Topic: Gambling Distortion Pattern - page 2. (Read 5709 times)

I think it happens to many people when they first start gambling.
But after playing for some time, they started to lose and the number of losses was getting bigger and frustrated them.
They try to use bigger funds but the result is always the same, namely defeat, making them desperate because they cannot win like before.
And in the end, they will only regret it because they have lost a lot of money gambling.

You are right and that is what makes the third pattern presented by the OP so dangerous, under normal circumstances if the session does not begin with good results for you then you will immediately switch gears and think about stopping your gambling session.

But when you begin your session with several wins and then your luck runs out those thoughts do not cross your mind, and instead you want to keep gambling and recover what you have lost, which can make your losses many times bigger than if you began your session by losing some money.

A very common gambler behavior on which we would eventually stop on playing gambling if we dont have any more money in our accounts or in our pocket for us to do so.
When you do win big then it cant really be avoided not to think that you should play more to bag on more winnings which is really a very common scenario or situation on which
us human beings would be minding.

If you arent really that good on handling up your greed then you would definitely be ending up with this scenario which you would be always going home empty handed.

In the past years, i have seen a lot of the Distortion Pattern III... people who get a huge win at the start of the run and stay there until they lose all, and I have seen this with big amounts too, some years ago I saw how a high roller win 40BTC in his first bet, and he stay there playing until he lose 60BTC, even if the bitcoin price was low, the amount of btc was big.

This actually pretty useful, thank you for this. This basically helps a player knowing when to maximize his bets and when to avoid betting. Will gona have to try it out and check if ot works

the thing is many people lack the emotional control to do it
I agree that it's a simple thing and solves the problem, but not so straightforward to do it if the person is adicted

it'll vary a lot from person to person

This is very common, cutting your session short when you are losing is very easy, as you can simply say that it was not your day and do something else during the time you had planned to gamble.

However when you begin your session with big wins you want to keep gambling as it is easy to think this is your lucky day in which you could obtain big profits, but suddenly your luck changes and your profits begin to go down, now even then you are still in a good position as you are still earning money, but in your mind you can only think on the money you have lost already and then you become even more reckless in your attempts to try to recover that money, only to lose your money at an even faster speed.

what I have experienced and destroyed me is in this third pattern. because in the past, every time I deposited funds into the gambling platform, I always won large amounts of gambling. without me realizing that the victory was the beginning of the downfall when I started to be greedy to win more and when I continued to bet I lost the first time and I became emotional chasing defeat by increasing the amount of my bet and in the end I lost more and my funds finished. after that I became even more stupid when I chased defeat, always made a deposit and always lost.
from what happened in my past, this will be the best lesson for me if gambling is just entertainment, you don't need to hope for victory and you don't need to be greedy if you don't want to break. and if you get a big win or max win it's just a bonus and immediately leave the gamble and withdraw the winnings.

But most gamblers will not say they have a gambling addiction and only say everything is fine. And if they are honest, it will let those around them know about their problems and help them solve them.

That's why we must be able to regulate emotions when playing gambling because temptation during play will cause him to make the wrong decision instead of stopping for a while after experiencing tension in playing gambling. Slowing down and taking a break is a good way to go, especially if we have been on a losing streak because later, we can be triggered to recover from the losses we have experienced and if that happens, we will use more money.

Don't be too passionate about chasing victory, especially when we have won several wins, because we can be trapped by defeat after winning. We should stop and regulate our emotions so we can reduce the tension.

But the problem is that most of them get stuck on the negative side and will accept more defeats if they don't recognize that they should stop for a while to relieve the tension. By taking a break, they are giving themselves space to see what they've got and if it doesn't turn out well for them, they should stop and leave the casino before it's too late.

We can look for other ways to be happy and not have to do gambling which can cost a lot of money. And we must realize that gambling is only temporary entertainment and you don't need to spend much money.

I think it's fine to get stuck in the positive side but it's almost impossible to remain there because in gambling, we are mostly prone to losses so our mood can also shift to being negative. It might stay there after some time so the goal is like you said, stop playing for a while and let this bad luck subside first.

There are still ways to be happy outside gambling or even without money involved, if money is the main thing that keeps you coming back in the gambling place. It's only hard to fight the urge once a person is addicted already but they can ask for a help or the people around them can also do actions. If they are truly concerned.

