How Problem Gambler Feels After Losing

[Rruchi man]

Chasing losses

I recently lost on slots and couldn't meet up the minimum amount to make a withdrawal, I was disappointed and after a while went back to "chase my losses", guess what, I lost some more. I think that is regular for people to chase after a loss to try to win back all or even some as consolation. It can be a problem but cannot turn you into a problem gambler if you do it rarely because just like me you gamble occasionally.  

Chasing after losses becomes problematic however, when you gamble regularly say almost everyday, and you keep making losses and chasing after them. This is the quickest way to make huge financial losses and subscribe yourself for depression.

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[goldkingcoiner]

I have definitely experienced the bad sides of losing from gambling. Especially when it comes to, as OP mentioned, to chasing the money that you lost. You keep trying to win it back and you make more losses. They next knee-jerk reaction to losing even more gambling funds is to involve yourself in riskier bets because you feel like if you get lucky enough, you can win back all your losses in a single bet. I ashamingly admit I have done this before.

The best thing to do in this situation is to admit you won't win any losses back and get away from gambling while your head needs to cool down.

[bitzizzix]

Gambling is a game of chance, most people think. Hockey betting.
if I fail to win on the first try, maybe I will succeed next time, if still lose, play again.
Then, I was very angry. I was ambitious to be able to win and giving up after losing was a coward.

This is what I like to experience, when you lose there is bound to be feelings of frustration, curiosity, emotion and ambition and I'm sure everyone has experienced it without realizing it. And I think gambling is designed that way and we should really try and learn to control ourselves.
but gradually all of that can be overcome by learning from mistakes and becoming a responsible and disciplined gambler.

[Rigon]

After losing a gambling game, our minds disappear and we will never gamble again.Gambling is a very bad thing and we will never do it.But after some time our mind gets attracted to gambling again.And the temptation to gamble more and to gamble again.It is an addiction that once you are addicted it is very difficult to get out.But I will say only one thing that when people lose in gambling, for a short time, bad concentration works in them that they will never gamble again.

[Daltonik]

Here, as it seems to me, everything is very individual, for example, I understand perfectly well that I am not a successful gambler and nevertheless I play from time to time, I don't know why, apparently still because of the desire to try my luck, but having lost once again I only prove to myself that karma is not so easy to change.

[Davidvictorson]

Post-Loss Speeding

Gamblers often engage in “post-loss speeding” by placing another bet quicker following a loss because frustration from the defeat prompts them to try and win back their money. As a result, gamblers become more impulsive - instead of becoming more cautious about spending money, they become more reckless.

I do not know if this counts as "Post-Loss Speeding" but one time play slot and had 100 spins. After I have finished the spins, the money I won was below the withdrawal limit. I got a pop up to place more bet and I immediately used the money won to bet again hoping to win enough money to be able to withdraw it. I ended up not even winning up to the previous amount. Does this count as post-loss speeding?

Solution:

• Be honest with yourself

Self-talk or as I call it self-therapy is the first step to overcoming any addiction especially gambling. No one knows you better than you. And even if you end up lying to others about your gambling problem, you cannot lie to yourself. An honest conversation with yourself about the triggers, and how strategies to overcome gambling always works.

[arimamib]

Anyone experiencing/experienced a gambling disorder pls. feel free to share your feelings after losing/winning.

Losing is one thing that can not be avoided by gamblers, gambling only offers 30% Win and 70% Lose (in my view during gambling). The chance of losing is greater than winning, for that reason I have never regretted how much money I spent gambling because the potential for winning is smaller than losing.
Feelings of joy will never be shown by a gambler when he is losing, but satisfaction is certainly obtained after leaving the gambling place because he already knows that gambling offers more defeat than victory.

[Vaskiy]

My experience is really worse, because I made something around $10k when the price of bitcoin was $55k. It was really happiest moment, but the same didn't last long. With that I was able to recover all that I've lost in gambling, more $500-$1000 in loss according to statistics. In the event of recovering the last $500-$1000 I lost the recovered $10k. That was really bad of my gambling act. After that incident few weeks I wasn't able to think of anything.

