Topic: What makes a gambler becomes addicted? Lose/winning? - page 10. (Read 2236 times)

Greed for profit and difficult to control emotions make someone become addicted to gambling. Losing or winning is irrelevant, because doesn't matter if an addicted gambler loses or wins small or big amounts of money, he will be an addicted anyway. Addiction development goes beyond being lucky or unlucky in gambling. It's about being an insatiable person who can never get enough.

You can give 1$ million dollars to an addicted gambler and he will still put all this money at stake, willing for more profit. And even if he manages growing those funds, he will continue gambling until losing the last penny. On when he is left with nothing else he will stop gambling.

Addiction is a devastating disease, so avoid being contaminated by this at all costs.

It is easier for someone who tried gambling for the first time and lost to lose interest in gambling quickly than someone who tried for the first time and won. It becomes even worst if the first timer won consecutively that period, quitting will become too difficult even when he is beginning to get losses. I have seen people who quit gambling because they felt they weren't getting any benefits from gambling, all they've been able to acquire were accumulated losses. I am yet to see anyone quit because they felt they've won some huge figures that will last them for a very long time or maybe they've won for too long and it's time to go slowly with gambling.

Anyone can get addicted to gambling but winning on its own is addictive. People get motivated whenever they win to push harder and this is not different when it comes to gambling.

Yea, I am glad you already know that owning a casino is not just so easy. It requires a lot of money, and if you don't have the money to start it, you need to have a lot of investors. A gambler should keep in mind that a casino cannot guarantee winning all the time; winning is a probability. Most people are addicted because they feel gambling is an investment that can give them a double of what was invested in great assurance, while it doesn't work like that. You might luckily have doubled your stake, but the next day you gamble, you could still lose it. 

Winning but actually it could really be both because even on losing state then you would really be molding up those kind of thoughts that you would really be needing up to chase up those loses
and would really be trying out to recover on which it would really be that something a common approach to be done by someone because we do hate on losing. There are people who do even expect
that they could really be able to make easy money with gambling and doesnt mind nor having that kind of realistic approach towards it. On the moment that you do let your greed kick in then
it would really be that hard to stop yourself on playing more, specially if you are someone who do knows that you do still have money on your pocket.

Its not bad to gamble as long you do make yourself that responsible. This is why it would really be that better that you should really know on what you are doing and not really
just that make yourself being that impulsive on which we know that this could really be that ending up on a disaster if you wont really be that careful.

Gambling is not a secret anymore, especially now that online gambling is now very popular. By this, the rate of addicted gamblers have now skyrocketed and it's easy for us to see a gambling addict anywhere but mostly we can see them online like on this forum. On what is said earlier, we can be one of those addicts but indeed that some are fortunate to change it while some are still the same.

I feel sorry for them. Now to answer your question, I think both of it, though I think winning can have a little higher rating, it's because this can be a reason for the many to try their luck again but for those who doesn't experience to win a big amount yet, they will think that they are only being scammed and they won't let this idiocy to happen again to them.

I think that losing or winning is not the main factor for someone to become addicted to gambling, but I think may bebecause of the great interest in gambling games and the feeling of pleasure when making bets that will trigger someone will become to addiction.  So,I think it's not just about losing or winning because of course there will be a process for them also to become addicted. Because ofcourse, they will also notbecome gambling addicts in a short time just because they receive a loss or win at a certain moment and they have to become addicts.

Because I believe, gambling addiction is not an option because of course, if they realize the impact of addiction that will arise from gambling, then most likely they will also avoid  gambling from the start. So yes, because it is about the habit of betting every day, then the habit makes them become addicted to gambling and it is not related to losing or winning, because the trigger is about habit.

Yes, I forgot to say that, or I mean I also agree that being a streamer or affiliate can be another way besides being a casino owner to earn a lot of money without being involved with the general risks that exist in gambling, such as losing which we often experience.

