Can you really win at Chicken Road?
Individual Chicken Road rounds can finish with a positive result. If your chicken progresses successfully and you cash out at a multiplier above your original stake, the amount returned from that round can be higher than the amount you put into it.
For example, imagine staking GHS 5 and cashing out at 1.50x:
GHS 5 Ă— 1.50 = GHS 7.50
That particular round returned GHS 2.50 more than the original stake. However, the result of one round does not tell you what happened during the rest of the session. If several GHS 5 rounds lose before or after it, the overall balance may still be below where you started.
This is why a screenshot showing one large multiplier tells you very little about whether someone has actually made money overall. To understand the result of a session, you need the starting balance, deposits, stakes, losses, successful cash outs and final balance rather than a single highlight.
Learning how to play is not learning how to win

Chicken Road is simple enough that most people can learn the mechanics quite quickly. After a few Demo rounds, you can understand how to choose a stake, change the difficulty, follow the multiplier and use Cash Out. Knowing these controls means you have learned how to play the game, but it does not mean you have learned how to predict what the next round will do.
This distinction is important because familiarity can easily feel like expertise. Someone who has played hundreds of rounds may navigate the interface faster, understand the difference between Easy and Hardcore and know exactly how much a particular multiplier would return. None of those skills reveal whether the next progression will succeed.
The difference becomes clearer when the two sides are compared directly:
| You can learn | You cannot know from learning the controls |
|---|---|
| How to set your stake | Which next move will succeed |
| How difficulty works | Whether the next round will win |
| How multipliers affect the potential result | What multiplier the next round will reach |
| How Cash Out works | Whether continuing will produce a better result |
| How much of your budget is at risk | Whether a losing streak is about to end |
| How to use Demo | A guaranteed pattern for future real-money rounds |
A player can therefore understand Chicken Road perfectly and still lose a round. That does not necessarily mean the game was played incorrectly. If you selected the stake you intended, understood the difficulty and knew what continuing meant, you understood the mechanics; the eventual outcome is a separate part of the game.
Experience is still useful, but mainly because it can improve the way you handle your own decisions. You may become better at noticing how quickly repeated GHS 5 stakes accumulate or recognise when you are continuing only because you want to recover a previous loss. That is very different from becoming able to “read” the next road.
What a Chicken Road strategy can actually do
Once you separate playing from predicting, Chicken Road strategy becomes easier to understand. A practical strategy deals with the decisions available to you rather than trying to determine the result before it happens.
You can control how much money you deposit, the size of each stake, the difficulty you select, whether you continue or cash out, how long you play and when you end the session. These decisions can have a major effect on how quickly your balance is exposed.
What they do not provide is certainty about a future round. A strategy can help prevent an emotional GHS 20 stake after several losses, but it cannot make that next GHS 20 round safer simply because you followed a particular sequence beforehand.
This gives you a useful test for almost any Chicken Road system you find online. If it helps you manage your own money and behaviour, it may have a practical purpose. If it claims to reveal exactly what the next round will do, it is making a prediction rather than managing risk.
A simple strategy for a beginner
There is little reason to begin with a complicated betting system. A basic plan decided before opening the real-money game is easier to follow and gives you fewer decisions to make once the session starts moving quickly.
Suppose you have decided that GHS 50 is the maximum amount you are comfortable using for entertainment. Before starting, you could set a GHS 2 standard stake, decide not to increase it after losses and agree with yourself that there will be no second deposit if the GHS 50 is used.
You might also decide how you generally want to approach cash out before the first round rather than changing your plan every time a multiplier becomes tempting. None of these rules makes a winning session certain, but they stop one unexpected result from immediately changing the amount of money you are willing to risk.
Keep the stake in proportion to your budget
Two players can have the same balance and experience very different levels of financial exposure simply because of their stake size. If both start with GHS 100, but one uses GHS 5 per round while the other uses GHS 25, the second balance can disappear after only four full losing stakes.
The smaller stake does not make Chicken Road safer and should not be treated as a way to improve the probability of winning. It simply means less of the total budget is attached to each individual outcome, giving the player more room before the full session limit is reached.
This is also why a stake that looks small in isolation can still become significant over time. Twenty GHS 5 stakes represent GHS 100 in wagers before taking any returned amounts into account.
