When I red your first sentence even without me going further to read what came into my mind is visual games, I have mostly seen people across our yard since we lived in two story building I do oversee them when some issues began to rise against the person whose funds was emptied. Naturally when people plays visuals they often ran away out of cash and is always an alternative to see if they can double their last cash before leaving the betting site, but guess what it always went the other way round. They keeps falling because visual game is like a game being controlled by robots and doesn't give accurate winning as you might have think, at this point someone can sacrifice his or her last card to play visual for him to double their money. The case always happened and when it's happening I do come out to watch over them.
I agree with you on this, the gambler in question was playing virtual games which finished in less than two minutes and gives you either a win or a lot ASAP. In my area, we call it the sharp killer because it can render you penniless easily as compared to other casino games, it leaves you with lite or no time to even predict outcomes critically as a new session starts at almost two minutes interval from the last one.
I've experienced a good win in virtual, only to lose almost everything that same day in the evening, same has happened to my brother, after a very good win from the previous day, I advised him not to go back there the next day, he paid deaf ears to the extent that I was contacted at my workplace to clear his debt, lest he would be arrested. I had to pledge to clearing the debt to prevent further escalation.
Its easy to place bets above your capacity in virtual as most addicted gamblers place the bets with the intention of settling the cashiers with later wins. This doesn't always go as planned and in my humble opinion, that's the case with the guy OP is referring to.
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