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Quote from: Blawpaw on December 28, 2022, 02:30:37 PM

I do not know about you guys, but I gamble because I like it and because it is a hobby as well as an addiction. I'm good with myself, as I already admitted to having an addiction but tried to find and apply techniques to avoid getting off track and spending all of my money on gambling. It's quite easy for me to control my gambling anxiety as I already follow strict rules that help me stay on the line.

What about you guys? Do you have any addiction to gambling? What drives you to gamble? Is it the long shot of having a big profit coming in or is gambling simply a way of spending time for you?

For me, If I know that there is a huge luck coming when I bet on the game. There are times that I just spend my extra money and even If I will win or lose it doesn't matter also if the online casino are providing bonuses such as deposit bonuses or cashback.

Well, bonuses and cash backs are certainly some of the highlights in gambling. But we know that it’s just rare to happen winning from them. And honestly, if we always gamble and lose our capital, for me that would not be fun anymore as I come to gamble to be mostly profitable than just to gamble and then lose them all. Although sometimes losses are just inevitable, but if we always gamble with luck and with some skills aside, I guess we can expect more winnings in gambling.

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If we've understood about gambling in the right way we'll console ourselves not to get upset or frustrated on losing. When I was new to gambling I've cried for days with the doors locked. Those are days when my mind had a thought we'll win out of gambling and the loss wasn't acceptable.

Sorry, but where's the fun if you don't feel mad/sad when you lose or happy when you win? It's good and even necessary to be able to control your emotions when gambling but not to the point not to feel anything.
Sometimes, when I hit a long losing streak, I get mad and unconsciously start cursing and yelling, few moments later I start laughing on myself and on how I reacted.

Gambling never guarantees your winning or losing bets but as long as you always gamble for fun and for some profits too, you will always look forward to gamble because you enjoy it. And as long as you put limits to yourself since gambling is honestly more on losses, then you will understand how gambling works and how addiction on the other hand will cause you to struggle.

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Quote from: Russlenat on January 05, 2023, 04:59:37 PM

I was once an addict before

Well, it's good to hear that you've overcome that, but how do you know if you're still at risk for falling back into old habits or if you may be in danger of developing a gambling addiction again in the future? As they say, old habits die hard. Wink

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Quote from: Blawpaw on December 28, 2022, 02:30:37 PM

I do not know about you guys, but I gamble because I like it and because it is a hobby as well as an addiction. I'm good with myself, as I already admitted to having an addiction but tried to find and apply techniques to avoid getting off track and spending all of my money on gambling. It's quite easy for me to control my gambling anxiety as I already follow strict rules that help me stay on the line.

What about you guys? Do you have any addiction to gambling? What drives you to gamble? Is it the long shot of having a big profit coming in or is gambling simply a way of spending time for you?

I was once a gambling addict before but now I’ve come to control myself and only gamble when there is extra money to gamble. Although I would be sarcastic if I won’t admit that I’m still gambling for money, but to gamble with limits is more profitable than gambling until you meet your own satisfaction. Now I’m gambling more for fun, but definitely it would be more fun and profitable if I’m also winning most of my bets.

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Most gamblers are addicted to it. Is only few ones that can control themselves. I was once a gambling addict. Then I wasn't enjoy gambling because I feel so sad when I lose.. It take time before I can control this. Now I take gambling as fun because I gamble with money I can avoid to lose.

Several people I met told me that gambling is the same as trading crypto which means they don't use that money that they can use for the necessities of life. so with that strategy, if you lose all your money, you can continue your life without any burden to think about what have you to eat tomorrow. I used to say gambling for fun several moments ago, but when I think about it again, it's like a bullshit quote, because Fun if we are winning, and stress when we are loose. So, to overcome it, use the money that you can't use for life definitely will not burden you.

Personally, my motive is to gamble basically for profits and to have fun at least. And that is really possible if you are gambling your spare money, and you are not chasing for bigger profits all the time, or you are not chasing your previous losses as you will only lose in the long run. Until now, I could say this is still working for me.

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Quote from: Blawpaw on December 28, 2022, 02:30:37 PM

I It's quite easy for me to control my gambling anxiety as I already follow strict rules that help me stay on the line.

