Isn’t it kind of killing the fun if we try too hard to control our emotions?

[death69]

The myth is that “managing emotions” = emotional constipation. No. It’s the opposite. It’s choosing when and how to feel fully, without the feeling making decisions for you. You can laugh when you win and still not double down on tilt five minutes later. One doesn’t cancel the other.

Emotions are valid. But not all emotions are useful in every moment. A good gambler knows this. If you only enjoy gambling when you lose control, are you actually playing, or are you being played?

You should feel the highs. But feeling the lows without letting them define you? That’s the god-tier upgrade. You don’t gamble to lose control. You gamble to experience risk with awareness. The fun is the clarity in chaos.

Master your edge. Ride the waves. Don’t drown in them.

[lovesmayfamilis]

Why hold back your joy? Everything should be within the bounds of decency. You can rejoice, but you should not create inconvenience for others around you. In the same way, if we are talking about losses and losses, you should not jump from the tenth floor but accept the loss with dignity, understanding that you, and only you, decided to play, and the result of the game does not have to be in your favor. In a word, have an understanding that observing the measures of decency will always reflect well on your reputation.

[Porfirii]

The myth is that “managing emotions” = emotional constipation. No. It’s the opposite. It’s choosing when and how to feel fully, without the feeling making decisions for you. You can laugh when you win and still not double down on tilt five minutes later. One doesn’t cancel the other.

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In fact, I'm convinced that if you try to control your emotions too hard, they will come back with greater power when or in the form you least expect it (in a psychosomatic way, or making too emotional decisions when you should keep calm and use logic).

It's not about completely holding your emotions back, indeed, but about being aware of them to avoid undesired effects.

[Felicity_Tide]

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It’s okay to feel happiness and sadness when gambling, we’re only human, and that’s perfectly normal.

Of course we are all humans, and we are vulnerable to having both positive and negative moments in our lives. Now, when it comes to gambling, from records or what most of us are aware of, we know the negative impact emotions can attract especially in a case of persistent losses. So, in as much as sadness is part of the moments, it's our responsibility to find better ways to manage it.

You see, managing negative moments might sound so simple to some people, but the truth is, everyone is not built to handle situations in same way, and that's why some cases might lead to addiction or something far complex, leading to uncontrollable gambling.

Just like you've said, it's okay to feel happy and sad, but how we manage the negative side matters alot.

[Kelward]

The reason why it's important to control emotions while gambling is because it can lead you to make irresponsible gambling decisions. It's normal for a gambler to be excited while winning or sad when losing, it's a natural feeling but there should be a limit to it. If you're too emotional while winning it can lead you to be overconfident and you can over gamble, which can lead you to lose everything. If you're too emotional while losing it can lead you to be chasing loses. So a control over emotions is very important in gambling, because it can be addictive and if you loose your guard you can unnecessarily lose your money when you should've stopped.

[Woodie]

Too many posts about gambling emotions, gambling addiction etcetera... is this where we are now ??

Truth of the matter is gambling is like a person's mood, today your are super happy , tomorrow you have your off days, the other day back to being super happy etc and not any different from gambling...if you losing alot, try take a break to allow yourself reset to have the much needed reboot and have that new approach to gambling. Otherwise emotions are part of we humans and can't run away from it, let's just accept when we lose we lose to avoid chasing losses.

[HONDACD125]

Controlling your emotions doesn't mean that you shouldn't feel any emotions when you win or lose, but it means that you shouldn't let your emotions make you do things that you shouldn't do, for example, trying to chase your losses out of rage and frustration, or making more deposits once the current bankroll is lost to try and recover everything. Those are the things that can make you have a worse experience in gambling because losing initially will only make you feel bad, but if you let your emotions drive you around, your bad feeling will turn into extreme guilt and regret.

So the reason why people mostly advise others not to get emotional and have their emotions under control when gambling is this reason, and not that they shouldn't enjoy when they win or shouldn't feel bad when they lose. Everything is good, but only if it's under control. If you get too excited and out of that excitement, you start making reckless bets, your happiness will turn into sadness in no time. Similarly, if you get too frustrated when you lose and then start being too reckless, your sadness can increase as more losses are incurred.

So, enjoy and feel every moment, but make sure that you stay under control.

[aioc]

Here’s the thing. some people give advice that to truly enjoy gambling, we need to manage our emotions. But how do we actually do that?

