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https://www.update.ph/2017/06/resorts-world-attacker-identified-an-addicted-gambler/17954

If you are an addicted gambler, do something to stop it or you might be like this poor guy.

Addiction is a serious trouble, but this guy is out of control, that is insanity... His family should take care of bank settings and all other financial informations to let him unable to access it, to take borrowed money, etc... Now this man just let a big debt for his family, probably he won't pay anything, but his relatives will have to do.

He is very desperate that time. He owed huge amount of money worth of 5 million pesos( i think) on gambling. That's the main cause why he do that. That will happen to you if you don't control yourself on gambling. And i think that's the worst thing a gambling addict would do. He killed 38 people(himself included). He killed himself by burning himself. That's crazy isn't it?

I watch the TV this morning and according to one of his friends which was interviewed in the national television, this guy was a good man, he had some good run and would like 15 million pesos and he think he can do it consistently but he failed. That's what I am saying, the reality will take place in the long run and we will just lose our money, this guy was so desperate that it end up killing innocent people before he ended his life.

That's reality indeed we cant always wins nor control ourself as we think we can those addiction really makes our life miserable in the long run of playing this person was a victim of mistaken balief gambling is just a game of chances. So better to be more careful not to be engaged too much.

No if you have a control on yourself like you can use limit set in every bet. it will help you to manage your money so when your money close to empty, You can stop by your own intentions.

But the greediness is the one which makes people go after it and lose everything they have and also can take a loan to play these games. If you think that,  you can't control yourself then better discuss with your family members or close friends on how to control these bad habits. These games are meant only to get some fun during your free time, but most of the gamblers use it for making quick money. If you gamble for money then whether you win or lose still will continue gambling and end up addicted to these games. Because if you lose initially then play to recover that lost money and if you win then thinking that you got a method earn money and continue to gamble until losing everything.

During the time of that incident also people though he was a terrorist because Philiipines especially inthe southern region was in the state of martial law due to isis inspired terrorist. The was thought to be one of there deeds but as the news getd updated the police stated that indeed.it was noy a terror attack but rather he took thr oppurtunity to make the people think it was a terror attack rather than a gambling addicts effect.

This is the bad news I've ever heard regarding gambling addictions. One lesson from this tragedy is, never owe money to gamble. Because it will make too difficult for us to stop gambling when our lose has exceeded our limits.

Yea this guy is crazy many people are dead because of his addicted to gambling. Now many family are so sad to this attack of this guy. But not all filipinos addicted on gambling some are addicted but many are not.

I guess, this guy is just a diversion for what is happening on Marawi City in Mindanao, for the Government not to focus on what is happening there, for the terrorist to succeed on their plan. But we are still looking for the real reason behind this robbery, many people have been died because of this incident. Because if it is only his addiction on gambling, then he won't do crime this big just for his gambling addiction.

If he is just going to look for some money to be spend on his needs or in gambling, then he could just simply rob a small store or whatever that is not that big like robbing a casino.

38 lives has been wasted because of his severe addiction. Imagine on how he did this just because of addiction. So we have now a real life situation on what an addicted gambler can do when he is in the influence of addiction in gambling while having a lot of debt to his friends. There are some news that tells that he also pawned his land title for sustaining his addiction.

I heard the interview of Mr Atong Ang which is a known gambling consultant in the Philippines and Mr Ang said the addiction started when Jessie Carlos won an accumulated of 15 Million Pesos or $303,000 USD in 1 week cock of fighting. Mr Carlos has loans from loan sharks inside the casino and there was a time that he needs to sell their property that has a market value of 202 Thousand USD but they were paid only $101,000 USD to pay for a loan worth $60,000 USD and the remaining $41,000 USD was used to gamble again my Mr Carlos. That's what you call addiction.

Terrible guy, I know what he's been going through about those debts that he has made just because of his addiction. Truly a poor guy, he can have a decent life and he has a good way of living. He is gambling too much and he doesn't have control anymore on his emotion so that's why he was triggered to do such violent act.

Who cares about reasons? People died. He deserves to be in prison for the rest of his life.

You have no idea what people are capable to do when they don't see exit.

We all need money for our needs. Should we all rob a small store?  ::)

Dude stop reading those conspiracy theories created by the yellowtards. Their theory doesn't make sense. Imagine this, why would you rob a casino and take 130 Million Pesos worth of "chips" if you know that those chips have no value one you stepped outside the casino? People died there, including the gun man. The gun man is just upset because he lost a lot of money in gambling. The only motive is robbery. Its not a work of ISIS, and it's not a diversionary tactic by the Philippine Government.

