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The Chase’s Paul Sinha opens up about gambling addiction and financial losses | Celebrity News | Showbiz & TV
ITV star Paul Sinha has admitted he suffered a gambling addiction which led to him losing out financially.
The 53-year-old exclusively told Kate Thornton on her podcast, White Wine Question Time, that “no good” came from his gambling addiction and that he had “a lot of financial losses”.
When asked what he would say to his 16-year-old self, he admitted: “I would say is never, ever, ever walk into a betting shop in your life, because that’s the one avenue
Betting on Elections Can Tell Us a Lot. Why Is It Mostly Illegal?
In 1980, John Aristotle Phillips declared his candidacy for the United States Congress, in a district in Connecticut. He would turn twenty-five, the minimum age to hold the seat, a few months before the election. Four years earlier, while a junior at Princeton, Phillips—the son of a Yale engineering professor—had become an unlikely media sensation, thanks to a paper he wrote on how to build an atomic bomb. The F.B.I. confiscated it; after a Pakistani official asked Phillips for a
The Biden administration is gambling that a little-studied vaccine can stop monkeypox
Many scientists support the effort, saying the benefit of getting vaccinated outweighs the risk. And as the vaccination campaign has gained steam this summer, the number of new cases appears to be slowing. But the long list of unknowns is daunting. “We don’t know exactly how effective this vaccine is in the real world,” said Abraar Karan, an infectious disease doctor at Stanford University. “How well does it work? What does it do? What doesn’t it do? How well does
Ein Gambling Sharp bricht in die NFL ein
Die vielleicht drastischste Veränderung im amerikanischen Profisport in den letzten drei Jahren – oder zumindest in der Berichterstattung und Förderung dieser Sportarten – war die schnelle Übernahme des Glücksspiels durch die größten Ligen und Medien als selbstverständlicher Teil des Fans Erfahrung. Sportwetten sind ein uralter Zeitvertreib, aber vor 2018, als der Oberste Gerichtshof entschied, dass ein Gesetz, das Sportwetten in weiten Teilen des Landes verbietet, verfassungswidrig sei, wurde dies weitgehend im Schatten durchgeführt. Heutzutage werben Sportwettenanbieter endlos im Fernsehen für
America’s Gambling Addiction Is Metastasizing
Gambling has become one of the defining pleasures of our time, the perfect accompaniment to an era of high-risk, rigged economies and a looming sense of collapse. Once there was Las Vegas; now there’s a Las Vegas in every phone.
You can bet on almost anything today. Elections. Literary prizes. If you have a feeling that, say, Lapuan Virkiä is going to beat Porin Pesakarhut in the women’s Superpesis, the top professional pesäpallo league in Finland, you can put