Quote from: Silberman on July 14, 2023, 08:06:39 PM

Losing is never a nice experience as every single person out there has a sense of win or loss and they want for things to turn out on their favor, and even if we understand that when we gamble the odds are against us we still want for things to go our way, however there are gamblers which take this too far and instead of accepting that defeat is part of gambling they stubbornly decide to keep gambling in order to transform their loss into a win, not realizing they are just transforming a small loss into a big loss instead.

If someone has experienced a loss or a losing streak, he should stop immediately because that could trigger him to recover his losses by playing longer bets. This will not work in their favour as they will play with such passion that they will lose control of themselves and again, they will lose. The next loss may be even bigger and harbouring disappointment from the previous defeat, making them even more disappointed. And they can keep playing gambling until they lose in large numbers.

Quote from: Fivestar4everMVP on July 14, 2023, 09:24:24 PM

Lets us make it look entirely like such move doesn't favor some gamblers, what I believe we should be talking about is the fact that, such move doesn't favor most gambler, it only favors the very lucky few..
I am talking about chasing after gambling losses, and one other thing I must lay emphasis on is that, losing is not such a bad thing after all, it all depends on the gamblers and their individual mindset, if a gambler is losing and yet, keep gambling, and still losing but refuse to stop, that's very fine as long as he is OK with the loses.

But then again, if the gambler is losing and refuse to stop gambling, and later on comes around to complain about losing too much, then such a gambler is mentally ill.

Trying to catch up on gambling losses will only increase the number of our losses and even get bigger because there is no guarantee we can win in the next round. We should immediately change our mindset so that we don't have to experience big losses or consecutive losses, especially since we have often seen many people suffer consecutive losses. If we have lost, it is better to rest and even better if we stop gambling at that time. That means we care more about ourselves than chasing losses that are difficult to recover from.

Quote from: Docnaster on July 14, 2023, 09:33:08 PM

It's one thing to be very conversant with something but a totally different different thing to be an addict of something. In reality, they have similar attributes but the later is more difficult to let go than the former.
It's very difficult for a gambling addict to wake up one morning and say that he's not gonna gamble again. But I think the best way to help an addict is to get a therapist who can help in talk him/her away from the addiction and also proffer other meaningful things he can do apart from gambling

When we see that someone close to us has a gambling addiction, we can try to help him by taking him to a therapist to get help. But we shouldn't force him because it's not his wish, so we can only suggest it. Or we can invite him to create a new habit that will make him forget the thought of gambling so that slowly he can realize that he is too deep into gambling. And doing something like that can at least make the gambling addict realize that he has to fix it soon or his life will be messier.

Quote from: Wakate on July 14, 2023, 11:50:45 PM

It is very important for us to always accept our loses and nit because we made some loses and go and come back to get it back. I know many of us might have made this kind of mistake before which might have resulted in a big loses that we never expected. The more we gamble, the more experience we are going to get that will guide us on making decisions that could help those would are newbies in gambling. Loses is not as a result of bad strategy or in accurate planning but it is a normal thing that every gamblers do experience as a player. You either win or lose.

Many of us make mistakes along the way and cause us to experience big losses in gambling and only by realizing it is all we can do, we want to fix it. By reflecting on what we have done and gained from gambling, at least we can see whether gambling has brought benefits or harm to us so that we can think about stopping and staying away from gambling. It will also reduce the emotional tension we get because the more often we experience defeat, our emotions will be triggered and cause us to get angry easily.