Yesterday, when I was playing Crash, I have caught myself thinking that I watch on how much people bet, how much they won and lose. First I have felt envy, when I saw one guy bet 200-300 bucks all the time for half and hour and cashed out with 2+ multiplier. Among bets in range of 1 sat to a dollar, he was really standing out. Then I have noticed a guy who was betting a dollar and did not cash out until rocket passes 10x. I was also amazed how a guy bet 1k, and lost it when the rocket banged at 1.00x, then he immediately made another 1k bet and the rocket banged at 1.03x. Then I saw him winning +5k bucks.
That is how the idea of this topic appeared. I watch others gamble, I watch how the bet, I start to think about betting more than usually. Do you have such feeling also? Do you have a feeling that if others make large bets, that you also must bet large, otherwise you would feel like uncomfortable, or feel like a poor among rich, or something of that kind.
I have involved myself in this in the past when I was taking a personal study on how people behave when they gamble and what propels their stake. I noticed that those who win are happy and those who lose are easily triggered to violence. Sometimes, those winning increase their stake and those losing reduce their stake and tries to pick safer games to stay longer gambling. When he wins he forgets about all his misfortune. Gamblers don`t keep note of their losses when they win.
On that day, I got myself masked in different feelings. When someone wins I have wished I was the one and the expenses the money would have covered for me. Is that greed? To me, no. We all want good things to happen to us and wishing for fortune is not greed. Also, those unfortunate gamblers I felt pity for them and saw most of them as irrational with the thought that they shouldn`t have gambled with such an amount. It was then I realized that the only reason people frown at gambling is because of losing. If you always win people will wish to be you but can you always win? No, this is why no matter how I felt that day I never envied anyone because you might win today but what happens tomorrow?