Topic: Taking a break in gambling (Read 1005 times)

I really enjoy all the comments and suggestions on your replies especially the part that is relaxing outside the gambling world. I’m still exploring on other ways to become entertained while taking a break on gambling because this is very hard to do for me due to my current winning streak is still on.

I don’t want to break it now so I’m trying make my mind away to gambling so that I can start fresh on gambling without considering my previous records. I will now close this thread as there’s no reply already being made recently.

I would advise you to reconsider gambling with bitcoin, as you pay much higher fees for using the network compared to those who use altcoins to fund their casino accounts. Bitcoin has long been a coin for saving money, not for use as a payment system.

For the sake of interest, compare the network fees for depositing all available coins/tokens in the casino you like best And you will realize that you are overpaying.

Gambling will decide who wins and who loses. Even the casino will not know who wins and loses. But gamblers will continue gambling even if they lose because they still want to recover their losses and try to win the gambling game. Yes, gambling addiction will not stop gamblers from gambling because gambling addiction will encourage gamblers to continue gambling. Gambling addiction experienced by a gambler will make them deeper into gambling without being able to get out of gambling easily. And if he can't realize his gambling addiction, he will only get deeper and even destroy himself because he is already addicted to heavy gambling.

A gambling addict may still be able to win gambling games, but he can also experience a lot of losses when he cannot stop himself from gambling, and that is a big problem for him, so he must be able to realize his mistake. This may require help from other people so that gambling addicts can realize their mistakes and decide to try to cure their gambling addiction so that they can quit gambling without getting into serious problems again. Gambling addicts may not think about winning or losing, but they just want to continue gambling and may not even stop for a moment to rest.

People who can initially enjoy gambling as a way to have fun but because they don't pay attention to their limits and instead become addicted to gambling are people who really cannot consistently maintain self-control in gambling. They eventually become addicted to gambling because they lose control of themselves and gamble too often until they run out of all their money and finally decide to borrow money. These people cannot see how they should use gambling but will instead use gambling as a way to make money, thus making them deeper into gambling.

Perhaps we have seen how people whose lives are fine can use their money well until they finally get to know gambling and instead use their money to continue gambling. They feel they get something different from using gambling, so they decide to continue gambling. In the end, he became addicted to gambling and lost everything, so his life was not going well and was ruined because of gambling, where he could not return everything he had. He also couldn't try to get up again because he had fallen deeper into gambling and couldn't pull himself out of gambling.

That's what happens to someone so deep in gambling that he won't be able to stop himself from even taking a break from gambling. He will not know how to calm himself from the stress caused by the defeat he experienced. He only wants to continue gambling if he still has money because he will assume that he still has a chance to win the gambling game with the remaining money. But it turns out he lost all his money, which meant he couldn't win and had to bear all the losses he experienced. Many people end up becoming addicted gamblers as a result of not being able to use gambling properly because they gamble excessively and cannot control themselves when gambling. That was a big mistake they made because they couldn't control themselves when gambling, so they were forced to accept the consequences, and no one knew what would happen to them. If they can realize it and intend to correct their mistakes, it can give them a second chance to recover. But if not, they will just be in a gambling addiction, and no one knows when they will be able to recover from their gambling addiction.

Finding the solution in the right manner will help you, especially when you find that right pattern and strategy when playing, I think there are wise and experienced gamblers who can make things better from time to time, they are capable to adjust when something wrong happened with their sessions they find ways to adjust.

Eventually they will manage to practice right attitude and right approach with gambling style that they need when they try back then manage to win something.

I have never been an avid gambler of the discipline. Maybe I played a lot of poker for a while, but it was more like pampering. And that's why I don't know what it's like to take a break, being a real gambler. I have always treated slots and poker very calmly, and if I was not in the mood, I could not play them for years.
But regarding serious players who may have problems, I want to say that it is very important for them to be able to take a break in the game. And the easier this pause is, the better. It's also good if the gambler can take a really long break. This is an indicator of self-control.

