Is this a good advice?

[Issa56]

I keep seeing gamblers advising themselves that you are one step closer to winning the jackpot when you quit too early,  it's sad that they strongly believe this.

Is this true?

That's what addicted gamblers do to deceive themselves. They do use that to motivate themselves. They have the belief that if you don't give up on gambling, you will end up winning a big amount, but I don't think nobody knows when they will hit the jackpot or not. But they keep on believing that if they keep on gambling, then they are going to win, but if they give up, then all the money they have wasted is gone, and they won't be able to get it back in any way, so they do motivate themselves not to give up.

One of em told me that this is why I don't win, that I only gamble when I feel like, he said constantly gambling is a must if you want to win, but I disagree, because I have seen too many people not knowing when to quit until it was too late.

They are trying to set traps for you, the best thing you should do is not listen to them. If you keep on gambling constantly, don't be surprised that you will keep on losing. There is a level when you will find it difficult to quit because you will want to win back your losses, and when you try to win back your losses, then you are already getting everything wrong because addiction is already setting in.

[TheUltraElite]

That one step closer is a myth and it is part of the gambler's delusions.

One roll to the jackpot does not mean anything. Every roll is unique and hitting the conditions of the jackpot is a one in a million chances. By betting more you are not increasing your oods but only losing more.

At the end of the session you might end up winning the jackpot but at what cost? Maybe losing twice the jackpot trying to chase it?

Hence these type of thoughts need to rationalized but addicted gamblers cannot do that.

[electronicash]

despite the advice to quit a lot of gamblers though are still up to get that jackpot. they have considered that advice many times but sometimes it is just too tempting to keep betting. especially when you are promoting a casino yourself and your fee goes right in the casino. but if you just keep losing, it's best to just stop and promote the casino. at least you are still making money that way than losing in gambling.  just keep the coin as an investment instead.

[Hispo]

That is a very well documented and sadly a very popular gambling myth and sadly it is one of the reasons some many gamblers cope with losses, trying to keep playing and wait for that jackpot to appear and change their life.
Actually if that myth had some truth linked to it all gamblers are supposed to do to get their jackpot would be to quit or consider to quit and then gamble again in order to score that huge amount of money.

Stadistically there is no proof gamblers are closer to their big win when they consider to quit their addiction/hobby. It is one of the reasons all gamblers are supposed to have a basic understanding of law of probability.

[gabbie2010]

I keep seeing gamblers advising themselves that you are one step closer to winning the jackpot when you quit too early,  it's sad that they strongly believe this.

Is this true?

Fellow gamblers use those statement to encourage themselves that statement is not a guarantee of hitting any jackpot or close to winning it, of course some gamblers would feel motivated by those words to continue to gamble especially addicted ones they would even make some references of some previous winner who never quit until they hit a jackpot unfortunately that is not true instead that would add more salt to the wound getting more addicted because the chances of winning is very slim especially lottery though if they continue to gamble with what they can afford to lose I believe that is very reasonable.

[Docnaster]

despite the advice to quit a lot of gamblers though are still up to get that jackpot. they have considered that advice many times but sometimes it is just too tempting to keep betting. especially when you are promoting a casino yourself and your fee goes right in the casino. but if you just keep losing, it's best to just stop and promote the casino. at least you are still making money that way than losing in gambling.  just keep the coin as an investment instead.

One opinion I've always maintained in this this gambling thread is that advising a gambler who's not made up his mind to quit gambling is definitely a waste of time because just immediately after the advice, he'll still continue his gambling activities because gambling is an engagement that can't be easily stopped unless the gambler makes up his mind to do so.
Wether a gambler is addicted in gambling or not, I don't think anyone's opinion or advice can make him stop his gambling engagements

[Ruttoshi]

I will say that such gamblers uses those words to encourage themselves after a big loss, so that they can continue chasing their loss. Again it is a say that they use to encourage themselves to continue gambling as long as they have not yet exhausted all their bankroll.

This is a bad advice or say because gambling is based on luck and no one knows which game is the lucky game or which day will be your lucky day. It is people that see gambling to be what can change their poverty state, that will think this way because they just want to have false hope that they will hit it big through gambling. If that day is your lucky day, you might just play one game that will hit the jackpot, and if it is not your lucky day, you will play more than 100 rounds and no win.

[acroman08]

I keep seeing gamblers advising themselves that you are one step closer to winning the jackpot when you quit too early,  it's sad that they strongly believe this.

Is this true?

it is not good advice if used to motivate someone to gamble, but it is good advice if it is used to motivate yourself or someone to achieve you or their goal(of course if it doesn't involve gambling). I've heard this being used in gyms by trainers, they usually say "you are one step closer to your goal, do not quit now".

