Topic: Gambling Distortion Pattern - page 5. (Read 5718 times)

Were you a psychology major in college or something? lol.  This outlay you've done here is pretty interesting and is giving me flashbacks of several of my courses of the course of my college career.  Maybe the only college textbook I read cover to cover was that of my Psychology course and that was because I couldn't understand my professor's accent so I would go to my school's library to read that days chapter, which I would get more out of than trying to understand my professor.  Anyways this is an interesting mock up that reminds me of those days and many things I learned in that realm. Well done. 

That makes gambling so interesting you feel alive and kicking, and all the emotions are there after your session you always like to come back not because you want to regain your losses you just want to be alive again by having these emotions, it's like you remember when you are young and you are in a tense basketball game or cheering for your favorite squad who is losing and needs to rally, gambling brings back the memories where you are so alive.

Without a doubt the third pattern is the most dangerous of all the patterns shared by the OP, and the reason is simple, when we are gambling is not rare that we can win several times in a row, however if we keep gambling it is also natural that we are going to face several losses in a row too, but at the time it is going to be difficult for a lot of people to accept this and they will keep gambling hoping to recover the money they lost, only to eventually fail and then lose even more money, this can create great anguish on the minds of the players and if this process repeats itself several times then a gambling compulsion could appear.

It's not clear at all. However, this makes some sense. If you study these charts well, you will notice that, in general, gambling is quite predictable, and all this can be traced and predicted as the next step. However, sometimes, much depends not on the game's tactics but the casino itself. This is especially true for online casinos. After all, there are many casinos where it is almost impossible to win anything; everything is done so that you lose. I have faced this many times. An overview of the various casinos on nettikasino can help all those new to the casino world. So this review will help much more than a strange graphic. However, it must be admitted that you have done a good job.

I don't think that the pattern presented are about the any probabilities or something that we predict as a gambler but rather those are just representation on what most of us experience during our gambling sessions. It'll be hard to predict outcomes on gambling especially on luck based games as too much variable and random factors could occur.

Just as the patterns shown, those are what most of us encounter when gambling as we can be on a winning streak or a losing streak or even both.

I think the gambling distortion pattern 3 is the most and relevant pattern among all mentioned, I have experienced that a lot of times even yesterday, I am going to share my yesterday experience with the community later, but for now, I did like to say that gambling is fun, but it remains fun only if you don't get addicted, and how not to get addicted is by gambling consciously, gambling carelessly is one of the fastest way to get addicted even before you know it, ask some persons how they got addicted to gambling and the response would be "I don't actually know how I got to this stage".
So this is call to gambler out there to watch it, careless living leads to live threatening mistakes, so also, careless gambling leads to a future full of regrets. 

If we observe, these two first patterns become connected after a while playing:





So they merge and result in the third pattern, if the player is unlucky, and inevitably on long run for every players:



Or they merge and result in the fourth pattern, if the player is lucky for some time yet, and if he has more money to deposit and keep his bankroll alive for more bets:



Anyway, after an epic comeback, the third pattern will hit again sooner or later, because that is how the house edge's effect is supposed to work.

The only consistency in gambling is you depositing more money. Whether you lose, win, win big, lose big, keep winning or keep losing is not something you can predict with patterns, I would think. Since gambling is based on probability with the house edge outweighing the probability of you making any money in the long term (if you keep gambling for a long time, that is.), there is no point in trying to recognize patterns. In fact, a mathematical model of mentioned probabilities and the variables and constants involved in the equation would probably serve you better than a model of patterns.

Indeed, but is that all?

These patterns are usually not being observed by players. Gamblers just tend to continuously play; lose and win; like a loop. The idea of gbling is really mysterious and amazing at the same time. Gambling houses seems like they are the ones who plays with the players like one of the normal opponents who reads people's emotions around in order to come up victorious. What's funny is how people react with these patterns wherein they tend to reflect like "yeah i felt that before... and this one". In a wide persepective a gambler's emotion can be seen either happy or worried but there is really more to that. Now, many people more likely get the idea behind "house always win" in every gambling activity 'coz house itself is aware of these patterns.

Taking responsibility for gambling is difficult and not many can do it. Meanwhile, if we can really be responsible when we play gambling, we will not cross the limit we already have and will stop immediately when the limit is almost reached. That can all change when we experience many losses because of the loss of responsibility that we have guarded. It's all because we see a losing streak and instead of deciding to stop, we try to recover from that loss. So being responsible is indeed difficult but we really have to try to avoid losing too much.

This situation can be viewed from the point of view of the organizer of gambling. 

Gambling is like a movie script.  Gambling must be exciting, the player must constantly experience emotional swings.  There must be transitions from hope to despair, and despair must be followed by winning and receiving a cash prize.  If a player is constantly losing, then he will lose interest in gambling very quickly. 

