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Shocked by German win, Thai gambler commits suicide

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Shocked by German win, gambler commits suicide
By Coconuts Bangkok

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Bangkok: -- A Suphan Buri man committed suicide after Germany shockingly romped over his favorite team Brazil 7-1.

Yesterday morning, a 26-year-old man was found dead in his bed the mattress. A bottle of pesticide was beside his body. There was no sign of struggle or injury.

The suicide was reported by his mother, who said her son had been very enthusiastic for the World Cup matches. The night before his death, he tried to borrow 100.000 THB [read more...]

Full story: http://bangkok.coconuts.co//2014/07/10/shocked-german-win-gambler-commits-suicide

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-- Coconuts Bangkok 2014-07-10

Thais take soccer seriously, but this is going to the extreme ...

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'Some people believe football is a matter of life and death, I am very disappointed with that attitude. I can assure you it is much, much more important than that.'

Bill Shankley

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'Some people believe football is a matter of life and death, I am very disappointed with that attitude. I can assure you it is much, much more important than that.'

Bill Shankley

Thank god a boy from Rugby school once picked up a football and ran with it! ;)

Poor sod's going to miss watching the final now!

It would have been his loss he was shocked by not Brazil's.

His mother can expect a visit from the bookie soon, she could lose everything through his stupidity.

Yep - there will be a few wishing that they hadn't lent him the money to gamble too. 30% of nowt = nowt ! Tears all around then !

He probably had everything riding on Brazil, poor bloke dont bet what you cannot afford to loose.

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An old chestnut and I go against the NA/AA model but Alcoholism/drug dependency and gambling are not diseases they are choices. We choose to pick up the bottle and we chose to put it down. Life might hand us some bad cards but many others get worse cards and don't choose drink.

And what we believe is a choice too. George Best wrote that the best thing that happened to him was being told he had a disease as he could then absolve himself of responsibility. It wasn't his fault!!! I am not knocking AA/NA/GA they are often the only support people have and they do good work but i don't believe in the ethos just as I respect religious organisations who do good work but don't believe in their preachings.

It all comes down to choice. He chose to try to make money the easy way got into trouble and chose to step out. His choice.

Enter the bar room 'doctors' with their Google Search engines.

someone won a bundle on taking a risk on germany winning by 7 goals

No one of normal inelegance would borrow money to gamble with as it says all the time now on the UK TV after a lottery advert or bookmaker advert [ gamble responsibly ] everyone enjoys an occasional little flutter on the lottery or a small bet on the football horses etc. but I suppose there are people who are genuinely sick and it becomes an addiction same as Drink Responsibly.

Running away to Cambodia wasn't an option than?

No one of normal inelegance would borrow money to gamble with as it says all the time now on the UK TV after a lottery advert or bookmaker advert [ gamble responsibly ] everyone enjoys an occasional little flutter on the lottery or a small bet on the football horses etc. but I suppose there are people who are genuinely sick and it becomes an addiction same as Drink Responsibly.

Playing the stock market is no different from betting on the horses, football or anything else and some people kill themselves when they loose their shirts, and some borrow money

If gambling is truely an addiction, then one must include playing the markets ?

I do think gambling being illegal in Thailand makes it far more attractive, like the forbidden fruit, and given that the only place you can realistically bet is with criminals, it can't often end well.

Perhaps government-sponsored legalising gambling would enable people to express their urges in a more realistic and harmless manner.

This item is not about football. This wretched man has died because he lost his money (gambled) on a bet. If it wasn't a football bet it would have been something else!

It's no good calling him an idiot now - have some sympathy for his family and friends.

headline should be

shocked by loosing his bet on Brazil ...

It would have been his loss he was shocked by not Brazil's.

His mother can expect a visit from the bookie soon, she could lose everything through his stupidity.

I agree. One would have to be a little unstable to kill yourself over such a matter. 100,000 (or whatever) owed to the wrong people, with no hope of repayment - that sounds a bit more plausible.

Obviously I don't know, but logically speaking .....

got the money from a loanshark that promissed him hell if he did not pay back & deceided to go on his own term ?

'Some people believe football is a matter of life and death, I am very disappointed with that attitude. I can assure you it is much, much more important than that.'

Bill Shankley

Im sure the suicide had nothing to do with football and everything to do with borrowing money from the wrong people.

Football is just a game

taken too seriously

like all professional sports, its just entertainment for serious money

someone won a bundle on taking a risk on germany winning by 7 goals

They didn't...

someone won a bundle on taking a risk on germany winning by 7 goals

They didn't...

I was reading that 100's of thousand was won by punters who backed them on the exchanges at 10/1 to win 7-0 when they were 5 up at half time.

The odds of them doing that dropped like a stone when they scored their 7th goal and as the minutes ticked away. they probably went as low as 1.02 (1/50)

That allowed the punters to get out with huge profits prior to Brazil scoring in the last minute.

Some didn't but apparently many did.

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