Topic: Do you have a habit of tracking your gambling progress? - page 10. (Read 2380 times)

Glad that someone agrees with what I'm saying on that one, it's really difficult to do progress tracking anyway if it doesn't involve any kind of benefit from you, although I'm different with you about the breaking even with the loses, that could be a big difference and I think that you should stop more than me when it comes to tracking your gambling progress, you're the destructive kind of gambler that will try to get their hands on as much break even as they can which is an unhealthy thing unlike me that just gets depressed and frustrated. It's a miracle that you were able to even stop doing that if you ask me because I feel like the way that you would feel about your gambling progress would make you obsessed into tracking it even more.

If we can carry out this behavior correctly then gambling will not make our lives miserable, but the feeling of happiness we get from gambling is just entertainment for ourselves and we still maintain good control over every gambling game we play.
However, people who already make mistakes in their behavior when gambling will definitely experience a lot of problems in their lives because it could be that they are not just having fun but also looking for income and this is clearly wrong and has consequences. still very doubtful. .

It's true what you say, we should gamble just for fun, and I agree with what you say. If in order to gamble which is basically for fun, we must have good self-control, and also with the right assumptions or thoughts, don't make the mistake of treating gambling by thinking that gambling is something that can make money for sure, of course that's not the case. That's right, if you gamble for fun, in my opinion we have to have a positive motive, not a motive to make money by gambling, because if that's the case, what will most likely happen is addiction.

That's true, if gambling is balanced with strong self-control, maybe we can be aware and stop after winning or losing. because it is clear that many people cannot stop gambling because they do not have good self-control, so they fall deeper into gambling that causes losses. I myself gamble, but I never think about gambling that has passed or losses that have been obtained, because in my opinion there will be no benefit. do gambling as best as possible so as not to damage our lives including our finances.

The benefit is for introspect what we have done related to our gambling  activity. If we can think clear about that, we will realize that we already used too much money and we want to reduce the money. If we can accepted it, we will still on our track and plan in playing gambling and not trying to use more money. But if we have intention to recover the losses, we will try to deposit more money and continue playing gambling. That can make us to playing gambling excessively without thinking about the losses that we can get.

But for people who doesn't think that is benefit, they don't have to track their winning or losing. I don't track my winning or losing but I feel that I already loss much than the win. I can only limit my budget to playing gambling and not playing gambling too often to avoid losing more money.  Every people will have their decision to track their gambling progress or not because they will have their own purpose to do that.

Gambling is for fun, not for income, but you need to know that to have fun we must have good control so as not to gamble excessively. If there is no good control then the aim of gambling for fun will lead us to destruction because what is said is true, if someone feels happy, everything in front of their eyes will have a bad impact on their life, they will not see or just ignore it. , because he was carried away by the happy atmosphere. However, if this is balanced with strong self-control, they will also think it's time to stop.

Tracking gambling? This is the first sign you're deeper than you imagined. The thrill of the game is seductive, but when it becomes fixation, it's a risky game worth not betting on. Are you in charge, conquering gambling? Rethink. That's the delusion whispering just one more win. Casual betting can lead to gambling, chasing losses, and raising stakes. Self-control pulls you out of addiction, not simply helps.

Do not romanticize gambling for fun. It's fun until the cash runs out. Then what?! When regret reigns, what's the fun? Know the worth of what you're risking (money, time, relationships) not just not caring about losses. Gambling should never overshadow life's jackpots.

Once you started to monitor your gambling progress, there are chances you are most definitely going to start to lose your sense of fun in gambling and your focus will gradually tend towards recovery in cases where you have lost more than you have won and then in cases where you have win a lot you would want to increase your stakes because you will feel you have mastered it a whole lot Eno to get on winning more so you would better just increase your stake and win even more than you have been doing before and you are then standing a high risk of addiction if you are not disciplined enough to get self control.

Gambling for fun and enjoyment would literally make you not really care about how much has been lost because at that point what matters most is if you are having fun well enough and that's what will make you not make a biig deal out of the whole gambling situation.

Overall, it seems yes, I would agree with your statement that rich people use or treat gambling more as a place to entertain themselves when they have free time amidst their busy lives, one of the reasons that makes me believe in this idea is because logically they have rich in the sense that they already have a way to make money so that they can achieve good financial results in their lives and this could be the reason why more rich people use gambling as a place of recreation.

It is unlikely for them to record how much they have lost or won because for them gambling is not an important activity so for them it is not necessary to keep records, I am not forbidding rich people from recording their gambling activities because after all this is an action that It's good to know the results and if it turns out that the number of losses is much greater then we can decide to reduce the gambling activities that we do and this is good because it leads to preventive measures, but overall this is more recommended for ordinary gamblers who have a middle class background. in their lives or in the sense that they are not rich because with this they will know that gambling is draining their money slowly without them realizing it and with this they will be able to realize that it is better to stop gambling or at least reduce it. On the other hand, I don't really agree with your idea of "trying to recover losses by gambling" because this is too dangerous and what will happen is that you will lose more money.