[Doell]

Of course depression when lose, but it depends on the level of depression, I personally if lose always depressed, especially when placing bets on multi. Losing 1 game that makes me depressed but can always be cured when switching it to other entertainment to fun, my experience chasing win by betting again is always uncontrolled on slot games but not with sportsbook betting, therefore I believe it depends on the game too. My feeling when I win at the slot is weird "not awesome" but winning in a sportsbook bet is a great.

[m2017]

Chasing losses

I recently lost on slots and couldn't meet up the minimum amount to make a withdrawal, I was disappointed and after a while went back to "chase my losses", guess what, I lost some more. I think that is regular for people to chase after a loss to try to win back all or even some as consolation. It can be a problem but cannot turn you into a problem gambler if you do it rarely because just like me you gamble occasionally.  

Chasing after losses becomes problematic however, when you gamble regularly say almost everyday, and you keep making losses and chasing after them. This is the quickest way to make huge financial losses and subscribe yourself for depression.

My personal negative experience is somewhat similar to yours: I lost in slots, tried to win back and as a result I lost my entire deposit. My path to this was classic: won 1 sat. - lost 3 sat., won 2 sat.- lost 5 sat. and so on. I saw where things were going and could stop, fixing smaller losses, but frustration and anger at the uncontrollability of the situation prevailed, which led to even more trouble. I immediately decided for myself that I would not recoup any more and fix this loss, I would accept the situation as it is. I haven't gambled since then and my negative experience still serves as a reminder.

[Google+]

Maybe unlike other players, what I feel when I lose a gamble is that it's hard to sleep well because this is caused by regret or because I don't play disciplined when I gamble. In general, worries can also hit me in my appetite and can't concentrate when I face problems at that time. All of these things may have also been felt by other gambling players but every defeat there is always a feeling to play again for the sake of withdrawing or returning the initial loss. Mental disorders may be caused by gambling defeats but I hope this does not happen to me.

[Slow death]

I look at the game as having two options: win or lose. simple as that... I don't regret after losing and I don't chase losses and I don't put feelings in the game, I just use my reasoning, I don't cling to the team when I play, no matter how much I'm a fan of a team when I place a bet I don't get attached, it's important to see that games are something where a person can easily lose everything and for that reason a person needs a lot of self control, a person needs a lot of strategies and a person needs to have a strong mind to deal with. with the losses

[serjent05]

Post-Loss Speeding

Gamblers often engage in “post-loss speeding” by placing another bet quicker following a loss because frustration from the defeat prompts them to try and win back their money. As a result, gamblers become more impulsive - instead of becoming more cautious about spending money, they become more reckless.

I do not know if this counts as "Post-Loss Speeding" but one time play slot and had 100 spins. After I have finished the spins, the money I won was below the withdrawal limit. I got a pop up to place more bet and I immediately used the money won to bet again hoping to win enough money to be able to withdraw it. I ended up not even winning up to the previous amount. Does this count as post-loss speeding?

According to the definition, you need to suffer a loss and then wager a higher bet due to the frustration of losing.  Your case is different, you are aiming to have the minimum amount to withdraw and that is the reason why you are forced to bet again.  So, I believe it doesn't count as post-loss speeding.

[Wakate]

After losing a gambling game, our minds disappear and we will never gamble again.Gambling is a very bad thing and we will never do it.But after some time our mind gets attracted to gambling again.And the temptation to gamble more and to gamble again.It is an addiction that once you are addicted it is very difficult to get out.But I will say only one thing that when people lose in gambling, for a short time, bad concentration works in them that they will never gamble again.

Gambling is not a bad thing and all depends on the way we gamble. Gambling supposed to be lite and simple. We should not gamble with what we know we can't afford to lose because of greed. I think greed is one of the reasons why many gamblers had lost bigger funds in the history of gambling. If you gamble with what you know you can afford to lose then there is high risk of losing than winning. Because of what we think we will gain, we end up using our last hope or fund to gamble and finally lose.

[Oshosondy]

Chasing after losses becomes problematic however, when you gamble regularly say almost everyday, and you keep making losses and chasing after them. This is the quickest way to make huge financial losses and subscribe yourself for depression.

If I could recall vividly, I was not the type that chase losses but I gamble most often, I continue to lose and lose until I stopped gambling for a year and some weeks or days. Frequent gambling on its own is very risky. Quality gambling is better than quantity gambling.

