I lost $220 two weeks ago playing casino poker. I felt so helpless sitting there waiting for my cards and they never came. Ended up going home despondent and broke.

I don't know how people can say poker is a game of skill when it's more like bingo.

I had a little relapse myself, squandering the little money I had left. I've read several times on this site that relapsing is part of the recovery process. For me, the relapse is seeming to build more determination. I'm incredibly frustrated and even more sick and tired of being sick and tired.

I am here as a last-ditch effort to save my family. I am the daughter of a gambling addict. I am turning 30 this year, and for most of my life I've seen my mother gamble. I can remember it being simple penny-ante poker, and two-dollar limits on the poker machines. She never really seemed to go beyond this until after my brother and I moved out of the house. This also seemed to fall at the same time as when PowerBall and scratch-offs became legal in my state. I don't know which was responsible for triggering it, but I know it was triggered and in a severe way.

I have been dealing with this addiction since last summer. The guy I was dating at the time lived out of town and so I kept my time occupied at the casino. I had just got done paying off all my minor debts including my car loan when I started gambling intensely. I went from debt free to not so debt free. I kept all of my losses hidden until the day I had to go to court over temporary custody of my child (which went in my favor). I told my mom about the debt I had racked up. My dad is a gambler as well so she knows what its like. Telling her took so much weight off my shoulders.

Hi, I lost myself again. I lost C$10,000 again. I can't believe my behavior and the amount. So I am feeling to kill myself. I can't breathe when I remind the amount and my action. I have attended twice the meeting for gambling problem by provincial government. It helped. But it didn't block up my mind to go casino. Dec. 27 and 28, I won $2400. And I started to lose money from Dec. 29. I think I have many problems in my personality. I just can't stop or give up. I was tracking and chasing the slot machine to to win against the machine and the casino.