Gambling for fun, is it a lie that we tell ourselves?

[Oilacris]

I know for sure that if we take periodic account of how many times that we gamble, maybe weekly, monthly or yearly, we'll find out that the loses are far greater than the winnings, so I sometimes wonder how we can be indulging in something that we lose far more than we gain, in the name of having fun. I know that it's human nature to want to conquer, defeat, control and be the leader, yet we go into gambling knowing that the system doesn't give us a fair advantage of achieving these aims, yet we're happy to go back and likely be defeated again.

Looking at your calculations alone, you can see that gambling is not just for the winning alone; both the winning and the fun contribute massively to why people gamble.
 
If I'm gambling and over 10–20 times I gamble within a week or month, I happen to lose more often and no profit is being made, then I will have to leave the game and focus on other things. The fun in the gambling is what will keep me going, if not in a business sense. Such spending without getting anything in return should be avoided.
 
To avoid chasing losses is part of responsible gambling, and keeping our emotions under watch is all part of it. If fun is not in play and all we see is how to make profit, we might cross the line and turn ourselves into addicts.

Fun is something that you should really be that minding on and not on the money that it could give because on the time that you would really be that having those kind of impressions then it would really be just that making you that desperate and this is something that wont really be  that good. It is really just that there are people who do have those kind of change of impressions on the time that they would really be playing on which they would really be having that kind of impressions and this is where shit things do really start to happen on which on the time that you are really that making yourself blind and you would really be starting on messing up your finances as you do go further ahead and this is something that just very common in every gambler.

[PX-Z]

With all the explanations and replies above, i hope people will realize that gambling is not for winning. The longer you gamble, the greater your losses. That's why gambling is labeled sometimes as a form of entertainment for this reasons that it's for you to have fun and pay ^(bet) the service you choose. Although people win, it is considered as lucky if they win or stopped the game and go home with a win.

[johnsaributua]

People come in all kinds of characters, but everyone is the same when asked about money, which is to spin money to generate more value even though sometimes it runs out or gets stuck on a simple gambling game.

Some aspects of our lives involve gambling. Spending money, buying something is consumable and buying again even though we realize the money is used or only for necessities and do not expect significant benefits.

I hold the view that games and gambling do not always have to have more results, if there are results going home, also if the mood and circumstances are not in favor, I divert other pleasures, why force it. I don't hide behind the word fun just for greed or a short way of thinking to multiply money, and not also because instead of scapegoating fun when defeat comes.

[oktana]

It is still very possible that there is fun even when you have a high chance of losing your bet. Because maybe the person who is gambling enjoys taking huge risks and derives joy from it. However, I don’t really really believe in gambling for fun. I understand it, but I don’t trust nor believe in it. To gamble for fun (in the way it’s always been said), you need to have self control. I’m saying this because you can start off by using tiny amount of money just because you enjoy winning, but then the human nature comes in. Your mind could question you as to why you aren’t staking more since you’re doing really well at the prediction, and from the moment you fall for it (the average human will likely fall, IMO), it’s no more for fun, you want to make money.

If the gambler consider the gambling for the entertainment,their loss of the money also doesn’t affect him.It also allow the gambler to avoid of the gambling without any emotional distress in the game.So finally the gambler will get more chance of the winning due to play the fair game in the gambling site.The gambler only know this fact that the gamblers who play the game with the idea to win the game,he will not win at the end.The reason was the emotional interference of the game at the losing the entire dollars or make the gambler to get stress at the small dollar of the loss of money at the initial stage of the game in gambling site.

What you said in your first sentence is not entirely true. I understand that what you said will be the mentality in that case however, I don’t believe that it’ll be the case. Who derives joy from losing their money? I think that even if you are staking a tiny amount of money, you still feel somehow that you are losing and maybe you need to stop because it’s not getting any more interesting. Or maybe let me ask, can someone who is “playing for fun” play with $1 and lose 50 times and still enjoys the game? The money lost is not fun, at all.

[1000winss]

Pretty much all I have been doing lately is gambling for FUN lol... Jokes aside (it's the name of the crypto gambling token), I feel that as long as you limit yourself to gambling with what you can afford to lose, and don't expect to win every time so that it doesn't affect your mood for thigs outside of gambling, you should be fine. Now, if it was as easy to actually abide by these principles as it is to talk about them, guess we would not have any addicts in this world lol

[Chikito]

Now, if it was as easy to actually abide by these principles as it is to talk about them, guess we would not have any addicts in this world lol

There are many ways that casinos use the strategy to break your principles even if you win and rush to log out. I ever intended to stop if I won $100 and withdraw the profit soon. But, I don't know what happened to all my profit (won $100) and lose. I didn't even stop after reached the winning, there are something like a magical whisper to keep me playing. that very insane, because I can't hear anything after my money's gone  . it is very difficult to maintain principles if you gambler because the habit bring you to bet until the button can't be pressed.

[maydna]

~snip~

Some games can be more fun and exciting than others. But I think it important to remember that losing money can feel the same no matter what game you are playing.
Some gamblers try to get back the money they lost but this can lose more money. It is important for people to know that gambling always has a chance of losing money no matter what game they play or why they play it.
Gambling can be fun but it is important to be careful and nevet lose too much money which may effect on you personal life or on you mental health.

