Winning at gambling is more about discipline than emotions.

[Natalim]

I think a lot of people focus too much on analysis, odds, and strategies, but forget the emotional side of gambling.

To really win long term, discipline is just as important, and that means controlling emotions. When you win, you don’t celebrate. When you lose, you don’t tilt. A win should feel normal, like nothing special happened, you just stick to the plan and move on.

Once emotions take over, decision making usually gets worse. That’s why I see gambling more like a business than entertainment.
Follow the system, control emotions, and stay focused on the long term goal.

Do you agree that emotional control matters as much as analysis?

[Z_MBFM]

I think a lot of people focus too much on analysis, odds, and strategies, but forget the emotional side of gambling.

To really win long term, discipline is just as important, and that means controlling emotions. When you win, you don’t celebrate. When you lose, you don’t tilt. A win should feel normal, like nothing special happened, you just stick to the plan and move on.

Once emotions take over, decision making usually gets worse. That’s why I see gambling more like a business than entertainment.
Follow the system, control emotions, and stay focused on the long term goal.

Do you agree that emotional control matters as much as analysis?

Everyone thinks of gambling as entertainment but everyone's emotional activity turns it into a business. Because if you go for entertainment then gambling win and loss will seem the same to you because you are enjoying playing the game. But that doesn't happen when you win you are very excited and share that story with everyone. But when you lose then you get depressed and become more emotional to recover your loss. In this case entertainment is not the issue. But we believe that gambling is a place of entertainment. But in reality there is no match with that.

[Outhue]

To win long term isn't promised, it is all about luck, the discipline part should be about risk management as there is nothing you can do for yourself as a gambler than this. Emotion is dangerous when gambling and this becomes possible when you are betting too much money on a game.

There is noone way you won't fight with emotion if you risk too much money, because at the end of the day the money shouldn't be used for gambling, once it's gone you will find it hard to move on, your mind will probably start telling you to find a means and keep gambling to make back your losses only to end up losing even more, the only way to protect yourself is risking only what you can afford to lose..

[Ruttoshi]

I agree that gambling can mess with your emotions and if you lack self control, you will do the opposite that will lead to big losses. However for you to say that controlling your emotion leads to long term winning is what I disagree with you on because the ability to control your emotions wouldn't make you win your bet rather, it will make you limit your losses.

Gambling cannot be a business because it's a game of luck where you lose more than you win. Profit isn't guarantee and any amount lost cannot be recovered. It's a bad business and no one will love to involve themselves in a business that losses is on the highest side. Gambling is strictly for entertainment but human feels the can make a fortune from it.

[Dave1]

I think a lot of people focus too much on analysis, odds, and strategies, but forget the emotional side of gambling.

To really win long term, discipline is just as important, and that means controlling emotions. When you win, you don’t celebrate. When you lose, you don’t tilt. A win should feel normal, like nothing special happened, you just stick to the plan and move on.

Once emotions take over, decision making usually gets worse. That’s why I see gambling more like a business than entertainment.
Follow the system, control emotions, and stay focused on the long term goal.

Do you agree that emotional control matters as much as analysis?

Yes, definitely emotions plays a big part of gambling. Specially in sports betting, you really need to be discipline in the beginning and not to get excited when you win big as the next bet might not be good for you. So instead of being emotional, you need to look into the future as what will be your next big and how you will manage your bankroll so that you will stay in the game.

Of course you need analysis at the side as this is where you gonna break or win in sports betting. So for me it's also very important and together with discipline, you might go long term and enjoy the sports and at the same time, winning some money as well.

[Wiwo]

Is hard to avoid emotional attachments to winning and losing most especially when monetary conditions is involved, emotion will definitely set in once you start gambling pr trading without your own knowledge, this have been there right from time and make arrangements against it over involvement in pur decision making.

You made a good point by saying gambler's shouldn't get over excited when there lose this could trigger higher emotional reaction to go harder on the game's, but if controlled and concealed you get over it at least in some minimal level .

[Alphakilo]

I think a lot of people focus too much on analysis, odds, and strategies, but forget the emotional side of gambling.

To really win long term, discipline is just as important, and that means controlling emotions. When you win, you don’t celebrate. When you lose, you don’t tilt. A win should feel normal, like nothing special happened, you just stick to the plan and move on.

Once emotions take over, decision making usually gets worse. That’s why I see gambling more like a business than entertainment.
Follow the system, control emotions, and stay focused on the long term goal.

Do you agree that emotional control matters as much as analysis?

I totally agree with you that emotional control matter as much, if not more than analysis could, because many others like those old merchant traders and risk managers agree it is the foundation on which analysis stands.

