Quote from: ethereumhunter on Today at 05:25:03 AM

Quote from: temple on December 03, 2023, 01:47:26 PM

But I still don't get the idea why a specific moment to stop should be better than another moment for as long as I understand that gambling is a losing game if I only do it for a long enough period of time. Because maybe I do stop today, but what about tomorrow with my next session? 99.9999% of gamblers in the world don't stop gambling entirely and never touch it again when they had one lucky streak. That is the most unrealistic thing ever. Over time my lucky streak will turn into what it was supposed to be from the very beginning, a game that makes me lose money over a long period of time.

If you can master good self-control, you can control yourself whenever you gamble, even if it is the next day, because you know that gambling is for fun and not to make money. Most gamblers will not stop gambling completely, but they should be able to reduce their gambling activities, especially when they start gambling too often. Actually, it doesn't have to coincide with a certain moment to be able to stop gambling because you decide when you gamble and when you have to stop gambling. If you can't determine it, you will have difficulties and it will result in losing money when gambling. Continuing to gamble means we take a greater risk of losing. And if we have won but don't stop gambling, it may be because our greed tells us to keep playing and we take bigger risks to face what we will receive later.

It might also depend on who that person is that won big once in a lifetime. If it is someone who knew forever how to deal with money, how to avoid buying unnecessary items and whatever else some could afford, then it might be possible that someone just walks away from gambling.

But there are many examples also of lottery winners who wasted their money in a way that at first seemed to be impossible. That's why I said 99.999% because I doubt that it is the overwhelming minority which would stop gambling forever.