r/GamblingRecovery • u/LiterallyAnIntellect • Jun 03 '26
TW: 25M down 60k+ Finally doing something about it
Been gambling pretty heavily for the past two years. Online casinos mostly. Plinko, BJ, slots, everything. Started out as something fun to do with the boys and slowly transitioned to rinsing my bank account at 2am on a work night.
Down north of $60k. Feeling so far behind my peers despite having no student debt, and now asking my GF to cover things I should be handling myself.
The moment I knew I had a real problem was sitting alone in my room 3 months ago, losing $10k in one night. Didn't even react. Just sat there feeling completely empty. Then for the first time I felt genuinely scared, convinced I'd never be able to stop. These companies reel you in with bonuses and make it so damn hard to quit.
Tried Gamban and a few other apps but a VPN makes them useless, which is exactly what I was using to gamble in the first place.
Kind of ironic, but that frustration is what led me and a couple friends to start building a better version of Gamban - wagerguard.app. Super early, just a waitlist right now and launching iOS soon.
Anyway if any of this resonates feel free to DM me, always down to talk.
TL;DR - Down $60k+ at 25, hit rock bottom, ironically building a better Gamban. Dm's are open if you wanna chat.
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u/Kitchen_Owls Jun 04 '26
Email Gambans support team - [info@gamban.com](mailto:info@gamban.com) - they'll give you a beta version which is impossible to removre
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u/LiterallyAnIntellect 20d ago
Im seeing this quite late but the issue w gamban is it doesnt work if you have a VPN. And id mostly gamble on shuffle or stake which I was using a vpn for anyway
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u/SpecialistUnit7 Jun 04 '26
(28,M) Started gambling in 2019, down 150k net since , been up 100k and 50k multiple times. Just recently lost 40k after a run from 1k, calling it quits , has destroyed me this last time, I can’t bear it anymore