His Story Continues

I suppose the first experience I had of gambling was going to the 

races, when I was in my early teens with my family, but this was 

just clearly fun, and nothing at this time formed any addictive behaviour.

While I was working in the mines we as a group of young men 

would play poker on the weekends, this again was fun and we all 

yearned for this fun but it was not addictive.

I then started to work away from home and while I was not 

working I started gambling in the bookmakers on the horses, this 

was more of a time killer than anything, and this is when I first felt 

the need to gamble.

I moved onto other jobs and started to gamble more frequently.

About 1995 I actually became aware of my need to gamble.

But this I still thought was fun and did not feel addicted to it in 

anyway.   I then went overseas to work and I did not have the 

opportunity to gamble and did not bother for about two years but 

when I went on leave, I did gamble, this again was taken as fun.

I then went to Taiwan and started to gamble over the internet 

because gambling was not allowed there, but this again was only 

for limited time and for relatively small amounts of money.

I then got back to the UK and I decided to make my living by 

gambling this is when the gambling actually became serious, this 

was in the year 2002.

I know thought I will make my living this way.

I started gambling on all sports and horses and played big time even 

sometimes up to 12 hours per day, I soon lost all my savings 

and then I decided to move away to work on a job in the UK.

But I DID NOT leave the gambling behind me and I re-mortgaged 

my house and borrowed another £72,000 pounds on the property 

and another £10,000 with a personal loan.

I soon lost all this including my monthly salary.