actually in a bad mental state. and indeed must stop to rest. and maybe we can come back when we're mentally calmer.

there is nothing wrong in trying to win but at least we must know our limits in chasing ? because the big problem only occurs once the gambler takes ahead of the limits and bet everything that even he cannot afford to lose.
with those act mostly the gambler becomes a loser if not addicted so try to focus in what will happen in the future than living just what in the present because the effect of gambling is so much to handle if you missed taking a right path.

In gambling we must know already our limits and of course the budget itself, some people having a hope in investing a lot to play gambling and getting a chance to get a huge amount of multiplier, still it is ideal to have your gambling strategy or technique for make sure as a preparation for your playing because not all the time we can get a huge amount of profit when playing. Gambler who often lose their control and decision making in playing are the one who becomes greedy to earn their money back and makes toward to more losing of assets.

In the world of gambling we must feel this especially those of us who have already made a big profit so when the next game we do it, the awareness will disappear until we can feel such a profit again, even in times of difficult situations like the one you said have exceeded our financial limits but we are still rushing to find a way to continue the game, then it is very rare for people to be able to control this situation and eventually they lose everything, bad habits are indeed difficult for us to eliminate in an instant but by means of being able to control the situation then such a thing will definitely be resolved.

What do you guys mean "we are not"? We can say that gambling sites are luring us but it's also our fault too because we continue playing even if we knew it. It's always better to have a plan or a goal because most of us can stick with it and once we achieve it, we will then stop although I know there are times where we can exceed or short when what we have planned but there will be a reason for that.

There are no perfect gamblers anyway but what important is that we are trying hard to correct our previous mistakes and we can stick to our set plans most of the times. That goal or plan must also be realistic so that it will not be hard for you to follow it.

It seems to me that such gamblers need to understand one simple thing - you can't go back to yesterday, no matter how much you want to. So I think that if a person is trying to win back his past losses, then he clearly already has a gambling addiction with which you need to fight by all available means. If a person has no control over his actions in gambling, it is likely to lead to bad consequences. And I would encourage them to pay attention to this as soon as possible.

It depends on how we can control ourselves by limiting the amount of money we use on gambling. Thus, we will not try to bet beyond our financial limits because we already know the risks so we are still on the right track. And even though we can have luck at the time of gambling and by chance, we can win some money in gambling games, we will not increase the number of bets because it can provide a greater risk of losing. So we just play gambling and have fun by not forgetting that gambling games are not a place to make money.

Actually, there are various ways for us to control our gambling activities whether it's by limiting the amount we gamble or by not overspending our bankroll to avoid future losses. However, one way that works very well for me is by assessing the situations such as our funds, limits, bets, gambling activities and/or even knowing when to stop. I myself sometimes try to deposit more when losing on my gambling activities however it depends on my spending limits or extra funds. If I don't have any more extra funds, then I immediately stop my gambling activities whether I win or not. Also, we must be able to assess our winning situation and losing situation as we can be at a much greater loss if we don't know when to stop just like what we do on investment, we try to cut loss.

While it may not seem to make any sense there is a lot of people that think like that, they believe they are so exceptional that just by virtue of being themselves they do not really need to do anything but make a few bets and earn money when they gamble, I know that for us this sounds ridiculous but many people have that kind of thinking and they apply it everywhere, and example of this was when I was at school and a lot of my peers did not prepare themselves for the upcoming test and yet they thought they will get good grades, and when they did not they made all kind of excuses instead of accepting they simply did not deserved to get a good grade.

This is no news that there are really individuals who think they are extraordinary and superior to others because of the qualities they have. I have encountered so many people that has that kind of attitude and it reflects on their behavior as well. I believe this kind of mentality can really cost them so much. The complacency and arrogances reeks unfortunate scenarios waiting to happen.

Gambling is not about making a bet and automatically you'll win it. It's a matter of chance. And perhaps their several chances that turned out great really made them believe they are exceptional or they have exceptional skills when in fact they don't, and it's just all in their head. This could put their funds at risk and could really disappoint and make them very anxious big time if they won't acknowledge that gambling is a mix of strategies, game approach, and luck.

