Topic: Gamblers Belief - page 3. (Read 634 times)

High expectations, low reality.
This is a general description for gambling addicts who really cannot gamble professionally. Why do I say unprofessional, because when there is a professional gambler, he really knows when to enter and leave, and knows what his chances are of winning at that time. Not only that, usually they don't rely on luck but indeed their abilities in gambling.

but for gamblers who are already addicted and incapable, aka often relying on luck, this really happens a lot. They always believe and always have high hopes that this time they will win, and so on until they have nothing because their treasures run out.

"Hope" is a cherish word that people rely on when you have nothing to rely on, it's like not having a money and broke but people have promised to pay back the money they owe you but you don't know if they will actually payback but you hope they will pay back, that's how gamblers hope in their games in general, but  accepting loss is something to readily get used to when your results are not what you had in mind, if you can accept profit with cool mind, loss is a minor thing to accept as well, only a psychopathic gambler will refuse to accept loss.

I have a notion and it's simple, ones a game is been stake with the little I can afford to lose, I don't expect it to win any game for me, that's how I picture it on my mind and most often I always get surprised if my win any game I bet because I don't expect them to win, I played with the little skills and the experience, it doesn't go beyond that strategy.

Because people need hope in their lives, that makes them happy. At least it makes me happy. I know that if i would look purely statistics i probably wouldn't even gamble, but i want to have a life where i don't need to base my every decision on statistics. That's not living imho. I need to give luck a change and sometimes go against all odds. Because i find life boring on making just safe choices.

I am not saying that anyone should make irresponsible choices but you can live inbetween to have an exciting life. Nothing to reckless but if you only want to make safe choices, soon life won't be worth living if you afraid of taking changes.

From what could be said about this talk of believe and hopes amongst gamblers after placing their bet is like wishing oneself goodluck on your bet. No man goes hunting with a lost hope. The hunter for instance didn't keep any animal in the bush before he decides to go hunting, but his belief and hopes that he would come back home with a catch is one no different from that of a gambler who just made a bet at a casino. Some of us when we place a bet, we already feel like we own the money already but the euphoria cuts short when the game is a loss one.

If someone really wants to become rich with gambling, the best way to go about it would be to play the lottery from time to time and get lucky. If someone is not rich already, how would gambling make that person rich ever? I don't have any calculated numbers, but I would suppose that turning 20 bucks into 20 million bucks in a casino is maybe as likely as winning a lottery for the same money. If they have to get started with small steps in a casino, their luck may not be exhausted for a very long time to become rich in the literal sense. They either hit the jackpot or they just won't get close to becoming rich ever. If they were playing heads or tails and double the money every time and they start with a dollar, it would be ridiculously unlikely to turn that dollar into a million.

The passion is directly related to dopamine in our brain as gamblers, we enjoy chasing big slot hits and this experience can't be felt the same in other activities, IMO. Beliefs and passions of gamblers are perfect reasons why many gamblers are addicted to this industry and they are not aware of potential problems that can be caused by gambling. The struggle becomes real when they lose all life savings in the gambling platforms and then look for loans to recover the previous losses, unfortunately.

Maybe you think that it's not been seen in other walks of life but in reality it is. But having the comparison of people that are into business and into gambling, there's a huge disparity between both of them.

We all have our ways and beliefs that makes us more productive and with those beliefs, in gamblers' there are also those belief. But sometimes, they're just the typical ones when we're losing money.

I don't think that there's a person that doesn't have that feeling of winning is there, everyone is wanting to win and whether it's just a small amount, we don't want to miss it out.

Yeah, if I'm not mistaken, everyone has experienced it and what the OP described. However, belief has no effects on our winning or losing, it is still base on luck specially casino games.

But for sports betting like in NBA or Football, it might be different though as we always think that just one single goal will change the outcome of the game in our favor. So maybe we believed that even in the last seconds, a player will hit that goal or basket to give us that big win.

Usually the trigger would really be having that goal on becoming rich with gambling on which this is the one of the main reason on why people would really be pushing up themselves on playing gambling just because
on having this kind of pursuing on what they do have in mind. Greedy at the same time because they are thinking that with gambling, this is the only way that they could deal fast money or quick cash. If you are still that aware on your actions then for sure you would really be stopping yourself on doing gambling or not really having that kind of intent because if you do have this mainly on your mind then you would
be pushing yourself on playing more.

Gambling is for fun nothingless but there were people who do really have those impressions which are totally different on which this had been the reason on why they do really end up on
losing huge sums of money or messing their life because of their wrong impressions towards it.

I believe every disfunction has two main factors as causes: an environmental and a biological one. Addiction is executed through a trigger. The individual has to identify this trigger and its cause. Since we talk about environmental factors, it's possible to avoid them by adopting determined measures which can be elaborated by the person himself, or with the help of a professional. Controlling the environment it's possible to reduce considerably the impact of the addiction on the person's life and even completely remiting its symptoms, depending the case and the weight of biological factors.

This hope from gamblers have made what the crypto industry is today. 99% of the altcoins are pump and dump scams but still gamblers tend to risk their money by playing with these shitcoin waves every now and then. If they are lucky enough, the coin gets pumped like the recent $PEPE or they can crash similar to Squid Game  Researching well before investing is different while comparing to just throwing away the money in the hope of making more money.

