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So, here's the deal. I've been into crypto gambling, and I've realized that, despite my best intentions, it's a bit tough to control the urge. I've tried the self-exclusion route in the past, but it seems some crypto casinos still find a way to let me back in.

I know I've got an issue, and I've accepted that. Now, my goal is to manage it better and avoid any unnecessary damage to my finances.

I'm curious if any of you have faced a similar situation and if there are tools or methods you've found effective in controlling crypto gambling. It feels like most platforms lack daily limits or deposit controls, making it a bit challenging to stay on track.

Would really appreciate any advice or recommendations from those who've been through something similar.

Don't expect anybody to help you control what you have been the cause and reason for, gambling is what we should do with all caution, but unfortunately some take it to the extreme, some of the ways to deal with this is by getting yourself busy in doing other things that could take your time, avoid having money on your casino wallet, change your environment and lastly, try to moderately gamble.

The good thing is that you acknowledge that you got a problem and the urge point to a deep level of addiction.Unfortunately in this case you don't really wanna be excluded as some casinos offer self exclusion up to 1 year which is quite a long time to recover yourself.Tools to stop you from accessing your favorite casinos need to be installed by someone else in your computer as there is no point you for example installing Netnanny which would block type of websites you tell it to stop.The bottom line is that you need professional help,since you already acknowledge you have problems telling your closest family member can help you go to some rehab center and in there usually people who want to quit gambling achieve it.

My man, in the end casinos won't completely exclude you from depositing and permanently ban your from the platforms, we all know that they benefit from the volume of users, so the more users, the better for them.
If you want my personal opinion, the best thing you can do right know to help yourself to control the urge is to talk about it with your family and friends, people you can trust, so you can get support and help from them, if you keep your problems a secret you are more likely to relapse and even sign up on other online casinos to continue gambling.

Another advice I could give you: Try to reduce your liquidity so it would be more difficult for you to gamble, for example, if you have an account in some exchange, try to keep your satoshis in a locked savings plan of 3-6 months. You can also convert your cash into precious metals and store them by your own. The point of it is to increase the steps you would need to fund your casino accounts.

I hope any of the things I said helps your with your personal and spiritual struggle.
Good luck ❤️

Yes, it's going to be a challenge to stop our crypto gambling, and I don't know if there are tools to really help us. So the best thing is to really take control of ourselves not to gamble, simple as that. So it has to start from the gamblers themselves, so why not discover new activities to make your self physically and mentally busy so that you won't think of gambling?

Or just enjoy you life mate, have your love ones always beside you and let them be the motivation for you to not gamble at all. Let to prioritized thing in your life, or maybe a yoga class will help you channel your energy and totally forget about gambling.

There is no solution, there are no gambling tools that can effectively control your urge to gamble, one casino can restrict you from gambling based on the setup you do but there are other casinos as well to play and these casino tools prevent you from gambling is not effective.

The solution comes from within, not from these tools if you want to play you can find a way to play, controlling your urge is the most effective, I have seen gamblers blaming the casinos because their self-exclusion took too long to affect or sometimes not working so they keep blaming the casinos when in fact it's the gambler's behavior is the culprit.

You can find a good anti-gambling tool in one casino but there are big numbers of casinos that you can play to release the urge and you will find it hard to resist playing.

The fact that you were able to post that concern of yours here...
The fact that you understood what going on to yourself...
The fact that you were able to understand that you have an issue with gambling...
The fact that you accept there's something wrong...
And lastly, the fact that you set a goal to manage a better self...

You don't need any tools. You can't say what I've mentioned if you are dealing with difficulty managing your gambling problems.

The only thing you need is to continue dedicating to yourself that you will control yourself and be responsible as much as you can.

You need discipline instead of tools.

Take a look at yourself and just find some ways to distract yourself from gambling so that it will help you to have your own manual method of self excluding yourself from them.

And if it doesn't works, try to disable the casino websites on your devices but I guess that won't do the help because you might just able it again when you feel the urge that you want to gamble.

Trick yourself by doing something else and hobbies that you haven't done before.

There's no tool that you would really be needing but only "SELF WILL".

Dont expect for those self exclusions
Limited deposits (Cant really happen)
Doesnt block ads(Then you would really be that be ending up on playing again)

Make yourself that distracted with other activities and having a break on watching into your phone or something that really correlates with
gambling because if you do keep on connecting or engaging on something that connects with gambling then there's no way that you could be able to quit.
It all matters on your own self will and control because if you are really  that serious on quitting then you could quit.
It is really just that it will be basing up on how serious you are on quitting because if not then you would really be just keep coming back.

