Where do you get "bet a bit of money"? The article says "he was gambling away the family 401(k) on his phone." It also says "I started doing it compulsively. I

Where do you get "bet a bit of money"? The article says "he was gambling away the family 401(k) on his phone." It also says "I started doing it compulsively. I would win $5,000 and say, ‘Now I know what I am doing.’" So he was making individual bets of thousands of dollars. Since he as doing it "compulsively" that probably means more than one such bet per day. Doesn't sound like a "bit of money" unless this guy was extremely wealthy.