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 know that i
am not alone in this addiction i don't know what i would do.Life is kinda funny
in ways i guess. It is so right that the casinos and bars that have video
lottery terminals have us targeted, it's how they make their living,seems pretty
cruel in alot of ways! I really wish that gambling had never been made legal and
that vegas had continued to be the only place you could gamble,but thats not
what happened.So i guess we just continue to try to live our lives one day at a
time and keep working at recovery. good luck to you and hope to hear from you
again.
mollymay
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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