💸Welcome to Banking Bad - a podcast series featuring six true-crime stories from the world of money. Today, Emilie is speaking with Patrick Foster. Patrick had a promising career as a professional cricketer, until gambling came into the picture. He shares his journey from being a sports star to a compulsive gambler who ended up in £250,000 of debt, revealing how he got hooked on betting, lost his job and his friends, and how he tried to escape his addiction by moving to a different city and becoming a teacher.

But even that was not enough to stop him from gambling online, taking out payday loans, and spiralling into despair. Patrick’s story is a cautionary tale of the dangers of gambling - and how to get out of what sometimes seems like a spiral of financial despair.

This episode contains some sensitive topics (suicide), please listen with care.

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