You are Not Chasing Money You are Chasing a Feeling.

[Onyeeze]

At first you ask yourself the reason or what motivate a gambler to participate in gambling, so the primary answer to this question is that and every gambler is looking for opportunity to make a profit why it is few of the gamblers that involves themselves into gambling because of entertainment, so we need to know that we have nothing in gambling except looking forward in order to make a profit and if we have like 20,000 people who is into gambling almost 18,000 or 17,000 of them are into gambling because of profit why the remaining few of them might involve themselves in gambling because of entertainment, so due to the traffic gambling is having right now that is an evidence to show that it is a profit that make people to involve themselves into gambling so there is no psychological impact in gambling

[Emjay24]

In Gambling, I'm not chasing anything but having fun, but if I should relate it to your topic, then I would say you're wrong, people actually chase profits from the casino and not a feeling, that feeling comes naturally as a result of certain occurrences such as a feeling of happiness coming from winning substantial amounts from the casino and a feeling of disappointment or frustration coming from losing heavily from the casino. There's no other way to paint it, but a person who is not gambling for fun is gambling for the money and every feeling they nurse is due to their being able to get the money or loose it.

[Findingnemo]

Well, it's a complicated brain game that one must get better at before it is too late.

I completely agree with OP said, people not really chase the money at first they just want the win because they feel next bet is going to be a win so they just keep pushing while they are pushing for it the process will leads them to further loss that is where it gets more complicated so better keep the mind very clear and fixed about what you intend to do and try sticking on with it.

[uneng]

In Gambling, I'm not chasing anything but having fun, but if I should relate it to your topic, then I would say you're wrong, people actually chase profits from the casino and not a feeling, that feeling comes naturally as a result of certain occurrences such as a feeling of happiness coming from winning substantial amounts from the casino and a feeling of disappointment or frustration coming from losing heavily from the casino. There's no other way to paint it, but a person who is not gambling for fun is gambling for the money and every feeling they nurse is due to their being able to get the money or loose it.

It's actually hard to dissociate the money factor to the emotional one as they are directly connected to each other, but I can understand the pursue for money or the possibility of winning it as a tool of feeling emotionally rewarded after all, as the final goal.

Money is never the final goal. People just need it as mean to exchange for things which make them satisfied and rewarded. In this sense, nobody should be chasing money in life, rather they should be chasing a feeling money can proportionate them in physical world.

However, it's not plain and simple like that, because there are people who lost themselves on this pursue and ended forgetting money isn't the final goal. As consequence, they have just become money accumulators, who are unable to revert the fortune they built into something emotionally rewarding for themselves.

[|MINER|]

Most people think gambling is about winning or losing money. But if you look deeper it is more about human psychology than money itself. The real driver behind gambling behavior is not profit but emotion.

When someone places a bet the brain releases dopamine. This doesnot just happen when you win it also happens when you anticipate a win. That is why even losing players keep going  because they are chasing the feeling not just the money.

Another key factor is something called loss recovery bias. After a loss the brain pushes you to believe that the next bet will fix everything. Logically every bet is independent. But psychologically it feels like you are due for a win.

Then there is the illusion of control. Many gamblers believe they can influence outcomes through strategies timing or experience  even in games that are purely random. This creates a false sense of skill in situations where luck dominates.

I agree with your opinion on the topic because I also think that in gambling everything is ultimately determined by luck, so no strategy or skill is useful here. Even if someone thinks so, they are basically living in a wrong idea. And in their case, it is seen that in most cases they are desperate to win or recover losses, and at some point, most of them basically become addicted to gambling.

And the biggest factor behind all of this is his emotional feelings that are not under control, so I agree that when it comes to gambling, we are chasing our feelings.

[Dr.Bitcoin_Strange]

You @OP said we are not chasing money but feelings, here is the twist, the feeling we are chasing is inspired by what? It's inspired by money. Now, take away money/profit from the game and see how many people are left chasing this feeling. I like your ideology but I don't completely agree with you. When we place a bet, the dopamine activates and we are now in a state of uncertainty which what the heart desires much at that moment is to win, right? The feeling and the profit desire is present at same time.

