Topic: Reckless gambling starts after a win round. - page 36. (Read 4950 times)

As far as I know someone gambling has a diverse and broad understanding, about the addiction factor.

As you say here, it probably makes sense.

If this is what you mean.
For me this is not addiction, but rather leads to 'curiosity'. This factor is more dangerous than addiction, they can make bets without calculation and reckless, what's more, they had time to watch demos betting, their curiosity peaked, they want to do like those demo bettors, bet like a trance and on top of addiction, that's more dangerous, if someone wants to gamble based on the curiosity factor, want to try like them, want to win and so on, without winning at all, but it looks like people have gambled for decades.

What I feel as per my experience is that you get a gut feeling after you make a first win that your golden era has started. In most cases you would win a few more times then you start losing. That confidence is basically nothing but overconfidence when you start winning. Within those times you would feel like every bet that you place would come out with a positive outcome and this is where your mind plays tricks with you. As a gambler, you would bet with all the money you have and the next thing that would happen is that you will lose everything. This is what I feel is called reckless gambling as you start feeling that you are invincible resulting in complete loss.

You can’t be addicted to something that you can’t get any satisfaction results by doing it. Person who doesn’t win a dime by gambling will surely never comeback again since there's nothing to look forward by playing it. Your analysis is correct that a person can only be addicted if he already feel the happines of winning because that's what makes people addicted and not the games since gambling games is available to play for free while winning money can only be attained by risking through bets.

We really can't generalize to every individual. there are people who gamble once in their life, regardless of winning or losing. there are also people who win from gambling, then stop right away, there are various stories in everyone. The point is, it doesn't have to be the same all the time.

Referring to what you said, actually as I said above. that in every case it will always be different even though in essence it is the same, both are gambling addicts. So, I don't know where to start. but generally, it is excessive habit that makes us addicted. whatever it is, it doesn't just have to be on gambling. excessive habit, will make you addicted especially if it attracts your attention. like when we gamble, in essence it all comes back to each individual. Winning a bet at the start of a gambling session for the first time is a lot of fun, but it doesn't mean that we become gambling addicts. The point is, I don't have the data and scientific research to make assumptions about this discussion. so, I only draw conclusions according to my personal understanding.

I agree with that to some extent because early winning could give a newbie gambler the impression that the games are easily won and at the same time make him want to gamble more than necessary which could result in a regrettable experience,  but this can mostly affect only newbies and not old members who already have experience of have unpredictability in gambling.


And it is most likely that a newbie who hit a winning stride in the first bet will definitely be tempted to continue excessively if not properly guided by an old timer in gambling.

Nah, that’s not entirely true for everyone.

There are some that get addicted after experiencing a big and then feel they can win more if they continue to play while they are some that even without winning they still get addicted. Take for example those that chase after their losses, once a gambler starts to chase after his losses, the risk of him becoming addicted increases exponentially.

Although, if you carry out a quick survey of those that are aware of the fact that they are addicted to Gambling you’ll find that majority of they did indeed win some pretty amount at their early age in gambling while the rest haven’t been opportune to win that amount but yet they keep hoping they can win and because of that they still keep gambling.

Early winning especially for new gamblers will give them the wrong idea thinking that this is the right place to stay as they thought that gambling would make them rich. They'll never know exactly what awaits them in the next couple of these of gambling. Many speculations arise and base on my experience, especially these online games, there is a sort of manipulations as we usually win on the very first day and this is a trick to help you encourage to gamble and spend more. And after a short happiness and winning, worse things happen and that is an absolute lose.

It's a case-to-case basis there are gamblers who get hooked after their first win, their mindset, and motivation are, there is big money to be made in gambling and they just have to be organized and create a winning method, and there are gamblers who are challenged because they see some people winning a lot, and they are challenged that if other people can do it why not me and they feel that they are superior to other people that is why they get hooked and always on the look for his winning trail.

There will always be a point for gamblers that become reckless and uncontrol because it has something to do with dopamine, they feel that gambling gave them a superior feeling every bet and every win is something that excite them and rewarding for them if they hit a win.

Well, I think gambling addiction goes in both ways this is because even when the gambler either winss or loses their both could lead to addiction or all depends on how the individual decides to handle the whole situation and what matters most is if and when the player decides to chase a particular direction be it losing or winning that drives him into possible addictions,  I have a personal view that in every winning there is always an ln extra two games ahead even if the gambler has earlier intentions of taking a break and in doing so,  is what lead to addiction because doing that consistently will tie the gambler down.

Same as losing because when a gambler record a loss it is obvious that he will chase after that loses and in doing that, that is what leads to excessive gambling and if not checked could slide into gambling addictions.

Actually, I think things like this depend on the perspective and each person who does gambling.
Because in other situations, there will also be conditions where when someone loses and feels challenged to continue gambling in the hope that they will win after getting a loss and this will also feel more obsessed because they want a return on previous losses.

This kind of behavior I think almost everyone who does gambling must have felt considering that even though maybe now they can control themselves but almost everyone has felt where they are obsessed with gambling whether they are losing or winning.

