I lost $580,000 in ten days and wanted to die

Joe Cannon is from Chicago. Over twelve years he went from fifty dollar bets to risking a hundred and fifty thousand on one game, running losses across five different bookies at once.

He lost five hundred and eighty thousand dollars in ten days. His story is not about the money. It is about how sports betting apps are built for vulnerable young men, and how the dopamine works the same way a drug does.

Joe is blunt about something a lot of people find hard to hear: gambling drove him closer to suicide than opioids or alcohol ever did.