Gambling is not only about winning and losing, but about psychological control

[Poker Player]

Very well said.

Rather what the OP says is garbage because gambling is fundamentally about winning, or rather the possibility of it. Besides, why do you need psychological control in EV-games? Or to play recreationally (and lose in the long run) in skill games? Not to lose a fortune, I guess, but if you have those problems you shouldn't even consider gambling in the first place.

[YOSHIE]

And at every moment where gambling exerts psychological pressure that makes me sometimes unable to control it.

That's if someone wants to involve themselves in gambling, always based on feelings, awareness and also motivation regarding the positives of gambling and the negatives of gambling, where someone cannot control themselves, they will be trapped in a mental circle and uncontrolled thoughts, which can result in real losses when winning or losing.

What you say is indeed a fact that happened. Psychology is very important for those who know gambling well, for this reason psychological characteristics and mental phenomena must function well to overcome problems when we win and lose, we must be truly aware of the sequence that will occur when the symptoms of thoughts and desires appear, it clearly has risks that cannot be controlled if greed is in our minds, for this reason several psychological issues must be had so that gambling is indexed with methodprofessional.

[Gozie51]

These two moments of winning or losing will be the reason where a person's psychology will be played in a gamble.
Someone really has to know how to manage their emotions so that they don't get into situations they don't even want.
There must be limits and targets that need to be achieved, not only limited to winning and losing but more than that.

The both involves psychological control yes. If you are winning, you require to have control of yourself not to be over excited to begin the bigger risk which can take you off balance at any little unlucky move. In same vain while losing, it is not bad to take a walk and try the next time but so many gamblers lose their balance on the losing side for the purpose of chasing back what they have lost. If a gambler is in the habit of chasing loses then they can lose more because they will have unbalanced state of mind which won't allow for a cognitive decision. It is better building psychological control in gambling and most times it starts from walking away when you feel you should either while losing or winning.

[Strongkored]

There must be limits and targets that need to be achieved, not only limited to winning and losing but more than that.

What is difficult is sticking to the limits that have been set, whether when you are winning or losing, gamblers have felt that they cannot control themselves when they win because they feel it is a lucky day and they also feel pressure when they lose so they try to recover their losses, whether they win or lose the gambler's mentality is really tested whether he can maintain his limits and who has self-control that ultimately can even though he can occasionally fail.

[piebeyb]

There must be limits and targets that need to be achieved, not only limited to winning and losing but more than that.

What is difficult is sticking to the limits that have been set, whether when you are winning or losing, gamblers have felt that they cannot control themselves when they win because they feel it is a lucky day and they also feel pressure when they lose so they try to recover their losses, whether they win or lose the gambler's mentality is really tested whether he can maintain his limits and who has self-control that ultimately can even though he can occasionally fail.

Yes, it's not that easy to control yourself from your emotions when gambling, let alone your curiosity, I, who have been as consistent as I have so far, often break the rules occasionally and am not completely consistent in playing within the budget limits that I have limited, but as you said, there is some truth in that. not everyone can be completely consistent, the point is you have to remember from the start what the purpose of gambling is, if you want to make money then there will never be an end to the pursuit of victory but if it's just for fun then just stop when your daily gambling budget is finished, I often use it when I almost exceed my limit remembering my goal of gambling from the start.

[Spaceman1000$]

Online casinos are now easily accessible and anyone can create an account and play.
Profits and losses can happen easily.

And at every moment where gambling exerts psychological pressure that makes me sometimes unable to control it.

When Win: When a bet or gambling game that we do gets a win, Greed will appear and this will influence a person to keep playing with a higher target.
Even because someone is too greedy to never make a profit and continue to put all their money into gambling, until in the end everything is taken back by gambling.

When losing: Defeat will indeed be a moment that will make a person's mentality and psychology down, and even it will interfere with their psyche.
A deep sense of disappointment due to an unwanted defeat makes a person tend to be more emotional and want to take revenge for the defeat and ultimately make bets and gambling games without any restrictions.

These two moments of winning or losing will be the reason where a person's psychology will be played in a gamble.
Someone really has to know how to manage their emotions so that they don't get into situations they don't even want.
There must be limits and targets that need to be achieved, not only limited to winning and losing but more than that.

You've said it aptly OP, once you can control your emotions rightly then you're gambling lifestyle will be balanced. Gambling is all about your psychology, if you win a bet, and you use all your profit to bet again and this time around you lost, what that should tell you is that, after a successful win, you should take a bow and go home.  

The only time gambling becomes a bad habit is when people don't apply the right psychology, because winning a gamble is sometimes a game of luck and also a game of strategy, so you must understand that this two factors play a key rule in every successful win you get.

