Topic: Typical scenario when you are losing - page 11. (Read 1920 times)

Look here, human patterns often revolve around seeking connections even when there arent any. So you think your losses are mere coincidences? Or some cosmic power giving you signs? Absurd! It's the human brain constantly seeking meaning, even in randomness! People tend to find patterns and connections because it makes them feel more in control, even in gambling. Your claims about gamblers linking certain behaviors to wins or losses? Purely coincidental and, frankly, a waste of cognitive processing. Lose because you're "unlucky"? Wake up! Its all in the strategy, analysis, and skill. Dont mask your lack of competence with superstitions. And those gamblers with their "beliefs"? Delusional crutches. Stop playing the victim and start thinking critically.

Well, maybe if you did not waste your money on gambling you wouldn’t have faced a situation like that in the first place. First of all, I do not understand why poor people gamble. I don’t see gambling as anything else than a way of entertainment.

But let’s say that rich people who have a lot of money decide to gamble. They do have money to throw around. So probably they can actually afford to give away money without having any problems. But my biggest issue is when people decide to gamble so that they can have a good living. If one does not possess opulence akin to Elon Musk or Dana White, it would be prudent to steer clear of gambling.

I'm sure everything is just a coincidence, but because you believe in it and it might happen several times so you think things like that affect your gambling.
And I'm not a person who believes in things like that or maybe because I don't pay much attention, does such a thing really exist, I believe every time I lose it's because I'm unlucky and what I believe a little is when placing bets on sports betting and doubting the choice but still choose then the result is always defeat.
I've read that there are indeed a gambler who feels that when he does something he doesn't usually do, he will experience defeat, but that will be true when it happens repeatedly, not just one or two times, because as I said before if it's only occasionally, it's just a coincidence, but certain myths or beliefs are often referenced by gamblers.

You are right buddy, the scenario that we often regret is when we want to reach the withdrawal target limit but instead return to being tempted in the greedy circle. The strong desire that comes from lust makes us believe that the next bet will be much bigger by placing a higher bet. But according to the other scenarios that I mentioned before, the moment when we control a winning situation and can get out of the casino is the thing that makes us the happiest. Unfortunately, every bet that is made always presents a different atmosphere. For example last night I only had $2 in capital and managed to double it to $40, then because time was too short I increased my bet until there was nothing left at all.

Most of their online gamblers carry out gambling activities at night. Apart from being able to avoid the disturbance of the people around so they can calmly carry out their gambling activities. And according to some people, the percentage of wins given by the dealer will be higher if played at night.

And I very rarely meet if there are people who do gambling activities in the morning, except for those who spend time playing gambling from midnight to early morning and miss their bedtime.

Greedy attitude in gambling is a natural thing, because they do not set deposit limits and win targets to be achieved. So that they continue to chase as much victory as possible.

Gambling should be done not for the pursuit of profit but about pleasure to fill free time and not the other way around to spend time gambling.

I don't actually believe in superstitions so I don't really think that there is a specific time when you either lose or win when gambling but it is all dependent on your luck, though I agree with some of the points you've mentioned that one shouldn't actually be doing to avoid excessive losses, for example chasing your losses when you've already lost most of your bankroll, or trying to win more when you have already won something significant in that session.

One should never chase their losses in gambling, whether they've won something just recently or have been losing constantly, because that will not do any good but you will lose your balance even faster than you might have been losing it earlier. It's better to just accept the losses and move on.

Indeed, the only way that can help us from gambling is self-control, it is true that someone who does not want to get too far involved in addiction there they must be stricter in setting limits - limits to then do. One of the dangerous diseases in gambling is not accepting the defeat they have experienced, and this is very likely to make them an addicted gambler, this is a fact that is in accordance with my experience, where those who have an easily provoked personality will certainly not accept all defeats and they will continue to return with the aim of returning the defeat in the previous time. Well it's true that we have to think to the initial thought that gambling is just for fun and to fill spare time when bored, actually what makes it difficult for us to face this problem is because we ourselves have too much ambition there, if we only consider gambling for fun activities, in my opinion, negative things might not be felt because we are just playing and not by pursuing something.


I think what we can do in this case is to add other activities, I know that self-control is the only thing that can help someone not to sink too far but on the other hand we also have to realize that every human being has lust and also high curiosity in any case, so if we only rely on self-control alone in my opinion it is not enough, while you apply some self-control such as certain limits you should also look for new activities to fill the free time. Believe me the feeling of wanting to gamble always arises when you have a lot of time, and if you have a lot of activities then your mind will be distracted from gambling and you will be busy with your new activities.

For me it's really hard to know beforehand if I am going to lose or not, because I already try to avoid these obvious situations as much as possible. Gambling early in the morning before breakfast or work is a big no-go, my gambling times are always in the evenings after I did all the important things for the day. Also, I try to stop gambling when I feel tired or not good anymore. Probably if I wouldn't stop then it could lead to a bigger loss down the road, but I don't want to test it. The only thing that I know for certain is that it leads to bigger losses when I chases down smaller losses. In my gambling sessions I find it regularly that there are either winning or losing streaks and it's almost impossible to revert them on the same day. Of course, this is superstitious and there is no real proof for it, but when I find myself losing the whole evening, then there is no real point in trying to bet more and more money to make back that loss. For me it's better to take a break and try the next day again. Maybe I should look more at myself to see if I can find other conditions in which I am losing money and try to avoid them in the future.

