I was meeting a friend of mine who is a betting enthusiast at Christmas, and we got to talking about gambling. And of course we touched on the topic of how people generally feel the first signs of addiction. Those very ones when something changes after the first easy betting decisions.
He said that for him it was like this: he began to understand that sitting at home on a weekend, he wanted to give luck a chance. I mean, there were no games of his favorite team that day, or games of teams that he knows well and whose victories are easy to predict. He said that he just wanted the feeling that the bet is open, and it doesn’t matter on what. And he didn’t like it. And I agree that this was clearly not a productive approach to betting.