'Why not let her come up and hang out?' he rationalized. At this point in his gambling addiction, though, Hatch was so depressed that he didn't have the will to turn her down. She didn't know he had just fed around $8,000 to the slot machines and had $200 left to his name. She was gorgeous and followed him across the street to the Flamingo, where he was staying.
It was the crack of dawn in Las Vegas, and Hatch was just leaving the Bellagio when she smiled at him as he stepped off the escalator onto The Strip. 'We're not there yet.'īrian Hatch knew the situation. 'We have the chance to do something the right way,' said Keith Whyte, executive director of the National Council on Problem Gambling. With an increasing number of states jumping into the sports betting game and gaming operators and professional sports leagues weighing in on how to best divide the new revenue pie, many feel that the potential risks involved are being overlooked.
