Gambling: Complaining about Bad Luck
The whiners and complainers are nearly always losers.
Many times, they plan their complaints and excuses in advance; for they are sure they are going to lose. These people are not really interested in winning anymore than hypochondriacs are interested in staying healthy, for, if the won, then most of their daily lives, which consist of complaints and excuses, would be empty.
When you hear people complaining and making excuses after a losing gathering, you can be sure they're losers most of the time. That doesn't really mean that one should be a good loser, but after losing, it's best to evaluate what went wrong, rather than simply to look for external excuses and complain of bad luck.
This may happen once or twice, but when it happens constantly you should realize that you have very little interest in winning. What you really want to do is lose and bitch about it, and forever seeking endless alibis for your 'bad luck'.
As any astute gambler knows, it is more difficult to have a big win than a big loss.
Several factors must come together for you to win, but losing can be for any number of individual reasons. When you lose heavily, you often are wiped out before you even have a chance to draw a deep breath, for one reason or another. In poker, for instance, you might have gotten good cards, but the others have had slightly better cards. In blackjack, you might have been in several good counting situations with the deck very favorable, and yet your heavy bets and double downs were useless against the dealer's monster cards.
This can happen and when it does, you just cannot do anything about it.
Usually, when a gambler had a really big win, it has taken a long time to accumulate the money but surely he has sustained large losses in a short span of time. Therefore, you know what to say, 'easy come, easy go', is to say you're not interested in being a winner. It doesn't come easy, and it shouldn't go easy. When you have won big money, hold on, and don't go crazy with it. When you have the casino's money, use that money wisely.
Never sit in on any game with 'scared' or inadequate money. You're better off walking past the game rather than risking a sum of money that one small streak of bad luck will wipe out. You're also better off preserving that money for the next time you're going to play seriously with adequate funds.