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Hey folks. As some of you probably remember, I mentioned on a few occasions so far that I'm maintaining a book of records concerning my online gambling in the last couple of years. A book which I call my gambling diary... This year I made a few changes in the way I gather and record my information and thanks God I did it as it is now quite easily to review the whole year in just a couple of minutes and see what happened. Before sharing my numbers, I would like to clarify a few rules I'm using when it comes to my gambling. First of all, at the beginning of the year I try to determine some predefined amount which I could use on a monthly basis and which I must stick to and do not exceed! And so, my monthly gambling budget was $120, which means that the total amount of money I could lose for 2014 was $1500. Unfortunately, November was a bad month and for the first time this year I afford to brake my own rules and used the funds, meant for depositing in December in the same month. No need to explain that I lost them and that's why I mentioned in another thread that I'm done with gambling for this year... The numbers: Total numbers of deposits - 98 Total number of withdrawals - 38 Total amount deposited throughout the year - $10100 Total amount withdrawn throughout the year - $8600 Total amount lost throughout the year - $1500 Largest deposit made at a time- $330 Largest withdrawal made a time - $900 Average amount of deposits made - $103 Average amount of withdrawals made - $226 Total number of casinos where deposits have been made - 7 (the smallest ever number since I'm gambling online, 78% of all deposits made throughout the year went to only one casino btw) Games played - mostly Microgaming, NetEnt and Thunderkick .... Conclusions: 1. Sticking to a predefined budget was the best way for me to prevent from heavy losses. Must admit it is working perfectly so far! 2. At a certain period of time I was almost $2500 ahead, but was chasing larger profit. The final result is obvious already. The inference is that if I had set a target amount of winnings (a double of the set amount of losses for example) I could have been a happy punter right now. 3. I lost my gambling out of control ONLY ONCE and it lasted just for some 60 minutes. The result - $980 gone with the speed of the sound! 4. I had some insane misses during 2014. I had twice a 4-reel Wild Desire in Immortal Romance (once at 0.30 and 0.60 bet per spin) and just one missing wild in reel 1 to create not one but two wild lines during the feature at DOA while playing 1.80 per spin! 5. Despite all ups and downs, I am happy right now. Because I managed to stick to my own rules (on the whole ) for the first time since I'm gambling online and that's a huge success for each and every punter! 6. As one of the fellow members here used to say (SlotoHolic, we missed you mate! ) "Everything in gambling is a matter of self control!". We just have to find it!