Winning is hard, why not quit?

[danadc]

Yes, that is how it goes because they always have this feeling that the next bet will going to change everything and immediately they get the win, they wouldn't want to stop. To be honest this little win can be tenting because sometimes you might decide to take a break and wait for the next day but you wouldn't know when you will start gambling again hoping that you would make more money before the end of the day, but at last it wouldn't be easy as you were expecting.

The reason this happens is because we all always maintain that positivity or perhaps that hope that makes us feel good for the next day of gaming. We are human beings who seek success, but in the casino that mentality is good up to a certain point, or up to a limit that we must define, which is with money As long as we have money just to play with and that doesn't affect our lives, we will be fine.

[CryptoYar]

You are right in your gut feeling. House wins always, and only 11 percent to 13.5 percent of gamblers are able to finish ahead. Random rewards, addictive thrill of rare and unplanned win, and near miss result, which turns loss into what almost was win, are two parts that make people find it hard to quit as they take over their brains.

Gambling according to my meaning is tax on hope and it traps most weak people who are wildly trying to solve their money problems with miracle that is made to never happen. Much of people stay stuck due to sunk cost mistake where they feel that they should play until they get their money back since they have already fallen into debt and to pay back money they have spent.

[348Judah]

The reason why some often make complain about a particular gambling platform is because of their insatisfying gambling experience, and that is the only way they can just express themselves in order to be heard, but come to think of it, they never expected to quit or intended to do so, but when they face challenges like this, it is very eminent that they express it as they are feeling, without keeping it to themselves with the hope that the casino will respond accordingly towards it.

[Dunamisx]

We can also see it from this direction, that winning in gambling is not hard to achieve, only that most of us often make use of the wrong approach to gamble, it is not bad if we can check on the strategy we are using, maybe we could be able to apply some changes for a better experience, I'm sure that's none of us wanted to quit from gambling, despite we may not be more comfortable with what we are seeing each time we are gambling.

[imthegreat]

Many hobbies only at first glance seem easy to make money based on their occupation. But when you really start trying to make money from these hobbies, you realize that you have succumbed to a false belief. Gambling, like esports, is one of the most difficult ways to make money. I mean poker, because that's the only way you can manage your winning probabilities. At first glance, beginners think that nothing is easier than sitting at a table with cards, but it's difficult. And esports, for example, also seems like it's easy to make money, I'd even say effortlessly. But this turns out not to be the case.

[sana54210]

In trading, we call it revenge trading. It's the pursuit of losses in an attempt to win it back. Maybe in gambling, there's another word for it which I believe is anchored on that element of luck. Luck is what keeps gamblers returning to that point their losses are counted. Gamblers don't conclude they will lose a bet and then go ahead to still place that bet. No one sees an incoming lorry on speed and jumps right in front of it if they aren't suicidal.

While it's VERY similar, it is not the same thing. Because in gambling if you keep betting then you are going to eventually lose and there is a guarantee that you can't make a profit if you keep gambling, the more you gamble the closer you will get to bankrupting. Trading "could" be the same, if you revenge trade then you could lose it all, and many people do, but you do not have to, it is not a guarantee, you could be trading and making money and there is no guarantee of anything.

So in theory, trading gives you a possibility that the gambling world can't and gambling guarantees more loss that trading doesn't. When you think of it like that, gambling and trading might be similar but they are not the same thing at all.

[Lannakosa]

Many hobbies only at first glance seem easy to make money based on their occupation. But when you really start trying to make money from these hobbies, you realize that you have succumbed to a false belief. Gambling, like esports, is one of the most difficult ways to make money. I mean poker, because that's the only way you can manage your winning probabilities. At first glance, beginners think that nothing is easier than sitting at a table with cards, but it's difficult. And esports, for example, also seems like it's easy to make money, I'd even say effortlessly. But this turns out not to be the case.

I think people usually do not make their hobby their main source of income for obvious reasons. A person will always choose the most profitable activity to make it their job. Everything else will either be an additional side income, or just a hobby you can call it whatever you want, but the essence does not change. There are hobbies where you do not risk losing money, and there is gambling, that is why I would not even call gambling a hobby, because the risk of losing your bet, and therefore your money is very high. So for me gambling is only entertainment, but definitely not a hobby.

[Asuspawer09]

For sure there are a lot of losers than winners when it comes to gamblers, I mean most of the time the boat or the house is just the winners of the gambling bets, I mean in casino we can already see it being rigged most of the time as a business this casino games surely need to earn in order for the business to continue to operate, so most of the time there are probably 9 losers and lets just say the 1 winers is only going to win.

