While I feel bad for your situation, I hope it's a good lesson learned.  Also, you could have lost a lot more, so count your blessings.  One must only gamble what they can afford to lose.  No matter how good the odds are, the longer you play, you will eventually lose it all.  Gambling can be fun, but it needs to be done in moderation.

Just take a look at Vegas, that place has been built on broken dreams and mortgage payments.


Could be showing signs of gambling addiction, and/or they got caught up in the moment. It happens.  Watched my buddy gamble away his condo, then his wife and kids.  It wasn't pretty.