When it comes to online contents, posts and articles, i don't easily believe in so many of them, because they are cooked stories already, only few among the ones we see being published online were true, but lets leave the side of the story aside being genuine or not, lets focus more on what to learn and capture from these event, because in one way or the other, something related could have happened to someone else, but i think the lesson to pass across on other gamblers is more important, that we should try to learn form it, not to believe in the story, but look on the possibility of same thing or similar happening already to someone somewhere, which we don't know.
Everything could be easily faked out and thats why verification will be that important and just like on what you have said that im not really that into when it comes on believing into the information that I do able to read up online specially if its that a bit odd or unbelievable that someone could be able to do so then I would definitely be that trying out to verify and finding out the source. If ever i cant be able to find something then I would definitely just skip out and ignore it completely but if its really that taking up some attention then i would might dig deep further to find the real thing.
In todays world on which everything could be faked out because people will be that trying out to make stories just as long they can be able to make out some attention or likes on which they would be doing it. Thus, its better that you should be that careful on believing on things because not all will be that real or legit. So its better to be careful with that one.