It might also be something about the ego since we just hate losing anyway, and we have that ego when we start to gamble you dont really wanted to just quit easily or it is just going to be like giving up easily just because you lose a few bets, even though you already lose a huge amount of money, when you are just getting started with the bet you always wanted to be atleast win a decent amount in order to make it up on your ego and make you feel lets you made something atleast.

[Queen uloma]

Gambling are designed to favour only their betting platform not the players, that's why people lose more than they win,  majority of the gamblers knows the chances in Winning gambling are low but still continue because of their personal reasons such as, hoping that one day they may hit big win that will change their lives for better. Many  gamblers Chase losses, to recover the money they lose, in the process of chasing losses they may end up losing more. I will emphasize more on hope because it gives gamblers reasons to play more even after many losses, Winning in gambling is very hard but most people still gamble's because of hope, emotion and desire to recover all their losses the best way in gambling is to set limits, and see gambling as fun or entertainment not where to make money.

[swogerino]

Many hobbies only at first glance seem easy to make money based on their occupation. But when you really start trying to make money from these hobbies, you realize that you have succumbed to a false belief. Gambling, like esports, is one of the most difficult ways to make money. I mean poker, because that's the only way you can manage your winning probabilities. At first glance, beginners think that nothing is easier than sitting at a table with cards, but it's difficult. And esports, for example, also seems like it's easy to make money, I'd even say effortlessly. But this turns out not to be the case.

Esports are a nightmare to be making money off of them in my opinion. I tried to betting on them many times and played on over goals in a lot of games because that was what happened more often but as soon as I started betting things started to change, the overs were gone and under started happening. In poker you need a lot of patience and determination as a minimum to have a chance to be a winner, especially patience is key virtue here, if you have not a lot of patience do not even bother to try and win in poker simply because it will be impossible for you.

[imthegreat]

Without doing any research I can actually say that gamblers that are benefiting from gamble in aspect of winning their bet are lower than the gamblers that are losing their bet because there's no guarantee to win any game except the gambler is lucky, which makes me believe that losers are more than the winners. If you observe properly, we could notice that the gambers that are winning their bet are likely gambling for entertainment (am not sure actually, probably not all of them), meanwhile those gamblers that are losing their bet are desperately gambling to make money through it. Even after multiple trials and no positive results, why not quit?.

What really made me create this thread is because I still can't figure out why people who lose often can't quite gambling or take a break even when they know that they can't win to recover their money.

Trying to gamble in a desire to get your money back is a very naive desire, because such a person seems to have a broken logical connection. He doesn't realize that he's lost a lot of money because that's how gambling works, and it's very strange when he comes to the conclusion that he needs to keep playing to get his money back. You can try to understand him, because he has just seen the balance on the screen, and after a few minutes it is already empty there.
And this is the most difficult moment - to admit that everything was a mistake, and now we need to earn money in another way.

[Inwestour]

Esports are a nightmare to be making money off of them in my opinion. I tried to betting on them many times and played on over goals in a lot of games because that was what happened more often but as soon as I started betting things started to change, the overs were gone and under started happening. In poker you need a lot of patience and determination as a minimum to have a chance to be a winner, especially patience is key virtue here, if you have not a lot of patience do not even bother to try and win in poker simply because it will be impossible for you.

I have never placed bets on esports because I believe these events are more susceptible to manipulation. With real sports, it is much harder to arrange something like that, although I admit that match-fixing can exist there as well. Poker is a bit different and more complicated because you have to compete against other players, who may be much stronger than you. When it comes to poker, I prefer playing with real people at the table, because the game becomes much more interesting that way. However, I don’t like playing poker for real money, in that case I would prefer betting.

[Localhostspeed]

Without doing any research I can actually say that gamblers that are benefiting from gamble in aspect of winning their bet are lower than the gamblers that are losing their bet because there's no guarantee to win any game except the gambler is lucky, which makes me believe that losers are more than the winners. If you observe properly, we could notice that the gambers that are winning their bet are likely gambling for entertainment (am not sure actually, probably not all of them), meanwhile those gamblers that are losing their bet are desperately gambling to make money through it. Even after multiple trials and no positive results, why not quit?.

What really made me create this thread is because I still can't figure out why people who lose often can't quite gambling or take a break even when they know that they can't win to recover their money.

It could be that we have much number of people that are betting and winning and showing on social media than the losers and we have much people that are gambling for fun. You know that if you are not close to a gambler, you will not know what's in their mind until you check and see for yourself before you can know which gambler is doing well and the gamblers that are not doing well and yet they don't want to quit, could be the fun is what they are after.

