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Welp, that's me done!

And appearantly did'nt learned much of it, did you?

If you are using drugs as a replacement for your gambling issues then you have'nt understand one thing of going cold turkey, completely get it out of your head. We cant help you like that from over a forum. It takes a bit of a spine to say no and resist those temptings.
 
Bloatgoat said:
And appearantly did'nt learned much of it, did you?

If you are using drugs as a replacement for your gambling issues then you have'nt understand one thing of going cold turkey, completely get it out of your head. We cant help you like that from over a forum. It takes a bit of a spine to say no and resist those temptings.
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Ok, I'll see if I can grow a spine, cheers.
 
Perhaps you should disconnect your computer for a while, completely trash any links, url's, visitid websites to anything related to gambling. Get a hobby, spend time with your kid(s), go for a walk, set some goals for your future. It takes on avg a 3 weeks to get your brain to back to normal operation. It'll be tough at the beginning but just be strong, hold on.

You wont win millions and overcome any of your problems by going back to it. You had your chance and you blew up.
 
Bloatgoat said:
Perhaps you should disconnect your computer for a while, completely trash any links, url's, visitid websites to anything related to gambling. Get a hobby, spend time with your kid(s), go for a walk, set some goals for your future. It takes on avg a 3 weeks to get your brain to back to normal operation. It'll be tough at the beginning but just be strong, hold on.

You wont win millions and overcome any of your problems by going back to it. You had your chance and you blew up.
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Not sure if you've read the thread/post but I'm long passed 3 weeks and have banned myself from all my previous sites. I also do go for walks, spend the majority of my time with my kid (--s) and am generally a good person/dad.
I just still long for gambling.
Not sure why you're getting so aggressive here, I'm doing my best and keeping an open Journal of my thoughts as I go here in the hopes it may help someone else or myself later on.
 
Your personality does'nt have much todo with having a gambling issue. It's that your brain has start going it's own way basicly and craves for the dopamines caused when playing slots / gambling in general. There's a good article on
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about this subject. I know you cant help it, and thats why you need to seek some professional help and not some AA meeting where talk is the subject. I think you need a more personal approach into understanding what is going on and how to overcome any of those cravings you have.

You are not making it any better by using drugs. In fact you keep the cycle somehow going on and sooner or later you will want to return to that what made you most high: gambling.

So dont feel offended by my words, i'm just writing or stating the way i think it is. It's nothing personal.
 
Bloatgoat said:
So dont feel offended by my words, i'm just writing or stating the way i think it is. It's nothing personal.
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Not offended, and I apologize for perhaps getting overly defensive- that's just because the things you've suggested I have already done.
You name a treatment/system/meeting/medication/philosophy and I've done it, and so me having a go at you for trying to help was not cool.

However, I feel like gambling and most other addictions are often hand waved at with the same platitudes, go to GA, go three weeks, don't place the blame elsewhere. As none of these things help. You say your personality has nothing to do with it and I would argue it has everything to do with it.

Despite being a convenient crutch I do not think gambling, any other addiction or PERHAPS even depression are a disease inflicted upon a person. I think they are a result of a certain personality type.
I suppose it's semantics about what a "disease" is- but for me personally it does not help to think of it that way other than being a soothing way of deflecting blame from myself.

So even without bringing the whole "disease" argument in to it I think you'd be hard pressed to back up your assertion that someone's personality has nothing to do with their predilection to gambling or other addictive activities.

And finally, to clarify- since I think that may have been what set you against me initially: I'm not buying heroin and shooting it up in the gutter, I merely pinched a few pain killers from my dad's stash. I used to be very heavily in to opiates and taking one or two a month now when I get desperate I think is an ok trade.. or if it's not, I'll happily return to gambling
 
Opiates are linked in the UK with problem gamblers, as they tend to alleviate the dread or guilt for doing so. Many problem gamblers cite opiates as a trigger for gambling issues. A VERY DANGEROUS combination.

George Best, the famous N. Ireland footballer who died a few years back from alcoholism despite having received a liver transplant as a second chance, was open about temptation. When he went dry for about 3 years a reporter was congratulating him on 1000 days booze free. George replied along the lines of "Don't you think I've wanted to drink, craved a drink, on every single one of those days?"
 
