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Board Gambling discussion
Re: How do you handle losses?
by
Hispo
on 25/06/2025, 23:26:48 UTC
We don’t really like talking about things like this, but I think this kind of topic is important and should be discussed among gamblers. Most of the time, we only want to talk about winning, and because of that, we sometimes forget that losing is not just possible, but something we’ll experience more often than winning. So let’s take some time to talk about it -- how do you handle losses?


If the loss during my session is big enough to make me feel bad or affect my mood in some way, the first step I take is to log out the casino (so I wont fall for the temptation to chase those losses). After logging out I try to distract myself and forget about the money I just lost and not to think about what I could have bought or gotten with that money. I go for a walk, I play some video game, I try to focus on being productive in other things which are conpletely unrelated to gambling and keep my mind busy.
It could take me up to a week before I get over the loss and can continue as of nothing happened.
Usually, such experience would lead me to adjust my wager in order to reduce my risk and not to feel the same way if I happen to lose again to the casino in a bad luck streak.

If things got really bad, I would talk about what I feel and the cause of it to someone I trust, like my family or a close friend of mine.