Topic: Making decisions while betting - page 9. (Read 2885 times)

Gambling addiction is easy to treat but most addicts don't want to acknowledge it as a problem. Even if one accepts it one refuses to accept it as treatable. So addiction harmful side or effects treatment above all it is a disease to know about it. It is important to remember that if gambling addiction is treated well you will regain control over yourself.

Right decisions will favor us all the time, either we minimize our losses or enjoy our winning. That will not make us greedy. But you are right, when it comes to a luck based games, your decision doesn't increase your chances of winning if we look at the long term result of what we are doing. There are lot of luck based games, for me, it's only good for pure fun as well but if we are really wanting real challenge that could give us real chance of winning, then the game that we should focus is skilled based, I consider sports betting as one, but there's a lot of factors to consider in order to succeed, main factor is discipline, like knowing how o control ourselves in any situations.

I think, in purely luck-based games, which constitute the most part of what we call "gambling", our decisions can't increase or decrease our chances of winning. It's a big question whether our decisions, "good" or "bad", can affect the outcome in a positive or negative way in, say, sports betting, because betting on the underdog by mistake you can win with a huge multiplier, but there's no doubt that in purely luck-based games your decisions mean nothing.

Sometimes is not easy to control your emotions while betting, note gambling is an emotional thing, if a gambler learn how to control his emotion while gambling then such gambler can never be an addict, gambling has a spirit in it for me, so it take a disciplinarian not to fall into that trap, sometimes I will want to make some selection of options to stake but I will end up choosing the one I never opted for, this keep happening to me until one day I decided to up my games in terms of decision making, at first it was not east for me but i did because I was able to be in control of my games.

Well, we have a mental scheme about games of chance and casinos, how our behavior should be and how it should never get out of control, but how to say it? This is just theory, sometimes we are playing and we have our solid foundations of how we should behave in a casino and how we should act with our emotions, but sometimes the game tends to make the emotions come out accidentally or by pure instinct, and that makes that things can be very bad if we play in the long term without control, and the fact is that gambling in many people makes them lose control and that is something that they cannot control, so making decisions is all in a casino, It is also important in life, I am sure that many of us have made decisions that have brought us to where we are, that if we had made another decision the order of things in our life would have been different.

For this reason I will always say that I prefer to control my money, or the money that I am willing to play in a casino than emotions, emotions are what make us feel fun, if we try to control them we are suppressing that feeling of happiness so we are not By doing nothing , what we must control is if we have money for the casino and we run out, having the discipline not to deposit more, because what we had to spend has already been spent.

If anyone is unable to control his emotions and if someone is not able to make the right decisions while betting or gambling, still this does not mean that gambling is designed in this way. It is the gambler's problem if they do not want to learn properly and do not know how to apply the risk management plans in order to cut down the prices.

Especially if we talk about betting then it is not something taken for granted or just blindly betting on one team or player. A good gambler is the one who will first study both teams, and their recent performances and then decide which team to bet on. Even though the gambler can still lose if he or she places the bet after careful analysis but then this is part of gambling. Here is when the risk management comes into play. A gambling is a full scheme of decisions making and those who jump blindly into a bet will only lose in the long term.

That's right you have said the real things and yes those who addicted on gambling for them it is really hard to control their emotions. So at first for them they should take care self into a discipline gambling strategy.  And I think even then those who are not able to control them self they should get help of psychologist doctor. And then when he learn to make gambling with his limitations then he will be actual winner.

Gambling is designed to exploit you, so be savvy.  Stop and reset if you get carried away. Many find it difficult because the game is largely about manipulating emotions, notably greed and fear. These two conspire to make you do stupid things

Real key to winning this game? Discipline. Keep your emotions out. This requires conscious effort and self-awareness most individuals never develop. You need determination and a plan. Without discipline and a strategy, you're toast. You're flailing instead of playing focused, so those wild defeats mount up

Emotions cannot be eradicated completely among gamblers but people who have been involved in gambling for a long time handles emotions better than the ones that are new because they have encountered a lot of losses in the past and the losses have made them become more stronger so no matter the outcome of their bets they can handle their emotions perfectly. Gambling with emotions is really not good at all because you can become so vulnerable to the extent of doing awkward things if you continue to allow emotions to take over your gambling life. No one is happy especially when they continue to lose bets severally but that doesn't need to affect the mindset of a gambler.

