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1 hour ago, Steejay said:

All this is really hard atm as I've 'lost' my son to gambling.

He doesn't speak to me as he says that I'm 'not there for him'.

What this really means is that I won't lend (give) him any more money to fund his gambling addiction.

If I give him any more money, in my eyes, I'm enabling his addiction but it's tough to handle as he's gonna be out on the streets because he's gambled his rent money on the footy, horses whatever.

I know that he's trying to make me feel guilty, the little sod, but until he's ready to quit voluntarily or via rehab, there's not a lot of hope for him.

It hurts me every time I see or hear a betting advertisement.

Sorry to hear that pal. Shame him a bit as asking your parents for money if you are over 12 is a tad embarrassing or should be 

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2 hours ago, Steejay said:

All this is really hard atm as I've 'lost' my son to gambling.

He doesn't speak to me as he says that I'm 'not there for him'.

What this really means is that I won't lend (give) him any more money to fund his gambling addiction.

If I give him any more money, in my eyes, I'm enabling his addiction but it's tough to handle as he's gonna be out on the streets because he's gambled his rent money on the footy, horses whatever.

I know that he's trying to make me feel guilty, the little sod, but until he's ready to quit voluntarily or via rehab, there's not a lot of hope for him.

It hurts me every time I see or hear a betting advertisement.

Got a couple of contacts to help if he needs it pal

51 minutes ago, tomski said:

Different spending it on something in my opinion 

Oh absolutely 

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3 hours ago, Steejay said:

All this is really hard atm as I've 'lost' my son to gambling.

He doesn't speak to me as he says that I'm 'not there for him'.

What this really means is that I won't lend (give) him any more money to fund his gambling addiction.

If I give him any more money, in my eyes, I'm enabling his addiction but it's tough to handle as he's gonna be out on the streets because he's gambled his rent money on the footy, horses whatever.

I know that he's trying to make me feel guilty, the little sod, but until he's ready to quit voluntarily or via rehab, there's not a lot of hope for him.

It hurts me every time I see or hear a betting advertisement.

Feel for you there.

Must be a terrible place to be.

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1 hour ago, Rudy said:

Got a couple of contacts to help if he needs it pal

Oh absolutely 

Thanks for that, pal.

He’s actually had a place on a rehab course then pulled out at the last minute.

Proper frustrating.

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I made about £18k doing matched betting over 2 years. In my spare time. As Traf said it needs discipline. 

Since I had my second kid my free time disappeared and the offers dried up anyway so matched betting got binned. 

Still have the occasional bet but eye opening during lockdown one, the only sports you could bet on was table tennis or Belarusian super league. Who the fuck was betting then? 

 

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3 minutes ago, Traf said:

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If he lost money sports betting in lockdown one hes got big big issues. 

Unless he was on slots / casino I suppose. Very easy to spunk thousands in minutes when you can do £200 spins on the slots. 

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54 minutes ago, stevieb said:

If he lost money sports betting in lockdown one hes got big big issues. 

Unless he was on slots / casino I suppose. Very easy to spunk thousands in minutes when you can do £200 spins on the slots. 

I know the goal is to win money but if I were to have a bet I’d like to bet on something I had an interest in and ideally watch

My mate could and would bet on the Peruvian conference league 

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50 minutes ago, Rudy said:

I know the goal is to win money but if I were to have a bet I’d like to bet on something I had an interest in and ideally watch

My mate could and would bet on the Peruvian conference league 

My brothers had 10 fold accas in the Syrian lesbian 2nd division reserves league. 

 

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12 hours ago, Steejay said:

All this is really hard atm as I've 'lost' my son to gambling.

He doesn't speak to me as he says that I'm 'not there for him'.

What this really means is that I won't lend (give) him any more money to fund his gambling addiction.

If I give him any more money, in my eyes, I'm enabling his addiction but it's tough to handle as he's gonna be out on the streets because he's gambled his rent money on the footy, horses whatever.

I know that he's trying to make me feel guilty, the little sod, but until he's ready to quit voluntarily or via rehab, there's not a lot of hope for him.

It hurts me every time I see or hear a betting advertisement.

Best of luck in getting him off it mate. I saw some report the other day that there are 333,000 gambling addicts in the UK.

Never affected me that way - I don't find it difficult to leave it alone for a few months at a time.

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On 12/10/2021 at 12:24, Steejay said:

All this is really hard atm as I've 'lost' my son to gambling.

He doesn't speak to me as he says that I'm 'not there for him'.

What this really means is that I won't lend (give) him any more money to fund his gambling addiction.

If I give him any more money, in my eyes, I'm enabling his addiction but it's tough to handle as he's gonna be out on the streets because he's gambled his rent money on the footy, horses whatever.

I know that he's trying to make me feel guilty, the little sod, but until he's ready to quit voluntarily or via rehab, there's not a lot of hope for him.

It hurts me every time I see or hear a betting advertisement.

I went through a bad stage of, betting ridiculous amounts on anything I could. I tried to go down the route Traf did but like he said you can’t become emotionally involved which I did. Betting on the Indian Navy v the Indian Army at stupid o clock in the morning was one of my strangest bets! 
 

Anyway I digress, a good mate of mine, Mark murray is doing great things with an outfit called Whys Up, if you drop him a line/e mail he will give you some advice and hopefully he can speak to your lad as well. He helped me out a lot. 
 

https://www.whysup.co.uk/

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