You won today, but then you will lose often

[tabas]

For me I can't bet what I can't afford to loose. What is gambling if I can't boast of a common win or make constant loose.

True.
You shouldn't bet if you don't have the money that you're very fine to lose. That should be remembered by everyone that if you don't have money, just don't gamble.
It won't lessen yourself being a person, you just have to let go and lower your pride.

[dunfida]

For me I can't bet what I can't afford to loose. What is gambling if I can't boast of a common win or make constant loose.

True.
You shouldn't bet if you don't have the money that you're very fine to lose. That should be remembered by everyone that if you don't have money, just don't gamble.
It won't lessen yourself being a person, you just have to let go and lower your pride.

We arent talking about pride but rather those intents that you do have in mind on becoming rich via gambling and this is the most common thing that we can see on everyone who do gamble.
Some might really be just playing for fun but majority are on the opposite side.Dont make yourself greedy and dont chase up losses because these are the most common mistake
on where people do able to commit.Its not good for long term and if you do won amounts then think off that these are just bonuses out of those leisure that you had get.
Dont make it as a main source of income and stick on whats the real purpose of gambling in the first place.

[janggernaut]

Back then, i was a fulltime gambler. Win some and lose some, there were even when i won a bit money, but in the end i've lost it all after 1 week later and it wiped out all of my winnings before include my bankroll. Then i realized i can't always like this, then decided to gamble what i can afford to lose without chasing my loss before (although many times i still wanna chasing that).

[Shasha80]

Back then, i was a fulltime gambler. Win some and lose some, there were even when i won a bit money, but in the end i've lost it all after 1 week later and it wiped out all of my winnings before include my bankroll. Then i realized i can't always like this, then decided to gamble what i can afford to lose without chasing my loss before (although many times i still wanna chasing that).

I can learn from your experience that gambling cannot be a source of income, because as you experience in the end the victory you get can be lost
if you play gambling in the long run. And there is no point in catching up with the losses we experience when playing gambling. Because it only causes
even greater losses. I agree it is better to gamble what we can afford to lose is so much better.

[xSkylarx]

Greed is really hard to overcome especially when you are already addicted to gambling. You can't forget that time you've won so you can't stop thinking about doing it again and your inner self tells you to deposit more to have bigger profits. The risk of losing does not come to your mind, you will just chase your losses thinking that it is easy to recover if you will win.

Self-discipline is a big factor to get rid of someone's gambling addiction. Even if there are already people ready to help him stay away from it, but the gambler himself is not determined to quit gambling and still think of it often then he will still go back to that habit.

[Beparanf]

Back then, i was a fulltime gambler. Win some and lose some, there were even when i won a bit money, but in the end i've lost it all after 1 week later and it wiped out all of my winnings before include my bankroll. Then i realized i can't always like this, then decided to gamble what i can afford to lose without chasing my loss before (although many times i still wanna chasing that).

Is there any difference in terms of profitability? You are still gambling according to your statement, the only difference was the money you are risking is not that pretty much significant. I do gamble but very rare nowadays since I already tired of the win & lose cycle. At the end of the day, I'm only get tired and stress whenever I lose even though I'm only risking small amount of money.

[aioc]

I do gamble but very rare nowadays since I already tired of the win & lose cycle. At the end of the day, I'm only get tired and stress whenever I lose even though I'm only risking small amount of money.

Well you are not addicted to gambling you can stop whenever you want to, something other gamblers are finding it hard to do, gambling is something that should not depress you it should be fun and exciting, small or big amount it should be something that will relax us, if it's not then it's time to stop or only do this if you want to.

[traderethereum]

I do gamble but very rare nowadays since I already tired of the win & lose cycle. At the end of the day, I'm only get tired and stress whenever I lose even though I'm only risking small amount of money.

Well you are not addicted to gambling you can stop whenever you want to, something other gamblers are finding it hard to do, gambling is something that should not depress you it should be fun and exciting, small or big amount it should be something that will relax us, if it's not then it's time to stop or only do this if you want to.

Yes, it is. When he is addicted to gambling, that will be hard to stop anytime.
Besides that, he will only think to play gambling and use more money.
Before you are late to realize, you need to take a break when you feel tired and do not stress with your loss because playing gambling will only give you result, win or lose.
So it is better to enjoy the games and do not chase for the winning because that will be too hard.

