My Gambling Addiction Ruined My Life | Minutes With | @LADbible

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crazy storie i am in a similar situation withou depths ... just degen lose everyhing.

I thought I was a true degen, but it looks like I'm just par for the course. I was down to my last $1000, played poker, lost it all, took out a cash advance, played video poker and hit a 2k handpay. I then feed it all back into the machine. Repeat a few times with multiple credit cards (getting around the cash advance limit by simply opening new credit cards that allow balance transfers. Lose the cash advance, balance transfer, repeat until I'm 10k in debt.)

Finally admitted to my parents that I had 10k in credit card debt I can't pay off, and they loan me the money. What do I do next? I go to the casino...

this story would have sounded more realistic if it were like $400 and it was gay for pay and now we all know where your roll really went or that you're just a sophisticated marketing bot

Lol dear Penthouse.

hahaha, thank you for cheering me up with your degeneracy. Now get help ya fkn bum!

Being a degen ,I could be; I have played with my bottom dollar many times. once moved to Vegas with only 200 dollars, another time worked saved up 5000 quit moved to vegas and played baccartt,then again to Reno with a few hundred to bet sports and horses sleeping on the side of the innerstate highway living on Coke a Cola,bet many long shots and the stockmarket,got into btc early just to gamble, put money into several bot infested online sites,actually beat the pro heads up in Omaha O8 limit , also think roulette can be beat by number theory. Once saved up to play poker then got all in first hand KK vs AA vs 89 suited , hit tripKs but 89 ran out ,bye; came back ended up playing a multi millionaire.
also believe I can beat the take at the horse races, never had a job after highschool gambled pro but mostly marginal profit only. Since Vegas is dying think Im about to make it big.
All the while studying like a mad man , all parts of gambling, including AI heads up, have had three royal flushes been in many quad hand with big stacks, been banned from twitter three times and Facebook , and reddit. Once drank the half of a quarter keg of beer alone. This all started when I got a casino game for Christmas.

Winner!

don't listen to the haters, start a thread!

I don't gamble. Well, I kind of do. I'm up around 2k on the roulette over the past 3 years and have zero plans to ever play it again.

I guess I'm posting because I've spent the past 2 weeks reading every page on this thread on my break at work. I'm turning into a degen too.

Hello lol I must admit, I think snipes story gripped me the most lol I hope good things for you bro. All the best.

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Not to be a dobby downer. In spirit of the thread I'm going to deposit 200 on PS and play some roulette, because I self banned myself from 888 and I'm trying to build a poker roll at NL2


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Well I blew that, plus 100 more. Then I proceeded to 888 and blew my 100 br I'd spent 60 hours this month building up. Now I have zero money for a week and failed to pick my gf up because I'm hungover and depressed. Maybe I need to stop looking at this stupid thread bs

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Yep time to stop with both 2p2 threads and gambling, you are a hardcore lowball degen with no hope. Focus on your GF when you still have hope and you won't wake up at 50 like me being a chubby, bald renter still on 2p2.

I am a master degen maybe and dont enjoy being without gambling , I have several cyrpto also, I inherited silver from my Father and changed it all for BTC, I bought into BTC at 400 US , with all my money at the time. I actually use a cyrtpo book online to bet horses in Dash, they have a Dash card that can buy things from many stores all over. Now I hold and also buy Goverance coins , I have lost about 3 btc forex specing when I dont use a stop , a very degen thing to do just like my progressive betting but I am out to break the bank. You can beat the market by reading Richard Ney if you want to take a plunge. It not stupid unless you ar square who cant reason bayes; go ahed and stand for that buck it good for nothing.

I've cleaned the thread up a bit. Please only post real degen stories here. "I've punted a few bucks at the casino, but my poker BR is still intact" does not qualify. Links to YouTube vids are not stories either.

Yeah, we need good stories again.

turned 40k into 450k in a weekend and lost it the next day once lol

Story time?

Degening is losing so I will have to try another thread since I put everything I ownd on Mage in the Derby and won. I now only am a minor DE.. ; taking it all to Vegas this July to play at the Red Rock .

I just remembered this forum today for some reason and thought I should update.

A lot happened since I left off. I think 2018? Well I never won. My debt increased many times over. Total number I couldn’t even tell you. I guess I’ll save it all for the book.

But just imagine - another 5 years of this **** LOL. It wasn’t as insane as 2017/2018 but still. Again maybe when I’m old one day I’ll write a book - that’s if I even remember.

I’m not even sure if people remember me - although some probably do and I guess it’s only right I wrap this up the correct way.

I quit gambling for good in March 2023. Never thought I’d see the day. I was a junkie from 18 up until the age of 32. I screwed up a lot. Family, friends, credit unions whatever you want to call it.

I got married in 2021. I’ve “come clean” and told my wife “everything” multiple times. Maybe like 6-7? And each time I never intended to quit. Just wanted her to pay my immediate debts so I could continue to gamble. Why she is still beyond with me is beyond me.

