Back to the drawing board...
This year has been hell of a roller coaster. Along with the struggles of COVID, I have had multiple family members die, my partner was sick in hospital for 4 months, and also major frustration and risk of job security with my employer.
I would say I gambled a total of 40-50 days this year.. Not happy about it at all.. But in hindsight I used it as a coping mechanism - which considering my gambling addiction: is the last thing I should have bee doing.
Two years ago today was when I admitted I had a problem and quit for a whole year (after a string of compulsive gambling and major losses).
Thankfully, I can say I have lost only 7-8K this year - which could've been a hell of a lot worse. In reflection, I definitely am not a person who can casually gamble. I can win 2-5K and not flinch, not feel any emotion or desire to stop. Unfortunately that value is significant to me - and the money to fund those gains, which usually sits around 1-2K isn't something I can afford to lose. 90% of the time, win or lose - I end up losing everything and the original deposit.
I have no self control when my addiction is being fed.
The good news is, after two years I have banned myself from maybe 100+ online casinos. Its finally getting to the point where its hard to find a reliable one. I have little desire to gamble on the pokies/slots at the local - I've never had a significant win in person (thankfully).
Moving into 2021 - I'm settling a goal for a gamble free year.

I’m not usually one to get on reddit and post something but here goes nothing.
This is a recount of the past 3.5 years of my gambling addiction
FYI - grammer is shit
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It was slowly coming up to my 18th birthday and I couldn‘t wait as I knew I could legally go to the casino. On my day of first going to the casino I was so excited as I saw all the flashing lights and jackpot noises. I only ever played blackjack, so I started there on the $10 or $20 table and won over $200 and I was quite happy. Ended up losing a few 100 that night. I went home around 2am after all my mates were out clubbing. There is countless times when I’ve lied about being in the casino to mates who were out clubbing, friends and family.
Ive got a very addicting personality aswell which does not help.
Over this 3.5year period I was on a rough pay check of $1600 clear into my account every fortnight on average. The first year between 18-19 i would play pokies and put money on greyhounds every week. I would spend my pay check sometimes within the first few days.
i never saved anything,
When I first lost $500 I was very mad with myself and couldn’t believe I could do that to myself. By the time I’m 19-20 im losing $2000 in one sitting regularly and I still can’t believe I keep going back. This would happen once or twice a month.
i would have deposits on sportsbet in total which would be over $20000K in the first two years of gambling. My Total loses at casinos in couple states of Australia would be over $35000, my total loses online casinos and other punting sites and pubs would be around $30000.
I’ve had some pretty crazy win/loss moments over the past 3.5yrs, which some I just couldn’t believe happened.
I got a personal loan out aswell which currently has around $12,000 owing but very happy with myself to say I’ve been gamble free for a month and never going to gamble again.
This will be one of the biggest lessons I’ll ever learn in life but I’ll always stay positive and keep looking forward
I’m currently 21 and have just started a full time position with a good salary and can say my life has changed
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Thanks heaps for reading,
Please if you have any comments or any stories id love to hear them!

40. Go Down Gamblin’ - Blood Sweat and Tears

Released in 1971, Go Down Gamblin’ by Blood Sweat and Tears is a song describing a gambler who is “born a natural loser.” He never wins, no matter what game he plays, but, he doesn’t feel like a loser. As the song goes – “Cause I've been called a natural lover by that lady over there, Honey, I'm just a natural gambler but I try to do my share.”

39. Gambler - Madonna

Gambler is a song written and played by Madonna, made for the film Vision Quest. Although the song reached the top 10 in the charts of the UK, Australia, Belgium, Ireland, Netherlands, and Norway, Madonna performed it only once on her 1985 The Virgin Tour. It’s a catchy song, we suggest you play it as you spin the reels of some of your favourite retro online slots.

38. The House of the Rising Sun - The Animals

Our list wouldn’t be complete without the 1964 hit song - The House of the Rising Sun by The Animals. Everybody knows the famous lines ”My mother, she was a tailor, sewed these new blue jeans, my father was a gamblin' man way down in New Orleans.” This single had a major success and made it to the top 10 songs on mainstream rock radio stations in the USA. Likewise, the hit was featured in the video game Guitar Hero Live.

37. The Winner Takes It All - ABBA

Whether we admit it or not, we all love at least some songs played by the very well-known Swedish pop group, ABBA. According to some sources, Bjorn Ulvaeus wrote the 1980 hit song The Winner Takes It All which was inspired by his divorce to his fellow band member, Agnetha Fältskog. The winner takes it all is a sort of a comparison to a divorce (especially the part ”I've played all my cards and that's what you've done too, nothing more to say, no more ace to play”), where one of them is the winner and the other one is left with nothing. And things are just the same when it comes to gambling, so we’ve decided to put the song on our list.

