Online Gambling

I am addicted to online casino slot games. I have been playing them for a number of years and have steadily got more and more addicted.
I am now finding myself in a very serious situation - I was paid on Friday (monthly wage) and have now gambled all but £150 of this money. I feel sick to my stomach, disgusted with myself, I loathe myself at the moment and I really don't know what to do or where to turn to.
No one in my family realises what I am doing but it has an obvious effect because although I work full time in a good job I never have any money.
I am sitting here this evening not knowing what I am going to do for the next month, I am embarrassed and have even been thinking that there is no real way out except o end it all.
I am so embarrassed and ashamed and would like to be able to stop but the lure of 'just one more £200' I am bound to win my loses back, is too strong.

If anyone has any advice please let me know as I am at my lowest ebb at the moment. I realise it is my own fault. I am an intelligent person but when it comes to this all sense seems to fly out of the window.

Most here will tell you that you need help to beat this addiction.
It's really up to you to go get it. If there is a GA near you, I would suggest you go there to get help.
This gambling addiction is really like a bad disease that you need to treat seriously, like a life- threatening disease.

Like any bad disease that may be life-threatening, you need to go through a tough period of fighting it.
Whether or not you are going to go through the tough process of trying to beat it is all up to you.
Go get help.

Hi whyme, my poison was online slots too! Awful horrible stupid things, steal your money and your sanity. I too felt so low I had some suicidal ideation! That is how horrible this addiction is. But you have to make a decision to stop, and your most powerful tool will be self excluding from every site. It's very empowering believe me and starts to give you some small control. I have found this forum so helpful, read through posts especially the strategies to stay GF. I hope today you are in a better place, stay strong x

Do you think online casino slot games are fair? They are so designed that one can never make up ALL one's losses. The gains are only meant to entice you to keep playing. Even if you will win the next time, you won't stop playing. So ultimately you will always end up losing.

whyme51 wrote:I am so embarrassed and ashamed and would like to be able to stop but the lure of 'just one more £200' I am bound to win my loses back, is too strong.

If anyone has any advice please let me know as I am at my lowest ebb at the moment.

What I'm saying is not and advice, but a fact: you will never win back what you lost. Not because you can not win it, but because no gambling addict has ever kept to the winnings. We all gave it back and you will do it too even if you win back what you lost (although it's very, very difficult to happen!).
YOU CAN NOT GAMBLE YOUR WAY OUT OF THIS.
Read our stories around the forum and save yourself some pain and despair.
Only way out is: forget the money and do whatever you have to do to NOT GAMBLE EVER AGAIN.
First step to do now? Accept that you will never gamble again.
Unfortunately usually it takes A LOT OF SUFFERED PAIN to accomplish this seemingly easy first step. So my advice base on these facts is: surrender and let it go. There is no winning here. Winning in gambling is loosing in life. So walk away, save yourself the pain, forget gambling and live relaxed life.

Getting_Better is right. Since this thread is about Online Gambling, I will say I have never even come close to any intention of gambling online.
How can you trust any computer game on the internet? As rigged as the slots are in brick and mortar casinos, online slots can be rigged to an even greater degree! They can downright cheat you, and how would you know? I guess those who gamble online don't consider that because the addiction might be too strong. The closest I ever came to even thinking about gambling online was Poker. However, I didn't because I just don't trust those sites and their programmers. As if to confirm my suspicions, there have been quite a few instances of Poker cheating online that I have read about. The main draw I can see about online gambling is that it is so convenient and private. Gamblers can hide their addictions more easily because they don't ever even have to go to a casino where they can be seen. It's so sick.

58gambling wrote:How can you trust any computer game on the internet? As rigged as the slots are in brick and mortar casinos, online slots can be rigged to an even greater degree! They can downright cheat you, and how would you know?

Any legit online casinos have to operate under an agreement that their site's server may be investigated and analyzed at any time, by the authorities.

What this means is that there are federal authorities that ensures that the online casino is using a proper and fair program that gives the appropriated odds, you don't just create an online casino, program it and have the freedom to incite players to come play without having the site certified, this would be fraud and trust me it would be closed by the time one player tries to make a deposit.

For the players that are still scepticle, there are Live Online Casinos, where the cards (i.e BlackJack) are shuffled and dealt in front of you on a video-camera by a real life dealer, they also do roulette, baccarat, 5 cards poker and more.

After being properly informed how Online Casinos operates people then tends to think they're almost safer when it comes to fraud over the internet than in real life casinos, now however I wouldn't suggest playing slots whether it's online or in real life, it's about the easiest way to blow through moneys and the odds are practically worse than lottery.

My apologies to the person that created this post, I just thought some should be informed how Online Casinos operate.

whyme51 wrote:I am so embarrassed and ashamed and would like to be able to stop but the lure of 'just one more £200' I am bound to win my loses back, is too strong.

Hi there.

If you are going to quit you need to first draw that imaginary line in the sand. What you have lost before is only regainable through hard work and real life discipline, I know it sucks but the long road is the only option...

I am living proof that as gambling addicts there is no amount we could win and then stop, pay our debts and restart life. We win, we think we can win more, then we loose it all and a $#%^ load more after that.

To give yourself the best chance, forget your losses, face your battle head on and go out into the real world to find a way to regain lost money.

All the best