Winning at gambling is more about discipline than emotions.

[dimonstration]

It’s either you lose your emotion due to gambling or you lose to gambling due to your emotions.

I don’t really understand that quote. Either way, you’re still gambling. You don’t lose because of gambling itself, you lose money when you can’t control your emotions and start making bad decisions. Once you get too emotional, that’s when things go downhill. You focus too much on the current situation instead of thinking long term and learning from your mistakes. And that’s usually how losses pile up.

I believe we lose not because of our emotions but through our bad luck for hitting that losing bet or own skill for analyzing incorrectly to the outcome that we bet.

Emotion just intensifies our losses by increasing our bet because are greedy. But in most cases emotion is truly the culprit of their losses because they don’t know when to stop.

But assuming that we have good analysis skills and lucky at the same time. Regardless of what our emotion we can still win the game.

[danherbias07]

This is where I always lose, when I use my "fan" side and my "emotional" side.

I do agree with your point, and I think many sports bettors will agree too. This is not something that can easily be controlled. There are certain games where we are biased because we are a fan of one player or the whole team. It's difficult not to become one, especially if you are a gambler who loves watching games and somehow falls in love with a player because he does great for the team or he just plays like he ain't even human anymore.

Still, if we can control this, then we might really get some good results. So, OP is right about discipline in emotions.

[xenomorfo]

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.

We already have so many bad things in life, so many problems, we have diseases, criminal gangs called the state, do you want to eliminate emotions and instill discipline in a pastime too? No thanks.
at this point we also put discipline when we fuck with our partner

no it doesn't make sense

[nimogsm]

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

I agree 100%. Losses can push you to play new games and create additional emotional problems in the hope of quickly winning back what you have lost. Victories can mislead the player, making them think that they are a professional and that they will definitely be able to earn even more. I agree with the thesis that even when winning, you need to keep your emotions under control, because at these moments the player is most vulnerable to rash actions.

[Kasabus]

Victories can mislead the player, making them think that they are a professional and that they will definitely be able to earn even more.

It’s only misleading if you’re not ready and you’re just assuming you’re a pro. But if from the start you’re already working your way up, thinking like a pro, and actually getting good results, then I don’t see anything wrong with that.

As bettors, we always aim for success anyway. In the end, only we can judge if what we’re doing is right or wrong.
If the outcome is that we’re profitable, then we’re not just assuming, the results speak for themselves.

I agree with the thesis that even when winning, you need to keep your emotions under control, because at these moments the player is most vulnerable to rash actions.

talking about pro, that's what they do.

[Vaculin]

Analysis and odds matter, yes, but they don’t protect you once your emotions step in. Alot of people lose because they reacted poorly to a game. That excitement after a win and frustration after a loss both push people away from whatever plan they had. so thats why discipline ends up being the real edge.  Without emotional control, even good analysis will fall apart but with it, your losses stay manageable and you give yourself a chance to last.

You can’t let emotions take over. Analysis alone isn’t enough. You can analyze everything correctly, but if you’re weak emotionally, you’ll still fail. Both have to work together, and you really need control on both sides. That’s honestly the only way we even have a chance to be profitable in sports betting.

And when I say profitable, I don’t mean just winning. Winning can be temporary. Being profitable is more serious than that, it means accounting for losses and still ending up with a net profit, just like running a business. That’s the real goal.

[Y3shot]

Discipline plays an important role in gambling; in fact, when planning to gamble, discipline is involved. If you don't have discipline, you would want to gamble with an amount that you can't afford to lose. When you have exceeded your limit, gambling discipline is also involved because it is discipline that will make one stop gambling.

When you are winning, you need discipline to manage the amount that is won because if discipline is not there, one would want to continue gambling to win more money. When you are losing, discipline is also needed to control your emotions. Discipline is very important in gambling and is needed at every stage of the process.

[aioc]

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

It takes years of experience to be able to control your emotions in gambling; we are just human and emotional beings, we can only delay, but we cannot fully control them.

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 takes a lot of situations to do that; to reach that point, you have to be in hundreds of those situations. You don't go gambling and just say, 'I am in control'; you have to face and be hardened by past situations to do that.

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

It's part of the analysis that you can concentrate on your game and control your emotions, which will give you a good analysis. So I can say control is part of your analysis.

[banana33]

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.

It seems easy in words, but in reality it is very different in my opinion and also very difficult.
We football fans, for example, are highly emotional people; we get excited by a great goal, we get excited if a weaker team manages to beat a stronger team.
It's not easy to repress emotions

[Nathrixxx]

If you're being disciplined, you may not win, also, if you're not being disciplined as well, you may just have reduced your chances of winning, therefore, everyone of us must be well disciplined with our emotions being under our control, we should gamble and have other things about us in proper and good shape, emotional gambling can comes with lots of mistakes that could have been avoided if we were not.

