Don't overstate the importance of discipline (topic is not about the casino).

[Julien_Olynpic]

I know many people love to talk about discipline. Discipline is what helps you organize your gambling, and it certainly has its positive aspects. But I see that the importance of discipline is almost always exaggerated. I often read that a gambler lacked discipline to win. Or that they could have been a long-term winner if they had maintained discipline, which is difficult. People often associate discipline with self-abuse.
But discipline is simply following the rules. Sometimes you have to force yourself to follow the rules (which you subconsciously dislike and don't want to adhere to); sometimes you often follow the rules out of habit, without any self-abuse, simply because you deeply believe in their effectiveness.
But!!! Discipline says nothing about the wisdom and effectiveness of the rules it is intended to enforce. It may well turn out, over time, that the rules you followed were wrong and led to your losses. Therefore, I would recommend not to exaggerate the importance of discipline.

[Ruttoshi]

Discipline isn't a strategy to give you profit but a strategy to limit your losses and save you from being addicted which I think it's more superior because it enables you to stop the game at the right time and also make you enjoy your gambling life till you decide to stop gambling in future.

If you're after a strategy that can give you profit, it wouldn't be in a long term and looking for different strategies often might lead to irresponsible gambling because your focus is on how to make money from gambling.

[viljy]

People who have a high risk of developing gambling addiction need discipline. So that such people do not lose everything they have or still owe creditors. In other words, discipline in following the rules protects the gambler from catastrophic loss, but it does not help to win at all. Because winning is enviable only from luck (in the casino). In what respect can such rules be wrong?

[Hewlet]

But!!! Discipline says nothing about the wisdom and effectiveness of the rules it is intended to enforce. It may well turn out, over time, that the rules you followed were wrong and led to your losses. Therefore, I would recommend not to exaggerate the importance of discipline.

Discipline doesn't minimise loss but protects you regardless of the outcome of your bet and that's why it's emphasized very often.

If you've set out a rule or you're following a rule that is helping you increase your winning, You still have to be disciplined at it if not you become overly confident of a rule that can always fail when things goes wrong. Gambling is a game of luck regardless how you look at it and when you take out discipline regarding your reaction to your wins and loss, you've set yourself up for something really bad.

[Outhue]

I have always talk about responsible gambling and been disciplined on here but in my own book there is no such thing as disciplined to win as a gambler, that's one major thing that I can't promise any gambler, my own act of been discipline is staying in your own boundary and keep repeating that habit every time you gamble.

Your description of what been disciplined means is very accurate, even if your mind is telling you something else you need to stay on the rules and do it, like just do It! You like it or you hate it, just do it! This is the true meaning of discipline.

[_act_]

But!!! Discipline says nothing about the wisdom and effectiveness of the rules it is intended to enforce. It may well turn out, over time, that the rules you followed were wrong and led to your losses. Therefore, I would recommend not to exaggerate the importance of discipline.

I get your point, but in life and not about gambling. Too much discipline can turn someone into another thing which is true, but discipline is still very important, but not what should turn someone to be a wicked person in the family..

But in gambling, there is no too much discipline. If you discipline yourself to avoid losses, that is very good. If you do not want to gamble at all and you see it as discipline, it is also very good.

[danherbias07]

I agree.

There's good discipline, but there's also bad discipline. I think most martial artists use those words on how they see their disciples. Back to the point, it's control that we must look out for. We can have a discipline of just betting on the favorites, but sometimes it doesn't go our way. But when a gambler has control, it means he will be able to think it through and avoid further losses by either stopping to gamble and checking the mistakes of the discipline, or maybe trying to be flexible and getting out of the habit and seeking new strategies.
It can be tough to do it, but I always believe that moving on fast should be a big factor in a gambler's life. We cannot stick with what we do, especially if it's ruining our financial status. We can always try other ways.

[EluguHcman]

I duly appreciate the concept of this thread because many of gamblers will only end up exaggerating the essence of the disciplines to be some kind of strategy that is fostered to bring winning because of the Speculations that consistently playing brings wins while some says it is very difficult to win in the short term.

Disciplines is an unusual character that does not really seem easy to stick to that is why many dumps it because it hinders them from playing according to how it pleases them.

Perhaps the essence of the disciplines as I can figure is to maintain safe bankrolls as affordable and the control of urge not to spend excessive times in the game..

[SuperBitMan]

Discipline is very important in gambling, I wake up today and just wanted to have some fun on one of the gambling sites I usually use and before I started I decided I will only use a particular amount of money and if I should make a particular amount I will immediately stop and I started, I made the money I planned on making before stopping but guess what I didn’t stop and I continued and ended up finishing all the money i planned to use but I was more disciplined not to go beyond the money I planned to use today.
If I was well disciplined enough I would have made money and not lose today this is to show how important discipline is as a gambler.

