Why does losing to a person feel worse than losing to a sportsbook?

[Odusko]

I feel more emotional when I’m betting against a person and I lose, compared to losing on a sportsbook. Have you ever felt something like that?

You know, we have friends we gamble with in real life, so sometimes we make bets against each other, just for fun. I’ve also done it online. But I noticed that when I lose in those kinds of bets, I feel it more, like it hits harder. Compared to sportsbook bets where I can just move on right away.

Have you felt the same?

Because losing to your friends you are directly seeing him/her spending the money at your face but the casino won't show you that aspect, once the game is over and not in your favor your balance disappears, but physical gambling on the other side have become a direct investment meaning you as a person will be the one to cash out the won amount to the winner and that can cause direct pain to the loser and he may not want to honor the bet.

[terrific]

I feel more upset to be losing to bookies than to a person. Both hurt

Yeah they both hurts but losing to the bookies looks more hurtful but it seems normal.
I guess that it's because someone losing to a friend doesn't find it as a casual thing and they're not accepting that fact.
So, they're having more trouble in accepting their defeat instead of simply moving on and accept that it's part of gambling.

[LastKiss]

I feel more emotional when I’m betting against a person and I lose, compared to losing on a sportsbook. Have you ever felt something like that?
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Have you felt the same?

If we have a strong sense of competitiveness losing to someone doesn’t feel like an option and when we losing to a person, it can make us frustrated. Personally, I’ve never liked losing but I’m trying to change it as a common part of the game. Losing to someone can feel like my pride is hurt, and it creates an uneasy feeling so I’ve experienced that before. Right now, I’m trying to make losing something I can actually enjoy, it sounds unrealistic but I know it's not impossible.

[jcojci]

I feel more emotional when I’m betting against a person and I lose, compared to losing on a sportsbook. Have you ever felt something like that?
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Have you felt the same?

If we have a strong sense of competitiveness losing to someone doesn’t feel like an option and when we losing to a person, it can make us frustrated. Personally, I’ve never liked losing but I’m trying to change it as a common part of the game. Losing to someone can feel like my pride is hurt, and it creates an uneasy feeling so I’ve experienced that before. Right now, I’m trying to make losing something I can actually enjoy, it sounds unrealistic but I know it's not impossible.

Losing to a person makes us frustrate, no doubt for that. We will feels bad even if the competition or match is not a big event. That can makes our day not good and also affect to our emotion. But if we can handle with right, we will not thinks seriously about the lose especially if that is just a game, even if that sound unrealistic, we should try it so we don't have to feels frustrated or stress thinking of our losses.

[imthegreat]

I feel more emotional when I’m betting against a person and I lose, compared to losing on a sportsbook. Have you ever felt something like that?

You know, we have friends we gamble with in real life, so sometimes we make bets against each other, just for fun. I’ve also done it online. But I noticed that when I lose in those kinds of bets, I feel it more, like it hits harder. Compared to sportsbook bets where I can just move on right away.

Have you felt the same?

This is an absolutely accurate match to the meaning of the player-player bet versus the meaning of the player-system bet. In any case, we always bet against other people (even if it's a bookmaker, then we play against the organizers, or people with a different opinion) and only now AI agents have begun to appear who have their own money and it is possible that for the first time in history it will be possible to win a bet and as a result money from a robot (AI) . Lol.
 In any case, it's always best to lose a bet to a friend or friends, because at that moment you have to give him the money and you have to admit that I was wrong and he was right, like an expert.

[Achalugo BTC]

Admittedly, other losses cannot affect our financial stability to such an extent as the risks in casinos do. In my opinion, a very clever trick of keeping the money that we spend under the control is a way of remaining level-headed. The profound sadness may certainly occur in cases where we fail to plan all our actions. We will make sure that all games were only fun.

Well, you are right, keeping our funds in check is the key to sustain or maintain a good and responsible gambling, which will help one to avoid anything that will lead one into regrets and sticking or staying grounded in the right decision we have make, will helps us to keep the fun intact and we can have the ability to manage the risks involved and also be able to keep our emotions in check, so that we won't make decisions based on our emotions.

[Fivestar4everMVP]

I feel more emotional when I’m betting against a person and I lose, compared to losing on a sportsbook. Have you ever felt something like that?

You know, we have friends we gamble with in real life, so sometimes we make bets against each other, just for fun. I’ve also done it online. But I noticed that when I lose in those kinds of bets, I feel it more, like it hits harder. Compared to sportsbook bets where I can just move on right away.

Have you felt the same?

