Topic: Is this how it start? (No or yes?) - page 4. (Read 539 times)

You become an addict, when you cannot stop gambling and when you start depositing more money than what you can afford to lose. The $20 that you deposited, might be a small fraction of your total income.. so it does not matter, but for some people... $20 is 80% of their income, so then it becomes a big problem.

My advice, stick to your weekly or monthly "entertainment" budget and do not touch any other money that are needed to pay the bills or to sustain yourself. (Food & clothing etc...) 

Yes, I have clear my mind about gambling in 2 weeks already. But 2 days ago, I don't know, I was in my bed and wanted to sleep suddenly I have this urge and itch to play. So I did deposit like $10 and play my favorite game which is roulette. It was just a couple of single spin bet on evolution gaming's Lightning Roulette.

Didn't even win but I was able to control myself not to deposit anymore as I know what's going to happen to me in the next hour or so. I know that I will feel again to the trap of gambling of depositing even more and betting higher denominations of money just to be able to recoup my initial bankroll. But it will be ugly on my end as I might end end losing big money. So once I lost that initial deposit of mind, I just quit and never look back and even I wanted to deposit, I say NO and control my emotions that night.

It's the question on how gambling suddenly was inserted in your mind and then you will attracted to it? And don't get me wrong, it seems that you have been thinking of gambling for quiet a while now and it seems that you have given to it's temptation. However, I will tell you that you are not that lone, and for sure majority of us her has been gambling in that way including myself.

But I try to fight it out though, even if I'm not bored, gambling will crossed my mind and my brain tells me to deposit and enjoy at least for one day. But the outcome will always be the same for me, I will not win and instead wanted to recoup and it will start my gambling addiction so I just try not to be tempted and just fight that in my brain and just talk to someone or just watch Netflix or something that will keep my mind busy.

It is too early to conclude that it is addiction but that is how addiction starts, when you are unable to control emotions especially either when you keep losing or keep winning and you don’t know when to stop it is going to become a big problem when you don’t tackle it on time.

It’s normal losing money when gambling but we should always keep our emotions in check and never to allow greed interfere. Also it is best you stick to your non regular gambling and just stick to funding your wallet once a week and make sure you set a limit of not exceeding a certain amount of funding. It is not easy but you should train your mind to adapt so you don’t end up an addict.

That means you unknowingly funded your betting account but unfortunately, you lost all the money. That happens to me often but it's still within my reasonable limits. I can still stop myself from doing it over and over again.

Luckily, I don't gamble very often and have more things to do so every day, I already have something busy that takes up all my time. Maybe in your case, you are already experiencing a minor gambling addiction. But indeed, if we have started to visit casinos frequently, that is an early sign that we are experiencing a gambling addiction.

If this still happens to you, you should immediately realize that this is the beginning of a gambling addiction so you need to find the right way to prevent it. If you no longer feel as comfortable as before, you may leave the house and leave all your gadgets in your room. Enjoy the air outside the house, greet your neighbors and talk with them. Maybe that could be a solution for you.

Yes, it doesn't sound like what the OP describes can be considered the beginning of an addiction. He simply recharged the account once and also because he hadn't had any luck at all. If you bet $10 like when you play slots and you end up losing them but you have been entertained for a while because you win small prizes and you keep playing, when you run out of money you have been entertained for a while, but if you lose them without winning anything it is easy to get the bug and want to play more.

I think it's good for him to ask himself these questions and be aware of them to avoid falling into addiction, but in this case I don't think he should worry too much.

This is not unusual so I don't think you are becoming addicted. Funding your account again can also means you're not satisfied yet with your gambling activity or just bored and don't have anything to do thus you opted to play again. It happened to me many times as well but it doesn't mean i'm addicted. Often reason is, I still want to play and the money I used before is not enough for me to be entertained.

On the other side, an indication a gambler is turning to become addicted is if he/she is chasing the losses and unable to accept the result. Because if you have this behavior, you'll likely keep playing because you're determine to recover what you have lost. For me, that's the start of becoming an addict.

I dont think its an addiction but if you find yourself repeatedly engaging in impulsive or excessive gambling like more than $10 or more than you actually have despite negative consequences, it might be a good idea to seek support from friends, family or a professional counselor to discuss your concerns and explore healthier alternatives. You can continue betting all you want as long as you can afford the risks.

You are probably not an addict, why? Because you are just chasing the loss you got mate. Addiction is something that you yourself has no control of doing it every single day and even skip your meal just to satisfy your addiction. Though chasing the jackpot and loss could lead to addiction but it is two different things to me.

You should stay away from gambling altogether if you can't help yourself, chasing loses in gambling in no good — which is what you seemed to do with second funding even tho you were mindless about it, it's kind of rabbit hole the more you dig, the harder it's to go out.

There are other ways to have fun rather than pouring money into gambling, if you can't find it elsewhere you are probably an addict (and should help yourself out sooner).

The definition of gambling addict can actually be interpreted as many things in the form of attitudes and also gambling activities that are carried out but if from what you have said, whether you are an addict or not then the answer depends on what you do after making two deposits and losing.
If after the defeat you still make deposits again several times then I say that is the attitude of gambling addict, but if after two defeats you realize it and leave the gambling site then you are not gambler because you still have limits and can also control to desires keep betting.
Moreover, you gamble because you are bored due to not having enough time-consuming activities such as workwork, I sure that anyone who likes gambling and just sitting at home watching TV can create feelings of wanting to gamble as entertainment.
I have experienced the same thing but now I can control it and only gamble at certain times.

