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Quote from: alegotardo on March 09, 2023, 09:40:02 PM

Yes, I've already made that mistake and I'm sure it's more common than we think.
There are a lot of zeros to type and this is actually quite complicated when we are excited, it ends up going unnoticed.

Some solutions I've seen in cassionos out there are:

Allow user to choose display unit: Bitcoin, mBTC, uBTC or Sats.
Use visual formatting: Displaying the value in Bitcoin and "painting" the first 4 digits after the dot in a different color, making them bold or with a larger font size, helps a lot.

You are right that we can place a wrong bet that is not supposed to happen where the zero is more than what you intend to type that would result in betting more than what you planned to bet. My solution for that is to zoom it if possible and then check the numbers I typed before placing the bet or even when I am sending BTC to another wallet. We should be very careful about If it is about betting compared to sending BTC to another wallet. It could also help if the device's clipboard is okay.

It is best to take a little more time to observe before submitting any bet. Many times gamblers try to catch the fixed odds which leads them to submit bets quickly. That's why all these mistakes can happen. Since there is a high probability of mistakes in such steps, caution is definitely the only solution. One should never risk losing extra money in the hope of winning an uncertain bet.

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Quote from: ethereumhunter on March 09, 2023, 09:58:45 PM

If we do get loss from gambling, it can be stressful especially after experiencing several defeats. Many people then make the mistake of increasing the bet amount higher than before. After experiencing loss, we must immediately stop and not think about recovering because it will be difficult and we will instead experience another defeat.

talking about losing can be stressful for gamblers, just imagine how the OP felt when he bet wrong just because of 0, it hurt even more and maybe he will never forget that mistake. luckily the OP only has a balance of 0.005 what if 0.5 and he wanted to place a 0.05 bet but entered the wrong 0.5 bet, it will stress OP out and maybe he will leave gambling for a while.
I myself have experienced this error although not a large number, but I can't forget it and will always remember it anytime.
and as gamblers, we must be more careful when betting, it would be better to gamble when you have free time and no one bothers you. because usually gambling when it's busy or there are friends who interrupt or always invite to chat can make mistakes in placing bets.

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Quote from: Issa56 on March 08, 2023, 02:13:33 AM

I think the mistake can happen to anybody, you shouldn't have to blame yourself for that, next time you just have to be extra careful when placing your bets next time so that you won't endup making similar mistake. It happens to me frequently, most expecially whenever am stressed and I still want to gamble, I will endup in putting wrong amount and I won't notice till the bet have have been successfully and I won't be able to cancel it again. If you have won the game you won't be regretting currently, but because you didn't win that's why you are regretting.

Right. It’s never a new thing for us especially if we gamble but our mind is out of nowhere so we lost our focus, and that’s where mistakes take place. That sad thing is you end up with an empty wallet because of that. I guess it should be a lesson for everyone to never bet if your mind is not yet ready, or deposit only an amount to your wallet that you will be used for betting, so that if ever you commit mistake again, you will not lost extra amount. But the best thing to do is, take extra careful everytime you bet so that you will minimize making mistakes.

And before we play gambling, we have to make sure that we are not stressed because that can be one of the reasons we make mistakes in placing bets. I think it's a mistake we all make in gambling and we can only regret it but we can't recover the loss even if we add more money and try to keep gambling. We can only make sure that we really put up the amount we want and don't exceed what we can afford so that if we lose, we don't suffer too many losses. That is why we have to check the amount of our bet and only then press the place button.

Even if you are not stressed upon starting up but when losing streak occur for sure we still get stress out seeing the losing streak we encounter at the time we are playing. All of us can commit mistake but we make sure that we can keep our cool as long as we can so that we will not get out of shape and we can still decide efficiently on what to do after we lose.

If we do get loss from gambling, it can be stressful especially after experiencing several defeats. Many people then make the mistake of increasing the bet amount higher than before. After experiencing loss, we must immediately stop and not think about recovering because it will be difficult and we will instead experience another defeat.

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Quote from: ethereumhunter on March 09, 2023, 05:03:09 AM

And before we play gambling, we have to make sure that we are not stressed because that can be one of the reasons we make mistakes in placing bets.

