The Tragedy of Poker
This is the final article that will appear at Poker Uncensored, as the Founder is retiring from poker journalism effective July 7, 2025. In 2015, I didn’t personally know anyone who had killed themselves, died from overdosing on drugs, or murdered their spouse to try to cover gambling debts. I knew suicide, drug abuse, and problem gambling were things that existed, I just didn’t personally know anyone it impacted. Then I started playing poker. I then started writing about poker. A decade later people I sat down with at the poker table in New England had actually killed themselves and overdosed on opiates. One I played with actually did murder his wife hoping to collect an insurance payout to cover gambling debts. He was found guilty of Murder by a jury, his appeals denied, and now his children get to spend the rest of their childhood with no mother and a father who is locked up in jail for life. Poker is filled with people who are misogynists and homophobic. In no other community have ...