[CryptoYar]

When starting with poor choice of fundamental strategy, it is very easy to find yourself on wrong side of arrow just by reading and following few pieces of advice. It is easy to put blame of losses on lack of control than on fact that their basic plan was not that good. You may be most organized person in the room but when you are wrong about your math, your grades do not get you any point until your dead, no matter how well you have been organized. I think ten times as much is ability to think sharply and to have good data other than pure power of will. Many gamers make themselves maintain bad habits by mere fact it is called a system. As opposed to abusing oneself and trotting yourself onto wrong path in life, you should use this time to continually experiment your plan in order to figure out whether it will truly work when things become difficult in life.

[Cointxz]

Yeah right!

Discipline makes player consistently but the strategy they are using is the key to make it successful. I’m using blackjack table matrix whenever I’m playing blackjack while discipline play a role to make me stick to the strategy like splitting double 8 over dealer 10 or A card since it’s mathematically right to split for a higher winning percentage than standing the card.

There’s some struggle or indecision in the game that makes discipline help us to stay in the strategy but the strategy itself is the main reason why we play properly.

[PostQuantumBTC]

If I was well disciplined enough I would have made money and not lose today this is to show how important discipline is as a gambler.

I like what you have posted but I did not understand this last part because it is not the same as how you started the post. You said you are disciplined in gambling has been the reason you do not further gambling today to avoid loss or more losses, but you now said discipline will let you make money from gambling. No, discipline will let you avoid unwanted losses but it does not guarantee you not to lose while gambling.

[swogerino]

I know many people love to talk about discipline. Discipline is what helps you organize your gambling, and it certainly has its positive aspects. But I see that the importance of discipline is almost always exaggerated. I often read that a gambler lacked discipline to win. Or that they could have been a long-term winner if they had maintained discipline, which is difficult. People often associate discipline with self-abuse.
But discipline is simply following the rules. Sometimes you have to force yourself to follow the rules (which you subconsciously dislike and don't want to adhere to); sometimes you often follow the rules out of habit, without any self-abuse, simply because you deeply believe in their effectiveness.
But!!! Discipline says nothing about the wisdom and effectiveness of the rules it is intended to enforce. It may well turn out, over time, that the rules you followed were wrong and led to your losses. Therefore, I would recommend not to exaggerate the importance of discipline.

The only thing that discipline can help one with is to have a strict "diet" about how much money one is supposed to gamble. Discipline cannot help people win because it is not designed to do so, to win only luck is the ultimate factor that decides how thing will work out for a person. Usually based on what I have seen in casino chats and also a lot of streaming videos I can clearly define that over the long run no one, absolutely no one will have enough luck to be in profit, so even luck is relative to time. Given that I wonder why people keep gambling when all the statistics and everything about gambling point to it being an impossible mission to change your life through it or that at least help your financial status through it. Discipline got nothing to do with winning or losing, it is only there to help people keep a cap and not fall down on addiction abyss.

[lionheart78]

I know many people love to talk about discipline. Discipline is what helps you organize your gambling, and it certainly has its positive aspects. But I see that the importance of discipline is almost always exaggerated. I often read that a gambler lacked discipline to win. Or that they could have been a long-term winner if they had maintained discipline, which is difficult. People often associate discipline with self-abuse.

Lol,  I wonder who has such a mindset?  Discipline has nothing to do with winning in gambling.  Discipline is about how a person behave while engaging in gambling.  We all know that win rate is not affected by how discipline we are but rather is how luck favors us.

But discipline is simply following the rules. Sometimes you have to force yourself to follow the rules (which you subconsciously dislike and don't want to adhere to); sometimes you often follow the rules out of habit, without any self-abuse, simply because you deeply believe in their effectiveness.
But!!! Discipline says nothing about the wisdom and effectiveness of the rules it is intended to enforce. It may well turn out, over time, that the rules you followed were wrong and led to your losses. Therefore, I would recommend not to exaggerate the importance of discipline.

Discipline actually prevents a person to abuse one-self.  Discipline is set to balance everything by having and following rules aside from that, blind obedience to the rule is not discipline, they are very different.  Discipline is awareness of the rules, and one can modify or change the rules when things are not following the right path or are destructive to oneself.  Unlike blind obedience that only follows and does not think critically.

[SuperBitMan]

If I was well disciplined enough I would have made money and not lose today this is to show how important discipline is as a gambler.

