We all know that we cannot play for a long time without being responsible players; we could go crazy, or we could lose all our money; at some point, you have to realize that you need to play responsibly, so I created this poll and this discussion to pick your reasons and explain it.
In my case, I have to lose a lot of money to realize I have to gamble responsibly if I don't want to break my finances and experience depression, so now I control myself and monitor my expenses, and I'm doing good with it.
Well, for me, I've been a responsible guy right from time even before I started gambling, but i understand that being responsible in real life doesn't connote or equal to being responsible with activities like gambling, but I believe that being responsible naturally helped me to be very careful when I started gambling, because I've heard and read stories of people who were rich, but ended up becoming extremely broke simply because they lost all their fortune to gambling, even though I wasn't rich at the time, I didn't want the same thing to happen to me even with the little money I had, so, I was always very careful with how much I bet on games while gambling.
The above have helped me to teach myself how to become a responsible gambler right from the onset, and today, I am mostly happy with all my gambling decisions, because I never tend to lose more than I can afford, only ones (if I remember correctly) have I lost money I never prepared to lose, and since then, I've not made such mistake again.