49 minGambling addiction
He turned $200 into $100,000, then lost it all
Uri Edell/Recovering gambler
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A $10,000 slot win ruined his life
He started gambling at twelve. One slot win in his twenties led to a decade of offshore casinos and blackjack.
Sam placed his first bet at twelve years old. In his twenties he won ten thousand dollars on a slot machine, and that win cost him the next decade.
Publicly he looked successful. Privately he was betting on anything that produced a hit: slots, offshore crypto casinos, blackjack.
We got into the design of slot machines, why sports betting apps are engineered the way they are, and the fact that roughly ninety-eight per cent of insurance does not cover gambling treatment.