All these still buttress the view that we should be cautious with what we do in gambling and when we do not have that control over what is going on, it is better to avoid gambling. Taking a break will go a long way in resetting the psychology of gamblers, but it's sad that most do not often observe this. Emotion is a huge context that can come in majorly through greed and fear, and no matter how the two look, they are devastating and work together to make sure that the gambler regrets everything.

Without dabbling deep into the two, the solution I know has always been discipline. Discipline is a powerful characteristic in gambling that if one possesses, emotion will be subdued, and it is best actualise with the determination of the gambler. This is because it is one thing that you want to be disciplined, and it is another thing that you are actually disciplined. For this, we should have that strong Will and determination in us to be disciplined in gambling and also have our budget and plans intact. If there is the absence of the two, I bet that the gambler will only be wasting his time as he will not even have anything to be disciplined about but just be trying by error with no basis whatsoever. This can only result in many losses and it often happens in the absence of preparedness for gambling.

Sometimes when gamblers realize they're addicted, concealing the habit from close ones will creep into their mind. But it's common amongst players, at the early stages of addiction, they'll never accept help from anybody. The task is on the people around him to closely observe the player and find out if he's addicted, already. Because these addicts are skillful at hiding the problem, little changes added to their behavior should be honestly questioned. If he recently started to stay indoors more than usual, he may have been locked in his thoughts of gambling. Talking to him about his recent change of attitude can get him talking. No need to go straight to the point, this must be cunningly done.

Maybe after a long-lasting conversation, which he enjoys. Then hit him with the question, of why he's been acting strangely, and let him know the importance of communicating with people around him. And why he shouldn't isolate himself, the disadvantages of isolation can increase his problems, if he has any, that sharing with others can help save him from the fight. These few effective added conversation questions will easily get him thinking and may involuntarily say things that can be traced down to addiction being his internal pains. However, the whole process must be planned to near perfection. As it's a brain or emotional strategy of investigating if a gambler close to us is now addicted.

Does one need professional help right in the beginning when they want to heal their addiction and get out of it? I don't think so. Once a gambler acknowledges the fact that they are in a problem and they want to get out of it, people who are close to them and are always with them should try and help them with that because sometimes the assistance of the close ones can solve the issue, but if they see that it is not working, that's when they should look for an expert to handle the case.

Generally, a gambling addict can get away from their addiction if they have someone with them all the time who keeps them away from gambling and keeps them busy with other activities and engagements, this is why it is important for one to first try and get rid of it without professional support.

True, however emotions always have a role in anything and not just in gambling problems, basically emotions are natural because it is something that exists in all humans, and if it turns out as you say that they experience even significant emotions when they lose then I think it is clear here I can already conclude that they are not responsible gamblers who are unable to accept the fact of defeat while on the other hand it is clear that gambling is about winning and losing.

The emotions that dominate can certainly make us make decisions that are not based on common sense because we are far from being calm in the sense that we take some actions based on resentment and tension which usually lead more to satisfaction or to restore the situation, this is what gamblers who have entered the addiction phase always do which maybe I would call them losers because they always want to win but are not ready to accept defeat. And yes it is clear as you said above that indeed this approach to gambling will cause many problems such as experiencing a greater number of losses which of course makes them even more emotional and this is what makes gamblers end up tragically losing all their property. Gambling is not that serious and it is a wrong mindset if you treat gambling as nothing more than a "possibility" activity that does not have any certainty.

Emotions will always interacts with us in any situations and emotions can becomes bigger when we playing gambling because we will see many things related to the gambling, especially the outcomes. When we lose, that can makes us becomes emotional and many people lose control and can't manage their emotion because they see their lose. When we can't manage emotions, we will lose our money and that can becomes bigger if we don't stop from playing gambling. If people can treat gambling well and can control their money to be used in gambling, they will have a chance to enjoy the gambling games. Yes, we must keep ourselves under control so we don't becomes emotional because of the outcomes that we gets.

