Hi
Has the reduction to £2 a spin on the FOBT roulette helped anyone?
DaveUK
Yes , I don’t bother now. Regrettably it has come too late as the damage has already been done before the change. Massive amounts stupidly and carelessly wasted. Getting over the loses is always on my find. Can’t seem to shake it. Weighing me down daily in fact. Could have put a serious amount of my mortgage had it not been for those horrible machines.
Again I think you won't get many answers as hopefully many don't use them at all despite any reductions.
Those evil machines are just one part of an evil industry in truth
Hi
I use to be consumed by my gambling.
In time the more I gambled the more I gave up faith and hope in myself.
The more I gambled the more fears grew in me, with each lie came further fears I did not understand.
I feared being honest because as a child when ever I was honest I was punished for it.
The recovery helped me understand that Gambling was unhealthy for me.
That when I went to Gambling I was wasting so much time and money I was in effect working for nothing.
I was in effect was going to Gambling and giving complete strangers my holiday nice cloths food and say that I did not deserve nice healthy things in my life.
No one made me to Gamble I went gambling when I felt emotionally vulnerable.
Gambling was a form of escape when I could not cope with people life and situations.
The recovery program was going to help me help myself become a much healthier person.
Yet it would require me to put more effort in to my recovery than the effort I put in to my addictions.
The gambling establishments were not evil or bad they never made me gamble they never made me lie, I did that to myself.
The recovery program was going to help me abstain from gambling and take up a much healthier way of life.
Today I do not have to lie, today I do not have to live in fear, today I do not have to fear emotional intimacy, today I do not have to hate myself any more.
Just for today I will not gamble, just for today I will not have anger or rage in me, just for today I will put effort in the things I do today which are interactive healthy and productive.
I am sure that the Gambling establishments will survive with out any of my money today.
I am sure that the last thing I want to do today is hurt myself or hurt other people.
Love and peace to every one
Dave L
AKA Dave of Beckenham
Hi, it's made a big difference to me. I am a compulsive roulette gambler. I used to have three outlets, which were online, the casino and in bookies. When I hit rock bottom I easily self excluded from the casino (and every UK casino) and then gamstop came and I signed up to that which eliminated my online gambling. The bookies were the last hurdle, I had good self control 99% of the time, but the other 1% I nipped in to "try and win a tenner" and over invariably ended up losing a couple of hundred (it was irrelevant whether I won or lost, once I had the taste for it I'd play to extinction, maybe coming back the next day with my winnings if I'd done well. With the new £2 limit its genuinely a complete waste of time now, I liked big even money bets (the lot on red etc) and with £2 it's just pointless for me.
Luckily the slots have never appealed to me (I think I played them four or five times in my life and got nowhere), and like smoking or taking drug it's not something I'm going to start now!
So I'm now banned from the casino, banned from online (I'm not interested in trying to get around gamstop, I'd be too scared if I won they'd refuse to pay out anyway!), and the bookies are now toothless.
My last gamble was two weeks before the £2 limit (I had silly thoughts of going in on the last day for a final hurrah but thought better of it!) and I can't see me ever playing roulette again - because no matter how much I might want to I can't. And I've found a lot of serenity in that, once you know you can't play the urges pass very quickly and thoughts turn to positive things!
How stupid were we the pour money into a machine that will let you win when it wants to.
Bonkers
How stupid were we the pour money into a machine that will let you win when it wants to.
Bonkers
Crazy hey.
I used to have a “system” too. Certain shops at certain times on certain days.
People hung around machines saying things like “go big on 33, 33 always follows 8” etc
f**k me. I’m actually laughing as I type.
Deep down we all knew it paid when it wanted and there’s only one long term loser.
£2 a go has to be seen as a positive move. It would have stopped me bothering, but I’d have found the next thing, like many of us would. I personally think it will help others not getting so heavily involved in the future, so credit where credits due.
They have changed the game so it is a lot more risky, and you can make a bet every 6 seconds, or something like that. Either way, the game is ruined and thankfully will put a lot of people off. Unfortunately for me it has made me curious, but I am currently on a good gamble free streak.
i suspect the vast majority of people figured out they were heavily rigged against the user several years ago
the percentage of problem gamblers that this law will actually help will be very small by now
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