I asked him why he isn't rich yet if he is actively gambling everytime since all this while, this changed his mood and I took a turn.

he got angry or got defensive, didn't he? ahaha.

[AmoreJaz]

I will say that such gamblers uses those words to encourage themselves after a big loss, so that they can continue chasing their loss. Again it is a say that they use to encourage themselves to continue gambling as long as they have not yet exhausted all their bankroll.

This is a bad advice or say because gambling is based on luck and no one knows which game is the lucky game or which day will be your lucky day. It is people that see gambling to be what can change their poverty state, that will think this way because they just want to have false hope that they will hit it big through gambling. If that day is your lucky day, you might just play one game that will hit the jackpot, and if it is not your lucky day, you will play more than 100 rounds and no win.

definitely not a good piece of advice. but i guess, we all know it already. most of the time, we are only in denial, hence, we are continuously playing, just to chase further losses. if you are betting on luck-based games, we are only subjecting ourselves to more losses. unless, you are in poker or sports betting where you practically live and breath a particular sports, you have your real chance of recovering those losses. otherwise, you need to slap yourself with the reality that this is gambling and you need to accept the fact that you are at a loss and just call it a day for most of your sessions.

[Slow death]

I've seen this kind of thing here in my country, people buy lottery tickets every day, when they don't have money they take out debt and buy a ticket so they don't spend a day without playing and the saddest part of this is that during the day the person is happy, when the night comes when the results of the lottery winner are announced, the person gets very excited and when they see the results they notice that they didn't win anything so the person starts to get very sad and the next day when they think about giving up and talk to people who are also buying lottery tickets, then the person hears things like: "you can't give up... you have to keep buying until one day you'll be lucky enough to win"

The problem with this is that sometimes we are faced with people who have been playing for many years and have never won anything and if you do math on the money they spent buying lottery tickets all these years, we will see that the value is very high and the person could to have taken and done a business that could have good profits and to have lived very well and to have a good retirement. and they wouldn't have to live thinking about whether they won or not, whether they gave up or continued. and then we need to see to what extent these people have not yet become addicted, because it is very difficult to know whether a person who plays the lottery is addicted or not.

[darkangel11]

This happens because you never know what the next bet will bring. Imagine that you have a streak of 5 losses and think that it can't go on for much longer so you place your 6th bet and lose and then 7th and lose, each of them only makes you think that you're closer to finally winning the next one and statistically you are but you can't foresee how many of these bets will happen before it turns your way. You are $100 down and it may happen that next one will bring you back to 0 or put you at -200. At some point you'll either break even or lose more, but the hope of breaking even is strong

[dothebeats]

This is outright dangerous. I wouldn't tell people to continue chasing the gold when in fact there isn't any gold to be had in all of this madness. I'd advise them to treat gambling as a form of entertainment rather than something that will earn them some money. Telling people to continue gambling when there's no certainty in gambling is like telling people to create more problems for themselves, which is NEVER a good thing.

[cafter]

I keep seeing gamblers advising themselves that you are one step closer to winning the jackpot when you quit too early,  it's sad that they strongly believe this.

Is this true?

this is good advice if you won something and you kept playing more out of greed to win more, then surely you will lose that winnings and may if you lose control on your mind/emotions you will bust your account.
stopping gambling after winning or quitting gambling both are beneficial to player. but I will say quieting gambling is more beneficial then stopping gambling because stopping gambling will save you from upcoming loses.
but quieting gambling will save you money and time. if you play for fun then stopping after winning is good to not lose more.

[iv4n]

This is outright dangerous. I wouldn't tell people to continue chasing the gold when in fact there isn't any gold to be had in all of this madness. I'd advise them to treat gambling as a form of entertainment rather than something that will earn them some money. Telling people to continue gambling when there's no certainty in gambling is like telling people to create more problems for themselves, which is NEVER a good thing.

I can't agree more with you... there are no guarantees in gambling, so chasing wins can become a disaster in seconds, especially if people decide to chase golden wins at any cost. Gambling should be entertainment, and if we gamble with money we can afford to lose we can push, but if that pushing ends up badly we should stop, more deposits will just lead to more losses. I imagine many of us have been in there and done that, and I guess we know that the results are mostly negative.

Good advice should be about control, about knowing what we are risking. If we risk more than we can handle to lose we will get into problems, simply as that.

[alani123]

This is a fallacy and it's aptly named the gambler's fallacy.

Basically, the chances of each bet are completely independent and are in no way affected by previous bet, loss or win.
It's all luck.

Don't be fooled by fallacies like this, it will only lead to more losses. A healthy gambler will only gamble with what he can afford to lose. Thinking like this will just lead to bigger losses. So stray way from dangerous thought processes like that one OP. It's important to consider that in order for games to remain profitable, the house edge works against the player and you will only be losing in the long term.

