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Hi. Well if you try to get it back gambling that £8000 will end up a £16000 loss and so on. There are a lot of people on here who have wasted the best years of their lives on gambling - a pointless activity that has left them alone and broke. If you want to avoid that fate please use the services and advice available here.

I'm generally not going to be satisfied or happy until I get the money back. I'm unsure how.

Hi,

You wont get it back through gambling and even if you did it would stregthen your addiction.

Why do you need it back so badly? Where did it come from in the first place?

You won't get this money back mate not without massively increasing your loss.. You're not going to punt £1,000 on an 8/1 bet it's just going to keep adding up. It needs to be written off as a mistake and a lesson learned! You're only 20 you have all the time in the world to earn it back.. If you really want it back so much take on a second job in a bar in evenings.. That will let you get the money back by doing something you wouldn't have done anyway. It'd take ages but you'd certainly never gamble it again.

Its not your money anymore. You gambled it away, its gone.

I spent 50,000 to 60,000 on these machines. My money is gone, I accept that. It was my choice to gamble it, and it's my choice to accept that I made a mistake. This was the first step in my recovery, it's all about moving on. I don't care about that money anymore, as the biggest win for me has been getting my life back and not being controlled by my addiction.

I also found myself again after all this time. I like who I am, and I'm finding time to put more effort in to my skills and talents. Time is far more precious than money. You will be more disappointed by the time you wasted gambling, than the money you lost doing it.

Good luck mate.

Well said Paul1001 I am with you 100%

Great post Paul. Absolutely agree - money can be paid off but the time and what it does to you can never be regained. Please, let it go. If you win it back you'll likely just up the bet to try and win more. Chalk it up to experience and get your life back under control.

1 question, whilst losing that £8000, did you ever win, did you stop at that point and walk away, we will all guarantee the answer would of been a resounding NO! We've all been there, wipe the loss from your thought, you'll never recover if you think or try to win it back, chasing losses is the biggest reason people lose control , and lose everything in some cases,I almost did! You seem a determined & strong willed character, focus that energy on keeping well clear, you'll be crying salt tears with your head in your hands if you don't, trust us all when we say, we've all been there!!!!

Another +1 for Pauls post, speaks a lot of sense in just a few sentences.