Have you ever won in gambling but still felt like you lost?

[POPOLUV]

I think some gamblers have experienced this before. You win first, maybe a decent amount, then instead of stopping you continue playing because you feel the momentum is still there. Then slowly the profit goes down. You tell yourself just one more round, one more bet, maybe you can bring it back higher again. But in the end, you either leave with very small profit or nothing at all.

That feeling is strange because technically you had a chance to go home winning, but because you did not stop, it still feels like a loss.

Has this happened to you before? What made you continue instead of taking the profit?

Your illustration is most common when a gambler deal more on cansino games, because cansino games are programmed to play and give you the results within a an interval of time, I'm basically talking from my passed experience on casino games, when i once experience so much winnings on cansino games and feel like stopping at the moment but i gave it second thought that i can multiply more profits if i should continue staking, to be honest with you, the spirit of winning more was on my mind, and i starting staking continuously hoping to add more profits but at the end of it, i noticed that my capital that i used at first to gathering such profits are both gone within a short frame.

[Franklyn-wood]

This is a production of indiscipline while gambling because there are people who gambles and at the end they still endup losing everything entirely, at first as a gambler if you are disciplining enough you would know when to stop and when to continue gambling.

However, many people could classify it as greed. Greed is something that would make you lose your money so quickly and even when you are winning you wouldn't mind you could just think of to top your balance a bit without knowing that the person could end up losing everything they had.

Yes there is a lot of experience needed while gambling that helps to regulate emotions, fears, greed and aspirations. Every gambler at some point will naturally experience the above mentioned points which are part of the game. But it is important to be in control of it to avoid being addicted and further reduce loses. Shared experience from friends, nabours, college and post from forum members made me understand that uncontrollably emotions attached while gambling can lead to many other negative feelings in the mind of bettor.
Gamble with what you can afford to lose, avoid high expectations from results which could be due to high financial needs, desperate to recover from previous losses and more.

[Wakate]

This is a production of indiscipline while gambling because there are people who gambles and at the end they still endup losing everything entirely, at first as a gambler if you are disciplining enough you would know when to stop and when to continue gambling.

However, many people could classify it as greed. Greed is something that would make you lose your money so quickly and even when you are winning you wouldn't mind you could just think of to top your balance a bit without knowing that the person could end up losing everything they had.

There are cases when you won but you know that what you are able to win can not be compared to what you have lost from gambling. There was a time when I was losing more than I was profiting from gambling and I felt the pain in me because that was not the kind of outcome I was expecting to see. Gambling is not that favorable to us which is why we need to be focused and gamble with affordable amount of that we don't regret later for making expensive mistakes.

[Orpichukwu]

There are cases when you won but you know that what you are able to win can not be compared to what you have lost from gambling. There was a time when I was losing more than I was profiting from gambling and I felt the pain in me because that was not the kind of outcome I was expecting to see. Gambling is not that favorable to us which is why we need to be focused and gamble with affordable amount of that we don't regret later for making expensive mistakes.

If we are judging by this way, it will be very hard to enjoy a moment from gambling because if the majority of all gamblers are to check their overall losing and winning rate, they will find it difficult to feel impressed by a few wins because of the level of gap left to make up for all that have been lost. If we are to calculate it, it's better to go with daily or weekly basis calculations so that some week can appear profitable.

[nara1892]

That's greed and I'm sure gamblers who often play random games like slots for example must have experienced that, "just a little more, just one more time" but the spin actually gets worse and when their balance is half of the initial amount of money they won then usually that's when they start to think between continuing or withdrawing it, if for example they withdraw then usually they are a little disappointed, for me personally I don't feel like I lost but my satisfaction is a little reduced because I should have been able to withdraw more if I stopped at the beginning, but I personally usually like to ask myself whether I can bear the risk or not if for example I continue.

[Leahized]

I think some gamblers have experienced this before. You win first, maybe a decent amount, then instead of stopping you continue playing because you feel the momentum is still there. Then slowly the profit goes down. You tell yourself just one more round, one more bet, maybe you can bring it back higher again. But in the end, you either leave with very small profit or nothing at all.

It is a normal occurrence. This happens to me often, but my good side is, I try with profit money. If you can win big money first, there is no problem if you try with that. Because there is more chance of winning, since the money of the original budget is not lost. However, many gamblers face losses by focusing on extra profits. because they forget about the original budget when losing slowly. However, it is better to enjoy the winnings without getting too greedy. So every gambler should be responsible and about budget conscious. Because I have faced a lot of loss for this little mistake.

