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Board Gambling discussion
Re: Is this what we called "addictive to gamble"?
by
jakelyson
on 06/08/2016, 08:29:26 UTC
we know that most of the times we lost on gambling, but instead of stopping we keep on playing for the next day

after we lost, we got frustrated but we still back to play, is this called "gamble addiction"?

Yes, this is exactly a sign of a gambling addiction. But IMO if you know you will lose it's not as bad as if you think you can really win. If your addiction to gambling is limited to losing couple of dollars per week it's not that bad, right?
But the problem with us is when we are already losing hard we cannot stop as we don't just want to stop with a losing record. We cannot accept that a certain day we are losing, we don't have the right attitude in gambling and failed to understand that losing is part of the game.

Yeah, i agree with you. When people lose their bet, they will bet more to win back their loses and the worst they losing their money more and they become addictive.
When you are chasing bets sometimes you will the amount that is not intended for gambling because once you have the money with you or available at your access the emotion is really strong that you will not stop if you can win in the game, indiscipline gambling likes to win big or go home.

And will go home the most of the time. For example I know this from my experience in slot machines. They are so addictive that they keep making your mind believe that this next spin will make me a winner and maybe I even win the jackpot and change my life for the better when in fact they only change your life for the worst as they make you lose every cent you have.

I do not know what is in slot machines that many are addicted to it. There is not much you do there, just pulling the lever. I would be more addicted to poker because you have to use analyze your opponents and read them to predict their hand. The feeling of correctly predicting a bluff from not is very gratifying.  But i do not involve myself much in it because i know the negative effect of becoming addicted to it.