1 hr 4 minGambling addiction
All of his income went straight to gambling
Daniel Bullen/Compulsive gambler in recovery
21 conversations
Gambling addiction
The addiction that leaves no track marks and no smell on your breath.
Gambling is the addiction nobody can see. There are no track marks, nothing on your breath, and no bad night anyone else can point to. People hold jobs and marriages together for years while it takes everything underneath.
These are conversations with people who went all the way down with it. Some lost six figures in an afternoon. Some lost a decade. All of them talk about the part that is hardest to say out loud, which is how long they kept it hidden and how ordinary they looked while doing it.
The conversations
Every episode about gambling addiction
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
44 minFamily and relationships
Loving an addict turned out to be the best decision of her life
Mia Ruggiero/Unfiltered by Mia
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
44 minGambling addiction
He answered 18 of 20 gambling questions yes at age 18
Sal/Gamblers Anonymous, since 1986
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
42 minGambling addiction
He got high while shopping for his own rehab clothes
Jordan Freeman/In recovery
58 minGambling addiction
A therapist on why you think you'll win it back
Gambling therapist/Clinician
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
54 minHeroin and opioids
Inside Olivia's descent into IV heroin addiction
Olivia/Nurse, seven years sober
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
- 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
- Debt and moneySix figures gone in an afternoon, and the years spent paying it back.16
Gambling addiction is one of 16 topics every episode of Nothing's Off The Table is tagged against. Search the whole library.
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