Well being honest is a 'good thing' and it gives us or readers here a better understanding what's going through your mind. But using drugs in general to compensate any of the craving you experienced with gambling, is what dunover already mentioned a dangerous combination. You need to stop doing what you do, and perhaps of thinking doing a different chapter in your life. I know a few people who went to africa for threatment, they really where fucked up cases, but they came back, being a different person, and more stronger to what they once coud'nt resist. I'm no expert at threatments, but i know the first thing to fallback(s) is simply the access to it, and having spine to say no. If you could only master that a bit more, see how far you can come in life man.

I like gambling too; and i had my tilt moments as well. But i know losing such hard in online games is just the way it's designed. It's designed to make you lose. It's designed to hook your mind. It's designed to go in this rollercoaster where there is no end unless you and only you put an end to that. I can say no. And i can walk away. Doing that is'nt so hard as it looks like. But you wont accomplish those steps without doing the things in a right way first. That is, quit any drugs and seek help. You want to get better do you? Or are you just looking for a temporarily sollution and go full at it the next week, month or so?

It's obvious you cant control yourself. So you need to seek different things, where one controls your money. If given access you blew it all away on gambling, are'nt you? Look man it's no shame to have someone control your money and you have a weekly budget. If it saves you from going worse, why not. It might open your mind a bit more in start doing other things as well. Seek a hobby. I came to the idea to start buying metal detectors and do something different with my time, seek for gold / metals near the beach. It was a thing from my very youth which i can do now and i think i like it as well.

I mean, life is not all about slots. You can experience the same thrills in playings games online, doing sports, seek a hobby or some shit. Thats just how slots are designed, to capture your mind and making you believe you cant live without it. It's really simple man. You just have to see it for yourself.
 
TheresNoDInBonanza said:
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Nope, not at all.

When I was in my late teens, early 20's I became addicted, really addicted to land based AWP's.

Sold almost everything I owned, lied, begged, borrowed, stole, almost anything to get my daily fix. Although not always out of control, really bad/evil period lasted a good 6 month's.

I never went cold turkey completely but did put safeguards in place to try and implement damage limitation. Gave parents my wages with hand out dates, went to town with limited funds and a few other little control methods.

Got under control where I didn't touch an AWP in my mid 30's (took this long as I came across numerous 'emptiers' so easily got my own back, along with all my losses and couldn't ever turn down 100% guaranteed "free money")

Started online in 2003, was in a reasonably well paid job, single and kid free so could spend my wages as I wished, although enjoyed socialising more so as best I recall, only about 20% of my take home pay went on online casinos.

Soon as I settled down, started family, got married etc. I knew I had to set a budget, a fairly low one due to much more important things and stick to it, amazingly I did this no problem and apart from the odd ultra rare slip, (usually when either pissed off at a super fast bust out or a comfortable "all bills paid week"), I have stuck to it to this very day!
 
I know that AA rewards you with chips. Most of the advice I've read about quitting smoking, and all the apps, keep track, encourage you to set rewards. A friend's mom put what a pack of smokes cost every day in a jar, upping the amount as the prices rose. She did that for over 30 years, lived well into her 80s.

I didn't take that approach. I'm somewhere around 6 months now I think. My own choice was to do my best not to think of how many days or weeks I had been smoke-free, but just think of it as something I don't do any more.

I think of myself as a gambler. I think of myself as a mother, and a friend. An adventersome eater and a good cook. I try to look at no longer smoking as something I have gained, not something I have lost. I'm not feeling all the miraculous health benefits that are touted. My food has always tasted good, and I never developed that smokers' cough. I'm not even saving any money, as the nicotine replacement costs more than I was spending on smokes. But I'm not doing further damage, and that is a very good thing.

I know I was bummed about not feeling more benefits from doing something that has been so hard. I suspect you might be too.

Sometimes celebrations are not just for us however, but those who are proud of us. I bet you did something to mark your child's first birthday. That was for you and other people, a one-year old will not remember.

You will find your own path. I don't have to tell you opiates are not it.