Decide your limit before the first round
A budget is much easier to respect when it is chosen before any money has been won or lost. Once a session is underway, the temptation to change the number can become stronger, particularly after a series of unsuccessful rounds.
Instead of asking how much you are willing to deposit, a more useful question is how much you can lose without needing that money back. If the answer is GHS 40, that amount can become the limit for the entire session rather than simply the size of the first deposit.
Once the GHS 40 is used, making another deposit because the next round might recover the loss defeats the purpose of having a limit. The budget should come from what you are comfortable spending on entertainment, not from what Chicken Road has done during the previous ten minutes.
Understand what early cash out changes
Chicken Road repeatedly offers the same trade-off: take the current result or stay in the round for the possibility of reaching a higher multiplier. Neither option creates a guaranteed positive session, but they expose the active stake differently.
Imagine a GHS 10 stake has progressed to a potential value of GHS 14. You could cash out at that point or continue in the hope of reaching GHS 18, GHS 25 or another higher amount. Continuing also creates the possibility that the round ends before the larger value is secured.
There is no universal multiplier at which every player should stop. What can be said is that repeatedly chasing the largest available values keeps the active stake exposed for longer, while earlier cash outs accept smaller potential results without taking those additional steps.
You do not have to reach the end of the road
The visual design makes reaching the furthest point look like a natural objective. In an ordinary arcade crossing game, getting the chicken all the way across would probably be the point, but Chicken Road does not require that approach.
Cash Out exists precisely because a round can be ended earlier. Trying to reach the maximum progression every time may produce impressive screenshots when it works, but those screenshots rarely show all the rounds that ended before reaching the same point.
A better way to look at the road is to consider what is currently at risk rather than focusing only on the multiplier that might appear further ahead. The largest possible number is not automatically the correct target for every round.
Why doubling after a loss can become expensive
One of the most common betting systems is to increase the stake after an unsuccessful round. It can look manageable at the beginning because the first increase is relatively small, but the amounts can grow quickly if several losses happen in sequence.
| Round | Stake |
|---|---|
| 1 | GHS 2 |
| 2 | GHS 4 |
| 3 | GHS 8 |
| 4 | GHS 16 |
| 5 | GHS 32 |
By the fifth round, the required stake has grown from GHS 2 to GHS 32. More importantly, a previous loss does not make the next road automatically more likely to succeed, so the larger stake primarily increases the amount of money attached to the next uncertain result.
The same problem appears with less formal versions of the system. Moving from GHS 5 to GHS 10 because “something has to hit soon” still relies on the idea that previous losses tell you something reliable about what happens next.
Chasing a loss can move your limit without you noticing
Loss chasing does not always involve doubling. Sometimes it begins with a simple thought: you have lost GHS 30 and want to keep playing until the GHS 30 comes back.
If another GHS 20 is lost while trying to recover the first amount, the target is no longer GHS 30 but GHS 50. Another unsuccessful sequence can move it again, which makes stopping psychologically harder because the amount you are trying to recover keeps increasing.
A predefined session limit prevents that target from moving. Once the amount you decided on before playing has been used, the session ends regardless of whether the last few rounds looked promising.
Winning can change your decisions too
Risky decisions do not only happen after losses. Imagine starting with GHS 100 and reaching GHS 160 after several successful rounds. It can be tempting to describe the extra GHS 60 as “casino money” and start using larger stakes because losing it feels different from losing the original balance.
In reality, GHS 160 is now the current account balance. If you continue and lose GHS 60, the balance has still fallen by GHS 60 regardless of where that money originally came from.
A recent winning round can also create the impression that the game is “hot”. Increasing the stake because the last few rounds went well turns past results into a prediction about future ones, which is the same basic mistake as assuming a win must arrive after several losses.
Track the whole session, not the best round
People naturally remember a large multiplier more clearly than several smaller losses. That can create a misleading picture of how the session is actually going.
Suppose your numbers are:
Starting balance: GHS 100 Additional deposit: GHS 50 Current balance: GHS 120
Seeing GHS 120 in the account may feel like being GHS 20 ahead compared with the original starting balance. However, total deposits were GHS 150, which means the overall position is actually GHS 30 below the amount deposited.
Tracking deposits, withdrawals and the current balance gives you a much clearer picture than remembering individual winning rounds. It also makes it harder for one unusually good result to hide what happened during the rest of the session.