[XZERO1]

How to get rid of gambling addiction?

Limit yourself to a certain amount of funds for gambling, and even go as far as closing any easy access to your funds that you're not planning to gamble on, so for instance if you lost $1k in a day/week you stop and wait for another day or week, this could help you to minimize gambling as a revenge to get your lost money back which usually gets gamblers trapped in a very long gambling sessions which will eventually make you addicted.

Generally if you gamble for more than 1-2 hours a day you should be really careful about your gambling habits as it starts from 2-3 hours a day and could increase to 5 or more hours a day if you got that much enough time to kill.

[macson]

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from your story, actually the one who is wrong is yourself.  You tell us that you are out of control! so your weakness is in "self-control".  gambling is designed to make you addicted and curious ^{(no debate)} but if you can manage your emotions and yourself greed then you will definitely not loss.

winning once but losing many times is a sad thing.

[tabas]

For me I can't bet what I can't afford to loose. What is gambling if I can't boast of a common win or make constant loose.

True.
You shouldn't bet if you don't have the money that you're very fine to lose. That should be remembered by everyone that if you don't have money, just don't gamble.
It won't lessen yourself being a person, you just have to let go and lower your pride.

We arent talking about pride but rather those intents that you do have in mind on becoming rich via gambling and this is the most common thing that we can see on everyone who do gamble.
Some might really be just playing for fun but majority are on the opposite side.Dont make yourself greedy and dont chase up losses because these are the most common mistake
on where people do able to commit.Its not good for long term and if you do won amounts then think off that these are just bonuses out of those leisure that you had get.
Dont make it as a main source of income and stick on whats the real purpose of gambling in the first place.

To me, that's still sort of pride if you have a thinking like that. Majority of us can't really make it as the main source of our income because we just can't and we know how risky to rely on it.
Gamble sometimes and be sure to it that if you've won, you'll enjoy your profits before it's taken back again by the casino.

[Onuohakk]

Ever since my first win in a bet, I have been finding it hard to win again. It's very pathetic hoping and believing that am going to win again. It saddens my heart that I have spent much more money than what I have collected from my first win of bet.
How I wish I could let go of this stupid addiction to gambling. Am been bankrupt because of it (gambling)

[mirakal]

Ever since my first win in a bet, I have been finding it hard to win again. It's very pathetic hoping and believing that am going to win again. It saddens my heart that I have spent much more money than what I have collected from my first win of bet.
How I wish I could let go of this stupid addiction to gambling. Am been bankrupt because of it (gambling)

You've been bankcrupt so you have to learn from that experience, it's you who are in control of yourself, so be smart and be matured in facing your problem. It's alright to gamble as long as you are discipline and in control, but if not, that would ruin your life.

Winning is not hard, but we have to realize that in the long run we will still lose, so don't be greedy, enjoy the moment, don't count your loses a lot as it would not affect you if you are just gambling what you can afford to lose, a win today has to be enjoyed as tomorrow is another day, if you lose next time, stop and gamble again tommorrow, in short never chase your loses.

[Lorence.xD]

Back then, i was a fulltime gambler. Win some and lose some, there were even when i won a bit money, but in the end i've lost it all after 1 week later and it wiped out all of my winnings before include my bankroll. Then i realized i can't always like this, then decided to gamble what i can afford to lose without chasing my loss before (although many times i still wanna chasing that).

You could've quit but I understand that quitting on something is going to be a difficult one because habits die hard. I don't like the idea that you are still gambling altogether but hey at the least you are keeping your addiction from becoming destructive at bay but this is not a sustainable long-term especially if you plan to have a family.

[Wexnident]

But with unlimited bankroll we can actually win if we follow a martingale strategy. I agree that there is a lot of luck involved in gambling, but also skill. The more experienced we are the better we adapt to our gambling outcomes. Managing emotions is key for success, which usually comes easier to us the longer we gamble. I still remember how devastated I felt during my first big blow ups. However now I know that the money can always be won again, its best to remain calm. As long as we don't lose borrowed money we will be fine.

