I have a small gambling addiction problem

THINK about how much money you may have lost gambling, and get ready to feel better about yourself.
In an interview on “In Depth with Graham Bensinger”, golfer John Daly reveals he has incurred between $55 million and $57 million in gambling losses in his life.
Daly realised the ridiculously large number when doing research for his 2007 biography.
Amazingly, Daly thought he had lost between $20 million and $25 million, but he was way off. Even more amazingly, he has no regrets.
“I should say I regret it,” Daly said. “But I did it, I move on from it, I had a lot of fun doing it.”
According to Golf News Net, Daly would spend whole days in a casino, playing 10 blackjack hands at a time while risking between $5000 and $15,000 per hand.
Daly, who has two major wins in his career, currently plays overseas and sporadically on the PGA Tour.

Senor Santa, Senor Smith, Jungle Rocket..Smirnoff Trifecta paid for 3rd year of my BSc, when I was on my way out to go and work. Have lost 1000 fold since then .....damn Lions have scored..... I'm sure there's a multitude of Rags to Riches & Vice Versa stories.

Omar Sharif, an actor renowned for his suavity and reserve, has been convicted of head-butting a police officer at a casino in the suburbs of Paris.
The court was told that the star of Dr Zhivago and Lawrence of Arabia became enraged last month during a high-stakes game of roulette when he was in the process of losing €30,000 (£21,400).

He began arguing with the croupier, who was so alarmed by the actor's fury that he summoned the police.

When an officer arrived at the Enghien-les-Bains casino and asked him to leave, Sharif, 71, grew angrier still, began swearing, and then head-butted the policeman. The officer was given two days off work to recover.

Sharif was given a one-month suspended sentence and fined €1,500 for insults and violence directed at a police officer.

He was also ordered to pay €300 damages to the policeman.

At the hearing Sharif claimed that he had no memory of the event.

The incident had been caught on closed circuit television, however.

Despite repeated protestations that his gambling past was far behind him, Sharif was a regular at the Enghien-les-Bains casino, a lakeside building eight miles from Paris.

After his film career waned, Sharif became a world-class bridge player. But he lost much of his earnings betting on cards and horses, and he has readily admitted that it was losses of up to £750,000 a night that compelled him to make some of his worst films.
In a recent interview he claimed that he had renounced gambling.

"Casinos are a place you go to when you arrive in a town where you know nobody," he said, adding that he could no longer afford the luxury of blowing all his money at the card tables.

"The reason that I stopped gambling about 10 years ago is that I'm not sure any more that I can earn all the money that I want ... It's an age where you have to be careful."

Perhaps more revealingly, he admitted in the same interview that he felt he was now old enough to behave how he liked.

"At my age you can die any moment. It's not likely but possible, and therefore I want to do what I feel like doing," he said.

An employee at the expensive Paris hotel where he lives permanently ("It's like home - with lots of servants," according to Sharif) said yesterday that the actor had left to go on holiday and would not be returning for the rest of the month.

No one at the casino would comment on the incident.

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Lost by Omar Sharif in a high-stakes game of BRIDGE: The opulent £4.5 million mansion bought by star in the 1970s - only for him to hand it over days later

collection of pictures has offered a glimpse inside the heavenly £4.5 million mansion which, according to legend, was lost by Lawrence of Arabia star Omar Sharif in a high-stakes card game just days after he bought it in the decedent heyday of the 1970s.

Nestled in a 7,000 metre sq complex built out of a volcanic quarry on the Spanish island of Lanzarote, the mansion, named Casa Omar Sharif because of its apparent connection to the Hollywood star, offers sweeping views, a private pool, lavish furnishings and private tunnels through the unique surrounding landscape.

Omar Sharif, then one of the world's most desirable actors, is said to have fallen in love with the property while he was on the island filming The Mysterious Island in 1973 and bought it on the spot.