I lost. Not just money but the whole battle of just getting out of the hole. I know it’s a loser’s game. I know the house always wins. I know the numbers. Yet my plan was to go on an epic run and just quit.

Until one day I realized this would never end. Even if I won $10mill I’d be in debt the following year.

Lol I tried to keep this as a cliff but I’m blabbering away.

I just want to reiterate I was a junkie. Not a good person. Addict. I want to blame the addiction for what it made me do but is that really fair? No I don’t think so.

So I started my new life a few months ago. I’ve never been happier. I told my wife and parents everything. I go to bed at night peacefully rather than my heart beating out of my chest. For several years I wasn’t sure if I’d ever wake up and I left all my phone/laptop passwords with my friend in case I didn’t wake up one day.

Didn’t want to leave her in the dark you know? That scared the **** out of me. And no I didn’t leave that info with him even though I trust him - rather told him to tell her there’s a little tiny note in a book folded up on one of the drawers.

I love my new life. I don’t know how long it will take to get out of this hole but I’m working my ass off for it and I’ll get there. I feel like a different person. I feel free.

But I also feel guilty. So much damage done yet my family still loves me. Would I love them if we swapped places? Not fair if me to say “yes” to that even though I’d like to.

I don’t know what I was so afraid of and why it took me so long but we finally got here. Where I should have ended up years ago when you all advised me to - but I don’t listen. Sorry, I “didn’t” listen. I’m all ears now!

I knew all the angles but it made no difference. I was addicted to losing.

I don’t think I took a day off gambling in 15 years except for when I won the 400k I maybe took a week or 2 off. And then during Covid when there was nothing (until korean baseball lol).

So it’s been 3 months? 4? Idk I don’t care. I have no urge. Not now not ever. But I have to be vigilant because the disease is deadly.

I go to therapy every week. (Wife’s work covers it). That really helps. I mean really I just talk and he listens but I like it. Sometimes I have dreams about gambling where I’m still doing it. Scares the **** out of me. The “feeling” of being in that whole life comes back and feels so real. I wake up relieved that it was just a dream - or nightmare. Relieved that it will never be me again.

I know there is much more to say and there would be a lot of questions. But just know I’m happy and I quit. Nothing else really matters.

I would hope everyone with a problem can or will stop. But it’s not easy I understand and it pains me to think how many people get burned by this ****.

I was lucky I had love. Or I’d be long gone. Not because I’m like that or think like that - but the pain and stress was too much. Ending it was just an easy solution. But I wasn’t going to screw people that loved me like that. Leaving them wondering why. That would just be another selfish act on top of all the others. So anyone contemplating such a thing because of gambling (can’t relate to other reasons, would be rude) I suggest to try and come out the other side. Just endure the pain and try your best to keep going. Maybe that means showing up to the casino broke or maybe that means “trying” to quit. But just cherish your life. It’s worth it. We get one life - and we beat out like a million sperm to get here. + we all die anyway so just be here while you can.


So I stuck it out. And I’m going to get it back. The right way. The honest way. I’m not afraid anymore. I believe in myself. I have a lot to make up for. I’m not doing it for me. Maybe I am but that’s not the main reason. It’s for the people I screwed over. And it’s so I can be a dad one day and not hate myself.

I don’t want the last decade + to define me. I can do better. But it’s not even personal. I don’t want the damage I’ve done to people the last decade define my relationship with them. If I can make it all up - and not just the monetary but by being a good husband / son / friend I would be content with whatever comes next.

By the way I never “tried” to quit before this. I just finally quit. Nothing to applaud - I only ruined everything 100x over until I finally stopped. But for those “trying” to quit I don’t know what to tell you. I never wanted to stop until one day I just realized I have to. Something clicked. This would be a chapter in itself so I can’t even begin to get into it.

Some days are hard of course. The wife will have a breakdown. Or I will. Or we both will. But there are more better days. We talk it out we walk it out we plan it out. Just step by step. So I don’t want people to think it’s all flowers. But honestly it really is. Even the bad days. At least they’re honest. I left out no lies this last time. Times prior I always left out chunks. Big chunks.

Sometimes I’ll be in a conversation and I’ll realize I don’t have to lie anymore or about whatever it is I’m thinking about. And it’s liberating. I have to remind myself I’m allowed to be honest. Guess that is what happens when you’re conning people for over a decade.

Legalization scares me. There will be a lot more Snipes in a few years. Really sucks. Maybe when I’m back on my feet I can save some of them down the road. I don’t know.

Hope everyone here is well. I don’t want to sound like a preacher or an ******* - but this life / profession is tough. I wish you all the best. Degen or professional. Or both. Honestly though I hope you all find what you are looking for because I found mine.

Glad to hear you're doing well. Bad for the thread, but whatever.

So what is filling up all those hours now?

Yes good to hear Snipes, but also curious as to what job you are working now?

Snipes, no one likes a quitter

lol

Good ****, Snipes. Good onya. Though, a sick part of me definitely wants you to risk it all again and somehow bail out.

Thanks to Unsporting for the palate cleanser. To degen, is truly a unique and beautifully grotesque thing. Loves to all you bastards.