Use Demo to practise rules, not to discover a winning pattern
Demo can be useful when you want to see whether a personal rule is realistic. You might decide to use a fixed virtual stake, avoid increasing it after losses and follow the same cash-out approach for a set number of practice rounds.
What Demo can show is whether you actually stick to that plan when the multiplier begins to rise or after several unsuccessful rounds. It cannot prove that the same approach will generate a profit when you switch to a real GHS balance.
This returns to the difference between learning and winning. Demo can help you become familiar with Chicken Road and practise your own behaviour, but a sequence of successful virtual rounds does not reveal a guaranteed pattern for the next real-money session.
Is there really a Chicken Road trick strategy?
Searches for chicken road trick strategy often lead to videos, Telegram posts or short guides promising a hidden sequence. Common claims include playing only after several losses, changing the stake at a particular moment, repeating a previous route or always cashing out at one exact multiplier.
The problem with these examples is not simply that they sound too easy. A short sequence of successful rounds does not demonstrate that the method can reliably predict future outcomes, particularly when the creator does not show the complete playing history.
A useful way to evaluate any supposed trick is to ask what it actually controls. A rule that limits your stake to GHS 2 changes your own financial exposure. A rule claiming that the next road will succeed because the previous three failed claims to know something about a future result.
Those are fundamentally different types of strategy.
What counts as a useful trick for Chicken Road?
If you are looking for a practical trick for Chicken Road game, the useful ones are usually habits rather than cheat codes. Checking whether you are in Demo or real-money mode before starting, knowing where Cash Out is, keeping the stake within your budget and checking the overall balance during a session can all prevent avoidable mistakes.
These habits are less exciting than a video promising a secret route, but they deal with decisions that are genuinely available to the player. They can stop you from accidentally using the wrong balance or increasing a stake because of frustration.
By contrast, tapping at a special second, changing from mobile to desktop or repeating the route from a previous winning round should not automatically be treated as a way to force the next result.
Can previous rounds reveal what happens next?

Suppose the last five rounds were:
It is very easy to look at a sequence like this and start expecting another pattern. One player may think another win is due because there have already been several losses, while another may decide that the two previous wins reveal a favourable cycle.
The sequence itself does not establish either conclusion. Short runs naturally contain streaks, repetitions and combinations that look meaningful after they have happened, but describing the past is not the same thing as predicting the future.
Saying “the last three rounds ended early” is an observation. Turning that into “the next one should go further” adds a prediction that is not established by the observation itself.
Is there a winning pattern?
A pattern becomes useful for prediction only if it reliably tells you something about what will happen next. Simply noticing that similar outcomes appeared during a session is not enough.
This matters because Chicken Road gives players plenty of visual information to remember. A certain sequence of steps may appear successful more than once, or a particular difficulty may seem better during one session. Those observations can feel convincing because you saw them happen yourself.
The problem is that a few memorable rounds provide a very small sample. They are not enough on their own to establish a Chicken Road strategy capable of predicting future results.
Does the time of day matter?
Another common claim is that Chicken Road has special paying hours. Players may say that late-night sessions are better, that the game pays early in the morning or that a particular hour is the best time to start.
A large win at 2:00 AM demonstrates that someone had a successful result at that time; it does not by itself demonstrate that 2:00 AM caused the result. Unless a time-based mechanic is explicitly documented by the game provider, the clock should not be treated as a reliable predictor.
This is another example of the difference between an observation and a strategy. Remembering when a win happened is easy, but showing that the same time reliably changes future outcomes is a much stronger claim.
Does changing the stake trigger a better round?
Suppose you use GHS 2 for three unsuccessful rounds and then increase the next stake to GHS 10. If that GHS 10 round happens to go well, it is easy to conclude that changing the amount triggered something.
The immediate effect of the change is much simpler: five times more money is now attached to the next round. A larger stake can create a larger monetary result at the same multiplier, but that should not be confused with making the road itself safer.
Changing the stake can therefore change your financial exposure very quickly. It should not be treated as a button for forcing the game into a favourable sequence.
What about changing difficulty?
Difficulty is a genuine Chicken Road setting, so switching it does change the type of risk you are taking. That makes it different from completely invented tricks such as playing at a particular minute of the hour.
