Topic: Ever had the urge of just trying to get a win for your ego? - page 2. (Read 349 times)
Probably if you're a frustrated gambler due to consistently experiencing losing streak, your mindset will be like this. But if you know that such gambling bets can never guarantee secured profits, then you don't have to force a mindset like that. Instead, win because your strategies are working, and you know how to manage your bankroll. Winning should never be based on your ego, that could only lead to future addiction.
Egos are most of the time misleading. So I don't think it will be an edge for you if you are trying to win for the sake of your ego. Gambling outcomes are said to be unpredictable, however with skills and strategies on you, your chance of winning the bet increases. So win your bet because you know how to play the game well, and not because your ego tells you so.
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I think ego comes from emotion and emotion can play a huge dangerous role in gambling. It does in most cases. I have lost every bet I have ever made based on my ego. And even if I won two or one, I can't remember it now.
And I have seen many people who have lost huge amounts of money by betting only because of ego. So I would not recommend anyone to gamble based on ego. And besides, I always want to suggest everyone that whenever you feel like you are placing a bet for your ego, then you will understand that you have lost control over yourself. And I would say at this time to take a break from gambling as soon as possible for that period.
- go out and just accept that you failed miserably at an event you know you're really bad at
What I expect that people are saying is to stop gambling and accept losses. Gamble responsibly and only spend the amount that we can afford to lose. And controlling our emotions is very important...Quote
- try to get at least a bet right to have at least one win for your ego
But this is the reality happening. We continue to gamble as we think we still have the chance, and luck awaits us. Usually, we think that our last bet will be the winning bet. And we fail again... 
At bet sports I don't do it but a slots and casino I do it very often to be honest. Because the outcome is instant.
How does games that depend a lot on luck make your ego look better?I would expect that why people get a rush when winning from a bet is because they had a lot of say in the analysis of the game. If their ego is fed, it’s probably because they were betting on something and the other was like “no way this is like this” and we get competitive. So, yeah many times where ego is involved.
- go out and just accept that you failed miserably at an event you know you're really bad at
- try to get at least a bet right to have at least one win for your ego
- or even one step higher, try to recoup the bets (no way I'm doing that)
Number one is the best option; the last two are bad if you apply it in gambling. Ego should not have a place in your betting; its best that you use your common sense and just quit and just comeback or change the games that you are good at.
All those who chase their losses and eventually lose are driven by ego, who thinks that they can still win and recoup their losses and that one bet leads to another that ends in a series of losses.
Its a natural thing for us to have a urge over something and when it comes to gambling in particular, we must be able to control the urge or feelings we are having towards it, if not we may arrived at where we may not wanted, the most interesting and at the same time annoying of it all is that, the more we keep on moving in the same direction for that urge with our ego to win, the more difficult winning becomes, if we want to proof all these right, then we should seek advise from the experienced ones from gambling under the same influence, they will have more to tell from how they have been dealt with by their pride.
At bet sports I don't do it but a slots and casino I do it very often to be honest. Because the outcome is instant.
I usually accept my fate. If there's nothing to bet on that I know, like, understand, am good at, I don't bet at all. I have a similar approach to every other thing in life.
When I can't find a decent job, I don't try to get anything just to make a few bucks and feel miserable about it. It's not worth it.
It's important to find yourself something to do. OP is bored and looking to make a bet, but if he had something that would take his mind off betting, things could become much simpler.
Trying to satisfy your ego works only for a very short time. Usually boredom and urge wins and you will make a stupid bet again and again, eventually ending up feeling worse than when you were only bored.
When I can't find a decent job, I don't try to get anything just to make a few bucks and feel miserable about it. It's not worth it.
It's important to find yourself something to do. OP is bored and looking to make a bet, but if he had something that would take his mind off betting, things could become much simpler.
Trying to satisfy your ego works only for a very short time. Usually boredom and urge wins and you will make a stupid bet again and again, eventually ending up feeling worse than when you were only bored.
