Do you also count the potential win as a loss when you gamble?

[Vaculin]

Lately I noticed something about how I think when I place bets.
Aside from the actual stake, I also mentally count the possible winning as something I’m losing if the bet fails.

For example, I bet $100 at odds 1.90.
The return should be $190, but when it loses, I don’t just feel like I lost $100. It feels like I lost the whole $190 that could have been mine.

Because of that mindset, I’ve become more serious with my bets, like I take more time to study and analyze before placing anything, since in my head the loss feels bigger than the actual amount at risk.

Is anyone else like this?
Do you only focus on the stake, or do you also factor in the potential win when deciding whether a bet is worth it?

[salad daging]

Is anyone else like this?
Do you only focus on the stake, or do you also factor in the potential win when deciding whether a bet is worth it?

I only focus on the bet amount and not the potential winnings that are calculated because it's not a sure win yet so I don't feel like I'm losing the potential winnings. the potential win amount.

So if I bet $100 with odds of 2.00, the amount I think I've lost is still $100.
If, for example, a $100 bet is won to $200 and then bet again then that is the amount that has been lost.
Only the stake capital is considered as a loss if for example it loses.

[Hatchy]

Allowing such mindset may lead to one been too emotional or concerned with their loss. It's an unrealistic profit, so it makes no sense to worry about it or even plan ahead of it. I've seen similar discussions on forum before and then the same replies goes. We as gamblers have to train a kind of mindset that would keep us in the game long enough. If I'm betting a $100 then I know I'm losing the $100.. the only time it becomes worth thinking about the unrealistic profits of probably when some games already play out and you are given the opportunity to cash out early but due to either discipline or greed you decide to stay a bit longer and then lost it all back..

[Findingnemo]

Well, it is either this or that so if we win the whole amount is ours so our mind just trick  us into a belief that we lost the total win amount even when there is no win at all. I don't think it of that way because it is not ours to worry and it's like I bought $10 lottery ticket and when I lost I just lost that 10 dollars not the total pot right?

[rachael9385]

Lately I noticed something about how I think when I place bets.
Aside from the actual stake, I also mentally count the possible winning as something I’m losing if the bet fails.

For example, I bet $100 at odds 1.90.
The return should be $190, but when it loses, I don’t just feel like I lost $100. It feels like I lost the whole $190 that could have been mine.

Because of that mindset, I’ve become more serious with my bets, like I take more time to study and analyze before placing anything, since in my head the loss feels bigger than the actual amount at risk.

Is anyone else like this?
Do you only focus on the stake, or do you also factor in the potential win when deciding whether a bet is worth it?

A loss is basically the amount of money used to stake that doesn't end up being profitable, that's what is known as a loss but in a case where you are talking about the potential win it has nothing to do with losses. if you fix your mind too much on what you could have won it will definitely lead to chasing losses. from the way I think about it my potential wins are not real, thinking about it this way helps me move on after losing

[Nathrixxx]

Aside from the actual stake, I also mentally count the possible winning as something I’m losing if the bet fails.

Of course it's also part of the loss if we lose the game, since we already have to potential win to be the amount we expected and had it been we made it for winning, that could have been actually what we are going to earn from taking the risk to bet, so if we lose the bet, we don't only see our stake as the loss made, but the potential winning amount also included, this same way I also think about each time am playing my bet.

[Charles-Tim]

My thinking is different, all the money I deposited on a gambling site, including all the money that I won that I did not withdraw, I consider them all as lost until I won and withdraw the money. But in most cases, I will lose it.

If I bet $100 to win $190 and I won, I am going to withdraw the money immediately from he gambling site and withdraw it to fiat on an exchange.

