A man has revealed how a 2 bet led to him putting a ‘life or death’ 58,000 wager on one horse.
Patrick Foster bravely opened up to LADbible about his gambling addiction, and how it had catastrophic consequences on his career and family life.
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It all started in 2006 when the sports fanatic went to study at Durham University, while also playing cricket professionally full time.
“Life was pretty perfect,” he said.
But things changed on one fateful day when he joined some of his peers on a trip to a betting shop.
“I had 2 in my pocket leftover from the night before and being the overconfident, arrogant, slightly naive 19-year-old boy that I was at the time, I put my two quid in the machine,” he said.
Although he was…
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