Family Game

Published: Jan. 8, 2020, 5:51 p.m.

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David\\u2019s first time gambling was at age six.\\xa0 His father taught him to play poker, making penny bets, and it soon became a family activity.\\xa0 Later in life, David can see that other kids would enjoy a range of activities but he only wanted to play poker.\\xa0 Soon his family games went from pennies to dimes.\\xa0 As an adult, David now knows his father, who showed him how to gamble, had a gambling problem himself.\\xa0 In his teen years, he would spend his money from his after school jobs to gamble and it consumed his life; if he wasn\\u2019t spending time gambling he was using it to prepare to make his bets.

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