Periods when I either can't afford to gamble, or want to cut back, I usually play a lot of computer games.
 
Gambling has the potential to completely destroy you, leave you with absolutely nothing on the street and in worst case even for you to commit suicide. You woud'nt be the first who has done so. Some people blew their complete savings, housing, credit cards, all that they could grasp their hands on, into gambling. And the addiction is even worse then a cocaine, crack or whatever you want to compare it to. Dont be silly, dont be that guy who keeps busting his nuts to the same old rock again. Gambling (online) is crafted in such a way that you simply cannot beat it. It's designed to make you lose, and in my opinion even a bit faster then compared to landbased.

Some people blew their complete future away in less then a half year. Great potential, own business, money like water, boom, all gone. Read the web. It's dangerous as fuck and this is a business where 95% of the players are simply considered as suckers who's money to extract from.

When the goverment cracks down on pokey's, that same industry comes out with a low excuse about potential jobs that are going to be lost. The same jobs that where created on the sole base of gambling. This business is rotten. The casino's are only out for maximum profit and craft their game offerings todo so. No casino is going to put up games that would keep the TOD (time on device) too low and the potential winnings too high. Remember we have a guy around on this forum here who designs games and used publicly available maths. I'm sure that other game designers tend to reach for maths that are even more complex and more difficult for players to really win on.

We've seen all the arguments alot of players use about online vs landbased, it's all blabla. I think the majority who plays online loses harder then going landbased.
 
Jasminebed said:
I know that AA rewards you with chips. Most of the advice I've read about quitting smoking, and all the apps, keep track, encourage you to set rewards. A friend's mom put what a pack of smokes cost every day in a jar, upping the amount as the prices rose. She did that for over 30 years, lived well into her 80s.

I didn't take that approach. I'm somewhere around 6 months now I think. My own choice was to do my best not to think of how many days or weeks I had been smoke-free, but just think of it as something I don't do any more.

I think of myself as a gambler. I think of myself as a mother, and a friend. An adventersome eater and a good cook. I try to look at no longer smoking as something I have gained, not something I have lost. I'm not feeling all the miraculous health benefits that are touted. My food has always tasted good, and I never developed that smokers' cough. I'm not even saving any money, as the nicotine replacement costs more than I was spending on smokes. But I'm not doing further damage, and that is a very good thing.

I know I was bummed about not feeling more benefits from doing something that has been so hard. I suspect you might be too.

Sometimes celebrations are not just for us however, but those who are proud of us. I bet you did something to mark your child's first birthday. That was for you and other people, a one-year old will not remember.

You will find your own path. I don't have to tell you opiates are not it.

Periods when I either can't afford to gamble, or want to cut back, I usually play a lot of computer games.
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For me as I have an addicitive personality I try and funnel that obsession to something useful - for me is weight training/gym. At least then you have the benefit of having something valuable after the obsession and if your single you do reap the benefits even more haha.
 
Judging by myself and some other posters here whose posts I have read over the 13 years I have been frequenting this forum, the main reason to gamble is unhappiness - unhappiness about something. Either partial unhappiness such as about a job or profound unhappiness about horrible life situations such as an ill child, etc.

I saw an interview with Johann Hari on Joe Rogan Experience (available on YouTube) about drug addiction, I highly recommend it. I was blown away by what he was saying. One of my takeaways was that in order to get rid of an addiction, one must root out unhappiness from one's life. Among many other things, he talks about the government policies in Portugal and Switzerland where heroin has been legal for quite some time (around 10 and 15 years, respectively, IIRC) and the overall drug abuse in the general population has improved significantly due to the specific steps taken by the government (they stopped the "war on drugs" and started actually helping addicts).

Some people are able to cope without escapist activities. But some are not and those are inclined to become addicted. And if the addiction, such as gambling or drug abuse, has a significant negative effect on one's life, i.e. the state of one's happiness, then it becomes a vicious circle - the more unhappy one is, the more one is driven to the addiction.

As to the stories about people who "had it all", family, great job, lot of money and gambled it away and ended on a street... The only explanation IMO is that they were not actually happy and that is why they threw it all away so readily.
 
