can you win at gambling?

if luck is on your side and you have the discipline, it is possible to win. you must be resolute enough to quit when you are ahead. you need to employ the hit and run tactic. when you make a hit, you run. you go somewhere else for a while. it will be wise to go and spend some of your winnings.

when you gamble, you must be prepared for one thing. be prepared to lose. set aside the amount you are prepared to lose before you start playing. also set yourself a realistic target. once you reach the target, you must have the discipline to stop playing. one of the chief causes of losing is greed. you have made this much and you start to dream of making even more. that is when you risk losing what you have gained and more.

i remember a trip we made to genting highlands many years ago. we are what you would call 'recreational gamblers'. we played the slot machines. we played using coins only. but that time we won enough to cover the cost of our trip and with some leftover to give ourselves a treat.

it could be beginner's luck. we were so naive that we did not know that the machine only paid out some of the winning, when the winning was a big one; the rest you had to collect from the counter. we lined up three watermelons in a row a few times but the biggest payout was when we had three 7s in a row.