[rodskee]

Is anyone else like this?
Do you only focus on the stake, or do you also factor in the potential win when deciding whether a bet is worth it?

you only do this when you feel entitled to something but in this case the bets you place are not guaranteed to win and give you a reward so there’s really no reason to feel that you let $190 slip away and it still hurts to think about losing the $100

[Merit.s]

I don't count any money that I haven't win as my own therefore, if I lose my bet, I only feel bad towards my real bet and not about the potential wins. I have a friend who always take his potential win as his actual loss, it doesn't make sense to me.

It's these set of people who feel that their potential win was what they lost are the ones that can start calculating what to buy with their potential win when they haven't win their bet yet.

[|MINER|]

Lately I noticed something about how I think when I place bets.
Aside from the actual stake, I also mentally count the possible winning as something I’m losing if the bet fails.
For example, I bet $100 at odds 1.90.
The return should be $190, but when it loses, I don’t just feel like I lost $100. It feels like I lost the whole $190 that could have been mine.
Because of that mindset, I’ve become more serious with my bets, like I take more time to study and analyze before placing anything, since in my head the loss feels bigger than the actual amount at risk.
Is anyone else like this?
Do you only focus on the stake, or do you also factor in the potential win when deciding whether a bet is worth it?

Actually, your problem here is not that you have become more serious about gambling, but rather that you have become overconfident that you have already won the bet you placed. And this idea is what actually brings you extra feelings of distress.
In this case, we have to remember that when we gamble, there are both wins and losses, and here ultimately you do not know what your result will be before wagering. And for this reason, in the case of gambling, it is important to take it only as an entertainment source and not as another source, and stake as much funds as you can afford to lose.

[SOKO-DEKE]

For example, I bet $100 at odds 1.90.
The return should be $190, but when it loses, I don’t just feel like I lost $100. It feels like I lost the whole $190 that could have been mine.

As far as I never win money from gambling and then lose it back, I will never count it as losses. If I bet $50 on two odds and the potential winning is $100 in total, and I lose, I only feel that I lost $50, not $100.If I did not win the game, but instead I gambled and first won, and I still use the money I won to gamble again, if I lose it, I will count it as a loss but always only the money I used to stake.

If I have to always count my potential winnings as my losses, seriously, I will feel like not even gambling again, because I will keep imagining the money I lost. I usually gamble in parlays, which always combine many odds, and when I see the potential amount, it always feels like I lost a very big amount.

[rdluffy]

I don't think that way before betting
I only think about what I bet. If I bet $100, I'll only calculate based on that amount

However, there is one thing that is difficult: when I make a parlay, for example, of three games, and two games have already been confirmed, I start counting on the total amount of the bet, hehehe. I find it difficult not to count, and if I lose, I obviously get frustrated because of the total amount I could have won

In summary, I only think like you when I make parlays 

[YOSHIE]

For example, I bet $100 at odds 1.90.
The return should be $190, but when it loses, I don’t just feel like I lost $100. It feels like I lost the whole $190 that could have been mine.

It's not yours yet, in essence you only lost $100, unless you already won and risked all $190 somewhere else and you lost, that could be said as you say.

For me, I actually think differently, when I win, I think of it as a loss that has passed, the count is once a win, two losses, that's the fact that what happens is that we lose $100 and win $50, situations like that are real and factual.

[dimonstration]

Is anyone else like this?
Do you only focus on the stake, or do you also factor in the potential win when deciding whether a bet is worth it?

I don’t count it no matter how close I get the potential win because that money never becomes part of my bankroll.

The only thinking I do which close to this is the profit that soon I lose back again after I continue to gamble instead of stopping when I’m on my profit. I counted it as loss since that money is once part of my bankroll and I have a chance to withdraw it.

Counting the potential profit as lose will just make you feel more remorseful after your game.

[Cryptomultiplier]

Lately I noticed something about how I think when I place bets.
Aside from the actual stake, I also mentally count the possible winning as something I’m losing if the bet fails.

For example, I bet $100 at odds 1.90.
The return should be $190, but when it loses, I don’t just feel like I lost $100. It feels like I lost the whole $190 that could have been mine.

