Topic: What's The Weirdest Alibi Of Gamblers So They Can Continue Gambling? - page 6. (Read 818 times)

Gambling is maths, its educational.   I think thats a great excuse and easily arguable, I'd stick to my guns on gambling being relatable to maths and completely harmless if done in a controlled manner.   Gamble with a budget, do the maths as homework before partaking in a bet and its a perfectly reasoned past time to enjoy whenever you feel like.  Like any activity, dont over do it or it can become harmful but life is full of challenges like this.

I heard an acquaintance of mine say this and I shit you not, he literally said "you miss 100% of the shots you don't take"

Bro is willing to take the chance at a system that literally plays with their heads just so they can continue their indulgences. From then on I realized he is on his way to becoming addicted to gambling, if not already there. Hoping to at least stop him in his tracks before things get a little more crazy, I tried telling him that gambling's not really something you should depend on money for, or think of gambling as fair and square especially when there's literally house-edge that gives the casino a slightly unfair advantage against the player.

Sadly, my advices fell on deaf ears as he still pushed to gamble that day and honestly, I never heard from him since. I assume he's gotten himself roped in with some bad apples and probably subjected himself to an even bigger problem later down the line, but there are times when I hope that people like him find their ways out, coming from someone who was on the verge of becoming addicted to gambling,  realizing that you're fooling yourself into thinking that you'll get a win, or perhaps even get back what you lost from the same thing that took it from you was one of the most eye-opening realizations I could ever have and I wish it upon anyone who's still in too deep.

The worst thing I heard about the justifications for indulging in gambling is what I heard several times from my friends and people I know practicing gambling and addicted to it is that they will win according to a fictional strategy that was the reason for one of them winning in one of the maximum luck. I consider this justification and not a convincing argument at all.

The worst thing I heard about the justifications for indulging in gambling is what I heard several times from my friends and people I know practicing gambling and addicted to it is that they will win according to a fictional strategy that was the reason for one of them winning in one of the maximum luck. I consider this justification and not a convincing argument at all.

That's not totally wrong. Because if you play at heads and tails for exemple, you have 50% chances to draw a tail if you play one time, but you will have 75% chances(3 among 4) to draw it if you play 2 times and 87.5%(7 among 8 ) if you play 3 times. It won't change anything for you if it's a game paying 1:1 but if it's a free game or game paying winnings way higher than the stake when you get a tail, it's better to play more.

I have come across quite a few phrases over the years as a gambler that people say to other people to make them feel better about their gambling experience. I don't know if the people really mean them, or if it's just an excuse to keep gambling and satisfy their urges. The most common one that I come across is during long streaks in roulette that now the other color has to come. For example, after ten times red at the table I see so many people put all their money on black, like it's a guarantee that black is coming now. Of course the winning chance is still as before and it could easily be another red number. It's very risky to fall into such thinking and we need to protect ourselves from our brain trying to justify bad behavior. Being as responsible as possible and take statistical approach to gambling can help a lot.

it could be that they are enjoying gambling and winning keeps coming to them, or it could be that gambling sites have changed their lives, because in general most people complain about what they do in gambling, it is impossible to blame them because they enjoy it, everyone will realize when they lose quite a lot came to them

People would really be loving with those kind of findings on which they would really be tending to follow it just because they do believe that it is really that indeed working or something that could really put up that kind of effectiveness that they could have in gambling world on which we know that this is something that cant really be known because it all matters with luck.
You cant really that make yourself that able to avoid on what are the risks involved. We can gamble but doesnt mean that we would be able to win up that huge.
There's no assurance and we do know that this is where most gamblers been expecting and this is why they do really mess up themselves basing up into the situation that they are into.

If you have to have an excuse to bet, that is an indication that you are a minor you do not own your decisions or you doubt them and finally, if you are a healthy person, the best excuse is:

Gamblers can be weirdly superstitious sometimes and believe that there are certain rituals or behaviors which can lead them to winning. For the most part these are relatively harmless. If you are losing badly and looking for some sort of sign that your luck is about to change then you might have a problem and need to stop. I am sure there are gamblers who are religious and they say that they'll go to church every Sunday and donate money to charity if they can hit a big win. Prayer isn't going to help you win, but out of desperation people will act irrationally.

Alibi perspective of gambling might be different from those of us that want to gamble and win by all means. This is the right time we need to cancel that ideology and try to imitate the mood of gambling for fun. For us to gamble for fun, there are many things that need to be put into consideration so that we don't give ourselves high blood pressure just because we want to win when we bet.