36. Shape of my Heart - Sting

We’re all aware of the fact that our gambling behaviour can be influenced by certain types of music and that's because online gambling and music go hand in hand. So, we suggest you start playing your preferred games with one of everyone’s favourite songs by Sting called The Shape of my Heart. It was released in 1993 and used for the end credits of the film Léon. In one of his interviews, Sting explained that the lyrics of the song tell the story of a card player who places bets not in order to win but to figure out something that’s been bothering him - “some kind of scientific, almost religious law.”

35. All I Wanna Do Is Play Cards - Corb Lund

“Well, I guess I really oughta be makin up songs but all I wanna do is play cards. I know it's dumb and sick and wrong but all I wanna do is play cards. Got the studio booked in Tennessee, and my record producer's callin me, the tape will roll in just three weeks and all I wanna do is play cards.” Does it sound familiar? It’s a 2005 hit by Corb Lund called All I Wanna Do Is Play Cards, once you hear it you’ll be playing it on repeat.

34. Gambling Man - The Overtones

When you’re falling in love, it’s perfectly normal to feel like you want to gamble everything just to attract that person’s attention to notice you and love you back. Well, Gambling Man is a lively 2010 song that tells a story of a guy fascinated with his love, so he places all his bets on her, as the song goes - “I played my hand, I rolled the dice, now I'm paying for my sins, I got some bad addiction.” This time, he feels that this love affair is different from any other – “Baby, it's you, yeah, yeah, that's right.” The song was released in 2010 and has been popular ever since.

33. Poker Face - Lady Gaga

Although the Poker Face song is more about the game of romance rather than the game of poker, the catchy refrain that starts with “Can't read my, no he can't read my poker face” kinda reminds us of winning at the tables, so we couldn’t skip it this time. Released in 2008, the song achieved worldwide success, topping the charts in the USA, the UK, Australia, Canada and several European countries.

32. Little Queen of Spades - Robert Johnson

Moving on to the Little Queen of Spades, a song title by the American blues musician Robert Johnson who recorded the song in 1937 and first released it in 1938. The first version of this gambling-themed song has a playing time of 2:11, whereas the second one lasts 4s longer (2:15), and is considered an alternate take and first appeared on Johnson's album The Complete Recordings, in 1990.

31. Train of Consequences - Megadeth

Another great song Train of Consequences is the title created by Megadeth, released as the first single from their sixth studio album Youthanasia in 1994. The song was later included on their compilation albums and its music video was the 26th most played video on MTV. There’s this part of the song “No horse ever ran as fast as the money that you bet, I'm blowing on my cards and I play them to my chest” – which is about a person’s gambling problem, who realises something’s wrong with this lifestyle, but it still hunts him down. Could be just the thrill, but he just can’t stop playing.
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30. Gambler - Whitesnake

Released on the album Slide It In (1984) and appearing on the compilation album Gold (2006), Gambler is the song by the British hard rock band Whitesnake. These words may sound familiar - “No fame or fortune, no luck of the draw, when I dance with the Queen of Hearts, a jack of all trades, a loser in love, it's tearing my soul apart”. And in case you’ve never heard it, we think you should give it a shot, the chances are you’re going to love it!

29. Gambling Man - Woody Guthrie

Now here’s one single from 1957 - Gamblin' Man. The song was taped live at the London Palladium and published as a double A side, with Puttin' On the Style. Reaching #1 in the UK Singles Chart in the summer 1957, it was “the last UK number 1 to be released on 78 rpm format only, as 7' vinyl had become the norm by this time.” Written by Woody Guthrie and Donegan, this gambling themed song was produced by Alan Freeman and Michael Barclay.

28. Roll of the Dice - Bruce Springsteen

According to Songfacts, Roll of the Dice was the first Springsteen’s song he didn’t write by himself. In fact, E Street Band’s pianist Roy Bittan helped with the music, while Springsteen was in charge of the lyrics, starting with – “Well I've been a losin' gambler, just throwin' snake eyes, Love ain't got me downhearted. I know up around the corner lies, My fool's paradise in just another roll of the dice.” After he broke up the E Street Band in October 1989, Springsteen wrote lyrics for the Roll of the Dice (with two other songs) and liked them to the point where he began writing and recording more songs.

27. Queen of Diamonds - Tom Odell

Here’s one song about a gambling fanatic who’s trying to satisfy his own addiction but also someone else, hoping it’s going to save him. Released in 2018, Queen of Diamonds is Tom Odell’s song from the album Jubilee Road, based on the local characters that inspired this British songwriter to include the whisky-soaked gamblers who regularly visited one betting shop.