[Smartprofit]

I believe viewing gambling as a business is very dangerous. 🙋 It greatly distorts your worldview.

Business presupposes profit. If you have an income you can control and expenses you can also control, then it's a business. Business is a controllable process (this is how it differs from gambling). A businessman strives to make a profit (that is, a positive difference between income and expenses). In gambling, there is no such thing as profit.

In gambling, you generally don't control the outcome. At best, you can control your emotions. And this makes gambling similar to psychological training. Which is also very important and interesting, but it has nothing to do with business... Gambling based solely on luck is not a business at all. Poker or sports betting, in my opinion, can be considered a business, but only if you have a significant competitive advantage over other players. And that requires a professional level of play. 🧖

Speaking of discipline, I think it's important to understand one thing.  If the odds of winning in gambling are less than 50%, discipline won't help you. Neither will controlling your emotions. You'll simply tear your hair out less when you ultimately lose. And you won't bang your head against the wall because you'll be in control of your emotions.

[YOSHIE]

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

Indeed, emotions will make our bets messy, this often happens to gamblers, where we often cannot control our emotions in placing bets.

I often see my friend placing bets in an emotional way, it started because he often lost, he used all the remaining balance in his casino account full of emotion, the fact was real and he lost again, of course his anger peaked.
Your op has reminded me of gamblers who are emotional and relaxed and better and bad.

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

When carrying out gambling activities, in my opinion, not all games require analysis, such as slots, Roulette and others, why analyze if you win randomly.
Analysis needs such a sports bet, poker analyzes the card that has come out and that yet, so the analysis is in its place.

[Boiboi20]

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.

However to be honestly I don’t see winning in gambling as a discipline vs emotion thing however discipline helps you control yourself and avoid stupid mistakes but it does not mean you all win gambling is still mostly about luck with a little skill in choosing better game since you can’t predict outcome discipline is helpful but it is definitely not a guarantee for winning.

[batang_bitcoin]

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?

This becomes important if you're so serious when you gamble. But if you're having fun and you don't mind all of those factors, you keep going but with a budgeted bankroll when you gamble. That's because when you are becoming emotional, it means that you're hurt when you lose. Well, we all get hurt when we lose but the impact is different if you're so serious with it and you're no longer doing it for fun but for the money. While I agree that emotional control matters because it's the factor that makes a gambler lose so much when they don't have it.

[BABY SHOES]

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.

People always assume more in gambling, such as wanting to get rich overnight something that is impossible to happen let alone win in the long run there are no statistics that justify this... still gambling must be considered entertainment with the defeat experienced means accepting defeat.

Emotional control is important... otherwise, their gambling can be more aggressive and brutal.

[Yorubek]

It is very important to control greed and emotions to maintain self-control while gambling. Gambling based on emotion or greed increases the chances of making mistakes many times over. As a result, gambling cannot be conducted by following the correct rules, resulting in the risk of losing money increasing significantly. And when we gamble without following the correct rules, the chances of becoming addicted increase many times over. Therefore, controlling emotions is very important to gamble consistently and protect yourself from additional losses.

[Taricoins]

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 for one to be a successful gambler( one that gambles for fun without repercussions), that person must be able to be discipline when placing any bet, slated rules and guideline must be adhered to avoid a bite back, a person must know how to play, when to play and when to stop, I think thats very important.

But honestly winning and losing without emotions takes the fun out of it, not all movies ends with a comedy, we can be happy with the wins as long as it doesn't motivate you to gamble more that your personal rules you have established.

[coin-investor]

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

Emotional control can be practiced, but it takes years to do so in gambling because it involves money; you have to get used to winning huge amounts or be in a position where you need to be composed to come out with the best decision.
So it's easier said than done; it takes years and experience.
Honestly, even though I've been betting on horses for years, I still cannot control my emotions during the homestretch when my favorite horse is fighting for the lead.

[nara1892]

I agree that emotional control is important especially in risky activities like gambling, just as analysis is important if you are involved in skill-based games like sports betting.

But one thing I will say is that when you gamble by sticking to the plan and being able to control your emotions along with always applying analysis it does not mean that you will win at the end of the game, in the end luck is always a necessary aspect, so limits must remain.

[Cryptoprincess101]

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

Surely, emotional control matters a lot because that is what will determine your decision at that material time. When you take gambling as just a normal game even if you lose or win, it gives you that relaxation and freedom of mind but when you become so concerned about winning after making many analyses, it throws you into a state of emotions when the expected result is not achieved. The ability to control one's emotions is what makes you a matured gambler since you are not attached to the outcome of your bets.