That's true because whatever gambling game we play, if we lose, it will feel the same. Our money will be lost at the gambling table, and we will not be able to easily get our money back even if we gamble longer and use more money. We must know that the chance of losing money will become greater if we do not immediately stop gambling. Many people have experienced losing money from various types of gambling games, so we must try to prevent that from happening to us. If we lose too much money, we can only regret it because recovering from the loss will not be easy, and there is a possibility that we will lose even more money.

~snip~

Losing money is never funny, depending on what we spent the money on, and how important it'll be to the growth of the person economically. That's the main reason people are told to learn money management through gambling. Because we all have lots of games to participate in gambling. Hence the way we think shouldn't be considered similar, as the motive ain't the same. But, a gambler who possess some money management skill, he'd be able to utilize it while gambling, and on the real life business. Not everybody will ever get the fun via gambling. Some gamblers who understands the purpose of gambling. Don't need to rush to stake games in gambling. Monitoring every move we make in gambling, helps us to learn, while others are bothered about their lost money. The authority has been handed to the player, to decide how he wants to gamble. And nobody should complain about, how he's feeling, when the game get void. Happy or sad.

Losing money will make us feel sad and regretful, especially if we use a lot of money to gamble and lose all the money. But the feeling of sadness is only temporary because another day, we will definitely return to gambling and maybe spend even more money. Indeed, it would be a lie if we regretted it even though we have said that gambling is entertainment. Perhaps we should learn to reduce the amount of money and start treating gambling as entertainment so that if we lose, it is an amount of money that we can afford. We also shouldn't complain if we have experienced loss, especially if it is a lot of losses, because we already know that it is a risk in gambling, so we must be able to accept whatever the result is.

[Kelward]

I know for sure that if we take periodic account of how many times that we gamble, maybe weekly, monthly or yearly, we'll find out that the loses are far greater than the winnings, so I sometimes wonder how we can be indulging in something that we lose far more than we gain, in the name of having fun. I know that it's human nature to want to conquer, defeat, control and be the leader, yet we go into gambling knowing that the system doesn't give us a fair advantage of achieving these aims, yet we're happy to go back and likely be defeated again.

Looking at your calculations alone, you can see that gambling is not just for the winning alone; both the winning and the fun contribute massively to why people gamble.
 
If I'm gambling and over 10–20 times I gamble within a week or month, I happen to lose more often and no profit is being made, then I will have to leave the game and focus on other things. The fun in the gambling is what will keep me going, if not in a business sense. Such spending without getting anything in return should be avoided.
 
To avoid chasing losses is part of responsible gambling, and keeping our emotions under watch is all part of it. If fun is not in play and all we see is how to make profit, we might cross the line and turn ourselves into addicts.

It's true that people gamble for fun, they entertain themselves while gambling. But the question is if they keep losing money over a period of time, for example in one month, will they still consider it as having fun? Or will The fun diminish as a result of constant loses? The answer will determine whether the purpose of gambling is solely for fun or if winning is a factor that motivates them to keep coming back to gamble. So my point is that although most people gamble for fun, but without winning money, the gambling can become boring. In that case despite the fun derived in gambling, it'll not be worth enjoying without winning money.

[Orpichukwu]

Pretty much all I have been doing lately is gambling for FUN lol... Jokes aside (it's the name of the crypto gambling token), I feel that as long as you limit yourself to gambling with what you can afford to lose, and don't expect to win every time so that it doesn't affect your mood for thigs outside of gambling, you should be fine. Now, if it was as easy to actually abide by these principles as it is to talk about them, guess we would not have any addicts in this world lol

Gambling and fun winning all amount to one place. Most times, we even lie to ourselves and say that we are still continuing to gamble because we are enjoying the game while we have left the fun part and are now chasing losses. It happens most times without even the gambler knowing.
 
Sometimes there is one tricky thing some casinos do: after you have made some winnings and profit has been added to your initial deposit, the moment you try to withdraw, you will experience some sort of delay in withdrawal.
 
As you might try to wait a little longer, you might also be tempted to try again if you can increase the amount, but this time around you might end up losing it all up to the casino and you might be left with nothing, which if you don't hold yourself down, you might end up doing another deposit to the account. By that time, you are no longer gambling within your limit.

[Dewi Aries]

Now, if it was as easy to actually abide by these principles as it is to talk about them, guess we would not have any addicts in this world lol

There are many ways that casinos use the strategy to break your principles even if you win and rush to log out. I ever intended to stop if I won $100 and withdraw the profit soon. But, I don't know what happened to all my profit (won $100) and lose. I didn't even stop after reached the winning, there are something like a magical whisper to keep me playing. that very insane, because I can't hear anything after my money's gone  . it is very difficult to maintain principles if you gambler because the habit bring you to bet until the button can't be pressed.

You are not alone my friend casinos really have a formula that can be said to be very powerful to keep gamblers there before the money runs out in each session, I don't know what happens but you also feel that it is really very difficult to get out even though you have managed to get a decent win, like you said even though you have reached the target of $100 you want but it all feels unfinished, like there is a whisper that goes into the ear telling us to stay there.

On the other hand, I'm sure that's the whisper of greed
 that always comes when we are lucky enough in one of our sessions haha, although maybe you are one of those people who are instigated to continue because of greed but I think it's normal because almost every gambler experiences scenarios like this including me too. Honestly for myself when I am a little aware that greed is starting to appear in my mind then usually I like to think for a moment and promise myself that if I lose I will not regret it too much, like for example I brought $10 capital and got a win to $100 and if indeed at that time all the winnings were lost because of greed then I always try to remember that I "only lost $10 not $100" just think that the victory I got earlier was just a passing wind.