My story

Morning,

This is my story, most likely similar in ways to many on here. A few years ago now I signed up to a matched betting scheme, using only bonuses and new accounts from bookies to make "risk free" profit. Sure enough the maths and logic behind it worked I had no urge to not stick to the rules and happily made a reasonable monthly profit with very little risk. To be fair it was mainly horses and football and neither really interested me so I plodded along happily enough. I managed to build up a decent enough little bank and even paid for regular treats for the family, new dishwasher, laptops, holidays, all seemed to be going well.

After a good year or so maybe a year and a half of laying off my sports bets and making the little profits here and thereI found slots offers becoming more and more common.

I found myself taking part in an online roulette offer, spend X get 25% losses back, the offer seemed decent and I regularly did ok spinning on Individual numbers and usually hitting green. However, I somehow decided that this was clearly a surefire hit and started spending more and more money betting on roulette single numbers (always 0). I'd start with £2-£3 stakes. If I didn't win I'd up it to £5, then £10.... I'm sure you can see a pattern emerging and eventually I was doing £50 spins on single numbers. Writing this and lookI guess back now it seems ludicrous to gamble away that kid of cash. At times I'd win mostly I'd lose and end up chasing my losses. I managed to exclude myself from the sites that had the roulette game I liked, I didn't trust any of the others stupid as that sounds and didn't waste any money for a bit and thought it was all under control. How wrong I was I'd simply been lying to myself about the debt I'd gotten into and had shifted it from 0% to 0% credit cards .

After this I discovered slots, little did I know a little leprechaun and his pots of gold would have so much money from me with in such a short space of time. So now I'm massively in debt have just taken out a loan and have paid off most of the credit cards debt,however some remains, I've spoken to the companies and lowered my limits not alllwing me to take any cash from them and have self excluded from all my favourite sites. I've found courage and inspiration from reading other posts on here though I'm not sure courage is the right word for me right now as I feel pretty low. The next step is the hardest of all and I have to confess all to my wife who will be devastated, luckily it's not got to the point where I've raided the joint account or blown my wages just yet though the urge to play those little slots is strong, today it seems is day 1 of many, I suppose it's a good a day as any to start not much else happens on a Tuesday

Thanks for reading hope it makes sense it was all typed in a rush to get it out