John Daly: I lost $50- $60 Million Gambling

[dbackjon]

Daly says in book that gambling might do him more harm than drinking

By DOUG FERGUSON, AP Golf Writer
May 1, 2006

John Daly says he has lost between $50 million and $60 million during 12 years of heavy gambling, and that it has become a problem that could "flat-out ruin me" if he doesn't bring it under control.

Daly discussed his addiction to gambling in the final chapter of his autobiography, "John Daly: My Life In and Out of the Rough," to be released next Monday.


He told one story of earning $750,000 when he lost in a playoff to Tiger Woods last fall in San Francisco at a World Golf Championship. Instead of going home, he drove to Las Vegas and says he lost $1.65 million in five hours playing mostly $5,000 slot machines.


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[Ivytalk]

What a self-destructive bozo. How much money did that guy have? I just don't understand why anyone would throw it all away like that.:confused: :nono:

[Marcus Garvey]

You know, I hear all the time how gambling is a "disease." When the f$@# did a lack of self-control constitute a freaking disease?

What can you say, the guy's a degenerate gambler. I got a friend who's hovering north of "DG" status. I promised him I'd let him know when he crosses that line.

[blukeys]

Daly should have stuck to being an alcoholic. Even the best booze in the world would not have set him back 50 to 60 million.:nod: :nod: :nod:

[Gil Dobie]

Daly should have stuck to being an alcoholic. Even the best booze in the world would not have set him back 50 to 60 million.:nod: :nod: :nod:

The alcohol and gambling are just symptom's of being of the obsessive compulsive mental mindset.

[MR. CHICKEN]

HOW LONG DOES IT TAKE TA LOAD...UH ONE ARM BANDIT....WHIFF 5K IN NICKLES?.....................NOT TA MENTION........DUH DUMPTRUCK TA HAUL 'EM IN!....:rolleyes:.........BRAWK!

[GeauxLions94]

NOTE TO SELF: Next time in the prescence of John Daly, remind him of the $2-3 million he owes me. Keep going under a different name (and maybe a Bobby Valentine disguise if needed) :p