Then what's next? I still don't understand how it became a benefit if we track how much money we already deposit and withdraw. I see, maybe for financial reference Just in case we want to check the amount of money we used overall? But to call it a benefit, I don't understand.

Why there's no benefit? Because winning or losing, the end action will still be the same, continue to gamble.

If a gambler tracks his losses and notices it as alarming, it might result in a purpose to chase those losses.
If a gambler tracks his winnings and notices it as interesting, it might result in continuing to gamble because they are winning.

I totally agree with fM (it's becoming a custom).

First of all, I think that tracking isn't worth it for all games: the more the game relies on luck, the less what the metrics say is worth it. But I understand why poker, and also blackjack players can be interested in monitoring their performance in time.

So I don't think they help in most cases and, in the case of a developing addiction, they may be even worse, because analysing these data means more time thinking about gambling, which is the last thing you need to avoid developing an obsession.

The benefit of tracking gambling progress is to know how much money we deposit and withdraw. We will see how much money that we already used. But if you can't manage your feeling, you will be sad seeing your loss because your loss can be bigger than your winning. We also know how much average money we used to playing gambling in weekly or monthly so we can decide what next to do. Besides that, we can feel stress when we see the loss, and there will be a desire to recover the lost if we can't handle our emotion.

I don't track my gambling progress because that can make me sad seeing the money I used to gambling. For playing gambling, I don't use much money in weekly or monthly, so I don't need to do that.

What the advantage when tracking with our gambling progress, we know risk with gambling and losses potential then already how much money spending for gambling without has ideas checking or tracking how much fund invested in gambling.
I think bad ideas if some one tracking their gambling progress exactly as addict in gambling will get pressure and stress how much money spending or losses in gambling.

Take have fun first when gambling and you don't care for tracking with your gambling progress or how much money losses in gambling, but if you want stop totally with gambling its not really bad ideas for the future how to make your financial become stable and not much spending for gambling.

I would guess that this is not a matter of how much money you can gamble, but the nature of the games you like to play, so a great deal of the statistics you could get could be useless for games that are completely based on your luck, as you should know your win ratio even before making your first bet.

But when it comes to games in which your skill matters, keeping track of the results you have obtained can tell you if you have been improving over time or if instead your skills are getting worse.

"Gambling Progress"? Is there a thing like that? Maybe I should replace that with the term "Gambling Improvement" where the simplest definition would be, the more I gamble, the more I think of better ways and strategies how to deal with the risks.

What kind of tracking are you referring to? The Win/Loss percentage on a given period? I don't know what's the benefit of tracking that especially on the part of how much money I lose in total daily, weekly, monthly, and so on.

I don't want my gambling experience too technical if, on my part, I know how to play with the risks.

Rich people obviously don’t do this. For then gambling is like another source of recreation. They gamble in order to chill with the friends. For them whether it’s a win or loss doesn’t matter at all. But yes a middle class guy like me, do keep records of the bets that I made. I try to recover the losses that I made through gambling. I also gamble with extreme caution, and see all the possibilities before actually placing the bet.

How can you know this, what you are basing it on, an experience of sensations, that's why you believe it.
Anyway, if you are in a casino that offers the function, you can monitor even by game. 

Then, there are most (recognized) crypto casinos offer tracking statistics. They exist because players use them.

In the case of poker, these monitoring is normal, even if the casino does not do it, there is third-party monitoring software.


No and not.

It does not help the addict, the patient must leave the game, this type of monitoring helps the healthy, normal player, if someone suspects addiction they should seek professional help and not pretend that monitoring will help them.

Yes, sometimes people forget their understanding of gambling because they are carried away by the rhythm of the atmosphere there and it is true that what you say must be balanced with good self-control as a complement and risking money according to our own abilities without anything else. if not. elements of coercion from other people.


Yes, only certain people can do it, because they feel safe, according to them it is not that important, but if one day they will definitely monitor the development of their gambling to be more careful, and for people who are already addicted to gambling. . they have to do that because it is important for them not to make further fatal mistakes.

Like monitoring several gambling bets that are made, but it will only run according to the rhythm of the game and who will win will come out at the end. Gambling being an entertainment will make someone forget that they are risking their money in it, but some controls need to be exercised too, using funds that are not forced and capable of losing these funds.

The majority of gamblers don't do this. Very few gamblers who do everything in a much more organized manner do this. These gamblers used to be very cautious in their activities and never spend beyond their limits, and the tracking helps them stay within the limits. Apart from this, people who have the addiction problem should follow it, because the same could help them in self-realization and stay away from gambling atleast for short time period.

It is true, some gamblers cannot do this because they are too comfortable with the gambling games they play that they forget and are not aware that they have to monitor the progress of their gambling, although not all the time. Yes, gambling should be enjoyed for fun and entertainment, seriousness should only be used if he needs it.