26. The Angel and the Gambler - Iron Maiden

Now, this song may divide Iron Maiden fans and it’s most probably because of its repetitive lyrics that can be a bit annoying. The release we’re talking about is The Angel and the Gambler. Truth be told, the melody in general is very catchy and, even a bit similar to The Who in some moments. As the song was released in 1998 while Blaze Bayley was its frontmen, it’s missing the well-known high-pitch vocals from Bruce Dickinson.

25. Ramblin' Gamblin Man - Bob Seger

We’re moving on to a rock single from 1978 - Ramblin' Gamblin Man by Bob Seger. The author meets an old acquaintance, a professional gambler who happens to be a swagger. As such, he attracts people’s attention whenever he bets. Putting so much of his faith in the cards (rather than in people), he walks away every time, just before avoiding loss. Along the way, the narrator realises that, if you scratch beneath the surface, you’ll find he’s a very cynical man, who will never change.
Another gambling-themed song worth mentioning by Bob Seger is Still The Same.

24. Blow Up The Pokies - The Whitlams

Blow up the Pokies is the next song on our list, played by The Whitlams. It is the second single by the group from their 4th studio album, Love This City. Released in the year 2000, the song became a hit and made it to number 21 on the ARIA Singles Chart. According to several resources, the lyrics written by singer Tim Freedman were inspired by the destruction he saw in original Whitlams bassist Andy Lewis's life, due to his gambling addiction.

23. A Good Run of Bad Luck - Clint Black

Now here’s one 1994-song packed with gambling-related terms. As you listen to A Good Run of Bad Luck, recorded by American music artist Clint Black, you'll have a bit of fun as you try identifying what all these gambling terms mean. The song is a bit fast and is about falling in love by using gambling metaphors. The main character is willing to spend a lot of money to win his special lady over and, although he has had a period of bad luck, he is not giving up – “I've been to the table, and I've lost it all before, I'm willin' and able, always comin' back for more.”

22. When You’re Hot, You’re Hot - Jerry Reed

Jerry Reed won a Grammy for the song When You’re Hot, You’re Hot which was released in 1971. Most people remember it as it was a major hit, ranked as number 1 in the country charts, also making its way up the Pop Top 40. It’s an enjoyable novelty song about the ups and downs of the gambling life, about one’s winning streak caught in an illegal game of Crap.
Country star Jerry Reed also came up with a version The Uptown Poker Club in 1973.

21. Lawyers, Guns and Money - Warren Zevon

Next one up - Lawyers, Guns and Money is a song by Warren Zevon, the closing track on his album Excitable Boy, released in 1978. An edited version of this song was distributed as a single and found itself on the A Quiet Normal Life best of compilation on the CD and LP. The song goes like this - “I went home with a waitress the way I always do, how was I to know she was with the russians, too? I was gambling in Havana, I took a little risk Send lawyers, guns, and money Dad, get me out of this, hiyah!”
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20. The Lottery Song - Harry Nilsson

According to the man in the 1972 pop-rock song The Lottery Song by Harry Nilsson, there's more than one way to get to Vegas. Addressing his lover, the narrator mentions a few different options for buying a ticket and going to Sin City – “We could win the lottery we could go to Vegas,” and “We could wait till summer, we could save our money” as well as “We could make a record, sell a lot of copies, we could play Las Vegas.”

19. Casino Queen - Wilco

Now here’s one black-humoured gambling-themed song, released in 1995 and titled after a casino. Featuring a dirty electric guitar, Casino Queen was composed by an American songwriter, Jeff Tweedy, who wrote this song after playing a game in a riverboat casino accompanied by his dad. Inspired by the event, the author wrote: “Casino Queen my lord you're mean, I've been gambling like a fiend on your tables so green.”

18. Have a Lucky Day - Morphine

Another song on our list that you simply must check out starts like this: “I feel lucky, I just feel that way, I'm on a bus to Atlantic City later on today. Now I'm sitting at a blackjack table and swear to God the dealer has a tag says, "Mabel." Hit me, hit me! I smile at Mabel, soon they're bringing complimentary drinks to the table.” Check it out yourself - it’s called Have a Lucky Day by Morphine.

17. Kentucky Gambler - Merle Haggard

Written by Dolly Parton and released in 1974, Merle Haggard’s Kentucky Gambler is another song on our ultimate gambling playlist that you should pay attention to. It’s about a miner from Kentucky who leaves his family to gamble, under the bright lights of Reno. Unsurprisingly, his winning streak comes to an end, and he loses all his winnings. All broke, he decided to return back home only when he arrived, he found out his wife was involved with someone else.