But some people gamble because they want to relax when they are stressed, I also like gambling whenever am stressed just to relax, so I don't think it can solve the problem. The best thing we should do is just to leave any amount we will be gambling with at that particular time. I believe that will also help gambling addiction, immediately the amount you deposited has finished, just stop gambling at that moment, but if you are having much money in your account, you might endup blowing up everything at once and you won't even know.

We already know it doesn't solve the problem but it can make us even more stressed when we lose. That's why I always bet with limits to prevent bigger losses. Only by controlling ourselves is what we can do and stop immediately before everything gets out of control, resulting in the loss of all the money we have. And never keep too much money in your account because that can trigger the thought that you still have a lot of money and gambling one more time would be okay.

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Quote from: Vaskiy on March 07, 2023, 10:59:35 PM

Today morning received the weeks payment. I had the payment of the previous week. Altogether it was around 0.0055 in the wallet. The first bet was planned to be 0.0005BTC. Instead of placing 0.0005BTC, I misplaced 0.005BTC and the bet was lost. This was completely unexpected and it is my fault. If the bet have won my wallet balance could've turned 0.007BTC, now it is an empty wallet.

Have any of you encountered such wrong bets and won/lost Huh

Yes, I've already made that mistake and I'm sure it's more common than we think.
There are a lot of zeros to type and this is actually quite complicated when we are excited, it ends up going unnoticed.

Some solutions I've seen in cassionos out there are:

Allow user to choose display unit: Bitcoin, mBTC, uBTC or Sats.
Use visual formatting: Displaying the value in Bitcoin and "painting" the first 4 digits after the dot in a different color, making them bold or with a larger font size, helps a lot.

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Quote from: abel1337 on March 09, 2023, 10:39:27 AM

Be careful with those decimals. If you are doing gambling for a long time, I'm pretty sure this happened to you. I myself experienced this multiple times already because of being too comfortable with the scenario I have at that current situation. Sometimes I also experience this because of being on a rush or I'm at a stimulation of adrenalin rush. Luckily I haven't experience a remarkable loss just like what OP have. Wiping out your bank roll because of a wrong bet would absolutely be a hard lesson for you.

Aside from that, always have a relaxed state of mind when gambling.

The bet amount might not be properly set if our mind is currently not in a good condition.

Next time, OP can also choose a much more convenient way of betting which is showing the bet amount in his fiat currency. In that way, the same mistake might be minimized and more of he can control his bet as he knows that exact value of it showing in their local currency.

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Quote from: Vaskiy on March 07, 2023, 10:59:35 PM

Today morning received the weeks payment. I had the payment of the previous week. Altogether it was around 0.0055 in the wallet. The first bet was planned to be 0.0005BTC. Instead of placing 0.0005BTC, I misplaced 0.005BTC and the bet was lost. This was completely unexpected and it is my fault. If the bet have won my wallet balance could've turned 0.007BTC, now it is an empty wallet.

Have any of you encountered such wrong bets and won/lost Huh

Often happens to me especially when the slots got an error while I am spinning. I often bet at the minimum amount, when some slot encounters an error they return to their default amount of bet which is either $1 or more. Being out of mind and thinks that the bet size will stay the same after refreshing the page, I often set auto spin without checking the bet size. Then boom, I found my bankroll got depleted easily.

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a few years ago, when I entered the world of betting, I used a very famous and reliable betting site, but this betting site that I used had a bitcoin subunit, so I wanted to bet 1$ on each game, I always failed and I ended up betting more, then I started using an exchange site so I could see 1$ how much it was in bitcoin but sometimes with price and bitcoin increase I made mistakes again and the saddest and regrettable thing about it is that I lost bets and lost all balance

a few months came when I started to get irritated with that situation, every time I just lost all my balance in a single bet, one day I bet on barcelona and they lost, then I put more money so I spent some time thinking and said: this will be my last bet on this site, and with that I bet on manchester united which luckily they won, so I withdrew my money and have not used the same site until today, the fault was not the site, I did not know how to convert in bitcoin subunit

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Quote from: Issa56 on March 09, 2023, 04:14:08 PM

Quote from: Lanatsa on March 09, 2023, 03:53:59 PM

But losing money isnt a relaxing thing and this is why it is really that bit contrary when we do speak about releasing out our stress which it would really make even more worst if you do lost up money.

