Topic: Has this ever happened to you as a gambler? (Read 1408 times)

it actually happened, not to me but to a close friend of mine. he borrowed money from a loan shark with collateral. Initially, the item used as collateral has a value greater than the money borrowed. but he kept asking for more with the promise that it would be paid soon.
My friend told me that he had lost the items he had pledged as collateral and still had debts to loan sharks. This is what led to him being chased by debt collectors and ultimately having to receive several beatings.

I didn't ask him about the money he used. but I know clearly that he is a gambling addict. even some of my money is still with him. I can only hope he recovers soon and focuses on his work. Don't think about chasing victory in the game because that will have a bad impact.

Lending business? Or pawning?
If yes, then I think it will be normal for you. There are those who would really go to that extent just to satisfy their gambling addiction and because they have no cash left in their pockets, their eyes will target their own properties like cars, gold, and other valuable stuff that they can pawn or lend for a few cash.
I think that's gambling addiction if you would go that far and the thought that there's no tomorrow for them is normal. I've been in a situation where I gambled my whole salary in just a day but i never went to the extent of selling my valuable things or just keep on rolling without any money because that could get you in big trouble, worst, you will end up in the hospital because of an angry lender.

Most addicted gamblers would go and sell some property they own to use the funds for their gambling activities instead of getting indebted to the casino and having their valuables confiscated, but they don't stop right there, in case they are extremely addicted and have their minds stuck at the recovery of their lost funds, they might go far ahead and take extra loans and debts only to try and achieve what they have been trying to achieve so hard.

You are right that it's not surprising to see an addicted gambler spend everything they have in gambling because they don't know when they need to stop and call it a day and they keep gambling even when they can see they are constantly losing and any sane person would stop in such a situation.

This is actually both a sign of addiction and being greedy for money. With that, you end up losing your right thinking that it’s impossible to gamble without money on your own, but because you want to satisfy your gambling urge and try your luck if you can make a big win, then you resort into making a stupid decision that will only put your life at a more miserable situation, and you might get banned from the casino if you make this as a habit.

This is obviously not right. Learn to gamble when you have extra money, an amount that you are comfortable of losing, and not that you try to gamble without thinking the possible outcome of your wrong decision making.

That is our emotions who play tricks with us,the fact that deep in our DNA is based on greed,we always want more that is why many philosophers and prophets have said in unison that "happy is not the one who has a lot of wealth but the person who is content with what he has at his disposal" and if we abide by such learning we would be doing very well in managing our emotions,we could gamble and do it for fun because the greediness factor is out of the way when we are happy with what we have.When we are not happy with what we have then bad things happen,we try to recover our lost money and this leads to even more lost money,all because of us being greedy.

I've heard about this that there are casinos that do goodwill like that to gamblers so that they don't get addicted to gambling, they provide some of the features and third parties that you mean, but I also say that casinos by doing that will not make them go bankrupt because basically a those who are addicted to gambling find it difficult to cure themselves so they will continue to return to gambling and I'm sure every casino knows about that, so they don't need to worry about going bankrupt by helping and providing features to stop their gamblers' gambling addiction.

I never thought that this method would be successful in stopping someone's gambling addiction because basically even a professional finds it difficult to cure someone's gambling addiction because it has to come from the desire to recover, that doesn't mean I'm saying what the casino has done is something that is useless. Maybe it can only help a small part or just relieve the emotional feelings of gambling addiction, but again, gamblers will return to gambling when they don't really intend to recover from gambling addiction because bad habits are difficult to stop. Gambling addicts must change their mindset.

Their is desperation because when a gambler is at high loses he becomes very desperate and all his thinking faculty get blocked off because all what his mind will be telling him is to actually find a way to recover that funds even when he knows that he doesn't have nothing left to play somethings he can even sell his property at the spot or loan them because he is desperate and also too greedy to let go but on the greed aspect it's not too clear because only your emotions here and there can flip things for ya.

Continuous gambling will only increase the addiction from a trial level to a serious level. It is difficult to avoid addiction regardless of the purpose of gambling, this is the same as non-gambling game addiction which is also difficult to stop. Gambling has been considered a field of money for some gamblers, of course because they gamble to make money rather than to have fun.

Almost all casinos offer third-party services to each of their customers to overcome addiction. That is the best thing any casino can provide despite the fact that gambling addiction can increase their income in the industry. Becoming a responsible gambler is important advice for every gambler, but it is difficult to achieve this when the mindset about gambling is money.

Addiction and greed are like two sides of a coin in the world of gambling, only a small number of people are able to save the profits they get from gambling. In essence, it is quite difficult to get out of gambling activities if someone is addicted, because their mindset has been formed for a long time. No matter what principles and rules are applied, we cannot always control them well, that is what happens and we see a lot. But as you said, to be honest, a gambler must be prepared for all risks if he wants to continue gambling.

The pleasure one gets when gambling makes a person do it again the next day and the next, and repeated habits will become a cycle that ultimately leads to addiction. There is a lot of fun to be had in other activities, but fun that involves risk such as gambling offers the most interesting side. That is why so many people continue to gamble to this day, regardless of the principles they adhere to and the risks that arise thereafter, they only think about finding fun in gambling.

This isn't strange to me, not anymore ...If I can recall vividly, it has been the regular thing for a gambler - especially the addicted ones to wager everything they have, until nothing is left of them...
Since it happened mostimes and I was a victim (during the time I worked as a cashier), I had to either confiscate their valuables for a period of 3 days - and if they weren't able to clear their debts and claim their property, it'll automatically be forfeited and auctioned, just to balance the company's business account.
Mind you, the rules weren't created by me - we had a solid documentation and, some were made as stickers on the wall.

