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Banking Bad: How I Ended Up £250,000 in Debt

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💸Welcome to Banking Bad - a podcast series featuring six true-crime stories from the world of money. Today, Emilie is speaking with Patrick Foster. Patrick had a promising career as a professional cricketer, until gambling came into the picture. He shares his journey from being a sports star to a compulsive gambler who ended up in £250,000 of debt, revealing how he got hooked on betting, lost his job and his friends, and how he tried to escape his addiction by moving to a different city and becoming a teacher.


But even that was not enough to stop him from gambling online, taking out payday loans, and spiralling into despair. Patrick’s story is a cautionary tale of the dangers of gambling - and how to get out of what sometimes seems like a spiral of financial despair.


This episode contains some sensitive topics (suicide), please listen with care.


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💸Welcome to Banking Bad - a podcast series featuring six true-crime stories from the world of money. Today, Emilie is speaking with Patrick Foster. Patrick had a promising career as a professional cricketer, until gambling came into the picture. He shares his journey from being a sports star to a compulsive gambler who ended up in £250,000 of debt, revealing how he got hooked on betting, lost his job and his friends, and how he tried to escape his addiction by moving to a different city and becoming a teacher.


But even that was not enough to stop him from gambling online, taking out payday loans, and spiralling into despair. Patrick’s story is a cautionary tale of the dangers of gambling - and how to get out of what sometimes seems like a spiral of financial despair.


This episode contains some sensitive topics (suicide), please listen with care.


SPONSOR

Thank you to our partner PensionBee: combine, contribute and withdraw online. Take control of your pension, so that you can enjoy a happy retirement and join 223,000 customers saving with PensionBee. https://www.pensionbee.com/vestpod

When investing, your capital is at risk. Investments can go down as well as up, and you may get back less than you invest.


BANKING BAD ARTICLE

Vestpod: https://www.vestpod.com/news/the-wallet-podcast/the-gamble-that-backfired-how-i-ended-up-250000-in-debt


CONNECT WITH VESTPOD

If you want to read the main takeaways from the episodes, subscribe to our newsletter: https://www.vestpod.com/subscribe

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DISCLAIMER

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