As long as we don't try to chase our loss when we are playing because this will lead us to greed without realizing it for sure in the end that usually a lot of people fall into it wrongly.
When someone has decided to gamble they must be ready to accept all the risks that will come including losing money with their initial capital, they must not be too carried away by the emotional atmosphere that causes us to make a re-deposit to chase the loss because we will be more restless and cause us to lose money for the umpteenth time.
Being practical like will lead you to a much better outcome, I mean win or lose it's acceptance that going to lead you to stop and will not going to create any fear whatever the outcome, just need that mentality to make sure that emotions will not let you being greed or feel that fear of losing your money.
Be consistent and always ready to accept your fate while playing, and important thing before you take step inside gambling, you must have that sets of limitation and make sure to make that hard stop everytime you reached your target.
Greed has been a major issue for gamblers, they only get to realise themselves when they have lost everything. It's quite unfortunate that most gamblers repeat this often and make a decision to change but their next meetings always turns out to be thesame as the previous on. Controlling ones greed requires lots of sacrifice and discipline put together. Greedy gambling often leads to making irresponsible decision and that could lead to bankruptcy or even a more consistent occurrence such as addiction. One has to know when to say no to some thoughts that comes up while gambling. The knowledge of how destructive gambling can be when you fail to have self control, should be enough to keep you from getting addicted.