I hear you Luna!
I could have written every word of that post. One hundred ***** over!
At Easter, I was really desperate for money. Like you I made a "final,one last ditch attempt" to retrieve even a fraction of my then recent (huge) losses. I struggled for hours upon hours. I was down to my last few euro, when suddenly I hit a jackpot. The chinese girl who works in that little den of eniquity they call a casino, must have been sizing me up for hours because when I checked out she said "go now or you lose!" I wanted to prove her wrong by trying another few "spins"….Ten hours later I reeled out into the car park, penniless, shocked and sick. "Where was my money?" It was really a wake up call for me, Luna. The money I so badly needed to cover previous losses had evaporated before my eyes. I had gone into a trance and COULD NOT STOP GAMBLING!
I was shocked to learn that day/night, that my need to gamble was far greater than my need for the money I so badly needed and was "lucky" to get.
GCs never win, Luna!