Life turned upside down when I won 35 grand off a football accumulator.

Hold on, you won 35 grand.

When you win is when you're most vulnerable.

I started taking out bank loans, maxing out credit cards.

So I probably had about 25 grand's worth of gambling debt.

Who knew about your addiction?

No one.

I borrowed between quarter of a million and half a million.

You had 76 individual online accounts to bet with.

Gambling, there's nothing stopping you.

I had one bit of luck and I won.

Welcome to the Eventful Lives podcast.

I'm your host Dodge and I'm the founder of Bournemouth Sevens,

the world's largest sport and music festival.

On this podcast, I speak to fascinating people who have all lived eventful lives.

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on Instagram, TikTok and

YouTube, where we've now had over 80 million views. Patrick Foster is a former professional

sportsman and gambling addicts. He talks about the effects of addiction, lying, manipulating and

losing millions of pounds to this horrible disease this is the

eventful life of mr patrick foster patrick welcome to the show mate thanks mate thanks for

having me on yeah very much looking forward to this one this um let's roll all the way back where

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