It doesn't happen often but I guess I can add anything that doesn't make me feel optimal. At the top of my head are not sweating it out through a physical activity like light to medium exercises and also not taking a shower to freshen me up before opening my gambling accounts.

So it's normal if someone succeeds and someone fails. If we fail to control ourselves, we must continue to learn to control ourselves well and accept loss by not wanting to recover from loss. Recovering losses is not easy and will require a lot of money and we may also experience more losses than before. And it's true that it's better for us to play gambling just for fun so we won't think about recovering from losses or wanting to win because that will be difficult.

Playing gambling cannot be considered as a serious activity because some losses and wins will be the result. And we can also lose self-control while playing gambling so it's better for us to limit ourselves before we lose self-control. By doing what we can, we also prevent gambling addiction, which can come at any time without us knowing it.

I guess everyone here can relate on chasing our losses even if we have like a losing streak already, but we keep on depositing and thinking that we can win and at least cover that loses and suddenly it pile up already that you can't get out and trap and instead of recovering, you lose more money.

Which results in some anxiety attacks on you and in your health and question yourself whether you should have stop already and not chase that lost.

Those are typical scenarios for me and for the rest of us. But it's really hard to control that emotions though as you want to play and think that you can make a big comeback, but it was a wrong decision 99.99% of the time.

I have never really paid any attention to what things I do before, during or after gambling that leads to loses, but i think it will be very interesting to begin to monitor such from now on, even though i still think and believe that gambling., most especially, slot and casinos games, purely is based on luck, except for some card games that require some skill, so it doesn't really matter our gambling behavior, or maybe how we behave before engaging in gambling, or what we do during the gambling session, we simply win when good luck hits us, even though its very possible that our actions and in-actions could lead to less or more losses before any form of winnings arrives .

Dude, it's like you read my mind and detailed all my bad habits. That last part especially, it's like a sickness that cannot be cured. Chasing the small bet loss even if the profits had been in the number that any gambler would love to have.

"Playing after a huge win." I think this cannot be erased. We are born greedy. We want more. And the thought of just using a little bit of that profits just to check if our luck is still there will cause a bad domino effect. Suddenly, that little bit of profits that will be risked will be start of the chasing the losses path and it's going to be continuous.

I also have specific scenarios that happen frequently when i'm losing, and the one that annoys me the most is cashing out by trying to hit the withdrawal threshold. I still had a bunch of success reaching the minimum withdrawal before, but recently, i've been getting more losses. I don't track most of the losing scenarios that I experience, but I can easily recall them because of how often they happen in my sessions, and one of the main factors why it occurs is the greediness that I get during certain moments.

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It is easy to identify with some, at some point we went through those stages, especially chasing losses, not so much today but in the past the bad idea of thinking about increasing the size of the bet to reduce the number of bets, is a mistake that cannot be made, that is, sometimes it works, but we achieve it because of the probability that it happens, not because the fact of increasing the bet.
 
But as I always mention in other posts, they are in a certain way normal stages that we go through and through which we have to improve our game, so the main problem is not detecting them and your OP is in a certain way the best example that you have to know yourself as a player, you should not only evaluate income or losses, this type of introspective analysis defines you in the long term as a winning player.

It really depends what sort of gambling you're doing, because if you're talking about a skilled game like poker - then yes, absolutely you need to figure out if you're in the right frame of mind to play and not "on tilt". However if you're playing an unskilled game like casino slots, then it really does not matter what state of mind you're in. Whether you're happy, sad, drunk, high or angry, the outcome is controlled by the house and not you. In that scenario, the only things you can control are the starting bank roll and how much money you spend before you end for the day. Occasionally you'll get lucky with a big win, but you'll often find they are dwarfed and even staged by the casino companies who spend a lot of money figuring out how to empty your bank account.

As long as you still have the tabs of your gambling activity and be able to identify your mistakes, I think you are all good.  I believe this defense is not just denial stance .  We have been discussing gambling and gambling addictions, I believe you have all the knowledge to resist gambling addiction.


It is a good thing to know all the reasons why a gambler lost his session.  This means the gambler is still in track of his activities and this action will greatly help a gambler to create anti-losing activities and be able to minimize both the wasted time and bankroll due to the error done by the gambler.

Unfortunately, this is not true to most regular patrons as they tend to continue to play even if they are beyond with their limits.
I believe, this depends on how determined you are in following what you swear to do when you are in front of your games.
Most gamblers won't stick to their plans especially if their games are getting exciting, they forgot what they pledged before the game.
However, on my side, I always remind myself what will be at stake if I go beyond about my allocated expenditures in gambling,
like I can't pay for this specific bill if I lose this much, so that's a motivation for me not to spend outside my boundaries.

Taking a break from gambling is the better and most effective approach to letting go or avoidance of excessive gambling, shifting your attention to other profitable things as you said is most appropriate when trying to cut loose or reduce your gambling habit.
Many gamblers have slid into more dangerous situations such as addictions trying to cash up with losses,  even if you win you still need to fix a limit because both trends can lead to the same outcome which is possible addictions.

Gambling late night possibly with alcoholic drink is definitely one of the biggest and important things that should be avoided. I can understand how regular work (dangerous problem) can be directly delayed to someday else to weekday. I think such gambling can be only be making a mess of me so. I should be able to say "no" to myself. I think gambling/life balance should always be on life part. To not experience same scenarios with other gamblers I would rather try to avoid losing. Cutting cost directly, going some other investment methods.