You can block sites and types of sites on multiple levels.   The router and ISP can block sites, you can operate a pi running a block also and then the pc itself can be used to block sites.
  All of that is for casual use, maybe adverts perhaps though most places do classify gambling as an adult type advert and you should be able to opt out of receiving.  That'd leave junk mail, filter using gmail and there are professional filter services possible.  Ultimately for the larger objective it would be mostly down to yourself and any real world help you can get is probably a good idea to remove the underlying reasons for gambling when you dont even really want to at this point.
   Addiction therapy is well recognized as a professional service, my take is that you need to actively move in a different direction. Literally go for a serious hike to wear yourself out etc. work more hours might even be useful to reacquire some of the money lost, set yourself objectives in those positive tasks.

The first advice is for you to come to full term on what and how you want to spend your time and resources while gambling and also you need to make up your mind to quit if you have truly seen that your gambling escapades are beginning to affect your well being because of it gives you unrest then you should probably an oid it in totality.

So trying to quit is not good enough,  because at some point you have to come to terms and make up your mind to walk away regardless of what may come along to try to still keep you hucked.

What is the problem exactly? You have bad self-control in gambling or you can't leave gambling?
If the problem is about self-control, it is actually related to your personal characteristics or you nature. If you are still not mature enough, it is difficult to have a good self-control. Moreover, if you have lack knowledge about gambling, it makes the situation be worse. In addition, you probably have too high expectation for your gambling habit.

If you don't want to ruin your financial, you are better to limit your money allocation for gambling. You also need to exercise yourself, know how to control your desire effectively. Another important thing, you need to learn deeply about gambling and its nature. So, you can understand how to view it in the right way.

he should stick to his budget and call it a day if he rekt it early. if you have no self-control, better pause your gambling activities and contemplate on yourself. assess your situation and know the reason why you can't control whenever you are in front of your games. also, address the reason why you seem to be hooked in gambling. maybe, it is the reason why you won't get out of your situation even if your financials are not that enough.

The gambling will allow you to win and loss in the consecutive way,but you should manage your emotion in the game.The gambling had both the win and loss,So once you win the game.It’s better to wait for the next game,mean while you need to do the gambling withdraw of the funds in the gambling.So you can enjoy some how in the money from the winning.Then back to the gambling with fresh mindset.In order to quit the gambling,the gambler should do the engage of their time in the others sources.So he not think about the gambling at the play time of the gambling.This is the temporary solution for the gambling addiction.

There is so many anti-gambling to S I was there to take care of the gambling addiction. Personally I think the best anti-gambling to his self discipline. Like they said discipline yourself to do what you said you will do and what you said you will not do don't do it. You can use a simple pen and the piece of paper almost pass to track your habit of visiting the internet to gamble. You may even go the extreme by staying away from your phone since it is a trigger for some time.

Well, there's no tool for this concern, Only self-discipline and limitations. You are aware of what you've dealing with, it's better to stick to your goals of managing your finances. One thing to prevent you from gambling is to lessen your screen time since as you have said it's all online or Do some outdoor activities that will help you to distract yourself from gambling.

first of all, if you really want to quit and avoid gambling, learn to commit and strengthen your desire to stop gambling by forcing yourself to only do it a few times a week or month. If you have started learning little by little, you can try to exclude yourself by stopping holding your phone and accessing the internet and then trying to find other activities to divert your mind.
after that, you continue to be committed with the aim of continuing to find something busy without having to sit around thinking about gambling and only this method can help you because it is useless if there is an anti-gambling tool but your desire is still not committed, which means it will be in vain.

it all starts from you yourself to want to be healthier and that the best way for me.

Care to explain how they lured you back to playing?

You know what you need to do but you just don't have the mental strength to implement it. Perhaps reading some guides on how to have that could help you out. If you want the extreme measures then maybe staying offline is the best solution. If you have some business to deal with online then you can delete gambling apps and even social media where casinos advertise.

There’s such tool like this that will help you avoid gambling rather than completely getaway on any form of online access that will lead you to gambling or put your money on a financial manager that will control your expenses. The best way to counter gambling addiction is when you don’t have accessible money whenever you have the urge because it’s very hard to avoid gambling especially when you are alone and you have all resources available to do it.

