More college students hooked on gambling

Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
Just weeks before Christmas 2005, Greg Hogan Jr. — president of his college class, gifted cello player and son of a respected minister — slipped a note to a terrified Lehigh County bank teller warning that he had a gun and demanding all her money. The unlikeliest of bank robbers, he couldn't imagine being caught, he said later. He was calm, cool and so matter-of-fact that he left the bank, hung out with friends, munched on pizza and sat through a screening of the "Chronicles of Narnia" as if nothing had happened. The reality came later that day when police slapped handcuffs on him as he was about to perform with his college orchestra. For Hogan, it was the end of a tortured journey from friendly dorm room poker games with buddies to the life of a compulsive gambler so addicted to online gambling that he sometimes spent more than 12 hours a day in front of his computer placing wagers.
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