What difficulty does not provide is certainty about the next result. Moving to Easy after several unsuccessful Hard rounds does not mean the next road must succeed, just as moving to Hardcore after a good round does not mean a high multiplier is about to appear.
Choose the setting according to the risk profile you are comfortable with. Using difficulty as a response to the belief that the game now “owes” you a particular result is a very different decision.
Early cash out or chase a higher multiplier?
There is no approach that removes the trade-off completely. Cashing out earlier accepts a smaller current value without taking additional steps, while continuing keeps the round active for the possibility of reaching something larger.
| Approach | Main characteristic | Main trade-off |
|---|---|---|
| Earlier cash out | Takes smaller results sooner | Gives up the possibility of later multipliers |
| Longer progression | Continues towards larger values | Keeps the active round exposed for longer |
| Maximum chasing | Targets extreme multipliers | The round can end before the value is secured |
None of these approaches should be described as guaranteed profit. They simply represent different ways of handling the same decision between the current result and additional exposure.
What a conservative session might look like
A player in Ghana might decide before starting that the entire session is worth GHS 50, use GHS 2 as the standard stake and allow no extra deposits. They might also decide to stop after 30 minutes even if part of the original balance remains.
Such a plan says nothing about whether the final balance will be above or below GHS 50. Its purpose is to define the maximum amount of money and time involved before emotions start affecting those decisions.
This type of strategy is intentionally unexciting. It does not claim to beat Chicken Road; it simply makes the boundaries of the session clear.
And what does a more aggressive approach change?
Now imagine the same GHS 50 budget with a GHS 10 starting stake, increases after losses and a goal of recovering every unsuccessful round before stopping. The game itself has not changed, but the same budget can now be exposed much faster.
Chasing larger multipliers at the same time increases that exposure further because more money is attached to each round and the player is also staying in successful rounds for longer. The issue is not that the game prevents someone from playing this way; it is that several decisions are simultaneously increasing financial risk.
Understanding that effect is more useful than giving the approach a complicated strategy name.
A win limit can matter as much as a loss limit
Players often decide how much they are prepared to lose but never consider what they will do if the session goes unusually well. Without a plan, a strong winning session can simply become a longer session.
Suppose you start with GHS 100 and decide beforehand that you will stop if the balance reaches GHS 150. If it happens, the decision was already made before excitement became part of the calculation.
Without that boundary, reaching GHS 150 can quickly become a new target of GHS 200. If the balance then falls back to GHS 100, the player may continue because the lost GHS 50 now feels like money that needs to be recovered.
Take breaks during longer sessions
Chicken Road rounds can move quickly, which makes it easy to play many of them without noticing how much time has passed. A short break interrupts that rhythm and gives you a chance to look at the session as a whole instead of immediately making another decision.
During the break, check the starting balance, current balance, total deposits and time spent playing. Those numbers are often more useful than trying to remember which individual rounds went particularly well.
A break is not a strategy for changing what the game will do when you return. Its value is simply that decisions made away from the next-round button may be less influenced by the previous result.
Do not use borrowed or essential money
No betting system makes money needed for rent, food, bills, debt repayments or other essential expenses suitable for gambling. The same applies to borrowed funds, even if a particular strategy has appeared successful during recent sessions.
The relevant question is what happens outside the game if the stake is lost. If losing that amount creates a financial problem elsewhere, the fact that Chicken Road offers another round or a potentially attractive multiplier does not change its importance.
This is also why a gambling budget should be separate from money already committed to everyday expenses. Strategy can organise an entertainment budget; it cannot make essential money disposable.
Managing a Chicken Road budget in GHS
For players in Ghana, using GHS can make the numbers easier to judge because the stake can be compared directly with everyday spending. A GHS 5 round may not look particularly large on its own, but ten such stakes represent GHS 50 and twenty represent GHS 100 before returned results are considered.
Thinking in terms of the whole session prevents the size of a single bet from becoming misleading. A small stake repeated quickly can still use a significant amount of money over time.
If your casino supports GHS accounts, deciding the full session amount in cedis before starting also removes the need to mentally convert a foreign-currency balance while playing.
Mobile Money makes depositing easier, not winning easier
For Ghanaian players, MTN MoMo and other supported Mobile Money options can make casino deposits very quick. That convenience has no effect on what happens inside a Chicken Road round.