I disliked gambling in any form back when i was young. I saw my brothers tossing in their montly payments and be stuck for another 3 weeks with litterally no money. I always kept sideways related to gambling, untill i lost my mom. Basicly, that was the spine in my life, that suddenly disappeared. I started to visit landbased casino's, it gave me that escape i was looking for, i kicked it up for 3 years of frequently visits, being a VIP, wining huge amounts of money as well.

When i realised, i never took the time to sit down, and start grieving over the loss of my mother, that's when it kind of settled in. I started to visit the casino's less. I started to feel better personally. I started to move on. The online part came a while later; it's more easy to login online rather then taking the car, heading to the casino, parking, finally sitting down if the machine(s) are not taken yet etc.
 
TheresNoDInBonanza said:
Am I alone in this? Can some other ex addicts pitch in; would you want cerebration of milestones with your family?
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Mate, someone who isn’t me used to be on the fifty dollar rods of homebake or 30 lines to a bag of stamp four every other day. It’s been at least 9/10 years since, and if you can imagine you just lose track of how long it’s been. That’s where you need to get to. Once you stop knowing or caring, you’ve made it. It doesn’t mean someone who isn’t me wouldn’t joke about using or fantasise about it quite often, just means they don’t want to stomp down that road. At least you are conscious you are replacing something with something else. This SWIM bloke wasn’t a tourist either, very bad jack rabbit on every jack and jill under the sun. I’m being intentionally vague, but I’m sure you know what I mean. Just stay above water man.
 
Janek12 said:
Judging by myself and some other posters here whose posts I have read over the 13 years I have been frequenting this forum, the main reason to gamble is unhappiness - unhappiness about something. Either partial unhappiness such as about a job or profound unhappiness about horrible life situations such as an ill child, etc.
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This is exactly how I got hooked on the land casino, marriage was ending, mother was in stage 4 and my high tech job @ nortel was being relocated back to Canada.

These back to back events put me in a depression, going the land casino was soothing, a place where I could escape and think, unfortunately I ended up getting addicted.
 
Land base casinos are evil, evil,evil! There is no distractions there, meaning clocks or windows. I spent many a weekends there when my kids were gone, pulling 12-16 hours sometimes. No one would say boo! My last day in a land base casino was 6 years ago December 28th. I won 6k, self excluded and haven't looked back. I don't think about it,except to shake my head sometimes. The money won was huge, just like the money lost. Online is a whole different scene for me. I cant still still for that long, so my sessions will last 2 hours tops, but most times an hour. Oddly enough, I'm only addicted to one game. Weird eh? I could play that for free, but for some reason, it isn't as fun. Online you have safe guards in place, and I have used them, like setting limits, when I know money needs to go on other things. My past is my past. The self exclusion was only to be a year. :laugh:
 
bebo67 said:
Land base casinos are evil, evil,evil! There is no distractions there, meaning clocks or windows. I spent many a weekends there when my kids were gone, pulling 12-16 hours sometimes. No one would say boo! My last day in a land base casino was 6 years ago December 28th. I won 6k, self excluded and haven't looked back. I don't think about it,except to shake my head sometimes. The money won was huge, just like the money lost. Online is a whole different scene for me. I cant still still for that long, so my sessions will last 2 hours tops, but most times an hour. Oddly enough, I'm only addicted to one game. Weird eh? I could play that for free, but for some reason, it isn't as fun. Online you have safe guards in place, and I have used them, like setting limits, when I know money needs to go on other things. My past is my past. The self exclusion was only to be a year. :laugh:
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The cat in my Avatar saved my butt a few times at the land casino. All of a sudden I'd say to myself man, I have to get back he's probably starving and feeling abandoned.
 
