by RicardoG » Mon Jan 18, 2021 2:25 pm
Part 2:
It seems like I was on fire. I was on cloud 9.
I was almost hitting the prime before the Covid-19 lockdown in mid of March 2020.
After paying off my credit card debt and having the extra (excess) cash in hand, I decided to send my car for a full repair. Got the parts changed, fix the dents and painted it, changed to new tyres. All done up.
And then BAM, covid-19 lockdown hit.
Just, before the lockdown, I was into 2 areas, the online casino and soccer betting.The online casino cards started to get trickier, so I would switch over to soccer betting.
I would alternate between both.
And when Covid hit, the soccer matches started to dwindle, and eventually I was playing in leagues that kinda nonsense. I thought I had the formula, but at this time, it started to get tougher.
And when it came to the online casino sites (which I had made quite some money), they started to manipulate it by arranging the card (pre-prepared).
I started to lose back.
The trigger point came when I had joined an online mobile games, and I started to purchase game packs to bring up my game to the higher level.
For the expensive game packs that I bought (I was still with excess cash (physical cash at home), I wanted to recover back those large amounts that I spent.
So, I resorted to playing higher stakes in the scarce soccer matches. I guess you all know the outcome.
I started to lose much faster.
And the stock of cash the I have started to dwindle.
Seems like now, I was chasing losses
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Soon enough the pile of cash was gone.
I started to go for cash advance on my credit card.
And then it came to the point of realisation, that I have spiral out of control.
I was becoming desperate.
I keep thinking of my situation of the pre Covid, when I had envelopes full of cash hidden in my study room (hidden away from my wife...lol).
I was telling myself, how could I have been so careless.
Why didn't I quit. If the pandemic had not happen, would I have cleared my last hurdle of debt, which is a bank loan (which was taken out to clear my gambling debt many years ago).