I also had the same experience as you before, depositing more money than usual and using it to gamble. Instead of winning, I lost all the money but that didn't stop me from depositing some more money. And I've also lost more games in one day, which made me regret it after the defeat. Since then, I have tried to realize that gambling does not necessarily have to cost a lot of money because we must never forget our goals in gambling. And if we just want to have fun in our spare time, we only need to spend enough money and stop immediately when we feel we have played enough. Never break these rules. Otherwise, we will surely suffer a huge loss at once.

Gambling is not a place to make money? Then what is it? A place to play games? Coz if you're looking to just play a game, then I believe you're in the wrong place. You could've gone to arcade spot.
Whether you like it or not, gambling always involves money and it is definitely a place to either lose or earn money by playing a game. It is actually a fun and enjoyable way to earn money, until you lose everything, that'll put you in misery real quick lol.

When a situation like this occurs that you get hooked on playing, eventhough if it is not for financial need, it becomes an addiction. This is where gambling becomes bad. Every gambler has to know when to quit, whether they are having a bad day or a good day. I see those who linger at the table at the casino as being irresponsible. Play a few cards or dice and get out is the way to stay healthy in gambling.

And that's it, staying healthy while you gamble is the harder part.

It's easier said than done because it has happened to many gamblers that at first, they're reminding themselves that they should only gamble what they can afford to lose and get out when they had a losing streak.

But instead of stopping, they want to chase losses.

Gambling is where people can find pleasure in playing many gambling games. They can assume if they win, it is a bonus. People feel they can make money from the game so they spend more and hope to win a lot of money.

If you really want to make money, go to work and wait until you get paid. If you make money but have to spend it, it's not making money because you risk losing it. You could call it a fun way to make money, but not if you're on a losing streak ;D lol.

Gambling has a different basis for understanding by some people and that I think is true, but I agree more that gambling is one aspect of making easy in money. And maybe some people outside this forum whose daily life is just gambling for the sake of making money. But in the context of gambling, we must have a strategy in playing when you achieve victory, then you can stop playing at that time because if not, victory can be lost due to emotions that hit your mind and I have experienced things like this. win stop and withdraw your winnings for you to enjoy. Come back another day with a calmer mood.

There is no end to human needs. When a gambler wins a big bet, if he continues to gamble without controlling himself, the gambler is sure to lose his winnings. A major fault of gamblers is that they over-bet when they win and over-bet when they lose. He is likely to lose if he is not careful on both sides.

A responsible gambler should know when and how to apply caution to his gambling rate especially when it gotten allover him as an habit, some don't care to eat, or fulfill some tasks a d responsibilities ahead all because gambling has taken away their precious right thinking minds, begin to take note of yourself whenever two or more people are giving complaints about your involvement into gambling, if you must gamble then other areas of your life and people around you must not suffer the cost to your commited gambling activities.

You see, perception is very important. People see gambling as a way to sort out their all financial problems and through that, many have lost the little they have gathered in just within a short period of time because of their greed, hence why people always say gambling is for fun, if you gamble and it turns out to be a jackpot, they do celebrate it, we all like money after all including the casinos who says gambling is for the fun of it.
Everyone in gambling is there to make money but the risk involved is probability, putting all hopes in an event shouldn't be term as money making literally, you can lose and can also make money but putting hopes on that is not a good idea.

I think the key is to have hard limits of money you put into a gambling day/night.

Once that money runs out, you shouldn't really put any more money into it, as that's probably the start of your financial ruin.

The moment there's no control of your spending is the moment you basically have a gambling addiction problem.

Make yourself aware that gambling isnt money making but its impossible for someone not to mind off about on making money which could really be the fasted and instant way when you are dealing with gambling and

this what makes people desperate or somewhat been boosted up with their emotions or feelings which would result into those bad actions or decisions.Betting should really be on controlled manner.

