Training. and sentenced eight years in prison. i ll explain the great detail, in the new book titled, gambler, secrets from a life at risk. and billy walter joins us live in studio. thanks for being here. thank you for having me. tell us what prompted you to write this book. why do you feel like this was an important time to get your story, not just your story, but the message about sports gambling out? i remember things that the prompter, prompted me to write a book. when i was a gambler, i suffered from addiction, i had issues in my life. at one time, i was addicted to gambling. unfortunately i was going to overturn that, and turned it into something it ended up being extremely positive for me. my daughter, while i was in prison, committed suicide. and there were a number of things that led to me being in prison. and help me read this book. the other thing is that sports betting is legal in a majority
Treatments that truly help work on the understanding that the dependency on these substances becomes wired into the brain and is not a sign the person is weak, lazy, or unwilling to stop.
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All of us that seems very odd considering now all of us have a casino in our pocket all of us have a casino in our pocket effectively. i think that is clearly pocket effectively. i think that is clearly what the government wanted to do when it announced it and says it will to do when it announced it and says it will do to do when it announced it and says it will do is to do when it announced it and says it will do is bring gambling legislation into the 215t century and digital age, will it go far enough. and digital age, will it go far enough, we will have to see, and i have enough, we will have to see, and i have been enough, we will have to see, and i have been speaking to someone in the last few have been speaking to someone in the last few days whose son has become addicted last few days whose son has become addicted to last few days whose son has become addicted to gambling, since his 18th birthday, addicted to gambling, since his 18th birthday, he opened an on
And regulations we have in this country and you will get companies who will bombard you with marketing. coming to your smartphone all the time, impulse buying, and using that technology to actually market advertise what they called the heavy spenders, sometimes called the vips, there can be abuses in terms of that. i think in the uk we get a lot of bad press about gambling but we have to realise when it comes the internet you are only as strong as your weakest link and if there are hundreds of gambling sites out there both legal and illegal not operating under british rules, those companies could be using abusive techniques to draw people in to take every last penny out of the punters. the global anule is penny out of the punters. the global angle is very penny out of the punters. the global angle is very interesting. penny out of the punters. the global angle is very interesting. katie, i angle is very interesting. katie, they are game changers. it seems bizarre we haven t they