16. The Jack - AC/DC

The next song on our list will give you some adrenaline boost, for sure. It goes like this - “She gave me the queen, she gave me the king, she was wheelin' and dealin', just doin' her thing, she was holdin' a pair, but I had to try…” Sounds familiar? This song from the 1975s is called The Jack and is played by AC/DC and there’s no way you can skip it.

15. Blackjack - Ray Charles

Moving on to something a bit different - a melody that blackjack lovers can listen to as they play is Ray Charles’ Blackjack. Apart from being a good quality song from 1955, it carries an important message with an emphasis on how brutal the game of blackjack can be. Some sources say that Ray Charles wrote it after beating T-Bone Walker at a blackjack game session.
Yet another Ray Charles’ famous song about gambling is called a Losing Hand.

14. Ooh Las Vegas - Gram Parson

“Ooh, Las Vegas, ain't no place for a poor boy like me”... is a song-into for Ooh Las Vegas which was written by Gram Parsons and Ric Grech. It was first released by Gram Parsons with Emmylou Harris in 1974. Playing this song would be perfect for the beginning of the road trip (i.e. to Las Vegas), especially if you have the energy to sing along.

13. The Stranger - Leonard Cohen

Published in 1968 and performed by Leonard Cohen, The Stranger appears in the The Ernie Game movie about a man released from a mental asylum. More appropriately, it is the perfect opening song in the 1971 Western McCabe & Mrs Miller, in which Warren Beatty plays a gambler. As you listen to this song (without watching the movie), it makes you see fascinating images of card games, smoky dreams, and concepts of risk versus safety.

12. Desperado - Eagles

Written by Glen Frey and Don Henley, Desperado song is one of The Eagles’ greatest hits from their 1973 album of the same name. The song features a classic tune while the ballad tells the story of a lone wolf imprisoned by his loneliness. As for the lyrics, they have loads of card references mentioning the queen of diamonds, the queen of hearts, and so on.

11. Huck's Tune - Bob Dylan

The next song on our list is about the risks of poker, money, and relationships, which are precisely what the movie Lucky You is all about. Does it ring a bell? That’s right, this 2007 song is called Huck’s Tune and is performed by Bob Dylan. Each of us can all relate to lines "You push it all in, and you've no chance to win, you play 'em on down to the end." Play the song and you’ll enjoy more than 4 amazing minutes of Bob Dylan.
Likewise, Bob Dylan recorded Rambling, Gambling Willie and Lily, Rosemary and the Jack of Hearts, both excellent and both inspired by gambling.
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10. Four Little Diamonds - Electric Light Orchestra

A song by the British rock band Electric Light Orchestra Four Little Diamonds was released in 1983 and found itself on the album Secret Messages. The single wasn’t so popular in the US, being only 2 weeks on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, at number 86, and number 84 in the UK. This song refers to the singer’s cheating lover who tricked him out of a ring which had 'four little diamonds' on it.

9. You Can't Beat The House - Mark Knopfler

Moving on to our next choice for the day, You Can’t Beat the House. It’s the third song on the Get Lucky studio album released in 2009 by British singer-songwriter and guitarist Mark Knopfler. The album and the songs received favorable reviews with the album reaching the top three positions on album charts in Denmark, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, and Poland. The singer’s divine voice combined with beautiful music and lyrics goes like this – “You can't bear the house, you can't bear the house, tell the man somebody, you can't beat the house.”

8. Deck of Cards - Don Williams

Deck of Cards is a recitation song that tells the story of a soldier who gets caught while playing cards in church and then faces a sentence from a superior officer. The soldier defends his case, explaining he wasn't about to deal a hand of poker, but was rather confirming his faith with the cards. Performed by T. Texas Tyler, the song managed to become a major hit in the 1940s and 1950s. Also, Wink Martindale had an even bigger hit with his 1959 cover, with a successful version by Don Williams featuring Tex Ritter and Buddy Cole.

7. Gambler’s Blues - B.B. King

First recording of the song Gambler’s Blues by B.B. King was in 1966, and it was released in 1967. The song appears on the album Back in the Alley (1970). Some say gambling and blues go hand in hand, so if you (gambling fans) haven’t heard it, listen and see for yourself.

6. Tumbling Dice - Rolling Stones

One of our favourite songs on the list is Tumbling Dice, written by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards. It tells the story of a gambler who can’t remain faithful to any woman. Being released in the 1970s and featuring a blues boogie-woogie rhythm, the song was and still is one of the greatest singles of all time.
Rolling Stones also recorded Casino Boogie, and it’s from their 1972 album, Exile on Main St.

5. Luck Be A Lady - Frank Sinatra

The next song on our list is about a gambler who hopes that he will win a bet, the outcome of which will decide whether he is able to save his relationship with the girl of his dreams. You probably know what song we’re talking about; it’s called Luck be a Lady released in 1965 and performed by one of the most popular musical artists - Frank Sinatra.