Getting emotionless isn't the goal, controlling, at least, how it affects our thoughts is the point. We can't go, all, emotionless. It'll affect the brain of the person. Concealing our pains, won't heal the injury. It puts a thorn in the flesh of the player or gambler. Where he may not figure out ways to treat his pains. Dealing with it is better than claiming it never happened or existed. Trying to know ways to handle the emotional problem helps the player to get over it and adapt to the right healing method. However, gamblers must be emotionally intelligent to embrace their emotions. Not everyone is trained to think like you did, on your write-up. Growth is a big factor in behavioral change. They may have been trained to bottle up their emotional problems.

Changing such an adult may not be simple. However, it's helpful you stated this, for players to understand their emotions. A player who neglects his emotions may feel he'd never achieve his goals in gambling and another life target. Consistent emotional tensions can lead to depression. Lossing all the time feels painful and erupts the thoughts of rejection on a gambler. Thereby enlisting the periods of losses on his brain, whenever he's alone, and helpless. In a nutshell, the lost money should be moderated, and the limits shouldn't get bypassed. Thereby, enabling a minimized painful thought on the gambler, he may not have to bother with his lost money anymore. As it's not enormous to get him worried, emotionally.

Indeed! and sometimes those bad decisions are also made because of your current situation, especially if you are crowded and in a problematic place, you can't think properly and the worst thing is that we became impulsive in every thing because we don't know what to follow because our minds are messed up. So in order not to fall in making bad decisions, it's better to clear up our minds and learn hot to calm ourselves in the midst of chaos.

Yes, it does. It's true that bad decisions always come from bad emotions that are clouding our minds. We cannot think straight which means we will make bad choices and most of those end up in chaos.
I can still remember how wild I could be whenever I felt like the gambling site was cheating. In Plinko for example, I am still not hitting the highest multiplier for like 20k bets and the highest was x1000 only. So because of my frustration, I switched to manual and clicked the bet button rapidly until all my balance was gone. Sadly, even after 40k bets, I did not hit the damn 1000x multiplier.
It doesn't work that way though, because we are just speeding up the losses. Now, I learned that whenever I switch to lower risk, lower multipliers, I can get back what I lost and it was like I was just playing tag with the gambling site with my balance back and forth.
My wins will mostly come from rakeback and wagered bonuses, weekly and monthly.

In my opinion emotions shouldn't be part of our decision making when it comes to gambling or to trading. As soon as there is money involved our brain and stomach like to play tricks on us and we need to be extra careful not to give into those emotions. Mood swings where a big issue for me when I first started out with playing poker online. During my early days I was always very excited at the start of a session, but as soon as I had two or three bad beats, I would start to tilt and start playing poorly. Making decisions only based on rational information and without emotions would be the optimal play, unfortunately we humans have a lot of emotions and it's hard to control them for a long period of time. Which is why I find that the longer my gambling session goes the harder it becomes to play optimally. One way for me to limit the influence emotions have on me is to follow fixed strategies, where I don't have to make constantly new decisions. Poker is a great example for that, I only play a certain range of cards depending on my position at the table. This makes it much easier to fold unprofitable cards even when I want to play more and recover my previous losses. Martingale based strategies are another great example for Roulette or Dice, there we follow our system and are not at risk to make decisions based on emotions. 

Emotions exist in everyone.  There is no human without emotions. a robot is without emotion. But this emotion does not always harm us.  Emotions can help us a lot but in some cases it can lead us to harm depending on how well we can control our emotions. People always want to enjoy difficult things with interest and meanwhile gambling is difficult thing as well as it is able to give fun at the same time there is a chance to win a lot of money so everyone has a lot of interest in gambling this interest makes everyone emotional very fast.  So keeping yourself under control will be a very important task for everyone

Maybe that's the case for people that are lead by their emotions, I think that rather than training to be emotionless, why not embrace those emotions and at the same time and not be a slave to them, you're probably better off that way since that shows class rather than being an edgy teenager trying to bottle it up. That's a really low end if you ask me and it shouldn't be that way, maybe make it 10% if you're not earning 6 digits a month so you can make the most out of your gambling habit, 1% will only matter when the number is in the millions up to billions of income so don't do that to yourself, be generous when it comes to your habit at the least, if you're in control of that anyway, you won't go overboard so gamble away. If you're consistently gambling at 1-5%, it's still probably and addiction although an unsatisfying one especially if you don't make a lot of money.