Chasing losses is of this category too but also worse because a gambler can lose the whole money he is using to gamble in just a day after first loss, he will continue to gamble until all the money is lost and realized that. Chasing losses create a very mindset in gamblers mind that fall for it and loss is the most possible result.

[darkangel11]

I had this feeling in both gambling and online gaming.
When you lose and feel miserable you want to keep playing to prevent yourself from going back to the real life and facing what had happened. You'd rather stay in that mindset that you had when you were playing and hope that you'll either win and calm your nerves or get so tired that you won't be able to think about it anymore.

I also had a feeling of wanting to beat myself even more. Like I made a mistake and continue because I feel like it can't get much worse from this point even though it can. It can always get worse and worse as long as you're alive. Only dying is the ultimate bottom that you can reach, but people who are depressed rarely see things as they are.

[BitcoinPanther]

I had this feeling in both gambling and online gaming.
When you lose and feel miserable you want to keep playing to prevent yourself from going back to the real life and facing what had happened. You'd rather stay in that mindset that you had when you were playing and hope that you'll either win and calm your nerves or get so tired that you won't be able to think about it anymore.

I think this is the case where you are hiding from reality.  You drown yourself with other things than facing that reality and this time you choose to do it with gambling.

I also had a feeling of wanting to beat myself even more. Like I made a mistake and continue because I feel like it can't get much worse from this point even though it can. It can always get worse and worse as long as you're alive. Only dying is the ultimate bottom that you can reach, but people who are depressed rarely see things as they are.

Or it can be better if you faced the problem.  Life is a two-way street, depending in our action and which path we chose.  In gambling being depressed after losing is bound to happen when we are left with nothing.  But we should face the fact that we made a mistake and are eager to take responsibility on it and works our way to correct that mistake,  By accepting things around us, and moving forward while facing and fixing our gambling problem, life will get better each day.

[Hydrogen]

Problem gamblers who lost 100 straight bets. Would probably think they were overdue for a winning streak. They don't understand that there is no statute of limitations on bad decisions.

100 consecutive bad decisions doesn't imply a person gains a higher probability of making 100 consecutive good decisions. That could be one aspect to problem gamblers that has difficulty sinking in.

Typically problem gamblers I have seen also fail to comprehend basics of gambling. They will bet on a -200 line expecting it to have near to 50/50 accuracy. Not recognizing there are considerable mitigating circumstances surrounding the mathematics of lines oddsmakers publish.

A big part of being a problem gambler could simply come down to lacking context and a general understanding of the mechanics involved.

Problem gamblers have inaccurate ideas about gambling. Which leads to them usually making the same mistakes over long periods of time.

[Johnyz]

My experience is really worse, because I made something around $10k when the price of bitcoin was $55k. It was really happiest moment, but the same didn't last long. With that I was able to recover all that I've lost in gambling, more $500-$1000 in loss according to statistics. In the event of recovering the last $500-$1000 I lost the recovered $10k. That was really bad of my gambling act. After that incident few weeks I wasn't able to think of anything.

This is the risk of chasing our losses, we tend to gamble more with a hope that we can recover the whole amount but in reality its going not to be easy. This is also where addiction started, if you can’t control yourself and continue to chase loses and aiming for more, many gamblers losses their capital because of this. Seek help if you think you are already trap in gambling, know that you are not alone and you still have your family to guide you and heal your broken life, addiction may be bad but in the end, family can still accept you.

[Renampun]

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Why do gamblers continue to bet even after they lost?

With all the effort of planning, setting a bankroll budget, and time limit, gamblers tend to bypass this plan and continue gambling.  It was said that Gamblers specifically compulsive gamblers don't just gamble for money.  Since compulsive gambling is a behavioral disorder that alters the brain[1], there are more varieties of reasons and motivations to gamble.
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if we collect real data (poll) based on this board only then we get all kinds of reasons someone is tied to gambling...

I agree with a gambler (in the category of heavy addicts) to reduce their gambling activities, is by being open / joining a community because there we will see each one strengthening each other, providing input and steps slowly to reduce gambling activities. A gambler who is losing will definitely not give up even though he has lost and will keep coming back. only a small number of heavy gamblers can actually stop gambling, most are able to control and balance their gambling portion.