[beehouse1]

Hi i’m new to this forum i’ll tell you a bit about my story. I am approaching 26 years old and up until june last year i could gamble quite normally a football coupon here and there not really worry whether it won or lost things changed for me when i went on holiday in june to vegas with 5 of my friends. 2 nights into the holiday i managed to be up 3k from playing blackjack but just couldn’t walk away blew the lot and by the end of the trip i was £1,400 out of pocket and unknown to me developed a crippling gambling addiction. I obviously felt down when i came so instead of putting the loss down to the bright lights of vegas i put £1,700 on a football match an looking back now the worst thing that happened was that came in. I was now hooked. From then on until november 1st i managed to win £53k and had £17k of my own money. The more i was winning the more i was betting anytime i lost a big bet i was following it up with a big bet to cover it i was fortunate enough that no 2 big bets lost in a row. Inbetween big bets on football i was playing blackjack online playing sometines 1k 3 hands at a time. Any time i played blackjack i was winning sometimes upto 10k. I felt invisible. One time i was 19k down but i just kept playing and somehow turned that into 10k profit. A warning sign if ever i’ve seen 1 but at the time never even thought about it cause i was winning. then on november 1st i had been out all night drinking and playing blackjack on my phone and somehow in the space of 2 hrs managed to blow £70k on my phone! I had never lost at blackjack previously so just kept playing and playing. i felt so low how did i allow this to happen i confessed to my parents what had happened and my father contacted ga he also put 2k in my account to keep me going till the end of the month as i had jst been paid and blew that. I was feeling so low that i made a doctors appointment see if they could help me with anything but tbh they were not very helpful so just tried to get on with it myself. I went to to 2 ga meetings that week but the very next weekend i blew £2.5k trying to win the money back got that amount upto 6k but couldn’t stop and lost at all at this point i was feeling so low didn’t no were to turn to i couldn’t tell my parents about this. So i knuckled down tried to forget about it and stuck in at my ga meetings but 6 weeks later calamity struck again at a works night out and i find myself in the casino i was ready to walk away with £4.2k profit but my ’friend’ wanted to play on so i went down and continued playing i left that morning £1,725 down which was all i had i just couldn’t walk away as soon as i started losing i just stayed were i was till it was gone i was playing maybe two £400 games of blackjack in a row so many losses in a row and i still couldn’t stop. This time it really hurt me hard i ended up drinking for 2 days straight and missing 4 days of work because of it. I was crying in my room not able to tell my parents. I went to my meetings and told people what happened and they gave me advice to tell my parents which i managed to do this morning. I just feel so hopeless and can’t see any positives i was going to see a mortgage advisor and was going for a consultation for a hair transplant the week i lost 70k and now i can’t even afford clothes. The advice i keep getting is try and forget about the money but i think about basically every hour i’m awake and can’t see any positives in life at the moment. I’m single and stay at home with my parents i earn around 25k a year in my job and only got 2k worth of debt so there is people in worst situations than me but just feel so hopeless and low! I’m going to see a psychiatrist next week. Has anyone been in a losition like this or got any advice in general they could give me would be appreciated thanks.

[JessicaLP]

I am in a similar situation… I am also a blackjack player and believe I am pretty good at it. A month ago I won over $2,000 and I felt like I was on top of the world winning that amount of money without spending much at all. Now I am broke… I’ve been broke for 2 weeks now and I can’t even remember what I Spent the money on, a lot of it was gambling. I keep thinking if I could win then I could win now. That is not the case. I am 23.. going to be 24 this year and it is nice to know there is also young adults like me who are struggling with this as well. Keep me updated? I would love to see how you are doing. It has been 2 weeks since I’ve been to the casino… hope you are doing alright.

JessicaLP

[deadboy16]

hi, I happen to be the same kind of situation..
I was very good at blackjack but if I had a losing streak I would quickly switch to roulette playing a 1000€ a spin nd that’s how I lost more than I could afford..I am just 22 yrs old but I have almost lost everything but when I come here and read about everyone I feel nd thank god that m just not alone into this..its been more than a week that I haven’t hit any casino nd trying my best not too..
my advice to you is that ur doing a job nd u just gotta focus on it for a year atleast and I know everyone is telling u to forget about it and I know damn well its not easy but please try to just let go of it..think that u never had it..cuz if u don’t let go,then ur gna be in the same mess..try to follow up on my advice..I hope everything works out for u..focus ur mind on ur work and ur lucky to have parents who understand you. Thank them

[Julkaisija]

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