Why do gamblers keep repeating this?

[Abu-Naim]

So the question is, why don't you quit when you've won quite a reasonable amount? Or when you've evened back your previous max win?

It’s natural, you can’t control your emotions completely regardless of your experience and discipline because you will be tempted to make more money and once you start losing, the spirit of keep trying it will end soon will come to you and that’s where the failure usually starts because you will lose more money than expected until you are in right senses and decide to take a brake or put a stop to do more research and learn how to control your emotion and also execute good plan for yourself so that you can always control your emotions when you are winning and when you are losing in gambling.

[Jewan420]

One feeling I've discovered over the years is, when you're winning, greed steps in and you don't feel like stopping and immediately you start loosing the thought of recovering all the little that has been lost so you can quit will hit your mind and even though you recover back you still feel like gambling more but in most cases immediately you start losing you just end up losing with few wins until everything is exhausted. As if this is not enough it will still repeat itself in the next gambling session.
So the question is, why don't you quit when you've won quite a reasonable amount? Or when you've evened back your previous max win?

Money itself is a temptation, especially when you don't have to work hard to earn it. When you have to earn money, temptation basically doesn't work. However, the temptation to earn money is not only in gambling, but if you show someone a pile of money and let him take it freely, he will collect an amount of money that he is not able to carry, in this case if there are strict rules, he will lose all the money but still collect an amount that he is unable to carry. Basically, this is the temptation, even after we win in gambling, our greed does not end, we keep chasing after more money, in the end we have to lose everything.

[uneng]

So the question is, why don't you quit when you've won quite a reasonable amount? Or when you've evened back your previous max win?

Because you are always attempting to repeat the positive performance of previous sessions on the following ones. It's a natural tendency we have in life, to repeat good moments we have already experienced, so it's not different with gambling. And in many cases, gamblers are only able to stop this cycle once they lose big money, so that negative experience will be used by their memory in future sessions to warn them about the risks of gambling.

Meanwhile, there are those who will keep insisting on the temptation of reaching too close to the fire, even though they have already been burned previously.

[iBaba]

One feeling I've discovered over the years is, when you're winning, greed steps in and you don't feel like stopping and immediately you start loosing the thought of recovering all the little that has been lost so you can quit will hit your mind and even though you recover back you still feel like gambling more but in most cases immediately you start losing you just end up losing with few wins until everything is exhausted. As if this is not enough it will still repeat itself in the next gambling session.
So the question is, why don't you quit when you've won quite a reasonable amount? Or when you've evened back your previous max win?

I think most people don’t quit because that winning feeling, excitement and that belief that more money is still coming makes it hard to stop. Then once losses start coming, that urge to recover everything back enters immediately and that is where many people get trapped.

Even after recovering losses or winning enough, that greed, hope and just one more game mindset still remains and most times that is what ends up making people lose everything again.

[Hispo]

One feeling I've discovered over the years is, when you're winning, greed steps in and you don't feel like stopping and immediately you start loosing the thought of recovering all the little that has been lost so you can quit will hit your mind and even though you recover back you still feel like gambling more but in most cases immediately you start losing you just end up losing with few wins until everything is exhausted. As if this is not enough it will still repeat itself in the next gambling session.
So the question is, why don't you quit when you've won quite a reasonable amount? Or when you've evened back your previous max win?

Human beings are the only animals who stumble on the same rock over and over again, so logically it is very difficult for gamblers to control greed and the pursue of money.

Also,.you need to keep in mind that within the gambling ecosystem people becoming millionaire or billionaire are very widely advertised on the internet, so people who gamble have some similar expectations from their sessions.

One needs to be realistic on the potential wins of one's session, with the little money and the actual multipliers we pursue on casinos as bookies.

[Mando100]

This has been ringing bells in my ears too. i have been asking myself same question over and over again, I have fall victim on several occasions too, when am wining I continue but immediately I start loosing I started having this feelings of let me invest more so I can recover my lost but before I know everything got exhausted.

But now I have finally understood where my problem lies, which is i am too greedy, always felt I can recover my loss. So it's better we quite when we have gotten little, and shouldn't allow our emotions to over ruin us and also should not be over confident because that kills also, invest what you know you can loss. Because in every successful gamblers there is always a set back, but that lose should be your confident to move on one day you will hit the jackpot.

[taufik123]

This is a sign that the gambler is already so addicted that he has no control over himself and wants to continue gambling even though they have already won.
Especially if they lose, they will not stop until they are satisfied and get a victory even if it is calculated in the end there are more losses.

Psychology plays an important role for those who start gambling, they should already know where the limits are,
if they don't have limits and keep playing they won't know where to stop and in the end everything will run out.