How and Why I Conned the Bookies: Lessons from a Loser for - download pdf or read online

By Jason Haddigan

ISBN-10: 1909976512

ISBN-13: 9781909976511

How and Why I Conned the Bookies is the genuine tale of a gambler uncontrolled. writer Jason Haddigan spent a lot of his lifestyles at the highway, scamming bookmakers to gasoline a playing habit that easily intended him returning almost each penny in misplaced bets. it's a roller-coaster tale that starts off on England’s south coast as a toddler feeding fruit machines with pocket cash and simply ends following his extradition from the us after enjoying and wasting within the casinos of Las Vegas. In-between are his daunting money owed of a chaotic adolescence within the shadow of his father, additionally an inveterate gambler one step sooner than his collectors, regularly desiring to promote up, circulate on, and at last to head at the run. It tells of ways the parallel international of playing can damage every thing: marriages, relationships, domestic existence and all basic values. A compelling, precise account of challenge playing. Opens-up a twilight international of making a bet, casinos and scams. Highlights temptation and manipulation of gamblers. hugely topical as a result of Parliamentary and media debates.

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Extract: ‘A few days later, I received myself a task in Debenhams. i used to be operating of their activities shop and located myself promoting activities gear to actually somebody that got here in… I basically lasted every week even though. Poker and the evil roulette tables have been extra vital than promoting rowing machines.’

About the writer: for a few years Jason Haddigan lived off the proceeds of playing of varied forms, together with having a bet on horses, canine and his personal snooker/pool talents. at the highway for years, he took to scamming bookmakers throughout England and Scotland. He additionally frequently gambled in Las Vegas and for a time Mexico. A winner and loser of occasionally breath-taking quantities, he ultimately ‘lost every little thing’ and ended up in legal, banned from so much making a bet outlets national. He now advises politicians, execs and reformers in addition to encouraging young children to lead away from temptation. he's at the moment fascinated by the crusade to limit the scope of mounted odds having a bet terminals (FOBTs).

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How and Why I Conned the Bookies: Lessons from a Loser for - download pdf or read online

How and Why I Conned the Bookies is the genuine tale of a gambler uncontrolled. writer Jason Haddigan spent a lot of his existence at the highway, scamming bookmakers to gasoline a playing habit that easily intended him returning nearly each penny in misplaced bets. it's a roller-coaster tale that starts on England’s south coast as a toddler feeding fruit machines with pocket cash and in simple terms ends following his extradition from the united states after enjoying and wasting within the casinos of Las Vegas.

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