What about you guys? Do you have any addiction to gambling? What drives you to gamble? Is it the long shot of having a big profit coming in or is gambling simply a way of spending time for you?

There are lots of fun activities I would want to spend my leisure time on certainly not on gambling for the sake of fun if not for the long short profit. You know fun won't put food on my table! Maybe 5% fun out of 100% just to keep anxiety off the mind while on it. Yeah it's believed that gambling should be fun but the fun for me comes when am making profit and not the other way round.

OP please I will appreciate if you could share we us those strict rules of yours that helps you stay on the line like you said. Pls do!

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Quote from: Blawpaw on December 28, 2022, 02:30:37 PM

I do not know about you guys, but I gamble because I like it and because it is a hobby as well as an addiction. I'm good with myself, as I already admitted to having an addiction but tried to find and apply techniques to avoid getting off track and spending all of my money on gambling. It's quite easy for me to control my gambling anxiety as I already follow strict rules that help me stay on the line.

What about you guys? Do you have any addiction to gambling? What drives you to gamble? Is it the long shot of having a big profit coming in or is gambling simply a way of spending time for you?

Just like many of us would admit, most gamblers bet because of money. Just like using small fund to win bigger fund. The aim of many gamblers is to make more money just like the good gamblers that we know that do make bets with big amount of money and if they lose, they'll keep gambling to recover and make more money. If we keep gambling always we might have a little problem like gambling addiction which could be as a result of too much excitement of consistent winnings that could make us to keep gambling and end up becoming an addictive gamblers.

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This topic is interesting because a while ago when I saw this thread, even I remember thinking that people go to gambling because of the money, of course this is the main factor, but reading some articles I see that there is a lot of something behind the reasons that lead people to enter the world of gambling, for example by reading these articles:

https://www.gamblingcommission.gov.uk/blog/post/what-motivates-people-to-gamble

this is a very interesting article because they researched a lot of things both about people's ages and like people's gender when dealing with gambling, I recommend everyone to read it. another good article is this one:

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Because there are many non-financial types of rewards from many different sources while gambling, some people view losses as the price of entry. To these players (and I include myself as one of them), winning may be a bonus. However, most of us don’t like losing – and we especially don’t like persistent losing, regardless of whether there are other types of reinforcement. In the cold light of day, we are all rational human beings. In the height of action, rationality often goes out the window. I’ve done it myself at the roulette table and standing in front of a slot machine. While gambling I have felt omnipotent. It is only after I walk away penniless that it's clear the non-financial rewards are short-term and not worth it.

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/in-excess/201508/why-do-you-gamble

reading this article I could also see a lot of things, gambling is something that you should be very careful with, in my case I am in gambling for fun but also for money and I will not deny that I am for money, nobody likes to lose money, we all want to win but unfortunately it is very difficult to win in games of chance

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If we've understood about gambling in the right way we'll console ourselves not to get upset or frustrated on losing. When I was new to gambling I've cried for days with the doors locked. Those are days when my mind had a thought we'll win out of gambling and the loss wasn't acceptable.

Sorry, but where's the fun if you don't feel mad/sad when you lose or happy when you win? It's good and even necessary to be able to control your emotions when gambling but not to the point not to feel anything.
Sometimes, when I hit a long losing streak, I get mad and unconsciously start cursing and yelling, few moments later I start laughing on myself and on how I reacted.

I don't believe it's possible to be disconnected from feeling anything like a machine. You have to be psychically damaged not to feel any regret after a loss, or you have to be playing with so much money that you don't even care. For different people this is going to be a different amount but if you earn 10k a month and go gamble for an hour with $100 you won't even care if it ends up being a loss.
Normal, healthy people feel emotions. We feel the joy of winning and the pain of losing. People who say they don't are in denial.

Exactly, either you must be rich or emotionless to not feel anything after big loss sessions. Even losing $10k in a day called bad day for me but there are gamblers who spins Wanted Dead volatile slot of Hacksaw provider on $1500 base amounts. Their 10 spins in that slot are equal to my daily gambling session, sad but this is a reality for 95% of average gamblers. Winning and losing all is part of the game, we have to learn when to walk away before it becomes meaningless. Just my 2 cents.