bebo67 said:
Land base casinos are evil, evil,evil! There is no distractions there, meaning clocks or windows. I spent many a weekends there when my kids were gone, pulling 12-16 hours sometimes. No one would say boo! My last day in a land base casino was 6 years ago December 28th. I won 6k, self excluded and haven't looked back. I don't think about it,except to shake my head sometimes. The money won was huge, just like the money lost. Online is a whole different scene for me. I cant still still for that long, so my sessions will last 2 hours tops, but most times an hour. Oddly enough, I'm only addicted to one game. Weird eh? I could play that for free, but for some reason, it isn't as fun. Online you have safe guards in place, and I have used them, like setting limits, when I know money needs to go on other things. My past is my past. The self exclusion was only to be a year. :laugh:
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I find I spend MORE time online (12-20 hrs sessions) than land based because it's easy and less distractions, whereas at land based, there's bands, and people in your way, a bar and foodcourt, restaurants, etc
 
bebo67 said:
Land base casinos are evil, evil,evil! There is no distractions there, meaning clocks or windows. I spent many a weekends there when my kids were gone, pulling 12-16 hours sometimes. No one would say boo! My last day in a land base casino was 6 years ago December 28th. I won 6k, self excluded and haven't looked back. I don't think about it,except to shake my head sometimes. The money won was huge, just like the money lost. Online is a whole different scene for me. I cant still still for that long, so my sessions will last 2 hours tops, but most times an hour. Oddly enough, I'm only addicted to one game. Weird eh? I could play that for free, but for some reason, it isn't as fun. Online you have safe guards in place, and I have used them, like setting limits, when I know money needs to go on other things. My past is my past. The self exclusion was only to be a year. :laugh:
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I completely agree, I tend to walk away from land based casinos with a small profit but 9/10 give it all back to them. At least with online I have the ability to cash out an amount, lock it in and at least know the money is heading to an account. This isn’t to say I haven’t blown a big balance online though, lately it’s just been just as bad. However, online gives me a bit of needed restriction compared to when I hit it big at a land based, the cash just burns a hole in my pocket.
 
If you dislike being disturbd, try going early instead of late. Most bands or entertainment in the broadest sense start at evening/nightly hours. In Holland we have 24/7 landbased casino's, hop in at 03:00 AM, have your breakfast and play away.
 
This is my advise as a gambler who started at 16 and is 27 now. Look you are never gonna get rich or hit that jackpot. Yes it's all random but if you are a problem gambler it doesn't matter how much you win. In the past 4 months I won about 4k in caddel casino's, almost 3k at slottyvegas, 1k in leovegas and just two days ago again 900 euro which I lost and cashed out 400. My point is that I have almost lost all the profits I have made already. Deposited 30 euro at 21prive and won 900 but was stupid enough to play till 400 euro. I have lost at least 150k of my own money and offcourse all the winnings. Gambling is if you are lucky or not. So you only play with a LITTLE bit of your own money on monthly bases maybe 5%. In my opinion anything more you are a problem gambler who spends way too much slotting like me. I was into Bitcoin in 2011. Always had a gambling problem and you don't want to know how much I have spend in Bitcoin casino's with low prices. I sold many other alts in order to play on casino's so I would say my total loss is actually in the tens of millions. Still I enjoy slotting when I'm normal. When I think about the bad sessions I know that something is very off. After a bad session with a deposit of 100 euro I would keep depositing thousands the same day, like seriously... Why? Something is very wrong with our minds as problem gamblers. The sooner we accept this the sooner we can work on it and say no more. It took me too long and still struggling with it. In a winning session you can make 20k out of 100 bucks like I did once. Or you can lose 20k after a 100 bucks deposit more easily, also like I did and more than once.
 
dionysus said:
I find I spend MORE time online (12-20 hrs sessions) than land based because it's easy and less distractions, whereas at land based, there's bands, and people in your way, a bar and foodcourt, restaurants, etc
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Wow, just WOW!

Very surprised to read that lol. I'm bored after 2-3 hours at the very most, even when winning and the re-triggers are pouring in left, right and centre :p
 
I can believe it. I can have a hard time dragging myself away when I am in demo mode on a slot.

Something I found pretty helpful with changing my smoking was writing down how I was feeling when I had an urge that lasted more than a fleeting second, and maybe what triggered it. Just get some kind of journal app for your phone or other device, or go old-school with a notebook. It is not vital you always do, but it tends to lend a lot of insight.
 