The mathematics is simple, when you bet against a friend and lost, you are seeing that friend and seeing their reaction after you've lost to them, their reaction is what often creates a kind of shameful emotion in us causing us to feel worse than we usually or normally feel when we lost games on sportsbook...

But on the brighter side of things, you will also agree with me that betting against friends physically is more fun than betting on sportsbooks, in as much as losing makes us feel worst than we feel when we lose bets on sportsbooks, the fun derived from betting physically with friends is much more than that derived from betting through a sportsbook, this is even not to talk about how it makes us feel when we are actually the ones that won and our friends lost..

But unfortunately though, physical betting with friends this days is no longer common because aside the fact that access to online casinos is very much easier nowadays, betting physically against friends sometimes leads to a very bad arguments which often times will lead to fighting that could bring about serious injuries, or in worst case scenarios, death, this is one of the major downsides to this type of betting...

[Altryist]

Try not to bet money with your friends, I think a bookmaker should be enough for that if you want to place bets. With friends, you can just make a friendly wager where the loser buys the winner a beer, then losing doesn’t feel bad, because treating a friend to a beer is a normal thing. If you start betting money with friends, it takes on a different nature, it loses the friendly atmosphere and becomes more like a business relationship.

[viljy]

Yes, it is. In my opinion, this is because a bookmaker or casino is perceived as a kind of impersonal entity that, for example, does not enjoy its winnings, this is just a working moment for the casino, just a business... Everything is different with a person. He's smiling, he's happy about his win, and he's happy about your loss! That's why gambling often leads to a stabbing in a drunken company. This is an extreme example, of course, but it illustrates the point!

And if it's a losing streak? Then the gambler wants to accuse his partner of cheating, even if this is not the case. All this is the ground for a quarrel. Actually, this is very common not only in gambling, but also in sports. In rare cases, rivalry takes extreme forms, especially in women's sports.

[bakasabo]

I think I know on reason why losing to a person feel worse than losing to casino. When you lose to casino, to a script, this means you lose to a soulless machine. You will never get any reaction from casino if you lose to it. When you lose to a person, depends on a character that person has, he can make fun of you or try to show that he is better than you. I think almost everyone was in situation (in childhood most probably) when someone who he has lost to, mocked you. That experience left that bad aftertaste of losing in anything to any person. People are afraid that winner will mocked them.

[lionheart78]

I feel more emotional when I’m betting against a person and I lose, compared to losing on a sportsbook. Have you ever felt something like that?

I think the psychology in this is because the person not only loses his bet but his ego.  Betting face-to-face against a friend, especially when a friend likes to brag when he wins, so the person feels more emotional losing to a person due to pride and embarrassment since people don't want people around him to know that he got it wrong.

Have you felt the same?

In some sense yes, but what else we can do, we have to let it go and accept defeat else it will hunt us.

[Cityhunter34]

I feel more emotional when I’m betting against a person and I lose, compared to losing on a sportsbook. Have you ever felt something like that?

You know, we have friends we gamble with in real life, so sometimes we make bets against each other, just for fun. I’ve also done it online. But I noticed that when I lose in those kinds of bets, I feel it more, like it hits harder. Compared to sportsbook bets where I can just move on right away.

Have you felt the same?

I think both are meant to approach the way because losing is losing whether you are gambling with friends or not it still remains the same losing there is nothing to worry yourself too much.

Gambling is just a way to have fun with the amount that wouldn't affect you negatively after the outcome doesn't work for you, so I don't see any reason why someone wouldn't gamble responsibly because it doesn't make sense for a gambler to get upset after losses knowing fully well that nobody force you to play into the game.

[len01]

Have you felt the same?

Psychologically, you're already fully aware that the bookmaker can always beat you at any time, and the bookmaker will never mock you when you lose. So, you never feel that angry when you lose. But in reality, when you lose a bet with a friend, you might initially beat them, but things don't go as planned, and you lose. Furthermore, when you lose, your friend will likely mock you, making the emotional experience seem hard to forget.

Such a situation is very common, and I've experienced it myself.

[Rabata]

In my case, in online and offline betting, winning or losing against a person does not create much of a feeling, but whether I won or lost there is my main concern. If I win, I will make money and if I lose, I will lose money. I think it is safer to bet against a sports book than to win and lose against a person. When I bet online, I can make money very quickly, but when I bet against a person, there is no certainty of that money. The feeling may vary from gambler to gambler. Those who have bet against a person must have been in unpleasant situations in their betting career.

