Born to Lose

A gripping, true story of one man’s forty-year struggle with compulsive gambling and his hard-won recovery.

"My history of gambling really began before I was born." So opens Born to Lose, Bill Lee''s self-told story of gambling addiction, set in San Francisco''s Chinatown and steeped in a culture where it is not unheard of for gamblers (Lee''s grandfather included) to lose their children to a bet. ...