When it comes to financial status or capability then lets just accept that there are gamblers or people who are richer that us, if we do believe that we do hold that huge bankroll or capital then there's always
that someone whose more far better than you.We would be able to see these on most places on which there are those whales who would really be playing around which it would really be just put you
amazed on how much the amounts that they been rolling on each bet. Losing is inevitable plus gambling wasnt really that intended to make yourself rich but rather this had
been created for sole entertainment but people cant just really avoid on having those intents.

Exactly as you explained, there is the poor side of gambling that we have to be aware of and try to do our best to avoid it. Gambling is a form of business and like all businesses, it is there for making a profit in the long term. Gamblers keep trying various strategies to beat the casino but house edge takes something from each bet and logically they can't win in the long run. It should be just for fun, nothing else otherwise, addicted gamblers should be able to accept consequences, unfortunately.

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Quote from: noormcs5 on January 05, 2023, 10:14:12 AM

I think there are usually two motives due to which the gamblers are encourage to gamble.

1- they want to earn quick money and gaming is one game which can make them millionaire in a fraction of a second. Yes there is risk too but who knows that the luck favours the brave

2- they want to have fun and gambling is a game which can give you lot of fun and excitement no matter you played online or in the physical casino.

And those two reasons are not mutually exclusive, so someone could want to earn a lot of money while they gamble and obtain a lot of fun in the process as well, since everyone likes to win and will enjoy the process, however this attitude can be really problematic because if they happen to lose not only they will be sad about not obtaining the benefits they wanted to get but it is also doubtful they could have gotten any fun, as it is to be assumed that no one likes to lose.

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Quote from: danadc on January 05, 2023, 01:34:42 PM

I must admit that when I make bets that have to do with sports, I am very excited to win and if I win I am the happiest person in the world, I have also tasted the bitter taste of defeat, and who likes to lose? I don't think anyone

I respect every of your decision and being an experienced gambler something keep knocking on my ears as a question about: should every experienced gambler got much concerned about loosing when they gamble and assume winning as the only means for them to feel happy and satisfied with gambling, just as I've said earlier that each individuals opinion is well accepted but been an experienced one in this field, should loosing a bet still be a sad event anymore after all the years of gambling experience, should loosing be out greatest fear in gambling?.

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If we've understood about gambling in the right way we'll console ourselves not to get upset or frustrated on losing. When I was new to gambling I've cried for days with the doors locked. Those are days when my mind had a thought we'll win out of gambling and the loss wasn't acceptable.

Sorry, but where's the fun if you don't feel mad/sad when you lose or happy when you win? It's good and even necessary to be able to control your emotions when gambling but not to the point not to feel anything.
Sometimes, when I hit a long losing streak, I get mad and unconsciously start cursing and yelling, few moments later I start laughing on myself and on how I reacted.

I feel the same though it is quite frustrating if the game is baiting you. It feels like it will go big but then nothing happens. Same goes with slots when you see that you need 1 scatter and with all the tumbles, it didn't drop and when it do, you feel great. The reason for that feeling is that we know in slot that there is a chance to win huge amount of money when bonus round triggers.

^That is very normal of course, no one will happy to see that your fund was the other hand because you are losing.
But if you will lose, you can stop and come back when you are ready again, because it seems like you are chasing money when you get mad.
I think you should not focus on the money that you have in place as a bet, just enjoy the game and you will fell nothing about being mad or sad because you know already that gambling is for fun.

I must admit that when I make bets that have to do with sports, I am very excited to win and if I win I am the happiest person in the world, I have also tasted the bitter taste of defeat, and who likes to lose? I don't think anyone, I do bet with the illusion of winning when it comes to sports betting, but I don't do them much because I don't know much about sports and I really like cycling and gymnastics and there are no bets on that but on other sports, I can't do much, if I start betting it would be guessing and it's not the right thing to do, you should bet on sports when you know a lot.

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If we've understood about gambling in the right way we'll console ourselves not to get upset or frustrated on losing. When I was new to gambling I've cried for days with the doors locked. Those are days when my mind had a thought we'll win out of gambling and the loss wasn't acceptable.

Sorry, but where's the fun if you don't feel mad/sad when you lose or happy when you win? It's good and even necessary to be able to control your emotions when gambling but not to the point not to feel anything.
Sometimes, when I hit a long losing streak, I get mad and unconsciously start cursing and yelling, few moments later I start laughing on myself and on how I reacted.

