Topic: Temptation: The Urge to Gamble When Hearing About Big Wins - page 7. (Read 1481 times)

It is not unusual for us to feel interested when we hear friends or other people who have managed to get big wins, whether in crash games or others. I myself experienced it where I gambled on slots and from the many slot gambling that I did, I did not win big, then with my friend who gambled on a different site but with the same game managed to get a big win even though it was his first gamble.
With this news, of course I feel jealous because why can he who has just gambled get a big win while I who have gambled a lot can't get a big win, as a result I am interested in placing a bet on my friend's casino site but the result is still the same, namely the defeat that occurs. Maybe this is what is called luck, everyone is different from gambling, which I actually think the victory depends on our own luck.

If you are in gambling for long time, you should not be bothered by these kind of hearsays anymore. Because you already know the fact that winning is not for all. You may get envy, but think of your financial conditions before you spend more in this addictive activity.


Being envious, I believe is human nature. However, you need to think about your financial conditions before you splurge your funds into something you have no control of. Also, just think that you can never go back if you lose your money in gambling. So better dedicate your funds into more tangible assets, that is, if you want to get ahead of your financials.

I can relate and certainly it is a story which hita close home to me. I started to play crash because of the stories I heard and read about people getting insane multipliers out of it, so I felt curious and started to engage with crash games (mostly on Stake) and using a very small quantity to play. I immediately realized Crash is one of the most dangerous and addicting gambling games a casino could have to offer to their gamblers and decided to quit playing it after losing a couple to dollars to that game.

I would certainly never recommend anyone to play Crash as their first experience within the world of gambling, as one can easily lose all one's money in a few minutes or at least in less than an hour. It is a game which requires an extremely tight control of our bankroll and set our objectives straight when we manage to get the chance to get high multipliers rolling. It is not a game for the faint of heart.

Instead of going for crash and similar games to it, it would be better if people focuses their first experiences in gambling to games which are more slow-paced, like blackjack ...

Many people assume that they can win big just because somebody they know won a huge sum of money from gambling. Back when I used to go to physical casinos, I would often hear people talking about how this person won this amount of money and is now rich. Every weekend, there is always a story circulating of someone who made millions from gambling, this was the motivation of everyone who heard about it to gamble even more. You just have that belief that one day it may be your turn to win.

At first glance I saw that it seemed like they were beginners in gambling, because as we know that usually a gambler who is still a beginner still has high ambitions in him and thinks that victory will be easily obtained, even though in reality it is not as easy as imagined.

Crash is a type of casino game where your victory really depends on how lucky you are when playing, and as many people say that casinos are always the superior party compared to gamblers, casinos create games with the aim of benefiting them and not to provide easy victory to gamblers.

In the end I am very sure that regret will always be a possibility that will definitely happen, the biggest mistake gamblers make is when they are too confident and think that victory is something that is easy to get.

Even though i understand the unlikely probability of winning big, seeing big wins affects me like everyone else.

In fact, seeing or experiencing big wins, is the main reason i used to gamble at all. And weirdly enough, it's only when we hear about big wins, when we think that could happen to us. When we hear about losses that make people lose their houses and spouses, we tend to think that's not going to happen to us. That happens only to addicts that are far gone. Why is that? We really think that we are not as unlucky and vulnerable as everyone else.

It is this kind of urge that drove a whole lots of young people into telegram airdrops this year, particularly in my home country. According to an unconfirmed statistics by Africa Fact Zone on Facebook, Nigerians account for over 50% of the population of telegram users in Africa in 2022. Deducting from this figures, coupled with our growing population in the country stroke how Nigerian young people feasted on these telegram airdrops hypes, I can invariably deduct that Nigerians account for over 70% person of Telegram airdrops audience in the continent.

All, because of the media hypes and trends that people benefited from the NOTCOIN and DOGS airdrops. I am using this mindset to make inferences with how people have joined gambling over the years till date because of the information they got from friends of friends winning profitable amount of money from the gambles.

The urge to gamble when you see a friend winning will always be there to try it yourself, and I personally will try it straight away even with minimal capital, at least to satisfy my curiosity, things like this make it very difficult for us to get away from gambling

The thing is that everyone behaves the same way, but at the same time they think that they are special and exceptional, because they believe that they will be lucky, and others are not. Why such thoughts arise in many, I can not understand, probably it is selfishness, faith in a better future or some other things. I want to say that everyone sees himself as a winner and does not see himself as a loser, and no one thinks about the reasons, if players continue to think like this, they will lose everything to the last cent. I would advise considering the option of losing too before placing a bet and realizing that this is real, and not just numbers that are displayed on the monitor screen. Perhaps then we will lose less and understand that not everyone will be a winner.

Not long ago, people were afraid to talk about gambling with their friends in public places, afraid of being misunderstood, of others thinking that it was something illegal or at least immoral, that it was something for thieves or people who didn't want to work and were looking for dishonest ways to make easy money.

