My last degen spree before I banned myself. This actually occurred about two weeks ago the night of my wedding. I wrote a quick snapshot of the event a few pages back. Maybe this can 'save' this thread for you guys bc it was a miserable Fing night for me.
I got married in Vegas this past June to my Gf of 10 years. We were just going to leave it at that but her family wasn't to happy about not being able to attend. We decided to throw a party for our friends a family, 200+ people. Planned an entire wedding in 4 months and then this happened the night of.
We had a hotel for everyone to stay and a bus to get everyone there. Party goes amazing everyone comes back to the hotel and parties some more. My buddy had brought he laptop to play music in the room for everyone. I decide as everyone is winding down to fire up his laptop and download party poker ( I'm in NJ ). I try everyone of my deposit options and they aren't working. CC's not going tru, bank wire keeps getting denied, ect.. Me being in my drunken state had to play and was set on getting a measly 20$ deposit on there. I didn't even wanna play poker, more or less just mess around on the rigged slots or BJ betting 10C a spin or a 1$ a hand. I ended up creating a new account for my wife without her knowing just so I can get the 15$ free they were offering.
I ended up getting to play for awhile and had it to almost around 100 bucks before loosing it all trying to martingale a small blackjack bet. I was wide awake at this point and got the urge to play some poker. I sneak over to her pocketbook and take out her debit card. I tell myself 50$ and no more, I had about 60 in cash that I would just give her in the morning. No reason to go into details about the hands but I lost the 50$ real quick as I was playing a .25/50 table with 1 buy in. I knew she would be furious about me using her card/signing up without her knowing so I just put the laptop aside and tried to go to bed.
Going to sleep wasn't really working out to well because of all the after party favors I decided to partake in. I laid there for about a half an hour next to my wife as shes passed out in her drunken slumber. I look in the corner of the room and see all of our cards we got as presents for our wedding. I know she wanted to open them together when we got home but I was wide awake and curious about how we did with our gifts as far as cash. I had a good 15K into the wedding and needed to make that back as it was our entire 'life roll' together.
I sit there for about an hour and open card after card. I kept hoping a few people would give us those prepaid Visa/MC gift cards so I can play more online. To my luck we got 3 for a total amount of 450$. I deposit the smalles one of 100$ first and loose it on slots. FML. Then the next 2 on BJ within about a half hour. I start to realize shes going to find out eventually that these gift cards have been used. I will deal with that issue when it comes, and it hasn't yet
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I was real tilted about loosing 500$ total between the gifts and the original money I deposited off of her card. I knew it was a big mistake to do that without her knowing anyway. I just felt like absolute crap as I was starting to come down from the night activities and I go outside for a smoke while its starting to get light out. The taste of gambling with still in my mouth so I just sat there playing 'play money' blackjack until I caved and snap deposited 250$ off of her debit card. When I saw the 'Success your deposit has been approved' link come up I was sick to my stomach.
I ran that deposit up to my high point of around 2300$ and way beyond excited. One of my friends had woken up at this point and was watching my play blackjack. I could not loose a single hand of my 25$ bets. I had given myself a stop point of 2k. My last hand of 25$ before 2000 I get 4's against a dealer 6. Spilt and a double with a dealer pulling a 20 and im stuck at 1950. Doom switch engaged. In 15 minutes I loose the entire roll with my friend begging me to stop.
I had to explain the charges to my wife the next morning and she said self ban myself or this isn't going to work between us. I no longer have control of my finances. My work check goes into her account and all of my credit cards have been blocked for charges. Its sad to realize at 27 years old I can not control my own habits and addictions. With that said im looking forward to the future without all these small highs and super lows the gambling degeneracy has brought me over the past 7 or 8 years.
Brag-Shes still we me and hotter than ****** ever.