Topic: Sympathetic gamblers looses itself - page 8. (Read 1261 times)

I so much agree with you on this very statement you just made above, because the fact that some people loses huge sum while gambling, at times that could be how much they are willing & could afford to lose, unlike if you are a newbie, and then you try to compare yourself with legend gamblers who has got enough funds and willing to risk any amount. Hence, trying to compare yourself or your budget with anybody else is the worst thing any newbie gambler can ever afford to do. Because just as our fingers are not the same, so is our financial strength not the same.

Everything I guess, because in the beginning, they think that they can win it all and not lose a single penny to even have the courage to gamble their life's saving. So when they lose all the emotions transpired on them, guilt because they should have known better not to gamble, pain - the hardship of what they have to do to have that kind of money, anger to themselves.

So just imagine the expression on their face as the OP put up and then what they are feeling inside.

And if we think about it, we don't want to be on that kind of situation, because physically and emotionally, we will get affected no matter what.

Of course, who wouldn't be sympathetic seeing gamblers loosing big money and you can see and fee their reactions when they are almost close on winning. But suddenly their luck made a U-tun. I even know someone, a family member who did the walk of shame and then cry in front of me because he has lost all the money that should be used for important things. I wouldn't remember that scenario, it was close to 30 years ago.

I guess we should learn lessons from that kind of experience, although I still gamble up to this day and at one time being addicted to gambling, I still try to control everything and not fall for that again in my life.

Between remorse, guilt, pain, and anger I wonder which is strongest felt when a gambler losses or even realizes that they have just gambled way their life's savings or money that was supposed to be used for something important. If you have ever been in a bet shop what you will soon realize is that these emotions are but fleeting. They do last up to 30minutes. These gamblers are so full of false hope or disillusion that they believe that they can recover the money they lost if they try again but the story remains the same.

A player that keeps on gambling, believing that someone else had bigger loss than them, isn't serious about controlling his wealth. And sooner his facial expression would be similar to the player they pitied. They'll be nothing like consoling winning for any gambler. The house is also looking to win through the loss of gamblers. Gamblers are expected to be serious and mindful of the way they throw money into games. Why the players frown their faces, isn't comprehensible. I mean we were meant to enjoy the games. OP, when next you see such gamblers, ask them if they actually had fun? No need pitying newbie players, as they've received the worst orientation before becoming gamblers. If the behavior isn't corrected, the player will continue having a sad facial reaction, until anxiety erupts because of gambling. That means, they'll never have a good time gambling, during their long lasting period of gambling. Failing because others fail is common with humans, but the repercussion would be hard on gamblers as it takes more money from their pocket. So, comparing losses to someone else's own, before we stop gambling, is actually a bad practice as gamblers.

Agreed. I would like to add by saying that life is a game of luck. Some people get lucky and earn tons of money without doing much at all while some others work their entire lives in order to earn a quarter of what those lucky people earned.

PewDiePie is one such extremely lucky individual who transferred over some of his luck in the form of wealth to various charities. Salute!

Don't get sucked in by the big losses you sometimes see from gamblers online.  A lot of those people are actors paid to make exaggerated reactions, often gambling with play money instead of their own cash.  It's all a show to pull people in.  For your own good, tune it out and focus on smarter things.

You may want to really consider using a translator for your posts or comment if you know you are not really good with English bud, I hope you really don't get or understand this the wrong way, I sincerely mean no disrespect, I just felt like telling you this, so, it's really harmless advice.

Back to what you said, and the part I managed to understand, it is important to know that, not everyone will take gambling as a funfair, and for those who take it as a funfair, not all the time will they engage in gambling simply as a means of just having fun, like I will always say, no body enjoys, and will enjoy losing money constantly all in the name of having fun, winning some bets from time to time, is the real fun of gambling, constant loses will only lead to frustration and possible discouragement from gambling.

Need to change mindset for all gambler about gambling platform is not way as source income but lets make fun when have more pressure on our working office can spent few cent of dollar for enjoying with gambling platform. Actually make us on sympathetic position when getting our friend loss much in gambling platform actually their fund earned from loan. All people understood with risk from gambling platform exactly they will loss all fund, I think less your sympathetic when finding your friend loss more in gambling because they have know what happen later when put their money all in gambling.
Efficiency don't make gambling for one way how to earn money but make its as place for getting fun only and if get win as bonuses, I think with this mindset never sadness when getting loss in gambling.

Your last statement is very right, this have happened to me on several occasions, and I believe that alot of us here will also testify to this same fact.
On several occasions, I found myself on some situations which I thought I should be pitied, but when I came across some other people who's situation I found worster than mine, I felt better myself and had pity on the other person whos situation is worster than mine.
So, that indeed is a real fact, but all the same, it still makes sense that when it comes to gambling, we all should exercise extreme caution, to avoid getting ourselves into situations that will have people having pity on us, it's better to pity other people, than to be the one being pitied.

