Time to call it quits.

[Slottery]

Feel really sorry to OP and wish all the best, glad if you can call it quit now! You have new family member coming, i'm pretty sure all this community feels and support you if we just can.

I can't really say any nice words, sorry about that, but others seem to be better in that, my two cents are going to casino operators responsible gaming....

Here we are anyway going to topic which i think casinos should have more automatic processes in place, i don't know if you lost that all money to one site or played at many, but have seen very unfortunate player accounts where IMHO casino operator should have block account until making sure one who's playing is ok with level of spending. If you loose $15k in one night, it should trigger it (assuming normal game play is not in that level as OP posted about savings), it's bit too late to send email next day that "We saw you have spent loads of money and want to make sure that you are ok with it and here is link to tools we offer to control your playing and keep it fun"

If there would be will, there would be skill to make some automatic trigger if somebody is playing much more than usually and be in "tilt mode", that could be made for some $$$ amount or counted by players average deposits, but somewhere kind of trigger should stop person playing. I don't know you all and how rich you are, but 15k in evening sounds for me already that account should be closed and player need to be interacted.......

I hope we see that happening one day instead of some SOW requests which are triggered from your lifetime deposits even you make them $100 per month on average which for working people can be counted just to have fun and not laundering money or even having RG issues if pattern is pretty much same for year to year.

 

[bebo67]

Feel really sorry to OP and wish all the best, glad if you can call it quit now! You have new family member coming, i'm pretty sure all this community feels and support you if we just can.

I can't really say any nice words, sorry about that, but others seem to be better in that, my two cents are going to casino operators responsible gaming....

Here we are anyway going to topic which i think casinos should have more automatic processes in place, i don't know if you lost that all money to one site or played at many, but have seen very unfortunate player accounts where IMHO casino operator should have block account until making sure one who's playing is ok with level of spending. If you loose $15k in one night, it should trigger it (assuming normal game play is not in that level as OP posted about savings), it's bit too late to send email next day that "We saw you have spent loads of money and want to make sure that you are ok with it and here is link to tools we offer to control your playing and keep it fun"

If there would be will, there would be skill to make some automatic trigger if somebody is playing much more than usually and be in "tilt mode", that could be made for some $$$ amount or counted by players average deposits, but somewhere kind of trigger should stop person playing. I don't know you all and how rich you are, but 15k in evening sounds for me already that account should be closed and player need to be interacted.......

I hope we see that happening one day instead of some SOW requests which are triggered from your lifetime deposits even you make them $100 per month on average which for working people can be counted just to have fun and not laundering money or even having RG issues if pattern is pretty much same for year to year.

When I first joined VS, they had a timer in place. If you were on for more than a half hour a message would pop up asking if you needed a break. I'm not sure why they got rid of that, but I agree with you 100%.

 

[goatwack]

The industry isn't interested in promoting responsible gambling, as long as as it falls within the confines of 'The law'. It's bare-bones to the point of laughable.

Thing is they would have let him play all night and into next week. How about cutting the game off and a chat advisor discussing what's taking place, to snap someone out of a trance. How about making Loss Limits mandatory before play and being reviewed and increased monthly, much like obtaining credit privileges.

How about auto-reducing stake limits after certain losses. No.....instead we have people censoring swearwords in chat (though some usernames seem to slip the net, seemingly), 100 spins autoplay tools and the ever-popular 787878989 loss limits on games.

 

[Slottery]

When I first joined VS, they had a timer in place. If you were on for more than a half hour a message would pop up asking if you needed a break. I'm not sure why they got rid of that, but I agree with you 100%.

That "Reality check" after certain time where you get informed about time and losses is in use on many sites, it just don't always help when you are in "tilt mode" and can get further just by clicking ok.

Even my salary is paid from this business, i really like to call operators responsibility and if somebody play extreme to compare normal or some amount of money, account should be blocked until interaction with player is made and come conclusion that game play is in ok level (there SOW would be better to use than for random tenner deposit) based on players wealth.

As we all probably know, there are operators with higher and lower moral when it's coming to responsible gaming, happy to see that it's been more followed by authorities (UKGC probably best in that). I really don't want my small salary get bit bigger from anybody money what is meant for something else than playing for fun and i guess we all in this forum can believe that tilt mode can happen for people.

Hope these operators who handle these things best way get most of traffic, at least i put my few coins to them when they really introduce automatic/real time blocking when player can't play before interaction with operator is made. What OP posted is way much for "normal" people to lose in one night and that shouldn't happen (unless you have made SOW documents to be rich etc....).

 

[Slottery]

The industry isn't interested in promoting responsible gambling, as long as as it falls within the confines of 'The law'. It's bare-bones to the point of laughable.

Thing is they would have let him play all night and into next week. How about cutting the game off and a chat advisor discussing what's taking place, to snap someone out of a trance. How about making Loss Limits mandatory before play and being reviewed and increased monthly, much like obtaining credit privileges.

How about auto-reducing stake limits after certain losses. No.....instead we have people censoring swearwords in chat (though some usernames seem to slip the net, seemingly), 100 spins autoplay tools and the ever-popular 787878989 loss limits on games.

