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[Dr DrSnow WANTED $6 Outlaw]

Hello mate,

Mine is similar although I was brought up in gambling family.   What do you thinks going to end up happening to a seven your old kid who was kept quiet at weekends, whilst everyone went out, with said kid picking his own horses, on form and jockeys, and putting 5p ew yankees from his own money via his Uncle or Grandad??

If it wasn’t racing it was queuing up to play the bandit in the Social club and then playing bingo.  I had about 8 schools as a kid (my dad was military) and was pretty lonely so ended up in the arcades.

I still have a borderline gambling addiction coupled with a borderline drinking problem but I’m on top of those for the moments.  Sometimes I feel like asking my Mam – what the fuck were you thinking – but I don’t.

I’ve gotten into running and trying to get really fit, it’s helping.

[Guffleshuffle87 WANTED $60 Outlaw]

DrSnow wrote:

Hello mate,

Mine is similar although I was brought up in gambling family.   What do you thinks going to end up happening to a seven your old kid who was kept quiet at weekends, whilst everyone went out, with said kid picking his own horses, on form and jockeys, and putting 5p ew yankees from his own money via his Uncle or Grandad??

If it wasn’t racing it was queuing up to play the bandit in the Social club and then playing bingo.  I had about 8 schools as a kid (my dad was military) and was pretty lonely so ended up in the arcades.

I still have a borderline gambling addiction coupled with a borderline drinking problem but I’m on top of those for the moments.  Sometimes I feel like asking my Mam – what the fuck were you thinking – but I don’t.

I’ve gotten into running and trying to get really fit, it’s helping.

I genuinely hope you get a hold of those two vices mate. Running is a really good thing in my opinion. Once you’re going out for a run daily, you get a bit of an addiction for that too (but it makes you live longer). My upbringing had some similarities. My dad and pop would say “come her lad, and pick a horse in this. If it wins you can keep the winnings. I’ll put a pound on it for you” or if we were in the pub “here you go mate, here’s a few Bob go and see if you can win on the machine”. All innocent and kind gestures, but those things definitely rooted the addiction for me.

I worked in a massive social club which has £250 jackpot bandits in them in my late teens. I’d put my wages and my tips in them to try and Jack them. Occasionally I would hit it,and all that did was make the bug worse.

When I was a young adult I discovered online slots…that was when things got real. I remember being 19 and winning £3,600 on a monopoly slot (can’t remember which one). I had a full line of the speccy guy. That single win made me realise (believe is a better word) that big money is readily available. Since then I have had a few big wins, but a lot of heavy losses that outweigh the wins since day 1 of gambling. When I had my daughter I got a much better grip on things. Every time I’d win I’d think “that’s a weekend away with the girls” or “that’s a new toy kitchen for the baby”. And when I’d spunk a couple hundred down the drain with nothin to show I’d think “that was the baby’s Christmas presents I’ve just blown” or “I could’ve used that money to go on a trip to the zoo with the baby”. Thoughts like that stop me putting more in the devil and stop me trying to push my luck when I’m ahead.

The things that have never helped my addiction are the big wins. They have just shown me I can do it and I chase it again and again. I used to sneakily go on the slots during the workday at my old firm. I remember loading bust the bank during a shift and because I was trying to play on the sky I didn’t pay attention to my stake and played £3.60 spins and hit the fat orange robber across on the bonus and won about £4,000 on that first spin during work. Couldn’t really focus for the rest of the shift because I wanted to play. I hit a £7k win on rhino the first time I ever played it after watching hypa and I won £15k on extra Chilli two years ago. I gamstopped for a year after that, and I’ve had a lot of big losses that make those wins a drop in the ocean.

Play within your means and stay healthy, but it is very hard to change your ways when you’ve gambled since being a kid. It roots in deep!

 

[Sl SlotsCrack WANTED $62 Outlaw]

If you want to lessen up, quit gambling, or whatever reason you can think to like spend less on this ‘expensive’ hobby, really just replace one habbit with another. It’s so simple. Getting through it is more the hardest part, but if your willing to, really, anything is possible.

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