Gambling - Eating your Brain and Money

[Kanda Yu]

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

[Rufsilf]

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

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

[TheCoinGrabber]

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

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

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

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

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

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

[LogitechMouse]

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

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

[Natalim]

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

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

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

[uneng]

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

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

[MakeMoneyBtc]

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

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

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

[btcmegastar]

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

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

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

[SirLancelot]

Gambling losing streak,

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

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

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

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

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

[Becky666]

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

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

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

[EdenHazard]

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

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

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

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

[Bitcotalk]

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

[Alpinat]

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

[DoublerHunter]

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

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

[MakeMoneyBtc]

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

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

[swogerino]

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

[panjul07]

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

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

[davinchi]

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

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

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

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

[Tungsten-1]

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

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

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

[mich]

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