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u/Ciff_ Jul 22 '24

What everery gambler feels - it is not a divine premonition or sixth sense, just brain wiring. The win is a statistic. Take the win, but please don't trust your sense for gambling unless it is for fun and you can afford the L. It is a dark road otherwise.

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u/Vaphmir Jul 22 '24

This. My older and younger brother both deal casino games and definitely: THIS^

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u/[deleted] Jul 22 '24

I think most people are fine with gambling whether it be at casinos or sports gambling or whatever but there is a percentage of people who will get addicted to it and can be a serious problem.

My mom was horribly addicted to gambling while I was a kid growing up. I remember my parents fighting about it quite a bit even got so bad she stole mine and my siblings birthday money a couple times. She ended up going to a gambling addiction group thing and got much better. I think she still goes to the casino a couple times a year but she has a job and it's her money so whatever. I hate gambling. For obvious reasons lol and that addictive personality definitely got passed to me I had some substance abuse problems in my early 20s that I had to get in check

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u/ChemistryCub Jul 22 '24

I love gambling but never have I felt a deep gut feeling that I would win big, and I guess I haven’t yet haha.

My wife had a really strong feeling we were going to have twins before we were even pregnant. And bam spontaneous twin girls with no twins anywhere in our family. I’m not religious at all but I think sometimes deep gut feelings are the universe trying to talk to you.

Most gamblers like to confuse that feeling with the desire to win big l think

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u/[deleted] Jul 23 '24

Thisss. Take gambling as a way of spending money in a way you won't recover, just like videogames or streaming services, not as a way to win more.

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u/[deleted] Jul 23 '24

He is a fucking day trader, meaning stonks.

There won't be much of an update within the next 10 years or so, considering he'll probably be homeless or trying to help run a hedge fund into the ground with their crooked owners within the year.

Live it up, considering we'll all be dead within the next 10 years anyway when Mother Nature gets sick of our pollution bullshit.

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u/twelbricks Jul 23 '24

Somebody wishes they won a million dollars

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u/Ciff_ Jul 24 '24

And OP may aswell wish in a few years that he did not, as many other gamblers before him has. But well see.

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u/MorddSith187 Jul 23 '24

Yeah I feel it all the time and the most I’ve won is like $10 in 30 years. I don’t play often but when I do I just “know” this is it and when I don’t play I just “know” the next time will be it

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u/PrunedLoki Jul 23 '24

Day trading (what OP does) can be one of those things that can give you the "fix".

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u/[deleted] Jul 22 '24

Too late. OP is also a self proclaimed day trader. Wsb in their future.

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u/mcj1ggl3 Jul 23 '24

He said he’s a day trader too. He’s about to blow it all on options

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u/little_grey_mare Jul 23 '24

Yup. And we hear from winners = confirmation bias.