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Gambling in Singapore: Watch It on TV

Gambling has indeed conquered all sorts of arena, including the television. At present, we have a vast number of gambling shows, more particularly on poker. Many of these gambling shows are real-life tournaments of poker, while a few are fiction.

This is why Bet Your Life is a unique show on gambling. It does not cover any gambling tournament, neither is it a fiction. Instead, it is a documentary of what gambling is in Singapore.

Bet your life is a series of five episodes, all talking about the status of gambling in Singapore and how gambling has affected the lives of those who live there.

The first episode tells of a story of a young boy who is addicted to gambling. It all started as a hobby, then gradually, it evolved into a gambling addiction. It just shows in this episode that the children, or the teenagers are not also safe from addiction to gambling. What starts as an innocent hobby can later be a major problem.

In the same episode, we also see a regular employee who falls into corruption just to sustain his gambling needs and to pay his gambling debts. This teaches us that even the most responsible employee can turn bad if suffering from gambling addiction.

On the other hand, the second episode shows how a child can be affected by his mother's gambling addiction. In this episode, a mother is so addicted to gambling that she tends to neglect her child. She only realizes that she has become addicted to gambling when a co-worker had to sell her own body just to pay gambling debts.

The next episode is different from the other two in a way that this one has a more positive outlook. It shows gambling in a business light. In this episode, you will see the life of a professional gambling player and an owner of an illegal gambling den. This will show how you can earn money through gambling, and what does one need to do to be successful.

The fourth episode is more intriguing for it shows certain celebrities who are addicted to gambling. Because of this episode, viewers will be enlightened to the fact that even celebrities may be afflicted with gambling addiction.

The last episode deals more with organized crime. It tells the life of a boy who grows up living next door to an illegal gambling den. You will see here how this kind of lifestyle affects and shapes him.