Patrick Foster

And definitely I look back now and there were like weeks where I would be...

like behaving like I was sort of bigger and I would be going to the bar and buying huge rounds.

That's because I'd won money.

And then other times I'd be sort of skimping my way around, um, nights out and stuff.

And you just, you don't, I wasn't thinking rationally at all when it came to money.

Um, but no point did I think to myself, Oh, I've just won X amount of money.

Um,

even if it's on a single bet, I'm going to put some of it away or I'm going to go and buy something meaningful.

It was always, right, I'm just going to spend that on either gambling or drinking or my kind of social lifestyle.

Yeah, I mean, I bet on anything and everything by the end.

When I first started gambling, there were kind of two things that I did.

I bet on sport.

I mean, I'm fanatical about all sports, so I would bet on anything sport-related.

A lot of football betting, a lot of horse racing.

And then the other thing, which was probably my biggest issue and biggest vice, was sports.

roulette so I would spend hours and huge amounts of money on physical roulette machines in betting shops and then online roulette is what I'd do kind of when there wasn't sport on or

it got to the point where actually I'd be sitting in a bookies and I wouldn't be able to watch a horse race because I wouldn't be able to wait for the outcome.

I'd have to be spinning a roulette wheel at the same time.

Um, and, and over time that just got worse and worse to the point where it

I had to be gambling basically every minute of every day, which is where it's sort of terrifying.