Baton Rouge Gamblers Anonymous

08/24/2026

The site never closes.

That's the part that's hard to explain to somebody who's never done it. A casino has a door and a drive home. A store has hours. This has none of that. It's 11:40 on a Monday night, the house is asleep, and the tab is just sitting there. Same as it was at lunch.

You've gotten good at logistics nobody else sees — the transfers, the second account, the timing of when things clear. That took real effort and real intelligence. You probably never guessed how much of your mind it would end up renting.

And you already know how tomorrow morning starts, because it's started that way before.

Here's the only thing worth saying tonight: the people in our meetings aren't there because something dramatic happened. Most of us are there because we got tired. Tired of the arithmetic, tired of the managing, tired of being the only person who knew.

You can walk in without deciding anything first. No dues, no last names, nobody asking you to explain yourself.

🕖 Tonight, 7:00–8:00 PM
South Baton Rouge Church of Christ — Open GA
8725 Jefferson Hwy, Baton Rouge
(Education Building, to the right of the church)

🕖 Tomorrow, 7:00–8:00 PM
Broadmoor Baptist Church — Open GA
9755 Goodwood Blvd, Baton Rouge
(small building on the right side of the parking lot)

Send a message to learn more

08/23/2026

You found them in the console of the car.

Not a stack. Just more than there should be. A few scratched, a few not, and a receipt underneath that you didn't go looking for and now can't unsee.

So you're standing in the driveway on a Wednesday morning trying to decide which one you are: the person who's overreacting, or the person who's been right for a while and kept talking herself out of it.

You've probably already run the conversation in your head a dozen times. You know how it goes. He gets defensive, or he gets quiet, or he agrees so fast that nothing actually changes. And you're left holding it by yourself again.

You don't have to hold it by yourself.

There's a room in town for the people who love someone who gambles. Not to fix them, not to build a case — just to sit with people who already know the exact shape of what you're carrying, because they've carried it too.

Gam-Anon — for family and friends
🕖 Monday, 7:00–8:00 PM
South Baton Rouge Church of Christ
8725 Jefferson Hwy, Baton Rouge
(Education Building, to the right of the church)

And if they are ready, or if you just want to see what it looks like, tonight's GA meeting is open to both gamblers and their families and friends:

🕖 Sunday, 7:00–8:00 PM
Stepping Stones Club House
1027 N Burnside Dr, Gonzales

You can come alone. You can come and say nothing at all.

08/16/2026

There's a particular quiet to Sunday morning.

The house is still. The coffee's on. For about ten minutes, nothing is asking anything of you.

Then the arithmetic starts. What's actually in the account. What you told somebody on the way out the door. Whether Friday was as bad as you think it was, or a little worse.

And you can still see the room. The cold air. The carpet. The machine that felt like it was three spins from turning. You remember deciding to leave. You also remember not leaving.

Here's what nobody says out loud: a lot of us ran that same Sunday morning math for years. Right here around Baton Rouge. We weren't weak, and we weren't stupid. We were stuck — and we didn't know there was a room full of people who had been stuck in exactly the same way.

You don't have to quit anything before you walk in. You don't have to talk. You don't have to give your last name. You can sit in the back, listen for an hour, and go home.

Tonight, if you want it:

🕖 Sunday, 7:00–8:00 PM
Stepping Stones Club House
1027 N Burnside Dr, Gonzales

Or tomorrow:
🕖 Monday, 7:00–8:00 PM
South Baton Rouge Church of Christ
8725 Jefferson Hwy, Baton Rouge
(Education Building, to the right of the church)

Come as you are. That's the whole requirement.

06/01/2026

Is your shot clock ticking down till Wednesday?
For a lot of people, that buzz is just part of the fun — a few bucks, a little something riding on the first game to make it interesting.
But if the number in your head has been creeping up... if part of you is already planning how you'll make it all back over these last few games... you might know that feeling better than you'd like to.
You're not the only one who's been there. Plenty of us spent nights exactly like the one coming up doing quiet math we didn't want to admit to anyone.
Here's the thing: there's a room full of people who get it, no questions asked. You can walk in, say nothing, and just listen.
If Wednesday evening already has a plan attached to it, here's another kind of room you can sit in — tonight, tomorrow, or Wednesday itself:
Mon — 7:00 PM, South Baton Rouge Church of Christ, 8725 Jefferson Hwy, Baton Rouge
Tue — 7:00 PM, Broadmoor Baptist Church, 9755 Goodwood Blvd, Baton Rouge
Wed — 6:30 PM, Grace Baptist Church, 630 Richland Ave, Baton Rouge
However the week goes, you're welcome. 💚

05/14/2026

The games are getting louder.

The series tighten. The lines move. The notifications start coming in faster, and the group chats don't quiet down until well past midnight. For most folks, it's just a fun stretch of the spring.

For some of us, it's the stretch that gets away from us.

If something in you already knows tonight is going to be a problem — or tomorrow, or this weekend — you don't have to wait it out alone.

🌿 Thursday, 12:00 PM — Baton Rouge

🌿 Thursday, 5:30 PM — Alexandria

🌿 Thursday, 7:00 PM — Baton Rouge

🌿 Thursday, 7:00 PM — Hammond

🌿 Friday, 12:00 PM — Central

Addresses and full meeting list: https://batonrougega.org

Come early. Come late. Just come.

Struggling with gambling? Find hope and support through Baton Rouge Gamblers Anonymous. Join a local GA meeting and start your recovery journey today.

05/01/2026

Everyone's got a horse this weekend.

Coworkers passing around phones. Cousins texting picks. The bartender pulling for the long shot. Even people who never bet are putting "just $20" on something with a name they like.

For most of them, it'll be a story they tell on Monday — win or lose — and then it's over.

But maybe this isn't the only "$20" you've put down this month. Maybe it hasn't been just $20 in a long time. Maybe the rush of having something riding on the outcome is the part you keep chasing — and when the race ends, you're already looking for the next one.

If that sounds familiar, you're not the first person to feel it. There are folks all over Baton Rouge who've sat exactly where you're sitting and found their way to something steadier.

You don't have to talk. You don't have to introduce yourself. You can come and just listen.

Today — Friday, 12:00 PM
Blackwater Methodist Church
10000 Blackwater Rd, Baker, LA 70818
(Meeting room behind the church)

Tomorrow — Saturday, 10:00 AM
Luke 10:27 Church
536 Centerville St NE, Denham Springs, LA 70726
(Second building on the left, up the wheelchair ramp in back)

More meetings and information at http://batonrougega.org

The chairs will be there if you are.