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Celebrities With Gambling Addiction

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Celebrity Gambling Addicts

Gambling Addiction

Gambling addiction is popular worldwide. Although gambling is fun and entertaining it can lead to serious negative effects if done excessively. There are so many reasons that lead to addiction.

Today we are going to look at some famous celebrities who have an online casino gambling addiction. This is because celebrities are seen as role models and perfect humans.  We often forget that celebrities are people too.

This list is just to prove that they get carried away like every other person.

Celebrities With Gambling Addiction

  1. Ben Affleck

    This top and award-winning actor is known to have a gambling problem. He has reportedly lost a $400,000 on a poker game against the universal studio’s president  Ron Meyer. In 2001 he checked into rehab for both the gambling problem and alcohol addiction too.

  2. Tiger Woods

    One thing that comes to mind for many people when they hear this name is a golf champion. Well, that is not the only thing that Woods is famous for as he is also on the list of having a gambling problem. Tiger is a famous high roller who loves the blackjack game so much that he bets $25,000 hand. He also got a $1 million betting limit by the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, a club for high rollers, where he is a regular.

  3. Charlie Sheen Gambling Addiction

    Sheen’s gambling habit was not so popular. in 2006 his ex-wife an actor Denise Richards in their divorce papers wrote that he spends over 4200,000 a week on gambling. It is visible that he has a gambling problem as some reports mention that on his way to the hospital for the birth of his daughter he made a call to his sports bookie to place a bet as he was rushing to the hospital.

  4. Tobey Maguire

    This famous spiderman actor is not only famous for that role but he is also famous for having a gambling addiction. Maguire is a poker game addict specifically texas hold’em such that he has won approximately 10 million in poker games. He got in trouble with the law in 2011 after participating in a secret poker ring in which he won $300,000.

  5. Charles Barkley

    Barkley is a former NBA player and also a sports analyst. In one interview with ESPN, he had to open up about having a gambling addiction.  And also that he has lost over 410 million and even lost $2.5 million in a single night whilst playing blackjack. Maguire says that the gambling problem is costing him and that he is working towards getting better.



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