Month after month, he was more aware than most how many people were gambling and (apparently) winning, and he thought that if they could do it, why not him? Tu

Month after month, he was more aware than most how many people were gambling and (apparently) winning, and he thought that if they could do it, why not him? Turns out that it caught up with all of them, of course, but that must not have seemed immediately inevitable at the time.