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Board Gambling discussion
Re: When you're winning you can't sleep
by
mak013
on 20/07/2025, 19:12:59 UTC
I have seen one interview of a former gambler and what he is saying caught my attention. He says that "when you're winning you can't sleep". I'm not sure if others have experience it or if this make sense. In any case though, one explanation is that we are really in a heightened alert, meaning it's like gambling is like a drugs that keeps up alive and awake and then the human emotions of greed takes in as we want to win for. But the problem is that after that, and in worse case if our luck turns bad, then this drug will like shoot to 100->0 in a instant. Or like when we are about to go to bed and suddenly that inch comes along and let's say that we go on sports bet, but the game will start in the next couple of hours, then we might have difficulty in sleeping and as if we take like 4 cups of coffee or a energy drink because we will for sure can't wait to see that game and hope that our stakes is going to win.
It may be true for some situations: if the odd is huge, if you need just last win in parlay, if you bet a huge sum. May be something else. But it depends on gambler and his strategy. I`ve got such emotions just once - i won single bet with odd 14, and bet size was about my weekly salary. But mostly i make lots of small enough bets, so there are no serious emotions from the winning - just one more time.