Topic: Is there any fun in losing while gambling - page 36. (Read 5698 times)

Well, yes especially if your bets are still in your financial tolerance; either you lose or win you will still be able to enjoy the game at least. Unlike with bets wherein you hope too much that it stresses you out already. It is always the amount of money involved which determines whether you would be okay with no matter the outcome is. I've experienced this to most of my bets in sportsbetting; I no longer bet that much. Most of the time I am just putting a bet if I have a great feeling of the match up or if I am wanting to embrace bigger risk. I'd bet a hundred bucks to my preferred team just for 'fun'. Well ofcourse I won't be happy losing that amount but at least I still have more and won't struggle with my daily expenses even after that. So yes it is still possible to have fun after a loss as long as you have the right mindset.
Then don't gamble. Why are you here in the first place? Yes it is understood that you want to earn profit but are there anything assured in this hobby of ours? If you are gambling an amount you cannot really afford losing then you are seeking for stressor. You'd be sad losing but point here is would you be depressed of that loss.  It would be wrong in the first place that you are expecting that success in gambling industry would be as easy as that.

I think that anyone should use a relatively small budget if their goal is just to have fun, although sometimes the session goes so fast when your budget is limited but I think it doesn't matter and everyone will definitely feel lucky enough to be in a situation where a small budget can be very likely to increase in size and that means your session can run for quite a long time which will also mean that there will be more fun that you find.
Making gambling a place to earn is a  dangerous mindset and point of view, after all the randomness that exists in gambling always makes it difficult for anyone to be able to get results consistently, it is too impossible except for occasional wins, and of course as you said no longer get pleasure but certainly a lot of pressure will be felt because the more often gamblers are involved the more often bad situations occur, because it is a business for casinos to profit from losing gamblers.

The approach of only using the  minimum possible funds is really recommended, because usually the inability to accept defeat when someone brings a large amount is always the main problem to fall further.

  Truly, different set of people see gambling in different ways. For some, it can be a means of expanding wealth although it doesn't work for everyone. While for some, after understanding the conditions of the whole game, they see it as a fun activity and loss incurred or not, they really don't bother themselves because they're just doing it to kill time and for leisure.
  Each one should know their purpose for gambling. Although I won't advise for gambling. Yes for expansion of income, one should note that not everytime will the outcome be in their favor, they even should expect more losses than gains and if they're not willing to accept the terms of the act, then they shouldn't go for it. I'd strongly suggest that gambling no matter the caliber of persons should be seen as fun as the expectations won't always be high and in situations that the expectation doesn't happen, it won't affect anyone.

If we were to remove the fact that we have several gamblers who are abusing the real purpose of gambling, gambling was invented as a recreational entertainment, it's something people should have fun doing regardless of whether money is lost or not, just consider going to the movies, you pay for a ticket to be allowed to watch a single movie right?, at the end of watching that movie, what exactly did you gain? Were you paid after watching the move? Did you learn anything new that could be of bnefit to you in any area of your life? The answer to this questions are mostly "no", but one question that has a "YES" as an answer is when you are asked if you were entertained, if you enjoyed watching that movie.

That is just same way it is with gambling, though gambling is better because even though you spend money same way you spend on movies, you have the opportunity of making that money back if you are lucky, unlike the movies where money spent is gone forever.

There is no activity that you will intend doing for fun that will not require money, you will either spend money on drinks, or food, or spend money to enjoy and have access to some facilities. To gamblers who gamble for fun, they consider any amount lost as what they have spent to have some fun, and when you think of it that way, it answers your question.

So for the gamblers who you think should not be having fun gambling because they are loosing, they are actually having the fun in which they can be lucky and win back some of the money they have invested and spent in having fun. Some other fun activities do not offer that probability of a win back, you simply spend, and it is gone, money turned to memories.

I think it depends on the gambler's motive for gambling. A gambler whose aim is solely to make money and nothing else will grieve alot about his losses. To him, there is no fun in gambling, it is all for business.  We cannot compare someone with this kind of mindset about gambling to a person who is not so serious about winning (though we cannot deny the fact that every gambler desires to win because that's the satisfaction we get from gambling). Friends can come together to gamble, make analysis and predictions on a particular game and wait for the outcome. Whether they win or not, they are having fun.



A gambler who gambles with the money he can't afford to lose is only being irresponsible. Why go extreme with gambling when you know clearly that gambling is a game of luck? We must also know that people spend alot to have fun and all this involves losing money.

Losing is not fun.
You learn more when you lose and it is a painful but serious learning. Anyone who enjoys losing in gambling must be a very strange person.
Imagine gambling with money that you can't afford to lose and then losing. What fun is there?

Gambling usually involves both winning and losing. If a gambler is more addicted to gambling then there is definitely a chance of losing, a person addicted to gambling is never likely to win. I'm a gambler myself. When I gamble, I usually leave a place to rest, engage periodically. It's normal to be upset when you lose a gamble, and although it's not okay to express regret, I lost a lot of money when I was new to gambling and panicked. Yet if I lose at gambling, I sit anxiously.