[STT]

I totally agree with OP overall, not even just gambling but this explains why money is not the most important thing to motivate people.   Actually money is just a messenger a communication process for value and we all know the value of money is not always perfect anyway.
  People are definitely incentivized by the emotion behind their actions and the real reward from winning is emotional.   This is partly why I try to play for fun with only the idea of the money secondary to wanting to win, not all strategies are doomed as some games are skill based but I agree most games its just luck and you ride the game more then ever control it.

[SamReomo]

When someone places a bet the brain releases dopamine. This doesnot just happen when you win it also happens when you anticipate a win. That is why even losing players keep going  because they are chasing the feeling not just the money.

Well said, it doesn't mean that only during wins one can feel happy by getting dopamine dose but that also happens when we hope to win but when we lose we still don't get any bad feelings because here gambling responsibility plays its role.

A responsible gambler knows that he/she can enjoy some dopamine by betting on games but he/she knows that the outcome can be either a win or a loss and he/she is ready for both outcomes. The losses can happen but again one should never chase the losses.

[Odusko]

In Gambling, I'm not chasing anything but having fun, but if I should relate it to your topic, then I would say you're wrong, people actually chase profits from the casino and not a feeling, that feeling comes naturally as a result of certain occurrences such as a feeling of happiness coming from winning substantial amounts from the casino and a feeling of disappointment or frustration coming from losing heavily from the casino. There's no other way to paint it, but a person who is not gambling for fun is gambling for the money and every feeling they nurse is due to their being able to get the money or loose it.

If we must be real with ourselves, then you should know that gambling is never fun if you remove winning and Money from gambling, all of us make it look as if there is one special fun in gambling whereas most and all of us gambling are doing so with the money in mind and that is the source of our motivations.

[coin-investor]

Most people think gambling is about winning or losing money. But if you look deeper it is more about human psychology than money itself. The real driver behind gambling behavior is not profit but emotion.

It's human nature to take a challenge or risk with the expectation of winning something important to us, and we feel gratified taking that challenge and more when we acquire those rewards.

Casinos explore human nature by offering incentives like bonuses and giveaways. These bonuses and giveaways are good reasons to take the challenge and go with the rewards, so he actually chases two things: the feeling and the rewards.

[Gozie51]

Another key factor is something called loss recovery bias. After a loss the brain pushes you to believe that the next bet will fix everything. Logically every bet is independent. But psychologically it feels like you are due for a win.

Out of the three points that you raised, I can relate with this more because I know that gamblers are always chasing back losses and that is responsible for the many loses encountered in gambling. Naturally, the brain sends signal for you to know whether you have won or you lose. And if you lose, it makes you have the urge to want to continue playing to recover what you have lost. The important thing is to have that control not to allow yourself to fall in the urge of continuous playing.

[Churchillvv]

You killed it when you said every bet is independent, the part where we are most trapped is the part where we think that the bets we placed earlier will make up for the one we lot or the next bet is supposed to cover for the previous failed or lost bet, so gambling is really tied to our emotions and once we overcome our own emotions by understanding that it’s not supposed to be easy to win not even by the strategies or any thing then we can get it all.

[Smartvirus]

In as much as every postulate you’ve highlighted here remains relatable and something I would agree a lot with, what makes gambling what it is remains the money backed predictions and results.

Your postulates would always remain true in either case but, there is no gambling without money and with that being the case, the drive for gambling would always be money before anything else.

It doesn’t matter how we twist it or the human response when a bet is placed but, the root cause which prompts you to take a bet on a prediction remains money.

[Versatile_choice]

You would have almost convinced me in this post if not that I remembered that if money is removed from gambling, myself and many other gamblers will not be in the game.  I know that emotions play a part but the biggest motivation for every gambler I know is the money, even those who claim that they gamble for fun, the money is their motivation. Hence, I'm chasing money using money, I can't imagine using money to gratify emotions, to what end?

If not money I wonder what a gambler will be looking for in gamble, if Money is not attach to gamble those who claims they are doing it for fun will fall out from the game. Giving it a second thought if gambling is just all about fun did you think the builder will do it in such a way that people will be betting with their money? Obviously no" because the gamblers stand to gain nothing, because the fun can't be enough for them even though most of the gamblers might want to gamble regardless but at some point they will quit since there's no any other thing that is attach to it like profit.