Not I wish to sound like a communist or unhinged anti-capitalism whatsoever. But sometimes it is outrageous how the people who has the most money are they one who are capable of even accumulating more of it with little effort. It only take some pretty influencer or some guy with millions of followers to invoke pity on their viewers in order to accumulate small fortunes.
On the other hands, UNICEF and other non profit organizations which do whatever in their power to improve this world, struggle to get people to donate 5$ a month so a baby in Africa can eat and go to school.
That is why I truly can appreciate YouTubers and influencers which at least try to collect money for charity, instead gambling non stop. As PewDiePie did once in favor of the children in India.

What you stated are facts op. Firstly, some gamblers who lose a shit-ton of money are easily pitied since their lives got affected badly in more ways than one due to not willing to lose in the first place.

Secondly, people who feel down generally get better whenever they see someone doing worse than them.

Gamblers are relatively safe as long as they do not intend to gain more on gambling. Greed has bad relation with the desire to win in gambling. Those who cannot control greed will lose their money. But I think a gambler should gamble with the intention of losing money. He can manage his gambling healthily when he has a losing attitude. I usually limit my gambling activities depending on bankroll so that I don't need to stop gambling suddenly. To get pleasure from gambling, one must develop a losing attitude.

Are you talking about content creators who gamble either by making videos or live streaming? If yes, then what you see is what they want you to see, which means that whatever you see isn't true all the time and most content creators will probably do that to gain sympathy from their viewers and maybe also to get donations from them since if they make sad faces after losing a certain amount in gambling, those who don't know much about the relationships between gambling platforms and streamers would feel bad for them and might even donate some money.

So, if it's about them, you don't need to feel bad because they barely gamble with their own money but they are playing for the casinos to promote them. However, if you are talking about people you see in real life who might have lost significant amounts in gambling and are depressed because of it, you are right that sometimes you feel that if you had money, you would give them some as compensation for what has happened.

That is funny and sarcastic too. Yeah sure from the countenance of a player you should discern if it was a winning or losing when he is done. I usually don't feel sympathetic when a gambler losses because I believe before you go in there for the bet, you already understood what it is and that the pendulum would swing anywhere. This is the reason gamblers need to risk what can still make there face look cool.

Anyone who is going to join gambling should prepare his heart very well before going there so that he would not have heart attack. Gambling is not for the weak but for the thick skin (brave) ones. In gambling there should be no empathy and there should be no emotion attached to it. Gambling is purely luck and if you have the lucky in that day then you win and if you don't have the lucky then you loss out to the casino. And thais why whenever you visiting the casino side, you are there to try your luck. Yes I also agree with the op that many gamblers did not check their networth before gambling and when they have finished all then they become sympathetically to themselves and that is wrong condolence. You have to pre-calculate your balance before staking.

In gambling, losses and the hurting feeling people go through is equal to both who lost 1million and other who lost 1k.
if a person losses 1 millions then obviously he has some type of way or business to earn this much amount to lose.
and a person who earn my working as a employee do not have source of income he has 1k earned by working hard. so if rich gambler losses all his money which is 1million then he will be disappoint as same as person who saved his 1k and lost it all. feelings are same for both.

So who are you talking about? ==> Paid streamers that are putting up a show with the casinos money.. or the average Joe on the street that believe them and try to simulate their supposed HUGE Jackpot wins and then lose all their money?

Yes, unfortunately the majority of people have to lose for others to win... that is how gambling works. You have a   face when you lose and a   face when you win.

I had already commented on this in a past post that when people don't sit down to think about planning the bills they have to pay and see how much money is left for fun, then when that person plays and loses they will feel pain, and see that even in cases in which a person has a job and a fixed salary and at the end of the month when he receives his salary and pays all the bills and then takes the amount of money destined for fun, and that person gambles with that money destined for fun and loses that money, this person feels pain, even if it is little, he still feels pain losing that money, this happens because if this person has 50$ destined for fun, then maybe only 10$ will be for games and when he loses money in the game

He starts to think that he could have taken the money and done something else for fun and since he no longer has money, so that hurts him. but in the case of people who have businesses, when they pay all the bills and take money to gamble and lose, it doesn't hurt them, because the money they lost today, they recover tomorrow with profits from the business. For example, the guy earns 100$ a day in profit from his business, today he plays with 100$ that he took from his bank account, tomorrow 100$ enters his bank account, coming from profits from his business. This person doesn't feel like losing money and has many other things to enjoy. Unfortunately, people who have financial problems and family problems are the most likely to fall into the misfortune of addictions.

They certainly since is uncontrollable due to how they have positioned their mindset to turn it for a source of living while without knowing that it is having a bad effects on them. Why skipping the enjoyment part of it and focusing on the profit aspect causing one to lose focused knowing too well that gambling is very hard to predicated especially when it turns into addiction.