An of course it was @goatwack who wrote better than me, i really agree to responsible gaming part and hopefully we can see it much more in future, there are some UKGC/MGA rulings on their way but realtime monitoring is still gonna be much casinos responsibility and that's something some operators are doing already and some planning to do it. If you run casino, players life time value is in numbers much better than one time big lose. It's not impossible to set few lines of code which stop you playing on real time like your limits are counted..... hope to see this happen by more operators

 

[goatwack]

An of course it was @goatwack who wrote better than me, i really agree to responsible gaming part and hopefully we can see it much more in future, there are some UKGC/MGA rulings on their way but realtime monitoring is still gonna be much casinos responsibility and that's something some operators are doing already and some planning to do it. If you run casino, players life time value is in numbers much better than one time big lose. It's not impossible to set few lines of code which stop you playing on real time like your limits are counted..... hope to see this happen by more operators

Not better, I just nicked your content and re-worded it

 

[slotplayer]

Thanks mate, about the only thing keeping me from blowing my brains out last night was thinking "At least this is the last time you'll have to go through this"

edit: oh, and the new baby too I guess...

Sorry to hear, it is a big amount but not an amount you can not eventually replace.
But please capture that awful feeling and remember it, next time if in a moment of weakness, call it up and remember how it feels.

 

[slotplayer]

although I dislike deposit limits, if you've got access to substantial funds I think it is essential to have them in place even if its a large limit of say £1k, at least it does protect if you start to chase losses, which is where most of the damage is done imo. $15,000 / £8,000 is a wounding loss in 6 months let alone 1 night. I'm the best part of £5k down this year at min stakes, so sometimes enough is enough and the spinning reels must come to a stop.

While it was annoying and frustrating at the time, in my trips to the land casino I was grateful the bank would limit my ATM and cash advance withdrawals else I would have just kept chasing until I was completely broke.

 

[deaconk78]

Devastating . simply devastating .


Felt sick reading about it . gutted for your family and for yourself .

This is a lesson for all those that see the big wins and excited - this is the other often untold story . Genuinely gutted.

 

[bebo67]

Another thing we should touch on, an " unspoken" truth,is suicide! He felt it last night, but was able to see the bigger picture. How many have felt it, or have done it, that we don't hear about? Myself I haven't felt it, but man oh man, if that happened to me where I was that out of control, who knows what would go through my head.

 

[aceking123]

Good luck buddy i think youve done tbe best thing possible, i hope you push your bonding with your new son & thats your biggest jackpot win ! Take care & all the best!

 

[geordiecolin]

I've nothing much to add to what has been said except that I would try to view it not as a big part of your life that you will morn for a long time. More of an opportunity to direct your time in more worthy pastimes. I did that as soon as I decided to get married and have kids and a house. At that point I threw maybe 70% of my wages in fruit machines in pubs while my poor wife to be watched on and still stuck by me. I have not touched a pub slot machine for 24 years now,except I think 3 times where I said prior to dropping a few coins " just what I have in my hand" to test my resolve.
I walked away with no problems each time. You soon never think about it mate.
Yes,I am often in here. Yes I do gamble often.But I took a 18 year break from gambling totally before deciding to chance my arm with online slots

These days that 70% of my wages never gets over maybe 20%. When I have a good run I now have an instinctive resolve to keep a hold of as much of what I won as I can.
My point here is that your in a similar boat to what I was in when I stopped gambling on slots back then and you can do the same. I found it easy to refocus my down time enjoyments. I'm sure that you can buddy.
Good on you for your decision. Don't allow gambling to ruin what is most important to you

 

[SlotGrinder]

The industry isn't interested in promoting responsible gambling, as long as as it falls within the confines of 'The law'. It's bare-bones to the point of laughable.

Thing is they would have let him play all night and into next week. How about cutting the game off and a chat advisor discussing what's taking place, to snap someone out of a trance. How about making Loss Limits mandatory before play and being reviewed and increased monthly, much like obtaining credit privileges.

How about auto-reducing stake limits after certain losses. No.....instead we have people censoring swearwords in chat (though some usernames seem to slip the net, seemingly), 100 spins autoplay tools and the ever-popular 787878989 loss limits on games.

It's ironic that all the "responsible gaming" measures the authorities enforce only serve to tilt the player God forbid they actually ask us gamblers what would be useful to limit our gambling/tilt but instead they have annoying messages popping up telling you how much u have lost like u didnt already know..

 

[Reelsoffun]

Wow 15k in one night, thats a crazy amount and is currently 5x my yearly gamble allowance!! Although im actually up this year so far, although not by much now due to a horrid session lately, but it means i still have my whole years worth available to me but if i was to do that in one night that would be me done too. I have no idea whats stakes you was playing but wow.

Im glad you have seen that isnt acceptable and have called it quits, family and life is more important than playing slots and you will have more than enough to keep your mind off it looking after a little one babies are very time consuming so make the most of building on that.

Good luck on your quest of kicking it and dont be shy asking for additional help should you need it, either getting advice here or on a more professional level, although you might find staying away from here also needs to be part of the process.

All the best.

