Hi
First of all, I have been struggling with gambling addiction for about 10 years.
- First I only started to play on Swedish Casinos.
- I didn't play for much. $10 here and there, but eventually, I played often.
- I ALWAYS closed my account after I lost, but I always managed to find new casinos.
- After some years, I told my girlfriend, and I stopped playing for some months.
- I started to play again.
- After some months, I told my girlfriend again, she threatened to leave me and take the children with her if I didn't stop.
- I stopped playing for almost a year.
- Sweden implemented the gambling regulation tools which allows you to stop playing on all swedish casinos.
- I was gambling free for another year.
- I started to look for unlicensed casinos. I started to play again.
- I kept the secret from my girlfriend because of fear of the consequenses.
- I repeatadly did the same thing for the next years.
- Open account
- Depoit one or a couple of times
- Lost everything
- Close the account
- Waiting 1 to 5 days, found another casino
- Repeat.
- I installed Gamban which helped me prevent me playing from my phone or computer. The addiction continued from work, but I didn't work everyday so sometimes it could be several days between.
- I found VPN apps to bypass gamban
- I found tools to bypass gamban on my computer.
- Again, I ALWAYS close my account because of gambling addiction after I have lost.
- But new casinos are added almost daily
- I ask to reopen my accounts again which some casinos agree upon.
- I play on sister-sites, and all casinos say the same thing "They act independently from their sister sites.
I use Casino.guru and Askgamblers to find new casinos. I also simply google on unlicensed casinos and sometimes find one or two new.
I have self-excluded me from 90% of all casinos. Thankfully I do avoid those with low rating.
Everytime I find a new casino I spend between $25 to $200 before I close it.
I have tried to contact the curacao licens holder with email to blacklist me from ALL Curacao licensed casinos with no success.
I have tried to get Gamban to fix/block/ban the tool that lets me play on my computer.
I am following the GSES and sincerly hope I will hear some good news soon.
I have tried to contact my bank to block gambling sites and payment providers, but they can't keep up either.
I have been on therapy once during the time I told my girlfriend, but not since after that.
I STILL hope I can just get my head together and stop gambling out of sheer will, I am positive because it happened ONCE and I was free for 5 months.