But maybe if we compare it with the turnover when we become the owner of a casino compared to being a stremer or affiliate who collaborates with the casino, but yes of course I also understand that becoming the owner of a casino is not as easy as turning the palm of your hand because of course you have to do a lot. What you have to prepare is especially large capital, and yes the point is of course this is a more sensible way to make more money than just being an ordinary gambler who depends on luck.

In a way, if we get to look at how some newbie gambler's who in the beginning of their gambling where lucky to have earn several wins before they started getting some losses and due to that they finds it hard to accept that losing is also a part of gambling too, out of concern we may wanna wish they had incurred losses instead from the very beginning of their gambling to serve as a caveat to create a better understanding of how every gambling results whether win or lose should be taken lightly to avoid developing addictive tendencies out of subjective thought of win win only.

The urge to gamble is what we call as gambling addiction so it isn't really about winning or losing.

But deep down the root cause maybe something else that lead them to gambling for example someone is at the verge of financial crisis and they are down to their last $1000 so they choose to gamble with the hope of making it 10x in short term and for someone else they were just started out as fun ad over the period of time it becomes a habit that they can't live without it and such like hundred other instances can be gives for someone to go addicted for something which is not just limited to gambling alone.

Indeed, losing or winning are just returns after a period that we have exchanged to receive, addiction is not related to the result, although that may be the cause of the unsightly results but that's the back story, not the beginning of addiction, and to be honest, addiction is just a hole in the psyche, it's the frequency and intensity with which we engage in one thing. By aspiring to a distant goal, the hole slowly cracks wider, increasing the time involved and as the initial premise, the unsightly results that come from such scenarios

Both winning and losing can make a gambler to become addicted, it is mostly the desperate mindset that degenerates to addiction. A gambler can become obsessed with winnings that he wouldn't know how to stop, the greed to win more can lead to uncontrolled gambling addiction. Loses can also lead to addiction, when a gambler begins to chase loses to the extent that they can spend all day doing so. And when a gambler is ready to use all his money and even borrow to chase loses, then he is an addict. If you compare gamblers who gets addicted because of winnings to the ones who gets addicted because of loses, the ones that gets addicted by losing and chasing the loses are more.

This is exactly the case, which is why you often want to compare a problem gambler to a donkey running after a carrot.  Such a gambler always says to himself: “this is the last time.” But then he betrays himself and his promises and suffers because of this, and continues to gamble. 
And this is bad, because addiction seems to divide the gambler within himself into two personalities who fight and argue with each other.

Many factors influence a player when he makes a bet, starting from psychological pressure and ending with his dreams of a huge win, the field of which he will never have to work. After such thoughts, he is ready to bet very often. Sometimes players come up with various excuses in their heads just to convince themselves to make another bet. I often see how a player promises himself that this is the last bet and if he doesn’t win, he bets again. That is, he constantly deceives himself and those around him if only they would lend him money to play. This is one of the first signs when a player turns into an addict. Sometimes I observe my friends and their behavior in order to understand the subtleties and non-obvious points.

No matter what they gets from gambling, they will still playing gambling and try to wins more money. That's normal if they thinks like that because their minds will still thinks about gambling because they are curious with gambling and wants to wins more money. If they realizes that gambling will not gives them the wins easily, they will not trying so hard to playing gambling or force themselves to use more money because they will know what is the outcome that they can gets from gambling.

Someone becomes addicted not just because their winning or losing but they can be curious with the games that they can't wins. That makes them wants to keeps trying to playing gambling to wins the games. But once they can wins the games, that will not stops from playing the other gambling games so they will still return to casino and playing other gambling games.

Exactly, I agree with that, addiction means someone who is addicted to something and we can see that it is clear that the object of winning in gambling is money, meaning that it is very likely that addiction is triggered by a situation when a gambler manages to win which in the end they are trapped in wrong thought patterns that ultimately make them fall and be carried away by the current.

