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[ar argyl53 WANTED $419 Outlaw]

Just had the worst 2 days of my entire gambling lifetime. As I’ve posted quite a bit on this forum, I’ve had some amazing big wins over the last six weeks – 1000x on Captain Venture, 1000x on Bonanza, 2000x on Book of Ra and loads more in between I didn’t capture.

Unfortunately this was more of a curse than a blessing. A great month made me stupidly feel – just for a short time – like I was invincible and couldn’t lose.

Got paid Friday morning, have now already blown most of my wages. I feel like such a moron. Lost it all chasing a £150 roulette loss I could have easily coped with just letting go. Now I’ve lost ten times that. Lucky the Christmas shopping was already done so I haven’t ruined the big day there, but £250 short on my rent for January and very skint until next pay day which is over 30 days away still. Been able to meet my other bills and obligations just about, and at least most of the rent is paid I guess.

The most cruel part? I had £3 left after the final losing roulette spin (next door to a number that would have paid me £540, of course) and stuck it in Captain Venture for 3 spins at £1. Bonus landed on the last spin. I thought I was getting a Christmas miracle, but it went for 14 spins and £35. How cruel that a few days earlier when I was playing it on 10p, it went for 540x. Or a couple of weeks ago when it went for 1000x on 30p. £1 stake and it paid less than I’ve won off 10p.

Gamstop now registered, no more online gambling for me at all for at least a year. Too late. I keep wishing I could go back just 48 hours and desperately hitting numbers on the calculator like I think if I do that enough times the figures will magically change.

Not looking for sympathy, it just makes me feel better to say it out loud. I lost control and for all I’ve known I gamble a little bit more than is healthy, this is the first time I’ve ever really done myself in.

[Ramm WANTED $32 Outlaw]

and here was me thinking id had a bad day from binning 50 quid on reel king haha.

Gotta ask, when you were on your hot streak did you not bank much of the winnings or was this all added to your wages and burned at the altar?Also roulette is an evil game, you can lose so much so fast so i steer clear of it unless im just looking to burn money for a laugh.

I feel ya on the lower stakes paying out better thing, Ive had it happen a few times where im jumping for joy when i hit a bonus on a cheeky raise only to find it pay worse than i usually get on my 20p usual. Anyway the lessons that hurt the most last the longest so courage mate.

[ar argyl53 WANTED $419 Outlaw]

A lot of the earlier big wins took quite a bit in to get so although I was tidily up for a solid month, other than paying for Christmas (thank god I did all that before the big crash), it was mostly just sustaining my play at no overall loss. By Friday morning when I was paid, I was back to even money but it just didn’t occur to me I would lose so much so quickly after a solid 30 day run of pretty good luck.

Live roulette is absolute poison, far more tilting than any near miss on a slot. I got in to some kind of frenzy desperately chasing my losses, placing bigger and bigger bets convincing myself that surely one good number would land eventually and I could walk away if not even having at least clawed back enough of my losses to cover the remaining rent and whatever necessary shopping for January. It didn’t. What it did do was manage to land next door to my jackpot numbers about 5 times in a row, almost like it was deliberately mocking me.

I feel like such an ass.

[Mickeyvondickey WANTED $181 Outlaw]

That’s pretty shit news this time of year mate and i’m gutted for you. You’ve been a long-term contributor to this forum and stuff like this always happens at the worst possible time. Well done on getting xmas sorted first though. Good luck in future fella. ?

[Ramm WANTED $32 Outlaw]

Well its as i found and as bandit talked about in the vid about the end of riding the wave the other week, winning a lot changes the way you play and it takes a painful loss to bring you back down to earth. At least you’re going into recovery mode now and it’ll suck for a bit but you’ll recover if you just behave for a while. This is one of the benefits of the low stakes stuff, a huge loss for me is pennies.

 

My Brother likes roulette but its fucked him over a fair bit too, he won big one year while away working to the tune of 10k just when he needed it so he paid off debts and had a great time with the money. Then a while later when the finances were starting to hurt again he turned to roulette to try and solve his issues again and he’s wound up taking on a bit of debt but he’s getting himself straight again now. Being in debt is the worst time to play as you’ll be chasing the saviour win for an easy fix to your problems but will most likely wind up in deeper trouble wishing you’d used the money to pay the bills.

