In gambling, the problem of winning is always unknown, meaning that regardless of whether your actions tend to be excessive or not, the results are always unknown about whether you will win or vice versa.
Therefore, do not focus too much on winning because it is nothing more than a chance, as you said, do not put too much hope. So of course it is better for us to focus on the possibility of what if we lose, the choice is whether you want to lose a large amount or a small amount, and of course everyone does not want to experience a large defeat.
Therefore, because of this, it is better for us to bet in small amounts, what is feared is when it turns out that luck is far from us, of course your hopes will end in significant regret as experienced by the person told by OP
It all everything depends in the control you do have because not all would really be having that kind of control and discipline because each person does have their own perceptions towards things.
Some could be able to control but majority would really be that losing their cool and becomes that impulsive. On the time that you would really be making yourself that being having no control then this is where shit things do happen. Consequences of greed isnt really just that present on gambling but also in other aspects in life as well. You would really be needing up yourself to be that mindful about the actions that you are taking. Greed is never been good but its not bad to have some targets or goals but you should really be doing it on moderation. The main issue for most people is that on the time that they are doing excessive things
then this is where things becomes that problematic.
The key on here is that you should really know on what you are really that doing. This is why it would really be best that everything should really in moderation so that you wont really be having any problems.
Gambling for the sake of fun and never ever make yourself that projecting out on how you would really be that making money then this is where issues do really raise up. So better
play for fun and never intent on other things.
Yes and therefore to make it easier for you to control yourself I think there is no other way than trying to minimize every decision and action you want to take towards your gambling activities, such as betting with a minimum amount and also setting limits on time.
And to avoid some acts of greed I think maintaining and implementing firmness towards the defense of consciousness can be a good alternative to be used as prevention.
On the other hand as you said that greed will never be something good and it has been proven that we can see how the impact is experienced by addicted gamblers who often apply greed, in the end instead of getting a bigger win but instead ending up with a zero balance and significant regret.
Everything must be measurable, in the sense that we must know about the positive and negative impacts of every action and decision, and actually it doesn't matter if you want to apply greed as long as you know and are aware of the consequences and of course you must be able to accept the risks, don't be a loser, that's embarrassing.