[Akbarkoe]

I think some gamblers have experienced this before. You win first, maybe a decent amount, then instead of stopping you continue playing because you feel the momentum is still there. Then slowly the profit goes down. You tell yourself just one more round, one more bet, maybe you can bring it back higher again. But in the end, you either leave with very small profit or nothing at all.

That feeling is strange because technically you had a chance to go home winning, but because you did not stop, it still feels like a loss.

Has this happened to you before? What made you continue instead of taking the profit?

The strange feeling that you mean is the greed that is in you, therefore always want to try again and again hoping to continue to multiply the winnings that have been obtained, I see cases like that is not strange because it knows the basis of our motivation to keep trying and trying again is greed, why I say greed, because the object is profit, which means indirectly there must be hope of winning bigger money.

Avoid that behavior, because the consequences will be fatal, still better you can take a small profit from such practices, most cases many people lose more money, instead of profit instead of getting a big loss.

[danadc]

That happened to me with Plinko. One day when I was playing Plinko, I was already resigned to what was coming, I knew I wasn't going to win and that helped me to understand that things happen for a reason. Then I was so lucky on the last shot that I recovered some of what I had lost, and that's when I felt like I had won but lost at the same time. It wasn't something I liked very much, but at least I didn't lose everything. They are victories with a bitter taste.

[Zanab247]

These feelings come because the mind feels that the casino is a money making machine and the losses incurred can be recovered by just spinning that machine as well as making the person rich by that machine only.

Hence if you stop you will feel sadness because your brain did not get the dopamine rush that it had expected similar to being promised a chocolate but finding out that the shop has closed before you reached.

Until people understand that the owner of casino created it for profit making they will learn how to gamble wisely, because anything you lose today will not come back to you immediately until you continue gamble to recover what you have loss in the past. Sometimes when you don't expect that you will win that is when you will win big amount of money and you will not quit gambling forever but you can go for a break before you can come back to gambling.

Even though some gamblers loss plenty of money and they say they will quit gambling it will be hard for them to quit gambling, because they will be reason the money they lose than to continue finding solution to their losses. Once they find solution to their losses they will like gambling more, because they know will know their limit when they are losing or winning.

[jeremypwr]

When I win at gambling I do not feel like I have lost.
Maybe I have lost some time but it is expected since gambling can be time consuming.

[GiftedMAN]

When I win at gambling I do not feel like I have lost.
Maybe I have lost some time but it is expected since gambling can be time consuming.

That depends on the amount you won, if you lost a big amount recently if the amount you later won is not up to the list amount you won't be very happy especially if you are still feeling the pains from the loss but the feeling you have after winning when you didn't lose can't be compared when though he game is about winning and losing.

[Creeper0]

This has happened to most gamblers who have won. But the problem is, how many win that big? Very few people win the mentioned big sums of money and because they cannot control their greed, they lose even bigger sums of money or lose all or most of the money they have earned. For my part, I have not yet encountered this experience. Because I have not yet encountered big wins, but rather have had small wins that were later lost. This is the rule of gambling and the main weapon of casino owners is the greed of the users. The more reckless the gamblers, the more the casino profits. If gamblers are able to control their greed, the casino owners' dividends will decrease.

[barbara44]

This is one of the things that gambling can impact on us. It is like it rewires our brain from the norm what we think of money is. And even a tiny mistake in gambling feels like a big thing already. So we must be very careful and must think before we act, if we are at the point already of experiencing this. It was obviously the greed is what makes a gambler to continue instead of stopping.

As a gambler, it feels like no amount is enough, be it small or big. But another thing that makes me still feel like a loser, is when I am down and suddenly luck kicks in but that one only makes me to return from my starting point earlier. So I can continue and when I lost this, regret kicks in, saying ''I should have stopped when I am breakeven''.

[khiholangkang]

I'm not sure why it is that our psychology is like being played, that when we win there is no time to stop and want to continue to try gambling again and again, until in the end I klehialngan it all, when in fact when I stop after getting a win, I will get enough profit to play more, and sometimes also when we win we increase the bet for the next round, maybe it's greed.

This is a common experience experienced by gamblers in my opinion, whoever it is will definitely experience this, so it's enough to be a lesson, but in principle where gambling is for fun and stick to the limits of money and time that we plan beforehand to stay disciplined and not trigger that harmful addiction.

[Rabata]

That feeling is strange because technically you had a chance to go home winning, but because you did not stop, it still feels like a loss.

