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07-29-2014 , 02:10 PM

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Yahoo sports did a series on the toughest jobs in sports. This was the last one.
http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/the-tu...155719099.html

I really dislike how every time a "mainstream" news group does a gambling story they find some professional tell his story then find some degen who lost everything. Yet when they do a story on government sponsored gambling(lotto) they never show you the story about the people who have lost everything that way.

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07-29-2014 , 03:08 PM

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Do people lose their entire life savings on the lottery? I'm sure it's happened, but I just can't even picture what type of total degenerate you must be to gamble away your entire retirement $1 at a time.

(By the way, I've never played the lottery. Not even once. So perhaps that explains my ignorance.)

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07-29-2014 , 03:11 PM

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On a brighter note, I thought the mainstream media (in this case, ESPN the Magazine) did a good job with the Bob Voulgaris story ("Meet the world's top NBA gambler"): http://espn.go.com/blog/playbook/dol...op-nba-gambler

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07-29-2014 , 03:33 PM

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No good active bettor would ever participate in an article like that so instead we get touts (Cokin), former bookmakers (Bob), and washed up legends (Billy Walters). There isn't much we can do about it except to live vicariously through Poogs.

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07-29-2014 , 04:04 PM

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Originally Posted by Iowa!

No good active bettor would ever participate in an article like that

+1. My thoughts exactly.

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07-29-2014 , 04:17 PM

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I've read the Bob article its very well done and not the typical for sure. Not sure i would call Billy Walters washed up but you might know more then I do.

I can't find any degen lotto stories but I am sure it happens. The per capita spend on the lotto in MA is $800 a year. Its hard to find any stories on it as anything you search comes up with winners who have lost it all back. But what I could find was New York gambling hotline found that 40% of its problem gambling calls were lottery related, 27% were Casino related nothing else was over 10%.

But its clearly an area where the states don't want to put much money into research either for obvious reason.

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