Topic: Why do people lose in gambling and still go ahead and bet more? (Read 955 times)

Gambling is a game of luck, and you cannot expect to win at any time, have luck, and win while complaining about it. In my opinion, if he can't take the risk any longer, he should leave gambling because it doesn't favour him, which is why he is winning small amounts of money. He should instead look for another business or something else that will profit him before he starts betting too much and becomes addicted to it. Gambling is a game of chance, and if you lose today, tomorrow he may favour you, and you will always expect to win when you bet because it is a risky game. Bet with money you can afford to lose, not the one you will be regret why you bet on the game. That is why I bet for excitement whenever my favourite club has a match, so I can enjoy watching it. So, if he is unable to quit betting, he should reduce his playing time so that his money lasts and the bet does not profit from him.

The ambition to earn more is human nature. But if you want to contain such emotion, you need to be strict with yourself even if you talk to yourself again and again. Most gamblers have the same dilemma, playing again after winnings. But to at least mitigate such emotion, you need to pause and ask yourself - to what extent you want this betting life of yours? How much losses you can bear before you stop?

The reasons are nothing new so to speak. We all know why most gamblers continue to bet even if they got their winnings already. They want more and that's the common reasoning for most. What else do you think gamblers want aside from money? Fun, pleasure?

I'll describe my silly story from a few weeks ago.
I had a sizable betting advantage from a multibet I did in a couple of matches that saw me earn more than x13 a couple of weeks ago and I had funds that I could have withdrawn at any time and with my large financial situation, I was confident and prepared to withdraw some of my money.

But the problem arose when my sanity was lost due to ambition as there were so many matches including semi-finals in the Champions League, Europa League and some big matches in domestic leagues such as La Liga and EPL that I was tempted to reuse most of the profits I had made earlier by betting again but the result backfired as I not only lost the profits from my big win, now the balance left in my account was not too much which made me realize that foolishness came to me at that time.
Although I always say gambling responsibly from the beginning, but at some moments in the end I have difficulty controlling it including a few weeks ago so it can also be the answer to why we always gamble even though we have experienced defeat and cannot stop because it is indeed a strong ambition that makes all our defenses and responsibilities become chaotic.

Depends on a lot of factors but nine times out of ten the only reason why people even gamble after tanking a massive loss is either they are still in it for the biscuit, or they're already 10 feet deep into revenge gambling and they think the more money they throw down the wastebin the higher the chances of them winning.

As for your friend, the results speaks for itself. He already notices that he loses more money than he makes when he gambles, and he's still pushing for it? That's some capital R behavior right there if I ever saw one. Most people upon noticing that something's wrong would already make moves that would improve upon their current state, your friend complains and does the same shit hoping things would change this time around, that's some S-rank stupidity.

The choice becomes clear, he needs to introspect and find ways to improve his gambling journey. Most people would outright just quit right then and there and honestly I'd love for him to do the same thing as well, since he's clearly ignorant to his own misgivings.

There is this saying that states that nothing good comes easy , people will lose in gambling and still go ahead to gamble because of the following :
1. Gambling is a game of luck
2. There are chances of them recovering their lost money
3.There is possibillity Of the Person turning To a milllionaire with his last bets And many more other reasons

No one has Ever become successful that much without a little bit of failure , they wil lose money from time To time But continous trial can make them meet their luck one day. In gambling when you give up you lose all And when you try over time you can recover your  lost funds . And So many people have their reasons of not giving up which invariably depends on the Choice of the gambler .

I think your friend here is getting drawn to gambling addiction which is a concerning sign, seeing that he can't stop gambling even though he gets bad results from it and clearly they are affecting his mind. This is one of the reasons some people may fall into gambling addiction, when they chase their losses hoping they'll pay them back and double the earning.

The right thing to do here is to advise your friend to stop gambling, because it will clearly just make him broke and cause damage to him, your friend probably isn't aware of his state so try to make it clear for him and especially mention the bad consequences of gambling addiction.