I feel the same though it is quite frustrating if the game is baiting you. It feels like it will go big but then nothing happens. Same goes with slots when you see that you need 1 scatter and with all the tumbles, it didn't drop and when it do, you feel great. The reason for that feeling is that we know in slot that there is a chance to win huge amount of money when bonus round triggers.

^That is very normal of course, no one will happy to see that your fund was the other hand because you are losing.
But if you will lose, you can stop and come back when you are ready again, because it seems like you are chasing money when you get mad.
I think you should not focus on the money that you have in place as a bet, just enjoy the game and you will fell nothing about being mad or sad because you know already that gambling is for fun.

I think there are usually two motives due to which the gamblers are encourage to gamble.

1- they want to earn quick money and gaming is one game which can make them millionaire in a fraction of a second. Yes there is risk too but who knows that the luck favours the brave

2- they want to have fun and gambling is a game which can give you lot of fun and excitement no matter you played online or in the physical casino.

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We know that most gamblers rely on luck to win big money. Money is the main motive of all gamblers. Others gamble so they can share with others if they get lucky, while others just want to have fun and relieve stress, but sometimes it causes more problems, especially if you run out of money just because of gambling.

sharing luck with others? i never saw something like this because luck will only come to you and lucky if your playing with the team but you cannot literally share this mate.

I mean there are gamblers who share their winnings. Because of their small investment in gambling, if they win a lot then they think its a good to share a little tip to others.

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For me, I gamble to add something to my savings using my extra money, we know that the longer we play, the more we will lose. So if we win, we can go out to be safe, but if we lose, it doesn't hurt too much.😁

that is what we must do , taking your funds out once you win already and never play longer because that is what we will lose in chasing more wins while we already having good wins.

That's why it's really better when you win and then you can take it out. Don't think twice, withdraw immediately. Because most of those who lose big in gambling are those who want to win too much.Remember we gamble to win not to lose.

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Quote from: Blawpaw on December 28, 2022, 02:30:37 PM

I do not know about you guys, but I gamble because I like it and because it is a hobby as well as an addiction. I'm good with myself, as I already admitted to having an addiction but tried to find and apply techniques to avoid getting off track and spending all of my money on gambling. It's quite easy for me to control my gambling anxiety as I already follow strict rules that help me stay on the line.

What about you guys? Do you have any addiction to gambling? What drives you to gamble? Is it the long shot of having a big profit coming in or is gambling simply a way of spending time for you?

My motivation with gambling is definitely to make money, so it just ends up with fairly small bets and taking advantage of some rather generous offers at different book makers that allow you to cover both sides of a bet and walk away with a profit. Nothing major but a guaranteed $10-20 per week that gets taken out and put into stocks instead, which you could consider equal gambling but sticking with the largest dividend paying companies at least returns a slow passive benefit over time. I could quite happily walk away at any time, but it only requires patience and not getting carried away with spending the freely accumulated money on silly side bets or taking a chance at the slots.

Most of the gamblers have this reason as to why they are gambling. It's pretty much common since gambling is viewed as one of the easy ways to generate money, or so they thought, because it's one of the easy ways to lose money too if you don't know what you are doing. If you are doing whether casino gambling or sports betting, you need to possess enough knowledge, skills, and luck with you. The combination of these aforementioned factors will make your chances of winning go higher.

Gambling responsibly like what you do will keep you off the grid of addiction. For me, this is much better because you lessen the possibility of you being dependent in gambling and at the same time, you utilize the benefits it has such as profiting while having fun at home, supposedly you are playing online.

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If we've understood about gambling in the right way we'll console ourselves not to get upset or frustrated on losing. When I was new to gambling I've cried for days with the doors locked. Those are days when my mind had a thought we'll win out of gambling and the loss wasn't acceptable.

Sorry, but where's the fun if you don't feel mad/sad when you lose or happy when you win? It's good and even necessary to be able to control your emotions when gambling but not to the point not to feel anything.
Sometimes, when I hit a long losing streak, I get mad and unconsciously start cursing and yelling, few moments later I start laughing on myself and on how I reacted.

