Hi everyone,
Here actually is my finding on why people chase loses in gambling, do you know that it's natural for a gambler to chase after his or her loses? Well, if you don't know, now you know, it is natural in the sense that ; the desire is inbuilt, it is we ourselves that learn to put or subject the desire to our control, same way it is natural to feel bad when you lose a bet, but you can be happy if you choose to, and can control your emotion.
One of the reason why many gamblers naturally chase after their lose is due to one thing that is built into every game known as the "near miss effect", after every loss, a near miss effect makes our brain believe that a win is very close, and this automatically makes the player to keep playing and playing, even while he or she is losing, his or her brain convinces itself that a jackpot is just around the corner, this makes the player keep playing until he or she discovers that his or her bankroll is empty, this is when anger and regret usually sets in, you begin to feel like you were not really yourself all that time you were gambling, like you were hypnotized or something, and you only regained consciousness of yourself when you have already gambled all your money away.
This has happened to me few times, and from it, I've leant to always be conscious of myself and my decisions while gambling, making sure I do not allow my brain to deceive me into believing that my losses is because a win is around the corner, making me to gamble way more than I've planned to.
So, from your own understanding, what do you think makes people chase loses aside greed which I believe many of us are already familier with?.
First of all, we don't like when we lose, right? Second of all, casinos give you the ability to double your bet via one click and make a bet via the second click, i.e. you have a chance to get everything back + make the profit of the same amount that you lost. The fact that you can do that via simple two clicks, pushes you to chase your loses. If it was hard to increase the bet, then believe me, many people would give up.
Overall, it's our natural way to stand up strong when we fall down. When we lose, we motivate ourselves to stand up and keep going via upgraded version of ourselves. There are also people who can't stand the fact that they lost.