To me gambling is not just about making money, sometimes I still take the risk to bet even if I know the chances of me losing is very high, that's the fun part of gambling to me, but mostly if am taking that kind of risk, I always do it with just little amount incase if it goes wrong I won't feel anything, and the funniest part is whenever I place that kind of bet, I always end up winning but not always, my lose is always more than win but I gamble with just little amount that even if I lose it won't affect me.

This is whats important is that you are fully aware on what you are doing.On the time that you are dealing with gambling then of course it is really just right that you should only put up or use up the money which

you can only afford to lose and wont really be tending to add more or simply become that impulsive when it comes to financial management.Its true that each person does have their own approach when it comes to gambling activity on which there are ones who are really that serious on achieving or reaching something like winning constantly or the worst on making themselves rich.

This is why its really that basing or depending on someones approach whether they do play for fun or for profits.Mistakes on betting is not that shocking imho.

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Placing wrong bets is a new level of stupid for me man, but hey let's give you the benefit of the doubt, it happened to me a couple times anyway. In times like that I huff a bit of copium and say to myself "I would've lost that bet even if I made the correct bet anyway", especially for games with multiple outcomes. It hadn't happened to me in sports games, and I'm pretty sure I'd feel a little more mad and upset about it if that would be the case since in most sports there are only two outcomes, either your team wins or they don't. Just imagine losing a bet because you made one for the wrong team man, that must have sucked. In any case, these are all the more reasons for everyone to be a little more aware of their clicks on the internet, that way you don't lose precious money and sanity in the process.

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Quote from: Lanatsa on March 09, 2023, 03:53:59 PM

But losing money isnt a relaxing thing and this is why it is really that bit contrary when we do speak about releasing out our stress which it would really make even more worst if you do lost up money.

To me gambling is not just about making money, sometimes I still take the risk to bet even if I know the chances of me losing is very high, that's the fun part of gambling to me, but mostly if am taking that kind of risk, I always do it with just little amount incase if it goes wrong I won't feel anything, and the funniest part is whenever I place that kind of bet, I always end up winning but not always, my lose is always more than win but I gamble with just little amount that even if I lose it won't affect me.

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Actually, I want to do that because it never happened to me. That kind of loss will be remembered by yours and when the price of bitcoin goes up, you'll do the calculation on how you've lost at that value. It does happen sometimes for someone who's too excited and haven't checked the figures if the ones being entered is the correct one. You can correct that mistake and will sure be one of your things to avoid for your next bets to come.

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Quote from: Issa56 on March 09, 2023, 03:42:41 PM

Quote from: ethereumhunter on March 09, 2023, 05:03:09 AM

And before we play gambling, we have to make sure that we are not stressed because that can be one of the reasons we make mistakes in placing bets.

But some people gamble because they want to relax when they are stressed, I also like gambling whenever am stressed just to relax, so I don't think it can solve the problem. The best thing we should do is just to leave any amount we will be gambling with at that particular time. I believe that will also help gambling addiction, immediately the amount you deposited has finished, just stop gambling at that moment, but if you are having much money in your account, you might endup blowing up everything at once and you won't even know.

But losing money isnt a relaxing thing and this is why it is really that bit contrary when we do speak about releasing out our stress which it would really make even more worst if you do lost up money.

Unless if you are really that expecting to lose and accepting that you are bound to lose then it would really be not that stressful. Speaking about errors and mistakes about betting then

people do really commit out these errors specially if they are on a rush and this is why if you dont like to experience that max bet mistakes then you should
really be taking things slowly and surely. Cheesy

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Quote from: Issa56 on March 09, 2023, 03:42:41 PM

Quote from: ethereumhunter on March 09, 2023, 05:03:09 AM

And before we play gambling, we have to make sure that we are not stressed because that can be one of the reasons we make mistakes in placing bets.

But some people gamble because they want to relax when they are stressed, I also like gambling whenever am stressed just to relax, so I don't think it can solve the problem. The best thing we should do is just to leave any amount we will be gambling with at that particular time. I believe that will also help gambling addiction, immediately the amount you deposited has finished, just stop gambling at that moment, but if you are having much money in your account, you might endup blowing up everything at once and you won't even know.

Yeah, some of us just gamble to stay away from the stress that we might have that week or that day. It's just that it was a big accident on the part of OP, and we can't blame him for making that big mistake as I also experience that kind of betting in the past.

And I will say that it's human nature to make that kind of mistakes not just in gambling but in our life itself. It's just how we are going to learn and not to make that blunder in the future.

