Topic: An interesting story and experience of a gambler - page 4. (Read 1637 times)

The cause of earning more has been the driving force for most gamblers to forget that gambling doesn't end in one favor no matter how lucky they are if they have earned big from gambling or have big money with them for gambling bets.

The funny part is that gambling generally doesn't care or reconsider one finances whether they have lost miserably with their big money or once won big before they begin to lose terribly. However, gambling doesn't care about those things because it is programmed to be open for your stakes.

However, If you as a gambler don't advise yourself on how to take precautions or be calculative on how to gamble less, your money will be siphoned without pity or consideration by the gambling site because they never force anyone to gamble with them. You choose to gamble with them willingly

That's why we must be careful when playing gambling. When someone can't holds himself from playing gambling too long and too often, that will be a matters of time before he becomes addicted to gambling immediately. But those who can be wise in treating gambling will not thinks to chases the wins, even if they already wins before, they will thinks to stops gambling and enjoy their wins without have an intention to chase the wins. They will push their greediness into a low levels to prevents them from a passion to playing gambling than usual because they know that will gives them bigger risks to lose their money. But many people will not realizes about this and when they wins, they will not stops themselves from playing gambling instead will keeps playing gambling because they thinks they can wins more money.

Every gambler must have his or her story or experience in gambling. I remembered certain time when I was in Lagos. Then I love gambling so much. And my favorite kind of gambling is always a virtual game. That faithful day I received my salary quickly I closed from work to home so that I can go to the market to get some food stuffs and other things that i may need. On my way to the market, I stopped at a POS center and I make a withdrawal of #35,000. Immediately after the withdrawal, one mind told me to go to a bet9ja shop at the junction were I withdraw the money that I can add up this money to at least 50k and beside even if I lose the money that I still have some money in my account. Quickly I rushed to the betting shop. I started playing the game. The first three times I played they blessed me with almost 15k. The game became so interesting and then I balanced well for the gambling. After the first three that I own, I never won any ticket again. The more I played, the more I lose. To the extent I will place game of 500 just to see that I will win 200. I played to the extent that I was even begging to just get my money back without any addition no way. After a long play I got angry and left the place to check my pocket only to discover that out of #35k I was only left with #2,500. I was so mad at myself. Throughout that month everything around me was just annoying me even when I am not supposed to be angry I get angry. Honestly I faced hunger that very month. Ever since than I totally controlled myself over gambling till today. Today I can stay for like 3 months and above without gambling. It was really an experience that I will never forget in my entire life.

It's a vicious cycle indeed, and experiencing a big win could sometimes back fire on us as we wanted to go to that process again and again we really don't understand why, but it seems that we are going going to the motions of it.

Good that he gave the mother some money, but he over spends it to something that maybe he didn't need. But I do understand, during the times that I also win big in casino, I will buy stuff that I will only used for a couple of days and months and then put it on the the shelf and never look back. Nevertheless, we can't blame the guy, we have gone to that same process as a gambler and we feel very lucky and thought that it will be the same the next day and the next and so we repeat it unless we gave our winnings for what's left to the casino.

You need more balls to bet than just money, you need the balls to best the loses from gambling and not break down and also you need enough balls to continue gambling irrespective of your loses and not let your emotions overcome you and propel the recovery pressure and possible addiction.
To gamble responsibly, you need the balls to take such decision because its not an easy decision, consistent gamblers can testify about the magnetic force of attraction to betting more than your budget.


Its obvious you're not a gambler or a gambler just on the gambling section and not in real practice lest you'll know that man never gets satisfied in making money and its applicable in gambling, the more you win, the more you want to win more. It takes great balls to exert maximum self control and refrain from throwing more funds into the casino for that moment.
I recommend taking a break after a big win, planning your funds and using it positively, getting a strict gambling budget before thinking of gambling again.

This only proves that good things never last long with gambling. Yes, you can be extra lucky at first and win exceptional amount but if you have no control of yourself, you will still end up losing them all back in gambling. Greed will always motivate you to bet more hoping to win more, but we all know gambling does not let us win all the time. This gambler should have realized that in the first place, and not only when he lose it all and even damage his mental health. While gambling can bring you a fortune, but it will also bring you into a mess if you don’t know how to manage your gambling habit and addiction.