4. Deal - Grateful Dead

Next one up is the song Deal. It was first performed by the Grateful Dead in 1971, as a regular part of the repertoire through their 1970's tour. Although being less common to the fans during the 1990s, the band continued to perform it. The singer opens with the message: “Since it cost a lot to win and even more to lose you and me bound to spend some time wondering what to choose,” that later kicks off with a chorus: “Don't let your deal go down...”
Loser is another song first performed by the Grateful Dead in 1971 as well, heavily played during 1971 and 1972.

3. Ace of Spades - Motörhead

Ok, the next song is loaded with some great gambling verses like "The pleasure is to play, makes no difference what you say, I don't share your greed, the only card I need is the Ace of Spades" will definitely set you in the right mood for hitting some winning combinations. Released in 1980, the song was inspired by slot machines that the lead singer Ian Fraser “Lemmy” Kilmister played in London pubs.

2. Viva Las Vegas - Elvis

As soon as you start playing the second song from our playlist “Viva Las Vegas,” you’ll probably picture a huge casino and a great gaming atmosphere. Performed by the legendary Elvis Presley, the 1964-released song brings the glamour of the city, and its beat will get you in the mood for some serious gameplay. This song was written for the movie of the same name starring Elvis Presley, in which he plays a race car driver waiting tables at a hotel to pay off a debt. There’s this famous scene when he performs this song at the talent competition alongside many showgirls.

1. The Gambler - Kenny Rogers

Performed by the legendary country singer Kenny Rogers, The Gambler song is our number 1 - it's full of some betting advice that are relevant today, even though it was released more than 40 years ago, in 1978. Here’s how it goes… “If you're gonna play the game, boy you gotta learn to play it right, you've got to know when to hold 'em, know when to fold 'em, know when to walk away, and know when to run.” These classic chorus lines were told from the first-person perspective inspired by a conversation the author had with an experienced poker player on a train. Written in the form of poker metaphors, Schlitz wrote the tune in honor of his late father.
Johnny Cash is also among other musicians who recorded The Gambler in 1978, on Gone Girl.

What do you think? Which one is your favourite?

