The following questions were made in association with the EUROPEAN CASINO FORUM for gamblers to ask themselves:

1.Have you ever jeopardized an important relationship, your studies, your Job or your career because of gambling?

2.When it seem you are not lucky and you keep on losing, do you insist on keep on gambling?

3.When you win, do you feel like gambling more and more so you can win more money?

4.Do you usually gamble until you run out of money?

5.Have you ever lied, stolen or borrowed some money?

6.You don’t care if you gamble some money that was meant for something else?

7.Do you usually spend more time gambling than you have intended?

8.Do you gamble to forget about personal problems, disappointments or frustrations?

9.Does gambling makes you depressed or gives you suicidal ideas?

10.Have you ever sold any of your personal belongings to gamble or to pay a gamble debt?

The more positive answers you obtain bigger are the odds of having a serious gambling problem. We advise you to talk to someone about it. And the sooner you do it the better

Recommendations for compulsive gamblers

EssentialSteps:

1. Gamble less or stop gambling while you’re trying to quit gambling.

2. Analyse your behaviour: You gamble because you are bored, stressed or under a lot of pressure?

3.Use a calendar and mark down all the days in which you haven’t gambled so you can see your own progress.

4.Ask someone you trust to keep your Money safe for a certain period of time - for instance for two weeks.

5.Buy yourself a gift with the Money you have saved from having stopped gambling.

6.Remember: Live a day at a time

1.First of all, be honest with yourself and with other people.

2.Talk to someone you trust about it: someone in your family, a friend, an adviser, your doctor or phone Gamblers Anonymous.

3.Talk to the casino’s managers, they are experienced people in this area and will be able to understand you and advise you. The Casino may implement some restrictions in order to help you restrain from your addiction:

1.Organise a self-restriction gaming period, implemented by the casino at your request. Once this period is over, the Casino’s managers may consider your case once again.

2.Only being allowed to gamble with real Money or previously limiting the amount of money you want to gamble with, only being aloud to use one check or limiting the use of your debit card to one time.

3.Request a written interdiction to The General Gaming Inspection justifying your reasons.