Quote from: entertheabyss on Today at 09:37:30 PM

We are used to say that a gambler should gamble with an amount he can afford to lose but in the actual sense do we think there is any amount a gambler can afford to lose? When a gambler places a stake what he sees is not the stake but the potential win.

If what drives your interest is the potential win that only gets printed on a betting slip, without an assurance that you're going to get paid anyway, then it's safe to say that you're too gullible. That's the easiest way to set a trap and pull yourself to your own doom.

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This is why when he does not win he panics regardless of how little the stake is and he will always mention the potential win rather than the stake as the amount lost.

In most cases, the staked amount may be too small and insignificant, that anyone would forgo and look out for the best part of what it can fetch back.

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The gambling system especially sports betting works in a way that as a game plays the value of the stake keeps increasing and what may appear to be what the gambler can afford to lose may rise and become what he can no longer afford to lose and this becomes a source of concern for the gambler if he losses the bet. In fact, if a gambler accumulates the total of what he thinks he can afford to lose he would know that he is losing what he cannot afford to lose.

In this case, the problem isn't what he thinks he can afford to lose, but how well he's able to control his spending habits.