Dear all,
Does this happen a lot more often than I think? Winning very big, resulting in losing it all PLUS a huge part of your own money?
In November I won a great amount of money from slot games. I felt like I could play forever with only small bets. Before that I didn't do any high betting, or raising a bet etc.
But, my mind just didn't want to play small anymore from that period on. I simply didn't want to, which ended in losses of high ammount.
Trying to win that (by that time still "won") money back I kept raising and raising my bets at the slots. And that resulted last week in losing all of the firstly "won" money, and spending a part of my own savings on it.
So the casino got all of my big win back AND a part of my savings. Because I kept thinking I could win big again. My gambling mind still thinks like that at the moment, as I notice.
How often does it work like this? :(( I feel so terribly stupid giving it all back AND a part of my savings. I just feel such an urge to win big again. But I know it won't stop by then, so now I am gf 6 days. But pfff such big big cravings I have these days :((
And feeling stupid for what I have done, and then again the urge to win it back, and then the desire of a "big win" adrenaline shot. It just feels really difficult to stop after such a big win for me. 🙁
Dear xCharlotte,
Thank you for posting on our forum, you are very welcome. Chasing loses is a topic which comes up a lot and I am sure you will get other forum users sharing their experiences.
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Thank you, and I indeed have read about it a lot. It is sooo extremely difficult not to chase the losses.
As for me, knowing I have won such big amounts earlier, my gamble mind tells me I can still win it back. It is so difficult to say "no" to that voice. It keeps coming back to me and saying, you can win big blablabla. #hatethatvoice
This is exactly what happened to me. First of all, winning felt amazing. But then I won over **, then nearly **, and by the time I was winning over ** from one spin, nothing else compared. I needed to win bigger and bigger to get the same high as I had from ** in the beginning. Now I have a lot of debt and a lot of guilt as well. I am 22 days gf and don't feel the urge as much as I did 2 weeks ago. You are definitely not alone x
@m6j0ynz3ua thank you for your reply!
Great that you are at 22 days now!! I am at not even half of it, and feeling so many urges. Good to hear the urges got less with you! I hope that will also happen to me. The urges feel terrible, as if they are into my impulsive actions, hard to control.
And yes, pfff so difficult how our mind just makes us think about the big wins. The higher we win, the higher we want again and again. 🙁 But I also know that was so much luck ánd I will lose it all again and more of my own. I guess it is also the thrill that I am missing. Pfff I just really hope it gets easier by time 🙁
Winning always drew me to play more - I felt like I couldn't lose, reality was I could. I gambled so long that wins didn't have any feeling anymore and if I lost the panic and misery was still waiting for me after a session.
I've had that feeling:
That you've won once and its due, it'll happen again, the slots hot...But its just RNG. Its random and the more and more money I put in on the chase does eventually eat into the money I hadn't intended on playing because I wanted to be back to the balance of the big win...Odd but yes this caused me to chase the loss of the win...Then out of desperation I'd increase the stake to factor for the excessive amount I'd put in because I want (Need) a bigger win to balance out for the extra money I've played. As the balance goes down faster and faster the panic and realisation comes that I've lost the win and spent more money...Then the balance hits zero.
Its happened to me many times over and its got me into really tough issues with money and struggling to get by. I've lost chased and also won and felt like I can't lose which was a really bad mindset for me. Either way I can't gamble anymore.
I'm coming up to my first year gamble free. I wouldn't go back and don't have the urge to do so.
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