1 hr 4 minGambling addiction
All of his income went straight to gambling
Daniel Bullen/Compulsive gambler in recovery
16 conversations
Debt and money
Six figures gone in an afternoon, and the years spent paying it back.
The money is usually the part that forces the issue. Not the shame, not the health, the fact that there is nothing left and people are owed.
These guests are specific about the numbers and about what they did next. One of them paid back every single person he owed and walks through exactly how. Nobody here found a shortcut, and none of them think there is one.
The conversations
Every episode about debt and money
1 hr 4 min
41 minGambling addiction
His daughter was in the hospital, and he was home gambling
Joe Pizzimenti/Last bet December 2013
49 minGambling addiction
He turned $200 into $100,000, then lost it all
Uri Edell/Recovering gambler
42 minGambling addiction
Online gambling is the next addiction epidemic
John Bonatesta/The Odds and Reality
58 minGambling addiction
How DraftKings and FanDuel engineer addiction
Jonathan Cohen/Historian, author of Losing Big
38 minGambling addiction
He lost six figures in 35 minutes, then the casino offered him a free room
Danny/Bet on Reset
38 minGambling addiction
What his wife put in the pizza box changed everything
Eugene K./Five years clean, Gamblers Anonymous
51 minGambling addiction
He wagered $126 million in four years
Sam Favata/Former professional baseball player
54 minGambling addiction
He staged his own robbery to hide a $20,000 gambling loss
Adam Joseph/Ten years of hidden gambling
30 minGambling addiction
He turned $30,000 into $500,000 in chips, then lost it in 72 hours
Kurt F./Compulsive gambler in recovery
43 minGambling addiction
Gambling addiction almost killed him by 28
Anthony Natoli/Tech sales, San Francisco
54 minGambling addiction
A $10,000 slot win ruined his life
Sam/Founder, Evive
51 minGambling addiction
I lost $580,000 in ten days and wanted to die
Joe Cannon/Twelve-year gambling spiral
1 hr 20 minGambling addiction
He won $3.2 million in 48 minutes, then lost $13 million
Mathew Bowyer/Bookmaker in the Ohtani case
1 hr 1 minGambling addiction
He lost everything gambling, then paid back every person
Moshe/The Watch King NYC
1 hrGambling addiction
He won seven figures, then lost it all in 24 hours
Mike Steinmetz/Entrepreneur, former actor
Elsewhere in the library
Other things people come here for
- Family and relationshipsThe marriages that survived it, and the ones that did not.30
- Rehab and treatmentTwenty-five treatment centres, one that finally worked, and why.28
- Mental health and suicideThe nights people planned to end it, and what stopped them.22
- Gambling addictionThe addiction that leaves no track marks and no smell on your breath.21
- Sober living and habitsThe unglamorous daily mechanics of staying clean.21
- AlcoholHigh-functioning drinking, hidden bottles and the double life it takes to keep it going.16
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