If you had the power to ban all forms of gambling.. would you?

I would ban how many sites a person can join. Then I'd ban online slots and roulette.

Bingo I'd leave, for me if I had stayed on the bingo it was fun, I use to put a tenner in and last me whole week. It was that day I won big on 3 pennies on a slot machine. That day I began my addiction of 30 plus (embarrassed to admit) sites I joined for slots.

However thinking about it.. Now I'd ban all online sites completely.

This is a decent question

it can be very easy to think “close the lot down and ban the betting platforms” however these guys don’t hold a gun to my head for me to run on in there and start P*****g all over my feet splurging money everywhere into there business 

 gambling can be controlled and be fun to many people so I believe it should be available to those who get enjoyment out of it

personally the regulator does need to improve and put better safety procedures in place ie if  someone wants to run into a high street and gamble, like a online platform or casino.

i think over time things will become better for us it’s just a slower process

however saying  that a gambler will always find a way to get a fix no matter what it takes so I so being bitter about them close the lot of them down ?

No.

I would limit the number of sports you can gamble on to horse-racing, dogs and only major sporting events. Playing casino games in casinos would be alright but blocked completely online. No spot betting on any of these events (e.g corners, yellow cards, throw ins etc). I dont mind horse racing as the event is a great day out for those who are not addicted. 

You shouldnt be allowed to be on anything you can imagine (tv shows, election results, queens hat colour). That type of gambling only feeds addictive gamblers. The gambling sector needs some regulation, appears to be none at the moment.

YES !!!

I don't think gambling should be banned.

I personally would like to see a ban on all advertising for gambling, gambling apps to not send notifications/gambling emails to not be sent out to lure the person back. 

I would also like there to be better safety in casinos. 

Example: when someone is begging someone to step away from the table, that they do remove said gambler from the premises (automatic suspension for a week/ if happens 3 times to impose an automatic ban*)

*1. if an automatic suspension to note their next time at the casino, if they have reached the cash point limit and/or they're in distress, to again remove from premises and impose a week suspension again etc. This would be an extra safety net if say the person begging previously isn't there the following times. 

2. If the person has had a previous self imposed ban, to watch them more closely. Monitor, assess and remove as necessary. 

3. if an imposed ban after the 3 times. A person must come with a confirmed representative and support (who isn't someone who is known to frequent the location. Who can account and verify that they are truly in full responsibility and control. This person would also be a contact. 

So no, like with drinking shouldn't be banned. However, if someone is drunk and being a problem or having problems they are removed for their own good, and the good of others. They are not allowed to carry on getting more drunk etc etc. 

This provision isn't in place from first hand experience, although my local casino rules state they would intervene. They didn't. 

I believe the day of reckoning will come for the powers must know what they have unleashed with deregulation. They know what they are doing and the misery it causes. Make no mistake...a Pandoras box of evils is causing chaos and ruined lives.

However money talks and if big money rolls in they have a vested interest in pretending not to notice.

The debate needs to be on the table and taken seriously. As I keep saying this is no game about a silly flutter and a few "naughty" "greedy" or "irresponsible" people that cant control themselves. I object to being considered an acceptable casualty. Its not really a money or greed issue....its a drug addiction backed up by medical studies

Overall on reflection I would ban it. Failing that I would regulate it to within inch of its life.

They used to advertise smoking as healthy and gambling is in this early phase of nobody in authority caring a jot.

How it gets by the ASA is beyond a joke. There is no protection and advising people to gamble responsibly would be laughable if it wasnt so deeply deeply sinister.

There is no protection or limits...a message on a screen and thirty second cool off period is a nonsense in the face of this. People can walk in with their entire life savings and act on a whim and a prayer.

I would certainly ban slot machines and online gambling...when is a bonus rarely a bonus...when its on a slot machine. what they are allowed to get away with is actually scary. Its a scam so why is it not being chased up like other known scams.

This all hides behind the view that its just a bit of harmless entertainment....Really??.... look around you!...look at the people constantly joining this site.....we are all just stupid are we?

Best wishes to everyone on the forum 

This debate is now knocking on three years old and nothing's changed except the names of the desperate who come knocking on the doors of this forum (and mostly don't like what they read judging from the minimal percentage who both act decisively and stay).

I'd love to see deep reaching regulation at a minimum but the government has its nose far too deep in the take trough to do anything other than wring its hands hypocritically.

The will to act just isn't there. Addicts are still unprotected and still on their own which is shameful. 

Hi

No simply the gambling establishments did not make me do any thing I did not want to do.

For me the gambling establishments were places I went when I was feeling emotionally vulnerable, places where I wanted to escape to.

For some people are the gambling establishments places were people would go to have a little fun. 

Win or loose they would walk away and not beat them self up or live in regret.

For healthy people the gambling establishments places where win or loose it meant very little to them a little fun.

The gambling establishments is where I would go if I was feeling emotionally vulnerable.

After me leaving the gambling establishments I was in pain filled with fear feeling more inadequate and insecure in myself.

For me the gambling establishments are very unhealthy places for me to go.

For the healthy people are healthy places for them to go have fun and entertainment.

I would not to ruin others people fun because at the gambling establishments it would be painful for me.

