Topic: Recording gambling activities - page 6. (Read 1409 times)

Most or I would say all casinos now have the betting history and records of your bets inside their platform, this feature is very important in all casinos and would show you detailed betting information for last 6 months or more. Usually most gamblers are using different casinos at the same time, so all you have to do is calculating the total amount from all the casinos. I really suggest for anyone to keep record on your gambling bets and activity, for a main reason which is monitoring your activities to control them.
Personally, I have even recorded video clips on my bets, especially higher stake bets, eventually, having a total statement about that would happen you adjust it much easier. Mostly, you would see how much did you spend and how much you could withdraw from gambling.

Yes of course not only in gambling, keeping tracks of records of an activities can be very good as it shows how much of your progress and success along side with your weakness , which will enable you to make an adjustment or readjustment, such practice is a very crucial one when it comes to gambling it keeps you in check of how much of your resources, energy and time that you are allocating to gambling in order for you not to form a victim of indulging irresponsible gambling practice. Thanks @ the op for bringing or reminding us of the important of records keeping as regards to our gambling activities.

Keeping a record is a good practice because it will be beneficial for evaluating your gambling activities for a specific period. It will also help in budgeting and fund allocation to gambling. But I see this action as unnecessary and time-wasting because I gamble with an insignificant part of my income. I don't also need to keep records to be a responsible gambler because I gamble constantly with what I can afford to lose. The gambling history in my account is enough to show how I have gambled over time. I can only keep records of my business activities, gambling is merely for fun.

Anyway, I think people suffering from gambling disorders should consider recording their gambling activities. This move will go a long way in helping them to track how they have fared over a while. Addiction therapists might need this information to determine how far these people are recovering from addiction. This information will be beneficial for the therapist to know the next therapy to administer on his patients.

Why do you think it’s mandatory? Keeping gambling records is optional, and I don’t have any record of my gambling activities, all what I have is gambling budget, and immediately I used up the budget which I set to gamble with in a day, week, or month, then am going to stop gambling for that moment because I know have already reached my limit. But am not discouraging keeping gambling records, but you shouldn’t say it’s mandatory, maybe people that didn’t keep their gambling records won’t gamble responsibly, or will end up being addicted to gambling. I will say most gamblers hardly keep their gambling records, I can’t imagine writing down if I win in a particular bet or lose.

Those who chase their losses are addicted gamblers, and addicted gamblers don't care about such things, they never keep records. Record-keeping gamblers are responsible and disciplined gamblers because when you keep records of your gambling wins and losses and the deposits and withdrawals, it means that you want to understand how much you are spending, how much you have lost or won, and what you need to do to improve your gambling habits so that you don't lose a lot of money, maybe gamble less or with less money.

Besides, this is only done by gamblers who are gambling for money, they care about their wins and losses because they are in it for the profits, those who gamble for fun and to get some entertainment would barely need to keep records of their wins and losses, for them, if they win, it's a bonus, and if they lose, it's just their gambling budget being lost.

Yes, just like me on which it is really something that i dont want to do on the moment that i have lost money on which i wont really be tending to look back because it would really be that making things worst on which on the moment that you've seen that your loses are becoming bigger then it would really be that impulsive and the worst thing is that you would really be that playing even more on which it would be causing even more loses.
This is why it would be important that on the moment that you are playing gambling then you should really be that not tending to look back on how much you do lost. Just make it sure that the amounts that you are using is really just that only on the amount that you can afford to lose and not something that spending your life savings on which majority is really that been doing and this is why they do mess up.

You should really be that careful when it comes to gambling whether you would really be tracking your activity or not. The main key on here is that moderation and control with your mind and emotions.
Because if you dont have these things then most likely you would really be that losing money and something that could mess up your life if you wont be that careful on the actions that you are taking.
This is why you should really be that considerable on taking up such decisions or steps.

I do not not think keeping such records will be of help to some people, it might even make things worse. I remember my early days in the university when I would gamble without any wins, I didn't feel good about it. The few times I won were just like a compensation for all the bad days, keeping such records would not be helping matters.

What then is the point of keeping records of your gambling activities if you aren't going to restrict your gambling activities? Gamblers who chase losses already know that they have more losses than they've won so far but they keep playing hoping to cover up such losses. Keeping such gambling records might be useful to some people, but many others would be triggered or motivated by such records to gamble even more than they should.

I think that he just wants to keep track of how much money he lost on a given month. Some people need that to stop dreaming and go back to solid ground.

I don't do that because I treat each session as a separate event. When I end it, I withdraw the money and next time I start playing I remember that last time and how much I made/lost.

What's the whole point of keeping these records???

Is this going to be used as some kind of evidence that your bookie is scamming you or something

Tbh, sorry to say this but this sounds amateurish because the second you start counting your losses over a session of gambling...trust me the next step will be you trying to recover that money... and if you ask any experienced gambler, they will tell you it never ends in your favor when it comes to chasing losses!!

Though not to overlook gambling history, this act can actually help to establish which markets you are making profits or know which markets hit you the most so that you can avoid...

Maybe, I can't say for sure, because I've never tried it at all. however, it seems that having gambling management is a very good thing for gamblers. specifically, for those who actively bet regardless of the type of game. Well, whatever the gamblers' ideas, the bottom line is that the gambling we do doesn't have a bad impact. the point is, maybe this idea will really help us gamblers. however, I really have never done it. The problem is, it all depends on how we act about this hobby. I mean, if we as gamblers don't have good control over the gambling we do, whatever idea we have for managing gambling, whether it's like what you discussed in this discussion, we will always encounter various obstacles.