Jasminebed said:
I know that AA rewards you with chips. Most of the advice I've read about quitting smoking, and all the apps, keep track, encourage you to set rewards. A friend's mom put what a pack of smokes cost every day in a jar, upping the amount as the prices rose. She did that for over 30 years, lived well into her 80s.

I didn't take that approach. I'm somewhere around 6 months now I think. My own choice was to do my best not to think of how many days or weeks I had been smoke-free, but just think of it as something I don't do any more.

I think of myself as a gambler. I think of myself as a mother, and a friend. An adventersome eater and a good cook. I try to look at no longer smoking as something I have gained, not something I have lost. I'm not feeling all the miraculous health benefits that are touted. My food has always tasted good, and I never developed that smokers' cough. I'm not even saving any money, as the nicotine replacement costs more than I was spending on smokes. But I'm not doing further damage, and that is a very good thing.

I know I was bummed about not feeling more benefits from doing something that has been so hard. I suspect you might be too.

Sometimes celebrations are not just for us however, but those who are proud of us. I bet you did something to mark your child's first birthday. That was for you and other people, a one-year old will not remember.

You will find your own path. I don't have to tell you opiates are not it.

Periods when I either can't afford to gamble, or want to cut back, I usually play a lot of computer games.
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Yeh 100% relate to this from giving up smoking . Now smoking is something I used to do . There's no amazing life changing benefits because you gave up smoking , well all you're really doing is reversing a harmful activity and getting back to "normal" But actually I have tried smoking again occasionally and I can have one cigarette but if I have a second I start to get a sick feeling in my stomach and I remember how it was when I used to smoke regularly. The health issues , the constant need for nicotine and the general dirtiness of it . Also , not being able to do things without stopping for a cigarette halfway through . One story I read was a guy was at his daughter's wedding and halfway through the sermon all he's really thinking is I wish they'd hurry up so I could nip outside for a smoke.. that's really sad

I feel for you OP trying to give up gambling but you know what you are craving is not reality . Most times I gamble it's not much fun . Sitting there waiting ages for a bonus , watching your deposit go down , then hitting 3 scatters and you're halfway through the bonus and no sticky wilds/multi has appeared and you know its going to be a shit one . End up with 20x which you lose again within 50 spins then go bust . It's not fun at all . You just feel like you threw away money
And then when you get some big hit finally (after dumping a lot of money in to casinos for days/weeks) you are happy for like 10 minutes but then you go for more and it goes downhill . Or you withdraw and feel good for a while but then you deposit on another casino and another and before you know it most of the money is gone and you feel even worse because you had that nice win and you didn't stop you just kept going and lost it .
If you're a gambling addict there's really no benefit to gambling because you will never win for long . You're just addicted to the process but ultimately it gets you nowhere , it's just a way of wasting your time and escaping reality

So every time you feel like you'd do anything to have a gamble just remember that it's really not how you imagine it to be . Sure you might play 1 session and have a good time but after that you will play another and another and another and most of those sessions will suck and you'll feel bad and lose lots of money . It's not worth it

I'd probably get shouted at for even recommending this but I feel like putting so much pressure on yourself for total abstinence can make the mind reject and yearn for it . Like I said with smoking , after I felt like I had given up properly I allowed myself a cigarette (lol) It didn't really do much for me tbh . But after I had that first one I started craving another one . Halfway through the next I stamped it out and threw away the packet because I started to really feel all the negative emotions of being addicted to cigarettes . After that I was more happy with my decision to quit.
Not saying you're ready for that yet (I don't think you are) but at least allow yourself the possibility that one day you probably will be able to have a little gamble and think well that was shit and move on with your life .. I hope so
 
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SlotGrinder said:
Yssions will suck and you'll feel bad and lose lots of money . It's not worth it

I'd probably get shouted at for even recommending this
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Dude, give 'm the middle finger. Seriously. You know what i really hate in this business? The 'influencers' in this business, trying to give this a good vibe and that gambling is cool and stuff. Well it's not. It's sweating and having alot of struggle getting ahead, on top, or at least a worthwile happy end. The reality is far from how it is being presented.

