A casino nightmare can strike at any time and plenty of people have experienced a chill when gambling both online and in person. Horror stories don’t have to be about murder and gore, the prospect of losing money can be pretty frightening too.
One gambler began betting regularly on trips to Las Vegas with his wife but it got out of hand quickly and soon he was playing with money he didn’t have. He borrowed money from close friends without revealing the reason why and then gambled it on games that he kept hidden from everyone. The money was soon lost and he found himself getting into more and more debt because of the addiction.
After his first big win of $1000 he began to bet bigger and lost all of the jackpot in one single day and then spent another $3000 trying to make his money back. Previously his gambling had gone undetected but such a large sum of money missing was sure to cause him problems. This lead to rock bottom for this gambler before he cleaned up his act and cut the influence out of his life. Story by FSAP.
Scams are popular in the gambling world and there are always people looking to cheat casinos and players out of their cash. Whether it’s counting cards or pocketing chips someone will always try to tip the odds in their favour if they think they’ll get away with it.
The Roselli brothers were an infamous pair of hackers who used a barrage of identity fraud and falsified bank accounts to mask their criminal activity. They successfully stole more than $37 million from casinos around the world as they used supporting documents that they had managed to gain through hacking. Identity theft and bank fraud are huge problems online and this serves as a reminder to protect your details with a trusted eWallet service wherever you play online. Many players who have been the victims of fraud will tell you that the feeling of sheer terror when you open your bank account to find it totally drained can be worse than watching any scary movie. Story by paypal-casinos.co.
A really lucky streak comes along once in a lifetime for most gamblers but plenty of people are adamantly chasing that big win. Sometimes a little beginner’s luck is enough to send new players down the rabbit hole in search of that high again. Learning to stop is a fine art that not many gamblers have the willpower to do and this is where the feeling of terror really sets in. Imagine you’re sitting at the table and you’re happily winning big, but you don’t want the feeling to stop. It’s a psychological double edged sword as your fear of losing money battles your fear of losing out on more if the odds stay in your favour.
Your brain is being stretched in two different directions as you struggle to stay sane while they fight it out, and all around you the game continues. It’s often not enough to see another person lose as we think to ourselves that we’re somehow different, that our luck will change. When we do start to lose all our winnings it may not even be enough to break even as we continue to lose money trying to win it back. Gambling is a deeply psychological phenomenon that clouds our minds and causes us not to think rationally, in this way it’s a horror from within our own brains that changes the way that we behave. Story by Alan Shapiro.
