I agree. why not share stores of the losses, the despair, the pain, the bills, family issues: no news reports on that. that is the real news! I found out a husband and wife team who gambled all the time, the husband was dying, went to casino, won 15,000.00 and gave it to his wife to redecorate their bedroom after he died. what do you think she is going to do with that money? he died this past Monday. I know from personal experience how grief can drive you out there. wow. thanks for sharing the story, lisa.......

Just think how many addicts lost a ton of money in order to pay that kind of bankroll out. The casino is probably using it as a marketing tool to hook more people! They don't give a rat's a$$ about us...they only care about the money. If I had enough guts I would go protest outside the casino doors to bring awareness to the pitfalls of gambling...they'd probably have me arrested huh? Can't be smearing the "entertainment" business....as close to legal thievery as you can get! GRRRR...

Sorry, Lisa, it's good to see you here...can you tell this is a sore subject for me?! LOL

Have a great, gamble-free day :D

Your friend in recovery,
Cathy

They dont care about the people who lose everything. Welcome to the corporate world of gambling. All they care about is their bottom line.
John
They spread their money only to entites that will market their business and they control those institutions they give their sponsorship. Therefore you will never hear a TV company who receives money from casino corporations tell any story about losses and if they do heads will roll.
It is a vicious spiral .
The only way to beat is stop giving them our money.
I would love a nationwide gambling free day for everyone.
MMM , I wonder.

Wow Lisa, That makes me really mad too! Predatory gambling is what it is and the media buys right in to it. They are probably sponsors of the news channel! I've been thinking lately about seeing if I could find a way to get a billboard put up around my town to help gamblers in this area. There has never been one and I think we need it here! So many people need help and everyone should be warned of how devastating this addiction is and how hard it is to quit once you are hooked!

my GA counselor said he was at the casino one evening putting flyers about his GA program on cars, and security came and told him he couldn't do that. it is private property. so he said he just left. they have had a few articles in the newspaper about GA counseling, but he still only has two clients for this free program. One other woman and myself. wow

That's a shame too. there a lot out there maybe to ashame to admit it.

the social stigma of gambling has not been breached yet.
People are too uncomfortable even telling their family and friends.

We have a long way to go but sites like this and enough people suffering will help to bring about reform.

Remember along these lines when you consent and buy lottery tickets and go to the church bingos.

All gambling not just the ones we don't FEEL we can win at !!!!

ps
stories like this one make people feel and think that they can be the next big winner,

well,

take for instance a progressive of simply $35,000.00
and it takes 3 quarters each pull and every fifth pull the
machine skips a penny "up" ................
well,
that machine has nowt taken in over $750,000.00 to get to
this point, sorry, forgot to mention the jackpots that may
have been hit during the years it took to get this high.
say, one or two thousand dollars here and there, mostly there.

We need to become real about what and how these people are
f ------ (funning) with our minds and how devious and deceitful this
gambling really is.

Don't be AFRAID people,
tell the world of addiction
and your stories and
what you've learned in the
hellhole of the gambling world.

There are not to many recreational gamblers
but a huge amount of addicted ones.

"stories like this one make people feel and think that they can be the next big winner,"

Exactly the reason for my most recent lapse after four long months of doing well. No excuse, I know, but it happened. An acquaintance told me about her recent big win. At first, it didn't seem to effect me but it must have planted a seed because I was right back at it after a few days. Then I told a friend (who also has a gambling problem) that I was gambling and she followed right in my footsteps. There is a hard lesson learned in there somewhere.

All they want to do by advertising the big wins is more customers, who will support their huge empires. It makes me SICK!!
Im not giving them anymore of my life. They've got all of my money they are gonna get. There's one c-----o around here that has a LONG ad on tv during the nightly news. I hope the reason for the commercials is because their business is down.
I would love to see them go belly up but I know that probably won't ever happen.
Hugs
Lisa

dear lisa,

yes, the adds are indicative of their struggles to maintain the status quo and fight for their share of the "gambling billions of the revenue pie".
I truly believe that they are starting to struggle with trying to compete with each other, to get new customers and to keep the ones they have.
Just make people aware of what they are doing and hopefully we can at least get them to stop building more and new c - - - - - s (money grubbing and life stealing pits that they are).

ps
that along with trying to get the true ferocity of this gambling addiction out in to the world so as to redefine the social stigma of gambling addiction
will take this disease a long way into the realm of understanding by the general population ultimately getting us the help we need and keeping the gambling venue in check.
yeah !!@!#4%#@244