That's true. You wouldn't expect someone to get addicted after repeating to fail every time, would you?
You need some wins, preferably balanced with losses, so that one time you lose $100, next you win $200 and then you again lose $100. After a month you'll be at 0 but you will still remember that time when you won $200 and will keep on trying to repeat it.
Gamblers who keep losing usually don't get hooked but discouraged and grow a feeling of resentment towards gambling.

I have noticed this myself sometimes when I play certain type of game for the first time, I win but after that it doesn't really happen like that subsequently. Some people have argued that it is like a welcome that casino do to attract you into playing more but I doubt that is the case. I believe it is just a coincidence that it happened and not like a manipulation. But really it is attractive to play more when your first game appears to be a win it gives you more courage to try another bet.

Most provably after you win.



The satisfaction rate is different when you lose since maybe you will hate the game and leave since you didn't get what you expect.

Compare on winning for sure your urge to gamble for more is there since you want this to happen always then you always think about to gamble because you feel like you became lucky again and that's the cycle starts.

And if you won early, that's what we call "beginner's luck", and actually it's a curse, because ones you taste that feeling of winning big, you are going to look for more of that experience, the adrenaline and that's what makes you a gambling addict.

On the other hand, I also do believed that you can be addicted as well if you haven't won any yet. Why? It's because you want to come back for more, try to chase your lost and recoup everything.

So gambling is really very dangerous, as both losing and winning in the beginning will have a dire consequences in the end.

In my case after a month of playing, it's hard when you win your first bet, you will have a misconception that gambling is easy and you are lucky in gambling, I learned when trying to win that you have a house edge to deal and no method that you can think of where you can beat the house.
There's such a thing as beginner's luck but its hard when it happens in gambling because your confidence will grow that you will think that you can make money from gambling, when in reality you cannot.

Gambling addiction is not only when you have won bet. I think if you have won, what happens is that you have more money at that time to play and you want to increase your staking power but the real addiction should be the reverse. If you have not won a game, you are most likely going to keep playing because you want to taste it and retrieve all your lost money, so if you keep losing then you are playing more, that leads to addiction. Someone who wins a game may run away than someone who has not won.

You're right winning can trigger an addiction for gambling is a bettor gets carried away by their winnings and forget the risk involved thereby staking recklessly to earn more that's when the person is likely to become an addict, but that's not the only criteria for gambling addiction because there are people are addicts today,  I've come across one or two that says that they barely benefit from but continue because they don't want to lose out completely and would keep trying until they recover what they've lost in gambling.
 Now that is one of the major reasons why there are many addicts presently not knowing when to quit, before you go into gambling you should already we are of it's risk and winning is not guaranteed so if you lose and refuse to give up you might end up losing more or spend funds meant for other important things, people fail to acknowledge their lose and try to recover I thereby losing more, in my opinion you could quit for a while restrategies and try again later.

if we take 100 people who play games of chance and ask these 100 people why they are playing, most of the 100 people will answer that they are playing because they want to have fun, so if we ask them if they are happy when they lose, we will hear answers like : NO. but that is an obvious answer. now if we make a little comparison about fun. one person has 50$ and goes to the beach and spends it all on food, takes pictures and buys some things and goes home happy and with 0$, another person takes 50$ and goes to a restaurant to drink beer and eat with friends and takes pictures and come home very late and with 0$

another person takes 50$ and stays at home playing in some online casino, stays for a few hours and loses everything. when we put the three people together the next day and ask how your previous day was, the answer will be obvious: the guy who stayed at home gambling and lost everything in the games of chance will be sad and regret having played, if he had won he would be celebrating. so was he playing for fun or money? no doubt it was for the money. Nobody likes to lose, and it's precisely because nobody likes to lose that when people lose they play even more to recover everything they lost.

and with that they become addicted to gambling, people start to isolate themselves from the real world, they get depressed due to many defeats, that's why even if they won they wouldn't stop playing, because they want to win more, games should be seen as fun, something people look at and know I'm going to bet 10$ and if I lose it's okay and in the next game don't think about the 10$ you lost, don't bet for revenge and don't bet to recover the 10$, go back to bet 10 $ as always

Yes, you are right, and it is something I have talked about many times. What really vitiates you is having won. If you bet and you don't win anything, you find it boring and you don't feel like playing.

Even when you've been betting for a long time, something similar happens. If you go on a streak where you don't win, you get bored, but if you start to win some small prizes, the excitement rises.

I also think that there is nothing to bring you to becoming addicted when you have lost money except when you have lost in an offline casino and there have been people around you,so you feel the need to come back here and win back the lost amount which is the first step of addiction,this is because of our personal pride,luckily very few persons who were born 1990 and after go to such casinos nowadays so the risk here is small.

In playing online gambling when you lose money there is a higher chance you quit rather than go back to play and thus risking to get addicted,no one watches you when you are playing online so the level of the pride is really low when we lose money,I agree addiction starts to come as soon as you win a nice decent substantial amount of money.