Life With Sports Bets Only

Captain or shall icall you Baljtt.....lol! Seriously what are you doing????

My sons have more balls than you!!!

Look in the mirror - do you like what you see????

Captain

Firstly, as always, thanks for your honesty in posting your experiences, when it could have been just as easy to have said nothing about yesterday's lapse?

I am a newcomer on this forum so hope this is not speaking out of turn. But think that ANL's idea about taking a breather from gambling is a very good one? As I see it you really enjoy your sports betting and seem set on continuing with it. As you say if you lose anymore, you will be in the gutter of life and there would be no option of sports let alone random betting!!! Setting a break to the start of the football season seems a way forward? You will have this "incentive" in the meantime to stop your random betting on the basis that you might have nothing for the football season? It would also give you a chance to reevaluate your position as to your gambling habit? And hopefully the break and not having a bet might even give you a desire to totally stop all forms of gambling?

Am sure that to nearly all posters on the board, this suggestion might seem absurb, but you do seem to be someone who might see some logic (even if it is missguided) in it?

RayG

Curly, Ray

Thanks for posts and support, onwards and upwards. No bets for me until August at earliest.

We will all get there in our own time in our own way and when we do we will find more to do with our lives than spend time looking down on others who are still recovering.

These people think they wind us up or annoy us but I just laugh at them and feel sorry for them in their sad little lives. I think I'd rather still be in recovery than be recovered and spend my life tut tutting at others who are still gambling!

You are not in recovery your in denial.,nobody has ever recovered.nobody sets out to fail just better ourselves ...many diaries on here have given up THEIR own time to support you but your still blind / deaf to it all...fair play ti you for persisting and being totally ignorant to the many good pieces of advice..unfortnately i am one of the sad ones you refer to trying to better my life.,i have f******d up and lost my family what have you lost...as you said the other day your heading for the gutter...al wave to you as our paths cross !!!!

Since when did one become some....im the only one suggesting you influenced another diary...go back to your very early posts when you encouraged curly to come on board....well he ended up betting....look at ade doin fantastically well till you mentioned a certain football match...sorry for mentioning them 2 diaries but i think i have a case there.,this is a gamcare forum not gambling forum so why dont you speak to mr. **** or **** or whoever else you Happen to pay wages for cause thats all your doing lining their pockets !!!!

Capt

Enjoyed the chat tonight. But wasn't sure if I might have offended a fellow poster with my sense of humour? Or so called sense of humour! One of the problems as to not knowing how individuals will react when you are posting on a message board?

For what is worth maybe I do have a bit of a "read" on you, to use a gambling term. One thing I am convinced of, is that you will never end up in the gutter. You are too determined to allow that to happen. Despite all the criticism you have received on here, I personally think you will "get there" in the end. Even if you do so in your own time and in your own way.

RayG

Hi Captain,

Good chat tonight. Hope you find happiness without gambling - It is there..

All the best to you

Lili

RayG/ Lili

Thanks for posts, its so encouraging to get such great support from great people like you.

I will succeed and when I do, its for folks like you as well as for myself.

RayG - when you starting a diary ?

3 days without any gambling.

As with any time I've stopped before, life is that bit more boring and there is something missing, but I'm not losing money I cant afford to lose and thats the driver.

Yo Captain,

I'm jumping in for the 500th post on your diary mate. The fact that your diary has 500 entries says everything about how serious you are about your recovery.

What i admire about you mate is that you do not shy away from your problem. You are on here day and night in chat or on the diaries chronicling every step of your story.

You may upset some people along the way but for my money you are entitled to as much support as the next man or woman as you try to become more responsible in your gambling. I'd much prefer it if you wanted to quit altogether but i understand that is not presently your aim.

I really appreciate the support you have offered me over the last few months Captain.

Well done on the last 3 days. Keep it going.

Hi Captain i saw that Curly sent your 500th post so i wanted to be the first of your second 500 lol.

Seriously kid im glad to see you giving it a good go Stay strong Jeff.

Hello C,

Try your best C. I hope you aren't too bored......I found the longer I went without gambling the less bored I became. I'm sure you can do this.......hey, if I can, believe me anyone can lol

Take care and be strong.

Jas x

Great to get posts from some of my best long term supporters as I pass the 500 posts mark.

Thanks Jeff, Curly and Jasmine.

You guys all appreciate how serious I am about sorting myself out despite my approach being a bit different from many.

Here's to the next 500 posts, by then hopefully I will have made continued progress.

Im entering number 502

hope after 500 posts you can become serious about stopping mate. i know its tough but you need to make hard decisions over the coming month.

all the best in your recovery

pauly

£1,400 in 30 minutes Cap? Are you on the same wage as the Prime minister?