yes of course alcohol is a trigger, you could maybe only drink when you're in a safe distance from casino, i have fallen and gotten up so many times i cant even count anymore, i'm not sure how long you stayed away, no matter what it is, there will always be triggers, so even if you remove A you may now have B talking you into it, i know it sucks but by sunday, you're mind will be ok and you'll feel better, and then you have to decided whether you want to ruin that again, thats what stops me, the money losing hurts me, but my own ability to take control of my life is faltered, and that makes me feel bad, but then i bounce back and try again, what choice do we have?

First thing to go when drinking is judgement. This occurs in 2-3 drinks. Gee $750 - Even if you had 7 drinks (quite a lot) that's over $100 per drink. Additionally gambling floods your brain with dopamine which also impairs judgement. You need to get 90-120 of abstinence to get your dopamine and serotonin levels back to normal.
This is part of why it is so HARD to cease gambling - it is very much like a drug addiction - only difference being it is drug you manufacture in your own body.
Maybe try to do your drinking at home.
Maybe you have more than one issue that you are powerless to stop.
Everyone is different - you know more than anyone else if you need to stop drinking or change the way or the place you drink to curtail your gambling.
If you really want to stop these self destructive behaviors you have to be willing to WORK at changing your beliefs and replacing these behaviors with more positive and self improving behaviors.
What I don't understand that if you are working at not gambling why are you praising yourself for doing so well last weekend spending $250.
I believe you are secretly telling yourself that you can control this addiction and be a social gambler again. That may be a fantasy - it was for me. In fact my first two attempts at treatment for problem gambling were only half heart-ed on my part, wanting the counselor to use the "magic wand" method to make me a social gambler again. That is why it has taken me 20 years of increasing problem gambling, $30K in debt and eventually a felony to obtain more money to gamble with before I was sick and tired of being in the gambling vicious circle.
I hope you find some way to cease abusing yourself and join the world again.

i dont think they were praising on the 250.00

oops so sorry about mis-reading that ali.

I think most of us (if not all) can say: 'I did it again!' I slipped many, many times over the years in my attempts to stop gambling. each of us has to get to the point where we say: enough! I said it last year, right around this time. I did have over 120 days clean, and slipped again towards the end of June last year. I surprised myself!

what I'm trying to say is we may take a step backward, but the important thing is to start moving forward into recovery again, as soon as possible.
While walking, any of us can stumble over something and fall, the difference is: do we get up? can we get back up? do we have to call for help? it's not the fall that gets us: it's the results of the fall.......
my heart goes out to you, and others struggling. at least here, you are among people who care, and who understand.
what are your plans to not gamble again?