Oh, did I say ban? I meant self-exclude. Easy mistake to make, right?

They are likely to calculate your average spend on gambling, so if you stop gambling long enough to develop a “cleaner” transaction history you can improve your chances of approval. Pay off debt. Your debt-to-income ratio is an important factor lenders look at when assessing your mortgage application. Understanding problem gambling can be very difficult, and it can take a lot of research, reading and conversations with counselors to accept that your gambling, or the gambling of someone you know, is the result of an addiction, just as people become addicted to things such as drugs and alcohol. You can't stop thinking about gambling and how you're going to get money for gambling; You bet more than you used to in order to get the same high; You try to stop gambling but just can't do it on your own; You feel restless and irritable when you aren't gambling; You gamble to escape problems.

You Can Your Own Way

Besides, there must be a zillion ways (give or take a quadbillion) to get banned from brick-and-mortar casinos.

Can U Stop Gambling On Your Own

Try clipping your toenails at the pai gow table or playing a trombone in the high-limit slots room. The possibilities are endless, and quite frankly, hilarious to consider, but let us return toour muttons…

By the way, this article is not about diagnosing you or anyone else with gambling addiction, unnatural gambling cravings, or the gambling that dare not speak its name.

First of all, I’m no expert on addiction, and second of all, who the heck do I think I am telling you what to do? Cyperspace has enough semi-professional phrenologists as it is.

Besides, just between you and me, you already know whether you have a gambling problem or not. If you do have one (or suspect you do), read on. I’ve got some info that can help you in the choicesyou’ll be making in your recovery process.

Why Cant I Stop Gambling

How Do I Quit Gambling

And if you don’t have a gambling problem, still — read on. It never hurts to know stuff, if for no other reason than the joy it brings to holding forth drunkenly at parties in a loud and somewhatthreatening manner. Or so I’ve been told.