I can't stop online roulette please help!?

- give your card to a friend/relative/partner immediately.

- tell the person above the truth, ALL of it!

- go onto ALL the sites you use and request they ban you for life.

- look up and then go to a Gamblers Anonymous meeting in your area.

From your post it would seem you are relatively new to compulsive gambling, that is good as you've shown common sense to seek help earlier than most of us do.

Please don't harbour any pipe dreams of winning your losses back. You WILL win them back eventually.....BUT.........later on down the road you will lose TEN TIMES AS MUCH!

Happy things work out for you.

Hi Jessytara09, well done for posting what you have here,

Those feelings of winning that money back will gnaw away at your constantly.

Imagine if you won the £1200 back, maybe even doubled it to £2400, or £4800, how would it make you feel? Would you stop? No, because the feeling of euphoria that it would give you would make you want to repeat it & lead you back on them within hours, maybe minutes.

I once won £7000 in about an hour on Roulette, the biggest win I ever had. That evening, I had a nice meal, had a fair bit to drink, booked into a nice meal but by 10pm, I was starting to feel quite depressed; I had all this money and there was nothing more I could really do with it. All the things I talked about buying or doing when I had that next big win went completely out of the window - I could spend some but I needed "stake" in case I had a bad run.

And that is the futility of gambling. We risk everything for money we can never spend. The comedown lead me to losing £400 in the Fruit Machines that night and the other £6600 the following day, plus another £800 of my wages.

£1200 is a lot of money by anyones standards but if you stopped today, it would be the best £1200 you ever spent in your whole life. Try and draw a positive from a negative - it hurts now and your mind will be spinning with all these thoughts of getting it back but think of it as much more of an incentive to stop for good.

As VillafanDaz said, install the blocking software to take the temptation away. From the way you write, you are quite vulnerable at the moment and this will help you get a foothold on giving up.

Be strong, be positive my friend. As I said, this will be the greatest £1200 you have ever spent if you stop now.

JamesP

Hi Jessy

James is so right, I used to play online roulette for 4 years before realising i had a problem. I chased trying to win my losses back, just lost more and more. Ive lost 1000s the monies gone but ive stopped gambling for a month now and ive said to myself i dont begrudge losing that money because its stopped me gambling. Be strong you can do it keep close to this site if you get the urge to gamble. I read forum instead of gambling it helps.

Hi Jessy,

I myself have lost tens of thousands through online gaming, and have decided enough is enough. Don't waste anymore money and time on this, there is always only one final result, which is casino/bookie wins all.

Another way you can view online roulette is that the house has a 2.7% advantage for every spin you make. You would normally need to keep your hard earned money for 365 days in a high interest rate savings account in UK before you get 2.7% return, but the casino gets 2.7% of your money in one spin, or in less than 15 seconds.

Roulette is one of the worst forms of gambling, you can bet so much so quickly. Although this probably helped me realise now how addicted to gambling I have become. But I can only say that when I abstain from gambling.

I started roulette on the machines in bookies in 2001. Then online, and then a combination of both. Put a blocker in place online and then returned to bookies. With relapses inbetween including very recently. Self excluded from bookies now.. but you can always find a way if the addiction wins...

Well 11 years later I am in massve debt due to loans credit I would normally have never taken out and all my hard earned savings gone. I did start getting credit to gamble again.. All gambling does is steal hope and joy for a better future and 'present' from your life.

STOP WHILE YOU CAN

I agree with Jason33 u can never win longterm, the house always will see all the money back and more eventually, just from the chance of you winning/losing.

The gambling industry is in a win/win situation. It is a false claim to make people think they are going to get all there problems solved and win big from gambling. A pipe dream, I wish I only had seen the truth sooner.

Awayout

Hey man. Like everyone else said, you're early into this and this is a opportunity to stop before it gets bad. One of two things can happen now...

1)you take people's advice, stop gambling and get on with your life. The £1200 loss hurts for sure, but you'll get over it and it's over. Take their advice, tell someone what's happened, seek help and give over control of your finances for a while, or...

2)you'll keep gambling, you'll lose more and you'll get into debt and your life will get a whole lot worse.

That mind sound extreme, but it's the truth, and myself and hundreds of other people on these forums could tell you the same.

Read my blog cg-rambler.blogspot.co.uk

My story is very common man, don't let it be you.

You've done a good thing recognising that you have a problem. Build on that positivity and don't let gambling take a hold of your life