Mostly, here I hear about how dangerous loss is, it ends many lives and can put someone in big trouble. This is a clear issue, and people are protecting themselves from it. However, there is another thing that can also ruin one's life, and that is winning. Winning is the sweet and a pleasurable trap where you can stuck your life happily without knowing that it engulfs you until it comes to an end.
When you win, you think that you know gambling better and assume that luck is on your side, which leads you to jump into a big risky bet. You start losing, and at that stage, you change your mind to recover the money that you lost and start chasing it, falling into the trap. All your winnings and original money are gone, leaving only regret and sadness on your side.
The purpose of making this thread is to share your experiences with others about how you lost and fell into this hidden and unknown trap. The second piece of advice is that whenever you win, keep that money and leave for the day before you lose all your money.
You are absolutely correct in your thinking that winning can be as bad as losing sometimes even worse. People usually lose touch of the dangers because of the excitement of winning. You have the tendency to start thinking that you have a strategy or that you are somehow invincible, still the thing is that this kind of thinking only makes you fall that much lower. You can easily be carried away by the notion of repeated success and end up placing more bets than one should and you can run out of control getting into the loop of the next big feed and lose much money by doing so. I have witness it to some of my friends and even to myself, it is like getting on something high and finishing it off by a crash.
The trick, you see is knowing when to quit. It is difficult to leave when you are on a winning streak and keep that money in your pocket, although it is the only way of saving yourself of what pertains to the dangers of winning too much. The thing is that it is all about balance, about understanding that it is a game, nothing is ever so guaranteed. It is true there is no other way except setting boundaries to yourself and living within them so that you do not find yourself in that trap. The remorse of losing all you really won is dreadful worse than the retention of something in the pocket.