A perfect example of what has already been discussed many times: addicts play not for the money, but for the sake of the process itself. They enjoy the process (probably even if they lose), so having won a large sum, they do not end up with gambling, but on the contrary, they become even more engaged in it and, as a result, everything they win ends up back in the casino. As for the described case, it is very good that he managed to buy some things and spend money on his family - at least he had something left.

They say with this is, "quickly come, quickly go". And I agree that if they don't know how to take care of the money that they have used to win and they don't appreciate it, they are going to be easy on it and won't mind losing them all again. It's hard to see ourselves in that shoe and we have taken for granted the situation when we've already won that much.

And as you have that confidence winning that amount, you're going to spend more in less than a day and lose them all entirely.

Always set the amount that you have started with when you win so that whether you lose with the remaining fund of yours, you're not going to be problematic about it. But if you're going to include all of it including your bankroll and you have been emotionally uncontrollable and if it happened once, it won't be surprising that it can happen again the second time around, third, fourth and so on.

Absolutely well said bud, and I completely agree with you, the wise thing to draw from here is that we should try as much as possible to be satisfied with every single win we encounter in gambling, for this can help us appreciate and know how and what best to use that money for, that we will be happy about, rather than gambling it all away again in a bid to win even more money.

It's exactly like you have said it, we can never be satisfied with money in general, but just money won from gambling, I believe a clear example is how we see the billionaires in the world still continue to work hard just to keep making even more and more money, money is never enough.
But again, the secret in being happy and feeling fulfilled in life regards of how much we have is in our appreciation of that which we have, regardless of whether it be big or small, our learning to appreciate helps us greatly.

Actually his experience or story is not new in the gambling community. A lot of people similarly underwent the same journey just like Degen. It has to do with the brain, gambling money comes real quick and appear huge in the player's eyes and he would be so excited to have gotten what he wanted in gambling. Moving forward the player would, like anybody else, be compelled to spend his money heavily on things he doesn't need. Then wager high amount of money back to the house which he'll definitely lose.

You are correct that gamblers in large quantity will still behave like him. No need to think he was too careless or reckless with the money. That's how the house takes up all the money, like in his last statement. Although, some experienced players who have won big in different occasions may utilize their funds properly due to the first experience they've had with hitting huge amount of money in gambling. I think that first timers will always act this way. It's normal. Hardly will a player use the funds to start up business.

This is what people who want to win big always forget that no matter how big they win if they don't appreciate their win by using the money to take care of important things, they will lose it all again because they will never be satisfied with whatever amount of money that they win. Addiction can make you feel that you can win $1B, if you have won $1M,and that will make you lavish the money that you win.

This is why no matter how little our wins are, we should be satisfied with it and quit the game because if you are not satisfied and want to win more, you will end up losing it all back to the casino. This is why gambling should be done with caution and reservation, so that you don't end up like the guy in the OP.

This is so unfortunate for him, I think he acted so impulsively because of the greediness and wanting to earn more and more not thinking of the consequences and not putting the possibility of losing in his head because he was certain that doing good things like donating money will have a good reflect on his gambling activities. I feel sad reading that post because this person has an obvious depression out of what happened to him and it is completely understandable because no one could handle such big loss. Being broke for so long explains the reason behind buying such useless things out of happiness and excitement.
He might sell the unopened stuff in those boxes and get back at least some of money to survive for few days, he should also stay away from anything related to Gambling at least for now instead he should work to heal his mental health.

The gambler is speaking out of depression,he got everything wrong by spending the money he won on things that he does not need and interested in.The chance of winning in gambling is not as easy as every gambler would think so the right thing to do is investing on your wins or get something valuable that mean alot to you,just like I came across a thread on this forum on how a member used the wins from gambling wisely to get something valuable.Most gamblers that knows gambling is not a source of income will do something important with their wins(investing/establishing a business) and not continue gambling with their wins with the expectation of winning more.

I like the way the gambler later realizes by concluding his words by saying "No matter how much the win is, we will never be satisfied". That's too late for him to realize that because he can't never be the same lucky to win huge money in gambling again.

