Topic: I could have won bigger. - page 12. (Read 2091 times)

Ah, it's like this again. I thought only my area or neighborhood was like this, but it turns out this might happen anywhere. I personally don't really believe in various promises from someone to pay it off when they come to us and are in debt. They often make very sweet promises and promises to return ASAP. But in reality, they might even forget about it when they receive our money. Therefore, based on my personal experience, which has been involved in lending money to other people many times, if someone comes, it is better to refuse. Or give him as little as he can and don't expect the money to come back to us, but don't give him the full amount of money he will borrow, only some money that we are willing to give up. unless it is related to the life and death of someone who needs the money for hospital fees.

Luck may not be the same. It could be that when you get your $10, it turns out you didn't get the winnings. It's true that your friend is wrong, but that doesn't mean that your luck in gambling is really the same as what you would get if you had $10 from your friend. So, be grateful for the victory and don't regret what has happened. If you are not sincere, keep contacting your friends to immediately pay off the debt. If he doesn't respond, what else can you do, don't let this disturb your consistency and activities in gambling, even though this is not easy, just do it instead of being disturbed.

I agree with you and this are the things that lead someone to become addiction in gambling. Such feeling is there to tricker the gambler to play more. And started from like this. The Op feel that, what he has won is not enough and he wanted to win more if the $10 was with him but that is wrong feeling. Who knows if he stake big and loss everything. Op should not have this feeling again in next time and stake whatever he has in his hand, he should use it to stake and leave the rest for the luck.

Gambling is not do or die affair, you stake what you have and go and if you have luck you win or you loss. Assuming he staked with the amount he wanted and loss everything what will he say?

You're right @OP, to just let it go instead of thinking about it all the time. That will make you tired, and you won't be able to think clearly about what bet you can place next. You can definitely still win other bets, and yesterday's win is not the end of your bet. You can still bet and forget about your friends. You can still enjoy your winnings and prepare other money to place bets. Don't think too much about it because it's pointless. You should rest first before starting to choose other matches. You can win big on the next bet @ OP.

why do you trust your friends at your gambling table, in gambling you have to understand who are called friends and enemies, many of the heavy gamblers are those who find it difficult to pay their debts. I never go to an offline casino, but sometimes people often give me chats on the online gambling site account that I usually play on so they can borrow money from me. Gamblers have bad ethics about paying debts, be careful about giving them the money you have, always tell them sad stories, so they don't want to borrow money from you.

That’s a nice win for sure but they can always be bigger. You could always lose too so I wouldn’t go blaming people you give money to for you not getting rich, or in this case making a little extra money. Be glad you got the win and were able to pay your friend. Thats a win win. No need to go looking for negativity in the situation.

However, I really understand what you guys are saying, but like we always know, there are some opportunities that do come ones in a blue moon, but I still have to believe that as long as gamble is involved, there will still be a day when I will win bigger amount.
But for my friend, I am no longer a great because he's my friend and we have known each other for years and we grow up together, so he is not to be blamed at all.
@DaNNy001, you are apparently correct, I know that every thing happens for a reason, that's why I have to let go, because the more I think about how much I would have won then the more I get exhausted, so there is nothing to think about anymore.

Well first congrats on your win, no matter how small you deemed it be, it's still a win in gambling and many of us know how hard that comes by these days.

Secondly, I don't know about you but I tend to think everything actually has a reason and purpose for happening and I also think your friend actually borrowing that funds was bound to occur inorder for you to achieve that win of yours. Well the reason why am saying this is because most of the time gamblers try to be extremely careful when they actually want to stake high amount of which alway ends because the more they try to be safe the more the game gets easily spoilt. Who knows what might have been the outcome if your friend actually came with the money, because maybe you wouldn't have selected the risk involved in the winning ticket of yours.

Well, your friend has actually disappointed you, and it's something that usually happens most of the time when you trust people, and I feel you also did not make it known to him that you actually intended to use the money very urgently. He might probably think you don't need the money that urgently. You just have to cheer yourself up with the little win you made, because if you never had any money to stake at all, that's when you would have been very angry. 

Have you also considered the possibility of losing this game then?
Even you yourself didn't know that you will for sure win this game otherwise you would have converted your bitcoin or even to borrow money to stake higher amount. The thing is people don't always know or predict when they are going to win in their selected matches if so they would have stake with $10k or more to make sure they win a life changing money to retire from gambling, so just take this winning as something you didn't expect even though you wanted to stake high.

It is pretty much what happens to traders in exchanges when they manage to successfully predict a trend but they end up closing their position way too early, so instead winning double or triple digits, they only manage to accumulate single digits in profit. It has something which I have personally experienced, by the way.

When comes to lending money, it is very circumstantial whether one should or not lend to friends and family, though as a rule of thumb, money lending and gambling do not mix well at all, specially if that is money one is planning to gamble or bet as OP did.

