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

[ScamViruS]

I actually think this way too, I think a little differently. I won all the money I deposited last month and couldn't withdraw it because I lost again. Then I see that as a complete loss. In fact, this is how many gamblers think. On the other hand, gamblers calculate their losses and after some time forget about it and start gambling again by depositing money. So these thoughts come to the gamblers' minds for a short time, and when they have money in their hands again, they forget about them again.

[Dr.Bitcoin_Strange]

I remember that this has been discussed before but I could not find the thread. Gambling is a game of luck and anyone that is going into it must already bear in mind what they are going into, understand the basics of gambling and agree with its terms before you start gambling otherwise they will just feel hurt all the time. Potential win is like an unrealized profit, you must have it first in your possession before you can add it to your losses, although you could feel bad for not winning that amount or you can air it out that you missed an x amount potential win today but realistically, what you only lost was the money you staked with. Sometimes I do feel bad for not winning a certain amount but not that I start hurting for it.

[retreat]

The potential win should not be calculated when losing because it is not real money lost, it is just an imaginary number and is not real, and cannot be used because it does not exist in the first place. Even though some people may regret the money they almost won when they lose, it is not a real loss, what gamblers should focus on is the capital they really risked and are prepared to lose, not numbers like that.

[Asiska02]

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?

I don’t put the potential win into that much consideration, what I focus more is how much I’m able to risk in other to get a good result from my bet. What is not yet won is not mine, so I don’t count that as a potential win whatsoever when placing bets. This does not affects how I play my games or the need to take my game more serious or not, it has nothing to do with that since I’m always caution with my bets before placing them after strict analysis of the game. My focus is more on how much I’m wanting to risk than the amount I’m potentially going to win if everything goes well as placed on the bet.

[Fivestar4everMVP]

I remember that this has been discussed before but I could not find the thread. Gambling is a game of luck and anyone that is going into it must already bear in mind what they are going into, understand the basics of gambling and agree with its terms before you start gambling otherwise they will just feel hurt all the time. Potential win is like an unrealized profit, you must have it first in your possession before you can add it to your losses, although you could feel bad for not winning that amount or you can air it out that you missed an x amount potential win today but realistically, what you only lost was the money you staked with. Sometimes I do feel bad for not winning a certain amount but not that I start hurting for it.

You are absolutely right bro, but unfortunately, this is something that I believe some gamblers don't understand like op, I find it absolutely wrong to assume your potential profit from a bet as an actual loss when the bet doesn't go the way it was predicted it will go, the gambler or bettor will just be hurting himself over nothing..

I imagine I place a bet with just $5 and it's on one of this parleys that often has up to 15 legs with odds running into 5k to 10k, 5x5k odd is potential $25k, now I imagine I lost the bet and go about telling people I lost $25,000 on a bet when I don't even look like someone who has ever seen $1k, people are just going to look at me as someone who is stupid, makes absolutely no sense and this is another version of living a fake life which many of us preach against.

[leonair]

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 always keep an eye on the stakes. Because how much I won and how much I will win will be only an initial thought for me. The final result will be what I can withdraw. If I bet $100 and win $200 and roll it over to $1000, that amount of money will not be considered as my profit if I use it to gamble and lose. So I just like to gamble and calculate how much money I won and how much money I lost, I don't push myself to increase the excitement of my gambling. But yes, I try to stop gambling and withdraw my winnings.

[Dr.Osh]

I don't count along with the winnings, I only count the capital that I spend, especially because I often make parlay bets, so it doesn't make sense to count the total odds as a loss. If you bet $5 and the odds are 10, is $50 considered a loss? Everyone must have a different way of calculating it. In my opinion, it's not that important to take it into account.

[Japinat]

There are times I also think that way. But I realized it will only add to the pressure I felt every time I lose my bet, so I stopped thinking that way.

When I lose, I just think I just lose my bet, my capital, and nothing else. Those future profits aren't still mine, so I don't waste my time focusing on them. After all, if I get lucky, I can have them. If not, maybe its not yet the right timing, but I always analyze the game well before placing my bets.

