Gambling addiction can destroy lives and ruin families. Just ask Jeremy Kyle. So, the idea of a cocky card shark becoming a wrestler just doesnt add up... One can only imagine that the story behind WCWs perennial 90s jobber The Gambler (formerly Jeff Gamble - no, really) was that he had taken a thrashing at a Las Vegas card table and had turned to wrestling as a way to pay back his creditors. Sadly, the character turned out to be every bit as crap at wrestling as he apparently was at gambling. In fact, poor old Jeff was freaking bulldozed every week on WCW for years and yet never lost that annoying gamblers optimism. This time for sure, wrestlings about to pay off! his eyes seemed to say, right before he was utterly, utterly decimated for about the thousandth time... ...He just never knew when to quit. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8GheoLyacW0 If he ever had been able to make his money back, surely The Gambler would have given up wrestling (or at least used his newfound wealth to get some wrestling lessons). Alas, in the end, it seems that The Gambler was apparently unable to beat the habit...Or any of his opponents, for that matter.
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