The important thing is how to overcome such a situation so that the gambler may not spend more, he neither becomes greedy nor he spends a lot of time and money on gambling that can lead him to become a gambling addict. The only way to stop this is to pre-plan before gambling. We need to know how much money we are going to spend on gambling and what is the point where we stop the gamble both in the conditions when we are winning and also when we are losing. Since gambling results are not in our control, we should make ourselves ready for both scenarios.

As far as the OP question is concerned, yes everyone faces this in their gambling career. No one is born to be emotion controlled from the beginning. It's just that some people learn from mistakes while other gamblers keep on repeating the same mistakes over and over again leading them to gambling addiction.

It happens just like every other thing that makes people feel good. For instance, people take alcohol untill they have nothing left on them to clear the bills. Gambling wouldn't be an exception in this case. Because most players who behave this way barely focus on gambling only, but do it for acquiring profits. A gambler who stills plays despite losing so much in the process and stakes his gadgets and properties just to play games is not seriously concerned about himself anymore. Money is needed to gamble, yes, but a lot of it shouldn't go just for gambling. A player should have something left, at least to gamble another day. People not just gamblers alone get angry for losing out all their money. That's why some players get into arguments in the gambling house. It's mainly caused by anger due to the numerous losses. Similar feeling of getting too many disappointments in a day.

Once it's referred as gambling, we need money to play bets and that is all that is involved in gambling, we can be watching games for free, playing free games or sports, but immediately staking is being involved, then it turns gambling and when we don't have money, we shouldn't go around the surroundings to gamble to avoid been disappointed, we should always know that there will be a second opportunity to have time to spend on gambling when we have money by then.

Gambling in this situation when you know that you don’t have enough money is a very big problem and you will continue to put yourself on the stress so I wouldn’t advise anybody to do such thing because it’s not good. Yes a lot of people do the same thing I have also experienced it from somewhere, someone that did the same thing gambling with that no money so it’s not a good thing. Gambling is a very big risk only gamble when you are fully ready to pay for anything

It always been like that bro only gamble with money you can afford to lose and always create a budger or you gonna cry later.

Im still curious with 20 usd you mention before so you put 20 usd in slot machine and play it until run dry, is this your strategy. If I have 100 USD deposit usually I divide to other game like 3-4 games including slot aswell but not put all in in single game

so what happen if you win the game with that 20 usd are u gonna stil play with the same game

But that will never solve the problem because when the police are called, the solution will be much more complicated and perhaps neither party will benefit.
For problems like this, the best solution is to mediate between both parties to determine what method or solution can be done more quickly and easily.
Moreover, what is done is already form of solution because he may provide guarantee to be able to go take the money and pay what was previously bet, but problems like this are also often considered complicated because they relate to money.
If it about the impact, it won't affect anything related to addiction or greed, it just that it might create different way of thinking about the attitude one takes when gambling.

There are many factors that cause it, the point is that we don't know for sure why the gambler acted as you described. In many cases this situation is caused by feelings of anger over the losses that have arisen and unstable emotions, which force the gambler to follow his uncontrollable emotions of anger. Not a few, many gamblers experience the same thing as you said. There are many reasons why, the most common is addiction. psychologically of gambling, a person has been contaminated by the gambling he did and the situation that caused it. which in the end, ended as you said. So the reasons are very varied, it could be that the person you are talking about is very addicted to gambling. Or, it was his greed that got him involved in a gambling problem that ended as you said.

IMO, but the point is not necessarily that the gambler is an addict who behaves in the same way as you say, nor because of his greed. All of this is complicated if we have to research it, the problem is we don't know him. However, in general what you say in this post can be said like that. that it is possible that the gambler is an addict, or a greedy gambler.

This is a very common problem most gamblers usually face. Sometimes when some gamblers start making picks on bets or games they wish to play they usually have a target maximum amount in mind. However sometimes they may find other wagers, or bet that are quite attractive and get convinced to try them out. Of course it's not a wrong thing to do . however as a gambler who is responsible you should to some level have a certain amount of discipline this would assist in preventing you from going way over the maximum amount you are supposed to stake. This because if you eventually can't resist fancy wagers you would probably end up exhausting all you cash on them.

The game of gambling is mostly luck based regardless of your strategy and knowledge or even experience, so like we all know the luck dependence of gambling is much more than the dependency on your skill, knowledge or even experience because there are timesheet where with all these you may still not be lucky enough to get to win the game except you are just lucky and sometimes we see that luck just played out .

When you see some games you will know that the only possibilities around such game would only be luck and anything away from luck may actually not help in such game because you may actually be expecting to win such game and it may turn out the outcome is something else and probably against you and at that point you just have to realize that you just have to be lucky for some games to be won and in such game been too careful may be the reason you may get to loose such a game maybe if you are trying to be to win the games too aswell.

Gambling is mostly luck based than Skil based as some people may want to think that their skills and probably knowledge is helping them the most because they will think that because they are more experience and have been gambling in awhile they are better of gambling than they would be as novice trying to know their way very much around the casino. Until they probably get to loose such mi

A gambler can be such a situation when they losses their mind while gambling. For example if you stayed too long at the casino, you might spend all your money because you will feel biased and want to make sure you win something huge and on the process of continuous pushing for a win, you might not know when you have spend all the money you came with thinking that you still have some money left with you. If a gamblee is also addicted to gambling, he can be a victim to such situation.