Are you going to go to the cinema?
 Do you buy clothes?
 Do you drink Coca-Cola, beers?
 Do you go to the stadium while you can watch it on TV?
 You don't go to the pool because you bathe at home?
 Do you spend money to go to the beach?
 Do you pay for a hotel room?
 Do you eat in a restaurant?
 Do you spend hours and hours dedicated to streaming?
 Etc?

If it doesn't make sense to you, remove the signature, that's really something I don't understand.

Gambling is a broad term and having fun could also mean different things. i.e. if you play poker with good friends with small stakes, you're almost guaranteed to have a good time due to the social element and bonding, disregarding whether you win or lose.
Similar to making a small-stake bet on a sports combination bet with a super-high payout rate and almost making it, it's probably more of a positive than a negative feeling.
But I agree that is not a healthy thing to be addicted to a dopamine rash from flashy games like slots and alike. A cold-headed approach is always advised.

The only thing that I could have thought of when you say fun in losing while gambling is when you are having a bet with your friends, cause it's literally a bet for fun so whenever you lose or win, it could be a win-win situation for both of you like you are having a gambling with some information which could be either right or wrong. But if we were talking about gambling normally, seriously there is no fun in losing even in some other things. The fact that you are losing money ain't sound fun even if some say that there's a thrilling effect, you cannot deny that you are frustrated that your bet did not win. Even rich people don't like loss and would keep gambling cause they haven't won yet which is a satisfying feeling.

It totally depends on the person who is gambling and what is the reason they are gambling for. For those who gamble only for the money and wins, they will never be happy with any kind of loss. They will be more likely attached to it emotionally. For them losing while gambling will never be fun by any means.
On the other hand however, those who do it only for entertainment purposes only, losing or winning does not matter at all. They purely do it for the adrenaline rush. People like us who have different opinions about gambling will not understand the thrill that those people are having. Those who do it for the fun, only they knows what it truly is.

No one wants to enjoy losing money in the same way that people love money. People dislike anything that reduces their wealth. When I bet, even if the chances are stacked against me, I am already planning how I will spend the money, and what you mention about all the emotions you feel at that time is extremely true. Not familiar with anything health so can not say anything about that. I just knows how it feels when the bet is still on going. And the reason why people enjoy putting bets is that there is a better chance for the bettor to win. Losing saddens a lot of individuals, but for some, it is an encouragement to win more money, and their friends will even urge them to play more. Different people Different gambling habits.

I don’t know how it works for the people you’re talking about, but I personally don’t experience the pleasure of gambling losses. Actually, because of this, I stopped any interaction with the casinos.

Gamblers need to somehow justify their senseless losses, right. That's why they say that they supposedly play for fun. These are stupid excuses for naive fools.

This has already been discussed several times. Active gamblers who continue to incur losses will claim to be gambling for fun, while inactive gamblers will claim to have previously gambled for profit.

It can be fun when there are audience watching you, particularly in the table game poker or the real dice in a traditional casino. But doing it on online dice, will not be fun if you are losing.

There was this one time that I found it fun and this was because I was spending the TRX token while its price was just $0.02. I guess that's when I didn't see the price of this token to be going up. The rest could maybe also say its fun spending altcoins on casinos. If casinos are accepting memecoins that we got from airdrop, it may just be fun to spend them all there.

Of course no one is happy when people have to lose money, especially if they lose large amounts of money in the gambling they do, it's just that gamblers know that this activity will definitely make them lose money, but because they have done it often, it may have become a habit. Is there anyone who can accept losing any amount of money and I don't think anyone is happy with that.

It is quite Complicated when it comes to discussing the problem of gambling by making the clamps of losing money trigger pleasure. Everyone certainly understands the risks when gambling and if it is just for fun then losing some money in gambling is not a big problem, because they know this activity is only done for fun. But on the other hand, people will feel annoyed if they have to lose at gambling and maybe they probably know that.

In fact, the size of the bet plays a role in gambling. If you play at the lowest stakes, then over time your emotions from winning will not be as bright as before, which is why people and increase the rate and lose more money than planned. A higher bet implies a higher risk and higher possible winnings. This is what makes us feel more vivid emotions.

The fun of gambling is subjective. The adrenaline rush and uncertainty excite some. Losses aren't fun. They sting, hurt, and burn pockets and souls. A deeper layer exists. Belief, the desire for the unattainable, is at play. Gambling is more than a game of chance; it depitcs our desire to overcome odds. Gamblers dance with fate, not just money. Some find this dance with the unknown thrilling.

I believe there are better, more gratifying ways to be excited. Making gambling "fun" even when you lose is dangerous. A slippery slope generally leads to darker pathways. Entertainment should inspire, not trap. Keep gambling in check – a flutter, perhaps, but never a fall.

Well, no, I agree that there is not.

What happens is that gambling has an emotional component in that while you are losing you are looking for the rush that winning gives you and if you get it when you are on tilt you feel twice as excited. Gambling should be played as rationally as possible but we know that is not the case, and it is mainly the emotional ups and downs that get people hooked.

Maybe it's fun when you gamble with a very tiny amount which does not affect you in case you lose it. But if you take it as a profession or something for getting a nice return or something you depend on, this will not remain fun anymore.

So yeah if you play with funds you afford to lose, if you can control your gambling, if you are not addicted to gambling, you could have some fun even during the loss.