[Stepstowealth]

I keep seeing gamblers advising themselves that you are one step closer to winning the jackpot when you quit too early,  it's sad that they strongly believe this.

These are example of statements made up by Casino owners and betting platform managers to stimulate gamblers to keep gambling so they can keep making profits regardless of whatever position it puts the gamblers financially. I frown at these kinds of casino and gambling platform owners for not drawing the line and encouraging responsible gambling. Those statements put pressure on gamblers who can easily be emotionally manipulated and make them want to try gambling more to win. The pressure they are on while gambling will make them prone to making more mistakes, so loosing more.

[komisariatku]

I keep seeing gamblers advising themselves that you are one step closer to winning the jackpot when you quit too early,  it's sad that they strongly believe this.

Is this true?

This advice is actually making gamblers believe that they can win when they spend a lot of more time in the casino, they strongly believe that not stopping or taking break will bring them closer to their jackpot.

One of em told me that this is why I don't win, that I only gamble when I feel like, he said constantly gambling is a must if you want to win, but I disagree, because I have seen too many people not knowing when to quit until it was too late.

To me, gambling is a theater, a form of entertainment that I pay for, not a way to get rich quick, for them it's a must to win by force, one question seem to change his mood though.

I asked him why he isn't rich yet if he is actively gambling everytime since all this while, this changed his mood and I took a turn.

I just heard something like this, because most gamblers give the opposite advice "don't gamble every day".

Even though they may be gambling addicts but they know how gambling works so he can give advice not to gamble every day because we can't win every day so playing too often doesn't make us richer instead it makes us bankrupt.

To get the jackpot is also not about how often we play but this may be random or based on luck. Although the more often we play, the more likely we are to get the jackpot, but this is only a matter of probability and not a guarantee.

[Cookdata]

I keep seeing gamblers advising themselves that you are one step closer to winning the jackpot when you quit too early,  it's sad that they strongly believe this.

Is this true?

This is not a guarantee to win anything but an encouragement and ginger for other gamblers that lose all the time. You know it's painful when you want to win but what to get all the time is loss and losses, there was time I use to uninstall my betting app many times and I end up installating it back, I'm my self motivation because I know I had to try again and that's how I was able to stop that habit, I never give up.

This advice is actually making gamblers believe that they can win when they spend a lot of more time in the casino, they strongly believe that not stopping or taking break will bring them closer to their jackpot.

One of em told me that this is why I don't win, that I only gamble when I feel like, he said constantly gambling is a must if you want to win, but I disagree, because I have seen too many people not knowing when to quit until it was too late.

To me, gambling is a theater, a form of entertainment that I pay for, not a way to get rich quick, for them it's a must to win by force, one question seem to change his mood though.

I asked him why he isn't rich yet if he is actively gambling everytime since all this while, this changed his mood and I took a turn.

I don't really think there is anything misleading in making a buddy to believe, it's normal thing for people to cheer you up when you don't make it but still, the decision lies on what is in your mind. Even if they give you all the cheer up of not quitting gambling and believe that you have a winning spot awaiting, the rest is in your shoulder and what you do after that is up to you as a person.

Remember that whether you believe or not, if you play games and your prediction matches exactly the outcome from the casino, you will get paid in full whether you believe or not. As a gambler, what you should be after is sharping your skills and how to win next games.

[Yatsan]

Advice won't mean a thing if the gambler knows what he's doing. Cited phrase is to simply guilt trip a player to play more but as we all know, betting more won't guarantee a winning instance althought it would increase the chances of winning, it would also damage your wallet big time. Only gamble an amount inside your tolerance. If you keep on losing for that particular day then take a rest and wait for the next one. pushing your luck will never be a good idea 'coz it is either you lose all of your capital first or win the jackpot. Even if you have a large bankroll, you won't like it for sure sseing how fast it falls with unfortune.

[mindrust]

One of em told me that this is why I don't win, that I only gamble when I feel like, he said constantly gambling is a must if you want to win,

Whoever told you this is either very dumb or trolling you big time. You can't win in the long term because of the house edge unless you bet in a specific way which will get you banned probably. (EV/Arbitrage betting)

You should indeed gamble when you want to get entertained. Winning shouldn't even be in your mind while gambling. The more you get obsessed with winning the more you play and the more you play the more you lose. It is a self feeding cycle which only ends when you stop playing.

That's the problem most addicts have. Smokers for example they smoke a cig every god damn minute. After meal, before meal, in the middle of the meal, smoke when feel happy, light a cig when feel depressed or angry, morning cig, before bed cig... See? People can find a reason to smoke a cig every minute of the day.

Smart people on the other hand they smoke every once in a while, like once in a month... (or they never do)