38 minGambling addiction
What his wife put in the pizza box changed everything
Eugene K./Five years clean, Gamblers Anonymous
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He won seven figures, then lost it all in 24 hours
A professional actor turned entrepreneur on compulsive gambling that started in high school and never stopped escalating.
Mike Steinmetz grew up in Danbury, Connecticut, in a well-off family with thirty-five dogs, feeling like an outsider in a small town.
He went from magic tricks and punk rock to compulsive gambling that started in high school and escalated for years. He won seven figures and gave it all back inside a day.
This one is about the lifestyle that surrounds the addiction, and how normal it can look from the outside right up until it does not.