Have a good social life and busy schedule to fill all your vacant time that you can use for gambling purposes. Relying tool that you are still the one in control on how setup is useless. You need someone to look out for you since addiction can’t be done by self control without a guidance by someone that doesn’t have any influence of gambling addiction.

If you know you have a problem, seek professional help. I would also get rid of the internet so I couldn't visit the sites any longer. As long as temptation is there it's going to eat at you til you give in and gamble.

There's not really anything else to say. You will find a way if you really want to gamble IMO.

If you're not too shy to open up about your problem, consider having a chat with your family. They're likely to be understanding and supportive. Personally, I've had a bout of gambling addiction before, and spending time with friends and family made a big difference. Diversifying your interests and finding new forms of entertainment can help shift your focus away from gambling. It's not about quitting entirely, but giving yourself a break and some space to reflect on your mistakes, and to accept your losses. Acknowledging those losses can prevent you from falling deeper into the cycle of irresponsible gambling. We've got to learn discipline to get back on track as responsible gamblers.

the only control is your consciousness. although I enjoy gambling, I limit the funds I can deposit myself. so you have a fixed allocation to play. it's simple but it's difficult to implement in the game.
At first, it was difficult for me when I still played games at the casino very often. but when I bet more often on sports betting, I feel like my self-imposed restrictions can be controlled. Everyone experiences different cases. but what is certain is that the restrictions and control come from you.

Many platforms only care about making money so they don't care about helping gamblers in controlling unhealthy habits. Expecting them to help you to solve your gambling issues is fruitless.

I have not suffered from gambling disorder but what has helped me to control my gambling activity is my budget. I have a plan that includes how much I will spend as well as how long I will put into gambling for a specific period. And I ensure that I do everything possible to follow the plan. You need a lot of self-discipline to strictly enforce the plan so the first character you should develop is self-control.

What you are referring is signs of addiction which definitely need a medical expert's help or a support group to get over it. As a start, you can share the issue with your family so that you they will be aware of what you are going through and it helps if things gets out of your hands at any point.

Also, you should be confident with your decision, simply you want to stop gambling but you are actions are the exact opposite then there is no use in it.

All control and management of finances and gambling activities carried out by gamblers can never be helped by any tool or anyone because the only person who can control all of this is the gambler himself.
If you want to be able to control all the aspects that can make you worse when gambling then you yourself have to control all your financial and emotional aspects of gambling.
You have to learn from the start to slowly start limiting finances and time so that in the future will get used to it and can always be bound by the limits you have.

This is not the first time question like this has been here but you need to change your own way of gambling in the future.
There will be no one who can help you get out of a problem like this because we can only give suggestions and advice here the rest is for you to act and try to learn to control it.

There are many gamblers who experience problems like this and they are unable to make efforts from the start by limiting finances and controlling emotions when gambling.
So the first thing you need to learn is how to manage your finances by having limits on betting capital and time for gambling.

For the highroller or decent players, some casino sometimes will offers special bonuses which could be free or a decent bonus on their next deposit after the user inactive for a while.
The owner or the manager usually will handle it directly, so the user feel so special on that site.

For the OP, the only ultimate tool to stop degen is in your mind - nothing else.
Gamble for fun, do not gamble your life.

The problem with responsible gambling features is that you always find another casino where you can gamble. Many casinos do not have them, and in the end, the only thing you are left with is the self control to stop gambling and better if you seek professional help, as suggested by yahoo62278. 

It is like the alcoholic who is rehabilitated. The solution is not to put a barrier in every bar or in every supermarket so that he can not enter and buy alcohol, the solution is within oneself, to quit for good and in the vast majority of cases, if not all, with professional help.

I'm glad there are people who admit to having a gambling problem. You are a great person, most people don't dare to admit that they are addicted to gambling.

Maybe I have experienced almost the same thing before. I spent my savings on gambling, luckily I soon realized my mistake. In the beginning it was very difficult to get out of the gambling cycle, especially when there was money in my bank account or crypto wallet

I started limiting myself, one way that worked for me was withdrawing my money from my bank account. I don't have any money left in my bank account so when I want to gamble I can't make a deposit on an online gambling site

Addiction to gambling is one thing but admitting that you're addicted is another. Yes, gambling can be a really addictive behavior and it's hard to break the cycle once you're in it but the good thing here is that you've admit your addiction and want to break free from it. But I'm still finding it hard to understand the part I bolded in your statement. How do you mean some crypto casinos still find a way to let you back? Well it doesn't matter thou but I'm curious.

