Patrick Foster

And I guess a sure sign for people that things might be sort of spiraling out of control is when you do start to gamble on other things.

Because I talk about sport, like I'm sport mad, but there are some sports that...

I don't know anything about American football, but when there wasn't football on and the American football was on in the evening, I'd put bets on that.

I wouldn't have a clue what I was gambling on, but it was just a medium by which I could bet.

And huge sums of money as well.

How much?

I mean, by the end, it was like thousands of pounds.

I remember putting like a bet on Hungarian handball or something, and it was literally thousands of pounds.

And I didn't have a clue.

I just went off what the odds would be, whichever the greater the odds.

And I thought, and that's where it's nuts.

Yeah, I mean, I guess I did because I'm not sort of stupid.

But actually, when I think about it, you think, my God, it is stupid that you believe that you can beat the system or beat the machine.

And honestly, it's mad to think back, but I used to...

have theories about being able to understand what numbers are going to come up next and what patterns it was going to follow.

So if it was this number, then I know what the next number will be, or this number always comes up twice in a row.

And I genuinely believe that I could beat the system and, and that,

I was better than it.

And you look back now and you think, well, that's crazy.

But I guess that's an arrogance.