How to Limit Your Casino Play: The Psychology of Gambling! Casino vs Poker. By GoldKing

Every gambler who plays at casinos looks for the most effective ways to put limits on themselves when they suffer big losses. It’s psychologically hard to stop the moment you’ve lost a significant amount, there’s always the urge to win it back, but most of the time that just leads to losing all the funds in your casino deposit wallets.

Lately, higher-end casinos have been adding self-exclusion features for a month, two months and more, up to permanent self-exclusion without account recovery, and there are also various sites offering help to people with gambling problems, but trust me, that’s just another psychological trick for a gambler.

Only people who have only recently started playing at casinos or those who can control their actions can actually limit their play (and there are very few of those). I can’t offer any foolproof methods for self-limitation, because I’ve already tried every method. I can only suggest picking up something to do, distracting yourself from gambling forums and from watching all those streams on YouTube, though when you’re online it’s really hard to do. I managed to quit for a while when I was working on developing and promoting one-page sites, but as soon as I had a decent amount of money, I went back to playing.

However, temporary self-limitation after a big win is quite possible. Try not to play at all for some time, make a list of the things you dreamed about and the plans you had. Treat yourself to a restaurant visit, buy something worthwhile for your significant other, finally buy something for yourself that will cheer you up even when you lose. Windfall money (won at a casino) can bring you either joy or disappointment. Disappointment when you lose the whole win again, and joy when you spend that money usefully, but in the end a big win will always bring psychological disappointment, because afterward you’ll want to win an even bigger amount than before.

The conclusion is simple: play for fun, but that kind of fun eventually leads to total self-exclusion, believe me I know what I’m talking about, I’ve been through it all. Now playing doesn’t bring me pleasure and the thrill is no longer a mood, just a temporary dose of a drug.

The decision is yours! Stop right now or keep looking for new ways to self-limit and beat the psychology of gambling.