Tuesday, January 29, 2013

Compulsive gamblers often seeking escape

Port Arthur News
Todd R. (not his real name and initial) was in deep. He used some checks on a credit card account in his wife’s name to withdraw upward of $3,500 at a time to pay for his gambling habit. Often he would reach around $20,000 and would then have to figure out how to cover that amount. Todd described racing home each day in hopes of beating her to the mailbox.