 

[Gaz237]

True. That is alot of money. I'm trying to grasp how that much can be spent in one night and nothing back.

He ended up playing $25 a spin, 15K is only 600 spins. Quite easy to lose that amount quickly at those stakes.

Would only be like any of us losing £150 on 25p stakes.

 

[bebo67]

He ended up playing $25 a spin, 15K is only 600 spins. Quite easy to lose that amount quickly at those stakes.

Would only be like any of us losing £150 on 25p stakes.

Whatever he used as a deposit method, bank, skrill etc. Are just as much at fault too. My bank would shut me right down if I went through that in a month, let alone in a day. Fraud dept would be calling me real quick. I guess when you deposit a lot, you think $25 isn't much. I have been guilty for betting that much, but I'm real firm that after 4 spins and nothing happens, nothing will.

 

[goatwack]

Whatever he used as a deposit method, bank, skrill etc. Are just as much at fault too. My bank would shut me right down if I went through that in a month, let alone in a day. Fraud dept would be calling me real quick. I guess when you deposit a lot, you think $25 isn't much. I have been guilty for betting that much, but I'm real firm that after 4 spins and nothing happens, nothing will.

Yeah that is a valid point. Between banks and gambling authorities imagine what good ideas could be brought forth and put in place to prevent such occurences.

But of course we are never to see this in our lifetimes, at least

 

[Playford7]

Important point that.
You don’t know how people feel or what goes through the mind when someone’s at a low ebb. Frightening infact

 

[TheresNoDInBonanza]

Thanks for the kind words all, regarding what I was playing/ betting:

I did a couple grand on Jurassic giants around $5 a spin and then thought I'd just get a feature in big bad wolf and call it a night, usually that thing drops features fairly often but it just never came and I kept raising bet, most were $25.

By the time a feature arrived I was already $5000 down and it paid less than 7x so I just kept playing and praying it would correct but it never did..

Best result was a 40x feature, had a few just barely in double digits...

I usually limit myself to $5 bets but even those seem to never produce anything except losses so my normal bet is $1-$2.

I received an email from the casino VIP manager that I'm a VIP now and they've thrown in $1000 to the account... 40x wagering no doubt.

 

[Playford7]

Thanks for the kind words all, regarding what I was playing/ betting:



I usually limit myself to $5 bets but even those seem to never produce anything except losses so my normal bet is $1-$2.

I received an email from the casino VIP manager that I'm a VIP now and they've thrown in $1000 to the account... 40x wagering no doubt.

Didn’t know you or never spoke before, but quit gambling.
I’ve read many of your posts and clearly your a well rounded and very well educated person, put your time and energy into something more fitting to your character than wasting it on slots etc...
I’m pretty sure your 100% better than that, also I summise you know that yourself.
Good luck and genuinely all the best.

 

[bebo67]

Thanks for the kind words all, regarding what I was playing/ betting:



I usually limit myself to $5 bets but even those seem to never produce anything except losses so my normal bet is $1-$2.

I received an email from the casino VIP manager that I'm a VIP now and they've thrown in $1000 to the account... 40x wagering no doubt.

Bad bad casino! If it's House Of Jack or Casino Mate......please they are horrid and will only make you feel worse. They have zero ethics! Its a no deposit bonus, so after all that wagering you will only get $200 dollars. Is it them? They are evil. I mean EVIL! Close all your accounts and go help your partner with your bairn. Enjoy life.

 

[TheresNoDInBonanza]

Bad bad casino! If it's House Of Jack or Casino Mate......please they are horrid and will only make you feel worse. They have zero ethics! Its a no deposit bonus, so after all that wagering you will only get $200 dollars. Is it them? They are evil. I mean EVIL! Close all your accounts and go help your partner with your bairn. Enjoy life.

I'm not going to name the casino as the responsibility lays with me alone- I do suspect that have lower RTP version of the slots since none of the help files mention the RTP and they just play so incredibly poorly.
I just rapid spun the $1000 bonus at $7.50 a spin and it was gone while waiting for my doctors appointment, about 20 minutes.

Glad to have it over with.
I suppose the healthiest thing would've been to just leave the $1000 in the account without spinning it. But I took no joy in it, like vomiting out bad food just glad it's gone.

 

[dealer wins]

I can only echo others in saying sorry for your losing, and wishing you well in your new online casino free life. Focus on your new baby and family, 1000000x more important than shitty gambling.

I have quit for over 2 months now and I dont miss it at all btw

Wishing you all the best OP!

 

[Cyclops]

Just a quick bye-bye thread to everyone here- gambling is no longer fun for me, there's no excitement just a sickening, ominous dread as balances invariably fall.

Blew $15,000 last night.

For anyone out there wondering if they may have a problem; you probably do- just try not to leave it until you're 36 with a 1 month old baby and blowing your savings in an evening before admitting it like I did.

All the best guys.

Oh dear $15,000 ouch, hope you stick to your decision and make sure you keep control in the future. Good luck with everything hope things pan out for you

 

[TheresNoDInBonanza]

Thanks everyone and best of luck, I'm out, won't be checking the forums for at least three months.
Be smart.