Hi Rdy4Chng,
Keep it up. Admit the below points and take it from there you know your self and you can taylor a strategy to fit your situation:
1: you can’t win money gambling (no need to explain i believe you konw it by now).
2: you can’t recover what you have lost so let it go and don’t chase it.
3: the money is the drug. If you have extra money and access to gambling the urges will continue untill your brain get tired from resisting these urges and then gamble agin.
4:willpower alone will not work. part of our brain is f**** up. So we shouldn’t depend on that part to act rationally.
5:what we can do based on points 1 to 4, is to plan how to protect ourselves in advance. Build your defensive strategy when your mind is clear to protect you when the irrational part kicks in.
Hope you all the best.