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I have a gambling problem. I'm 31 and I've struggled with it since I was 19 playing online poker. I ran myself into $35K credit card debt and $0 to my name by the age of 23. I would gamble every penny the day I got paid and would live off something like $18 for two more weeks.
Wasted many years of my life working my ass off paying off all my debt while still gambling every extra penny. Debt gone. My life isn't quite as hopeless. I try to pay all my bills first. I have a good paying salary position (at a casino). I have a 401(k), borrowed a grand from it to gamble... lost. Every bit of extra cash I have gets blown in the casino. It has been like this every week for so many years. 12 straight I guess.
It's tough. It's ruining my life. I end up in desperate situations where I'm stuck. I'm intelligent, good looking, charismatic, but nobody really knows how I'm dying on the inside.
Tonight I blew $320 in about an hour. The amount is irrelevant. It was more than I had to lose. I'll be living off of about $28 for the next 12 days. I'm used to it.
When I think about how much $ I've blown in the last 12 years. Hard to put an exact amount on it. All of it..
It just kills all my time, prevents me from being able to do anything. I know I just need to stop, but that clarity mostly only comes through after I've already fucked things up.
Any advice? Looking for something a little deeper than "stop gambling."
tl;dr Gambling addict doesn't learn. 31 and wasting life.
what's your craps strategy?
>>16994796
Buy in $400. Another $400 for backup.
Nickel yo parlay about half the time on the come out.
5 on the line with 5-10x odds. 6 and 8 $12 each, or $32/$34 inside. Power press. Get it up to green and collect. Press if it hits again, or same bet/1 unit if I'm being a pussy. If things get hot we'll get to black on 6/8/4. No hardways. Hop the point a lot when I'm playing bc I'm a psycho.
I typically stop when everything is gone.
>>16994786
One of the only ways you're going to beat this is to lose access to your money and have a money manager look after it for you.
Your salary goes into an account you don't have access to. The manager uses it to pay your bills and home delivered groceries. You get a minimal amount of cash and not enough to make gambling tempting.
You don't get any credit cards or loans without the manager's approval. You can get yourself put on voluntary credit stop which will help with this.
Without cash you lose access to playing. You don't seem the kind to resort to crime, as it is now when your run out of dosh you self limit.
It will be hard and to help the manager must keep giving you rewards, like travel for example, paid for from the proceeds of not gambling.
Other than this.... you'll be trapped in the same cycle.
By the way, these money managers are often called a 'spouse' but if you're not married then an accountant or book-keeper may be able to help you.
Therapy.
>>16994786
Try horse racing the odds are better, after a while & with some hard earned experience you should find it easy to pick a winner.
>>16994803
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ccoj5lhLmSQ
>>16994786
Every casino and every online site has a contact number you can phone or a site to access for help with problem gambling. Or find a local chapter of Gamblers Anonymous.
>>16994803
wtf am I reading
