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Re: [Compulsive Gambling Recovery] gambling, trying to stop   Message List  
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Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaa Good For You.

I am so happy for you. Our local casino will take
your picture and ban you for a year if you want, not
sure if it is the same with were you are. You are so
right they see us gamblers coming for miles and have
us figured out soooooo well. As I always say my best
advice is Pray it really works. Feed your subconsious
good thoughts and it will return with good actions.
Never feel bad about what you did and you are not
stupid you just needed a lesson learned to help your
soul grow. Smile, learn your lesson and move on.

You are on the right track.... keep moving foward.

Jonathan



--- christina871 <no_reply@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
> Hi everyone - I am still gambling but I am going to
> seriously try to
> stop. I called the casino today and told them I
> wanted them to take
> me off of their mailing list. I was transferred to
> the voice mail
> for their database marketing dept. You would think
> with all of their
> money they could have someone there to answer the
> phone........but I
> am beginning to see just how slick and insidious
> this business is. I
> got sucked in all the way. They want to make it as
> difficult as
> possible for a person to leave. They've got me
> coming and going. I
> was talking to my boyfriend this morning and we were
> discussing how
> the casino is similar to a drug dealer.....the
> players club points
> ('free' money) is comparable to the free drugs a
> drug dealer
> initially gives out to get a person hooked. They
> know (both the
> casino and the drug dealer) that they will make it
> up huge on the
> back end. Everything is thought through and
> deliberate from a
> marketing standpoint. Psychologically, the casinos
> have a compulsive
> gambler targeted from every angle. I used to think
> that after I won
> a jackpot that there must be a lot of paperwork and
> verifying/checking or something that caused the huge
> wait for the
> casino to pay me......now I have figured out that
> the casino makes a
> patron wait on purpose because they know that the
> longer the wait,
> the higher the odds that the player will gamble and
> lose the rest of
> his/her money. I hate the casinos! The house
> always wins in the
> end....
>
>


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Tue Apr 1, 2003 7:38 pm

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Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaa Good For You. I am so happy for you. Our local casino will take your picture and ban you for a year if you want, not sure if it is the same...
Jon Roy
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Apr 1, 2003
7:38 pm

hi Christina i am glad to hear that your going to try to stop gambling...thats great!! it's so hard at times that if i didn't have these emails to read and to...
mollymay
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Apr 3, 2003
5:28 am

Hello Mollymay, Christina and everyone, I am a female compulsive gambler from Finland, who is also trying to quit very hard. Internet gambling has been my...
Reija Hirvonen
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Apr 6, 2003
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Hi Reija: You will be in my prayers, one day at a time really works. Be paitent and soon enought your prayers will come true. As much as I and most people...
Jon Roy
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Apr 6, 2003
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