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Are you a gambler's addict?




Get up early and stay at work, then repeat it until the weekend. It doesn't sound nice, isn't it? Industrial age invented work time 8 hours, and when the alarm clock rings, this sound is worse than any bad songs you listened to during your life. So, thoughts about easy money are present in your mind, you would sell the soul to the devil just to stay in bed. That is how the average person lives, work for money. 
One day I was walking in the street and two pretty girls gave me free tickets for the casino. It was a promo ticket and I went there to taste luck. I did not win, but they wake up my curiosity so next time I came with my money and won. During seven years I was winning and losing, depends on luck. I don't have debts but I heard about people with bad destiny, who get into trouble because of pathological gambling. I heard about a neighbor who lost flat because he had no money to return. I heard about a man who spent social recompense for his children, all on the poker table. I heard about another man, who never came back to his country because somewhere overseas he lost huge money in the casino.



Why are people attracted to gambling?

Escape from routine. 

When you spent all day in the office to earn 30 EURO daily, your insight is focused on a machine that can bring you the jackpot. Sit half an hour and you might earn more money than a whole month. The same, you can lose your salary for half an hour. This is a risk and if you feel your heart is beating, you are addicted.

Possibility to meet interesting people.

For sure, in a casino is always something happening. You can meet even celebrities. You can get advice on how to gamble. Also, you can share experiences.

Tournaments.

Many casinos have organized tournaments with rewards for the most successful players.

Last time you won.

That is how the story starts. You won when you were there and now you want to win again. Or, someone else won and you are hoping that is your turn.

Last time you lose.

If you lost money, you wish to get it back. And how you will return the money if you don't play again?

You are depressed or sad.

This game will raise your blood pressure. If you get money, you might forget the reason why you are sad. Alert, if you lose money, you will get out from there with more anger than you get in.


No matter do you play on slot machines, roulette or poker, your intentions are to get money. It means you are playing. There is also another kind of people, observers. These are the worst. I remember a woman who sits next to me, with a cigarette in her mouth and tried to talk while I was gambling. She was not there to join, she wanted to see how others lose money and to disturb. So I said to her to go to the coffee bar for a chat. 



You will easily recognize players who are not only observers. 

They never talk to you. They are focused on their game.

They play sometimes on a few machines. The automatic button is turned on, so they wish to increase their odds to win more money.

Sometimes they are swearing, it means they are losing. 

They knock on the machine, for luck. They play with the smallest coins, just to be there. It means they already lost much.

If you see someone who is bragging about a big amount of money, be sure that he lost a lot before. That is the darkness of gambling, you will lose much money before you win. You will win and then it will not be enough, so you will play and then lost. Once, when debt is here, you will start to make plan B. Maybe you did not eat because you need money for gambling? You did not go to the hairdresser because this time you feel lucky?

Gambling is one of the sins. If you are minor, gambling is forbidden to you and the owner of the casino will pay big money if minors are gambling there. 

Even this addiction is invisible, gambling is a red apple with a worm inside. When you drink, you feel dizziness. If you smoke, you will start coughing. If you eat too much, you will feel sick. Well, when you are gambling, there are no signs of alert, just your empty wallet. Then you will start to ask people to lend you money. Then you will sell some jewelry because you need money for one more time. 

Gerard Piquet, a famous Spanish footballer has a habit to gamble. If he loses money, he will not feel sad, because he has more than enough. When an ordinary person loses money, trouble is here. Everywhere in a casino are warnings about the influence of gambling. 

Gambling is somewhere between hell and paradise. Losers are in hell and winners in paradise. If you once won and then lose, you are in purgatory. You will for sure back again in the game. 

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