Quote from: madnessteat on July 11, 2025, 01:49:07 PM

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Quote from: GIF-JOBS on July 04, 2025, 04:07:29 PM

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Winning is like a pill when taken you will want more and more and you begin to gradually do beyond the usual as you now see that it has become rewarding and so you can get something really nice from it, this is exactly what happens to some gamblers, they then begin to want more that they no longer gamble just for the fun or entertainment alone because they have seen they can get more than just entertainment from gambling so they begin to intensify and increase their stake, habit and they get in to problems sooner because they lacked self control and all their funds will be lost in the end.

People have excessive greed, due to which people can easily get deeply involved in gambling, it happens to most gamblers that they initially come to gamble only for entertainment, but later when they get some wins they become excessively greedy, then it is no longer just entertainment but they want to continuously win through it, and through it they keep moving towards disaster. Here self-control, limitations, and discipline must be maintained, without these, gambling can definitely bring huge losses.
Winning is like a pill when taken you will want more and more and you begin to gradually do beyond the usual as you now see that it has become rewarding and so you can get something really nice from it, this is exactly what happens to some gamblers, they then begin to want more that they no longer gamble just for the fun or entertainment alone because they have seen they can get more than just entertainment from gambling so they begin to intensify and increase their stake, habit and they get in to problems sooner because they lacked self control and all their funds will be lost in the end.

It begins as a time killer. And that is what everybody says. You win a bit and everything goes out of balance - sharper, hungrier, louder. The air changes. The sense that you have discovered the back door out of the normal life, and you want to get back in. All gamblers are familiar with this taste, include the ones who say they are not. The majority are unable to explain why a twenty-dollar win on a slot is more real than a day salary.

Nobody teaches you about thresholds, only to “be careful”. But the threshold is not visible, and it changes. Each time you win, you are convinced you can repeat it, like you are training a muscle. The phone pings--a new bonus. You say to yourself it is only fun. Everyone does. This is the reason why it works.

It's easy to preach discipline. Harder to accept how slippery the ground gets when luck is in your favor. There is a moment (call it the shimmer) where you forget why you started, and the game becomes about not letting go. Most won't talk about it. Fewer will admit how much they lost chasing that shimmer.