However there are some days that luck will run out of you even with your strategy and analytical prowess. So when you learn how to marry your losses and success together in a bid to understand that you are not in charge of the games being played, and that your predictions can go either ways, so regardless of what the result will be, I will take it in good fate, then you will see yourself having a different approach everyday you want to place a bet.

[Sim_card]

Anyone that cannot control his emotions if there is a any changes in their activities should not gamble at all because gambling is something that will play with your emotions. If are the one that will be mentally unstable after losses, you should only gamble with the amount of money that you can afford to lose in order for you to be mentally stable. Controlling your emotions is very important when gambling if not you will always run at huge loss. The reason is this, if you are winning, you will not want to quit because your are carried away and want to win more. If you are losing, you will not stop until your bankroll is empty.

[Solosanz]

As long as they can stop when lose, it's already enough.

They don't have to stop if they win because it's a personal choice, someone might be don't mind to donate the money to the casino without withdraw any cent from it. But, if they can always stop when they run out of bankroll, it will not harm their financial since they already set aside some for gambling.

[Jody.Drummer]

Everything you say is correct OP about what the majority of gamblers will experience and do during winning and losing situations, but I would say that psychological pressure and disorders will most likely only be experienced or felt by gamblers who have been there since the beginning. with the wrong mindset such as chasing victory or those who are addicted, because of course when someone is chasing victory then they will definitely continue to be haunted by worry when the betting process is ongoing.

What this means is that yes, as you suggest, a gambler must have the ability or prioritize self-control and limits on the amount of the budget as well as the time involved, because with this ability they will not easily get trapped in various situations as you have explained above in conditions of winning or losing, but I will say it simply that all these actions will only be possible or easy to do when from the start the gambler does not make "making money" their main goal.

[Odohu]

Just like forex trading, gambling is more of psychology than skill, so  agree with you on this post because without proper psychological balance a gambler is doomed to fail. It is this psychological balance that will help a gambler manage both winnings and losses in such a way that the entire gambling process yield the best result. I have seen many times when a good winning day turn into a very bad losing day just because the gambler is unable to manage the winning, by withdrawing the money or taking a break from gambling or better still reducing the amount used in betting. Instead, you will see things like increasing betting amount and becoming complacent until the winning are all lost. Indeed, psychology play the most important part in gambling.

[virasog]

These two moments of winning or losing will be the reason where a person's psychology will be played in a gamble.
Someone really has to know how to manage their emotions so that they don't get into situations they don't even want.
There must be limits and targets that need to be achieved, not only limited to winning and losing but more than that.

I agree that winning and losing in gambling is not in the gamblers control and no matter what he tries and do, he can never win all games and he can never ever lose all games. So the idea is that we have such a plan and money management technique, that a loss in gambling is not that big that it has a significant impact. If a loss in a game and bet, make no effect on your overall portfolio, it means that you have rightly applied the strategies.

Many people know about all this theory but they take wrong decisions because they are not able to control the emotions. Psychological control or having strong emotions is a key element in order to get success in gambling.

[Findingnemo]

These two moments of winning or losing will be the reason where a person's psychology will be played in a gamble.
Someone really has to know how to manage their emotions so that they don't get into situations they don't even want.
There must be limits and targets that need to be achieved, not only limited to winning and losing but more than that.

I do agree and probably this is why gambling of any kind is discouraged by the religions but we all now evolved and knew the reason behind it so if we able to do it the right way there is no harm in it and there are tons of casual gamblers who bet with little money which is good but this thing get bad only when they go out of their range like betting money that they are not willing to lose or losing control to their emotions.

[dansus021]

Gambling is not only about winning and losing, but about psychological control I would say this is true and i agree with this one. I mean gamble has different perspective and it depens on people. Some people consider gambling is all about money winning and losing and sometimes there is people who consider gambling is for entertainment proposes and said fun. And there is some people like you that see gambling can be a psychological control

[Marykeller]

It is very certain that for each of our winnings or losses in gambling, there are psychological effects that will make us long to gamble more for more wins or to gamble to recover losses made.

None of us would say that we haven't experienced a situation of our emotions giving us an exciting mood or being moody about the turnout results of our gambling bets. It either we feel excited about the wins or get moody about our gambling losses.

It's hard to see the very gambler who doesn't experience more psychological control over gambling. Only a few have learned to control it by sticking to a plan of betting with a low amount.

[vs2014]

When you play any games you need to have a sense of profit and loss. But the feeling is different when placing bets in gambling because money is involved here. When you lose a bet you are losing money. However, gambling provides more psychological stress because you are repeatedly winning and losing. Excessive greed from gambling can take you on the road to heavy losses. So the less greedy you are here, the more likely you are to profits.

[khiholangkang]

Online casinos are now easily accessible and anyone can create an account and play.
Profits and losses can happen easily.

And at every moment where gambling exerts psychological pressure that makes me sometimes unable to control it.

