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Well, I have a gambling problem and I will ask my "Shrink" for help. My problem is that I like to play roulette. So long story short, I made it from 650 Bitcoins, where almost 600 were pure profit, to one. You can check it here: https://blockchain.info/de/address/1GJ7EMh9JyyBAKteQZLHXn8jbHz5ymfCqW (https://blockchain.info/de/address/1GJ7EMh9JyyBAKteQZLHXn8jbHz5ymfCqW) And 340 Bitcoins from my winnings are not even in the Blockchain, als I only had them ingame (roulette) and sadly did not cash out until I had lost everything.

So here is my warning: Never gamble! It is just not worth it! Not the money, not the nerves. I also have played roulette wiht Fiat money in the last 10 years, my total loss up to date is around 25'000 Dollars. I now only have 1.4 Bitcoinis and 10.250 Million Dogecoins left...Now I just have the money to make ends meet.

Bad luck man! You'll win at the start but end up losing it all.

Gambling is just like drugs; you can have fun in moderation but not knowing when to stop can ruin your life pretty quickly.

I also ever had a problem in gambling, I thought that my next bet would take me straight back to where I was. I was wrong. Now I have some control back over my life. I deal with my problems now rather than running away

Yes stop it forever, focus on something that will give you steady profits over time, rather getting rich quickly with betting  :)

Exactly mate..In moderation it can be fun..and be profitable at the same time. I used to bet on all the games I can find n lose a lot. now I only bet one or 2 games a day max.. N i am making some profits now :)

It's strange how something like gambling can be so addictive and it can quickly suck you in. I think 'quick' games are far easier to lose yourself in because you're up and down with every click of a button or spin of a wheel or throw of a dice and you can just play game after game. That's partly why I don't gamble on them as I don't find them fun or entertaining and they get boring quickly but I like sports betting once a week. Always makes the games more enjoyable and I set my limit and stick to it. Good luck with your problem though op. I hope you can break free of it.

The only gamble that really allows you to make profit is sports bets and such, roulette and others are just not gonna help you.

Damn, man. This is a harsh story. I can relate on the addiction side - I suffer from that too, but for me it's drugs. I had a roommate who had trouble with games too. Addiction is a bitch!

not really, all gamble are just the same, even if you bet for favorites on the sports bet, they always have the chance to lose to a small teams, so there is never a guarantee that you really make money
and againts small team, they got a pretty small odds, tempting you bet huge amount wit small gain

Wow, can't imagine someone losing 600 BTC on gambling. Thats a lot of money. Seems some people learn it the easy way and some the hard one.

http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/1npmaq/highroller_loses_800k_with_allin_bet_on_justdice/

Damn. Never bet with money you cant loose. Just play for fun with a few cents.

The first step was admitting you had the problem my friend so a big well done i am just sorry you could not have done it sooner as you obviously also are. Good luck with your recovery it will be very difficult i have a best friend who is 100% the same except he lost everything including his mind  :-\



Could have just kept it at Bad luck man! For starters you are wrong buddy! Who says you will win at the start? You could not win until the end when the law of averages kicks in. The thing is it is all averages the friend of mine had done a lot of study before he started with real money and check this over 1380 something recorded spins 666 was black 666 was red  and the remainder was 0's.

Add up all the numbers on a roulette table and they to add up to 666!!

The story goes a monk created the game and could not figure out how to beat it so he finished his life that shows not even the creator could beat it and it destroyed him, i will hold a prayer for you OP because it will be so so hard you are trying to climb out the abyss and the dark one does not want you to leave  :-\

wow.... that's really bad

I think you have to have your limits clear when you gamble,if not you go out of control

oh my god... and that was only in a couple of days?

at least it was not earned from working

what the hell? really? if i got 600+ in profit i would be already sitting on the bar all night long and spend some with chicks, 600+ is alot, basically it could be your life saving for a while  :'( :'(