The more relevant issue is how easily another deposit can be made after a loss. A sequence such as deposit GHS 50 → lose → deposit another GHS 50 → try to recover → deposit again can develop quickly when the payment method is already connected to the account.
If you use Mobile Money, decide the total amount you are willing to deposit before the first transfer. The payment method changes how money reaches the casino; it does not improve the probability of the next Chicken Road result.
Bonuses are not a Chicken Road winning strategy
A casino bonus can change the balance or promotional conditions available through your account, but it does not make Chicken Road predictable. Promotions may also include wagering requirements, game restrictions, maximum-bet rules, expiry dates and withdrawal conditions.
A large advertised percentage therefore needs context. Before accepting a promotion, check whether Chicken Road is eligible and what conditions apply to any bonus funds used on the game.
Increasing your normal gambling budget simply because a bonus is available also changes your financial exposure. The promotion should fit the budget you already decided on rather than becoming a reason to spend more.
Be careful with automatic play
If the version or casino you use provides automated features, understand the settings before activating them. Automation can remove the natural pause between rounds and make repeated stakes accumulate more quickly than when every decision is made manually.
This makes limits particularly important. Test any unfamiliar option in Demo first and check exactly how many rounds, what stake and which stopping conditions are being used before connecting it to a real balance.
Automatic play does not create a new winning method. It changes how quickly predefined actions can be repeated.
Common Chicken Road strategy myths
Many supposed strategies share the same basic idea: they use something that already happened to make a confident claim about what will happen next.
| Claim | What it actually tells you |
|---|---|
| “A win is due after several losses” | Previous losses do not establish the next result |
| “Chicken Road pays better at night” | A winning night session does not prove a time-based advantage |
| “Double after every loss” | The amount at risk can grow very quickly |
| “Repeat the last winning pattern” | A previous sequence does not guarantee a repeat |
| “Higher bets unlock better roads” | A higher stake primarily puts more money at risk |
| “Demo tells you when to switch” | Demo results do not forecast real-money rounds |
| “Never cash out early” | Continuing keeps the active round exposed to another outcome |
The useful question is always the same: does the rule control something you can actually decide, or does it claim to know something about a future result? That distinction separates bankroll management from prediction.
A better way to think about “winning”
Searching for how to win Chicken Road naturally leads to questions about the next round: which step to take, which multiplier to target or whether now is a good time to increase the stake. Those questions are attractive because a precise answer would remove uncertainty from the game.
A more practical approach is to focus on questions that genuinely have answers. How much are you willing to spend? How much is being staked per round? At what point does the session end? Are you increasing the bet because it was part of your original plan or because the previous result frustrated you?
These questions do not guarantee that the balance will increase. They do, however, help prevent a simple game from turning into a session where the budget keeps changing in response to every win and loss.
What to do after a big win
A large positive result can create a strong temptation to continue, particularly when the current balance is much higher than the amount you started with. Before beginning another round, check the actual numbers and compare them with the limits you decided on beforehand.
If you started with GHS 100 and now have GHS 300, increasing the stake immediately does not become safer because the previous rounds went well. The current GHS 300 is the balance you now have, and any further stakes come from that amount.
If you decide to withdraw eligible funds, remember that the transaction is handled by the casino rather than by Chicken Road itself. An amount displayed in the casino account has not yet been returned to your Mobile Money wallet or bank account until the operator processes the withdrawal.
What to do after several losses
A losing streak can create the opposite pressure: the feeling that stopping now would make the loss permanent, while one more successful round might fix the session. That is exactly when a budget decided beforehand becomes useful.
If you have reached the limit you set before starting, increasing the stake, changing difficulty solely to recover money or making an unplanned deposit changes the original plan because of previous losses. Borrowing money or paying for a supposed winning signal takes that reaction even further.
The amount already lost should not determine how much more money you are prepared to put at risk. Your original budget is a more stable reference point than whatever happened during the previous few rounds.
When should you stop playing?
There does not need to be a special game signal telling you when the session is over. Reaching the loss limit, time limit or a win target chosen beforehand are all straightforward reasons to stop.
It can also make sense to finish when you notice that your behaviour has changed. Increasing stakes because of frustration, making repeated deposits to recover money or losing track of the amount being wagered are signs that the session is no longer following the plan you started with.
Stopping is therefore part of bankroll management rather than a prediction about the next round. You do not need to know what Chicken Road would have done next in order to decide that you have already spent enough time or money.
