Has anyone tried to stop but still come back even bet a small amount?
Because "Sometimes maybe good, sometimes maybe shit".

When u lose everything u feel depress but when u win big that moment only last maybe 1-7 days.
What is the best advise we all can use here?

it's all adrenalin, you pay for adrenalin

i play once in a while, limit to once a month max. never more than that

keep a rule for yourself and STICK to it.

play little for fun, not to the extent you risk your saving and retirement and family fund.

Find other "poison" to replace it.

I think the best advice is this: you need to consider how far the odds are against you. If you have an edge (you have an advantage of some sort, whether it is information, skill - although gamblers usually overrate themselves), then only is it wise to do it long term.

There is no point in gambling in a game where you have a net disadvantage before you even make a bet - you can see games and the dealer's edge online. Over 1,000 games why are you surprised if you come out with a loss. Principally, it the only thing that keeps you going is "this is the one" - when statistically you're going to lose.

In short: accept you're going to lose money if you're entering a negative EV (expected value) of the outcome of your gambling. Don't expect to win money. If you win money, you got lucky and that's it. If you keep gambling, you're statistically going to lose it. The only thing you should continuously enter are positive EV bets - and those aren't found in the casino. You're going to dig yourself into a bigger hole with negative EV bets.

Do productive thing & let the productive activity improving your life financially.

Gambling is actually counter productive activity & bring no value to the life (apart for entertainment). When I was small, I used to gamble with family, either playing cards or mahjong. At the end of the session, you either win the money from your family members or lose the money to your family members. The amount of the money is close loop. End of the day, you loose all the time playing the stupid games which can be used to do more memorable stuffs.

If you gamble externally, you must able to do these

1) Have the thinking that the money lost will not make come back, stop thinking of revenge gambling. Just call it a quick & you will be good. 99.9% gamblers can't quit because they cannot let go the money they have lost to date. They always have thinking, I just need 1 last round to recoup the losses but that last round never last, they got trapped further & further.

2) Stop the urge to get immediate monetary gain. Every thing need time. If you cannot overcome this, your will be exploited mentally into gambling because only gambling will give you immediate lose/win result.

Once an old man said, if you are alcoholic, you might quit when your liver damaged, gallbladder removed, or any serious illness appear, But If you are a gambler, you bankrupt, wife died, children died, you die die continue gambling.


I think it's might true. Gambling is harder to quit than smoking and alcohol, because there always have changes to get something out of it.

Maybe professional can help. With self restriction, not many people can do that. Other gambler will be the devil to drag you back to the hell. Unless you totally cut off the circle

Simple . Gamble the money that u can afford to lose . Dont ever ever gamble till u need to borrow or get loan .

Gambling is never a good thing.

This is why..

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20160721...people-gambling

That scary？
I don't know why, I just can't get attracted by gambling.
I only gamble during CNY. But those just let my nephews, niece and cousin happy. I purposely lose for them for their CNY pocket money.
Rare occasion I few extremely lucky even want to lose also difficult.

But still feel no attracted. I am more attracted by the environment surrounded by laugh and happiness during gambling at CNY.

This post has been edited by e_mc_square: Sep 26 2022, 03:55 PM

Slowly lower your stake.. feed your addiction with lower bets.

I mean, just look at that production.

Give yourself the fighting chance bro

addicted to gamble usually means u dun have hobby or interest to try anything that's away from ur knowledge, hence look for fun or adrenaline rush from something that can easily achieve by using money

i'd suggest u go and explore into something else that might gain ur interest

Just wanted to share my story and a story of my former business partner.

My parent retire early as they own several businesses that they started from scratch and it's in a stage where they no longer need to participate that much in managing it. An associate / friend from same industry of them brought them to Genting, introduced into gambling, particularly Baccarat. Weird to say, they initially won quite a sum from numerous trips. About 2-3 trips / week. They have those weird ideas / strategy and whenever I chat with them, it's always about gambling. Then they started to lose money, mostly because they more comfortable to bet bigger and to try on their so-called strategy. In just 6 months, they lost about 800K. I mean it's their money, can't really say much as a son. But, their behaviour change into more aggressive especially when they lose money. Genting doesn't help but entice them with repeated offer of upgrades, from normal card to silver to gold plus. Free rooms, free concerts, free bunch of stuff especially if you buy their non-redeemable chips. The relationship between my parents is also down because of the constant argument, something like my Dad not following the discussed strategy or my Mom doing impulsive betting, etc. So, about a year into their worsening relationship and not to mention the loss of over a million plus, me and my siblings gave an ultimatum, and also bring them to those Buddhist sort of gathering, and thankfully, it's like a demon removed from them. Nowadays, they only go like once a month, and it's just like a leisure vacation. I mean, money is nothing, but relations went down the drain, easily agitated, and relate everything with gambling.

I have a business partner in doing importing and exporting pre-owned, he came from family of founding fathers of our nation, the old money. So, every generation has it's worst offspring and my friend's father happened to be the one. Youngest among siblings, if I'm not mistaken, he was given land and cash worth about RM5Mil and that's in 1980's. That guy can gamble everything away, bankrupt and become a taxi driver before my business partner even started secondary school in 1990's. There's always people knocking on the door, and my friend and his family have to keep quiet in a room, pretending no one is home, always live in fear, and you thought the father learned his lesson, sadly no. Whatever he earned, he gambled. The mom have to resort to washing dishes at restaurant to supplement the income. My friend hates gambler, to the level that he doesn't tolerate gambling during CNY.

So, my friend, gambling has no future. It's not just about losing money. Money is nothing, but you loses more than that.

Try to bet with finger

If u lost one finger doubt u will continue gamble

You don't quit gambling. You out-smart others in gambling and you win.

You are not betting on the odds, you are betting in what you believe in. That is confidence.

Live life in self confidence, believing in yourself.

Thank me later

This post has been edited by jojolicia: Sep 26 2022, 05:36 PM

I only gamble money i’m willing to lose

Say i go genting i set 5k, if lose all then i go home lor. If win is like bonus

Magnum motto "ada magnum, ada surprise"...
Bet small win small, bet big win big ...
Bet Rm2 if kena complain why no bet big abit .
Bet Rm20 if no kena complain why bet so big pulak .
Tepuk dada ikut selera ok....
Sekian

wah ur dad so rich lost 1 mil, macam normal saja.

becoz i know im too poor to lose

that is how my friend ruined his life before graduation