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Hello.. posting here because I don't know what to do anymore. This first week of March has already felt like months of hell and I want to know how to get out of this hole. I have never said anything about this to anyone as I am embarrassed by it and would rather not deal with any extra judgement that may be received.
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I believe that my problem started at the age of 15 - I had just discovered bitcoin and decided to play $50 which I had received as a gift - after transferring everything and doing the exchanges, I ended up with around $20 to play with online. I lost it.. and I felt like utter shit for 2 days - I was a 16 year old who had lost $50 I had received as a gift. A week goes by and I feel better, and I had recently started a job at a fast food chain so I was making 100-200 a week. A few weeks went by playing $50 each week, until a miracle happened - I had turned $50 through a variety of different websites using martingale (I know, stupid indeed but by some odd change I had managed to make a huge amount) into around $200,000 AUD at the time (worth much more now in bitcoin rates). This was the day after Christmas of 2017 I believe - I withdrew the money and went to sleep finally after a long night of gambling (I had withdrew and redeposited into multiple different websites multiple times through the night constantly telling myself I'd stop soon.. so I did, at 200,000 - or so I thought). I woke up the next morning and instantly put it all back in - I did some very stupid bets (they got very large, I did not realize just how quickly a bet can go from $10 to $20,000) and ended up with $0 - well, this was the end of it. Or so I thought. After a day of beating my self up, I kept quite - went back to school, didn't say anything to anyone - of course, it might have been noticeable how miserable I was. Fast track a few weeks later, I started stealing. Yes, I know - I regret every decision I made and I have always felt guilty for what I did - I was midway into 16 at the time and spent every school night on my iPad making around three to four hundred dollars through different schemes which I always put back into the websites. Not once did i get close to repeating what I had made during the big win - I always thought, next one. But the next one was never it. Eventually, I started betting during school every few days and some mates caught on and started playing with me - small amounts, but we had fun gambling together during classes. It was when I was the only one playing all day and all night by myself that I realized I may have had a problem - but no, I could stop at any time I said to my self. This was the first stage.
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What happened next, was I turned 18 and discovered sports betting. After a few thousand dollars in losses, I stopped myself from that and found my new preferred method of gambling - online casinos (not bitcoin, but aud) - I would spend every day playing on a new casino trying to beat the odds and not once did I do it. I did make a few big wins, but never pulled out and always (and i repeat, always, no matter how much I pulled out, I ended up losing all the profits and more the next day) lost. A few weeks into being 18, I discovered my worst enemy - the poker machines. I was new to all of this - me and a few friends went into a pub and saw a couple of machines - we were curious and each chucked in a few dollars. After we all lost our money, they all wanted to leave but I was different - I was the only one who put in more. I had no idea what the machines were or how to play them but I ended up spending an hour playing a few dollars - it was boring to me. I didn't understand it - "how could anyone be addicted to these piece of shit machines?" I thought. Fast forward a few weeks and I started going more often - I would play larger amounts and win larger amounts - it was getting more exciting (and would still get more, the more I learned about features and different machines.) After getting arrested and losing my license for a year around the time of my exams (two separate incidents which happened very closely to each other) I ended up with over $5,000 in fines to pay (court fine, impound fee, etc). I had a plan to pay them all off in a few months time. But at this time, I was falling in love with the poker machines. My family kept questioning where I was until 4am every morning, my girlfriend was constantly asking what I was doing - I always had an answer. This was my issue. I am a compulsive liar and have no problem lying about anything to anyone - it happens easily. My plan to pay off my fines did not happen. Couple months passed and I had spent almost every dollar at the pokies going every night hoping to make enough to pay off my fines - I spent all my paychecks and if I hadn't, I would have had enough to pay them off and not have this massive headache. I had to take out a loan. I took out a loan for double what I owed last week (around $10,000) - and this is where the real issue began. I had lied about my fines to everyone - my family, friends, etc. I told them I owed nothing more than $2,000 and that my loan was no more than $3,000. With this in mind, I had the mindset that the surplus of $5,000 was disposable - so what did I do? I went to Crown. The big place where it all happens. 3 days of playing and I made a few thousand dollars - i was up. But I was not happy with where I was. I started to skip university to go to Crown and in the span of 2 days, lost more than $8,000 which I had from the loan and all my extra savings/paychecks. One would think that these events would help me to stop - but no, this further worsened my problems. Since I was 16 I have had a problem with drugs (I would do a range of drugs, usually at school or at night when I wouldn't have to deal with my family, and spend the days messing around). Around a few weeks ago I had developed an addiction to cocaine (I say this as I am about to snort another key at 4am with uni work due in 8 hours). For the past 2 weeks I have spent the beginning and end of every day at a venue in an attempt to make back my very first massive win - but this has become more of an issue as my once a week cocaine habit had become daily (every couple of hours, which became every hour, which became every 30 minutes of playing) so while I was playing, I always always snorting before, during and after which made me very, very, compulsive - I had made many large wins which any smart person would have cashed out but to me - it was never enough. No matter how many massive features or wins I had (which attracted the attention of many onlookers) it was never enough for me. One more spin, I would always say as I drained my last few hundred down the drain.
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Now I'm here, 3 hours after losing my last thousand dollars and last bag of cocaine, in bed at 4am contemplating whether to start my uni work due in a few hours or to just sleep and hope for the best, thinking of ways to fuel my addictions for the next few days knowing I should stop.
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But that's the thing - I can't stop. I know I should. I want to. But I can't. My urge to do these things is stronger than my will to stop - "you should stop" becomes "you can stop when you want, but why stop now? it feels so good and you'll win eventually" - I know if I talk to someone it won't help me because I'm stubborn and will relapse very shortly so I am posting this here in hopes that maybe someone can relate or to find out if anyone can provide any advice as I am very lost and have no idea what to do anymore and I'm absolutely sick of it. I'm hiding my drug and gambling addiction from family, friends, my girlfriend - it is so obvious and everyone is suspicious but I am still lying to hide it. I don't know what to do anymore. I'm done.
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Thank you if you managed to read this far and I hope that you can provide any advice at all about what to do to cut these addictions - I'm so fed up with this life already.