Like I always believed and repeat often, controlling your gambling addiction is your own sole responsibility. Our advice and recommendations has little impact. The moment you realize that the power to break from addiction is absolutely in your control, you'll definitely do it. I know it's very hard to do but you must discipline yourself.

Reading thousands of suggestions without discipline to practice will be fruitless. Regardless, I will like to recommend something called the SMART Recovery program. It's a self-help program that is designed to help people deal with all kinds of addiction including gambling. The SMART Recovery program is a relatively new approach to addiction recovery but it's been shown to be effective for many people. Here's the link (http://smartrecovery.org) to the website. It might be helpful if you can practice it.

It's not the casinos' fault that it took them a lot of time to implement the exclusion feature on your control or put a limit or control on your betting It is against their business goal, they are in a business to make a profit so their interest comes first.

That self-exclusion is only included because they want to be compliant but if they have their way I'm sure they want their players to play as long as they want to deposit and to lose as long as they can take it and to be challenged as they want because they are going to continue to make money if their players keeps playing.
 

The casino will be able to find you and invite you back to the casino. It is your job to stick with what you want and if you want to leave gambling forever, you have to find out how. You cannot depend on other people to avoid gambling, especially since you are responsible for your life. No matter how hard the casino finds you, you must be able to resist the temptation to return to the casino and for this reason, one must learn self-control.

You can find other activities to keep you awake so you don't return to the casino. Casinos already provide a self-exclusion feature but if you don't have self-control, it will all be useless because you can still return to the casino to gamble. Everything will come back to you because you are responsible for yourself and you don't need tools to avoid the casino. You need to control yourself not to return to the casino and this requires continuous practice. So you can't give up on the situation because each of us has a chance.

I recommend professional help too since you acknowledge that you cant really control gambling by yourself. Think of professional help like having a coach in your corner. They're experts in tackling gambling issues and can provide personalized strategies just for you. It's like having a supportive friend who knows the ropes and can help you navigate through the challenges.

First is discipline. I think that's the main factor in how you will control the gambling urge.
Accepting the loss. It's a fact that the house will always win so it would be better if we keep reminding ourselves that. We cannot win against the house unless we are super lucky.
Avoid chasing the loss. After accepting the loss you must also be aware that you might chase the losses, don't do that because the provably fair feature of any gambling site doesn't work like that. Once your funds are gone it doesn't mean they will give it back the same way. They will just give some but not everything. Again, you will need to be lucky for that to happen.

All this is regarding casino games because there's the house edge system. If you want, you can just switch to sports betting where it's easier to control the urge to bet.

imo, it is not something that we have to focus on to find every way to win it, I mean don't look at gambling games as a way to make money because that is not for the majority. Some local gambling sites that I have tried and also discovered that there are signals to groups that can directly manipulate the results of each game so I see that it is a place to take money from players, so So don't set too high expectations on profits and then drown in debt. I also have time to work with gambling websites during each period, even with more entertaining games, the odds for the house to win are still more attractive than the players.

There are tools like blocking softwares. What this software do is to block gambling websites so that you will be tempted if you see one. This could word in conjunction with the self-exclusion you have activated for your online gambling platforms.

Here are some of the blocking softwares that I mentioned,

• www.gamban.com
• www.gamblock.com
• www.betfilter.com
• www.betblocker.org

Source (https://www.begambleaware.org/gambling-blocking-software/)

You might want to try it and see if it's effective in your end. And of course, you need to practice your brain, re-wire then to think of positive things besides gambling. And the last one is to seek professional help.

You're not very clear in your opening couple sentences. You claim to have been allowed to self exclude, but you feel like they have allowed you a way back in. Maybe you could describe how you were able to circumnavigate the restriction? Did you speak to customer services later on and ask them to remove the restriction? Did you create a new account which was no longer restricted? If customer services let you back in, what procedures did you have to go through - like declaring that you did not have a gambling problem? Maybe you should make a complaint - first with the company and then with the gambling licensing company within your own country, who might be able to reach out and assist.