The last time I checked my ego had never brought food to my table. Neither has it paved the way for any good opportunity for me to make more money. Just like how having greed is dangerous to a gambler same way having ego can be dangerous. Both can lead a gambler to his doom early. It's a bad habit and I have never tended to win for ego. Most times I win big in gambling I don't tell people around me. Same thing when I lose. All things are kept to myself so I don't see any reason to ego.
- try to get at least a bet right to have at least one win for your ego
I don’t want to sound as if I’m advising someone to chase after their losses because that’s what this option looks like - but if I was ever in your shoes this is what I would have done. I would have reduced my bet and go for the one I know or believe are the most likely to give me a win and this time I won’t make multiple bets but just one because sometimes losing multiple bets might give you that feeling that you’re starting to lose your touch so I’d just make one bet and make sure I win so as to satisfy my “ego” and also to remind myself that no one is perfect when it comes to gambling.
Isn't that the recipe for disaster? You're talking about sports betting but this applies to pretty much every gambling game. Quite a long time ago I was playing crash on a well-known casino, I was achieving a few minor wins and had stacked a semi decent amount of money, compared to the money I had spent. The game starts and it crashes on a really low multiplier, something like 1.05x. I'm a little pissed but it's all a part of the game, isn't it? Second round starts again, I've already doubled my bet, it crashes again, right from the start. At this moment I'm getting pissed off. I go for round three, I'm not accepting defeat, I'm doubling my bet again (4x since first round), and guess what, it crashes again. I'm pissed, extremely pissed.
I learned an important lesson that day, sometimes it's better to accept defeat, since then, I've been a lot more careful to not get carried away, even though sometimes it happens on sports betting, it's a lot more controlled than the case I mentioned with the crash game.
I learned an important lesson that day, sometimes it's better to accept defeat, since then, I've been a lot more careful to not get carried away, even though sometimes it happens on sports betting, it's a lot more controlled than the case I mentioned with the crash game.
This was common when we were playing mainly at gambling shops, then ego was one of the major attributes of gamblers. Everyday we gather at the shop make predictions and anyone whose prediction comes through was usually celebrated as a pro, so it was easy for ego to infiltrate the process and as usual, people will insist on playing until they win or are burnt out. I will not forget the arguments about clubs we support in which many people bet with such sentiments even when they knew that their clubs were not in good shape to win the match. However, online casinos have made all that history because gambling are done in private and anyone still exhibiting this ego is simply fighting against himself.
my question for the other bettors, what do you do in such a scenario
- go out and just accept that you failed miserably at an event you know you're really bad at
- go out and just accept that you failed miserably at an event you know you're really bad at
Yes. I'm almost sure that it has nothing to do with real chance, but the day I feel that it is not my day I usually quit and try to focus on a different thing. You can always try another day, with a better disposition than after a losing spree.
- try to get at least a bet right to have at least one win for your ego
Yes, we are all humans and we have our egos, and I won't claim that I haven't done it before; with mixed results.
- or even one step higher, try to recoup the bets (no way I'm doing that)
No, definitely not at least in my case.
- try to get at least a bet right to have at least one win for your ego
I don’t want to sound as if I’m advising someone to chase after their losses because that’s what this option looks like - but if I was ever in your shoes this is what I would have done. I would have reduced my bet and go for the one I know or believe are the most likely to give me a win and this time I won’t make multiple bets but just one because sometimes losing multiple bets might give you that feeling that you’re starting to lose your touch so I’d just make one bet and make sure I win so as to satisfy my “ego” and also to remind myself that no one is perfect when it comes to gambling.
I had a topic like Do you have a team or player on which you keep losing bets no matter what? and I obviously stated in it as an example the race track at Lingfield 
My money pit I should know better not to touch again!
Now that most tracks in UK are frozen and Lingfield is on poly it's one of the few that run, so, out of boredom I played, they had 5 clear favorites under 1/1, one was 1/6, you can guess what happened, all 6 bets on favorites lost, all 4 bets on placing from the 3rd horse lost, 4 EW lost, I won't even say tricast cause, well, D'oh!!!
