How is a lost bet not counted as a wasted bet? You lost your money, it means you wasted your money and you have to accept this. Don't make excuses for your losses, or you will end up gambling more and more. Every bet you lose, you should realize that you lost your money and if you keep on betting you might lose more. I mean never make any excuses to justify your losses.
Wow! Losing a wager may be as heartbreaking as a breakup. It hurts and stays in your head like an uninvited intruder. What's worse? Faking it and making excuses for losses. It's like hiding your shattered heart just to cry in a dark tavern. I've been there and received the T-shirt.
Losing a bet is not the end of the world. It's merely a small pothole on the road of lifee. Losing money stinks, but that's life. Like a rollercoaster, money gain and lose. Gambling's charm. It's exhilarating, unpredictable, and worth the risk.
Accept your defeats, learn from them, and keep going. Don't dwell on your failures or allow them deter you from betting. Because the next bet might change your life!
Emotional discomfort like anger, pain, doubt, despair, guilt, hatred and many more are the effects if you do not fully accept and understand the risk and the nature of the gambling. If you do not wager a big amount of money, then you will not experience any kind of negative emotions. Being a neutral state is the key for us to become a successful gambler, it is not easy and that is the reason why only few people who are keep making big bucks in gambling.
Losses in gambling is really normal, what's not normal is you keep getting emotional discomfort or what I called negative emotion because of gambling. It is really dangerous if you keep negative thoughts and negative emotions dwells on you because there is a high possibility that you can make a very bad decision. That is the reason why we should always observe our self for us to be aware to our current emotion and state.