 

Anyway best of luck to ya and try not to dwell on  it too much

[YOUHAVINGALAUGH WANTED $1 Outlaw]

when you do recover probably   by next wages … DO NOT GO TO THE BOOKIES    FOBT

before you get paid  go into bookies and self exclude from there as well.

I feel we have all been there I have for sure but i always find away around it  so i can  gamble ..

Being a couple of weeks late on rent  youll be fine , they cant chuck you out even if you dont make a payment in a couple of months ,   they have to get court orders i think ,  so you safe ..   explain to landlord  what ever excuse .  just be up front  , im sure  they will support you

 

I dont know you but i feel  like i do know you very well .

like minded people with what can only be described as an  addiction

 

good luck   ( no pun intended  )

[blacko1974 WANTED $248 Spectator]

You have made the right move joining up with Gamstop my friend. The joy of the previous large wins is hugely overshadowed by your previous loss, that’s the thing with gambling that you will always remember the 1000x wins but the large loss will be pushed back to the back of your brain. Personally I look around and it seems that everyone is cleaning up online.. it doesn’t represent the huge losses that are being incurred on a daily basis, it is what it is!. I can guarantee that you will be itching to play online over the next few Months.. Gamstop will make sure that you will not be able to do that. In the long run you will realise you have made the correct choice.

All the best and have a great Christmas.

 

 

[Ma Manicmania WANTED $11 Outlaw]

Thanks for sharing Argyl, it certainly puts my own personal experience this weekend into perspective and although mine was on a far lesser scale I can totally empathise with how you are feeling – turning the clock back etc. Massive respect to you for walking away from it for a while.

 

I hope you have a top Christmas and stay strong on the break.

[Li Liberty WANTED $132 Outlaw]

Sorry to hear this argy but well done for sharing. It’s hard to do, sometimes it’s easier to just bury your head in the sand and pretend it didn’t happen.

I don’t gamble anymore, well… Its been a month since I last did but it’s been years since I last really hurt myself financially and by extension my little boy and wife.

I watched my brother destroy his relationship with his partner over gambling, hiding it from her. The most noteworthy moment being when he called me late one night to say that he’d just won the £25,000 he was down back at blackjack. We spoke for about 30m, he said he’d have been ruined if he’d lost it, he’d borrowed so much money from payday loans companies and his cc was maxed out. I was seeing him and his partner the next day and finished by saying just to to bed, even if you can’t sleep just lie there buzzing that your life isn’t over.

Yup, you guessed it… The next day he’d lost it all and looked hollowed out. His partner found a cc statement a week later, he’d borrowed £20k from our retired mother to cover the worst of his problems but it turned out, unbeknownst to me that he’d borrowed £5k from his partner the previous year as he’d done something similar and when she found out he was still lying to her about his problems.. Altho it broke her, she left him. 5 years later and he is almost out of debt but still single.

 

The worst aspects of gambling are often forgotten. Once again, good on you for banning yourself and for coming on here to share your mistake. I hope you have a fantastic Christmas, all the best.

[Anonymous WANTED $483 Inactive]

Unlucky @argyl53

Weve all been in this position @ somepoint.

Hope u have a nice xmas pal

And well done on the self exclusions.

[Green2711 WANTED $492 Outlaw]

If it makes you feel any better I blew my monthly wage this month within a week gambling and never hit anything or got ahead with a single bet, was constantly chasing. That money should have gone to paying debts for pay day loans I took out at the start of the year that I have now not paid for the last 3 months trying to win it all back in one lucky session but it always ends the same…I know I’m a dope to think it will actually happen.

Only reason I took out those loans is I had a similar situation where for the first time ever I played high stakes roulette and got lucky walking away with 3k only to spunk it all buying news clothes, a laptop and treating friends to nights out and putting some back in to play with etc so I took out loans to tide me over and tried to go for a big win only for me to lose it all.

Don’t know what I’m going to do now I had a DMP set up which has now been closed but I will have to arrange some form of payment in January with these vile companies, for now I’ve just put it to the back of my mind until after Christmas and I’m just going to try have a nice Christmas for now and most likely a rotten year ahead but I put myself in this mess.