On the bright side you still have life and like you say most was profit? Could be worse you could have a balance of,  1H8pqioFpPq3U13YXwAKH9SyNsWL9XqWcU   ;D

Thanks for the answers. Yeah, I still have a _bit_ left, but I would have spent my Dogecoins, but the Cryptsy wallet was at least then down. Not everything is lost, I gave someone a bitcoin as he asked for it, and when I had 379 Bitcoins in my wallet I bought a DSLR lens for 41 Bitcoins through www.all4btc.com (http://www.all4btc.com). This lens will take weeks to deliver, so at least I saved around 10'000 bucks. But even if I should sell the lens, I will never get that money for it, as it is just to expensive for most. I dreamt a long time about having it, so at least this wish is fulfilled.

well you got that much profit gambling. its a lot of gain if u had withdrawn some of it.

I haven't lost that much btc, but I have lost a lot of money in off-line gambling, I can control myself and have succeeded in staying away from it from last 3-4 months but I do get the occasional  itch and I then gamble with as much btc I have at that time and end up losing it all. I don't think I can say I have an addiction coz I am able to control myself for the most part but I think my father has an addiction, he to this day wakes up and goes out to various casinos and betting centers everyday and if for some reason he can't because of his health or any other reason, he gets really up-set. I think up-to now he must have lost over $40k.

that sucks! i'd stopped gambling last year and will try to keep on avoiding .   :D

Where did you play?  Sick beat and luck - but you should have been playing with CasinoBitco.in as you'd have more than ample kickbacks and automated comps to keep you in the game. Based on that kind of loss, you'd still have 100 btc if you were playing with us.

Regardless, it's a shame.

There's also this little thing called entertainment. Some people are just having fun gambling and even if they lose they treat it like paying for a cinema ticket or for an arcade game. Some games are more entertaining than other, for example electronic dice seems really boring, some on the other hand like poker you can play for hours and have fun even if you lose. So my advice to you, play a game you actually enjoy and spend a small amount of money, you'd normally use to buy booze or smokes. If you lose you'll at least be able to say you killed some time :)

Some games like sports betting and poker have a skill factor. If you are good at it, you could have a better chance to win than less skillful players and you may even have a +EV. Some games like roulette and dice depends on luck only.

You claim 600 BTC were pure profit, so you pretty much just lose what you've won which isn't so bad. Many get into debt due to mining and get relationship and health problems. Its good you are aware of the issue. Its only money and could of been worse.

There is people here that has been posting their sport bets and some of them have profits after thousands of bets so yeah you can have +EV

I don't think it matters that much that the 600 BTC was profit. I'm sure 600 BTC to him is a lot of money therefor it's very hard to look at it as you just lost your profit. He's probably looking at it as $162k loss which is horrible.

that is really sad story about gambling, it was just bad luck to lose such high amount in gambling.

This. When you notice you may have problems in gambling addiction, you really need to stop immediately and get some external help.
FYR: http://www.helpguide.org/articles/addiction/gambling-addiction-and-problem-gambling.htm

its alright man dont stress man lifes to good to stress over this much just chill out ha what site you use?

I played at Bitzino.com. They have a limit of 100 Bitcoins on 2:1 bets...Once I put 100 Bitcoins there and won, and once I lost. That's a cool $25'000 both times.

damn i see fuck man i dont even have 1 btc lol let alone 650! which was all winnings ? just consider it a lose and move on hard as it iss man i feel the pain i guess being poor<--me lol and being a gambler are two differnet things? :/

I've lost about 50.000$ gambling in the past 7 years. I highly suggest any one who gamble to quit. I'm learning about it stopped doing so from now 2 Months and I felt much better.... I still got debts for about 6.000$  and I just work to pay them all and invest into any long/short term EV+ deal. OP I love people like you as I feel I'm who knows we never had to gamble (Again) on our cases. But those who don't know the gamble at all (The vice of it ) Stay away, sometimes I don't know why people full support gambling sites in this forum when if you think about it gambling only ruins ppl life.