Ironically, If OP did not have such a good luck with his bet, that friend would have saved him from lossing it all in a single bet.

if i were you, maybe i would also feel the same thing, i would definitely be annoyed and angry with that person, because he didn't keep his promise and in the end i staked less money than i should have and won a little. if he can keep his promise by paying on time maybe you will win 500 usd more and that is a lot of money.

that's why because of things like this i'm reluctant to lend money to my friends. if he wasn't so close to me, i would avoid lending him money because i know that he won't keep his promises. and rather than being annoyed or disappointed with him, it is better not to lend him money in the first place.

Can't say too much, but the lesson is never lend your money to anyone including your family because they're might not pay it back or pay overdue.

But, I doubt if you will gamble your $11 by taking big risk, you might only keep bet $1 and use the other $10 to bet in another match which might you lose. Everyone always regret when they see an opportunity that they can grab, it's normal and we need to move on from that.

Yeah, of course gamblers will want to have bet a higher amount when they win and lower ahen they lose. Unfortunately that's not how it works.

You can't change the past given the present knowledge.

If examined and seen from the other side it seems to be true as you said, his friend took / borrowed the money in order to prevent OP from losing his money on the gambling he was going to do, we are leading to a positive mindset and it seems to make sense. All wins in gambling are nothing more than coincidence and that's true, and the OP's friend seems to have a suspicion that the final result will be disappointing, so he prefers to borrow the money as a precaution so that the OP does not lose. So don't think too much about it, maybe at that time your luck was only for that amount and it could have been something else if at that time your friend did not borrow and then you put all the money you had, it is possible that you could lose there, which means a different story. So being grateful is better and maybe there is another luck waiting for you next time, you can try again later.

Wow that's a huge amount my friend. Indeed if your friend returned the 10$ in time you could have won a big time. But hey winning 50$+ with only 1$ isn't that bad is it? I think you can consider yourself lucky. Everything that happens always happens for a reason. So blaming your friend won't help you with anything. You could have lost all your money. It's just a game of luck. So instead of being sad or blaming your friend, you should be happy with what you have and won not what you could have had or win.

After betting $1 to win $50, you feel like you could have made $500 on the bet if your friend had paid you back $10. You feel like you should have bet more because you won the bet, but before you bet you probably thought you could lose that dollar amount. Since you made $50 with one dollar, I would say that you took a high risk gamble and that risk was high. You are lucky so you won in this gamble. It's a different matter if your friend didn't pay your loan on time, but it's wrong to think that you could have made a lot of money just by paying off the loan. Since money is gambled with risk, the outcome of the gamble can go either way.

His friend do ask for some $10 bucks then it was his only money left or lets say he had only $1 after he had let his friend borrowed his money. Now on the time that he did make some bet and then using up that 1 buck
and it resulted out to be a win then he is really that thinking that if he hadnt let those funds been given or lent out to his friend then he might be that winning huge without even trying to thinking that what if he
didnt win that game or bet? For sure the main line that he would be having in mind is that that it is really just that right that he let his friend borrowed his money or else he would lose that 10 bucks.

A very usual or common reaction to have in mind on which you would really be having those regrets or words when you do fail up on betting bigger but on the time that it was a lost
then you would really be just reacting just fine since you do know that you are safe. lol

I think he's just preventing you from losing $10 if he's going to give it back, because the win you got was just a coincidence in my opinion because if the casino has a cashout feature, maybe you will withdraw earlier because you have seen several correct bets, so there's no need to be too upset because you could have gotten bigger, because when you lend the money you did with full awareness, just think about if he has returned the money you will have $60, and you can bet on other bets and hopefully make better results.

You know, this is the spirit I don't want to have in me when it comes to gambling, the feeling of I could have won even more, that's a very bad feeling, because you believe that you know what the end result will be like but the truth is you know nothing, you won't say this if you lost the game, I think you will be able to take another shot in gambling when your friend finally pays you back but do not put the blame of winning more on your friend because he doesn't pay back in time.

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What humans can't beat is time, it's impossible to know how your next morning is going to look or feel like, you don't even know if this night is your last, so why adding what if into gambling when it's all about luck? To me your friend isn't a part of what you don't win more, because you could have lost all that money and be thankful later that you don't add up the money you lend to your friend.

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If you are a good gambler you should start looking for a more serious bet, or are you already thinking that it's impossible to win again since your last won would have been a bigger one? A tip of advice for you brother, don't use what you can not afford to lose, when your friend pay up its wiser to risk it if you can afford to lose, because no one knows what is waiting to happen.

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Not sure if I fully understand the issue here, you gave your friend 10 USD for him to gamble with and he would return the money ASAP? But how can he return the money ASAP if he losses in gambling? He either has his own money to repay you, but why loaning out the money from you in the first place then, or he doesn't have any money at all and after losing his gamble he will be broke. It would be always a bit cautious if a friend wants money for gambling and still wants to repay me quickly. And then you wanted to use the same 10 USD for your own gambling? But why give it to your friend then, you should have gambled yourself first and only give your friend some money after you played. Also, relying on a bet with 50x multiplier doesn't seem so realistic to be winable in many cases. I would say you got lucky here and should be happy about your win. In the end you end with the 50 USD profits + the 10 USD from your friend. You can place many more bets with your bankroll now and keep growing your balance.