PHOENIX (3TV/CBS 5) — While many people are excited that sports betting is now legal in Arizona, others say there is a dark side to expanding gambling in our state.
“When I first started, it was fun,” recovering gambler Steve Feinberg said. He got hooked at just 15. “I was an active compulsive gambler for the better part of 20 years,” he said. He got started playing cards with a next-door neighbor, but things escalated. Quickly. “It seems innocent at the start, but pretty soon, it seems hopeless,” Feinberg said.
While Feinberg doesn’t know exactly how much money he lost, he says it was well into the six figures. But the massive debt wasn’t his only problem. “What I didn’t really consider was that I los…
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