But there's no harm for someone to try it, even though it's not a mandatory habit. That's why I'm saying that it's possible that we can apply things like this to help us, even though we always encounter obstacles and difficulties in controlling the gambling we do. This idea can help, but it all comes back to the gamblers. The problem is, something that is not mandatory is difficult for us to conceptualize. Even staying committed and consistent is quite complicated for us to apply, especially when we bet, whether we win or lose. So, so that ideas like the ones we discuss run as they should. It requires commitment and consistency in its implementation, especially for someone who actively gambles.

But make it sure that you wont really be able to make yourself that being impulsive at the moment that you are seeing that your loses is keeping on piling up, because usually people do become that impulsive at the moment that they would really be able to see for themselves that their loses is getting bigger then this is where they would really be that becoming even more impulsive about on the actions that they are making. Instead on trying out to see those tracking for the sake of monitoring that they should stop but it do ended up on that different situation on which they are really that ending up on chasing up those loses because they've seen that they
had lost so much. If  you could be able to control that urge then its good but if you do saw that you are already that chasing then this one isnt that good for you.

Tracking with your gambling activity is something not really that a bad idea as long you do able to control your mind and emotions then there would really be no issues for you to be able
to encounter because the only shit thing that could happen is on the moment that you would really be chasing up your loses.

Anytime we see winning more than our lose we will always be happy to gamble more because we have a good gamble records. When one is a responsible gambler he will not be worried to check his bet history because he already knows he's a responsible gambler. One who's not a responsible gambler shouldn't check his gamble records because it might make him or her to chase his loses.

Not everyone can keep a record of gambling activities especially those who become addicted to gambling. But there are some people who occasionally gamble they definitely keep this in mind. A few days ago i saw someone's gambling records but there were more wins than losses. I forbade him to always bet on gambling but he was more encouraged by this record. When you have a high winning record you will always rush to place bets on gambling.

Probably this method can be useful for some people because they can calculated how much money they spent in gamble but unfortunately it won't work for me and previously i have been done it and just like majority people at here that my lost statistics is higher than my winning statistics but i just realized what i am done is useless for me because when i see the amount of money i have spent on gambling it stresses me out then after that i have decide to stopped doing that because for me self control and discipline is more necessary in gambling besides that i never set my mind to gamble to earn money because it can makes me under pressure while i am lost so for me just gamble with money that can afford to lost and for fun and entertainment and if i am lucky then i would be very happy and cashout my money but if i am lost then let it be and leave the game

Sorry, but I do not think keeping such record will play any positive role In a gambler's lifestyle, or in that life of the gambler rather.

I personally have always believed that some things in life are better left either said or unrecorded, and our gambling activities are one of those things I believe that it's better not to keep a record of it, most especially if you don't want to ever feel heartbroken that you may start to or want to consider quitting gambling, this opinion may be completely different for some other people, but it is the best for me because, I do not gamble majorly as a means of making money, I sometimes gamble just to have fun, and it makes no sense keeping a record of money I spent on just to have fun.

For accuracy, since the recording should be done immediately after every gambling session of the day, I don't think there is a possibility of such a thing leading to gambling addiction; it's just record-taking after all and nothing more than that.
 
Let's take, for instance, if I gamble three times a week and each day I gamble, I bring out my notepad and take record of the activity, both the loss and the winning of that very day, and such a record continues for the whole week until it extends to the end of the year.
 
It will only take me a little time to compile the entire record to see if I have been spending more on gambling or if I have actually won something over that period. I don't see this leading to gambling addiction from my own point of view.

When a gambler forgets to track how he's been spending or wagering money in the casino. It'll be a difficult time for the player to know if he's been making nice monetary moves or not. The period spent in recording these expenses also helps in reminding the gambler the importance of staying cautious about his gambling habit. Writing down numerous times huge amount of money in the record openly shows the gambler he's been making mistakes. And as well, know, where all his money has been headed to. It's better known than not aware. This then pushes the player to cut down his expenses. As a daily reminder works magic in changing people's bad gambling habit. It's quite a responsive means of examining our gambling behavior.

       -     You have a point, mate, even if it's just for me, and since I'm not addicted to gambling, but I only play when I want to have fun or pass the time, I also think that I don't need it.
I will record the gambling I do, especially if the money I gamble is limited.

That's what a responsible gambler is supposed to be, right? That's why I do the same; it's also a good habit to get used to because we can control the money we want to lose while gambling, and it's really just a bonus if we're lucky enough to win in the end while gambling.

I could be discipline even if I will not track my gambling activities. What I would do is very simple, I'll allocate a certain percentage of my income to gamble and when I consume it all, I will take a break and will start again once I have an income. IMO, the point of tracking our activities is to determine the profitability, so if we were able to mange our bankroll right and our tracking report resulted to a profit ( like more wins than losses) then that's the time we have to consider making gambling as serious venture, but I'm referring to gambling that we can use our skills, like sports betting.

Discipline people will budget their monthly money for gambling, so they already know how much money they can afford to lose. Sometime they track their gambling activities.

But, indiscipline people will not budget their monthly money, they will spend how much money they want. If they didn't budgeting, I really doubt they want to track their gambling activities since it require more effort.