stocks?? maybe ive been looking at organovo! and tesla

Im sorry bro :( For ur loss, Look Mine ive had over 6 btc but gambling (: https://blockchain.info/address/19Un1cDJuUahwrXASJnVMJmjawRnFchrSb

guys keep it cool man its chill sometimes you win, sometimes you lose like OP i have lost before but nothing compared to this guy. i felt crappy when i lost 6btc but 650btc.. but on topic op go outside man smoke a j haha jk do you gamble all the time?

you should gamble with stratagy not only with luck .

when you win with luck , you find it is too easy to make money this way ,and you can not stop.

when you win with stratagy, what is not that easy, it force you to think and enjoy. so it is a game more than gamble.

our game 

Current round:2015-03-03 18:00 (GMT)0.005btc V.S.   0.008btc (http://girlbtc.com/?a=never030318) :)

wish your support.

Your a fellow addict. The problem is that you need to fill your time doing something constructive and don't resort to gambling. Looks like you won a lot first and lost your profits which is very Lucky for you a lot of people have it the other way round.

Hello fellow degenerate, fortunately i don't have the bankroll that you do. I would most likely lose it.

I don't gamble all the time, it happens in phases. And I don't do drugs, no weed, no alcohol, no smoking, heck, I even don't like coffee. That is not my problem.

set stop losses.

Anyway, considering the house edge is just a few % you either spent too much time gambling and losing or you put too much money on low odd bets

Well i mean no one is gonna bet 1k satoshis all the time to high until the % house edge takes their winnings, people use strategies

At the end most of the people actually end up losing a majority of their funds to the house edge. They end up losing most of their balances instead of just the 1% of their wagered.

this is actually the craziest comment i've read among all the replies, as in mad, what if you lose the other 200-300 btc that you loaned? and i guess nobody will lend that huge amount without a valid collateral

Well, I am pretty sure that he just forgot to include the sarcasm tag in his post lol. :P

Thats because you didn't swapped to my method.
If you did, at this time you would be up to 1000+ btc :)
I have surviving skills for roulette, and I bought much stuff for me irl.

Fancy sharing your method for free and let all the degenerates profit from it so we can buy lots of new stuff  :D
I feel real bad for op but tleast most of it was profit to begin with, just goes to show you just do not know when to stop once you are hooked.

its 2015 and people still believe in "methods" for roulette/dice?

Well, you are from a casino...

By the way, if you want to know my strategy I used, you can read my article here: http://ezinearticles.com/?How-to-Play-Roulette-If-You-Still-Want-to-Play&id=7183633 (http://ezinearticles.com/?How-to-Play-Roulette-If-You-Still-Want-to-Play&id=7183633)

Its 2015 and people still believe there is no such thing as sarcasm  :D

I know very well there is no methods to gambling and if some genius did figure oe out he/she is not going to be here to let the degenerates know what it is to ruin it.   

My method works only if you aren't a degenerated wild in drunk mode.
Let me show you a couple of methods:
1)Bet on dozen
2)Always bet on a single dozen
3)Be wild on that dozen, I often use this: betting on
https://i.imgur.com/TLlBJh7.png
4) Or this:
https://i.imgur.com/N1vg7eR.png
5)Or this:
https://i.imgur.com/juDZO5n.png
6)Or this:
https://i.imgur.com/qf2My2A.png

You can mix them up, as long you can contain the budget.

and my rules:
a)Don't martingale
b)DON'T MARTINGALE
c)Don't be drunk while doing it, you will make a lot of missclicks.(been there, done that)
d)if after 3 times a dozen doesn't come, change it, don't be mad at the roulette if it comes after
e)Don't try to be a superhero while on "godmode:on" raising your bets to a considerable amount if you can't afford it to lose.

