Tipsfromthebookie

Thank you to everyone who reached out after my post yesterday. I didn’t expect it to reach so many people, but since the truth is out there, here’s a little more of my story. My gambling didn’t start last year. It started in 6th grade, when I was sold me a winning 50/50 ticket for $2,000 at a baseball game. By 7th grade I was rolling dice for lunch money. By the time I was 18, I had 40+ offshore accounts. I thought it was all just fun and I could get away with it cause I was young… When I turned 21 in college, it got dangerous. I couldn’t stop winning at first… parlays, straights, glitches, anything. I’d win $8k in a day, buy the whole bar shots, black out, and wake up with thousands in charges that didn’t even matter because I was “up so much.” I gave friends money, bought them watches, threw tens of thousands away at gentlemen’s clubs while on booze and drugs. Was it fun? At first, yeah it was a lot of fun… I would be lying if I said it wasn’t. But numbness grows quietly. Even when I was up over $400K, I never bought myself a single thing. And then the losing started. And it didn’t stop. One day I lost $100,000. In ONE day. I called and was screaming at a bank worker to let me deposit more. That moment still makes me sick how selfish I was to someone just doing their job. From there, it snowballed. I silently destroyed my mind, my finances, and the person I thought I was. I became the man I used to joke about when I first started gambling…addicted, desperate, ashamed. I couldn’t even look at myself in the mirror. Addiction doesn’t happen overnight. It’s a slow decline of who you are, one bet at a time. More to come… and thank you again for the support. If you’re struggling, please reach out. You’re not alone. ❤️ Blaise B 12/30/25

Hi everyone… This is extremely hard for me to say publicly, but if it helps even one person, then it’s worth it. My name is Blaise B, and I am a compulsive gambler. My last bet was on 12/30/25 (a scratch off). Last year I lost everything, my life savings, credit cards maxed out, and every ounce of hope I had in myself. In total, I gambled a little over $10 million and lost more than $400,000. I attached a few screenshots from last April… I was in a very sick and dark place, silently losing thousands of dollars a day while pretending everything was fine but it was not. Some days I’d win $50k+ in house money but then lose every dollar of it plus thousands more from my own bank account before the night was over. People saw the “big shot,” the guy who won hundreds of thousands… but they never saw the reality: losing $40,000 driving home from work playing baccarat, losing $30,000 sitting on the toilet, losing entire paychecks the day they hit my account while lying in bed, alone with a screen and a sickness I couldn’t escape. I barely slept…chased until the sun came up…chased until I had nothing left to give. In December, everything inside me broke. I wrote a note saying I was sorry and left my parents house driving 120 mph toward a median. Somehow… I got a sign from God telling me to stop. That same night, I walked into a Gamblers Anonymous meeting. I was shaking, ashamed, and empty but it saved my life. I was with like minded individuals who also battle this sickness. This Thursday, I’ll be chairing my first GA meeting. I went from suicide to now I’m paying off debt, paying my cash advances, and slowly rebuilding myself. Not just financially, but as a human being. If you’re going through anything like this, please reach out. My DMs are open. Gambling addiction is a silent war so many fight alone… but you don’t have to. Life really does get better. And to anyone I’ve hurt or let down along the way… I’m truly sorry. ❤️ Blaise B 12/30/26

Hi everyone… This is extremely hard for me to say publicly, but if it helps even one person, then it’s worth it. My name is Blaise B, and I am a compulsive gambler. My last bet was on 12/30/25 (a scratch off). Last year I lost everything, my life savings, credit cards maxed out, and every ounce of hope I had in myself. In total, I gambled a little over $10 million and lost more than $400,000. I attached a few screenshots from last April… I was in a very sick and dark place, silently losing thousands of dollars a day while pretending everything was fine but it was not. Some days I’d win $50k+ in house money but then lose every dollar of it plus thousands more from my own bank account before the night was over. People saw the “big shot,” the guy who won hundreds of thousands… but they never saw the reality: losing $40,000 driving home from work playing baccarat, losing $30,000 sitting on the toilet, losing entire paychecks the day they hit my account while lying in bed, alone with a screen and a sickness I couldn’t escape. I barely slept…chased until the sun came up…chased until I had nothing left to give. In December, everything inside me broke. I wrote a note saying I was sorry and left my parents house driving 120 mph toward a median. Somehow… I got a sign from God telling me to stop. That same night, I walked into a Gamblers Anonymous meeting. I was shaking, ashamed, and empty but it saved my life. I was with like minded individuals who also battle this sickness. This Thursday, I’ll be chairing my first GA meeting. I went from suicide to now I’m paying off debt, paying my cash advances, and slowly rebuilding myself. Not just financially, but as a human being. If you’re going through anything like this, please reach out. My DMs are open. Gambling addiction is a silent war so many fight alone… but you don’t have to. Life really does get better. And to anyone I’ve hurt or let down along the way… I’m truly sorry. ❤️ Blaise B 12/30/26