[Cyber_warrior]

The potential win should not be calculated when losing because it is not real money lost, it is just an imaginary number and is not real

Since the momey hasn’t been won yet, you don’t have to calculate it in your loss. When you are calculating your loss, then calculate the amount which you gamble with because that’s your real loss. If people are calculating their potential win as part of their loss, then people will have been crazy right now because I can’t even imagine the amount which people will have been calculating as their loss.

If you are the type that calculate your potential win as part of your loss if you end up losing, then you are wrong, it’s better you change your mentality, the amount you haven’t won yet isn’t your money, and it shouldn’t be calculated as part of your money.

[fredericktaylor]

This may seem like a result of losing more money while gambling, it may be mainly due to being depressed after losing money. When the mind is very bad after losing a bet, we cannot forget, this problem can arise. When our mentality cannot accept defeat, it can arise because the gambler is not normal when losing money. This is a completely wrong perception of the mind. The potential loss is never real, it is imaginary. So I think that using such money in gambling that your mind will be right after losing money, you will not be stressed, and you can enjoy the real fun by gambling with money that will not put pressure on you.

[Wakate]

The potential win should not be calculated when losing because it is not real money lost, it is just an imaginary number and is not real, and cannot be used because it does not exist in the first place. Even though some people may regret the money they almost won when they lose, it is not a real loss, what gamblers should focus on is the capital they really risked and are prepared to lose, not numbers like that.

Most gamblers only pay attention to their own winnings and forget about the loses the have incurred in the past.
If gamblers can be putting all these into consideration like their winnings and loses all together, they will be surprised that they most have had little winning for the month or year because of how easy it can be to lose money to gambling.

[centrum]

I actually think this way too, I think a little differently. I won all the money I deposited last month and couldn't withdraw it because I lost again. Then I see that as a complete loss. In fact, this is how many gamblers think. On the other hand, gamblers calculate their losses and after some time forget about it and start gambling again by depositing money. So these thoughts come to the gamblers' minds for a short time, and when they have money in their hands again, they forget about them again.

this is a very common mindset, when someone wins but fails to withdraw on time the final loss feels bigger and they see everything as a total loss, many gamblers think like this. after some time they forget about that loss, once they have money in their hands again they believe things will be different, the old thoughts and lessons disappear, gambling plays with memory and emotions, people remember the pain of losing but they do not hold on to the lesson, that is why the same cycle repeats again and again,simply put the problem is not luck. the problem is that people fail to keep a clear and honest record of wins losses and decisions...

[MRY]

I actually think this way too, I think a little differently. I won all the money I deposited last month and couldn't withdraw it because I lost again. Then I see that as a complete loss. In fact, this is how many gamblers think. On the other hand, gamblers calculate their losses and after some time forget about it and start gambling again by depositing money. So these thoughts come to the gamblers' minds for a short time, and when they have money in their hands again, they forget about them again.

this is a very common mindset, when someone wins but fails to withdraw on time the final loss feels bigger and they see everything as a total loss, many gamblers think like this. after some time they forget about that loss, once they have money in their hands again they believe things will be different, the old thoughts and lessons disappear, gambling plays with memory and emotions, people remember the pain of losing but they do not hold on to the lesson, that is why the same cycle repeats again and again,simply put the problem is not luck. the problem is that people fail to keep a clear and honest record of wins losses and decisions...

The repetition of losses is usually based on the distortion of memories where the lessons acquired with doing the mistakes are not seen as important. The willfulness of occasional feelings will never yield to logic, without objective record of each decision, and cause a repetition of financially destructive patterns. I fully understand that the most reasonable solution is honest keeping of records. It is only with openness regarding one personal data that one can end the chain of illusion of luck and start to build the pinnacle of complete control over much better substantiated risks management.

[odunybiz]

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.

This often happen to most gamblers. They often get worried about the amount to be won rather than amount they stake. This often happens to me then when I still mainly gamble to make extra money.

 When my game lose, I'm not worried about the amount I bet but the amount I'm about to win. Although i don't take it seriously because I often put the amount I can afford to lose.