That is true, our main enemy here is ourself. How we contain ourselves in front of those games.
So before you sit down and start your game, make sure you know your limits, time, money or other resources.
You need to understand that this is gambling, so it is not everyday that you will get lucky, most of the time you will go home as a loser.

don't Put Blame the casino for letting you back because they know that even if they completely Exclude you from their site you will always find way to gamble either in that site or in another so why they need to completely close your account when they can still earn from your addiction?
this is business and everything that will favor them is on the table.
well its good that you admitted that and also good to hear you wanting a good gambling activities than blaming anyone from your own mistakes.
the only best answer?


"SEEK FOR HELP " No one will Help you by all chance about how to manage it because it is you , but with the presence of your family and friends that will show complete care ? I know that somewhat you will make a good decision and better outcome.

Things like daily limits should be put on the player and not the gambling house, am pretty sure we all want them to have certain tools to help control gambling habits but there is  a limit to how far they can help and the rest is up to us to fix our problem's. Besides if gambling is negatively affecting a user, I think self exclusion should be the option to take which I believe most casinos and sportsbooks have.

AFAIK very few have such tools because they try to maximize on how much profits they want to milk from us and will deliberately not want to have them...and will always be a personal effort.

What you are looking for is anti gambling tools? You aren't going to find it because they don't exists, the only person that can stop this addict is you, make up your mind and stay away from gambling for a long period of time, when your expectations are high from gambling this is the end result you will get ( addiction ). It's better to quit for now and go back to your job or other good source of income, I have figured out that the expectations people have from gambling is what put them in trouble.

See gambling doesn't exists to take care of the poor, it's not a way for the poor to escape their financial problems, it's just like the banking system,  every little charges they take from each individual account is worth millions every month, even if it's just under $1, because these things are dealing with a large amount of people, it's total gain for them, and that's same with gambling, they put you up with your luck, they understand how small the chances you have are and they plan to make money from it while you are hoping to become rich with gambling.

The moment you decide to open your mind into what gambling really is that will be the day you will rescue yourself from gambling addiction, this fact is very hard to accept by gamblers, not until they have spent years of trying over and over with nothing to show for it, to me it's easy because I always follow the principles of life, do not expect to reap rewards when you don't sow anything.

I have not been in a similar situation like you when it comes to gambling, but I have had other issues in my life that also made it hard for me to control my own actions. I can tell you the most important thing is that you realised you have a problem and that you are trying to find new methods to cope with it. Everybody has issues in their life where it's hard to control emotions and our own actions. Just this weekend Matthew Perry died, he struggled for many years with alcohol addiction and it took him 15 rehab attempts to try and get his life in order. So, even a multimillionaire can't just fix his problems overnight. Realising that should help to make your recovery more bearable and focus on the long term goal to beat the addiction. There can always be setbacks and we shouldn't beat ourselves up too much. The best thing that has helped me to control my finances is to have different wallets or bank accounts, having one wallet only for small purchases online, one wallet for gambling and one wallet for long term holding. It might be a bit more work to control different wallets and save all the seeds in a secure way, but like that I can make sure to not touch my HODL coins for gambling or other purchases. Give yourself small allowances for each wallet so that you can still enjoy your profits from time to time.

I think this Is also a tool really useful ... or at least an advantage that I find in betting with cryptocurrencies is the use of cold wallets or multisignature wallets.
Even if I saw the result worth all the money in the world, I would never take that risk ;) :) :)

You can destroy or sell all of your phone, PC or any device that can be used to connect internet, this will make you have no way to access online casino.

If you want to avoid to visit offline casino, you can hire a private driver and force him to not brought you into offline casino despite you keep asking or bribed him.

I believe my suggestion will 100% work.

Find something else to do, a replacement so to speak. Some prevention tools like website blocker or even the self-exclusion route you've done can easily be bypassed if you really want to. By replacing it with something else, you effectively block the gambling addiction part with a replacement addiction instead, one that's fine for you to be in or at least can be controlled a lot easier than gambling. Not really addiction tbf, maybe distraction can be more apt.

I've never really had issues with my gambling since I can control it rather well, not to mention my advice of finding something else to do, in my case which is drawing. Which can, btw be really time consuming.

I've experienced to become out of control in gambling before, and the effective solution to me is to stay away on the things that can tempt me to gamble. I went to a place away from city and gadgets so that there's no way to access an internet. This is an alternative solution if you want to control yourself or completely get rid of your gambling habit.

In the end you're the only one who can help yourself. Because even someone advice you of ways that can help to lessen or stop playing for good, if you have no discipline and you can't control yourself then nothing will happen.

