Looking for some advice.
It's become clear that one of the players in our group has a severe gambling addiction, to the point where several of us have discussed if/what we should do about it?
The player in question lost his job earlier this year, which has perhaps made the addiction component more noticeable to us. He used to borrow money from some players in the past, and still does, but nobody even had any issues with getting paid back. Since he's been looking for work, he spends his days and nights playing online poker, blackjack, slots, sports betting, you name it.
Recently he revealed that he was down approx $15k playing poker this year and approx $10k playing online casino games. He mentioned he wanted to take a poker break, but in the next breath sends photo updates to our group chat from the poker room almost daily. He can't seem to help himself.
It's at the point where several players have expressed concern privately to those of us in the group who host and we've wondered what we should do to help/address the situation. Stop inviting him to home games? 1 on 1 intervention?
If someone else out there has any experience with a situation like this and has some advice they'd like to share either here or via PM, I'd be grateful.
Thanks.
It's become clear that one of the players in our group has a severe gambling addiction, to the point where several of us have discussed if/what we should do about it?
The player in question lost his job earlier this year, which has perhaps made the addiction component more noticeable to us. He used to borrow money from some players in the past, and still does, but nobody even had any issues with getting paid back. Since he's been looking for work, he spends his days and nights playing online poker, blackjack, slots, sports betting, you name it.
Recently he revealed that he was down approx $15k playing poker this year and approx $10k playing online casino games. He mentioned he wanted to take a poker break, but in the next breath sends photo updates to our group chat from the poker room almost daily. He can't seem to help himself.
It's at the point where several players have expressed concern privately to those of us in the group who host and we've wondered what we should do to help/address the situation. Stop inviting him to home games? 1 on 1 intervention?
If someone else out there has any experience with a situation like this and has some advice they'd like to share either here or via PM, I'd be grateful.
Thanks.