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A door-to-door salesman went from betting his 50p school dinner money to losing his house and borrowing £90,000 from customers to fuel his gambling addiction after he started using mobile gambling apps which allowed him to place bets, even while driving.
Matthew Allsopp, 49 spent his life convincing family and friends to keep lending him large sums of money so that he could punt, sometimes on “ridiculous sports” which he knew “nothing about”. What started out as a “fun time” at the greyhound races when he was a child would lead Matt down a dangerous path of addiction, spiralling debt and self-sabotage, made easier, he says, by the creation of online betting exchanges.
Matt, who estimates that he has lost around half a million pounds over the years, says he should have been able to take his daughter, Daisy, now 21, on holiday every year and not worry about paying the bills were it not for his gambling addiction.
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Today, the former salesman, who lives in Kidderminster, has managed to turn his life around with the help of Gordon Moody, the UK’s leading charity dedicated to fighting gambling addiction. “The thing that really changed my life from a gambling point of view was the introduction of betting exchanges like Betfair,” he said.
“Eventually the pressure just got absolutely unbearable and I woke up one morning thinking, ‘I can’t go on living like this’. Sometimes I would be on my phone for two or three days in a row betting on Canadian table tennis or Ukrainian ice hockey, you know – ridiculous sports that I had no knowledge about.”
Gambling has been a part of Matt’s life since he was 10 years old, when his best friend’s dad,
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