So here I am, bored to death and I'm looking at the next Chelmsford City race and I feel that I should both stay out of this for the day and also just place a damn bet to win at least once so, my question for the other bettors, what do you do in such a scenario
- go out and just accept that you failed miserably at an event you know you're really bad at
- try to get at least a bet right to have at least one win for your ego
- or even one step higher, try to recoup the bets (no way I'm doing that)
My money pit I should know better not to touch again!Now that most tracks in UK are frozen and Lingfield is on poly it's one of the few that run, so, out of boredom I played, they had 5 clear favorites under 1/1, one was 1/6, you can guess what happened, all 6 bets on favorites lost, all 4 bets on placing from the 3rd horse lost, 4 EW lost, I won't even say tricast cause, well, D'oh!!!
So here I am, bored to death and I'm looking at the next Chelmsford City race and I feel that I should both stay out of this for the day and also just place a damn bet to win at least once so, my question for the other bettors, what do you do in such a scenario
- go out and just accept that you failed miserably at an event you know you're really bad at
- try to get at least a bet right to have at least one win for your ego
- or even one step higher, try to recoup the bets (no way I'm doing that)
I think this topic doesn't apply only for sports, It apply for slots and casinos games too... I have been stucked with some slots games in the past like Nitropolis from ELK, that slots is a money eatir, the animations are cool but getting a big win is Just imposible.
And with sports I get some bat luck with the end of Conor McGregor, he used to be an easy money bet, but in the Last fight he makes me lose money.
- go out and just accept that you failed miserably at an event you know you're really bad at
- try to get at least a bet right to have at least one win for your ego
- or even one step higher, try to recoup the bets (no way I'm doing that)
Or add- try to get at least a bet right to have at least one win for your ego
- or even one step higher, try to recoup the bets (no way I'm doing that)
-move on and accept what was loss.
That was the first line, take the loss go out, it's actually nice weather outside, and just let it go.
Which was a sound plan, and I am glad I didn't take the bet on the first race on Chelmsford:
Now if the favorite in the 20:30 Carlton which is twice CD winner in last 2 races isn't finishing in the top 5 everyone around here close your windows cause you're going to hear some screams even if you're in New Zealand
Oh, it's a 2 euros bet, don't bring money into the discussion, this is just my ego wanting to win.
Well mine is kind of a crazy story. Manchester city has always been a very reliable team for anyone who place football bet. Manchester city gives everyone great opportunities regardless of if you take them straight win, over or even first half win, but not too long ago they have had a bad run of form and honestly that cost me alot.
My friends has been telling me to avoid them but still I believed in them and I always take them fast forward to last week I finally won with Manchester city vs westham as my last game. That win was really for my ego and it really gave me joy.
My friends has been telling me to avoid them but still I believed in them and I always take them fast forward to last week I finally won with Manchester city vs westham as my last game. That win was really for my ego and it really gave me joy.
- go out and just accept that you failed miserably at an event you know you're really bad at
- try to get at least a bet right to have at least one win for your ego
- or even one step higher, try to recoup the bets (no way I'm doing that)
There is no reason for all this as a gambler it's always better to accept defeat than allow our pride and ego destroy us ultimately. Gambling is very simple but if we attached so much value to how much we would win makes it looks like a bad activity, the major thing are to look towards the fun moment we are having while gambling and when the money has been exhausted then we quit but if by any means while gambling and we stake money to it and win then fine it's a plus to our overall gambling moment but shouldn't allow our ego control us where we can't know our limits. - try to get at least a bet right to have at least one win for your ego
- or even one step higher, try to recoup the bets (no way I'm doing that)
- go out and just accept that you failed miserably at an event you know you're really bad at
- try to get at least a bet right to have at least one win for your ego
- or even one step higher, try to recoup the bets (no way I'm doing that)
Or add- try to get at least a bet right to have at least one win for your ego
- or even one step higher, try to recoup the bets (no way I'm doing that)
-move on and accept what was loss.
Its quite frustrating what you had in there, maybe not in the nick of time? Or totally random unlucky day.
Ego is something we must balance and cant say we should just let it go but the harder we think and cope with that the more get frustrated.
Hearing a 19 bets without a win is really something we cant sleep it about. I get you on that part but nothing much to do but accept. Better luck next time mate
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