OT: E Channel - Online Nightmares

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Has anyone got a chance to view this show? one segment was about online poker. They talked to 3 different people who got "addicted" to online poker. One was a college girl who made her first $20 deposit and turned it into $50.... then she was hooked. the other was a housewife who kept losing and forged checks/borrowed money to feed her addiction, then she claimed that online poker sites withdrew all the money from her bank accounts without her knowing. She was quoted as saying "online gambling is the heroin of the twenty first century". The last story was some redhead college kid from PA who saw his friends online poker account with 120k in it so figured he could do it. After being 7k in the whole he robbed a bank and is still in jail today.

I know everyones different but I dont see how poker could be addicting, I love the game and all but if I wasnt winning I think It would be INCREDIBLY easy to find some other hobby to hold my interest.

If you havnt seen this yet set your tivo's for E Investigates Online Nightmares you will definitly get a laugh out of these 3 fishies stories. The rest of the show was pretty sad though.