Topic: Gambling habits that will cost you - page 9. (Read 6231 times)

Those that have been gambling for a long time will agree with some of these bad habits (if I may call them this) which I have found to have a negative effect on our gambling experience.

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1. Cancelling a withdraw because the sportsbook takes long to process it or because you saw a game you think will bring easy profit, stop right here.. my advice don't even think about cancelling this it's a trap that will leave you with no money to withdraw.

2. Don't gamble while you are intoxicated, for obvious reasons judgement is impaired and you will be reckless with how you play.

3. Never gamble with money that isn't yours, this includes taking out loans for the purpose of gambling  because this always ends in you losing all the sourced funds and will result in putting yourself in bad books with friends and family.

4. Avoid accumulators, sometimes these are good but if you in it for the money avoid them! I know many will say if you don't risk it you won't win or say something like "go big or go home" but honestly think about it , you place an accumulator with 3 games and 2 games with big odds of 5 and 7 odds go through and you are left with the multiplier of 1.2 odds which goes on to lose I guess you get my logic

5. Avoid gambling when you are angry or feeling emotional about something or someone, this too affects your game. If it helps talk or see someone before you do something you will regret.


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I have already moved away from gambling and have the patience to make a more sure step for my well-being.  I decided to look for opportunities to invest in gambling, and not play.

That's correct mate, years ago I could remembered that most of my loses where as a result of my foolishness of chasing my lost and in the process of chasing my lost end up with huge lose. That's the lesson I have learnt and still learning to avoid stigmatization from gambling, and many are still making the same mistakes.

Don't chase your losses.

Don't try to be over confident while gambling.

Never think gambling will give easy money.

Dont gamble when drunk and be careful with money or at least have a set budget. There is no other golden rules apart from that imo, getting overly involved in a system or a long procedural line of do and do nots is;
 A. not that fun to follow B. unlikely to help as much as strict principles in simplicity.

It is an addiction you mean...meanly people get addicted because they win at first and trying to win again which is a very common reason why they should come back in gambling. Do we think that they could control such feelings? I think not, cause they are totally controlled by their mind and it could just stop once they open up their minds again.

I don't know about online gambling because I never tried it. the good thing about not engaging in this kind of thing is you are free of stress. and when you are content on what you have you are really no need of engaging in this thing because the winning possibility is too low and you need to cheat if you want to win and you will learn to cheat all the time if you really stuck on gambling.

Kamling will not leave you to sleep happily because it will makes you to be more interested and also involved in it but I think ok it will depends upon the mindset of a gambler if they are getting so much controlled. While he is is in constant mind set then there is no problem in that but some people will not be like that that is the problem for them

My cousin sister went to gambling with her mother’s money and she lost all! Since then I learn the lesson of not gambling with others people money, I will not also gambling with the money that is for my family upkeeps and I will not gamble using the money from my salary. Gambling is a very risky venture and it is good to avoid the temptation of using funds that will put you into problems.

5. Avoid gambling when you are angry or feeling emotional about something or someone, this too affects your game. If it helps talk or see someone before you do something you will regret.

To be a gambler is to be an opportunist. This is because you wait for the best opportunity to cash out the max possible dollars you can. If you have the experience, you are very likely to counter such opportunities but the lack of experience and still participating in such ventures is pretty risky and this is what makes gamblers’ pockets empty.

8. Don't blame it to others when you lose.

9. Don't treat it as a way to earn extra money.

Most gamblers forget the reality, they force themselves to earn profit from gambling. They don't realize most games is all about luck.