Because of that mindset, I’ve become more serious with my bets, like I take more time to study and analyze before placing anything, since in my head the loss feels bigger than the actual amount at risk.

Is anyone else like this?
Do you only focus on the stake, or do you also factor in the potential win when deciding whether a bet is worth it?

Am also worried about the potential win mostly when I get a cashout option and refuse to take it. The amount I bet with may be smaller in some cases because I could pick alot of games and I only bet with huge amounts when I have a sure single or double game to play and this doesn't need much analysis, but strategy and careful observation.

I am more focused on the potential win when I have to decide if a bet is worth it, but that doesn't mean I don't stick to my funding capacity because it makes up a huge part of being disciplined and applying risk management skills to my gambling account activities.

[Fivestar4everMVP]

Lately I noticed something about how I think when I place bets.
Aside from the actual stake, I also mentally count the possible winning as something I’m losing if the bet fails.

For example, I bet $100 at odds 1.90.
The return should be $190, but when it loses, I don’t just feel like I lost $100. It feels like I lost the whole $190 that could have been mine.

Because of that mindset, I’ve become more serious with my bets, like I take more time to study and analyze before placing anything, since in my head the loss feels bigger than the actual amount at risk.

Is anyone else like this?
Do you only focus on the stake, or do you also factor in the potential win when deciding whether a bet is worth it?

Well, I don't think like this but I perfectly understand, but I will still have to tell you that this is a wrong way to think it you would permit me telling you this, money is important no matter how small, and because of this, I still treat every bet with all seriousness regardless of the fact that I don't usually factor in the potential winning...

I can never see myself telling someone I lost $200 when in actual reality, what I lost is $100, this is simply like lying to people and to your self, it's going to make me really uncomfortable and God forbid I get used to an attitude like this..
Money is not yours until you have it in your palms as yours, counting your potential winning as yours when you haven't won the bet is a wrong way to think man, I must tell you this whether you agree with me or not, its a fact.

[Zigabel]

This is exactly how I feel gambling, it is even very common amongst gamblers, I have a good number of my friends who are gamblers who share same traits, we do count the potential, infact out attention and focus is mostly on that, we almost do forget our stakes and care more about what we could have won if we had won, for us we lost the potential win and not just  the stake.  

Sometimes it even seems like we careless about  the stakes maybe because we do stake that which we know we can loose comfortably so for us the potential win is what we lost and not our stake which we can easily let go.but there are fee persons out there who are of a very different opinion actually.

[casey15]

Well any potential win that has not been cashed out or claimed isn't yours. That $190 you are supposed to get isn't yours until the bet plays out and you have been rewarded....this will help you keep your emotions in check and help you make realistic decisions. The only money that is yours is your capital and that capital protection is key. When you potential win has been added to your balance then it you can consider it part if your capital and when you lose it in a wager, then you have lost your money.
That is why it is easier to lose bets than to win.. as long as you have not been paid your potential win, it is not yet ulyours but when you make the wager, any money out there is as good as gone because it no longer reflects in your balance except when you win.

[AHOYBRAUSE]

Nah, and nobody should cause it's totally the wrong approach obviously. People that do that not only start chasing their losses but also chase "lost" winnings, which makes it even hard to go back to break even since you are setting a higher (fake) target.

I mean, playing in the casino it's easy to stay away from this stupid idea of doing such a thing but betting on sports I know it's definitely way more likely to take this wrong turn.

[Pandu Geddon]

Do you only focus on the stake, or do you also factor in the potential win when deciding whether a bet is worth it?

I will only pay attention to the amount I bet, because looking at the actual winning odds, it hasn’t been achieved yet. So when I lose, I only think about the amount I bet. A small capital, not a greater chance of winning than the capital. 
Being more careful in making bets is good. But if you lose, the amount that comes to mind becomes bigger. If you can’t accept a loss in the usual way, it could result in excessive disappointment.