It fairs since casino is the one making money but from my end, if I'm not making any money from gambling, I don't think I'm going to have any motivation to play any more. Like the Champions League matches that were played yesterday, I won my bet on Tuesday but yesterday, I lost my two bet but that money didn't scratch me because it's not upto 5% of of what I won on Tuesday, my average loss is small while my profits is big, this is how I checkmate casino.

[giammangiato]

Many hobbies only at first glance seem easy to make money based on their occupation. But when you really start trying to make money from these hobbies, you realize that you have succumbed to a false belief. Gambling, like esports, is one of the most difficult ways to make money. I mean poker, because that's the only way you can manage your winning probabilities. At first glance, beginners think that nothing is easier than sitting at a table with cards, but it's difficult. And esports, for example, also seems like it's easy to make money, I'd even say effortlessly. But this turns out not to be the case.

In gambling in general, nothing is easy; if we rely solely on what we see, deception is just around the corner.
A practical example?
Bingo: Buy 300 folders for 5 cents each (mind will tell you if I buy all these folders I have a high chance of winning)
Considering that in an average session there are 25,000 folders in play, how much could the winning percentage be?
Let's say that with these folders at stake the BINGO is $1600
The mind without counting will think damn I have 300 folders at stake my probability is very high, but by counting we have a 1.2% chance of guessing. So you spent $15 to have a 1.2% chance.
This applies to any game, you have the perception of having an easy game, but the numbers NEVER deceive.
I also wouldn't call it a hobby, but fun.

[Mpamaegbu]

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Because in gambling if you keep betting then you are going to eventually lose and there is a guarantee that you can't make a profit if you keep gambling, the more you gamble the closer you will get to bankrupting.

Sadly, that's not how the average gambler's mind works. Their mind is conditioned on winning, hence the reason they stake bets. Like I said earlier, if a gambler knows they will lose at a bet; I'm sure preemptively they won't make that bet. Nobody, in the real sense, and that's realistically speaking, likes to throw away money. Everyone wants to either preserve what they've or increase it.

So in theory, trading gives you a possibility that the gambling world can't and gambling guarantees more loss that trading doesn't.

And that's because gambling is sold on fantasy and luck while trading is sold on exchange of one asset/commodity/currency for another.

When you think of it like that, gambling and trading might be similar but they are not the same thing at all.

Of course, they aren't the same. I gave a short explanation of it above.

[Bright0515]

Without doing any research I can actually say that gamblers that are benefiting from gamble in aspect of winning their bet are lower than the gamblers that are losing their bet because there's no guarantee to win any game except the gambler is lucky, which makes me believe that losers are more than the winners. If you observe properly, we could notice that the gambers that are winning their bet are likely gambling for entertainment (am not sure actually, probably not all of them), meanwhile those gamblers that are losing their bet are desperately gambling to make money through it. Even after multiple trials and no positive results, why not quit?.

What really made me create this thread is because I still can't figure out why people who lose often can't quite gambling or take a break even when they know that they can't win to recover their money.

Trying to gamble in a desire to get your money back is a very naive desire, because such a person seems to have a broken logical connection. He doesn't realize that he's lost a lot of money because that's how gambling works,

I don't think that is how gambling works, you can't do things aggressively if you don't know the extent they have hurt you. I believe it is because they know the exact amount that they have lost in gamble is the reason why they keep on gambling hoping to re over all the money that they have lost. Addicted gamblers know that they have lost a lot of money that is why they keep on gambling hoping to recover all their losses but what they don't know is that continuing to gamble with the hope of recovering is the actual cause for their losses.

[rachael9385]

Gambling are designed to favour only their betting platform not the players, that's why people lose more than they win,  majority of the gamblers knows the chances in Winning gambling are low but still continue because of their personal reasons such as, hoping that one day they may hit big win that will change their lives for better. Many  gamblers Chase losses, to recover the money they lose, in the process of chasing losses they may end up losing more. I will emphasize more on hope because it gives gamblers reasons to play more even after many losses, Winning in gambling is very hard but most people still gamble's because of hope, emotion and desire to recover all their losses the best way in gambling is to set limits, and see gambling as fun or entertainment not where to make money.

You made a good point, Sooner or later every gambler comes to realize that gambling favours the platforms more than what people benefit from it. Gamblers make profit but only a few percentage of people makes profit. If majority are losing it means the platforms are the ones benefitting.