All these points should be considered already at the stage of creating an online casino or programming a slot machine.

All your distortion patterns are truly correct.
I've experienced them all and that's one major reason I concur with you.
I also experienced this distortion firstly in trading and it wasn't an easy one tho but we survived.
Most of this distortion also happens when one gambles emotionally and doesn't know their limits.
No one starts a thing, especially with money and expect to make a loss, which then applies to the pattern I, where one makes and starts with profit, then hopes gets high and the quest to make more comes in which might drive he/she to patter II, where there's continues loss and if suddenly hits pattern III, they think they know all in playing and still hope to get revived to pattern I, which at the most ends, leads to total loss of capital and winnings.

Gambling is addictive and one should gamble responsibly, as no one will be held responsible for your mental health.

I would agree with how hard it is to discern pattern 3 and pattern 4 from each other. But these are real algorithms online gambling sites use to abuse their regulars and even beginners so OP is doing us a favor. In my opinion, Pattern 4 isn't necessarily a win-lose-win-lose pattern, it could be a -win-win-lose-lose-win-win or a different pattern with a regular win-loss interval. That at least makes it easier for you to recognize the fourth pattern. Third pattern is very challenging to recognize, so I could only say little about it. I would also agree with your sentiment as losing isn't always to be blamed to the house, the gambler could also be overtaken by his greed hence pattern three will commence.

I would agree with that pattern but when you enter with welcome bonuses and impossible wagers, for example, like 30x or 50x, I think that in that case that pattern would be fulfilled in its entirety, although that pattern is that many casinos accept being able to survive everything, there are people who are very experienced who can break with that behavior, I don't know, but there are people who are very patient, and aside from people who like to follow everything by methods to achieve things, I think that methodical and repetitive people They are the ones that have the greatest success in being able to get out of patrons like that one who are such losers, especially when there are players who are hyperactive.


Well, the bonus thing is something that will always exist and yes, if the casinos offer it, it is because it will obviously benefit them, for a player this is very good because they think that a bonus will give them more opportunities to win, it is more money to play more apart from the one who plays, however, we or very few know that when playing in a game or in a casino in the long term, it is most likely that you tend to lose, and it is something normal, as they say orahí: "The house always has the advantage" and we as players compete against the game, against the house and against randomness, which is something much more complicated, so if you see it from that point of view it would be much better.

What i know really that some of the gamblling sites does is to bring many people into their platform with high bonus and after the bonus tye will just go away, so this is what i noticed that gambling platforms does and especially the new gambling website, so i believe that many people do enter there traps, gambling is something you will scrutinized; before you go to the platform to bet. Some people gamble out of curiosity of winning a noble prize

Yeah, that's why it is very difficult to quit when you are winning, I will admit myself that I was taken away by this kind of emotions. But I guess if we can say that gamblers maturing as some point, we should realized that it's better to quit and go home or exit when we are in a big win. We don't want to get carried away just because we have recovered already as per distortion 4 and wanting more. Just like night I have experience this, I started playing and make good money in the first 10-20 minutes. But after that my luck has change, but I have the mental fortitude to go home with still have some winnings in my wallet, this is in a land base casino by the way.

^Naturarily, the pattern shows more loss and that is pretty normal when you are against the house edge as we know the house edge will always win in the long run. That is why we always set the money that we can afford to lose and if you lose on that day session, it is better to have a break and come back when you are ready, this pattern will help us to determine our limit and should always remember to have stop-loss which I though only applicable in trading but it also in gambling. Overall, gambling is not means of making money, it is more interesting to have fun.

And this is natural as even if the house edge may seem to be small it has a huge effect the more you gamble, so the second, third and fourth pattern should be the ones that we experiment more often, the one that is really rare is the first one as even professional gamblers may not get to experience it, because even if they can find a way to get themselves an edge over the casino they cannot win all the time so it is more likely they experiment the fourth pattern more often.

Yes, this is so true, I have sessions in either landbase or online wherein I have a certain budget on my wallet and play it however, whatever games I played, blackjack, baccarat and slots, it seems I can't find any success and so that capital I have is being swept very fast as I'm very very unlucky.

I'm not saying that I'm a pro, but I have experience in gambling and not newbie and yet I experienced the second pattern from time to time.

Not necessarily, as we know in most gambling games luck is the most predominant factor that is always at play so regardless of how knowledgeable you are about the game you could still exhibit that pattern of wins and losses as it has nothing to do with that or your skill, and if anything it should be the most common pattern of all because as we know the house edge is  working against you, so out of the 4 scenarios presented by the OP this should be the one faced most often by gamblers.