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Quote from: ethereumhunter on March 09, 2023, 05:03:09 AM

And before we play gambling, we have to make sure that we are not stressed because that can be one of the reasons we make mistakes in placing bets.

But some people gamble because they want to relax when they are stressed, I also like gambling whenever am stressed just to relax, so I don't think it can solve the problem. The best thing we should do is just to leave any amount we will be gambling with at that particular time. I believe that will also help gambling addiction, immediately the amount you deposited has finished, just stop gambling at that moment, but if you are having much money in your account, you might endup blowing up everything at once and you won't even know.

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Wow! That's a mighty loss. It saddens me greatly to hear this. You may put your trust in me since I understand how frustrating it is to make such basic errors that end up having such severe consequences. It's aggravating, and it's easy to start questioning one's own judgment and pondering alternate solutions.

It's okay, though; we've all felt that way at some point. Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose, and occasionally things don't go as planned when you place a bet. Realize that setbacks are inevitable and temporary, and don't let them discourage you from going for the big prize the next time around.

Now, I always preach that the best way to treat a problem is to prevent it from happening in the first place. So, take a big breath and make sure you've thought of everything before making any wagers. It may be an inconvenience, but it's preferable to losing a lot of money because of an oversight.

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Quote from: xSkylarx on March 09, 2023, 12:40:14 AM

That was a huge bet, and it's a loss. If that's a win, then it's okay. I am not sure if this happened to me before, as I am always keen on checking zeros before hitting a bet because, as you know, I am very into attention to details and I don't want to be wrong, so I always check it. You should be always double checking this or also try to bet like using other forms of cryptocurrency that are whole like doge so that you won't be having problems on zeros, but if you are just keen on checking it then it is okay.

If it's destined to happen, it will happen no matter what a person does to prevent this from happening. If we use tokens that are whole, we will definitely do something like instead of betting 44, we will bet 444 and that again will be a problem. The only thing that can prevent this from happening is the presence of mind at that moment and your luck.

If a person is not destined to lose money on that day, even if they make such a mistake, they will win the bet and then once they realize that they messed up the first bet, they would change it but fortunately, they would still be able to play more since they didn't lose the unintentional big bet.

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Be careful with those decimals. If you are doing gambling for a long time, I'm pretty sure this happened to you. I myself experienced this multiple times already because of being too comfortable with the scenario I have at that current situation. Sometimes I also experience this because of being on a rush or I'm at a stimulation of adrenalin rush. Luckily I haven't experience a remarkable loss just like what OP have. Wiping out your bank roll because of a wrong bet would absolutely be a hard lesson for you.

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Personally, I have never experienced such mistake, possibly because I am always very careful when typing in bet amount, I type it in, then crosscheck it again before hitting the confirm button.

And again, to avoid mistakes like this, is one of the reasons why I prefer to gamble in usdt instead of bitcoin or any other coin, to achieve this, I usually withdraw my weekly payment out of stake into an exchange where I convert it to usdt, then deposit usdt back into stake and play as much as I want until my bankroll turns zero.

Or you could also switch to betting in usd worth of coin(bitcoin for example) and not in the coin's worth itself, this I believe would help avoid mistakes as this.

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Quote from: Vaskiy on March 07, 2023, 10:59:35 PM

Today morning received the weeks payment. I had the payment of the previous week. Altogether it was around 0.0055 in the wallet. The first bet was planned to be 0.0005BTC. Instead of placing 0.0005BTC, I misplaced 0.005BTC and the bet was lost. This was completely unexpected and it is my fault. If the bet have won my wallet balance could've turned 0.007BTC, now it is an empty wallet.

Have any of you encountered such wrong bets and won/lost Huh

Lol, it could have been even worse if you had a balance of 0.05 and used it all wrongly in a single bet.
So pay attention when you are gambling and making transfers. Pay attention when using cryptocurrencies.
Fortunately I haven't made any such mistakes yet because I make sure to look at my amount every time I make a bet or transaction.
This is what everyone should do as it can save us from doing such blunders.

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Its always happened when making a bets that's why you need to consider too taking a look to the number of the amount or depends on the currency you are using that's why when I'm making a bet with the gambling casino is I always consider a conversation of the bet I will made to prevent the same thing of mistakes but if I made a bet in USD its always rarely happens to me when making a bet because I know already the price than the put of number of zero into my bets.

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