[ShowOff]

I actually think this way too, I think a little differently. I won all the money I deposited last month and couldn't withdraw it because I lost again. Then I see that as a complete loss. In fact, this is how many gamblers think. On the other hand, gamblers calculate their losses and after some time forget about it and start gambling again by depositing money. So these thoughts come to the gamblers' minds for a short time, and when they have money in their hands again, they forget about them again.

Yes, you are right about that and gamblers can forget about it so easily when they have money in their pocket. Some gamblers might even make a re-deposit after they lose all their winnings, of course this is not strange, but that is how greed is formed just because they want to win higher. This is actually the wrong approach to gambling, but gamblers don't want to be blamed for their behavior, so they just accept it.

As a gambler, I too have lost my winnings and come out with nothing. I regretted my decision at the time, but only temporarily until I returned to play on a different day. No matter how good our plans are in gambling, if greed cannot be eliminated, then any winnings will seem meaningless.

[Sanitough]

I'll be brutally honest. That sounds ridiculous and stupid. You might be wondering why ?
If you place a bet of $10 with the odds of 10x it would mean you would win $100 if you win.
But in this case if you lose the bet you will consider as if you lost $100 and that is ridiculous because there is a huge difference between losing $10 and $100.
Lets just multiply the odds to 100x. Would you consider this as if you are losing $1000 ? Sounds stupid right ?
I don't mean to be rude but there's no point in thinking this way.

I think OP is actually aware of what he’s doing. Sometimes when we gamble, we kind of accept being “stupid” just to condition our mind in a way we believe might help us.

What he’s doing looks like he’s convincing himself that he lost more than he actually did, maybe to push his mind to work harder and somehow improve his chances next time.
But at the end of the day, that’s just mental conditioning. It might work for some people, but not everyone thinks or reacts the same way.

[Makus]

when we are talking about potential wins they are just possibilities of winning a certain amount or should I call it unrealistic figures because you haven't really won the bet yet. A loss is an amount of money you lost as a staked amount. I still see a lotnof people talking about losses and saying that they lost q certain amount of money only to find out that it is just the the potential win they are talking about, this is a wrong idea and it should be corrected. it is very ridiculous to say you lost something you never had in the first place

[Kelvinid]

Before, I was also doing that, by trying to own what was not happening yet. But it seems it only makes me lose more because I became more greedy and emotional every time I lose my bets, and that makes me a bad and irresponsible gambler in the long run.

Nowadays, I avoid doing that already, and I never count my losses as well because that will only make me lose the drive and interest to gamble more especially If I believe this is my turning point to become lucky and profitable.

[Orpichukwu]

The potential win should not be calculated when losing because it is not real money lost, it is just an imaginary number and is not real, and cannot be used because it does not exist in the first place. Even though some people may regret the money they almost won when they lose, it is not a real loss, what gamblers should focus on is the capital they really risked and are prepared to lose, not numbers like that.

It's indeed imaginary funds which should just remain as something we imagine and not be treated as something that we already got; unless a game result is already announced, we should not and never put hope on a game whose outcome is not certain. Even if the chances of winning are very high, we should care more about the money we used in staking and not the ones which we expect to win.

[Jody.Drummer]

You are not alone , I don’t only focus on the actual stake , I focus more on my potential win , because what I’m getting if it eventually boom is more important to me .

But taking your analysis seriously doesn’t actually determine the winning it only help get on the right Track , but for real the potential win is not supposed to trouble us but indeed before doing something their must be target , so when your target is very important to you the actual stake may not bother you again but the potential win will, because of the target you have in mind .

Analysis is only your weapon to increase your chance of winning on sports betting, there’s no other way to boost your win aside from that and that relies your potential profit fate.

I don’t know how you gamble but making your bet on the right track through analysis means you are increasing your chance of winning since sports betting is partly skill based.

Although potential profit shouldn’t be counted but there’s nothing wrong to think that way since it’s your own preference.

In sports betting, good analysis can increase our chances of winning. This means that our chances of winning will increase if we have the skills to analyze, as sports betting is a game that requires skill. It is true that sports betting depends on skill, but it is not all about skill, as luck also plays a role. Anything can happen during a match, and this can affect the bets we place.