What's the most money you've lost whilst gambling?

I don't know whether they mostly do. I do know that trying to get the poster above in this thread to admit that they were responsible for their own choices got me nothing more than the ridiculous double-negative "I'm not taking no responsibility".

I wholly agree that casinos chasing people whom they know to be likely to gamble themselves into oblivion is wrong (though I would argue that it's quite right that it's legal -- people should be free to offer others any bad bargain they wish). All I am saying is that it is not an acceptable response from the gambler to say 'they did this to me'. Undoubtedly they wanted it to happen, and played a necessary part in it, but the gambler ultimately chose to bet their money, and should accept and admit that. It's not something they should be mocked for. Everyone can make bad decisions. They may be biologically predisposed to do so. But it is true, and shouldn't be dodged.

Can I ask, have you ever considered stopping? Or is it an addiction which you accept? Boy do them roulette machines get me angry. I've promised to stop and only do football... But we'll see how long that lasts

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No, but I think trying to say the casinos are just innocent prooviders of a service, as can be done when they simply ignore suspicions, doesn't carry water here. The gambler should help themselves, but it is wrong of the casinos to try and steer them off that path where they are trying to do so.

I wholly agree that casinos chasing people whom they know to be likely to gamble themselves into oblivion is wrong (though I would argue that it's quite right that it's legal -- people should be free to offer others any bad bargain they wish). All I am saying is that it is not an acceptable response from the gambler to say 'they did this to me'. Undoubtedly they wanted it to happen, and played a necessary part in it, but the gambler ultimately chose to bet their money, and should accept and admit that. It's not something they should be mocked for. Everyone can make bad decisions.

I agree with half of what you are saying but only disagree with the bit about it should be legal to offer people 'bad bargains'.

For instance should it be legal to have a campaign directly contacting recovering alcoholics and offering to pick them and take them to a pub for free booze?

Should it be legal to target elderly people with senile dementia abd encourage them to part with their life savings for a shoddily tarmacced drive?

Throw aside any moral implications and answer this: how does it benefit society to tempt vunerable people to do things that are likely to do them and as a knock in effect others harm?

I don't disagree with anything here. I'm not defending those actions of the casinos. I'm just saying (at the risk of sounding like a broken record) that those bad actions don't make it okay for the gambler to claim to be a total passenger in the process.

I'm not sure that we disagree fundamentally on anything. We may just be coming at this from a different angles.

Yep. On an online site I was contacted and given a £500 bonus that I only had to play through once to withdraw, including even money bets (for those that aren't aware, online casino bonus must normally be wagered 20-40 times before you cab withdraw them and normally exclude even money bets)

I took the bonus and put £225 each on red and black and £50 on zero which was a guaranteed minimum of £450 which I intended to instantly withdraw. First spin and green rolled in. Went straight to the account section and withdrew £1,000 and decided to play through the £800. Long story short, I got it upto just under five grand, then lost the lot, reversed the £1,000 and lost that and then lost another £1,500 that I put on.

So a free guaranteed minimum of £486 (if I'd have done £14 on zero and £243 each on red and black) turned into a loss of £1,500.

They aren't daft - they know that is what pathetically out of control people like me do. The rational people who took that bonus would have taken the £486/£504 guaranteed by the terms.


Posted from TSR Mobile

Thousands over the years.I'm extremely jealous of the folks whom can stop after loosing £10. Not me, I go in with all intentions of spending just £10, then Ahhh, another £10, then il deposit £30, then il be hooked until all of my money has gone. Granted, I've span £2000 in one spin aswell as many other wins, deposited £20 recently and won £900. Helped pay for an expensive PC/ monitor. I've come up with a plan to stop all together in the form of withdrawing all my funds as cash, so I can't play online even if I wanted to.(online casinos is where I spend) X

I personally never played for money. I guess, it's all luck, plain and simple, start with $100, if u lose leave, if you go up big cash out. Do your own research on casinos you can trust through https://aboutcasinoslots.com/ . But I beg you never play for big money