It's tough to control the urge sounds like you are already an addicted gambler, you saying that some crypto casinos still find a way to let you in is just another excuse, I mean how did they let you in? By forcing you? Today its hard to find casino ads online unless you are visiting some websites where casino ads are expected, these things are well hidden from online this days, if you are still finding them it's you looking out for them, the problem isn't the casino it's your addiction controlling your whole body.

I think I don't have much to say to someone who doesn't take their problem as a serious sickness, you want to get healed? It's in your god damn hand, you are making money off your work or job since you talked about finance, how come you get addicted to this stage? Are you using the whole amount to gamble? You need help, find someone in your family that's very friendly and close to you and tell them about your problem with gambling, I am sure they will find a way to help you, this online replied only help some certain people but I feel your case is different.

One minute you will admit you are wrong and the other minute something will draw you back into gambling, you have lost control over yourself, you need to rescue your self through discipline, take your time off for a long time, go on holiday and open up to the person in your family that you think can help battle this addiction, I think this is the best solution.

If you want to control your gambling addiction or completely get rid of it, but you don't want to undergo therapy or have no one to talk to about your problems in gambling, this is the only way. You simply run away from gambling. Simple but effective. Going to a rural place with no gadgets will help to have another hobby completely. Spend your days/months doing another thing, away from the internet and anything that will make you think of gambling.

Yes, he's the only one who can help himself to control his addiction. Even if he gets so much advice, without realizing the negative effect of gambling on himself, nothing will happen.

You are right about all of that, that no one will ever care about what happens to us and other people will never sympathize when we are in a downturn. The one who cares about us is ourselves, not other people, and even the people we love and the people we trust, they can leave when we are in the lowest position. So as much as possible, we ourselves must continue to try to control every activity we do, including gambling. Don't let this gambling, which was originally for personal pleasure and entertainment, but because it is not controlled, it backfires on us and has a negative impact on us personally.

Gambling is too risky to play, so we have to be careful when playing it and never hope that gambling can make us rich, think of it as when we make a deposit it is the same as buying an entertainment ticket to get a sensation and pleasure.

Once you have involved yourself in it becomes almost impossible for you to control your urge, you always want to go for more, more especially if you have not win for a while, the mindset is that, I will win, this I will win syndrome has made so many people lose funds meant for other things.

These tools should be personal, developing these tools needs seriousness and discipline to keep the action going, it has to be clear to us that gambling being an addictive behaviour should be avoided by folks who can't control the hunger when it comes.
This stuff keeps pushing even when you say no to it, I will say that determination is just the way forward and the answer to this situation.

I haven't been through a severe form of this, but I've certainly been through instances in which I could have gone home with good winnings but ended up with nothing instead. And this is because I wasn't able to control my urge to bet more even if it already seemed my luck has already expired.

But it seems your situation is a bit worse. I think you better stay away from logging on to your gambling accounts altogether. Keep your focus on something else. Try to be busy on other things. If you feel that this doesn't work, I recommend that you visit a professional.

You already mention that it’s already impossible to control urge once you already involved which means developing your own tool will not gonna be helpful too since you knew exactly how this tools work and you can make a loophole so that you can bypass this tool just to meet your gambling urge.

Therapy is best way to deal with gambling addiction and not kind of tool that can be easily avoid the restrictions.

Gambling, especially winning, will be random and continuous and whether you will be as lucky today as someone else you see then it depends on your luck at that time. I understand that every gambler will definitely experience a win or two in a few tries or even dozens of tries, but as you know and you understand that more often than not it will only be a loss with different amounts each session. I'm not sure if I'm going to be able to get the same amount of money as you, but I'm sure I'm going to be able to get the same amount of money as you, and I'm not going to be able to get the same amount of money as you, but I'm not going to be able to get the same amount of money.

So the final result in gambling really cannot be predicted, whatever method you bring will not be completely successful, and even if it can, the chances will be very small. Therefore, what should be our main focus is to apply good self-control, do not be too excessive in terms of expecting because there is no guarantee of anything. And yes if indeed your situation is getting worse with increasingly dominating defeats then you should really get out of gambling, forget everything, occupy yourself with other things as a form of prevention so that you do not remember gambling, and if you have difficulty then you can seek help from people around you or even from a professional.

