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I am still in highschool, but increasingly this game called "Flip" has gained popularity. I've heard stories that some people play with Hundred dollar bills but iv'e only seen it played once with ones. The stakes are 50/50 if I were to start playing this game, or for my classmates who are playing it already, would this affect our future or is this just a passing phase?

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My name is Dave and I am a compulsive gambler. I know this and can admit it to myself but no matter how hard I try I just cannot absolutely stop gambling. I have been to GA before and I go through spells where I may stop for a few months here and then but it always comes back in a vicious cycle.

I got hooked to gambling about 7 years ago after ...

Since I live in New Jersey, we just got hit with a snowstorm. I believe we got hit with about 2 feet of snow although i am not entirely sure since I have not left my apartment since thursday. Because of this snow, I was unable to go to work today. So now i am sitting home with my family bored and thinking about playing poker online. Whenever I am bored, i will either over ...

ahh where do i begin? i guess i can start at the beginning. I started gambling for real money when I turned 18 years old. When I first started playing for real money, it was in texas hold em. My gambling started with online poker sites because at 18 years old, I was not allowed to gamble at the casinos in Atlantic City. So, I would anxiously wait every week until I got my paycheck ...

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My Name is Rodrigo. I'm 26 years old. I was born in Brazil and raised in Florida. I had originally posted my story a few months ago. I had hopes that I could eventually find a way out of my addiction, but quite frankly, it has only gotten worse.

At first, I used to go to the Casino twice a week, maybe three times. I then started going every day. I really mean ...

But at the end of the day, I never really win.

Let me start by introducing myself, I am 25, married, paying off a mortgage and supporting my wife, if i take my pay check and pay for the months' expense, I can make it just about with 0 saved.

I've lost in total about 2k in gambling, which is nothing compare to some of the story i read, but still i want to correct ...

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I'm a 39 year old sex and gambling addict. My sex addiction has been in the form of compulsive use of internet porn, of which I've been sober from for around 10 years. I've been sober from gambling for a bit longer - about 15. I got in very deeply and compulsively with video poker when I lived in Oregon many years ago. Spent untold hours, lost many nights of sleep, horrified by girlfriend, ...

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I've never posted before on a forum like this but hopefully it will help me.
I am a pathalogical gambler and have been since I was 18. Horses an poker machines. I am 35 years old and have no assets or savings. I have only debt of over $100k. In the past 3 years I have gambled away at least $300k and I can only speculate what the losses are since I was 18. ...

So I went again today, and lost 1500, and a total of 2200 from my school loan within the last week. I dont know what else to say except for I need help. I need help like a sick person

So i posted my story for you to read here - gambling-addiction/topic100037.html

Anyways to sum up, i was addicted to sports betting online, placing bets on sports I've never heard off to chase easy money and lost, rinse repeat etc.

So my last bet was the 4th of November and as time has gone on the urge to bet has faded, do i still have thoughts about betting? yes, ...