A week late but oh well There's no skill involved in gambling. It's all about luck. Managing our emotions? Martingale strategies? Those are about handling your bankroll, your money, not about gambling. Gambling would always follow that 50/50 chance, no matter what. Odds may skew to lower your chances of winning (increased odds) but it would never increase your chances of winning.

Ever since my first win in a bet, I have been finding it hard to win again. It's very pathetic hoping and believing that am going to win again. It saddens my heart that I have spent much more money than what I have collected from my first win of bet.
How I wish I could let go of this stupid addiction to gambling. Am been bankrupt because of it (gambling)

Stop playing with odds stacked against you. Stop going for the big wins, but accumulate small ones. No one wins in a game that has the odds stacked against you, it's a minuscule chance and it probably wouldn't even be worth it risking the money you have. But hey, if you're in it to enjoy it's a whatever for me, but if you have that mentality that your saddened and depressed cause of the money you spent, stop betting big with high odds, and start betting slowly instead.

[BTCLiz]

Ever since my first win in a bet, I have been finding it hard to win again. It's very pathetic hoping and believing that am going to win again. It saddens my heart that I have spent much more money than what I have collected from my first win of bet.
How I wish I could let go of this stupid addiction to gambling. Am been bankrupt because of it (gambling)

I'm very sorry for you. Maybe it is a solution to go to some special group where gamblers come together helping each other? Maybee the first step to go there will be hard, but I think it will be +EV in the long run. Stay clean!

[michellee]

Ever since my first win in a bet, I have been finding it hard to win again. It's very pathetic hoping and believing that am going to win again. It saddens my heart that I have spent much more money than what I have collected from my first win of bet.
How I wish I could let go of this stupid addiction to gambling. Am been bankrupt because of it (gambling)

The first time we gamble, we can easily win and attract us to play again on the other days. We will think that playing gambling is easy because we can win the games. But we will hard to win again and even if we try more and more, that will not give us a bigger chance besides losing more money. The risk that we will get because of trying to play more is only losing the money and we will not have a bigger chance to recover the lost money. You can try to stop gambling for a while and trying doing something that is not related to gambling. You need to prevent your mind from thinking about gambling and that is why you need to make yourself busy with the other activity.

[livingfree]

Ever since my first win in a bet, I have been finding it hard to win again. It's very pathetic hoping and believing that am going to win again. It saddens my heart that I have spent much more money than what I have collected from my first win of bet.
How I wish I could let go of this stupid addiction to gambling.

Sorry with what you've going through but it's the effect of our action and we should have been cautious with our decisions before we proceeded.

Am been bankrupt because of it (gambling)

You have decided to gamble and it's very common that you're going to have more chance of losing. And if you're not too careful with what you do and you didn't secured your profits and instead you gambled with more than what you have, you're checkmate and did it wrongly.

[Kong Hey Pakboy]

I'm very sorry for you. Maybe it is a solution to go to some special group where gamblers come together helping each other? Maybee the first step to go there will be hard, but I think it will be +EV in the long run. Stay clean!

I have heard of something like this, from what I can recall there is only one for the alcoholics but I think there are other support groups that does this, maybe that person can find the right support group but I believe that family should be doing that because they understand the person the most but their weakness is that they don't understand that someone is sick.

[Mauser]

Ever since my first win in a bet, I have been finding it hard to win again. It's very pathetic hoping and believing that am going to win again. It saddens my heart that I have spent much more money than what I have collected from my first win of bet.
How I wish I could let go of this stupid addiction to gambling. Am been bankrupt because of it (gambling)

The first time we gamble, we can easily win and attract us to play again on the other days. We will think that playing gambling is easy because we can win the games. But we will hard to win again and even if we try more and more, that will not give us a bigger chance besides losing more money. The risk that we will get because of trying to play more is only losing the money and we will not have a bigger chance to recover the lost money. You can try to stop gambling for a while and trying doing something that is not related to gambling. You need to prevent your mind from thinking about gambling and that is why you need to make yourself busy with the other activity.

I think our mind likes to play tricks on us. We always focus more on the winnings than on the losing chances. We see the potential profits and already take it for granted. It looks like our mind under values risk and over values rewards. It therefore very important that we keep our personal risk management in check. Maybe our friends or family can help us to control our gambling habits. Avoiding a gambling addiction or helping us to fight it is very important. We can't do it on our own.