Can't really say that he was a good man, because he was sacked from his job (without retirement benefits) for misdeclaration of his SALN (statement of assets, liabilities and net worth). He could have gone to jail for that act alone. He even got banned from the state-run casino houses (as requested by his own parents) because of his over addiction to gambling. It's just a pity that many innocent lives were lost because of the act of one mad man.

I watched this news on the T.V. yesterday or on the other day which this was really a shocking news related to an unexpected attack on a casino which most people are scared that it might be an another terror attack but later on when it was already been investigated it turns out that a certain casino gambler have lost and decided to rob chips worth of millions because he lost his money on playing it and tending or plan to get it back on those way.Thats really a sad thing for him as a sign of desperation.

This news has been making rounds online fir a while now and this just goes to show how addiction can ruin a man's life. The sad part is that 38 innocent souls also went with the gunman who eventually committed suicide. ISIS even went to take responsibility to sow more terror though it's proven that it's really a case of a gambling addict who went broke and gone mad. He actions of one addicted gambler basically affected a lot of lives.

This is crazy because of addiction on gambling there so many people died.
The gunman – described by the Philippine police chief as a "foreign-looking" 6-footer with a moustache – reportedly killed himself after the shooting incident, fueling speculations about his motives.
Terror attack or not?

First, Philippine National Police (PNP) chief Director General Ronald dela Rosa downplayed a report that linked the terrorist group Islamic State (ISIS) to the Resorts World Manila attack.

It was the terrorism monitoring group SITE that first said an ISIS "Filipino operative" was behind the incident. Eventually, ISIS claimed that its "fighters" carried out the attack. But Dela Rosa claimed it was the handiwork of one man, a "lone wolf".

The PNP chief said of the gunman's act: "We're looking at robbery as an angle because he stole, he barged into the storage room for casino chips. He took the chips, put them inside his backpack but eventually left it. We have recovered the backpack."

By this time stop to gambling, don't be greediness .
Pray for the victim of Resort word manila incident

Damn a four million in debt because of his gambling addiction,that is one serious case and i wonder why no one could help to resort to counseling and other methods to help him counter his problems and with the actions it is proven that he was a dumb guy ,this is the exceptional cases when we have to say that dumb people are dangerous to the society. :P

The guy does not have an intention to kill, but his action resulted in 37 dead.  The death was not caused by gunfire but rather soffocation due to the fire that occured when he set fire on the building to at least cover himself.  If his intention is to kill people he just shut dead those people who are at the lobby the time some security personnel tried to stop him.  Anyway.. it is just bad that his addiction lead him to this tragedy.

It is also important to keep ourselves always on check when we are playing in a Casino. Getting hooked up in gambling and  get addicted is really not a good thing.

This is the bad side of gambling that need to be erased, if you are not able to control yourself in gambling then it is better not to start it, it is very hard to get off once you got hooked with gambling, this guy certainly need a help from professional help

Gambling addiction is an issue need to be taken seriously. news like this should make us realize how far we are down in the  rabbit hole that is gambling addiction. "controlling ourselves" advises could only go so far. we need more solid advise than "controlling ourselves" because what happens when we don't have a handle of ourselves any longer? what happens when our gambling  make us commit mistakes with consequences we are not ready to take responsible for? or commit a crime so heinous like this guy on the news? control is a leash on a dog that can be let go anytime whenever it sees something it liked. we need more than control. we need discipline. we need to learn how to listen to a NO. and foremost, we need all the help we can get.

The guy hooked up into gambling causes him to under go depression, desperation, and unwanted actions. The action what he did was not acceptable it's very absurd! The extent he will do anything just to get back on his feet!

I think that's a serious situation not only in the philippines, but for the whole world. Addiction beyond control really needs an attention particularly to the gambling establishments, because if they allowed this addict gambler keep his /her action of being wild I think gambling business will be affected. They should have proper stress management to those who encountered emotional problems on gambling like lossing a lot of money and uncontrolled activities of gambling. If we cannot control thoae dumb people, they can really be a problem to our society; and they could steal money just for gambling.

The money will make people do anything. Really it was a very sad story. This is the best example for an addicted gambler how they will end in their life. So don't lose control on your emotions when playing gambling. If you lost your control and took anyone wrong decision, your career will end like this. Now no money and no more happy life. To seeing this kind of news, I am afraid to play gambling.

