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[Ap AppleSux WANTED $6 Outlaw]

Hi, sounds like you are really determined to stop but LIKE ME lack the self will. I can offer my recent experience as follows:

Regarding the local shop bans, i too found them useless. In my town there is a Merker, Ladbrokes (x2), Bet365, Independent bookies, and Admiral.  I self excluded in January at Admiral as part of a local scheme – self exclude one, self exclude all but Ive continued to bet on the Fobts in both Bet365 and Ladbrokes. After a heavy losing session in Ladbrokes i even hinted to the cashier that im losing too much and thought i was banned. Guy came back with (and i dont blame him) – “Mate if you want to do your bollox, go ahead, my employer doesnt pay me enough to act as a bouncer and potentially create grounds for a fight if i try to ban someone who excluded themselves!”

For online,I did Gamstop for a year and it worked. I couldnt even buy a scratchcard online. I was getting itchy feet after 6 months and tempted to use European sites but when you search “non gamstop casinos” several listing sites bring up dozens of sites i never heard of that they plugged. However a quick search on Trustpilot flags most of these sites as dodgy, looking for any excuse for not paying so i decided against it.

Bandit unfortunately has quickly got me back into bad habits as i followed his steps and opened up BC.GAME account and so far am over 10k down!! (and i currently dont work so its from my savings!)

My Gamstop now expired and i thought i would return to UK “safe” sites but so far only one site has authorised me to reopen the account with a strict £200 a month limit. Therefore its at the other extreme and will likely lead me to continue using crypto site.

Good luck and hope things work out for you.

[ImperialDragon WANTED $70 Outlaw]

I stick with 2 gambling sites and put a limit on both of them.  They used to be Videoslots and Royal Panda.  When Royal Panda stopped trading in the UK, I added William Hill so it was back up to 2 sites again.  I don’t go above 2 sites, because if I do, where does it stop?

For offline, I leave my cards behind because I can pay for everything using my phone and there is no way that you can gamble in a shop if you can’t access an ATM.  Then once a month, I will bring a card in for an arcade gamble.

So I still gamble, except it’s once a month on 2 sites and once a month in an arcade.  It means I can still do it, just in a more controlled way.

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