As long you keep tabs on your gambling budget, then you should be able to stop it from starting. It only happened once, so I wouldn't worry about it being the start of a gambling addiction and at least you're aware of what you did wrong. I sometimes deposit more than once because I always deposit as little as possible rather than go big in one sitting, which can cause overspending. I also experience those unlucky days, and it's okay to make another deposit if it's still within your budget.

In my opinion, your case is a clear example of a lack of bankroll management and a lack of planning before you started playing, you simply acted on impulse, as you were bored with what you were doing, so you decided on the spot without thinking too much that you should play somewhere casino, do not first think about how much money you would put in the casino, how long you would play in the casino, how much money you would put in each game section, which game you would play and why, what your bankroll management would be and what you would do in case you lose all the money you deposited. since you didn't think about all that, so you put money in the casino and started playing

and you lost, as you didn't have time to think, you put more money back into the casino and as a result you lost again. You probably ran out of money to put into the casino and that's why you stopped playing and started to regret having played with more money than you should have. This is not yet a sign of addiction, but as I said before, it is a sign of a lack of adequate planning before players and a lack of bankroll management, even though it is a game for fun, it is still necessary to take certain precautions so that things do not get worse. out of control. If you had won, you probably would have spent many more hours playing until you lost everything.

So you have to be more careful from now on, because even if you won a lot after the few hours you started playing, you would have continued playing for many more hours until you lost everything and you would have put in more money and lost everything. When you play without planning and without bank management, you make a lot of mistakes

If you have answered that you are not addicted, then NO. People will have different experiences.

Did you enjoy the game so much that you got addicted to making a second deposit, until the last time you realized to ask yourself this again?
You are surprised, without being grounded you are too absorbed in the game to forget that this is the second time, you don't need to be surprised because that's how it is in gambling sometimes we forget or can't help but keep depositing.
I hope you are still fine without excessive addiction.

No, it can't be considered as gambling addiction, you just enjoyed playing. Well, its good that after two consecutive losses you've stopped, which's a good indicator that you still have self control. You maybe have some money still. It not too big and you it controlled yourself. As you said, you are not a regular gambler, which is fine and normal as you are not used to the game you're playing, so it's okay you can earn what you've lost, just don't follow other lose bets. Take it easy. if not bad to sometimes play randomly even if you are not familiar with the game, and you just do it to past time. I often do that. If I'm bored, I bet on sports betting even though I'm not familiar with the game or with the players, so even if I lose the money, I will not be hurt as it is just a small portion of my money.

You are not becoming an addict, OP. You simply got hooked up and wanted more of thrill from that session, I believe it is something which has happened to all of us at least once.
It happened to me one day I decided to roll dices with a small budget, but the session did not last much because of my bad luck, so I felt tempted to break my own budget so I could continue to roll dices, in your case, the fact you were feeling explicitly bored that day did not help you to realize you were depositing more than you initially expected to.
So, do not worry, you are not becoming an addict, you just lost track of what you were going, for the sake of some entertainment. Next time, just do not let your mind to go full in automatic mode, otherwise in enough time and enough money you may indeed lost control over your habit.
I hope you have better luck next time and manage to get your 20$ and much more. 

You have to balance otherwise it will be too long to fund a lot of accounts in gambling rather than accounts for other purposes, if you overall in one day only spend $20 it is not too big but if you do it every day it is clear that this habit is very bad and should not be continued that surely you must know the limits to what extent to spend the bankroll for gambling.

If you don't fund other accounts at all then maybe you can say you are addicted because you forget what you are supposed to do, think about it, is funding other accounts more important than gambling? I think you understand you have to be able to control if it's a one-time thing, it's not a problem for you.

If this is actually your first time doing this, then it's not an addiction; you were just in some state of excitement in my assumption, and that was the reason why you can't remember funding the account for the second time. I would have said you are becoming addicted if you had funded your betting account for the third time, the fourth time, and the fifth time, until all the money in your bank is lost. I believe you already know the characteristics that gambling addicts have, and if you find yourself having all  of those characteristics apart from the ones you just talked about, then you should know for yourself what it is.

It could be because you were trying to chasing after the first deposit, you thought perhaps a rollover might help you get back the first bet but along the way, you lose the second bet. It might also be that you are been boredom that's why you gamble twice. When there is nothing to do at home, some silly thoughts do disturb the mind that you even make some drastic decision without knowing when it happen.

You not even be addicted as you thought, addiction is every terrible thing. Those who are addicted to gambling are far worse than the feelings you are having right now. Two games in a row might be even be okay but why don't you split the $10 into pieces and then bet with them and see, it might be even better when you play with total amount you deposited.

Even if someone make a multiple deposits above twice a day, that hasn't made him an addicts and at some point we have to come go the point that we make a clear standing among ourselves, and what makes one become addicted at some point also, because I have experienced a particular pattern before, where I thought that I was going too much simply because I made deposits almost 4 times within a day.


Although I blame myself for having done that despite having the risk of losing that amount at some points, but also a lot of us have made such decisions before all innthe name of chasing a particular direction or trying to chase losses in a day by trying more games.