Topic: Gambling Addiction at its Worst! - page 10. (Read 3513 times)

This is really bad, what would you do with that kind of money [1], the obvious answer is to have fun with friends and family (for normal people) so I consider this to be abnormal and must be handled appropriately.

The worst thing, I continued to make deposits even though I finally lost everything, realizing it after everything was gone.

Well, that is good advice or don't think seriously about gambling in your life. Even you gambling once a week or even twice that won't affect you. How I wish I can travel around the world and explore all gambling live casino. I just want to see people gamble or those rich people placing their bets. I just want to know people there but I not going to gamble. Indeed, in gambling addiction, that depended on ourselves how to manage with it and not become to the point of addiction.

Those are events out of the ordinary and probably reflect some kind of psychological issue or even the abuse of drugs besides being addicted to gambling, however those incidents should tell us how dangerous is to get any kind of addiction and at the first sign that things could be getting out of your control it is important to look for help, many people think they can control their addiction but we know that is not true so it is important to get professional help so you can overcome those demons.

will be very lucky for those of you who like to play gambling but do not get addicted, it would be nice if gambling was only for entertainment only but not to the level of addiction.  because most people if they gamble instead want to gamble continuously.

You are 1000% right.

I'm not sure how this is relevant to the advice given

Note that I don't say that this advice is going to halt your gambling addiction (if you have one). I just want to point out that people waste big and unexpected money not because they are addicted to gambling or anything to that effect but primarily because they don't know what to do with all this sudden wealth ("big, really big, 5-6 or even 7 figures") as they are simply not used to it. However, they understand they should do something with their new riches but whatever they do turns out only wasteful and reckless spending

He already said it

This is the addiction syndrome, it is like our passion's in life, we love to do it amongst other passion that we have in ourselves, because that is what more fun to us and that gives us the satisfaction that we need to forget things that makes us sad, or to have a pastime, and other personal reasons, that is why it is important for all of us to have a social life, and not a shut it where we limit ourselves on doing other things that will not gives us a bad addiction like what gambling does.

I know it is hard to leave the life that you've been used to, but guys, it is all worth it if you will quit gambling and explore the world, it's much prettier and beneficial to us.

There is always a temptation in gambling, and that makes people attracted to play the games more and more. We feel that it will be difficult to stop gambling because of the temptation. But we need to learn from our mistakes because if we don't learn, then we will make another mistake in the future. We need to prevent that thing so we can get something from the learning.

Yes, control ourselves will not easy, but if we keep trying, I am sure one day we can easily stop gambling anytime. The important thing is we don't stop to control ourselves because practicing to control ourselves will give us a chance to stop anytime.

That is great. Finally, you got the point. It is better to have someone that can watch us and always remind us not to lose control. You've done a great thing, and I hope you can keep it in the gambling games so you can prevent the big lose.

No, you don't miss anything. Yes, he already withdrew, but he continued playing gambling, and he loses his money. That is what I got from his story. That is why I suggest him to leave the gambling games after he gets his $200 and don't play gambling again.

We cannot blame them for such behavior. These people either hold the belief that gambling can make them rich or they want to make money without putting real efforts ever. Once they will understand how impossible and unreal this approach is, naturally they wont play gambling a lot. Then they wont have any difficulty in taking control of their emotions and greed, in this matter.

Then you're living in denial if you call it normal.
The fact you don't want to do any other activities and you don't want to work (hard) for yourself only proves what the gambling activity is causing you - isolation. Like it or not, it's a fact.



That's a bad advice, it won't help neither.
How many times I've heard of stories of gamblers who won, big, really big, 5-6 or even 7 figures ... they kept the money, they didn't spend it, they didn't "re-deposit" the money but nonetheless they spent more than they could afford after a while ....

Even those who won the lottery have proven that "what goes around comes around" - if you win too quickly - you would lose that money too quickly, at least the highest chances are that you would lose it ... Ashley Revell perhaps is an example to someone who won a single spin of a roulette and used the money for business instead of losing it however I have no idea how his personal life is now, and like it or not - what goes around comes around.

So by all means, go a nice restaurant, "enjoy" your winnings - but just be aware that tomorrow, next week, next month or even next year - you might lose more than you actually gained on that night when you won big. Just be aware of it that if you haven't stopped - then you will always be at risk of losing more than you would even imagine.

But he did that this time already, or am I missing something?

I think this is an interesting case, when gambler, bobyhodob, did the first move right, he did what many of us here suggest to do when you won big, he withdrawn his winnings right away. So, I think, we can say that bobyhodob has the ability to control his actions, but what failed him was the lack of other interesting activities that could replace gambling, at least during that day.

I'd suggest bobyhodob and others, who have the strength to stop playing after big win and withdraw, to invite someone to a good restaurant right away. Thus you'll have something interesting to do instead of losing your money behind the computer screen.

I have not been addicted to gambling, because I can control it when I play gambling. Maybe this is not the worst thing for me.
It's just that I feel when I gamble, I feel enjoy at home and do not want to do other activities, such as working to make money. Really this I have ever experienced. But for addiction, maybe I haven't got the status like that.

Why would you put yourself inside a system where you need to limit your losses as if you take for granted you would lose something in the first place? In that case it's best if you don't play in the first place ... as deisik said after you as follows:


Well said.
The best money management you can have with gambling is not gambling at all in the first place.
Very well said.

When I just starting out to gamble I lost a lot of time money, then I realized I cannot keep up anymore if I don't find  a way to stop myself from this addiction, gambling is like quicksilver you really can't hold of it or even totally control it all the times, I'm glad I'm fast that stage now I'm totally in control of my time and gambling.

Yes agreed duee but trying to control yourself is not as easy as you think
my mistake was probably because I didn't know what my winning target was to stop enough.

today I play again and try to invite my friends to watch by my side, I told my friend if I had made a $50 profit he had to turn off my computer no matter what. and finally it worked well enough

Problem with heavy gamers they will keep listening to the lust of gambling. Even getting the chance to win and make a good use of the money, but instead they will keep coming back and play thinking that luck will always be there to help them win. Only people who have a good balance with their emotions can quit with good benefits. Controlling greed is a tough job but once you get over it then you will have the chance to earned decent profits.

It simply reminds everyone that we can't be a lucky person all the time or even the whole day. There is too much temptation in gambling and it fuels our mind to think for more and more until we've got nothing. I give sympathy to that person cause it also happens to me before, though we think that would be a sort of learning and exactly yes but can't deny that we can befall into that back again.

For sure that we can't promise and learned from our mistakes cause for being out from the hell of greediness is a long term commitment, it can't be done instantly nor to change our mindset in just a week or month for sure. Cause I know that we can't escape from this.

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So you learned that gambling is about greedy and addict. That makes you lose the money. Next time, if you win $200, you better leave the place as soon as possible. Otherwise, you will end up losing all the money like what you got before. Maybe you need to learn about controlling yourself so that it will give you a chance to prevent continuing gambling. I am sure you can do that if you have an effort to reduce your time in gambling.

Strongly support this view

Good money management has nothing to do with gambling unless you can overcome the house edge somehow. It is possible in things like daily races and jackpots when you can in fact beat the house edge, but these opportunities are few and far in between. Like an arbitrage window in trading they exist only for a short amount of time as everyone is quick to exploit them. To sum it up, proper money management would dictate you to stay away from gambling altogether in practically all cases

yes that's because I already understand the consequences of addiction itself, rather than having to be addicted to gambling is better to spend money with family.  because addiction itself makes us more emotional to want to continue playing and playing even though it is not good for our finances.