Gambling is the main cause of loss of money. As far as we can stay away from gambling it is good for us. I almost lost a lot of money due to gambling and became addicted to gambling. I used to enjoy gambling as a pastime but gradually started to get addicted to gambling.  I never realized when I became addicted. So I have decided now not to gamble more than two days per week. Always try to stay away from spending extra time gambling.

From time to time I make breaks from gambling. Not like I am gambling all the time, but for me it is hard to gamble for hours or to plat one and the same game for more than half an hour. When I play long, I start to feel, maybe it will be proper to say hate or dislay towards the game. As if I am forced to play, and I try to finish game faster. Sometimes due to that, people who feel the same, lose their deposits quicker than they should.

I think that scheduling regular breaks from gambling is of utmost importance for your physical and mental health. Otherwise you get overwhelmed over time because your brains neuro-chemical get completely out of whack. This is true for anyone engaging in any addictive behavior or even addictive substance (drugs). But that is simply human nature and biology, no way around it. And there is no point in shaming people who have become sick because of this.

The only thing that can help is either completely going cold turkey (if you notice that you cannot get a grip over the building addiction) or by simply taking breaks and allowing the brain to "reset" itself.

Yeah true, it would make sense to have something that would guarantee that you will be fine, then risk something that you will end up losing. If you keep gambling when you shouldn't then you are going to end up losing more than you should, plenty of people lose way more than they should because of that.

However, if you do end up with something that will get better, then we are going to end up with a good return here and there, and it would mean that we are going to end up with a great return eventually. So all in all, we could definitely consider the problem being the addiction, but also the solution would be control, if you could have control over your addiction then you could just get better slowly with some time.

Breaks are important in gambling. For those who are traversing the fine line between addiction and playing for fun, breaks are the one thing that keeps them on the fun side and not cross over.

Casinos are built in such a way that the players keep playing on it, with the VIP systems, bonus/rakeback and so on. The player has to realize this and control their habit otherwise they get addicted. If they take a break they understand that there is a huge life outside the casino and they are missing out on such things.

A bad streak can be broken by taking a break. This is often tough to understand but accepting the defeat is often safer in gambling than running behind it.

For me gambling is like watching TV, where I can control turning it on and off, gambling for now I can still stop and play as much as I want, likewise in games if I'm not happy with game A I will switch to game B, but I always think don't let gambling control me, let me control gambling.

Talking about taking a break, I once did that, but it only lasted for two months, then I did it again and I kept doing it, until I got bored of betting, I might take a break often, but it only lasted for a short time, that's how I was how to rest in the gambling arena.

The deeper the player gets into gambling, the harder the possibility of going for break. Whenever we do things that requires brain power, taking a break is superb! It uplifts the memory and helps the gambler to think better and recover from his gambling stress. When he gets back to gambling after the break, his moves will be different, more calculated than what he had in the past. The benefits are numerous, but the best of its benefits is the ability for the person to escape compulsive gambling. Staying away from gambling for a month or two will help the gambler to reevaluate his behaviors. If it tallies with what he was in the past. In absence of the break the gambler will be in a tough condition, knowing his problem, change of behavior, etc. He keeps going as you said, until it gets so injurious to his financial life.

It makes sense if you are tired, why would you want to push yourself to the limit when you do not know how you are going to do. It does make sense in the way that if you could give a break and come back better than you should do that.

Not a lot of people do that though, not the part that is difficult to give a break, that is already very hard to do and people do not give breaks when they should which is important however, there are also people who give a break and come back exactly like they used to be which doesn't really make any sense to me. I think it would make sense if we could have something better, it would make sense in a way that it would be not all that crazy and has to do with something that will benefit them if they could reset.

Good point, if you still have that capability then better to follow that action, taking a break and not allowing yourself to access any gambling activities is better than regretting after getting addicted, it's more on your will power to find an alternative way to keep yourself busy, by having this kind of practices you will allow yourself to take that pause and reset whatever engagement you have inside gambling.