Having that control and awareness is something that cant really be effective or could really be that be able to mind when you are on such condition specially on the time that gambling addiction is gradually consuming you on which it is really that hard to be done with those things that you do have in mind earlier that you should have that kind of control and discipline about your spending and since
we are just humans then we would really be that having that possibility that those things that you had set earlier would really be forgotten and you would really be focusing on whats up into your front on which you would really be that continuing on the things that you've been dealing up or simply gamble even more. This is why treat gambling as a form of entertainment and not something that you would really be talking about making money because this is where things becomes shit if you do make yourself having those shit decisions. 

If addiction normally happens out of one's consciousness, then a gambler is supposed to be evaluating their gambling lifestyle once in a while to make sure that they are still in good conduct. In everything that someone is doing, self-reflection is very important. I don't know about others, but for me in particular, I do something at a time and I think about it all to see if it was really the right thing to do or not, and if I realize I have been doing the wrong thing all the while, then I will just retrace and put myself in place.

Yes, we don't have the complete right to prohibit their money from gambling, at least by prohibiting it we can make them aware of it. Agree with what you say, there have been many cases of this, if someone is addicted to gambling and has lost quite a lot from gambling, the bad impact is that they will turn to crime if they don't have any money left to gamble. They will do anything to get money and do it again. It's better to love your money for something useful.

Yes, I like that saying which is applicable to everything as an idea to make one realize that cure is always much more difficult than prevention which means it is clear that prevention is always much better than cure in any case, especially if we talk about gambling which has a very bad impact that can destroy one's life in various aspects. In the end, I strongly agree with what you said above that a gambler must have any measures to prevent addiction as early as possible, and maybe I will give one tip so that you can avoid the possibility of addiction by maintaining awareness of how bad the impact is in gambling along with being based on firmness in terms of implementing it, none other than because as we know that addiction can occur unconsciously which makes a gambler fall into and get carried away over time.

Another thing is that as you said, a gambler should always have the ability to stop at the right time such as when losing especially to prevent the possibility of more significant losses. And if they are a gambler who really struggles to do that then I think what needs to be fixed is their understanding of how gambling actually works.

If actually he's wining little by little, there may be possibility that he may win big someday. So he should continue and never give up. but he shouldn't gamble more than what he can afford to lose. Sometimes a particular strategy you may be using will be the best pattern to use.  He should keep staking smaller amounts till he hit the jack pot. But if he deviate from that strategy, he may end up not even wining atol or losing more friqeuntly than the regular win.

Yes, that's it. Addiction is quite easy to emulate but very difficult to kick off when it has deeply consumed the gambler. There is a popular saying that "prevention is better than cure." It's better to prevent gambling addiction at an earlier stage, when the gambler still has regular symptoms. It's true that a gambler can get lucky in the next round, but when they keep trying and the luck is not coming, then the best thing is to take a break and continue next time because the more the person continues to bet, the more losses they get and become emotional, which can lead to addiction. 

But normally, gamblers don't give up gambling because they lose the first round; they will still try next time. Though they should not do it frequently to avoid addiction,. 

But, how long since your friend started playing gambling? If he is playing for a very long time now, I'm sure that he already experienced a big win but he is only there when he is confessing to you, although it also has to do with the amount that he used for placing his bets. If he is only using small amounts, then yeah that he can also win small.

It also has to do with the game that we are playing, as some has a limitation when it comes to the multiplier that they can gave to us. And the reason on why he can't stop is because he already tasted a victory before or simply the adrenaline rush in gambling already got him, just like the rest of us. Your advice towards your friend is alright but if if were to give mine, I think that is: 'He should only play amounts that he can afford to lose'.

The problem is that your friend is weak, I mean weak in his mind and decision-making, that is what he has to tackle since that is the source of his problem. He needs the Willpower to say No and Yes at the right times and over the right things so that he will not just be wasting himself away and the resources he has. He should start by acknowledging the fact that gambling is an extra activity and, not the mains of life.