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I think we can influence our brain habits to churn the dopamine by involving ourselves in positive habits which can indeed help us in staying productive or leading a healthy lifestyle. For example, you can increase your dopamine by opening up your twitter which is indeed a waste of time for quite a few but some have converted it into a positive factor of making money in the recent move of content monetization. The same goes with activities such as going to a gym or writing code. Both are considered to be boring activity by some but if we start practicing these regularly, they will indeed become a habit which can increase your dopamine and thereby help us in leading a healthy lifestyle or improving our productivity.

Stick to that belief and those things would changed up 101% on the time that you would really be living on the streets.  

People wouldn't really be stopping on trying out to pursue on what are the things that they do have in mind, on the time that they cant prove it out then they wont stop until they would be experiencing on their very eyes.
These are the people wont really be stopping until they proven it out and on the time that they would be experiencing unfortunate events then this is where regrets do begin.
Gambling is for fun and this is why it would really be wise that you should really be realistic on whatever you are dealing with.

Just be sensible on what gambling is and you wont really be finding yourself that desperate when it comes to various things because if you do have that kind of intent in the first place
on making money with gambling then it would really be an another story.

Consider in a football match we already had over 89th minutes and score is 0 - 0 but I have a bet of over 2.5 goals. I still like to hope that in the injury minutes we will have these two goals and will win the bet. It happens with me all the time LOL

I do not have many experience with casino games like slots, crash these things but with sports betting I always like to feel some miracle is going to happen and I will win.

Gambling is so old within the civilation and so widespread in western societies that I am sure there must be some paychological studies and papers on the beliefs and thoughts of the regular gambler out there on the internet.

We could argue that addiction to gamble (assuming it has some direct relation to the belief and faith of the people to solve their problems) have a root which comes indeed from unconcious disturbances within the individual, perhaps even dating from the childhood of them. Though, I am more inclined to believe the psycho-chemical theory which associate problem gambling with a production and later need for dopamine and other neurotransmitters in the brain.

We all.get dopamine and serotonine from several natural sources, but if we make gambling the main one then there is a problem building up, in my opinion. One need to diversify one's life with other activities.

No matter what you will tell a addicted gambler about the risk associated with gambling, they will never listen to you, if you tell them about how risky gambling is, they will end up telling you that everything in this life is risk, so if you are not ready to take the risk you can never be successful. They are having confidence that if they keep on gambling (taking risk) there will be a time that they will be successful, so that’s why no matter how risky you tell them about gambling, they won’t listen to you.

Addicted gamblers don’t care about spending everything they are having on gambling, then after losing some might end up regretting, but when they are having money again, they will still end up going back to gambling, and some might not even regret that they lose. The way gambling is risky, nobody should always have assurance that he/she is going to win, no matter how sure you are on the games you played your bet on, slight mistake can happen and you will lose everything, when gambling we shouldn’t be too confident that we are going to win, because if you lose, the shock can cause some health challenges.

Interesting, to be honest, I can't say for sure about the beliefs of most gamblers. but for me personally, belief is another matter of the gambling sessions we do. I mean, when I make a deposit, all I have in mind is wanting to have fun with a little money to place bets.

Regardless of what you describe in this thread, I'm not really interested in discussing it. but what got me interesting was the title of this thread, even though there are actually quite a few points that we cover from what you said. talking about gambling beliefs, as I said above. that part of the belief is another matter of the gambling sessions we do.

To be honest, I don't know how other gamblers define it. but for me, it is not a matter of hope and faith. not even a commitment.  but rather, what are we going to do during the gambling session. that's why, I say that belief is another matter than gambling. In fact, I could say the same is the case with luck, which is really another matter than gambling. for me, belief is a process that we have done after I conducted research and analysis regarding the two teams that will compete. Also, don't forget that I will consider all the references I get from the research results. then, after that, belief also appears to be decisive in our betting choices. yep, at least, this is my belief definition for gambling.

Just a little story when I play online gambling, I always have confidence that when I experience continuous defeat, I think it means I'm getting closer to a big win. But what happened was the opposite, I only deepened the defeat and I was able to realize it when I ran out of money and had no more friends I could borrow money from. That was the worst thing I ever did when playing gambling and it seems I have to change my mindset when playing gambling because deciding to stop playing gambling is very difficult.

I don't know but I disagree with this, not all gamblers has a 100% mindset that they will won the game, some gambler like me always think of the reality that it is not always rainbows and butterflies , sometimes you need to accept that there will loses along the way and only if we are lucky we can win in a row but if we continue that belief that they need to win at all cost it will only made them desperate.

The belief that winning a gambling game will definitely win, but without realizing it, the win is only limited to returns that are not proportional to the losses during betting.
playing gambling with high confidence will only make us continue to play until that belief is achieved. And I've experienced it because I'm sure that one day I will definitely win, and the word "someday" will definitely be accompanied by continuing to play. And after that belief was fulfilled and I won, I realized that along the road to victory there were many defeats.
So for now I only play when I have the urge to play, and enjoy the game for fun sometimes luck always happens.

I honestly don't know what OP would want to see instead. Gamblers are believers, that's a fact. Nobody would put thgeir money on the line, not believing in the positive result. If you want to throw it away, you can at least do it with a bang, throw a party, or buy a bunch of firecrackers and watch them light the sky.
There are many other groups of "believers" though. One good example are investors, bitcoiners, people who take on extreme sports... they all believe.