From that point of view, control might be back to you and that adrenaline to push forward and keep playing will be interrupted.

My experience shows how gambling can become a cash stream. Its classic ambition vs. logic. According to my considerable research, gambling psychology makes the first win the first step toward ruin. Countless stories of loss and regret underpin this. Remember: "just one more win" is a dangerous illusion. Gambling should be exciting, with loses expected and profits surprising. Chase losses or wins and you're playing a financial game against yourself. Not anti-gambling, but pro-responsibility.

Supporting fun Gambling is recreation, not a job. The experience, not the result, should delight. Gambling in income territory is a red indicator. I always say gamble for fun, not profit.

Personal observation shows that there are exceptions to whatever we prescribe. Even when we recommend that gamblers should see gambling as entertainment we have heard stories or even know gamblers who initially gambled for fun but got addicted and ran into debt and other gambling-related problems. Conversely, some gamblers gamble with the hope of making money from it but they haven`t landed in any gambling-related crime. So, why is it so?

I know of a rich man who went broke because of gambling. He was indebted and sold almost all his properties just to gamble. He gave an account that he was doing that for fun to avoid being lonely but he got himself addicted and lost everything. So, sometimes a gambler who gambles for fun is still not safe. I think the reason we gamble is immaterial but our self-awareness is what matters. A gambler needs to stop when his budget has been exhausted.

When I experience continuous losses and when gambling is always in my mind.
Taking a break is somewhat necessary, not just to avoid more losses but to avoid falling into addiction. We can go elsewhere where we can divert our mind,  better to be in a place where the internet is not working well. We better do this and make it habitual rather than having regrets because it was hard when we were already hooked up by addiction.

Let us help our mind take a fresh breath but have time for something that won't give us stress.
Finding a place where we can peacefully think about the future.

Sorry but am wondering if you are the one who decides who wins and who loses in gambling? Don't get or understand me wrongly please, I mean no offense, I am trying to correct a wrong narrative of yours here.
Being addicted to gambling does not stop people or gamblers from winning some or even most of their games, as long as the said gambler know his or her right hand from his left hand, addiction to gambling does not make a gambler an automatic loser, just same way being addicted to smoking does not kill the addict in just one day.

Addicts still win games, some of them still make good money through gambling, but their only problem, or one of the major problem they have is that, they will still end up spending all that money they won on gambling again, which if they are lucky, they can still win again, but if unlucky, then they lose, this does not mean that an addicted gambler will just lose and keep losing and never winning, this is a wrong narrative.

Yes, it is better to use gambling as entertainment in your spare time, and I agree with what you say that whoever chooses gambling as a source of income can become addicted to gambling and have the desire not to want to stop gambling. Those who continue to gamble will get deeper and deeper into gambling until they cannot realize that they are addicted to gambling and have even spent a lot of money. They want to make money from gambling, and that is why they continue to gamble continuously. It is difficult to stop them because they have fallen deeper into gambling. Yes, they will only experience bigger and bigger losses without being able to win and will even lose even bigger. They should be able to take a short break from gambling to avoid gambling addiction.

True, the point is that when you try to treat and address gambling as a place that earns then usually the opposite happens, which is where instead of earning but instead they end up losing a lot, as you said that they will be more curious and addicted especially when they are in a winning situation, and this is a situation where gamblers apply their greed, I'm sure for most gamblers who come to earn then they will find it very difficult to ignore their greed because obviously with the goal of earning then they will always want a bigger amount even though they have basically won, because with high hopes and beliefs then they will assume that "it looks like I can get bigger", but on the other hand they don't know that luck is gone at that time so when they apply greed then usually they will end up losing everything they originally got.

There is absolutely no rest because all they want is to continue gambling which they think that way they will be able to get a large amount of winnings, even though they are slowly losing money over time, so of course the point is never to make gambling as an income, this is dangerous.