[habs4ever]

When you go through $8mil, yup, that's an addiction, considering the type of game played.It wasn't 5 card stud with Taki,Jimmy Goldsmith and John Aspinall in Whites Club in St James,London with hands of $250,000. Care to guess how many pulls of a lever it takes to bet that amount? How much time is spent on LOSING hour after hour and the kinds of lies he tells himself as he stays up all night, pulling that lever?

He can't control his urge to play and lose.He is intelligent enough to know the slots have a huge vig for the house and yet...he's drawn to them and does it over and over.Just how would you describe such behaviour knowing you are going to lose over time and still wager huge amounts on that? Shouldn't you bet those sums to win?

[fml]

By reading your post, it sounds like you know the guy personally and he's poured out his inner thoughts to you. How do you know the lies he tells himself? How do you know his urge is uncontrollable, are you a family friend.

No where does it say he lost 8 million, it says he bought the chips, he said he broke even. I can't agree he's automatically an addict because he did something you would do differently.