PGA Golfer - Pretty G'Awful Gambler

Filed in archive Gambling General on May 1, 2006

John Daly, has admitted in his autobiography to being useless at gambling. In the book he reveals losses of between $50 million and $60 million over a 12 year period. How about this for a gambling anecdote: Daly racks up a golf win of £750,000 and heads off to Las Vegas, over the next five hours he pumps $5000 slot machines with $1.65 million of loose change. On another occasion in Vegas, he took a $600,000 line of credit and blew it within two hours!

Daly found himself working just to pay off his gambling debts. On numerous occasions he found himself at some corporate earner instead of enjoying his time with his family and friends. These days however, Daly is trying to control his gambling, giving himself a betting budget and walkout figure (when he reaches that figure - he walks out the casino.)