Nowadays, fortunately, this is no longer a problem. With the exception of a few countries and religions, gambling is well accepted in society and there is very little discrimination. However, what you mentioned is another problem that has arisen along with it....

The popularity and ease of access to gambling has allowed many clandestine or unregulated games to emerge. After all, the market demand is very high. Many people are looking for gambling and don't care much about their safety. Many are easily influenced by friends and put a lot of money on sites they barely know or have researched.

I hope that soon there will be more regulation (for the better) and that the betting market will be safer for everyone.

I belong to a social media platform where most members are gamblers. In some weeks, many of them will drop slips of big wins, and I am always tempted to gamble more than I can afford. Those wins sometimes motivate me to use their betting codes/numbers to place mine. I have known before now that gambling wins are mainly determined by luck, so seeing others win shouldn't trigger me because I might not be as lucky as they are.

These days some shady casinos can do anything to attract customers. They usually pay or partner with some celebrities or streamers to promote their games. Immediately I suspect anything shady in the operations of a casino, they will be immediately blacklisted. And I will also encourage others not to patronize them regardless of their tempting promotions.

Actually, the feeling of wanting to achieve the same big win when hearing other people talk about their wins is common, especially when we are in bad condition with series of consecutive defeats.
Even I myself have experienced the same thing and really followed my heart to bet again until finally winning and getting profit is not easy as expected.
Indeed, sometimes we need to act like we don't pay attention to other people talk about gambling to avoid having bad influence on ourselves.

One of the main mistake of other people or shall we say that most of them will really be trying out to reflect themselves that they are on such condition on which they do assume that they could also do it or able to experience it without even trying to think that luck factor isnt something that could be copied or mimic out. It do comes randomly and we do all know that but shockingly people do really have those kind of mindset
on which they do really believe that it could possible. This is why they would really be thriving on trying out to copy it or will really be having those kind of considerations that they will be making out on the same action until they will really be finding themselves on a disaster condition and make out those kind of realizations that it cant be possible. People do learn up on the moment that they do experience shit situations.

Temptation is there specially if you are an individual who do get easily being hype up when you do see someone win up something big. For me them im not that type of person whose really that easily get dragged with the hype and would really be just that minding my own business and wont really be trying out to copy about lucky situations of other gamblers because this one will really be just that resulting for you to become desperate
on trying out to copy others when it comes into their lucky conditions. There are really those moments or times that you will really be that become hopeful.

I think that when you are tempted by something, it’s important to share what you feel and your concerns because you would be harming yourself if you continued to gamble.

Getting caught up in the stories and being excited about them will definitely make you want to do it, but it’s always going to be different when you do it. It would help if you manage your risk as well.

I hope you do something that will manage your urges. Check the other members' posts as well, OP.

Yes when I was a newbie and starting out as a gambler, I've always been lured by envy If they can do it I can do it and I can do better, This result to a lot of losses because your motivation is on making money and its hard to have fun and concentrate on winning if you have pressure running in your head.
Until I realize that people have their own time and ways of winning huge amounts of money, and it doesn't have to be immediate.

if you place your bet only when you are safe to achieve a win you will never things to be in a need for a bet for other reasons.
gamblers receive a lot of signals from environment and some of these signals are also "masked" and hide, really hard to be understood at a first glance.
that's why gamblers (for sure gamblers in sports that doesn't rely in "luck") need to follow some strict schemes.

Maybe this is similar just like OP stories that recently i have been received some messages from unknown number into my smartphone that they were showing some proof that they can able to win with huge amount of money in gambling and those people also offering if we created account and deposit on the particular gambling sites so they will help us to gets the winning results from those gambling sites but for me telling the stories about huge winning and encouraging people to inspired to gambling is not more than scam attempts because certainly their stories most likely is fake and in gambling everybody knows that the results is depend on people luck and never starting to gambling because inspired by huge winning from people stories

Admittedly, similar feeling happens to me and have pushed me to gamble after a friend mentioned how much he won, although it didn't help in anyway but cost losses, I understood that those big wins does one job for the casino; tempt witnesses. However, just like a member said, it's nice to congratulate the winner and focus on your gambling strategy, instead of, rushing to make a kill because a friend did.

The key on here for you to save yourself on such problem is to make yourself having that kind of mindset that you shouldnt really be making yourself having that kind of desperation
when it comes into your gambling habit or dealing on which its something that should really be done for fun and never make yourself having that kind chasing up on whatever
that kind of greed that you would really be having on your emotion on which this is really that mostly that could really be potentially be happening. This is why it will really be that best
that you should really know about on how to control those urges and will really be able to spot out immediately if you do find yourself having that kind of desperate actions or moves
because of that uncontrollable greed.

Gambling is all about luck you never can tell when you might hit a big win. We hear stories of people winning millions from small amounts of money and this is what propels us to gamble more so we can get the same benefits. One thing I have come to understand is that the more you chase after luck in gambling the more you find yourself on the losing side.Do not let other peoples win be your driving force to gamble. Take your own risks within your limits when you are comfortable with it, doing it to get the results of others will only get you addicted.