One reason S’pore Turf Club and S’pore Pools were given the green light to start online betting is that illegal sites offer little protection. One punter found this out the hard way
On the surface, he was a working professional like many others, making an honest living at a big company.
But in his mind, it was a constant game of numbers and figuring out how to go about his online football betting to recoup his losses.
By the time Michael (not his real name) approached Credit Counselling Singapore (CCS) for help in 2009, he already had a $54,000 debt to his name.
Now in his late 30s, he told The New Paper: “There was always this niggling thing at the back of my mind, that I have to guess the correct thing (to bet on) for the next day…
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