JayD

If you need to recoup your losses then you know where i am.

Lol quality topic and i know exactly how it is. Down my local arcade / bowling there will always be a group of cavs down there about 12-15 and they will always stand and watch, they are well past the days of trying to give advice but still pisses me off when they stand there watching, also makes me want to put more in + win more. I no longer gamble down my local as it is always the same situation and the machines are just dead. Before when i've been playing there i have literally turnt around and just said "f*** off i know what i'm doing" and they always seem to get the message. It aint nice being watched and i now gamble only in places which are not crowded with chavs.

Right, so it saves them in the file then it's not possible to open them due to a codec required or w.e, anything to get around this?

Cheers for the replies, have changed my forum user name btw it is Dan. Again thanks for the good advice, at the moment i am thinking that buying a machine for home would be a great option and am strongly considering it. Today i lost another small amount and i think i shall now be setting up that monthly limit. The only problem is i have allot of time where i have nothing to do, i don't go out of my way to go to the arcade , it's there , it's something to do and i enjoy it. The three options of which you gave are definitely good ones, it's not realistic to give up completely so i will definitely now be cutting down and setting a budget. I Shall let you know what my plan of action is from tomorrow when i get paid £100, i think i shall be setting a weekly limit of say £5-10 from now , we'll see i help.. Thanks again for the advice.

Edit : Hmm, i think it's actually allot easier if i just do not gamble at all , or never go into arcades alone.. when i'm with mates i'm alot more sensible as to how i gamble. I'm dead set on creating my own arcade, that would truly cure the problem.. maybe one day. Would like to get a job working with them or something maybe, god knows.

So then my Buddy Mr.Bar has decided it's time to pack it in and quit losing on these painful machines. And my first post on the forum will be on this subject.

My reason for gambling , is because as a young person.. there is nothing to do for fun, i find fruit machines fun , i have never played them for financial gain, i just purely enjoy playing the machines and the feeling of winning (not because it is money). As somebody else in this thread said, my friends live far away and I'm limited to what i can do around the area. I have had some amazing wins gambling , but the worst feeling ever is the sickening loses .. I could try to say i'll give up but i know i won't...

this week i am most likely in the region of £50 odd down, only now you start to think what else you could have done with that money. I am still young and have money to play these machines but when you think about it , it is very wasteful. I have the same problem as Mr.Bar stated, you can win out of a machine (vortex. ccp etc.) put another quid in, its gone.. and you play for that board again, and with Reds and in fact alot of other machines , you end up losing everything.

Gambling can be fun , and i have fun gambling but it really is just a case of when to stop.. if i don't give up now there are definitely going to be some very very strict rules as to how i play. I can be very careless when it comes to playing machines and i don't think at all and end up losing a fair bit.

I am 16 years old and i have had times where i have lost over £100 in a day, how messed up is that, I know i only have myself to blame but seriously, some of these machines are completely ridiculous. I am not too sure at the moment as to whether i should give up or not, i have come to terms that it infact is an addiction, no matter how much i win or loose its still an addiction, you can either try and stop it or just cut down. For the amount of which i do gamble, it would not be possible to just stop. I gamble with the fruties to kill time, i have been £150 in my local arcade after 10 minutes.. but as i still had time to kill, i lost more than half of it .. i was still up , but sickened at how i lost alot of it. I hope i can post a fair bit on this site, have been on here for a while now. I am not giving up like John , but i shall certainly be CONTROLLING how much i gamble. I now have an excel spreadsheet of my monthly cash intake and a percentage of which to gamble. Also another think which i shall no longer do is take my bank card with me when gambling. I don't mind losing the odd £20 every month or so , but £60+ a month is bad, and i know that is what it will come too eventually. I'm getting older now, and theres better things to spend my money on. All Respect to you CrazyBar , good luck :]