I like what you have posted but I did not understand this last part because it is not the same as how you started the post. You said you are disciplined in gambling has been the reason you do not further gambling today to avoid loss or more losses, but you now said discipline will let you make money from gambling. No, discipline will let you avoid unwanted losses but it does not guarantee you not to lose while gambling.

It seems you find it very hard to read and understand write up, my explanation was very clear and I would advise you read my post again so you can understand what I’m talking about, you were just in a rush to reply or make a post that’s why you didn’t get my message.
To clear you, I didn’t say I didn’t gamble today I did but didn’t stick to my plan, I won the amount I wanted but didn’t stop as I planned and I continued gambling and ended up exhausting the money I won and the money I planned on using all together However, I was disciplined not to go beyond the money I originally intended to use.

Read very well before you reply next time.

[PostQuantumBTC]

It seems you find it very hard to read and understand write up, my explanation was very clear and I would advise you read my post again so you can understand what I’m talking about, you were just in a rush to reply or make a post that’s why you didn’t get my message.
To clear you, I didn’t say I didn’t gamble today I did but didn’t stick to my plan, I won the amount I wanted but didn’t stop as I planned and I continued gambling and ended up exhausting the money I won and the money I planned on using all together However, I was disciplined not to go beyond the money I originally intended to use.

This is just a forum, you do not have to be mean. I can understand you better now as you explain it in a way it can easily be understood. I also have budget for gambling, if I lose it, I will stop gambling. Anyone that can not have control over his budget on gambling, such person should not gamble. Gambling is good, but some people are thinking they can make money through it which is a very wrong mindset. It is good that you stopped, if you did not, you may lose more money.

[eisen33]

Discipline is very important in gambling, even if we take something as simple as following the basic rule that a player should always stick to a fixed bet size. Discipline should mean following this rule at all times without exceptions.

But sometimes a team is playing an important match, and the player feels that nothing except a victory is possible in that game. Because of this confidence, he bets much more than he normally does, and then his team loses. In that moment, discipline did not seem as important to him as the opportunity to win more money this one time.

He broke his own rules and lost a large amount of money that he may spend a very long time trying to recover, if he manages to recover it at all. And all he really needed to do was stay disciplined in order to avoid such a major loss.

[Sammye3]

But I see that the importance of discipline is almost always exaggerated. I often read that a gambler lacked discipline to win. Or that they could have been a long-term winner if they had maintained discipline, which is difficult.

A gambler is someone who gambles, not necessarily someone who lacks discipline. An addicted gambler lacks discipline and focuses more on winnings with poor risk management. It is quite difficult to maintain a long term discipline but that is always safer than gambling without discipline.

People often associate discipline with self-abuse.
But discipline is simply following the rules. Sometimes you have to force yourself to follow the rules (which you subconsciously dislike and don't want to adhere to); sometimes you often follow the rules out of habit, without any self-abuse, simply because you deeply believe in their effectiveness.
But!!! Discipline says nothing about the wisdom and effectiveness of the rules it is intended to enforce. It may well turn out, over time, that the rules you followed were wrong and led to your losses. Therefore, I would recommend not to exaggerate the importance of discipline.

Discipline is not just about following principles or guidelines especially in the gambling setting, it is more about emotional control to keep the mind intact despite unforeseen outcomes. So I don't think discipline is exaggerated, it possess great value not just in gambling but in the general sense.

[IjawMan]

I know many people love to talk about discipline. Discipline is what helps you organize your gambling, and it certainly has its positive aspects.

Technically given, discipline saves the gambler from experiencing all sorts of gambling problems that indiscipline gamblers are faced with.  Such problems like excessive spending on gamble, loss chasing, and threat to healthy relationship with family dew to addictive gambling.

Cause you are a discipline gambler do not give you open doors to winning your bets if that is what some gamblers conceive discipline in gambling to be then they are mistaking. Discipline saves us from extreme financial and mental losses to gambling and not an end to procuring wins.

[Hatchy]

But!!! Discipline says nothing about the wisdom and effectiveness of the rules it is intended to enforce. It may well turn out, over time, that the rules you followed were wrong and led to your losses. Therefore, I would recommend not to exaggerate the importance of discipline.

Discipline in gambling, simply means that you keep your emotions and actions in check. But that doesn't guarantee that you would make wins every time you gamble. Winning and losing are sometimes as a result of what has been meant to be. That's why I still very much am the luck type of gambler. I believe everything we do in gambling regardless of weather people claim to have a strategy or not, gambling is all about luck. We simply cannot be precise with the outcome of our games. We simply place games or bets and hope that at the end of the day we will be lucky. Discipline keeps you in the game of gambling long enough and also protects your capital so you don't end up wasting it out of emotions..