I’m lucky enough to be living with my folks still so my outgoings aren’t too high but now skint till Jan 15th and after arranging new payment plans most likely have the bare minimum to live on for 6-8 months. Gambling sucks sometimes eh? :/

[ar argyl53 WANTED $419 Outlaw]

Woke up with a headache today after a night of horrible dreams mostly centered around roulette. I know the feelings I have right now will eventually calm down and the urge to gamble will fade over the coming weeks as I’m unable to play. I’m glad I registered gamstop, maybe in a month or two I’ll be fine but in a fit of disgust at myself I went straight for a year exclusion and I think it was the right thing to do.

I don’t play in bookies, I used to a few years ago but FOBTs became so bad I walked away one day and never looked back.

Funny thing is if I’d just stuck to slots I’d probably still have plenty of cash, it was roulette which did me in and a year ago, I’d never have played it. Slots online have never treated me too badly, I’d say more than half my sessions overall tended to result in a profit even if it was just a small one. One day around this time last year I’d had a long slots session and doing alright off it, decided to stick £200 on live roulette. I remember I had a bunch of numbers with bets ranging from £5 – £10 on them and a cluster around 17 – chips on it, splits all around it. It came in and that first £200 bet returned £1296. Ever since then I’d always have a bash on the roulette if my balance was running low, sometimes turning my last £50 in to £500 giving me more budget for slots. But the losses have been horrific. I once placed a bet of around £300 where I had at least something on every single number, just because I didn’t want to feel like i’d lost even if the return was lower than my bet. But somehow I missed one number – 9 red – didn’t realise until they started the spin and the ball went straight to it like a goddamn magnet.

The other day when I had my big crash, there were at least 5 consecutive spins where the ball landed literally next to a number that would have paid me big money. Desperation when chasing loss is a horrible thing. I knew I’d gone too far and I just so badly wanted to claw back a few hundred quid so I could at least not be behind with what I need to pay. I managed to convince myself that there would have to be one good spin. I’ve never properly lost control like that before and I don’t want to ever again. Whatever I’ve done with gambling, no matter how much of my “disposable” income I’ve thrown away, I’ve never left myself unable to pay my rent or bills before.

2019 needs to be a better year, I’m going to miss slotting because I really did enjoy it, even on the low stakes I mostly played at. But I feel so worried and stressed right now, right before Christmas, I don’t ever want to feel this way again.

[goodbyee WANTED $6 Outlaw]

I was In a very similar situation to yours a couple years ago, but instead of roulette it was reel king, kept chasing a big hit, or a big gamble win and I’d walk, but I just couldn’t accept my first loss and  kept chasing.

and it just never came and I completely did my bollocks in for a similar amount to you and it’s soul destroying.. I’m so happy you’ve used Gamstop and now can start to make the recovery to your loss, Im glad you had the foresight to get your presents early so atleast you had that base covered!

 

You’ll get through this difficult time, stay strong in the fact that your money is not going to be readily available to be spent on gambling and you can recover from this, wishing you all the best for 2019 and a merry Christmas man, chin up lad.

[Biohazard WANTED $675 Outlaw]

Sorry to hear this @argyl53. I know you’ve been on a hot streak in recent weeks as I’ve been following your posts on the forum. This time is always the most dangerous! As you said yourself, it feels like you can’t lose, and when the hot streak ends it can drain your bank account so fast it’s unreal. I was in the exact same boat earlier this summer – had a monster run of big wins, but continued going into September and lost a large chunk of it! Fortunately I had already put a good amount to good use.

Thanks for sharing. Best of luck in the future bud, Gamstop certainly the way forward, at the very least for the short term, to discourage any tilt/balance recovery gambles on the next payday!

Hope you have a great Christmas, what’s done is done. Try to put it behind you and enjoy your Christmas. 🙂

[fj fjudgee WANTED $8 Outlaw]

Ive deposited like 2k in the last 2 weeks… struggle to get even a bonus and if … you guess it, it pays shit. I wish there was something linke Gamstop in germany i would register me straight away… im fine with losing if i get a little bit entertainment for my money but this is just a fucking joke.

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