Has this happened to you before? What made you continue instead of taking the profit?

Most gamblers have been in a situation where they have a good win but instead of stopping gambling, they try to gamble more. Whatever the amount of the win, a common feeling at that time is that if they continue for a while, they can win more. But in the case of such expectations, I have most of the time found negative results. Whenever I place another bet after a win, I lose, so I become more aggressive and increase the bet, so my loss increases, at some point I lose the money of my win. If you bet like this, you will definitely lose no matter what the win is. Everyone should conduct gambling within a certain limit. If you win a bet, then stop yourself as soon as possible.

[Antotena]

That's greed and I'm sure gamblers who often play random games like slots for example must have experienced that, "just a little more, just one more time" but the spin actually gets worse and when their balance is half of the initial amount of money they won then usually that's when they start to think between continuing or withdrawing it, if for example they withdraw then usually they are a little disappointed, for me personally I don't feel like I lost but my satisfaction is a little reduced because I should have been able to withdraw more if I stopped at the beginning, but I personally usually like to ask myself whether I can bear the risk or not if for example I continue.

Not every gambler is consumed by greed, some slot guys just believed in what they can do. I saw a video circulating the internet last month or maybe 2 months ago. It was about a guy that turn $1450 to $400k, the rest of the money almost remain $40 dollars and he kept on repeating the same and same and magically, he multiply that money and that game was played on stake but guess what, other gambler try the same amount and same multiplier to see the result, it ended in agony, he lost everything but even him expected the result by the way.

Situations are not the same, there are people that will bet and not have any greed, it's just what they believe in, there are some gamblers that do have games arrange on their note, they played each of them as the last one they stake result is out and funny thing about their style of game is that they don't increase their stake regardless of the result, they keep to there initial or planned  stake amounts and some might even divide the games into singles to see the result.

[Fortify]

I think some gamblers have experienced this before. You win first, maybe a decent amount, then instead of stopping you continue playing because you feel the momentum is still there. Then slowly the profit goes down. You tell yourself just one more round, one more bet, maybe you can bring it back higher again. But in the end, you either leave with very small profit or nothing at all.

That feeling is strange because technically you had a chance to go home winning, but because you did not stop, it still feels like a loss.

Has this happened to you before? What made you continue instead of taking the profit?

Yes, it sort of feels like this in pretty much every gambling session - especially when all the adverts out there are guys in their Hawaiian shirts, sipping cocktails on a sunny beach, which is the advertiser pretending that people will become millionaires and retire in luxury from these games. The reality is that the only people really hitting the big bucks without some incredible lottery like fortune is the owner of the casino or bookmaker. If you're losing $20 every week but make back $100 on one bet occasionally then you are probably nowhere near breaking even but we often write it off as practicing to improve our skills when it comes to sports betting.

[Sammye3]

This scenario is completely different from the topic in my point of view and that is because it is a case of lack of discipline and not a case of unaware losses. It is common to feel that you lost after blowing up your winnings without any restraint or self consciousness.

The main issue here is greed and that would always be the reason for many losses in gambling. There is no assured winning in gambling and its best every gambler understands that principle, so what ever profits made should be secured first before further betting.

[WhoYouCantKill]

Most gamblers have been in a situation where they have a good win but instead of stopping gambling, they try to gamble more. Whatever the amount of the win, a common feeling at that time is that if they continue for a while, they can win more. But in the case of such expectations, I have most of the time found negative results. Whenever I place another bet after a win, I lose, so I become more aggressive and increase the bet, so my loss increases, at some point I lose the money of my win. If you bet like this, you will definitely lose no matter what the win is. Everyone should conduct gambling within a certain limit. If you win a bet, then stop yourself as soon as possible.

This trap is very common among gamblers. Especially if the gambler may have just came out from a losing streak, the moment they get that sudden huge win, the win often ends up creating some kind of an illusion that they can get more wins and hopefully recover all the money they had previously lose and this is often where the problem starts because rather than locking in their profits, they’ll keep pushing and end up losing what was meant to be a profit back to the casino.

[Bright0515]

I think I have felt this way when I played aviator game on a casino, it is not like I lost the game I played per se but I regretted my decision. I cashed out when the plane hit x10 and with 10 thousand naira I win over a hundred thousand naira but I felt really bad about why I cashed out because the plane flew up to a x1000, which means that I would have won millions of naira if I was patient and brave enough to allow the plane to keep flying. Through out the night the only thing I thought of was how I would have become a millionaire over night