When Win: When a bet or gambling game that we do gets a win, Greed will appear and this will influence a person to keep playing with a higher target.
Even because someone is too greedy to never make a profit and continue to put all their money into gambling, until in the end everything is taken back by gambling.

When losing: Defeat will indeed be a moment that will make a person's mentality and psychology down, and even it will interfere with their psyche.
A deep sense of disappointment due to an unwanted defeat makes a person tend to be more emotional and want to take revenge for the defeat and ultimately make bets and gambling games without any restrictions.

These two moments of winning or losing will be the reason where a person's psychology will be played in a gamble.
Someone really has to know how to manage their emotions so that they don't get into situations they don't even want.
There must be limits and targets that need to be achieved, not only limited to winning and losing but more than that.

Indeed, if for people who are not good at managing themselves, they will be easily controlled by their own emotions, whether in a state of winning or losing, and it is very dangerous, gambling can become something bad if you do not have a strong mentality to control yourself against it, other more dangerous things such as, chasing defeat that makes you lose everything you have.

If you think about it, gambling is quite complex, and the element that must be considered the most is indeed emotion, because that will always be triggered from burning ambition and very bad upset, if someone can control their emotions he will be able to gamble responsibly.

[taufik123]

Quite surprised by the many responses from people here about the Psychology of gambling that I discussed.
Here I am just expressing what I am experiencing about my own Psychology when it comes to winning and losing gambling.

Rather what the OP says is garbage because gambling is fundamentally about winning, or rather the possibility of it.

And yes, as you said, this thread is like a useless garbage post, but I'm just expressing my honesty and this is what happened to myself.
Gambling is indeed about winning and more precisely the odds and also luck.  My psychology may be unstable and seem too exaggerated.

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for this reason several psychological issues must be had so that gambling is indexed with methodprofessional.

Psychological problems are a process that everyone needs to experience to reach a higher level.
Even not only in gambling, a professional will also have problems with their psychology at first.

[rahmad2nd]

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These two moments of winning or losing will be the reason where a person's psychology will be played in a gamble.
Someone really has to know how to manage their emotions so that they don't get into situations they don't even want.
There must be limits and targets that need to be achieved, not only limited to winning and losing but more than that.

Well, good thread. for me, gambling is so complex, IMO. The two points you said in this thread are often or even experienced by us gamblers, especially the more active ones. experience after similar experience, is not a foreign phenomenon for those of us who are often involved in betting. Even someone who applies the idea of ​​self-discipline and promotes the concept of responsibility often has difficulty controlling themselves due to mental stress which has a psychological impact starting from the rise of angry emotions due to repeated defeats.

The first point is quite crucial, at least for me personally. When we have a winning moment, it is not uncommon for us to continue the game session whether we want to achieve a new record in winnings or it could also be because of greed. However, for me personally, greed in gambling is too biased, I mean what is the clear definition regarding greed in gambling. the reason is, we bet with money involved. It would be very natural if we wanted to get a big win or double. for example, when we play slots, only a few moments, minutes later, suddenly we get free spins and win Maxwin, there are two choices, continue or end the game. but theoretically, we have just played it, it would not be very enjoyable if we immediately stopped the game, even though we had doubled our bankroll many times over. On the other hand, sometimes it becomes a dilemma if we keep playing it, which often results in everything being finished without any leftovers.

Well, that's why gambling for me is so complex. it's not just about winning and losing, it's not just about psychological control. but everything is interconnected, and how we respond to gambling itself. because, there are times when we get carried away and have difficulty controlling ourselves even though we are responsible gamblers. on the contrary, psychological control is something that must be possessed or applied by gamblers. otherwise, the two points you shared will be repeated over and over again.

[Onyeeze]

From Basic time I know what is gambling with something that has to do with loss and winning so from my perspective of understanding it what people anxious or conscious of in gambling is to win why people who complain and gambling what is the normally do is to complain of their loss of gambling so from my own understanding anything that has to do with gambling has to do with the both profiting and they also loss that involved on it, saying that participating in gambling has to do with psychological impact, I think that is a misconceptions due to gambling is unpredictable its a something of luck not about knowledge.

[salad daging]

Try gambling without investing a lot of emotion into it, and you'll be fine.

There are different types of gambling. We have luck-based and skill-based, and these should be treated differently. In my opinion, luck-based gambling should be played for fun only. If you are serious about gambling, you should use your skills to be profitable. However, skills in winning alone are not enough as it also takes skills in discipline, accepting wins and losses as a normal part of the process, and proper bankroll management.

The biggest losers in gambling are people who do not understand the word "limit."

When you lose a lot, you will get emotional.

Most gambling games are luck-based while for skills only a few people have skills in gambling games, the most common and popular games played are luck-based so never consider gambling as an income or want to win in any form of game.

Especially in discipline and responsibility is a good behavior where they will have limits to gambling.