Nice post, on the surface, but I can't see the usefulness...

For starters, you haven't even defined gambling distortion, though, so I'm really unclear on what's being demonstrated or proven here. Distortion suggests what we perceive is different to what actually happens. And what are stages 2 and 3?

I do keep pretty decent records for one of my "strategies" since it involves low frequency bets, high rewards. My gambling patterns, if timebound by season, aren't anything like that -- if using this strategy, it's many stages of continuous losing streaks and epic wins scattered around.

Casino gambling's probably also the same, far fewer wins than losses, because of my style and house edge preference.

A gambler at first bets and plays just to try and have fun, but by being able to win bets, greed will appear to be able to win all bets and gambling games, so it will be more difficult to be able to control emotions when playing.
From this, at first just trying it, but a feeling of greed for victory and being able to make money instantly by gambling arises, someone will become a gambling enthusiast.
They don't realize and think about the risks that can be obtained when they become a gambling enthusiast who has high emotions in betting.
They are even willing to do anything to be able to place bets, even though the money they have has run out, they are still trying to get money by borrowing only to be used as their betting capital.

This is true. Emotions play a big role in the chances of winning or losing the game. If you don't have enough mental headspaace to grasp the things happening and is currently experiencing negative vibes, you should definitely stop playing. This is to avoid the higher possibility of you losing in the game. The moment you knew you are not mentally capable of playing because you are already low-spirited, you should slow down and take a break.

Chasing winnings won't do you any good. Instead of winning, you might end up losing in repeating manner without you even noticing it because you keep on playing just to win. Strategies and risk analysis are essential in winning the game. If you can't do it at your present state, then do not play and bet. Otherwise you'll just lose your funds.

In gambling, martingale strategy is useful, but if the luck is not attained or achieved, the loss would be far worse and more significant than playing without it. I can not encourage anyone to use martingale strategy while gambling. But it can be useful in some useful games in casino, but I find it not useful in many games, especially those with odds lower than 1.3 or any odd that if you lose four or five times, more than 3x or more is not guaranteed.

This is absolutely true, the best for addicts is to just tell his people, let them know about his addiction and how to cure himself of the addiction would become nearer to him. But some people are addicted and they still think luck could come, but failing again and again in more money losses.

The gambler's emotions can go up and down along with the wins and losses he experiences so if he can't control himself, he can get stuck in a situation he doesn't want. His losses would also be even greater than before, especially when he deposited more money into his account just to continue playing. But that will not prevent the addicted person from depositing money. They will continue to play if they have money in their account or wallet.

And no matter what you do that losing streak will always appear as that is how probabilities work, after all the more you double your bet and the more you use the martingale strategy the more likely it becomes that you will suffer a catastrophic loss.

So while martingale may give the impression to be an infallible strategy when it finally fails it does so in such a way that you will lose the majority or all your capital, and since it is inevitable that this will happen you might as well give up on using this strategy.

this has a big relation with dopamine systems too
people get addicted to the rewards and usually forget the risk they have on a determined situation
many times rationality is more important than emotion

Gambling pattern 4 can turn a gambler into a gambler, which is what most gamblers have experienced. And remember that luck will not always come to you, so you don't need to chase more wins or try to recover losses you have experienced. But if you are trying to use more money to chase more wins or recover losses, it can turn you into a gambler addicted to gambling. The desire to repeat winning will keep coming without you being able to hold it in and that's when you will experience bigger losses.

I used to use martingale, mostly it'd work fine but then there would be this losing streaks where they don't appear to stop and you lose it all.

I don't have the exact distortion pattern especially describing how my gambling distortion pattern is. after all, it is not explained here that this pattern is only for casino games or all kinds of gambling including sportbooks. if you refer to the casino gambling pattern, the results will be messier like the pictures you put on your thread. because after all, it will be very difficult to recover losses from each casino gambling session.

But if for sportbook, I can do it. at least I have knowledge that I can rely on to bet on this type of sports betting. even if I put a parlay slip with 3 bets. my probability is very high to win the bet slip. and if input on the distortion graph, the first image could be the one that represents the suitable option for me. but again, this refers to the distortion of sports betting.