Life With Sports Bets Only

Interesting post Captain.

You are spot on. It is only when you have a real desire not to gamble that you have a realistic chance to be free from gambling. This time last year i was gagging to get involved in the Masters and the National but i've grown tired of the win, lose, lose, lose, win, lose, lose, lose neverending cycle.

I'm glad you made reference to our special connection. I was beginning to fear my love for you was unrequited!

Keep trying mate.

Got the winner of the National woopy do I should be happy but I'm not, lost on football and golf. Not worth watching golf tonight now without a bet on it. Won money overall at weekend but even though I don't feel like it now I know I'll end up P****n it up the wall on cartoon races at some point.

Think I was born to gamble until it's time for my second life. Hope that starts soon. Can't live without gambling in this life.

Hope somebody is gonna read my diary and give me some help soon cos I desparately need it.

Come on you can fight this, i backed cartoon races once and the horse that i backed was 14/1 and leading after the last fence then the power went off and they wouldnt pay me out!!!

tell your new missus please get her or someone you trust to take your cash cards and help you stop it,self exclude do the lot all over again.You give freat advice so start taking it yourself.

There is no afterlife mate so make this your second coming.

Captain...tell us what blocks you have in place again and reasoning as to why you keep gambling ? If you dont have blocks in place and there can be plenty then im afraid your always gonnae punt mate...i sensed a bit of bitterness in your posts towards curly as he has completely transformed these days (good on him) and you can too...now stop feeling sorry for yourself and do something about it...yes its far from easy but you have to at least make an effort !! Come on mate you CAN do it 🙂

Lee/wp, thanks for posts.

Lee - I am much better at giving advice than taking it myself. I dont want others to be in the position I am in so happy to help them.

wp - re post to Curly, wasnt meaning to sound resentful, really happy for him, just trying to do some comparisions as I feel Curly and I have a lot in common

re gambling vices but also major differences as he has little or no debt and has a baseline life to revert back to quickly. I am trying to build a new life but cant do so until I reduce debt, cant reduce debt when gambling stupidly all the time and without gambling and taking an interest in sports I dont have a life. Vicious circle.

I know it flies in the face of a lot of others on here but I simply cant watch sport for the enjoyment of it, any sport I watch I need to be betting on it, however as Ive said many times before, if I only bet on sport I'd be fine.

I have closed all my telephone and online accounts so restricted to high street bookmakers. I flit between wanting to stop completely and restrict myself to sports only bets as you know wp so I rarely have enough impetus to do self exclusion. I have had long periods of success doing sports only then it all unravels and I bet on anything including large amounts on cartoon races.

A progress summary over last 6 years is as follows:

Horse Racing - used to study in advance every day, dont take an interest now at all

Snooker - used to bet every tournament, only World Championship now

Golf - used to bet every weekend, only majors now

Football - Have always bet loads on football, still do, but if I kept to football I'd be fine, wouldnt be a millionaire but wouldnt have any debt either

So what catches me out - betting cartoon races and dogs and horse races randomly some lunchtimes and sometimes after work when at lunchtimes I feel I need a betting 'boost' to keep me going and at night I cant face going home without going via the bookies for another 'boost'.

captain,sometimes its better to be selfish.

do you think the people you are giving advice are not concerned for you? if you do you are wrong. you have stopped quite considerably but what about your stakes? are you diluting your gambling but not your stakes? you know the answer to that. get yourself attached to a friend or family member who can tell it to you straight on occasions,get your wages paid into theirs and they deal with your finances within a timeline which you both review. i cant sit here and now not think whether you are gambling or not as we all become attached without even really knowing each other. please think about thiis as you are the only one that matters

Captain i blew hundreds on my breaks in bookies and found it difficult to drive back home...now on my breaks i go to the library and log on here or read a paper...jeff gambled on cartoons curly too but there came a time when enough was enough...you have to find other ways of filling in your time..keeping busy is a must..fill that gap..cartoon races are fixed and YOU well know it..fight back mate fight back !!!

Lee/ wp thanks for posts. Met girlfriend at lunchtime,wish I could meet her every day, sometimes I can phone her and that helps. Drove home tonight without gambling so no gambling today. It's another new start, only planning bets on football at weekend.

Tried the library wp but gets boring if going there any more than 1 day a week.

Lee you are right about amounts still being high despite refining what I bet on but it's only the crazy random stuff that hurts both emotionally and financially.

Managed to bet only football this weekend but it has been a real struggle not to go bet anything else. Kept myself busy doing chores and odd jobs but found myself completely stressed out doing all this stuff. Other than the excitement of 3 till 5 tracking scores on Saturday the weekend has not been good and as with many weekends I will be glad to get back to work on Monday. Watched man derby last night and watching the arsenal game just now but like watching paint dry without any bet on the games. I have exhausted and stessed myself doing chores though and could really be In a bad way if I did any more of that stuff.

Typically after a weekend like this I have gambled on the Monday lunchtime so I know that's a danger.

Well, punted £1700 today at lunchtime, much as expected, managed to win but thats not the point, any win is temporary, I know that. I cant stay away from the lunchtime random madness.

Hi

Just imagine if you had lost...its a lot of money to be losing. I have done amounts like that on some afternoons after having a good winning streak...and eventually you will lose (as i am sure you know).

I know you have heard it all before...but you really need to stay away from your "lunchtime random madness". Think that with £1700...you can pay off some of your debts...you could take a holiday...you could do a hell of a lot, but instead you chose to risk it. I am not judging cause i used to be the same, we probably all have done. But if you really want to get better, you have to really want to do it for yourself.

good luck and stop the random madness 🙂 and count youself lucky (if we should really say that) that you walked away without taking a massive step backwards.

Thanks for post mmcb. Unfortunately today wasn't a one off, I lost £1800 one lunchtime last week and have done this numerous times. I know I can't go on like this but I haven't been able to stop this behaviour for longer than a few months.

I have totally lost concept of the value of money and haven't spent money on anything tangible for years.

Hi Capn

With all the money you risk have you considered taking a hol to get away from everything? And I don't mean somewhere nice a hot, to somewhere that may shock you back to reality. Maybe Japan to see the earthquake damage or New Orleans which still hasn't recovered from the hurricane. Seeing these first hand might help? Might help realise how much more to life there is than gambling. And help you appreciate the other things in life that we take for granted. I don't know mate, just trying to suggest something a bit different.

Whatever you do mate, you have my support and I wish you all the best.

Dave

Didnt gamble at lunchtime today, spoke to my girlfriend for half an hour. Tomorrow or Thursday I'll likely be back to gambling again.

Update - couldn't wait till tomorrow or Thursday. Stopped at bookies on way home and lost all money I had on me. The pennys dropped. I've had enough of this. It's over. Slammed door in bookies and told them I wouldn't be back.