On the other hand, as you said, winning has greater power than losing, and that is clear because after all, everyone would rather earn money than lose money, and winning indirectly increases the hope and confidence of a gambler without them realizing it. , and in the end, of course, they will be trapped in an addictive cycle where they chase victory to restore previous losses. So in fact it might be correct to say that the initial win is nothing more than just a lure to make gamblers more interested, and after that they will experience a lot of decline in the sense of losing more often than winning, meaning I am sure that something is triggering the addiction. that is, victory.

losing or winning both can attract them deeper into gambling and become addicted to gambling, I think what determines whether they become addicted is their own mindset, there are two thoughts that can occur in gambling.
wrong thinking or wrong perception of gambling, such as thinking that gambling is a means that can make us make money for sure, or we believe that we can make money for sure in every gambling we do, usually this happens at the beginning of gambling and we succeed in winning. Beginners who are still unstable will usually win and these positive results can make them think that they will indeed be able to make money by gambling. However, sometimes they often don't think about the risk side, where losses will occur more often, but because of their wrong perception of gambling, this will make them continue to gamble, moreover, they will not easily be able to accept the losses that occur well.

good thinking, where we have the right thoughts or perceptions, such as gambling appropriately, just to seek entertainment, where money is exchanged for the sensations that will occur and be felt by us. or maybe you do it because it is to fill your free time, with thoughts like this of course there will be no adrenaline that is attracted so strongly. However, I can be sure that there are more people who gamble with wrong perceptions or thoughts, which makes many people become addicted to gambling and find it difficult to get out of it, besides that there are fewer people who gamble correctly or healthily.

You have explained it all.That is the story of every gambler that got addicted. They start with wining and end up losing. Because if they start with losing they would have given up. so the wining drags them in and they later became addicted. Though it could be that the first time they started they lose but later won but the winning has more power than lose. It makes you feel like there is a great hope or light at the end of the tunnel, only to discover that you are on the road to no return lolz. I could remember when I was small I never knew what gambling was all about, I heard people stake some small amounts and win big so I played the game my dad gave me although it was a local game pools to be precise, and I won the very first time. I felt it was an easy way of making money. So I was triggered to try Next time, but I failed countless time before I could win again. And before I could win, I have lost a total amount equivalent to what I won before and even more.

People who think that they can make money from gambling are people who are wrong in their mindset towards gambling. because with the wrong mindset it will make them addicted to the wrong mindset because the uncertain victory will continue to haunt them to continue gambling because the great desire to win will also encourage them to continue. and of course sooner or later it will affect their lives as you said, initially maybe their finances will become irregular and after that there will be other problems.
Of course, beginners who place bets and succeed in getting a win may think that from this gambling they can win, and when that happens to them, even though in the next gambling they tend to experience defeat, they may not care about it and still continue gambling. , but it will become a bad habit because wrong thinking is the cause that will make them addicted to gambling and it will be difficult for them to recover.

Both, lose or winning.

When you lose, you feel responsible for recovering your loss. This makes you more addicted to gambling and you get addicted. This is happening mostly in my environment. Let's say someone loses a few thousand from gambling. Then, he tried to recover it by betting more. He hoped he could get back the money he lost. But again, there's no guarantee for him to make it happen, and he once again losses his money. And the same cycle is always repeated then.

When you win, you feel happy. It pushes you to imagine getting money through easy ways like gambling. This will also make you lose to your greed. Then, you can get addicted to keep gambling to win more. But, you'll lose it all at the end.

In the end, It doesn't matter where you are or whether you win or lose. These can still make you addicted.  

Yeah, when people think that they can start making money from gambling that's where the gambling addiction begin to interplay in their life. Let's take for example a newbie gambler who for the first time of staking a bet, had a win and made some money from that bet. It can create the impression in him that he can start making money through making more bets and before they will realize it they are caught in between addiction and loss. Hence,aside from losing, winning also has a way of coiling a gambler into addiction if there's no self-caution at the very beginning.