FAQ
How to win Chicken Road?
Individual Chicken Road rounds can finish with a positive result when progression succeeds and you cash out at a suitable point. There is no strategy that guarantees the next round will win, so practical approaches focus on stake size, budget and decisions about when to stop.
Can you learn how to win Chicken Road?
You can learn how the game works and become better at managing your own decisions, but that is different from learning to predict future outcomes. Understanding stakes, difficulty and Cash Out does not reveal which next progression will succeed.
Is there a guaranteed Chicken Road strategy?
No strategy should be treated as a guarantee of future results. A practical Chicken Road strategy deals with the amount you stake, your overall budget, cash-out decisions and session limits rather than promising a particular outcome.
What is the best Chicken Road strategy?
There is no single approach that guarantees profit. Keeping stakes within a predetermined budget, avoiding loss chasing and deciding your limits before starting are practical ways to control how much money you expose during a session.
What is chicken road trick strategy?
The phrase chicken road trick strategy is often used for betting systems, patterns or supposedly special methods. It is useful to separate rules that manage your own behaviour from claims that say they can predict future rounds.
Is there a trick for Chicken Road game?
A useful trick for Chicken Road game is better understood as a practical habit rather than a cheat code. Checking the active balance, keeping stakes manageable and knowing your stopping point can prevent avoidable mistakes, but none of these habits guarantees a winning round.
Can I win real money on Chicken Road?
Real-money rounds can produce eligible winnings when played through a casino platform, while losing rounds are also possible. A successful round should not be treated as guaranteed income.
Should I cash out early?
Earlier cash out means accepting the current result without taking additional steps. Continuing gives you the possibility of reaching a larger multiplier while keeping the active round exposed to further risk.
How many steps should I take before cashing out?
There is no fixed number of steps that guarantees a positive result. The further you continue, the more you are choosing between the possibility of a larger multiplier and the additional risk of remaining in the round.
Should I increase my stake after losing?
Increasing the stake puts more money into the next uncertain result. Previous losses do not guarantee that the next round will succeed, so a larger bet should not be treated as a recovery mechanism.
Does doubling after a loss work?
A doubling system can make stakes increase very quickly during a losing sequence. It does not make the next Chicken Road outcome automatically favourable.
Does Chicken Road have a pattern?
Short sequences can contain apparent patterns, but something that happened in previous rounds should not automatically be treated as a prediction of what will happen next.
Can I repeat a previous winning route?
A route or sequence that appeared successful previously does not guarantee the same result in a new round. Repeating it may reproduce your actions, but it does not establish that the outcome will also repeat.
Is there a best time to play Chicken Road?
A particular hour should not be treated as a guaranteed profitable period unless a time-based mechanic is explicitly documented by the provider. A large win that happened at night does not by itself show that nighttime improves future results.
Does changing difficulty help you win?
Difficulty changes the game's risk profile, so it is a meaningful setting. Switching from one level to another does not guarantee that the next round will succeed.
Do bigger stakes have a better chance of winning?
A larger stake increases the monetary amount attached to the round. It should not be assumed to make the underlying outcome safer simply because more money is involved.
Can Demo help me find a winning strategy?
Demo is useful for learning the controls and practising personal staking or cash-out rules. A successful sequence with virtual credits does not predict what will happen after switching to real money.
Can I use GHS to manage my bankroll?
If your casino supports GHS, setting your budget and stake directly in Ghanaian cedis can make it easier to understand how much money you are using across the entire session.
Does MTN MoMo affect my chances of winning?
No. Mobile Money is a payment method used by the casino and has no effect on the outcome of a Chicken Road round.
Should I deposit again after losing?
An additional deposit made specifically to recover earlier losses increases the total amount exposed during the session. Setting the complete budget before playing makes it easier to avoid repeatedly changing that amount.
Can a bonus guarantee profit?
No. Casino promotions can come with wagering, game and withdrawal conditions, and receiving a bonus does not make future Chicken Road results predictable.
What should I do after a big win?
Check the overall balance and compare it with the limits you decided on before playing. A recent positive result does not guarantee that the next round will behave the same way.
What should I do after several losses?
Do not assume that a win must now be due. If you have reached the budget or loss limit chosen before the session, continuing with larger stakes only increases the amount of money exposed.
