Ted Hartwell had learned to gamble from his father. It was a way to relax and have fun. But by the time he had racked up $90,000 in secret gambling debts as an adult, it wasn’t fun anymore. He had told his wife that he had quit years ago and knew that he was on the verge of losing everything.
Mr. Hartwell’s story is far from isolated.
As a student at Texas Tech University, he had supported himself by playing in a weekly high-stakes poker game. After completing his master’s degree in anthropology, he got a job at the Desert Research Institute in Nevada….
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