Gambler's Gossips|Everything Gets Blame

This comment was brought up to show that gamblers will put the blame on any thing they can think of. The paragraph below summed up the most common complains among gamblers when experiencing losses. All it takes is for others to agree and it becomes an acceptable blame. In due time it will be a superstition.

Always maintain the fighting spirit.There are always influence in the game to divert you but stay focus. Eg (over limit for the table which require discarding away of the excess, quarreling among players, throwing card, pantang (taboo) stuff, waiting that caused impatience, changing money in the table to add on to distraction, scare inside your heart and scare to lose, frustration of half payment with B6 game, tie game, accidentally had your shoes stepped on, no mood because loss a lot earlier, no longer have fighting spirit, change dealer and supervisor between interval, dealer taking out chips from table like trying to kill time, etc), going to toilet, a lot of prediction from gamblers which can mess up yours, etc. All this makes you lose focus and concentration. These technique/rules clouds your bet selection.

This is the right idea. Distraction tactics will made its way the the list of gambling fallacies if we allow it. Instead of trying to deal with these distraction, we are usually caught up with blaming our wrong bet selection on anything that had caused the distraction. The list will be never ending. Pushing the blame makes us feel better and that is the reason it is a natural reaction. By not accepting our mistakes, we will not learn from it.

There is always a devil in the inner self and that controls you. Most people are scare after losing a lot but insist on playing to fight back. Their accuracy judgment have drop a lot due to some resistant in them. Eg, a capital rm10k was used to gamble. After losing rm7k your fighting spirit is gone. In order to win back, you have to play big since you will not likely win every round and this increases the risk. In most cases you will win a hand but lose several hands. If this keeps happening you will be wiped out. You may even take more money out if you chase losses.

On your next trip you bring another rm10k capital and loss again. With greater overall loss the scare feeling becomes stronger. You are indifferent. You want to play but scare of losing again but if you want to win back previous losses you need to play. These conflicts are very dangerous in gambling.

Post#364 on Dec 14 2007, 01:32 PM at lowyat forum

Since the subsequent paragraphs looks at the mental battle in a gambler's mind when facing losses, it is just worth some mention. The account of fear daunting the gambler is detailed out clearly. Fighting a losing battle is mentally exhausting and it is enough to keep screwing up your judgment. Constantly thinking about previous loss drive you to chase it. This will eventually tip you over to irresponsible gambling habits.