When $10 becomes $100 becomes $1,000 becomes $10,000

bitcoin gambler wrote:0

August last year I posted 220 days gambling free. My life was going great until my first relationship ended and I started gambling again.
I still can't get her out of my mind and I've been gambling on and off since that day.

But today I hit rock bottom, for the first time in my life I won't be able to pay off my credit card, in a few days the bank is going to collect the money and my bank account will say insufficient funds. I have no idea what will happen, I am not in my home country but in Asia and my card is the only way of paying. I still have $2,000 I can collect I'm thinking of going to an ATM and withdraw the money so I can at least eat for the next month.

These forums helped me the first time, I hope it will get through this again.

I managed to make all payments I needed at time of writing this post, June 2016. In the months that passed since then I managed to earn almost a $100,000. My bank account hit highs I have never hit before. And today, we are closing in on zero again.

I hate myself. When I first started gambling with $0,20 a spin I hoped to once reach a few hundred in winnings and be happy. The total spent in one evening was $50. This was in the bar, with physical slots.

I then discovered online gambling with conventional banking system. Instead of spending $50 I spend $100’s hoping to win thousands.
And by the time I joined this forum I discovered gambling with bitcoin. This technology that made me more successful than ever in life also carries a dangerous risk. It has no limits, it has no authority.

With bitcoin I managed to spend $1,000’s, hoping to win tens of thousands. And while my work carried on and my income increased I managed to spend tens of thousands hoping to win hundreds of thousands.

It is insane to think on how this initial goals of earning $X just increased with each financial milestone in my life. This addiction is worse than anything I’ve ever experienced.

But life goes on, we must not forget opportunities and take them. I have a 20 hour flight today, I bought an audiobook by a famous writer on the topic of addictions. Let’s see how tomorrow goes. Just like a programmer, I will start counting from 0.

The luckiest gamblers are the ones who never, ever win. Once you get the rush of a big win you will always want it again.

I agree with Buster: We all start out wanting to win....if we do, we want more.......after it escalates to higher and higher stakes, then we just chase our lost money, hoping to win it back......by that time, we are hooked....look at it this way; the casinos/gambling operators WANT you to win .... it ensures that you will be back for more.....over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over....

58gambling wrote:I agree with Buster: We all start out wanting to win....if we do, we want more.......after it escalates to higher and higher stakes, then we just chase our lost money, hoping to win it back......by that time, we are hooked....look at it this way; the casinos/gambling operators WANT you to win .... it ensures that you will be back for more.....over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over....

They certainly want some people to win. They just love putting up pictures of happy gamblers who hit jackpots on slot machines.

Oh yeah.....I remember the pictures of all the happy winners pasted on the wall......I used to think if they put pictures of all the losers, they would cover up every wall and ceiling in the whole joint and run out of room to put the rest......