Ive been gambaling for over 20 years at local casinos and yearly trips to vegas. Brief history grew up trailer park poor and now have 7 figure net worth. My question that i dont uderstand when i read people's life story is this. Why do you guys bte so high. If i play bj or uth. I never play at atable over 10$ perfering 5$ limits. If the casino dosnt have those limts i dont play. If i play slots I play 1.25 to 2.50 a spin. Why do you need to play such high amounts that you lose everything. I truly dont understand can you help me. I gamble probably twice a month playing most of my disposable income for the month but once the monies gone im done for the rest of the month. Can you not wait 2 weeks. Im not judging i just dont understand.
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My question is, why are you in an addiction space if you don’t have a problem with your gambling? I don’t have issues with alcohol but I can’t go to an Alcoholics space and ask why they can’t control their addiction. You’ve overstepped your boundaries fr.
It’s like any addiction – over time you feel that you need greater and greater amounts of the behaviour or substance to get the same effect as before. In this case the size of bets and potential wins. It’s something that progresses, over months, years, decades.
Think about the alcoholic drinking 35 beers a day – they didn’t start out that way – they gradually got to that point because their body built up tolerance/adjusted along the way.
I think it’s dopamine and mentally connected. The average person can gamble regularly. Some bet small and still lose it all so it’s not the amounts. It’s something chemically inside of the brain that craves dopamine hits. This is like drugs to some.
If it was a conscious choice none of us would gamble that heavy and repetitive.
It’s like asking a squirrel why cross the rode and risk it all for one nut when it’s nuts everywhere.
It normally starts out that way but for some people, myself included, we can become robots feeding the machines when we don’t want to
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Thank you for sharing. Noone else needs to reply. After i posted I felt like overstepped my question and do apologize to anyone possiable offended
You could have taken the time to spell a few words correctly. I don’t understand how someone with money can be excited or feel anything over a small bet. If I have money then winning 50$ doesn’t have any impact, higher bets equals more impact and a bigger rush. It’s like asking options traders why they don’t just buy an etf, isn’t the reason quite obvious? There is also the compulsive component but this isn’t really a forum to ask people what a compulsion is it’s kind of demeaning, like asking someone why they didn’t eat less donuts after they got diabetes. I had hundreds of thousands, 100$ bets were too small to be meaningful and thousands weren’t enough to step away. The stakes had to be there
Most cant afford to bet high. We’re still losing it all on small bets.
You end up chasing the feeling and naturally you will need to increase the stakes to feel something similar to the first time you gambled. I also thought the same thing before I became an addict but I honestly understand that looking in it seems strange to get caught by it
When you play online, the machines are usually in turbo mode. A single spin often takes about one second. So you keep spinning and spinning while waiting for a bonus.
Let’s say you’re spinning at $2.50, as you mentioned (which is already a very high bet). If you enable auto-spin, it only takes around **six minutes** for the slot machine to swallow **$1,000** of your balance.
And since online casinos are designed in a way that makes you lose track of time, you barely have time to sit down before your entire balance is already gone.