Im 25, a college grad in the Humanities from Hong Kong, now in Melbourne Australia for working holidays. Have been in Oz since May 20 of this year. My gambling experience started in mid August after a week of arrival in Melbourne in cold winter. I felt lonely. I was staying in hostels and I didn’t meet or at least talk to a whole lot of people. I started going to the casino. The first game I touched was the Big Wheel. I think I won $100 something and made up for the loss that I had previously in pokies in another venue.(never a pokie person)
Long story short, I became a frequent patron. It didn’t take me long to lose the $4560 AUD in Roulette I made back in Cairns when I was a hostel manager at the lowest-rating hostel there. (I was so unhappy there that’s why I had to move). At that time I felt like I loathe myself, I was still under the delusion that I could make it back. I exchanged the money I had to AUD (some EUR and HKD) and easily I lost that too.
I began working as a cleaning technician and I worked for a one month project that yielded me a profit for around $2400 AUD. I believe I lost all of that within a few times of gambling.
All the while, I told myself I would never touch money at my Hong Kong bank account. I have one savings account and one “investment” account. I understand the bank I have these cards with has a branch here in Melbourne- HSBC. I went on both online and went to the bank teller to ask if l could withdraw money overseas. They said I had to do it at the ATM. I tried withdrawing the first time: it didn’t work. I went back and realised I needed to change the daily withdrawal limit online to be able to withdraw. Easily I did that and immediately I took money out- the first time 1500 AUD. I called my mom and told her I withdrew from the ATM cuz she has my bank passbook and can see the transactions. At that point I also told her I did a bit of gambling and had lost money. I didn’t tell her the extent to which as to how it affected me financially.
She sent me money the first time in early November. What awaited me was a big winning streak for well over a week. I went from -74xx to perhaps +5/6k I had three stacks of $5000 one time and I carried those stacks in my backpack and went in and out of the casino no problem. At this point I was very careful when placing my bets, I mostly only played Baccarat and a bit of Blackjack.
Until one time, I just threw all caution out the window when I was down maybe $500 on that day at a blackjack table. I threw down the entire $500 I have on one box and lost it again. Went over to another Blackjack table. Lost another $1000. I was so upset. I went to the Baccarat table. Two $2500 losing bets and one $5000 losing bet. It was at that point I thought I lost everything. I went to the ATM and took another $1500 (I believe it might be the third or fourth $1500 I took out) and I lost it also in minutes.
I cried to my mom on the phone after. She said this will be the last time she’s gonna send me money -$4000 AUD. in my head I was doing some calculation and something didn’t add up. I realised I still had one stack of $5000 in my bag. Instead of keeping it, I went straight back to the casino, spinning it to $8000 on that night. But i managed to make that $8000 to $0 the following day.
At this point, I was scrambling. I felt so ashamed. I could still stop I know. But my behaviour was impulsive and compulsive. I took around $1950 from my own investment account that my mom cannot keep track of and I lost it in one day. On another day, I lost the $2000 of the $4000 my mom gave me.
And yesterday it was the last time I gambled. I was clean for three days and on Day 4 I relapsed. I took out $1000 and lost everything. In total I have lost 12k AUD in my personal savings and 7k in recent work earnings but I am trying not to count that 7k now and just focus on the 12k.
I self excluded myself yesterday. It was the decision I should have made long ago. There were so many people I talked to who told me to stop in various ways but I never listened. It was always when I hit rock bottom that regret set in. Now 12k AUD is the amount I’m trying to reach back through work. I believe 100 work shifts should do it.
Laboring, farmwork, meat processing, event set up, temp work, I don’t know now anything is good to me now. I just need to keep at it. There’s bound to be some hiccups along the way. I am not good with communicating with people for example, that’s why I like to avoid work I guess subconsciously with gambling. And we’ll see how things will go. I want to get back on my feet and just brush this off as quickly as possible.
Casinos are not for me anymore. This is worse than any addiction in my opinion. It can put you in financial ruin. Stop if you are an addict like me. There’s nothing good that can come out of it