[Odogwu-Blockchain]

For example, you have a close friend maybe your friend love having sex every week, and you predicted against your friend to must have sex wit random woman in the next coming week, but unfortunately, your friend didn't sex at all but control his sexual urge thereby causing you to loss with the predictions. Is that what you want to explain? That you feel worst when you loss this way?

I don't think that's what the OP is trying to say, but they are somehow related as long as there is a bet between two people, even if they staked it on such an event. What I really pick out from the OP's explanation is that it hurt him more because such a side bet with friends is always staked with a higher amount compared to the amount that could have possibly been used if it was a regular bet on a gambling site.

OP didn't explain his topic very clearly, he cut it off and makes it non understandable, I only imagined such scenario to fit the message OP is trying to send, if that is what he is meaning. I can't see any way friends will bet against each other and it wouldn't seems this way.

If OP gets hurt by loosing this kind of bet, then it's going to be helpful for him to save his money, because betting against friends will literally save his money and that won't be done everyday.

[lombok]

In my case, in online and offline betting, winning or losing against a person does not create much of a feeling, but whether I won or lost there is my main concern. If I win, I will make money and if I lose, I will lose money. I think it is safer to bet against a sports book than to win and lose against a person. When I bet online, I can make money very quickly, but when I bet against a person, there is no certainty of that money. The feeling may vary from gambler to gambler. Those who have bet against a person must have been in unpleasant situations in their betting career.

There is also the advantage of speed of execution presented by the efficiency of digital betting systems in the absence of which we tend to lack when engaging in personal interaction. I have learned that when handling cash flow in risky activities, payment certainty is vital in terms of ensuring that you feel at ease. It is actually a fact that the lack of the real financial security, interpersonal conflicts are likely to destroy the social relationships. We should be on the lookout of variances to keep the finances in cheque.

[Hazink]

If we have a strong sense of competitiveness losing to someone doesn’t feel like an option and when we losing to a person, it can make us frustrated. Personally, I’ve never liked losing but I’m trying to change it as a common part of the game. Losing to someone can feel like my pride is hurt, and it creates an uneasy feeling so I’ve experienced that before. Right now, I’m trying to make losing something I can actually enjoy, it sounds unrealistic but I know it's not impossible.

I don't know how you plan on doing it. Losing can never bring joy and be like something you can enjoy based on my own view. Nobody has ever loved to lose, it's always a desire to win. The only thing you can try and do for yourself is control the level of anger you accumulate each time you lose so that you can let go easily both when you are betting with someone and when you are staking online, try to have self and emotional control.

[letteredhub]

People really have different personalities. I honestly won't be feeling bad unless I have proofs that the other person cheated to win the bet. Aside that, if the gambler intentionally tries to make me feel bad from his body language or things he says to me to hurt my emotions, I am sure going to feel bad. If all of these stated above are not the situation, I will treat all losses thesame irrespective of who is involved. .

It's true about people's different personality and perception but one thing I discovered about this type of betting is that there's a product of pride that's involved with the ongoing challenge between the two friends or random people involved. There's this shame that you lost to this person, you ain't supposed to, so you feel emotionally disturbed not because of the money gone but for some little pride that reels in the other person's head (the loser) that it's shame to have lost it to this very person.

[Solodoski]

For example, you have a close friend maybe your friend love having sex every week, and you predicted against your friend to must have sex wit random woman in the next coming week, but unfortunately, your friend didn't sex at all but control his sexual urge thereby causing you to loss with the predictions. Is that what you want to explain? That you feel worst when you loss this way?

I don't think that's what the OP is trying to say, but they are somehow related as long as there is a bet between two people, even if they staked it on such an event. What I really pick out from the OP's explanation is that it hurt him more because such a side bet with friends is always staked with a higher amount compared to the amount that could have possibly been used if it was a regular bet on a gambling site.

That means if OP don't stake with a higher amount with his friends he wont feel worse? From your explanation that's what I understood.
If so, losing feels worse anytime we lose big, it doesn't matter if the bet is against our friend or against the casino. Whenever I lose big it feels so annoying. I feel like smashing things at home. In all, this is what we signed up for. The moment we made up our mind to start betting, we signed up for days of winning and also the days of losing.

[Ziskinberg]

Gambling losses are painful. But losing from other gambler could be more painful because that puts your ego at stake. Its nature for every human being to have that feeling of being competitive, to be the winner, but with this game of probability, fact remains that while other is winning, someone is losing as well.

However, we already know that sportsbook has certainly an edge over bettors, and we can't change that given fact no matter how we keep chasing luck.