I feel the same though it is quite frustrating if the game is baiting you. It feels like it will go big but then nothing happens. Same goes with slots when you see that you need 1 scatter and with all the tumbles, it didn't drop and when it do, you feel great. The reason for that feeling is that we know in slot that there is a chance to win huge amount of money when bonus round triggers.

^That is very normal of course, no one will happy to see that your fund was the other hand because you are losing.
But if you will lose, you can stop and come back when you are ready again, because it seems like you are chasing money when you get mad.
I think you should not focus on the money that you have in place as a bet, just enjoy the game and you will fell nothing about being mad or sad because you know already that gambling is for fun.

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If we've understood about gambling in the right way we'll console ourselves not to get upset or frustrated on losing. When I was new to gambling I've cried for days with the doors locked. Those are days when my mind had a thought we'll win out of gambling and the loss wasn't acceptable.

Sorry, but where's the fun if you don't feel mad/sad when you lose or happy when you win? It's good and even necessary to be able to control your emotions when gambling but not to the point not to feel anything.
Sometimes, when I hit a long losing streak, I get mad and unconsciously start cursing and yelling, few moments later I start laughing on myself and on how I reacted.

I feel the same though it is quite frustrating if the game is baiting you. It feels like it will go big but then nothing happens. Same goes with slots when you see that you need 1 scatter and with all the tumbles, it didn't drop and when it do, you feel great. The reason for that feeling is that we know in slot that there is a chance to win huge amount of money when bonus round triggers.

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Quote from: Blawpaw on December 28, 2022, 02:30:37 PM

I do not know about you guys, but I gamble because I like it and because it is a hobby as well as an addiction. I'm good with myself, as I already admitted to having an addiction but tried to find and apply techniques to avoid getting off track and spending all of my money on gambling. It's quite easy for me to control my gambling anxiety as I already follow strict rules that help me stay on the line.

What about you guys? Do you have any addiction to gambling? What drives you to gamble? Is it the long shot of having a big profit coming in or is gambling simply a way of spending time for you?

My motivation with gambling is definitely to make money, so it just ends up with fairly small bets and taking advantage of some rather generous offers at different book makers that allow you to cover both sides of a bet and walk away with a profit. Nothing major but a guaranteed $10-20 per week that gets taken out and put into stocks instead, which you could consider equal gambling but sticking with the largest dividend paying companies at least returns a slow passive benefit over time. I could quite happily walk away at any time, but it only requires patience and not getting carried away with spending the freely accumulated money on silly side bets or taking a chance at the slots.

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If we've understood about gambling in the right way we'll console ourselves not to get upset or frustrated on losing. When I was new to gambling I've cried for days with the doors locked. Those are days when my mind had a thought we'll win out of gambling and the loss wasn't acceptable.

Sorry, but where's the fun if you don't feel mad/sad when you lose or happy when you win? It's good and even necessary to be able to control your emotions when gambling but not to the point not to feel anything.
Sometimes, when I hit a long losing streak, I get mad and unconsciously start cursing and yelling, few moments later I start laughing on myself and on how I reacted.

I don't believe it's possible to be disconnected from feeling anything like a machine. You have to be psychically damaged not to feel any regret after a loss, or you have to be playing with so much money that you don't even care. For different people this is going to be a different amount but if you earn 10k a month and go gamble for an hour with $100 you won't even care if it ends up being a loss.
Normal, healthy people feel emotions. We feel the joy of winning and the pain of losing. People who say they don't are in denial.

Exactly, either you must be rich or emotionless to not feel anything after big loss sessions. Even losing $10k in a day called bad day for me but there are gamblers who spins Wanted Dead volatile slot of Hacksaw provider on $1500 base amounts. Their 10 spins in that slot are equal to my daily gambling session, sad but this is a reality for 95% of average gamblers. Winning and losing all is part of the game, we have to learn when to walk away before it becomes meaningless. Just my 2 cents.

When it comes to financial status or capability then lets just accept that there are gamblers or people who are richer that us, if we do believe that we do hold that huge bankroll or capital then there's always
that someone whose more far better than you.We would be able to see these on most places on which there are those whales who would really be playing around which it would really be just put you
amazed on how much the amounts that they been rolling on each bet. Losing is inevitable plus gambling wasnt really that intended to make yourself rich but rather this had
been created for sole entertainment but people cant just really avoid on having those intents.

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