addiction of poker

[the brain001]

you read this and you see how people in France are thinking of pokWe are sick.
"It must accept it!" As Antoine (first name, as well as other listed players has been changed), 33 years, they are a few to meet weekly at the rear a chic bar of the 16th arrondissement of Paris. Thing in common: they are "compulsive", addicts players at the casino, Poker, scratching games or sports betting, a monopoly of the French games and the PMU.


The facts

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Saturday, August 29 begins at Paris, Poker Tour 2009 France, around thirteen cities until the end of the year. Olivier, players are "immature people who think you can make a living without effort". But soon the money problem. All admit having lost up to several thousand euros in the same day. Once the feeling of guilt passed the player has no as a goal: find money for "rebuild". Sources of supply empty soon. Banks, credit, friends, family organizations: everything goes.
"The image of a drug addict for his dose, it is ready to all or almost to get the cash." "We are a very strong, capable of influencing anyone persuasive force", reflects Constance, some 40 years, who has lost the equivalent of five years pay in three months at the casino business leader.
Unlike the crook, compulsive players is, most of the time, in good faith when it asks for money, convinced to regain enough to repay. But there is a golden rule: "money game remains the game." It is inconceivable for them to use for anything other than the bet. Gain bait is stronger than anything. "Money is only a means to satisfy this need, not an end", supports Olivier.
Many regard as a nuisance to their surroundings. "I have stripped all my friends and even my little sister, on which I had a psychological ascendancy", confesses Constance. For families, the situation is difficult to manage. Unlike alcohol or drugs, gambling addiction leaves no physical séquelle.
Nicolas is addicted for nineteen years to the PMU. He met his wife in 1997, but admitted it its dependency three months ago. "It was a shock for it." "This is as if I had wrong during that time", it reflects.
François, turn, is married to an insatiable players who had stopped for fourteen years. After its relapse, he decided to open a cell in Gam-Anon in France, an association of mutual assistance to the families of players born in the United States as Gamblers Anonymous. Similarly I have with my wife when she had cancer, I try to support it in its fight against addiction, tells François." I had by all stages, starting with depression. I brûlais clothes when she découchait to go to the casino. "Without effect." Seeing his wife in "a State of unbearable deterioration", it recognizes used violence, "always without result". He even contemplated suicide, and then kill her, thinking "that once dead, the problems is arrêteraient".
Since then, François filed weapons: "event that happens, it is more my problem." "I like my wife, but I will not do more nothing to prevent it to assume the consequences of his acts, even if this were the lead in prison." François established for years to realize that his wife could never cure permanently. "Ask a compulsive player to stop play is as effective to ask a cancer to be.

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[frob23]

My step-brother is a compulsive gambler. To the point where he had to ask Absolute Poker to no longer allow him to play on their blackjack tables. He knows it is a losing game, even if played correctly, but he still can't help himself and will take his entire bankroll on there in the hopes of doubling up quickly.

I make the mistake of lending him cash online once in a while. It is something I really need to stop. Right now he's got $55 from me. He tries to pretend he earns the money he sends back to me... but I know he puts it online and doesn't win it.

I don't know what I am going to do with him.

[frob23]

For those that remember, a while ago, I said I wasn't going to loan him money again... yeah, I fell off that wagon. And I think I have sent him almost $400... he's never had more than $55 at a time... so he'll borrow $10... send back $10... borrow $10... send it back... etc... and I count that as sending him $20. It adds up.

And it's really got me stressed out and is the primary reason I can only play 2NL at Absolute... because he has most of my bankroll all the time.

[liladypokerpro]

mannnnn yeah I remember Frob... that's crazy that he's gotten that bad.

[ballboy75]

Frob, why keep sending him money then?? try talking to him.
i dont want to sound judgemental or anything but if he has a gambling problem, maybe you want to seek some help for him. ive had drinking problems in my family, drugs as well.
ive noticed that the longer these things go unchecked, the more damge they inflict.
i just want to give you a pat on the back for posting this here, im sure its not hard your situation. bringing it up in public takes courage.

[frob23]

He's got to pay me back what he owes before he gets anything else at this point. As for cutting him off completely, that is something that I still need to consider before I do it.

[ballboy75]

you say he needs to pay you back before he gets anymore. does he?
is a good enough player to profit from your loans and pay you back?
it sounds like when he does, he immediatly goes up the stakes and loses again.
where does he play? perhaps you could keep on eye on him from time to time, make sure he doesnt do any nonsense.

[frob23]

He does pay me back. He isn't good enough to profit from the loans... although once in a while he will have a rush and will pay me back out of those winnings before he loses them all. When he loses the money online, he eventually adds more to his account.

He plays on Absolute... I do watch him once in a while. But not too often. I don't like to babysit.

[ballboy75]

i dont play on Absolute. well, it sounds like the situation could be far worse from what i understand. as long as hes not up to any alcohol or drugs, your doing well.
better this addiction than a life threatning one. is he up or down over all? how much?