I saw this post last week, and didn't even open it because I don't wanna talk about my mind lol.   When I first started at age 21, I got hooked hard and fast.  And I was lucky.  I became a tables junky, I loved to play blackjack, I once slept in my car outside an Indian casino that didn't have a hotel for a couple hours at a time, and gambled for days straight.  Actually I probably did that alot more than once.  I got 2 jobs then, both Mon-Friday, just so I would have a bigger bankroll for the weekend.  That's insanity.  I quickly ran into so many walls with the gambling (all land casinos) that luckily by the time I was 23 I was back on track working in an office, not gambling except maybe once every couple of months.  Then I would go at it again... I go in phases.  I am pretty good since having kids though, I don't mind risking my own security, but I would never risk theirs.  I would hate myself, my parents were gamblers who put their own needs ahead of my own- so I try NOT to emulate them.  It's alot easier nowadays also, since getting cancer lol, and I hate the local Indian casinos here.  Hate em.  I gotta make sure I don't let the online thing get control ...