My reason to gamble is both Fun and Profit. Profit 70% and fun 30% for me, because i'm also a human that want money and want profit, especially on gambling.
Base on my experience, when I'm thinking about profit when I do gambling what happening is I'm losing my pocket money.
But when I'm just treating gambling for entertainment and I don't have intentions to win to it, just for fun only.
It tends that I'm winning suddenly. So, it is better if you are going to treat gambling for fun.
What you are telling is everything about psychologically mind game. because i have also check that when i am not willing to win the game and just to throw away and i am winning on bad hands in poker but as soon as i sit seriously to win and their comes the loss.
I have told that when we bet with low value we just play on all cards and as soon as we start to get big value on hand then we start to use mind and then we bet on wrong cards.
I am playing for Profit , i have seen so many just telling that they play for fun, but in that 90% of then are just telling lie, as they have lost so much that they just want to cheat with their mind so that they dont feel sorry with themselves.