She started with $750 and hit a hot streak last summer that stretched over six days. She played round after round of online casino games until her winnings hit $500,000. The windfall would make up for every bad bet and pay off all she owed.
Fischer, a 41-year-old mental-health professional and suburban homeowner with two boys, was by then in debt by six figures from online gambling losses. For nearly a year, she lost again and again, complaining to at least one gambling company that she had a problem but couldnt stop. As a psychiatrist familiar with human impulses and addiction, Fischer knew better than most what she needed to do.
Yet she was up against an industry skilled in the art of leveraging data analytics and human behavior to kee…
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