Managing our emotions for me means holding our emotions on losing what we can afford to lose; we are tempted to chase our losses whenever we fail, and we feel that winning is within our reach, so we add more money to our bankroll, this is a risky behavior that we should avoid and if we drip on this we have loss our control and emotions.

You deserve to be happy and have fun, but you should play based on your allocation. It is depressing if you extend your bankroll just because you are not satisfied with the outcome of your game.

[Sanitough]

Too many posts about gambling emotions, gambling addiction etcetera... is this where we are now ??

I guess this is the only thing we can really talk about now because it's hard to discuss strategy when most of us believe we can’t actually win in gambling.

At least when we talk about emotions, it helps us manage ourselves better when we gamble. We get to read advice that encourages us to be more responsible. In the end, it’s okay to lose, what really matters is that we don’t fall into addiction.

[Die_empty]

Here’s the thing. some people give advice that to truly enjoy gambling, we need to manage our emotions. But how do we actually do that?

I mean, if you're winning and feeling happy, and then you try to hold back that joy, doesn’t that take away part of the fun? If we don’t hold back and end up as winners, then that’s when we feel real happiness.

Now let’s flip it. Since we allow ourselves to enjoy the wins emotionally, then maybe we should also face the losses the same way.

We gamble based on how we feel, and sometimes that emotional ride helps us accept the losses too.
It’s okay to feel happiness and sadness when gambling, we’re only human, and that’s perfectly normal.

There is nothing wrong to feel happy or sad after a win or loss. But everything should be done moderately. Some people have won big drank or ear excessively. Some of them have expressed their happiness extremely which is wrong. Let's also flip at the other side, if you lose control yourself. Why would someone commit suicide, harm himself or other people because you lost money in a casino. Like I said, we should express our feelings in the course of gambling but it should be done modestly.

[AbuBhakar]

Here’s the thing. some people give advice that to truly enjoy gambling, we need to manage our emotions. But how do we actually do that?

There are many ways to do that such as setting your expectations and staying firm to your plan to avoid depositing more money. Controlling your emotion in gambling is important to minimize your losses

It’s okay to feel happiness and sadness when gambling, we’re only human, and that’s perfectly normal.

The problem is when greed kicks in. Sometimes, from too much dopamine rush when we are winning, we can't control our self resulting for us to do something not good. We tend to bet more thinking that luck is on our side and would win more amounts not knowing what could go wrong anytime.

[GiftedMAN]

Trying to control your emotions too much can take the fun out of the game. If you win and are happy, letting those emotions flow is part of the fun. Likewise, when you lose, accepting the sadness is part of the experience. Playing a game involves experiencing these emotions, both the good and the bad, and that is natural. We are human, and feeling all of them is what makes the game complete.

Whether you win or lose in a game there is an emotion that comes to play during that time and if you want to win more there is very tendency that you have to control your emotions so that you don't end up losing what you have won likewise when you are losing you still have to control your emotions so that you don't continue losing when you keep trying to recover all your have lost. Make every moment matter but you don't need to lose control in both moments cause it definitely happens especially when one is losing and your ability to control it shows that you will have good fun but when you let it control you it becomes a problem because you may end up losing much and your fun will turn to sadness.

[Sandra_hakeem]

Here’s the thing. some people give advice that to truly enjoy gambling, we need to manage our emotions. But how do we actually do that?

There's a good deal of things you need to stay accountable of; One of those are your emotions! Create your own discipline and train your emotions to always accept things as they are.

Now let’s flip it. Since we allow ourselves to enjoy the wins emotionally, then maybe we should also face the losses the same way.

Simple! Infact, prepare your mind to entertain more loses than winnings as that would be the case.

It’s okay to feel happiness and sadness when gambling, we’re only human, and that’s perfectly normal.

Cold and hot, happy and sad, a phenomenon in living beings that cannot be altered; that's exactly how it's supposed to be. But either way, do not allow yourself too deep in your feelings that your actions become controlled/limited by it.

[Accardo]

Whether you win or lose in a game there is an emotion that comes to play during that time and if you want to win more there is very tendency that you have to control your emotions so that you don't end up losing what you have won likewise when you are losing you still have to control your emotions so that you don't continue losing when you keep trying to recover all your have lost. Make every moment matter but you don't need to lose control in both moments cause it definitely happens especially when one is losing and your ability to control it shows that you will have good fun but when you let it control you it becomes a problem because you may end up losing much and your fun will turn to sadness.

