Hi guys! Today, 7th December 2023 is the day I quit gambling for the foreseeable future. For context I'm 19M and in university, I've worked hard since 14 and I (had) saved alongside £7k from my family £36k at age 18. Due to my crippling gambling addiction, my savings now sit at £20k. Today I went with my 'last' 500 hoping to get lucky, long story short I lost 8 hands in a row and lost everything 💀 this reminded me that my financial situation is only statistically going to get deeper and deeper, and the smartest and most sustainable financial I can make is to stay away from gambling for years, or at least until my income permits a small amount of it. It's been full of many ups and downs, unfortunately I've never managed to win anything of considerable worth so far so I never had the opportunity to leave on evens, but l'd rather leave on a loss than with nothing. It hurts to have lost months and months of work to this industry, but people spend much more on much less. Thanks for reading guys this is just more of a personal testament to myself to not do this stupid stuff again and somewhere where you guys could discuss similar scenarios and hopefully ensure that you're gambling responsibly, if that really exists. Bless up bring on 2024 a year without the depressions of gambling. 🙏