Those are my main rules, I gave you my secrets on betting, tips are accepted. My addy is in my profile, if my method works for you, you can think at me for donations, to keep applying my method and do my winning streaks.
I will consider you back and tip you back if I do the same, so reciproque help is gladly accepted and supported.

Edit: It doesn't mean nothing that "I come from a casino" I offer a service because they saw me I have potential to support them, if I was not worth the time they would never have called me.
And if you notice I didn't used their website to show my rules, so your argument is invalid.

Gosh man; you lost a lot but at least most of it was profit.  Maybe you are just one of those people they can't just do it a bit.  I am that way with drinking and most drugs.

My records so far with these methods:
from 0.80 mbtc to 100 mbtc
from 10 mbtc to 175 mbtc
from 50 mbtc to 600 mbtc

Maybe I'm just a lucky person, or maybe I have a lot of patience on my side.

thank you for sharing your strategy, but in the end, it still depends on the gambler's luck

Moral of the story is, once you hit a # goal, time to walk away.

Self control is a huge thing, if my goal was to have 600 bitcoin or even around that #, I`d be done. Then go invest it something, to not need to gamble and have free cash flow etc.

Also the saying of the "house always wins".

your approach is what is shameless, you are just an embarrassment  for yourself, your company and everyone else in the industry. try and think of more creative ways to market. do you really think you are promoting yourself like this?

Yikes....
650 bitcoins.
That might have become enough to retire in a few years, man.
Tough luck.  :(

Brutal story man...

It's your problem, TOO GREEDY. If I won 600 btc as pure profit, I would cash out and buy a new car.

I am not greedy, maybe I withdraw after winning 10 btc, but I don't have luck like you to earn 600 btc

why exactly would you gamble so much???? i just dont understand why someone would throw so much money away. ive never had more than 2btc to my name and i gamble everyday. gotta limit yourself and call it quits when the lucks running bad. sorry for your loss but cmon, you had the chance to stop way up

wow you had a lot profit from gambling previously
too bad you didn't cash it partly and enjoy your winning
so sorry for you, me too avoid gambling because lose too often and in long terms we can't defeat house edge of casino
although i bet just for fun, never do it seriously

mannn i feel really sad for you. i know how its like. i lost a lot of fiat money in roulette. started by black and red, odd and even. then started to win big and gambled on numbers making my odds 37-1
and ended up losing approximately the same amount you lost but in fiats.

650 bitcoins man

650 x 285$ is $185k lost.

Sorry for your loss man.

everybody will say "you should know when to stop betting..." but only someone who gambles will know what addiction there is in that.

i wish you luck in getting out of it. sorry for your loss mate.

when you have 650btc,

and you started from 50btc to that number..

suppose you lose from 650 -50 btc and has 600btc left. you will never think : hey i am still over the house, i have won 550 btc. you will always think how to get the 50btc lost back. and thats where your losses starts getting to a point where you cannot get them back but continues to "try"
gambling....

Oh no this is bad news but not the worst news as you have managed to buy something from it (that always feels better) and like you say a lot of it was profit so that is awesome little gutted for you as you could have left the game even over all i mean after you deduct the money lost in fiat. Either way you win some nd you lose some so head up mate and try calm down abit in future.

sorry to hear that gambling ruined your life man.. We've seen other stories like this but yours is more brutal losing so much money in a blink of an eye :(

Not as bad as you think when you do think about it, he won around 650btc which was mainly profit and then he brought something for around 40 btc i believe and then lost most of his profit.

So really he only lost his profit so he never ruined his life although he could have had a much easier life had he not done that. The main thing is to live and learn.

so that is why you need a better self discipline if you dont want to lose what you've fain already ;)

many times you WILL lose dicipline and self control

I agree, it can be fun, but never get carried away.

holy shit thats a huge loss, why not cash out after you lost some? like at 400 ish?

I don't think gambling could've been explained better in one sentence.

OP: It's too late now. Losing the first time should've taught you enough.