A proper understanding of risk management practices is a must to excel in both gambling and trading activities and a gambler should have understood how analysis works and how odd makers pick their odds, so as to lay more emphasis on managing their emotions to be calm and steady and thus control their profits and maintain their advantage over the house edge.
Risk management deals with the individual gambler, while analysis deals with how the gambling market is and for one we can well agree also that we can't control the outcomes of our bet, but our behavior instead.

[Webutxo]

I think a lot of people focus too much on analysis, odds, and strategies, but forget the emotional side of gambling.

To really win long term, discipline is just as important, and that means controlling emotions. When you win, you don’t celebrate. When you lose, you don’t tilt. A win should feel normal, like nothing special happened, you just stick to the plan and move on.

Once emotions take over, decision making usually gets worse. That’s why I see gambling more like a business than entertainment.
Follow the system, control emotions, and stay focused on the long term goal.

Do you agree that emotional control matters as much as analysis?

If you do your analysis very well and gamble responsibly, you don't need to worry about emotions and all that, it's when you gamble more than you can afford to lose that your emotions will over power you. Emotion isn't thought, it's a part of human and don't come when it's necessary. One thing about gambling is that if you don't have the skill, don't know how to analyze and take odds that are going to work for you then you will spend time emotionally down when you gamble all and make nothing from gambling.

Follow the rules of gambling, put the little amount uou are comfortable and you can afford to lose and then watch the outcome. If you made it that's fine and if you don't, move on. There is nothing worth in gambling to be emotional about.

[Orpichukwu]

Emotional control matters in gambling. It only helps you keep yourself in check from making some rush decision which might lead to heavy loss, and when our mind is clouded, it's hard to make some good predictions; we might not see the data the way they are for as our mind will be either on what's troubling us or focused on trying to recover what we just recently lost.

[swogerino]

I think a lot of people focus too much on analysis, odds, and strategies, but forget the emotional side of gambling.

To really win long term, discipline is just as important, and that means controlling emotions. When you win, you don’t celebrate. When you lose, you don’t tilt. A win should feel normal, like nothing special happened, you just stick to the plan and move on.

Once emotions take over, decision making usually gets worse. That’s why I see gambling more like a business than entertainment.
Follow the system, control emotions, and stay focused on the long term goal.

Do you agree that emotional control matters as much as analysis?

I would like to agree with you but it is not as easy as you describe here because what happens when consecutive losing start hitting you badly as it is very difficult to contain emotions. Beside that the confidence tears down completely for example when in sport betting you see every day another losing bet, it is not business as usual then as you start getting hit. I would also add that there are nowadays what I call "external factors" if not external threat and I am saying this about referees which can impact your bets fueling further loses putting you in a more difficult situation. It is difficult to achieve success in gambling by only having discipline, luck is the main factor in gambling, be it for good or worse.

[Oshosondy]

Once emotions take over, decision making usually gets worse. That’s why I see gambling more like a business than entertainment.

Do you agree that emotional control matters as much as analysis?

I do not agree with the part that people should see gambling as a business than entertainment. When I saw it as a business, I tried to make money from it, it led me to addiction and I lost huge amount of money. When I started to see it as an entertainment after a year of quitting it, it has been better than when I saw it like a business. Gambling should not be a business, it is very dangerous and the end result can be very bad like a rich man that later become broke is very possible.

[giammangiato]

I think a lot of people focus too much on analysis, odds, and strategies, but forget the emotional side of gambling.

To really win long term, discipline is just as important, and that means controlling emotions. When you win, you don’t celebrate. When you lose, you don’t tilt. A win should feel normal, like nothing special happened, you just stick to the plan and move on.

Once emotions take over, decision making usually gets worse. That’s why I see gambling more like a business than entertainment.
Follow the system, control emotions, and stay focused on the long term goal.

Do you agree that emotional control matters as much as analysis?

Dozens of discussions have been opened about this, but I can tell you with all sincerity that emotions play an important, I would say fundamental, role.
They can make you lose or win, it depends on how you react while you are playing.
There is no long-term win, there is luck, chance and probability.
Everything said about analytics in my humble opinion is just a way to convince people that gambling can turn into a job.
Gambling is a risk, fun, adrenaline-fueled, but it's risky nonetheless.

[Yaunfitda]

I think a lot of people focus too much on analysis, odds, and strategies, but forget the emotional side of gambling.

To really win long term, discipline is just as important, and that means controlling emotions. When you win, you don’t celebrate. When you lose, you don’t tilt. A win should feel normal, like nothing special happened, you just stick to the plan and move on.

Once emotions take over, decision making usually gets worse. That’s why I see gambling more like a business than entertainment.
Follow the system, control emotions, and stay focused on the long term goal.

Do you agree that emotional control matters as much as analysis?

