Hard isn't it with the WC coming up for us compulsive gamblers. Just in your face a lot now with all the gambling adverts and every tom d**k and harry seems to have a bet on it. Even harder when you work in the industry, does anyone do anything different when it's something big like this or is it a case of just staying strong and enjoying the matches for what they actually are, football and not gambling events!
Lemon25
Hi mate
I know how you feel ,same here with many adverts on tv during the wc
But for the first time i will just enjoy the game of football ,no bet ,I want England to go far and my homeland Cameroun to do better than the last world cup
My advice enjoy the world cup ,watch the games not the bet
Be strong
I think its a tough time, its one of those times when non gamblers like to have a bet. So its a topic i hear often in work.
Gambling ads in general have increased.
Its very tough. I felt like ///// when people were asking me why i wouldnt enter the WC sweepstake in work.
We have to accept that gambling for us is wrong and to avoid all forms of it
Hi lemon i totally agree. It is very hard. Football is my passion but gambling seem to take over it. I am now getting my passion for football back without gambling. My advice is to get some mates over to watch it. Or go down the pub with them. Dont avoid the football. Because that means gambling has taken something more than money from you. It would have taken a.part of you, a passion. f**k that.
C'mon Eangland!!
P.s you say you work in the industry i do too.
the bit I find hard is most of my friends are all so into there betting. They are mates met at lo and behold a betting company where i work and some bet full time for a living. So it just ends up annoying me that all they speak about it what bets they have etc, they just seem obsessed by it and i think it's sad now. Just end up disliking these mates because they all appear to be degenerate gamblers half the time. I know I'm gonna get suggested to find new friends and you're probably right. Definitely come on England tho!! Good luck to everyone trying to stay strong. @ Gazza26 I hate this industry now and i feel in such a vicious circle where i earn pretty good money for a very easy job, I know that I wouldn't get this wage elsewhere and feel trapped. I know money isn't everything and hope I can leave eventually
The old gambler inside me used to think I enjoyed a match more when I had a bet on it. However now I am starting to see the bigger picture and can think of how stressed and on edge it made me. The times I was a nervous wreck because one late goal could lose me money, the pressure, the anguish and then the final whistle and joy or despair. I now watch a match and just enjoy it, no thinking about betting or stressing out about my finances and it's so much more enjoyable. England losing again on penalties will give me enough pain, I have no need to add to it by gambling on this World Cup.
Just sit back, enjoy the football, savour the players you've never heard of before, cringe at the cheating and diving that will go on and enjoy the magic stories that this World Cup will create. Sticking a bet on it won't make it any better viewing. We can't win because we can't stop so there's just no point letting it suck us in!
Oh god the number of sweepstakes ive been asked to take part in for money,, the demon inside of me has been suggesting it isnt really gambling, go on its only a fiver, etc etc etc. Ive been suffering with my black dog (depression) alot recently and its been very hard but ive managed to say no, just,, 7 months clean still counting the weeks and days
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