The human being trips two times with the same rock

agreem he lost his profit mainly, that doesnt really ruin your life, you could be in frustation but that wont ruin your life, imagine if that is purely his money, he would have been banging head on the wall already  ::) ::)

Well Gambling is actually the only way to lose money guaranteed. There is no way to always profit from the games.
However I remember watching people running 1 BTC to 400 BTC in the past and anything is possible. But in the end, its all luck and its not a smart move to continue gambling for long.

for me getting a chance of being multimillionaire, considering where the prices can head, is a live destroying event.

Of course lose 650 BTC from my own pocket would be worse

Sometimes several website give the winning first. Then, while you get ambition to win more.. you will lose slowly.

That's hurt. Finally, when you out of control, you decide to all in.

And that's mean time for sleep.  :)

Indeed. You must not to be greedy. Stop when you have enough and be satisfied with it.

I am totally agree with you, gambling is ok, but not to be greedy. Only bet for fun.
Not bet to much.

you lost more than 600BTC, OMG.
You should stop when you lost more than 10BTC.

This isn't really why you should Never gamble, this is why you shouldn't gamble if you have a gambling problem...

Sooo...actually IT IS WORTH IT!?

I mean...if you CAN make 600BTC of profit... ::)...and know WHEN TO STOP!?

Whether this long story short is genuine or not, this should seriously teach a lesson to the greedy ones...
Never ever gamble more than you can actually afford to lose...

Possible for you to at least sign a message to prove that the address is yours?
If yes, then it will actually prove it to people that someone really lost something big in gambling...

I was about to say fat chance of becoming a millionaire from 650 btc but that is very doable  :o Poor OP!

Few questions if i may, over how long a time period did you win the 650btc of course roughly?

How long did it take to lose again 'roughly'?

Thanks i am super interested.

In away if you are seriously attached to money that you add up the losses of the future lol it could well be a 'life' destroying event but to a normal person he won some and he lost it again this is the life of a gambler, so at present minus his 40btc he brought something with that is still a hefty 170k ish!

yes it is a lot but i have just thought i cannot see the casino's paying him out all this coin as profit!

Something smells fishy when you think about it lets see a signed message from that address please OP

650 btc. I would be puking blood if I lost that much. I think you better go to AA.

We shouldn't gamble because you got greedy?

Gambling isn't bad until you can't control yourself. Never bet what you aren't willing to part with. Many of us may have withdrawn much before we hit the amount of profit you did, and more importantly before you let yourself lose it all.

Can we have a signed message please OP just so we know you are in fact in control of that wallet? lol! I know but if this is true this must be one of the biggest gambling losses i have ever heard about with bitcoin and it is a shame if true, i really want to know for sure.

Please give us signed message when you come on :)

True, to prove himself to be the owner, he should sign a message.
That being said, "Greed is the mother of all evils".
It won't let you stop/control yourself unless you lose everything you have.
You should know where you must limit yourself to save yourself from such situations!

 :o  :( you should have withdrawed at least a hunred bitcoin, you have to control your bank

Agree with these, we should see a signed message op then if you provide the proof someone can write a book about you after giving you a interview of course and maybe even donate a few bucks back to you depending how good the book is and how much it sells.

GAMBLING "What not to do"  :P

Wow, this is very sad, indeed.

Hindsight is always 20/20.

I am at work now. I never signed a message, how do I do this with Multibit?

A sad cautionary tale indeed.  Threads pop up like this frequently.  Sorry you lost.

Here's an article on signing addresses: https://bitcoinmagazine.com/12007/bitcoin-address-sign/

(sorry it is not multibit specific.)

Good luck in the future.

Over half of the crypto services out there are gambling related it seams.. Quite a shame. :/

Crypto scene is full of very young people that got some easy money in the early days of Bitcoin.

A lot of them will "try" gambling, IPO/ICO, Ponzi and so on, thinking that if they got easy money once, it's gonna happen every time...

