Can't change my bad habit.

[TheGambino]

I know this is not some kind of support group for problem gamblers but I do need to share my thoughts and I hope you guys can wake me up because i take damage on my work, on my relationship with friends, my gym routine and my relationship with my parents. This is really worse.

It just doesn't work, I went to play poker at the home game again and lost another 800 euros today. Last week I lost 900 euros. I quit playing poker for 3 weeks after my post a while ago.

Anyway I won back some good money after playing again. I wasted that money the week after.

The problem is. The poker home game is 10 min drive, I can easily borrow money to play from the people there and I find myself in debts again. I lost over 6k now. I even need support from my dad now to pay debts, its getting ridiculous.

I always posted the absolute truth on sosuave and now my life is in a big down spiral due this bad habit so I need to spit my thoughts again.

Everytime I say to myself stop playing stop going there but when the game day reaches to play poker I get a message from those guys or I unblock 'em and reach out again to play.

Problem is I had a debt for a while so I feel the urge to win it back in stead of working for it. And I won 1k or 1.5k some days so everytime I have the feeling like i'm going to play tight and win back my debts and money.

But I keep on my losing streak. Sometimes I get the feeling like I just play to forget problems and to escape my mom and a good friend that keep saying that I changed and stuff.

I play poker for 6 years, I could manage it very well until the last 6 months that I met this guys where I play like 2 times a week and can lose up to 1.5K a month.

I plan to go to law school this next month, very motivated for that but I dont know if I can bring it up with this bad bad addiction that has a grip on my life. It's just a good posibility to win my loses back, but a greater one to lose more because of the bad mindset im in. Even though I make 1000euros of 100 in a couple of hours, I manage to get unlucky and lose it all again, because all of the loses I just want to play not win, it's weird.

I seem to feel like playing and trying to win back loses is the only way to get on track again, but it gets me in more sh1t.

Who has tips to get rid of this guys and find some new sh1t to focus on.

I told u:
They live next to my village, they offer to pick me up, they borrow money and it's fun to play. But I just can't manage and control it lateley.

Not even talking about my game. No plates, no gym, less confidence, all due poker. I don't give a sh1t anymore for months now.

 

[om1xr]

It's all come to cause and effects.
You keep going through the same circle because that's where you get kicks and that adrenaline rush and I don't know how is your social and dating life or if you have some family problems or some psychological ones but maybe you keep doing this self destructive habit because you don't have any other areas to feel the rush ans feel alive.

So people can give you advice and maybe some people here have gone through the same problem but the only person that can change this situation is you. You need to find some better ways to spend your time maybe you can go back to gaming girls or yiu can find some things that you enjoy doing like some sport or going to gym.

Another important thing is to cut those people out of your life. You must understand that those are bad fruits and they won't benefit you anyway so delete numbers, block them and do your best to avoid them and reject their offers to hang out. You must understand that they just want your money or maybe they are going through the same sh!t as you but keep hanging out with people with problems that you need to solve is like standing in the same sh!tty spot and having the illusion that you are moving to a better place.

Good luck bro.

 

[FCB]

You need to realize you have a problem and gambling is going to bring you nothing but more trouble. I've seen it lots of times, and from the other side, people are calling you for games because you are a fish, they will be friendly etc to keep you in the game. Just cut it off and build discipline however you can.

 

[Tictac]

The only way you can win this is to not play or gamble again ever.

You know this. Now you just need to do it. If you can stop for three weeks, you can stop forever.

 

[mangotot]

You should get professional help man. I don't know if in your country they have things like "Gamblers Anonymous" which is similar to "Alcoholics Anonymous". 6 years is a long time to do doing that $hit. I had a go at poker at the start of the year lost about 1500 euros. I could see how it might be possible to become good at it. After all its largely about reading the other players but I just don't have the time or the money to get good at it. Thankfully I packed it in. Most people don't win at poker so its best you quit. Its a very bad habit to say the obvious.

 

[TheGambino]

Thanks guys.

Bradd i bought the book on my Phone in the Android store. Good stuff im working on it. Thanks

Ill make an official no gamble callenge aswell started yesterday

 

[backbeat]

i knew a dude who had a serious gambling problem. he used to play the poines n head to vegas play the lotto n jus go to sum indian casino to gamble. when he got the urge to gamble he took a cigarette lighter n put his palm over it until it burned then he stopped n didnt gamble. kind of extreme sh@t but it helped him beat the addiction.