Secret Strategies on How To Stop Gambling

Are you familiar with this scenario?

You joined your friends and went to the local casino for a good time before heading back for dinner with your wife and kids. Well, you said to yourself, "I'm just accompanying these guys and will probably put a bet or two for fun, nothing important." Then, you ended up losing half of your salary and in your mind, you can get all that back in the next bet, which will never turn out your way. Forgetting your wife and kids waiting at home. If so, you have gambling addiction and do not know how to stop gambling.

We all know that gambling is a serious problem and it does bear its fangs on someone who did not realize that. No doubt there are times when gambling creates a fun and exciting experience from the welcomed adrenaline rush similar to skiing fanatics going downhill at 80 mph.

We all love that feeling, but with gambling, the percentage of you going over the limit is way higher than other type of games. Problem gamblers do not know how to stop gambling and fully engaged in it. Once you crossed the line, there is no turning back for most cases. This is the statistic, up to 5% of social gamblers, are problem gamblers or addicts. In other words, out of 20 people, one person has gambling addiction, which is a concern that we could not look away.

How many times have we heard stories or even knew of such people who lost it all in gambling? Tonnes. Believe or not, this type of problem brings out the bad in people. Many cases of domestic violence, thefts, robbery and more, stemmed from problem gambling that went out of hand or mind in this case.

In recent years, with better access to the internet and online entertainment, betting or gambling online has been just a click away from anywhere and anytime of the day. Just like normal people sharing their day on Facebook, these addicts are just throwing away money while in broad daylight and the boss is just next door.

But all hope is not lost just yet, better treatments and techniques have surfaced thanks to ongoing research and studies. Plenty of effective treatments and techniques have helped people on how to stop gambling and reduce or even totally stop any relapse situation.

These includes:

1) Limiting the cash you carry. People are more prone to gambling when money is easily available.

2) Distracting yourself by doing something else.

3) Think of your loved ones.

4) Reach for support from local group or community. These helps as you can share your feelings and not hold it in.

Just believe in yourself and follow the treatment or techniques all the way through. You'll be able to renew your life today, if you want it to be.

Douglas C.

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The Real Secret to Profitable Gambling

There is one thing and one thing only that will take any gambler from constantly losing to any hope of making a profit. It's not lady luck; it's not any magic trick, and it's not a mystical ritual.

Gambling has been around in various forms for hundreds of years and is an enormous source of revenue for a multitude of casinos, government agencies, bars, clubs and other organizations. The reason that these organizations make such a lucrative income is not so much the huge numbers of people gambling as it is the high percentage of these people who fail to learn the one secret they need to know to have any chance of making a profit at all.

The usual gambling approach goes something like this: You go to the race track and overhear a stranger telling a friend that a particular horse is ready to win so you put ten bucks on it. Result - the horse loses. Or you go to the casino and put fifty bucks into a slot machine because you believe it is your "lucky" machine. Result - you walk out fifty bucks lighter if you're lucky. In most cases you'll have blown even more because you have the extra cost of drinks, and you may have been so caught-up in your attempts to win that you actually put more like sixty or seventy bucks into the slot machine.

So what is the secret that you need to change your gambling situation? The secret is this, "Education". While ever there are people who make no attempt to educate themselves to a point where they can make informed choices then the casinos and bookmakers will always make very lucrative profits from the suckers who walk through their doors day and night.

As an example, let's say we play heads-or-tails with a coin and I offer to pay you $1.80 per dollar bet every-time you pick the correct outcome. A typical gambler might think that's pretty good and try to pick more winning picks than they lose in the mistaken belief that they can make a profit. An educated gambler on the other hand would see the truth, which is that the odds of picking any one outcome here is 50/50; so over one hundred spins on average you would win fifty times. The reality is that with a 50/50 game if you outlay one hundred dollars and win fifty of those at $1.80 your total return is $90 or a loss of 10%.

The above situation is not uncommon in many casino games. Slots for instance has a house advantage of up to twenty percent (meaning that the casino always makes up to a twenty percent profit on all money that is put through the slot machine), and yet gamblers continue to throw their money into the slots despite the fact that the longer they play the more they'll lose.

To improve your overall chances of coming out in-front when gambling start with a few of these tips:

Play games where you either have an edge or the house edge is very low, and
Games where you have some choices over the outcome (for example with slots you have no influence as the machine is programmed).
Learn to spot the games where the house has a large edge and stay away from them.
Never gamble on the basis of a tip, lucky number, favorite color etc.
And finally, never gamble with money you can't afford to lose.

Note - If your gambling has reached a point where it is an addiction then stop and get help. You will find many sources of help by searching for the term "problem gambling" on the internet.

Successful stock market investors never buy stocks based on a tip or because they like the name of a particular company, otherwise they would go broke very quickly. They learn all they can and make informed decisions when choosing what to invest in. Stop gambling now until you educate yourself enough to make gambling choices that are likely to return a profit, rather than lining the pockets of the casinos.

Copyright © 2006 Colin L Wolfenden

Colin L Wolfenden is a webmaster and author on a wide variety of subjects. For additional gambling knowledge, download the Free "Gambling Profits" ebook from [http://www.impressiveebooks.com/gbleb/]