Unfortunately I think that the number of those that do gambling for fun, with amounts they can afford, is not very big.
There are still a lot that think it's some sort of high profit investment.


But this happens actually in real life too. The numbers are smaller because of age limitations, but in the end you'll find quite a lot of stories with people losing everything.
Some will read and learn, some will not.....

You can find a step-by-step tutorial on the official site of Multibit.

https://multibit.org/en/help/v0.5/help_signAndVerifyMessage.html.

Bro better for u to start a new bussiness with your coins rather gambling your coins as u and all say u lost at last in gambling and else gambling games we get only the lost of coins.

Thank you !!

What business do you think can he start with just a BTC?
He's only hodling one and a few million Doges (can't say even if he hodls 'em or not as no signed message has come up yet).

Gamble with that 1 BTC and try to get up again. Why not? Nothing to lose now, right?

U dont know bro ?
people can really start a bussiness with only 10$ and can make 1k $ profit a month and more high if u got WILL. :)

Sorry for you i stopped gamble too after i lost 4k $

You do not tell a gambler to keep gambling what is wrong with you lol Yes there would be something to lose another btc that i thought would be obvious. If he is being honest and he did lose that coin the last thing he needs is a boot telling him to gamble his last btc  >:(

Lolz, seriously... And it's the OP's will only which made him lose 649 coins, right?
And you think that he can make it up to 1k BTC with his 1 last remaining BTC, is it what you wanted to say in your statement?

Why is this a bad thing? Gambling is a legitimate business and people obviously enjoy doing it. Of course people can develop a problem with it but you can with drugs or sexy or food or many other things (all which you can probably buy with bitcoin too). People are in charge of their own life but bitcoin is just another thing that you need to be able to manage appropriately just like everything else.

I dont think that he stands with only one btc at the present  :-\

1) gambling has existed for thousands of years.  It is in our human nature to gamble.  Something about testing that hunter-gatherer instinct in some way that triggers something in our brains that most humans just seem to like.  Or maybe not most, but at least a percentage of us really, really love to gamble.

2) a percentage of that group that likes gambling are problem gamblers.  A percentage of the drinkers are problem drinkers.  This doesn't mean we shouldn't make beer.

Been there done that. sure it wasn't 650 btc but I went from 5000 satoshis to 0.5 btc using a martingdale variant and ended up losing it all.

Moral of the story: If you reach an incredible amount, just stop and enjoy your profits.
GodMode killed the cat.

well, all back to your personal matters

whether you will play high risk or small, as we now that in order to have good profit we need to invest some right?

so, play at your own risk and not to risk so much

I signed with "Pascal Parvex". To whom do I send it now?

You can just post the Signed message and address here for us to verify it... :)
It's really sad to see you actually lost, and that you lost something very big compared to what you have, or I would say you have nothing compared to what you lost.

It's obvious that people can lose big amounts gambling. Why make this guy prove that he lost that much? People have won and lost much bigger amounts.

yes that's gambling, if you are not good at keeping the profit when a big win, but you too desire to play again. yes definitely end his losing all

It is very tough to decide when to stop.
Gambling is definitely very addictive.

I know and can totally understand what you are saying, but it will look much more authentic to people (including me) who still think that it's just a fake address used by a newbie claiming to be the owner, the cause might be good, but if confirmed and signed by OP, will make it look completely genuine.

1GJ7EMh9JyyBAKteQZLHXn8jbHz5ymfCqW

Pascal Parvex

H8nhD833NMBeT0A9S85JCc+83OigaTEWoBccsd3wiacdd41OKHoEOOI2G5NE27+2Bfjh0Sm5uwt1LoYwyUxHHqg=

I know what I did when I had that much profit.

Till now what I watched almost everyone has faced same fate at start win and in the end remained with losses . We all almost all have same stories with different ways and experiences.

Happy now, doubting Thomas? :)