@TheresNoDInBonanza Keep it up man. Remember that the craving for going into a casino, pub or online business, will slowly dissapear over time. Really, give it another 2 weeks, and see how you feel then compared to today. I promis you it will be alot better!
 
nutnut said:
No one records those, thats the reality of slotting and the industry doesn't want those sort of videos. Just slot players aka streamers spinning £20 a go and hitting big wins...
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You sound worse than me!

What's Nonanza done to you?!?
 
Well that's four months.
Longest I've gone in eighteen years and on aggregate it may just tip the balance to me not gambling for more than half my life.
Really wish I could say I was feeling better about it because I always took solace in reading about others quitting and their lives improving but I'm still just thinking about it a lot, constantly talking myself out of it.
I know that a fly on the wall would say I'm doing so much better now but it still doesn't feel that way.
Feels like I've traded in a life of candy for a life of steamed veggies (if you knew me that would be funny because I actually like veggies and loathe sugar, but you take my point) - I know I'm doing better for those around me and am a more socially acceptable citizen, but damn where are the three scatters.
 
TheresNoDInBonanza said:
Feels like I've traded in a life of candy for a life of steamed veggies .
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But that isn't a negative. It's the difference between what's good for us and what's not, the learning curve every adult faces as we mature as people.
The difference here perhaps, whereas some adults can have a bit of sugar and treats in a balanced meal, a diabetic/addict can't
does it suck? Probably? Is a lifestyle change always bad? No :)
Try to look for the UPSIDES, not the downsides :)
 
TheresNoDInBonanza said:
Well that's four months.
Longest I've gone in eighteen years and on aggregate it may just tip the balance to me not gambling for more than half my life.
Really wish I could say I was feeling better about it because I always took solace in reading about others quitting and their lives improving but I'm still just thinking about it a lot, constantly talking myself out of it.
I know that a fly on the wall would say I'm doing so much better now but it still doesn't feel that way.
Feels like I've traded in a life of candy for a life of steamed veggies (if you knew me that would be funny because I actually like veggies and loathe sugar, but you take my point) - I know I'm doing better for those around me and am a more socially acceptable citizen, but damn where are the three scatters.
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I mentioned it before, its about the record now, concentrate on that, tell yourself you don't want to ruin your record.
 
SpinUk said:
Watch rocknrollas gambling last few - balance upto ten or so grand and then spunks it on roulette in five minutes.
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Yes, this guy ^ 100% There's a chilli loss video of him somewhere where buying bonusses one after another just completely fails. After that he ended his stream and that is just the hard reality of slots these days. 5% wins, the rest makes losses.

The thing with streamers is; they are streaming and often playing with bonus wagers to keep the stream up as long as possible. When some streamer hits big, it often stimulates other players to play as well. Hence why they favour in local casino's to put the more lose slots upfront for everyone to see.

I mean who does'nt want to win. But if you signup as a affilate for a streamer, guaranteed that 40 to 60% of every loss of you is going to that streamer. Dont listen to these people man. If anyone in their life had a goldmine they sure aint going to share this public in youtube.

Stay away from the free spins, no deposit plays and all that bullshit. It's just to lure and suck you in.
 
Well.. I done messed up.
Wife is away for a few days and I'd been good but it eventually got too much I guess.. I thought I'd got through the day but I stupidly watched a youtube of gambling streamers and noticed one showed an aussie casino that was apparently still operating, signed up and lost about $150 which is nothing, Had a whole bunch of wins of course (had wagering).. up all night, feeling so worthless and crappy today.
Closed the account with the new mob (but not before they sold my phone number to spammers, had about 15 calls today).
 
addiction is awful who knows one day that could be me but I can never excuse gambling being above your family.

you have so much more than most people in life but you sit here typing about missing slots and gambling like that is your family.

sorry to sound harsh but you need to get a grip, get serious help and stop sulking and feeling sorry because you cant waste money.

spend those savings on a holiday. sadly I don't think you want to stop, you just love the idea of trying and sulking over it and sulking more when you relapse.

I'm being harsh as though not addiction I wasted 10yrs of my life stuck in a house feeling sorry for myself, all along I sulked how I was lonely fat and not happy yet was only me keeping myself that way. dont make same mistake. get off this forum and stop watching crappy youtube videos and go enjoy your life.
 

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