Here's my idea to protect your finances, you could consider handing over your money to a trusted individual like your parents, partner or other trustees like your best friend. This strategy could be helpful if you have a gambling addiction and want to prevent yourself from spending money impulsively. By entrusting your finances to someone else, they can hold onto your money and release it to you only when you need it for the right reasons. This way, you can take control of your finances and protect yourself from unnecessary spending.

Exactly, if you made your own rule just to prevent yourself on gambling, you are just clowning yourself then. For sure a lot of people who's addicted on  certain thing already said the same thing by "I will not do it again" and eventually will try something that could prevent them to do their addiction which they fail. For example let's say porn addiction, we know the negatives effect of this addiction as it affects individual mental health as well their physical health, as they try to stop themselves by simply blocking some sites, for sure they would still look up for it as they can't resist the "urge".

The best is to get check up on the professionals such as the therapy since they could help you for a change, if you can't still afford to check up for a therapy, try talking and opening up with your family as they can help you to prevent your addiction such as keeping your funds safe and would give you if you need them. Just choose someone that are trustworthy cause in my case there's still some people even from my family will use it for their own.

When we talk about anti gambling tools, I think it should depends on the kind of person it should needs to apply these measures to stop gambling.
That being said, if the person who wants to stop gambling does gamble online, I think the best thing to do is to take away anything that's gonna give him access to online betting like smart gadgets of kinds including phones, laptop, and smart watches.
If the person is always gambling on online casinos, then his movement must be regulated by close friends and family and on no account should he be allowed to visit any online casino center even if he says he's not going there to gamble because even if he didn't go their to gamble, there's every possiblity of getting tempted to gamble immediately he sees others gambling.

Man how could it not work if you tell the OP to destroy all his gadgets lol

I think the OP is looking for some online tools or any strategy to control his habit which he considered a bad habit. This is definitely an issue of his discipline, he lacks the discipline to manage himself, not only with gambling but with all the activity he is missing instead of sitting and gambling. I'd like to suggest of doing more stuff outside, get the fun to other things such as sports. I myself managed to get out of the mud coz I'm losing than winning. Outdoor activities may help you spend your time not to think of gambling, and after you go home you'll just be thinking to eat and sleep.

As others have said, if you can't do it on your own then go to a professional maybe he will help you stay away from gambling.

There is no tool unless you realize yourself and do a stricter discipline again, if you are still unable to try asking those around you who have succeeded from this bad zone how the method is just try asking.
Maybe you are so addicted that you can't control the money that goes into gambling, one more thing you need to convince yourself not to do gambling and do more useful things to get rid of this thought.

Or make activities that you can forget about gambling.

Lol, that's a nice advice but I don't think it is going to work for op. I'm not much of a gambler so I don't really know how it is to be addicted to gambling. For me I only play ones or twice a week and sometime not at all. For op, I think only him can dictate for him self how he could possibly stop or reduce his gambling habit. If you find something else to put your time then maybe you can shake it off a bit but not as @Solosanz  has suggested. No matter how you try to stay away from the internet you just won't be able to keep up. The internet comprise of our everyday activities not just something you can choose to stay away from. So I will advice you to find the best way that works for you.

Have you tried to look for some apps and browser extensions in order to block or filter gambling sites?
For smartphone you can use this app for that purpose : https://betblocker.org
and for desktop there are several plugins you can install to your browser in order to do this task, you can find a list of them there : https://slidesjs.com/chrome-extensions-to-help-gambling-addicts/ Gambling Blocker, CasinoAnalyzer Blocker, Simple Blocker, BlockSite, Stop-it

The best tools under your disposal is to change your behavior and approach towards gambling. Every external tools are artificial and bypassable, if the gambler wishes to. So, start changing your mindset and replacing old habits with new ones. Identify what triggers undesirable behaviors regards gambling in yourself and act to avoid such triggers from happening. If you are able to do this, you will get rid of your addiction or impulsive gambling routine within time. But you have to be persistent and not give up on the middle of the way. It might take a long time and progress will appear slowly.

The casinos will not give that permanent self exclusion option because in as much as they want you to stay out of addiction and gamble healthy, they also want to have you back bon their platform so they too can make money from your losses when you loose so it's mostly a self decision and seeking tro help yourself that gets r he best for you, looking for tools to help you stop gambling and all that may not work perfectly.

