How online poker ruined my life. (Serious post)

[Scott Davis]

Mods, if I am posting this in the wrong forum feel free to move/delete it. This is a serious post, and I am honestly not a troll. I know I will get made fun of and flamed but if I can help save one person from making the same mistakes that I did, than this post was worth it. Now, onto the story.

Hello, my name is Scott. I am from Houston TX. Everything was fine up until the summer of 2005. I had never been in a casino, never even played poker before. One day I was flipping through the channels and saw a poker show on TV. During the program, a commercial for an online poker site came on. I decided to check it out. After a while at the play money site, i soon switched to the real money site. I set up NETeller and was ready to play. OK, I made a $50 deposit, lost it quickly, another $50, lost it again. I only had about $200 in my checking account mind you. I then withdrew the remaining $100 and built that up to around $500! I was stoked! I got cocky and moved up to 10-20. Not only did I lose it, but I lost it fast. Well, that was it, I had no more money in my account so I was done gambling for the day, right? Wrong... Little did I know NETeller (and every other similar site) GIVES you credit! They give you money in advance to gamble with! I had $550.00 available so I took it, and I ran that up to 1K playing that blackjack game that the poker site had! Then, I lost it all playing that blackjack game... Well, I didnt play for about 4 months. I paid back NETeller (My bank wouldn't pay them) and everything was fine, until I got the gambling bug again. OK, what I did was in addition to NETeller, I set up Firepay, Central Coin, Click2pay, and about four of the other smaller ones... I built up my credit with all these companies to where I had about $750.00 in credit with them. Well, one major poker site does NOT have a limit to which you can deposit, so I made a $750.00 deposit from 8 different companies into one large poker site. I had $6,000 sitting there in front of me! Time to play 30-60 and some major blackjack! I will spare you the details, but I lost it all in about 3 hours. All of it. Now my credit it shot, my life is ruined, and I cant even open up a bank account anywhere in TX. The moral of the story is, dont gamble (yes poker is gambling) on credit. It is the worst thing you can do. Please PM me if you need help or are in a similar situation. Thank you for taking the time to read my story. Goodbye.

Scott

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Edit/MH: OP has been banned for making troll posts. Thread locked.