By virtue of this, he should stop believing that his blessings are in gambling, otherwise, he will remain in his poor state. He should rather look for a better earning means, especially the ones that will get him so engaged with them and invariably disengaged with gambling. That's the way out. And if it is difficult for him to unplug himself from the act immediately, no problem, he should start by trying to give himself some breaks from it. It could be a day, two, a week and so on. It might be insignificant at first, but upon increasing this painstakingly, he will discover that he is getting loose off gambling.

Nevertheless, since he has not been gaining at all, that could mean that he is gambling only the casino aspect of it, why not he try sports betting? However, if the result is the same after about 3 months, I strongly urge your friend to quit gambling, it's not just his thing.

Getting a small win is much better than losing and losing the amount of money at stake, this is gambling where winning depends on luck, so just assume that maybe it's your luck even though the amount of winnings is small. Having the ability to be content and grateful with whatever amount of winnings you get is a good mindset when we talk about gambling, not least because as we know that most gamblers who always act greedy actually end up running out of more money than they win.

And as you said that gambling by limiting the expectation of winning can make us go through the session calmly and avoid stress, and that's true because actually in gambling even if you manage to get a big enough win but if you don't feel satisfied then obviously in the end you will continue the session with some more crazy actions and decisions that will basically make yourself closer to losing a significant amount. So it's better to be grateful for whatever amount of winnings you get, because there are always some gamblers who find it difficult to win even in small amounts which is because they are really far from luck.

It's not fun because OP's friend feels that while he's been gambling he's never experienced a big win, even though in fact it's not only OP's friend who feels that way. I think there are also many people who haven't experienced a big win in their life while they're involved in gambling because gambling games are more involved in there is a risk of losing. So whatever we play, we have to be able to accept whether we lose or win, don't expect gambling to give us big wins by gambling continuously because to get that we need luck and also dare to bet bigger amounts of money in order to get big profits too. But don't regret it if you end up losing and you lose a large amount of your money.

Everyone who gambles definitely wants big profits but they don't realize that to win big profits they also have to think about the risks and dare to bet large amounts but if they only use small money to gamble then the winnings won't be big and will continue like that. It is better to think of gambling as fun, we will feel pleasure when gambling and not feel the pressure of having to win gambling that matches our expectations.

Well, you are actually right but that might also lead them to become an addict because they will want to recover their loss money but the more they gamble, the more they lose even when knowing fully well that there is no progress but they don't want to give up, although it might turn out good for them but that won't be enough for what they lose and once they become an addict, it will really affect them in their lives, so to avoid that, they should set limits on how they are going to spend for that day and they will spend too, that way might even help them to be winning more than losing.

If most gamblers continue to gamble despite everything that they often lose, maybe it's because they have experienced winning that gave them joy. And the joy they felt is probably what drives them to continue to gamble.

Of course, we know that money can't buy the happiness we feel if it's true, right? This is one of the reasons why I said these things. And the other reasons—I'm not sure about those either.

Lucky him that he still win even if it's a small amount only, what more if he experience losing every single bets that he make? less expectations can lead you in having smooth and stress free gambling session because sometimes, the more you expect, the more you lose. Gambling is a risky game and there's no certainty of winnings that's why I must say that he is one of the lucky persons doing gambling, what should your friend do is to enjoy the game and do not expect anything in return.

I don’t know if this suggestion is accurate but you’re actually giving your friend hope why he should gamble consistent for a lucky huge win someday. You don’t hope when gambling likewise a gambler not predicting rightly,  what I’m trying to explain is consistency and luck walk differently so you can see a gambler who gamble for year but no huge win meanwhile a new gambler who just started can get lucky and win. Your friend is not ready yet for gambling or else gambling win remains gambling win or else your friend want the life changing win which is so rare. The advice your friend need right now is never expect anything big or small from a game, aside gambling or other games, competition etc. expecting something huge is basically not guarantee so why not prepare your mind to face any situation big or small.