r/gambling

Hey everyone. I’ve been thinking a lot about how normalized sports betting has become, especially with how easy it is now to place a bet from your phone.
I recently worked on a small iOS tool focused on helping people reduce or stop sports betting, but I don’t want this post to come across like an ad. I’m more interested in learning what people actually need in those moments when the urge hits.

For anyone here who has struggled with sports betting, what has helped you the most?

Was it tracking clean days? Blocking apps? Reminders of money lost? Journaling? Talking to someone? Self-exclusion? Something else?

The main idea I’m trying to improve is simple: help someone pause, reflect, and stay accountable before they fall back into the same cycle.

I’m not here to claim an app can “fix” gambling addiction or replace real support. I just think tools can help some people in the small moments between an urge and a decision.

Would appreciate honest feedback on what features would actually be useful, and what would feel useless or even harmful.

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/nobettr-quit-gambling-now/id6777281276

I finally somehow had this insane win. I withdrew 15k and left the 170 in and got it to 2k but only toom out 600 and now I deleted all apps.

I'd say ~13.5k of this is all profit and that's being generous to myself and over estimating how much I down lifetime.

Self excluded from every app but FD but put a depo limit on and am keeping the app for the month as I maxed the rewards lol

No reason to keep gamblimg after this right? Fuck the casinos

#4 all time highest win in mines

A month ago, I logged onto PlayOJO to play blackjack. The next day, my account was closed. Their support finally got back to me 4 days later, stating that they consider counting cards a "forbidden activity", and thus reserve the rights to seize my winnings. Their official blackjack site (www.playojo.com/blackjack) has a FAQ that had 5 questions (now 4). One of them was "Is card counting allowed at PlayOJO?", and the answer literally could not make it any more explicitly clear:

https://i.imgur.com/w1zEqjm.png

They also had a page on their official website titled "11 blackjack tips - how to win at blackjack", where tip #4 was to learn to count cards, and tip #5 was to play blackjack at PlayOJO specifically.

So naturally, I was baffled when I read their email. I replied, sending 4 links from their official website where they state card counting is allowed at PlayOJO. And what they did next was thé grimiest thing I have ever experienced.

On the 2nd of June at 5 PM, they replied claiming that the text I was referencing was "taken from blogs and other websites", and that this was never published on their "official licensed website". Very odd, since this was their reply to my email containing 4 links to their official licensed website. So I open my sent email again, double-check the links, and what do you know? Every single one of them had now been either deleted or edited! Everything relating to card counting being allowed is gone.

I coincidentally archived these pages locally at 11 AM that same day. So at some point between 11 AM and 5 PM, they deleted every trace of card counting from their website & claimed they were never published in the first place. Just to give you an idea: They had a card counting guide & a general blackjack guide, both advising you to count cards at PlayOJO, both published in September of 2020. And on the 2nd of June, the card counting guide they completely deleted, and in the general blackjack guide, they replaced tip #4 with a different tip:

https://i.imgur.com/mDTU3Lc.png

Here's from their official blackjack page (www.playojo.com/blackjack), before & after the day they sent the mail claiming it was never published. Top image being the FAQ with the 5 questions, bottom one having one question deleted:

https://i.imgur.com/OSGznSm.png

They've also removed all card counting terms from their blackjack lexicon, entirely deleted their Swedish blackjack guide, even edited their French blackjack guides to no longer mention card counting. All of this can be independently verified by anybody via archive.org by selecting a date prior to the 2nd of June.

I decided to post this as like a general warning to others after finding out I gotta wait upwards 6 months to get my own money back (via ADR case against SkillOnNet/PlayOJO), or potentially even longer if they refuse to follow the ADR ruling (legal action). I get that the card-counting part in specific is irrelevant to almost everybody here, but a company that is willing to go through this level of effort to scrub their entire site, edit & delete 6 year old articles & then claim they were never published in the first place, all in an attempt to get out of paying 1 individual their own money, is not a site that I would recommend trusting with your money. And if you already do have money on PlayOJO, the only advice I would give you would be to withdraw it in smaller increments. I played blackjack on there regularly since november of last year, made 3 smaller withdraws of €50 without issue during this time. It wasn't until I attempted to withdraw my whole balance (€2300) that it became an issue.

Back at the Wynn after winning a $13k grand jackpot two weeks ago. This time I’m with my friend and it’s almost midnight. I’m ready to call it a night and he convinces me to go downstairs to play craps for “just a few rolls.” All the tables are full so he says, “Let’s walk over to Encore.”

We get there and saddle up to a table. My friend takes the dice and has a half decent roll- hits two points and a few place bet numbers before crapping out. I suggest we try another table across from us.

The table is $25 minimum (cheap for Encore but by now it was like 12:30 am and it wasn’t too big of a crowd). I tell my friend to roll and I put down about $160 total on various place bets. And then it happens.

He starts rolling and the 10’s start coming up nonstop. I had $25 on the 10 to start and just started pressing. He murdered the ten. Easy way. Hard way. Then he kept smacking 8’s and 6’s. He rolled for a full 35 minutes and I just kept power pressing my bets. The energy at the table was electric. He didn’t hit ATS though because he never rolled snake eyes. When he finally did crap out, I colored up the chips and was gobsmacked when the dealer said, “$7,700”.

Before the trip I had told my friend that you usually don’t win thousands of dollars on trips. He reminded me of that as we were walking to the cage to cash out. Well excuse me for being wrong 😅

Hit a huge keno win on Degen!

Insane hand yesterday. 2 quads on UTH and Royal on Pai Gow. Hit the quads back to back within 10 mins

Hey guys, so went on a carnival cruise and took them for 15-22K…. Soon as I went to get off, I was pulled aside right away…. Claimed the currency, but my question is what exactly do I need to do????

This was at BJ

"I hate losing. It's not even a question. But I mean, I have to respect lossing because lossing, is a part of winning. You never just win, you know you got to loss to win.

-Michael Jordan

Write your comments what is it to you personally, in this game of Baccarat?

Saw this on my fyp, whats the catch with this guy asking followers to place bets on their accounts?

I dont understand why he would fund people and saying he does not need account info or any personal details. And the amount of people offering to agree in the comments is shocking😂. Sounds way too good to be true.