I'd there's no firm decision to get your self out of it, even with the help of tools and whatever that Amy be provided you, that quest to continue will always cause you to find a way around the barriers and satisfy your quest and desire to continually play. Personally I don't know of any tools that can be really useful to help you stop or control your gambling, but I think bank apps could help you place restrictions on funding that way you can get to control how much you gamble because if you don't have funds in your wallet you definitely can't gamble.

You should be careful about the softwares you mention here because the first two of your list, Gamban and Gamblock, are not free, they are paid applications and the third one Betfilter doesn't seen to be available anymore. The only freely available app of this list is the last one Betblocker, I have mentioned it in my previous post above. I don't know if OP is ready to pay or not for that service, but it's useful to know that some solutions are free unlike some others.

Dont give yourself too much spare cash if you have this general problem of burning it on leisure activities.   Gambling, any game can cost money its for fun not to be thought of as a genius idea.  By definition most of us cant be that perfect win scenario so start off by not kidding yourself, its fun and a game stick to those basic facts and work from there.
   Some people burn all their money on alcohol, dont be too hard on yourself either its just a mistake you should avoid most of us have behavior we must correct for our own good.    I would put money into paying off your mortgage when you can because it does come back to you in lower bills and improves your security long term.   If you pay your debts first chance possible, its money that cannot be placed wrongly there after and you will do far better.

Good point and advises on here in regarding those things arent working or down on which it is  really that giving out some idea on what these people been dealing with in terms of those links given. In overall then it isnt really that something that relevant on making use of these kind of services considering that you wont really be needing on paying up something if you are really just that dedicated on quitting gambling in the first place.
Any methods or ways wont really be that totally effective if you dont have set your mind on totally quitting gambling in the first place. There's no such thing about those anti-gambling tools or what.Yes, we do have that self exclusion feature or whatever kind of limits or restrictions.

Casinos wont really be that putting up that deposit limit or maxmum bets that you would make on your gambling account which its never been that possible on doing so considering that they are running a business
then it would really be just that a normal approach that they would really be that allowing on whatever income deposit that they would really be able to get and doesnt mind
about gamblers condition whether they had already been that addicted or not. The key on here is that you should really know on when to quit up right away
if you do see that you are already that getting addicted.

I would have not guessed anti-gambling software was supposed to be paid, to be honest. But it makes sense once one start to think about how many people could be going through such a desperate situation, spending thousands or hundreds of thousands in casinos, so spending some buck on a software like this would be positive if put on a balance.
It depends on OP's personal and individual situation, though if he is not a high-roller it would better just to go with paid software solutions if other measures do not seem to help him in the short or mid term.

It would be better if OP also tried to spend the money in other activies he may enjoy instead of gambling and paying for software.

would you mind elaborating on the "but it seems some crypto casinos still find a way to let me back in" part of your post? how are they exactly finding a way to let you back in?

anyway, what you need is professional help, asking others to recommend "anti-gambling tools" to you is a sign that you need professional help. it is for the best to solve the root cause of the problem instead of just temporarily holding it off with "anti-gambling tools".

It seems to me that you are asking these questions because you intend to play but as you cannot control yourself in terms of the money you put into the casino, so you want to know if there is any way that would allow you to continue playing and that would not allow you to spend money that you cannot give yourself With the luxury of losing, in my opinion the solution to cases like these is for the person to see a doctor in the real world and get treatment and never go back to gambling again and not talk about things related to gambling for many years. As long as you continue talking about gambling, as long as you interact on forums, social networks related to gambling, you will not be cured.

Sooner or later you will start playing again and use money that you shouldn't put in the casino, my advice is to forget about gambling, don't think about things that could make you start playing again. I know it will be difficult, but this is the only way to heal. When people are addicted to something, staying away from anything related to what caused them addiction is the most advisable thing. I hope you understand this.

There is no other way but to find the inner strength to stay away from gambling, because any tool that has been created for this purpose is not very useful since you can always find a way to gamble anyway, now I am not going to deny this has gotten harder as you can access an unlimited amount of casinos from the comfort of your own home, but that is precisely why those tools cannot and will not work, so I recommend that you look for professional help before your problem gets any worse.

You are an addict and you should seek professional help immediately. The sooner you accept this fact the better it will be for you. Most ill people can’t recover from their addiction because they refuse to accept their situation. They think they are alright. If you follow this false logic you will also not get better. You should disclose your situation with your close relatives too. They will immediately understand your situation. As long you have an internet connection, no anti-gambling tool can stop you. You will always find a way to bypass it. You need external help.