[alani123]

I think it's just a way of attitude and thought process by each player that determined where each person puts more weight.

First of all humanity doesn't need money so one could argue that feelings are a more primal and ancestral think that is more necessary for an individual to function. But really the issue here is something else. Without money in today's society one can't survive. So good luck maintaining good feelings if you have to strive for survival, shelter etc. Society had survival figured out to a better extent than now that we have money because providing labour in a communal environment could guarantee you shelter and food so survival was ok. Now with higher tech and less labour needed we can't even guarantee survival for everyone let alone shelter and food.

So yes some people will of course see gambling as an escape. Some need the escape in the form of feelings and some in the form of money. Of course because of how gambling works it fails to deliver anything in the long term for both cases. Having any such expectations is unrealistic if you base it on winning all the time because gambling has the odds set for you losing.

[rohang]

This is so true, all gamblers are chasing the high or the kick instead of money

I know multiple people who are betting thousands of $ today and sweating on their bets, while the very next day they will be betting 10-20$ and still getting the same feeling of excitement or dread

[Orpichukwu]

I would have tried to disagree with you, but taking away all that I used to believe in and looking at it from a different perspective, you are right. Even as money is a driving force to why we are gambling, the desire to win creates a feeling in us, and that feeling is what keeps us gambling. No matter what purpose one is gambling for, it will always trigger a feeling in the person which will always give the go-ahead to the gambler to go place a bet. If you are not comfortable, there is not time; we can place a bet on something we don't agree with.

[mvdheuvel1983]

In Gambling, I'm not chasing anything but having fun, but if I should relate it to your topic, then I would say you're wrong, people actually chase profits from the casino and not a feeling, that feeling comes naturally as a result of certain occurrences such as a feeling of happiness coming from winning substantial amounts from the casino and a feeling of disappointment or frustration coming from losing heavily from the casino. There's no other way to paint it, but a person who is not gambling for fun is gambling for the money and every feeling they nurse is due to their being able to get the money or loose it.

If we must be real with ourselves, then you should know that gambling is never fun if you remove winning and Money from gambling, all of us make it look as if there is one special fun in gambling whereas most and all of us gambling are doing so with the money in mind and that is the source of our motivations.

There is no greater fun in gambling when you are making money off it without money being involved you won't see the business becoming so lucrative like it is today and people will not be interested to be having fun all the time when they are not happy due to what is happening all over the world. Some people gamble for fun but you can not compare the number of people who gamble for money to those who gamble for fun because anyone who's gambling for fun will get tired of having fun and go but real gamblers only get tired when they are mo longer gambling or they do not have money again.

[Anayochukwu]

You would have almost convinced me in this post if not that I remembered that if money is removed from gambling, myself and many other gamblers will not be in the game.  I know that emotions play a part but the biggest motivation for every gambler I know is the money, even those who claim that they gamble for fun, the money is their motivation. Hence, I'm chasing money using money, I can't imagine using money to gratify emotions, to what end?

Of course, is the money that makes gamblers to continue chasing their losses because they have thos false hope that they can recover back their losses. When you cannot control your emotions, you cannot also control your money. Gambling is a game of luck but sometimes, your instincts makes you feel you are in control of the game leading to more losses.

You both have a point and nothing more than that. In which ever way we put it money still remains the first thing that gamblers are looking for in the game so we should make it openly because not everytime that gamblers gamble for fun sometimes they always want to win the game but due to how difficult they find themselves while gambling they now claim that they are gambling fun and of a truth is completely a good decision.

[Bitcoin.com97]

Above all that is been listed out here, money is still the main reason why people gamble , money is what gamblers chases, at some point there feeling and emotions are caught up in the act , human brain is wired differently, one moment your brain tell you , you can win this amount, and once it’s not coming , you become emotional and tell yourself that you can’t lose , even at the verge of giving up something still tells you , try the last chance , that is why it’s very hard to quite gambling , unknowingly to you , you exceed beyond your expectations, so it’s money that makes feeling caught up in the process and it now look like they are chasing feelings but it’s just the money .