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Advice for responsible slot gambling from an ex-addict

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Hello, my name is Brian Forkston and I spent two decades of my life completely and utterly in the grip of nasty gambling addiction, with slots and later online slots being my usual point of call. Now, don’t get me wrong, it wasn’t as if I didn’t enjoy myself over this time, and I also won quite a lot of money in my time, but you cannot gamble forever and expect not to take a hit along the way. It was just unfortunate that my hit was a lot bigger than other people’s, and it left me trying to claw back my earnings through online slots even more intently. In some context; I used to be a frequent face in many Las Vegas slots halls, amassing a fortune of around one million dollars from the games – sounds good, doesn’t it? But just you wait until you hear what happens next.

So, as I say, I had one million dollars in the bank that I had carefully amassed over a decade of slot gambling, and I was pretty chuffed with myself, as I’m sure most of us would be. The problem is that I didn’t stop gambling, on the contrary. I was so intent on getting my next million from slot gambling that I was blinded to the success I’d had already. Anyway, you make a few overconfident bets on a whim and already your bankroll starts to decrease. This happened to me and resulted in a losing streak that lasted a good few months. By the time it finished, I was in debt, had lost my family and friends, and didn’t really know what else to do but try and gamble my way back into a fortune. It doesn’t work like that, however, and eventually, I realized I needed real help – play at Wizard Slots. Read ahead for some advice for responsible slot gambling, I wish I had some of these pieces of advice when I was still gambling.

Set yourself a strict budget
You simply must set a very strict budget with which you are going to gamble before you start each session because if you do not it is incredibly easy to overspend. I used to set a budget before each time, but after I had started earning real money off of the slots I stopped this practice, oh how I wish I had kept it up.

The lesson here is that no matter how much money you are making off your gambling passion, you still need to set a budget each time you play because there is no telling when you are going to start losing.

Never start a slots session without a time limit
Another crucial thing to make sure you are doing before you start a slot gambling session is to set a strict time limit on your gambling because you could easily be up for hours and hours (if not days) if you do not. Trust me, it is incredibly easy to keep spinning those reels if you are on a winning streak, and it is also hard to stop if you are trying to recover from a losing streak too.
Setting a strict and rigid time limit will go a long way in making sure you resist the grips of gambling addiction. You may not like it at the time, but honestly, it will go a long way in making sure you remain a responsible slot gambler.

Try and limit yourself to a few sessions a week at most
If you have a real passion for online slot gambling you are going to want to be doing it each and every day, but this really isn’t a healthy thing to do. In my prime, I wasn’t actually gambling on the slots every day, that came after I had made and lost my million and was trying to chase it back.

I wish I had limited myself to gambling once a week from the very start because if I had it would have been a lot easier to stop myself sliding into a daily habit. Everything in moderation, as they say, and the same goes for slot gambling.

Make sure you are engaging in other hobbies
Moreover, you cannot just let slot gambling take over your life as I did, you need to make sure you also have other hobbies, or else you will find yourself feeling inherently lost every time you are not gambling. The best way to do this is to try new things, and make sure you are doing things with friends such as playing a sport, going to the cinema, or making music.

I met many other gambling addicts during my time in recovery, and a recurring theme for all of us was the fact that we’d lost interest in anything else other than gambling. If you make sure you have other hobbies that you are passionate about this will not be a problem.

Do not choose slot gambling over family and friends
I hate to admit it, but when I was at my lowest point of slot gambling addiction I was regularly shunning the opportunity to see family and friends, something that eventually led most of them to effectively abandon them. And I don’t blame them either: there are only so many times you can try and help your friend or loved one before you get tired and leave them to it.

Family and friends are the most important thing in life, so you really cannot afford to lose them. Never, I repeat NEVER choose to gamble over family and friends; it simply is not worth it.

Know when to stop
Obviously, it is hard to know when to stop if you are deep in the throngs of gambling addiction, but it is something you should be able to recognize in yourself when the time demands it. I simply wish I listened to myself at the right time, if I did I might have refrained from becoming a full-blown addict.

 

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