There are plenty of ideology we can develop for ourselves that would help us to be a better gambler and not become too fast to be winning always. For us to keep winning, we must have the ideology gambling for fun whether we make profits or not, we should not be too panic and the problem comes from betting too excessively.

Most people I know that are gamblers end up saying "I do not play much, just a small amount" and they end up in financial trouble, so they must be lying, if they gambled very little then they wouldn't really be doing anything like that, they would be living a comfortable life, these people are making 1000+ dollars in my nation, which is a lot of money, so they shouldn't be in financial trouble if they are not gambling a lot.

I am not making that much, and even I am doing fine while also gambling, sure I do not live a rich life, but certainly life a life better than their life, so that means the biggest lie that they say is the amount, they say it's very little but in reality it's a lot of money that they are gambling with.

The common alibi is "I'm just having fun", many are still in denial of their real purpose on why they gamble.
I personally guilty on this because some times i have to convinced myself that this is my purpose but in reality its not. Its hard to stop gambling if you don't have the system with yourself, for sure you'll always make alibi just to make a way to gamble, this is hard to control at first but you have to be true to yourself so you can be good in gambling.

For many people it may sound ironical that gambling can keep someone out of trouble, because for common sense gambling is synonym of trouble. Anyway, the old lady has actually adopted a good coping mechanism to deal with the burden of daily life. Since it's helping her to remain out of trouble and the bets are pretty low around 5 cents of dollar each, it's a positive measure she has found to relax, at same time she is avoiding conflict with her pairs. Although it's a weird reason to gamble, it's still a pretty functional one, which I believe to be shared by many elders when trying to clear their heads from daily worries and intersocial clashes, especially against family members.

I once read that "gambling every day makes us closer to winning"
I'm not sure about this, in fact I think this is a ridiculous reason, and this is just another word for gambling addiction, perhaps "gambling every day makes us closer to the destruction of life", because in my opinion gambling can make someone's life ruined if they gamble too often, because with gambling which involves money of course they need money to survive and if they gamble often it will only waste their money in vain which ultimately leads to their finances being in disarray and I myself think I will be stressed if I don't have money because I can't meet my own needs.

bluebit25 with this one maybe he gambled at a physical casino and accidentally found a woman in the casino who eventually became his wife hahaha.
I don't know how to explain, it but what is clear is that it sounds very ridiculous. I myself read it spontaneously and made me laugh.

This thread will be so good if all the replies came from legit gambler and not those from user that posting on gambling related just for the sake of post quota.

Anyway as a gambler myself. I don’t have any alibi to continue gambling. I simply gamble because I want to kill my boredom when I don’t have work or any social gathering with my friends. I don’t need alibi to continue gambling. Maybe some inspiration but not alibi. I’m dreaming to win enough money on gambling that I can use to purchase my dream car. 

Gamblers have a lot of alibis to gamble and they are good at creating one so you can find all the weirdest alibi in gambling the most used alibi is


I heard this a lot of times from gamblers here in our place so they kept betting in the lottery and keno and cockfighting I guess gamblers are exchanging notes about their alibis, gamblers are good at creating alibis because of their defense mechanism and their strong urge to continue gambling, they never run out of alibis and they are innovative in their alibis.
So when you see a guy having a weird alibi about gambling expect that the guy has been gambling for a very long time.

gambling addicts often look for reasons to continue gambling, some say that if they don't gamble today they won't be able to cover yesterday's losses, or if they stop gambling they will lose their friends, and many other reasons they use to can gamble. i even heard a gambler in my neighborhood threaten to kill himself if he wasn't given money for a slot deposit, this is quite sad. this is one of the habits of gambling addicts because they are afraid of losing the sensation of gambling so they keep saying unreasonable reasons to fulfill their gambling lust, though these reasons don't make sense and even seem childish, it doesn't matter to them, in essence they can continue to gamble for their inner satisfaction.

Playing gambling is my passion. Maybe it could be a reason that makes people return to gambling without thinking about the results they will get. And it is true that when desire has mastered us, we will return to gambling and not think about other things. No matter what we get, win or lose, we will only return to gambling and he may become addicted to gambling because his frequent return to gambling can trigger him to continue thinking about gambling. That's what makes him keep coming back over and over again. Maybe even by borrowing money, he will also keep going back to gambling.

I think the most original reason someone once gave me was the following ===> "It keeps me out of trouble" and this was coming from an elderly lady.

She explained that she was living in a retirement centre and she constantly got into trouble with the other people, so she decided to find something else to keep her busy... and she decided to start gambling.

She says spinning $0.05 slots for hours at a casino, help her to relax and reduce her interaction with the other pensioners.