I've decided to have another crack at giving up online gambling. I've been a gambler for a long time but only in the last year have I dabbled with online gambling. In all honesty I've probably done not bad out of it in comparison with land-based gambling (and I don't gamble offline at all any more), but it's time to knock this on the head. I've got a lot of time on my hands at the moment, but also a lot of stresses, and I'm finding that with all of the tempting match-up offers I get sent it's too easy to deposit cash to escape from what I should be concentrating on. This isn't on the back of any particular big loss, but £25 deposits nearly every day do have their way of eating into your bank balance. More than the money it's the frustration that I feel with myself when I give in to every tempting offer and immediately regret it (before I've even lost the money, as soon as the deposit has been accepted I feel like shit). The convenience of it all pisses me off too; at least when you blow a fortune in a B&M casino you've normally made a night of it and you get to crawl back home to recover in a separate environment. When you gamble at home you're left with that sinking, empty, guilty feeling and nowhere to go to get away from it. Short of throwing your laptop out of the window it's difficult to distance yourself from the negative experience.
So I've set to work unsubscribing from the torrent of promotional mail that arrives daily in my inbox, and I've approached the casinos which I play the most at (Mr Green, Redbet, Whitebet, 32Red, Guts, Betsafe, Jackpot Party and a few others) to self-exclude. What I will say is that the automated self-exclusion process is very slick, and on the occasions that I have had to contact customer support they've been very professional and friendly (no hard sell to stay!).
I know there are always new casinos, and there's probably a dozen casinos I haven't thought of to ban myself from - but I've got the main ones and that feels like a positive step. I would welcome any other advice from the users here on how to keep myself on the straight and narrow. I'm debating closing my account at CM because I'm liable to be tempted by new BoF casinos when I'm browsing the forum (although I do kind of like it here).
So I've set to work unsubscribing from the torrent of promotional mail that arrives daily in my inbox, and I've approached the casinos which I play the most at (Mr Green, Redbet, Whitebet, 32Red, Guts, Betsafe, Jackpot Party and a few others) to self-exclude. What I will say is that the automated self-exclusion process is very slick, and on the occasions that I have had to contact customer support they've been very professional and friendly (no hard sell to stay!).
I know there are always new casinos, and there's probably a dozen casinos I haven't thought of to ban myself from - but I've got the main ones and that feels like a positive step. I would welcome any other advice from the users here on how to keep myself on the straight and narrow. I'm debating closing my account at CM because I'm liable to be tempted by new BoF casinos when I'm browsing the forum (although I do kind of like it here).