Always set out limits and never go beyond your financial allocation on that particular session.Most people got broke is into those who had really go beyond
those borders which they should have called it a day and stop completely to avoid more losses.

Agreed, with gambling it is a must to get fixed to the rules framed. Myself used to set limits and when I loss certain part of the capital I was supposed to leave. What I do, increase the bet amount to recover. Then after emptying the wallet used to withdraw from the vault. As said when we stick to limits we can stay out of addiction as well as have good gambling entertainment.

If they don't understand it, it's their fault because gambling carries a greater risk than the rewards they can get.
Most beginners do not understand when to play gambling and when to stop.
They just deposit the money and then play and when the money runs out, they will deposit the money again.
And if they don't learn from their previous experience about losing money, they will still lose it and not realize it.

some uses for fun but majority for profit while the truth is? they only gather losses more than they can win so yes this is attracting gamblers to play more and to increase their earnings as the more players deposit meaning the more winning from the team and the site.
gamble with your enough fund to lose and never let your greediness wins against you .

Some of them keep hoping to get a good profit return that's one of the factors why people keep playing gambling to the rich people some of them see the playing of gambling as entertainment because they can spend a lot of money and whether they lose or not at the end of the day they got entertained by the people, and some people seeing the gambling as an opportunity to multiply the amount of money they have by taking the risk to play gambling, if you win it is good but again not all the time playing gambling is the most efficient way to earn daily still having different sources of assets is the most effective one and playing spare money for satisfaction is the best.

Gaining profit is undeniably one of the factors why people are doing gambling. There are different rich people but we can generalized them as the ones who are seeking for entertainment aside from profit where people who are in the low or middle class aims profit more than the entertainment that rich people wants. Rich people tends to gamble at a higher bets than normal gambler because they get an adrenaline rush from it and it adds extra boost for the entertainment they get but at the end of the day they can still continue the life they are on even they lose multiple times and this is what separates us to very rich gamblers.

Yup, it is gamblers obligation or responsibilities to make the right decisions before starting their bets, losing your control will be very risky in terms of losing a lot of money, best not to dwell with good entertainment but also make sure to monitor your finances, if you feel that you are already exceeding and your lust still pushing you to continue, the best practice is to stop or pause for a while, get some air and re-think of your actions.

It saves you a lot both time and money that you will going to spend while gambling, it's important not to make that mistake and then regret when you already lose everything.

when we do something that makes us look happy both in gambling, of course it will be difficult to limit anything, I've experienced it also lose money when I feel engrossed in betting in dice games and yes it makes me think I should control myself to set playing hours and limit the amount of money I want to play in gambling, actually I just want to have fun but sometimes I get serious and cross the line when playing

Everyone knows these feelings. I'm lucky that I'm greedy  ;D so even when I win I don't really get involved in gambling because if I think about income, the income from winning gambling (or betting) is complete nonsense as it is not stable. Therefore, if I have a mood and I enjoy gambling, then I can afford it (for a small amount of money), if there is no mood, then I ignore it. There is no dependency and no special tricks I have to do to limit myself.

The rich by virtue of all the money they have saved over the years can do things that are impossible for us, and gambling a lot of money is one of those things, for people without that kind of money making bets that big will eventually bring them to ruin but for them it is not a big deal, as such it is important to understand the difference in terms of the money we can afford to lose and to never mimic their behavior, as a single session could be more than enough to make us lose a fortune.

Not personally, though these sort of circumstances are the tipping point into gambling addiction. Another being chasing losses, rather than an addiction to a particular game or form of betting. Gambler's fallacy is a real thing, the psychology of it will induce someone to gamble more than they can afford to lose which is why gambling should strictly be a form of entertainment, not a money making scheme.

Sometimes I laugh to myself when we talk about the gambler's responsibility because, in the past, I was the one who often forgot the time to stop gambling, especially when I got a win.
But what you say is true and I agree with you.
We can risk losing a lot of money if we don't have self-control in playing gambling and many people have experienced it, including me ;D
And if that hasn't happened to them yet, they should quickly learn more about gambling self-control before they have a bad experience of losing money.