It's mutually exclusive if I may say, Emotions and Discipline can't exists without each other. And so as gamblers we don't have any escape or choice. It's either we have this two working hand in hand or nothing at all. Which means that we're really doom to lose money while we are gambling and we might be feeling the illusion of control that we are winning but if we take a closer look, even if ew say that we are all discipline, there will be times that we will slip up and then have a losing streak because we can't control our emotions. It's really very hard for gamblers to take control, it will take a lot of time and total shift of mindset before we can have mental discipline and win.

[Upgrade00]

To really win long term, discipline is just as important, and that means controlling emotions. When you win, you don’t celebrate. When you lose, you don’t tilt. A win should feel normal, like nothing special happened, you just stick to the plan and move on.

It's just gambling, it is supposed to be fun and entertaining  it is statistically almost impossible for you to win long term, best to stay disciplined, stake low and enjoy the games you play on.

If you're going to control your emotion, you should direct that to not entering a frenzy when you try to make up your wins after hitting losses. That's a quick way to lose even more.

[masulum]

Your emotion are the most important part, if you want healthy gambling activity. Emotion control will help you bet with amount you can afford to lose. Otherwise, if you are not able to control your emotion during gambling session, no matter how good your analysis before gambling or during a match, you will not able to betting healthy. When you are overconfidence with the analysis, your emotion will asked you to bet higher. in the end, if you lose, emotion will force you to betting again even with martingale strategy with hope to recover your previous lost.

[blomen]

when gambling, if you are going to stick to a plan, you must not let your feelings about the process influence you. things may be going much better or much worse than they should, but letting this affect you and deviating from the plan will definitely make the situation worse.

if you're not gambling with a huge amount of money and just want to enjoy the moment, sometimes you need to trust your feelings. here, i'm talking about using gambling purely for entertainment. but if you're doing this seriously, solely with the aim of making money, acting on your feelings will not yield good results.

[Grace333]

For me I will not say is more about either discipline or emotions, yes discipline help but it doesn’t makes you win. For me winning in gambling is more about luck and little skills to pick good games than even discipline. Because the outcome of each game cannot be know.
So I feel discipline help yes, but not a warranty for winning in gambling.

[DubemIfedigbo001]

I think a lot of people focus too much on analysis, odds, and strategies, but forget the emotional side of gambling.

This is because these are the instrument that bring about the engagement and fun in gambling.

To really win long term, discipline is just as important, and that means controlling emotions. When you win, you don’t celebrate. When you lose, you don’t tilt. A win should feel normal, like nothing special happened, you just stick to the plan and move on.

The bolded part can never be applied to me, I celebrate heartily when I win, but I control myself not to get greedy and pursue wins endlessly. I believe that is what emotional control when winning should be all about.

I subscribe to your losing ideology since we are there to have fun, so loosing shouldn't get you agitated.

Once emotions take over, decision making usually gets worse. That’s why I see gambling more like a business than entertainment.
Follow the system, control emotions, and stay focused on the long term goal.

The reverse is the case for me, I see gambling as an entertainment rather than a business, the only way for me to see gambling as a business is if I an active share holder in a casino, then I know it is a business venture.

Do you agree that emotional control matters as much as analysis?

Yes but not totally in your fashion, yours seems to me like a robotic approach to gambling and not a humanly approach.

[POPOLUV]

I think a lot of people focus too much on analysis, odds, and strategies, but forget the emotional side of gambling.

To really win long term, discipline is just as important, and that means controlling emotions. When you win, you don’t celebrate. When you lose, you don’t tilt. A win should feel normal, like nothing special happened, you just stick to the plan and move on.

Once emotions take over, decision making usually gets worse. That’s why I see gambling more like a business than entertainment.
Follow the system, control emotions, and stay focused on the long term goal.

Do you agree that emotional control matters as much as analysis?

It is not a bad idea if an individuals view gambling as an entertainment or seeing gambling as a fun and the process their emotions turned it to be a business, all this point of view is what makes us humans, so if eventually our emotions take over decisions when it comes to gambling, i will say that it is based on personal discipline because once we as an individuals allow emotions to take over us at point of trying to analyze sports betting it will turn out to be a problem for us to get the right to analyze what should favor us, knowing fully well that this gambling is associated with risk and staking with high stakes and low stakes are involved too.

[joeperry]

Do you agree that emotional control matters as much as analysis?

Of course, some people are playing gambling to entertain themselves and to have fun and if you are going to take away that, then just like what you've said the purpose of gambling does lose and you're only up for profit and that's actually dangerous in my opinion, it's good to control your emotions when losing and winning but never exclude it.

If you win, withdraw all of it or some of it and enjoy and if you lose take a break. Though it would be much better if you are playing to win and at the same time having fun right? But you are right, never ever let your emotions take over you, your analysis and decision making.