Online Gambling Disaster!

mmmDoomBar wrote:This book is a good read too!

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Here's a newspaper article about it:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/men/active/m ... 50000.html

Three things about this article struck me as important things to note:

1) As he spiraled downward into continual losses, he always believed that the next bet could be the one that would make things right again......
2) It started out as "fun" but after a while, he was not gambling out of choice anymore, but to cover his tracks.....
3) He actually left his child in his car while he went to gamble; this is something I have read that some mother also did, (while she went into the casino) and ended up being arrested for child endangerment.....

Yep, it's a superb read of just how bad gambling can turn someone into. It's a full on biography really so covers his successful time in the Army and early career too before gambling took hold. It's a lesson for us all with the sum he lost and what he lost. Never again!

Great article. This quote really hit me:

"I genuinely believed that the next two-pound bet would win everything back."

This from a guy who's in the hole hundreds of thousands and pawning valuable possessions for a fraction of what they're worth. What a powerful reminder of the irrationality we fall into.

Things are going well now, the debt is down to around £8000 and I should be free by the end of the year.

I did have a couple of minor slip ups a while back, but I soon put a stop to that, as I realised what would happen.

Not gambled in months now and it is getting much easier to avoid it.

Online gambling can bring disaster for anyone in anytime. no one can win from casino everytime by gambling. I have no any ideas for you becasue I hate gambling, betting.