Gambling Addict Spends $1M On Lottery Tickets

I was so addicted to gambling that it took over my life [Music] Adam Osmond was once one of the most prolific gamblers in the US this is probably about a million dollar but then again that's only the last two years of my gambling that's just a small part of me I came here to go to college and I've been here ever since I got married have my children and I've been here almost 30 years now the tragic thing with Adam he used his abilities he used his hard work and he fell victim to one of the other things in America what I've heard called the jackpot many Adam used to run to convenience stores in Connecticut between 2002 and 2008 he started spending thousands of dollars on the lottery in his store every week and the only reason why I was in that business was just to support my addiction this is $10.00 it has never even been scratched these are 30 dollars a ticket I will buy them by the book each books 25 or 30 and you multiply 30 30 that's about $900 so I was hiding the tickets from my family and I was so addicted to gambling that it took over my life he knew what he was doing was destroying himself and his family in March 2008 Adams suffered a nervous breakdown after over a decade of compulsive gambling the first week I printed about fifty four thousand tickets none of them was cash you didn't even check II you cannot even possibly achieve all those numbers the kinetic allowed early called me because I didn't pay for it I couldn't pay for it I was crying for help by lo they supposed to shut my machine by that time in the next week I printed tickets again non-stop for three weeks Adam printed over two hundred and fifty thousand dollars worth of lotto tickets before his machine was finally shut down the Connecticut lottery did not share my machine off and when I was late payment or even when I print all those tickets because I was very hot valuable to them and I was one of their best customers he was the first and only gambling addict to be convicted for printing lottery tickets it's really sad because you know this used to be my family in here and now they are not here and you know when I look at it around the house after being charged Adam was ordered to pay the sum of the tickets printed despite never cashing any of them in his wife and three children three girls had to go to Virginia to live with relatives because of his financial world and he sends money to them and he lives in squalor because in the u.s. the odds of winning the overall lottery are approximately one in 258 million in Connecticut there are up to nine lotto draws a day each game costing between $0.50 and $5 with scratch cards on top of this price from one dollar up to $30 each the Connecticut lottery does run programs to support addicted gamblers and a percentage of the profits go towards government programs such as libraries Public Safety and education [Music] since I stopped gambling when I hit the bottom I pick it up a better habit when I was gambling in my mind was always numbers numbers I'll be driving in and it's the bus driver of me I will pick down numbers and say that oh you know that bus number had three or five seven and I will go to my store and play three or five seven or whatever number that I saw sunshine I run its know I run in November 2015 seven years after his original conviction a new judge reviewed his case and found his original penalty to be illegal he no longer has to pay back the remaining money from the uncashed tickets tell my friends I'm running away from gambling and this time we're running I said I'm running away from the lottery you you

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Id: F5XLmCb3y3o

Length: 5min 15sec (315 seconds)

Published: Tue Sep 06 2016

Reddit Comments

[u/[deleted]]

What's stopping him from actually cashing on all those tickets, though? He probably has about $100K in there

[u/kingkactuar]

"Let me print all these lotto tickets and not expect to pay for them because I didn't claim the prize..." said no one ever.

[u/jordanlund]

1,000,000 in 2 years, 500k per year, $9600 per week.

What kind of job does he have where he can drop almost 10k per week on Lottery tickets?

[u/zimmermansajew]

so a new judge reviewed his case and found his original penalty to be 'illegal'

what does that exactly mean? does he get back any of the money that he has paid over the years?

[u/whozurdaddy]

Here's the powerball odds for perspective. There are 300 million people in America today. Im thinking of one of them. Who is it?

[u/GunnieGraves]

Fucking unbelievable that a judge ruled he had to pay back money from tickets he never cashed. Glad to see that it was overturned.

[u/Thunder_Bastard]

Sad story, but come on.... guy has a house, cars, money to live and send to his family, yet the narrator says "lost everything and is living in squalor". Let's not try to over dramatize what is a very common addiction and leads most people to FAR worse outcomes.

[u/DID_IT_FOR_YOU]

The lottery is basically a tax on the stupid.

I could become a millionaire! My odds are only 1 out of ~248,000,000 for each lottery round...

[u/whattudo]

so Im kinda confused, where I live to get a lottery ticket printed you had to have payed for it already so why does he owe them all that money for the tickets?