The fun stays even when we are in control of our emotions, it's not a harm to the excitement players feel during a session. Provided the end result didn't cost the gambler all the funds in the bankroll. Also, these two behaviors 'happiness and sadness' are in the hands of the beholder, whenever a person wants to feel happy they will, gaming could contribute to excitement or sadness, but not as much as we could instigate it on ourself.

[Shinpako09]

It might kill the fun, but at least it’s not killing your bankroll or sometimes even your savings. Sometimes, or maybe most of the time, the result of not controlling our emotions is this: when we win, we get overconfident, and that often leads to disaster. When we lose, instead of cooling down, we make another deposit again, until we drain our wallets. That’s why we need discipline to control our emotions. There’s nothing wrong with being happy when we win. Like you said, we’re human. But we shouldn’t let it get to the point where it leads us into unfavorable situation.

[348Judah]

Here’s the thing. some people give advice that to truly enjoy gambling, we need to manage our emotions. But how do we actually do that?

We can't achieve the maximum control of our emotions at a single attempt, instead it's something that we have to go along with gradually, we are going to apply a steady approach using elimination by substitution approach, whereby we begin to apply the changes little by little and not what we can do at once, because gambling is more of having fun and we can't take away on what we are used to at once, except we apply a simple approach that can be effective and for the benefit of satisfying our own pleasure, the way we tackle this matters and that is why we must be logical and profession in other to control an emotion successfully to the desired level.

[Victorybit1]

If we are playing for fun then we wouldn't be thinking about controlling our emotions in the first place. Gamblers that are just after the fun of it and don't take gambling as a source of income can't be affected by emotions because they are ready to accept losses. That's what gambling is all about. An emotional gambler will always lose because he's not in control of his feelings. If you are moved by your emotions you would definitely chase your losses and this can make you lose even more.

[mak013]

Here’s the thing. some people give advice that to truly enjoy gambling, we need to manage our emotions. But how do we actually do that?

I mean, if you're winning and feeling happy, and then you try to hold back that joy, doesn’t that take away part of the fun? If we don’t hold back and end up as winners, then that’s when we feel real happiness.

Now let’s flip it. Since we allow ourselves to enjoy the wins emotionally, then maybe we should also face the losses the same way.

We gamble based on how we feel, and sometimes that emotional ride helps us accept the losses too.
It’s okay to feel happiness and sadness when gambling, we’re only human, and that’s perfectly normal.

I think that problem is not in your happiness or sadness. The problem is if you lose control on your bets. If you don`t try to return your money after lose or don`t believe in your luck after win - i don`t see any problem in emotions.
PS. I don`t have such problems, but i feel anger when someone bet against my bet and win. That`s moment when i can lose control over my bets.

[finaleshot2016]

Here’s the thing. some people give advice that to truly enjoy gambling, we need to manage our emotions. But how do we actually do that?

I mean, if you're winning and feeling happy, and then you try to hold back that joy, doesn’t that take away part of the fun? If we don’t hold back and end up as winners, then that’s when we feel real happiness.

Now let’s flip it. Since we allow ourselves to enjoy the wins emotionally, then maybe we should also face the losses the same way.

We gamble based on how we feel, and sometimes that emotional ride helps us accept the losses too.
It’s okay to feel happiness and sadness when gambling, we’re only human, and that’s perfectly normal.

Bro you really don’t understand what it really meant. If people said we should control our emotion it means that we shouldn’t do emotional gambling. Like the term in trading where you shouldn’t revenge trading because it’s out of control already. That’s the worst part of gambling and literally there’s no fun there if you don’t have self-control ‘cause the next thing will happen is more financial problems. Of course you still have a rights to have fun and enjoy every bets and chase those thrills with certain limits, not digging your own grave and revenge gambling which is very emotional and out of control. There’s nothing wrong to have fun but of course if you’re not ready to have financial losses, be practical. No one’s gonna stop you to have fun in gambling, just be mindful to your port, be wise always.

[Perfectbaby]

As humans we have blood flowing through our blood streams but that doesn't mean we should reacts to stimulus because we are gambling and of course everything humans react over everything that tends to affect their overall mental things as financial stress, like losses, much request, billings and some expenditures.

All these triggers man to easily react over the time whenever it's pressed on them. Therefore, while gambling it's always advisable to gamble with the amount someone heart should be able to accommodate the lost.