Ok, so I'm broke and live with my mum in public housing. It's a town house and around 8 months ago a young woman and her kids moved in to the town house that is joined onto ours.
She is only 24, has three kids and her boyfriend is currently in jail. When she moved in, my mother offered her a lot of help because she had nothing and was raising her kids alone. She didn't even have any furniture.
Over the months we have given her over $2000 and a tonne of food to help her out, which is a lot for us since we aren't rich ourselves. We have a strict budget and live modestly but are able to get by comfortably but since we have been helping her out, we have had to go hungry ourselves quite a lot. I didn't have a problem with this at first because mum and I are adults and can understand that we have little money, whereas her children are under the age of 6 (one is still a baby) and they don't understand why they have to go hungry.
Her two oldest kids (6 and 4) haven't been going to school or kindergarten (they are supposed to start kindergarten at age 4) so my mum has been trying to help her out by getting in contact with the nearest school and enrolling them. Despite their constant tantrums, they're sweet kids and always well behaved when we are baby sitting them. I'm not a parent, but I really believe that their tantrums wouldn't be so bad if they had structure in their lives. Going to school would help them a lot and if they don't start going to school now, then they are gong to have real troubles fitting in, when they have to go to school later.
I didn't realise at first, but my neighbour has a gambling problem. I'm furious that we have had to feed her children while she has been gambling her money away. She had an online casino account, and used her phone to gamble.
A few months ago, police took her phone away because she tried to sneak drugs into jail when she went to visit her boyfriend. So she had no way to gamble online. Not long after, she started asking my mum and I if we could watch her kids for an hour, while she ran some errands. She was never an hour, she would always come back between 5-8 hours later with no explanation or apology. Mum is a bigger softie than I, so even though we both vowed to never babysit for her again, mum got sucked back into it and would babysit the kids again and the same thing would happen again.
It got to a point where every day, she would drop the kids off in the morning, then be gone for most of the day and come back in the evening. My mother is in her 60's and has had two heart attacks in the past and is now on disability pension because her heart is weak. I am currently unemployed but actively looking for work. I would help mum out with the kids, but I occasionally have job interviews to go to, hand out resume's to local businesses and also try and earn some spare cash doing online/freelance work. I do feel for those kids but they shouldn't be mine or my mum's responsibility.
One day we had enough and mum asked me to go see if my neighbour was at the pokie room at the local shopping mall. She was there, she had been there all day. I told her to get home because mum was about to call the police. She came straight home, picked up the kids and then asked my mum for some money for food! Mum told her never to ask her for help again. This happened on a friday.
5 minutes later, mum is on the phone trying to get help for our neighbour. I think she called a church or the Salvation Army or something. Next thing, a woman comes around and drops off a bunch of food, 2 brand new child car seats and an envelope full of checks worth $600. This woman was an angel, the money came out of her own pocket! We gave the food to our neighbour (except for a fritata that we kept for ourselves -we also had no food), my mum has been holding onto the checks (because they were in her name and we can't trust our neighbour with them) but buying food for our neighbour with them each week. That has been a bit of a relief for us, because we aren't using up our own food money to buy my neighbour food but we still need to catch up. We kept the car seats because my neighbour doesn't have a car and my mum always drives her and the kids around anyway.
On the following sunday night, my neighbours cousin and friends popped in to visit her. My neighbour asked her cousin to watch the kids while she went outside for a cigarette and she disappeared for the entire night! The next morning (monday) her cousin knocked on our door, my mum answered and the neighbours cousin told mum that my neighbour hadn't come home and she needed to go, some she had to leave the kids with mum.
I had to go to an appointment but when I got back, police, child protection services and the neighbours boyfriends mum were at our house. The boyfriends mother was to have temporary custody of the kids while my neighbour sorted her shit out. It didn't work out (I don't know what happened) and within a couple days my neighbour had her kids back, but under the condition that my mum would sign on as her support and help her. We found out later that by mum signing on as my neighbours support, she was actually meant to move in with her! I was so angry, even though I am living with mum for financial reasons, I also help her out quite a lot because she can't do it all.
Now, every day, my mum gets up early and goes to my neighbours house, cleans up while my neighbour sleeps or lays there watching TV, picks up the filthy nappies that are just sitting on the floor, takes the kids to school then brings their dirty clothes back here to wash them and sometimes takes the baby for a couple hours. Also, since my neighbour didn't have much furniture or a refrigerator and the kids were all sleeping on the floor, she got a house full of furniture donated to her.
This isn't for my neighbour, it is for her children so they can have a decent home life but I kind of feel like my neighbour did something wrong, completely used us and is now getting rewarded for it. A bunch of furniture and a personal slave (my mum) so she can continue being lazy.
I know my neighbour is on amphetamines, she tried to sneak meth into jail when she was visiting her boyfriend, not only that but I used to take it myself and I know that look you get when you are on them. The huge pupils and the funny thing that you do with your mouth, it's pretty obvious and you don't have to be a former meth user to know the look. She is also up all night, every night, banging on the walls as if she is hammering a nail or something. Her kids are going to school now and I can hear one of them complaining for her to stop.
I rang the police about an hour ago to complain about the noise. You would think that will all the help, money and food we have given her that she would at least have the decency to be respectful and not make so much noise at night. Before I called the police, I banged on the wall really hard, hoping that she would realise that it's late and would stop. Instead she started banging like crazy! Like she is having an attitude about it or something. This has been going on every night, lately.
My mum is helping her not have her kids taken away, she is doing her housework and laundry every day and taking the kids to school for her. You think that the least that she could do is shut the fuck up so my mother (who is on disability pension) can get a decent night sleep.
I need a decent nights sleep too. I have an interview tomorrow, although it is walking distance from my house, I am going to have to get my mum to drive me (if she can) because with the lack of sleep that I have been having lately, I can't even get up the stairs without my heart feeling like it is going to explode and feeling like I am going to faint. I'm getting cluster headaches and my stomach has this intense burning feeling that I sometimes get when I am exhausted, it wont go away until I get a decent sleep.
The banging seems to have stopped for now so I am going to try and sleep, but I am so angry now! I can never sleep when I am angry.
TL;DR: I don't like my neighbour.
EDIT: Didn't realise how long this was so I added a TL;DR AND FIXED A COUPLE SPELLING MISTAKES, CAN'T BE BOTHERED WITH FIXING THEM ALL THOUGH.
EDIT 2: Sorry for the caps in the last edit, I'm not fixing them because I really should be going to sleep while I still can. Goodnight.