Humans generally are never satisfied when it's about money. They keep longing for more money in a quick manner that will depend on luck or risk without wanting to build or start up another way to make money that depends on luck to excel.

It's hard to find a gambler who wouldn't act the same way if they were as lucky as Degen, who made his gambling wins to buy unnecessary things he doesn't need or give to charity or give to impress, thinking that they are doing good while they are losing their opportunity to establish oneself to be made in life by starting a new business or hustle than engaging back in gambling for more wins because that will eventually take back what won.

Indeed it's a story, cause it's too good to believe and someone who is desperate for internet likes/attention might create stories like these to satisfy their social media urge. All you need is money to bet, not balls though.

If he can able to hit 1900x on their first bet then he already gave some money to mom and bough tons of stuffs which means you made more than what you had in your bank account which means you should feel satisfied and realize that it doesn't happen everyday.

inspiring , there are only few of us or very few that will experience this kind as imagine more than 1900x ? that is an insane multiplier even if you only bet 1 buck then that is more than enough to win.


this is a small chance to win mate,  this is something that will never happen each time and i believe this is a once in a lifetime chance .

I admit that this will never happen to me , if does then thank you for the luck .

What an engaging read, filled with ups and downs what a roller coaster. I feel for this man, for surely he is the man who doesn't know a good thing when he's got it. Hopefully he hasn't lost grip of the ones he holds near and dear to him as well to only find himself crowded with all the wrong people in the wrong place, such as his predicament with the boxes of things he ordered. I think oftentimes hindsight is always 20-20 & of course when you mix random beliefs with chance you can almost bet that certain loss is lingering, unless of course you are bursting with confidence! I do hear that fortune favors the bold 

It's normal if people feel defensive because they can't always accept our suggestion so they will refuse that and say that they are okay with what they had now. I feel that family counsel is annoying but I must confess that family counsel sometimes helps us to decides because they don't wants us to face a bad things. But we have our own choice to follows that suggestion and combine with our thought so that can works properly with the situation. Using our paycheck to our children's education is a must because that's the important things to them and we as their parents must make sure that they can gets what it needs. Investments is also produce extra money for our family so we must have an investment to prepare our future.

We must realizes that we will difficult to hit the jackpot in the gambling and if we don't have luck, we can't gets it. But when we can hit the jackpot, we must set some amount for our family to prepare their future while we still have more money to used for our daily lives. We can also use that money for playing gambling moderately so nothing will be worry with our finances.

It's mostly rare to find a gambler who could control having a jackpot. The player above seem to be possessing such an amount for the first time. So, those things which he ever thought of having, he has to possess them even if he doesn't need it. Looking at the run down of how he spent the money, you'd notice how poorly organized he was with the money. That's not his fault. Hitting a whooping amount of money with no backup income to regulate how the money is being spent will cause excessive expenses.

I would add that some jackpot winners even go as far as resigning their work and focus on spending the money and gambling. Investment thoughts rarely show up, the player expects another big wins in few days. No investment will generate, immediately, such an amount like the jackpot or big wins. People who can control themselves from recklessly spending such an amount already has an experience with handling a big amount of money.

Unfortunately, today's society no longer thinks like society in the past, nowadays people no longer give much importance to family, women, men and children. It has become normal for people not to think about getting married and even in the rare cases where people get married, they sign a contract in which each person keeps their assets and when the couple has children, neither parent wants to stay at home and take care of the children. , everyone wants to go for a walk somewhere, which causes fights every day. If a man, for example, is a person who likes gambling and lives close to a physical casino, then he will constantly play in that physical casino and go with his friends and come home very late and consequently have a fight with his wife. If you do a survey and ask the following: how many wives are happy seeing their husbands going to play in physical casinos? If you ask 1000 married women, I believe that more than 900 married women will answer that they are not happy seeing their husbands go to play in physical casinos

but women can in some cases be right and in other cases wrong. the fact is that even if they told their husbands not to go play in the physical casino, they wouldn't listen, so they too will go somewhere their husbands don't like them going and the fights aren't over, and with that kind of problem At home, husbands tend to spend even more money in physical casinos and become addicted and lose everything: they lose their jobs, they lose their wives, they lose their family. Even in cases where they manage to recover from addiction, they cannot recover their family