I have exactly same experience here, except my gambling addiction started playing cards with local friends, and then online poker made my addiction compulsive. I couldt forget my loss due to poker in very few days and then Blackjack and Odds made it even worse. I know i am good and deciplined poker player but Online poker.. it can never be fair. I am stupid to believe on it. My online blackjack experience has been horrible, its really scary. One shouldnt try it. It is worst among every other online gambling and you cant even trust Online live blackjack, and not even in Casinos in your town. Any type of gambling is a addiction. Think, Gambling as a business? It cant be pure. And we are ready to put everything here. We are loosers actually to start playing . But if we can give up gambling, we are even better them who have never gambled. I am struggling to quit but of course even now I will be glad to play if I get chance. :). I wish I can stop all the gambling business in the world, or i wish I can donate my life to reduce it.