To be honest I wrote about it initially in order to get more people not only to read about me specifically but to read about other point of views of gambling as well as many other stories which I include in my website, so I opened the thread initially to gather more stories and point of views about gambling. You're right that I'm not here simply and only and purely looking for advice for myself as I'm quite more in control of the problem than the way I was years ago but I would never treat this problem as something that I have 100% control of - you need to set your barriers by yourself and you cannot trust yourself 100% when it comes to gambling (there is a famous saying of Sean Bean from the movie Ca$h in 2010: "when it comes to cash nobody can be trusted").
So you're asking what am I doing here ... I started this thread in 18th of January 2015 and left it as it is, I didn't see lots of responses and didn't try to bump this thread or do anything ... all was well until the 9th of March when someone had discussion with me about what I said that sports betting doesn't require skills (and he believes it does). I work in the online advertising business (not with gambling) and I saw (although it's not related to me) that PaddyPower has just now reduced the rate they pay affiliates for sports-betting actions - they pay £2.50/person whilst for Bingo, Casino and others they pay £10.00/person. So I definitely agree sports-betting is more "vulnerable" to gambling establishments than casinos and such but in the end of the day it's all running around the same concept.
So that's what we argued about - he claims it requires skill, I claimed differently - and since then the only thing I did was replying to those who addressed what I wrote ... it took me 3 weeks to realize I got some replies in this thread (made on the 9th of March, I replied 3 weeks later, didn't bother to check it before because I thought this thread is "dead" but then found emails indicating I got replies).
One more thing - some of you guys seem to be very unfriendly and I'm not sure why. Just reminding you the goof who started all the mess in this thread is "dunover" who replied to me in the 9th of March and tried to claim I'm an evil player - and now that his claims were disproved you seem to attempt and use any "weapon" in your arsenal simply to attack me for no reason - wouldn't it be easier to try and be friendly and then you can realize you're asking irrelevant questions?
So let me get this straight. You're calling people out for being unfriendly, while at the same time calling dunover a "douche" and a "goof"?
A well-known phrase that involves glass houses and stone throwing is springing to mind.
What is your problem with dunover exactly? Because you sense he is sceptical of your motives for posting here? Because you sense he is not
gullible enough to want to whistle to your tune? Because he thinks you lack any crumb of credibility? Well guess what? He is not alone in that regard.
ANYONE who thinks it is appropriate to talk about exploiting self-exclusion loopholes in a "QUIT GAMBLING" thread while trying to self-promote
his own website needs to take a look in the goddam mirror. If I was in the position of really wanting to quit gambling for good, the absolute
LAST thing I would want to see here is someone coming on here talking (in fact some might even say boasting) about how he can exploit self-exclusion loopholes. It is that very kind of information or "tip" that could cause an ex-gambler who is "winning his/her own battle" against a
gambling addiction to cave into temptation.
At best your actions would be considered to be unhelpful and "not properly thought through". At worst, they are bordering on
malicious (or should I say "evil"?
), inconsiderate and selfish.
PS Did not see Webczas' "call for calm" until after I had posted this. Apologies.