Dave L

AKA Dave Of Beckenham UK

Hi

I would not ban gambling it would be unfair to people who enjoy a flutter with out losing it.

For me to go gambling is not healthy for me at any time.

The gambling addiction and my obsessions were just a way of me escaping my feelings and emotions and not heal or face my self.

It would be like me saying I have a problem with money do we ban all money.

The addictions and my obsessions were very unhealthy for me.

Life today is about fulfilling my needs my wants and my goals.

As I learn more about my self I became more stabe and more self sufficient,

By being angry at Gambling establishments indicated that trhey blamed me for the pains I was going through.

The simple truth was Gambling establishments never made me gamble.

The simple truth was Gambling establishments never made me lie or hate my self or live in fears. 

The most precious things in my life today is time and very healthy relationships.

Dave L

I would significantly lower the amount you can gamble on an in house slot machine in a bookmakers for instance, maybe as low as a few pence If the reward is also low also then that takes away the thrill element.

I would ban all slot machines from service stations which, in hindsight, give a compulsive gambler 24 hour access to feed his habit. If they allow these machines in service stations then once again they should reduce the amount you can gamble to as low as pennies and significantly reduce the top amount on all types of machines.

Also in servcie stations if you stay over two hours at which point you get a parking ticket. BUT, you can give your registration in at the shop and you can stay as long as you want. That is significantly encouraging people to chase losses and gamble more with no control.

Hi

By banning gambling establishments with not heal my pains.

The gambling establishments did not hurt me I hurt my self.

The gambling establishments did not make me lie.

The gambling establishments were places I went could I could not cope emotionally with life people and situations.

The gambling establishments were places I went to cause self abuse to my self.

The gambling establishments were places I went to ignore the people and world around me.

Only once I abstained from unhealthy habits I was able to start to heal the hurt inner child in me.

Only once I abstained from unhealthy habits I was able to exchange unhealthy habits in to healthy habits.

I do not want or need to go to the gambling establishments today.

Money can not buy me peace of mind.

Love and peace to every one.

Dave L

AKA Dave of Beckenham

Hi

The gambling was not my problem I was the problem.

Some people will go gambling set an amount and once they win or lose they walk out.

I was not able to do that.

Once I was filled w ith adrenaline and had the buzz I could not stop untill all my money was.

The gambling was a form of escape from people life and situations.

Why deny other people for their small  pleasure.

If I resent other people gambling indicated that my pains were not ehaled.

That I was not emotionally detached from all forms of gambling.

Yet my risk taking was not just about the gambling.

My risk taking was an indciation that I did not value my self or my life.

I use to react in unhealthy ways if I knew some one that worked in the gambling business.

The gambling establishments did not make me do any thing I did not want to do.

The gambling establishments never hurt me I hurt my self.

The gambling establishments never lied to me I lied to my self.

The gambling establishments encouraged me to stay longer and longer.

Again I could ahve walked out ny time I wanted to.

The gambling establishments helped me cause more pain on myself which in effect I was being even more emotionally traumatized by hurting myself and causing my self more pains and trauma which were not being healed.

Today I do not want or need to gamble.

Today I do not want or need gambling or risk taking in my life.

The choice of recovery and healing took me some time.

Yet in healing my pains, reducing my fears, reducing my unreasonable expectations of people life and situations i do not hurt my self today.

Today I do not want or need to react in such unhealthy ways.

I walked in to the recovery program and both my legs use to twitch up and down, that was the paisn of my hurt inner child.

I walked in to the recovery program and use to fear being honest.

I walked in to the recovery program and understood that I was an emotional loner.

I walked in to the recovery program and understood that I feared aggression.

I walked in to the recovery program and understood that I feared being my self.

Dave L

AKA Dave of Beckenham

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Hi,

I'm a recovering former gambling addict and just wanted to see peoples opinions on a thought i had the other day. If you could ban all forms of gambling across the world right now for everyone would you? As a gambling addict at first i thought immediately that i would but then after some thought i raised the question why should it be banned when most people can do it in a controlled manner? Should we ban all alcohol because there are alcoholics?

I'm just curious as to what people think on the matter.

Lewis

nice question! there is nothing wrong with gambling or casinos, why are there so many people who are addicted or addicted to them, so in other words, the problem is with us because we all know that gambling is just for entertainment not to make a money, so if I have a power I will not ban the gambling and also alcohol. Alcohol helps a lot of people especially when they have problems and want to celebrate, to release their emotions....but when it's too much it doesn't have a good effect, just like gambling when it's too much gambling the result is addiction

Hi

Gambling was not the problem I was the problem.

In time I got to understand m emotional triggers.

My pains I could not heal.

My fears I could not resolve or reduce.

My frustrations doe to my unreasonable expectations of people life and situations.

My loneliness due to my fears of emotional intimacy.

My boredom due to  the fact I felt very limited in my choices in life.

I needed to write down my needs my wants and my goals.

Pains caused up on me in my life caused fears in me that I did not understand.

Only once I abstained from unhealthy habits and exchanged them in to healthy habits would my life improve.

The gambling was just an escape in my fears.

The adrenaline rush was very much fear based.

The gambling was in effect self abuse and self destruction towards my self and my family.

Living in guilt and shame was living in the pains of my past.

Love and peace to every one.

Dave L

Dave of Beckenham