If you’ve never chased your losses at 3 AM, are you even a gambler?

Goggelheimer · Sep 15, 2025

Please give some nice examples what you did and which games you played!

steve01991 · Sep 15, 2025

i cant stay up that late! lol

Risto234 · Sep 15, 2025

steve01991 said:
i cant stay up that late! lol

I'm not even sure either when was the last time i stayed up 'til 3AM (or longer) so guess eventhough i do have "chased losses" sometimes then based on this thread ^ i'm not even a gambler ...

Debi · Sep 29, 2025

I don't think it matters what time or how late you play. Everyone is on their own schedule. Maybe a better question would be how long you have played.

Rahul P Gopal · Sep 29, 2025

I can understand and resonate with your question. And me personally have had such sleepless nights where I was still playing even at 4:00AM (sleepless, ofc) chasing my losses. Gone are those days and I have changed a lot since then. 😌

PS: Those nights were really horrible and I still remember having to take day off from my work just to compensate my sleep time 🥲

najisami · Sep 29, 2025

When you say 3am, if the player in question had started playing at 2am, would he be considered a gambler still, if he kept playing?
Ofc, it would be a different story if you've said "If you have never chassed your losses after 8 hours of play..."

blujjozi · Sep 29, 2025

lol - thinking about it gives me PTSD

Mantinhoo · Sep 30, 2025

I agree with everyone who says that it's not about when you play, but how much you play that really matters. I know people who are in bed by 9 PM because that’s just their routine, and I know others who only start playing at that time and keep going until morning. That only tells you whether someone’s a night owl or not — nothing more.

What actually says something about a player’s potential problems is how much time they spend playing. But even that can be misleading, because if you’re playing long tournaments, it’s normal for them to last hours.

So maybe the best indicator of a problem is how much someone loses in a single day. That’s the real signal. Like, if you’re playing, you bust out of a tournament after hours, and then you register for another one just to keep going... yeah, that’s when you’ve probably got a problem.

That’s how I see it, anyway.

Tero · Sep 30, 2025

So what about those who are natural night owls? I might have won during some nights but I don't recall chasing losses. I must be very far from a gambler or do I get points for staying up late?

RALF_AK · Sep 30, 2025

...this is the time I stay awake when I usually arrive at FT of the MTTs I play on PokerStars, starting at 22:30...

SpanRmonka · Sep 30, 2025

I don't think that we should necessarily be categorising people as gamblers, with either a postitve or negative connotation attached.

I don't categorise myself as a gambler, but cleary I do sometimes gamble.....

It feels important to explain the context of 'gambler' in this question, to me anyway!

For example, 'Can you even consider yourself as a proper big time drinker, if you've never ordered more shots at 3am'??

Rahul P Gopal · Sep 30, 2025

Tero said:
So what about those who are natural night owls? I might have won during some nights but I don't recall chasing losses. I must be very far from a gambler or do I get points for staying up late?

In reality and based on my personal experience, I saw that playing during midnight is very profitable as there are less NITS and more drunkyards. If you are regular to playing at midnight (night owl), you should be good. But I guess, the question is more relevant to people who chase their loss during day/ night till midnight. 😌

Tero · Sep 30, 2025

Rahul P Gopal said:
I saw that playing during midnight is very profitable as there are less NITS and more drunkyards. If you are regular to playing at midnight (night owl), you should be good.

Well, that might depend on which geographical regions belong to same player pools. Another question is time zones. For example my 3 AM is just 9 PM in Brazil so everything is relative in these questions. But as long as it works for me I'm good with it.

Poker_Mike · Oct 1, 2025

Goggelheimer said:
Please give some nice examples what you did and which games you played!

Live poker.

Rare situation but it has happened where I get felted and try to get my money back from a particular crazy player.

Having won my own money back I can feel victorious as I walk to the parking lot at 6 am.

MishkaZL · Oct 1, 2025

I would say that a real player is someone who has come a long way and experienced a wide variety of situations. I have lost my bankroll many times, I have often tried unsuccessfully to win it back, I have made many unnecessary moves, and given that I have been gambling for over 15 years, I definitely consider myself a gambler.

TeUnit · Oct 2, 2025

I dont think of myself as a gambler. I like to think of it as investing, you analyze the situation and make the best decision.

Games like slots have negative EV, so I do not play them.

Sunz of Beaches · Oct 5, 2025

I tried to chase loses in online poker very late at nights playing higher than usual and than I actually should. Mostly worked lol.

billibooo · Oct 6, 2025

I could stay to 3am in Ronzaron's timezone,but never mine

lol <3 My gambler dreams are over looool jk of course

<3 I think the time thing has little to do with are you gambler....BUT I have chased after that BIG win, during daytime hours

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If you’ve never chased your losses at 3 AM, are you even a gambler?

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