It is still not clear that the guy was a gambling addict and lose money on casino that's why he attack it. The gunman is wearing a mask and it is not clearly seen that the man itself was burned. Why do you think he will burned himself after he stole chips in casino? My speculation is he just burned another body to cover him and escape flawlessly or maybe I'm too much fan of a detective movie.

That's sad to read about.  In the US, there are gambling addiction groups that help to eliminate the slow spiral downwards to rock bottom.  Not sure if the Philippines has anything similar to prevent this from happening though.

Just wondering how they can do it killing of many peoples. Because of they just have a bad moves and theu will kill? Or nor it's the effect of playing gambling and lossing such high amount of money?  #1 rule in gambling don't play that you can't afford to lose. Anyways if your a real gambler. Then we should know what gambling is and not killing many peoples if we lose

It could happen to any addicted person. Regardless of what he is addicted, whether it be gambling, drugs, alcohol, sex, pokemon cards, etc. The fact is that they have something wrong in their brains that is why they are doing this. You can't really blame gambling, gambling did not come to him. He came after gambling himself.

Afaik the gambler had a gun and that's how he killed 30+ people from Resorts World Manila. Maybe the said gambler lost his sanity due to losing tons of money or he does not have enough time to pay his debt so he did what he could.

Actually gambling is normally for fun however, if you gamble most of the time then that's another case. Definitely the person becomes addictive or the worse gone wild. People everywhere in the world can be a gambler no matter how they manage themselves in gambling but pointing on the case only in the Philippines is somewhat unjust because not only in the Philippines are gamblers some other countries have many gamblers who also gone wild. Whether the person is addicted to gambling to the mentioned case in this country, take the case also of others who could be an addicted gamblers in other countries it is a matter of someone's habit not only focuses to one country but it may also experience to other countries.

looks like this person has an example that how addicted gambling could be serious problem and could killing someone else because usually for those who addicted gambling or addicted drugs they can not think clearly anymore

Gambling could really make a good person turn to a real bad person.
Especially when you have got frustated , there is a lot of suicide case caused gambling problem.
But this one i admit it as the worst story ever involve having problem because of gambling .

This is sad. From what I can tell, he didn't mean to kill anyone and just wanted to go for the money. The unfortunate deaths seem to result indirectly from the robbery.

Also, I wonder why he didn't plan it better as he seemed to take too much time to get the chips and get out of there. Furthermore, the casino security seems to have been missing in action throughout the robbery until the later stage.

That is really a disgusting idea about how securities  have allowed this certain crime to happen in the casino. There should be a strong security hold force to prevent certain unacceptable action which the person did of robbery actions of an eagerness of getting the money from the casino. Gambling stablishment of casino has the very important rules of background checking those player so that those addicts without enough profit will be subjected to screening on how capable they can manage themselves playing with a good mental capability of handling stress and money. With that ample thing to do, I guess thar crime will be prevented and gambling operations in the establishment will not be hampered.

That guy is blacklisted too in most of the popular casinos here aside from Manila Resort World. One example is a big casino Solaire Resort and some of the casinos aligned at the cental district.

Too bad that he ended up like that. His family and friends known him a better man and no one thinks that he will turned to that kind of man. This kind of happening will really happened once a person experience lots of debt in millions (with no chance of returning it without doing a horrific ) and be eaten by the curse of doing gambling. We can see that it's possible to happen to every person even how kind you are in real life.

It was really sick of him to do such a thing, which was actually not necessary. Even watching it on the CCTV is horrific. I just pray that people don't do the kind of things in rage.

He is in rage because he lost a ton of money in gambling and that time he cant support his playing because he dont have money thats why he was in rage on that time. Well it is a rare instances of that but that is the results of getting addicted to the gambling, it makes the people in rage and do that such horrific things

That's terrible, don't see why he had to take down 38 others too, awful thing to do. This should be a warning to everybody, only gamble with what you can afford to lose.

Any update for this case or did something happened the same to this tragedy in the gambling industry?

Saddest thing happened to a gambler, he losses his sanity because of addiction to gambling. As far as a recall when i heard this news in our country, many of his friends said that he was a good and generous man because he won15million pesos approximately 300k US dollar and share it to his friends and relative. Sadly the greed takes over his mind he ended up lossing all he had plus being debted with a huge sum of money.

  First of all, may the ones who died rest in peace and for the families that got affected on the tragic even may got help from the government and other people. This is just pure addiction and self distractions to the attacker, the reason why he did that is not a terrorist act but an addiction and lose of self control to himself. There are many possibilities on why he did that, he might be on drugs or he was on medication. We don't know because after the accident he set himself on fire and no one in mind wants to do that if you are right in mind. This person is clearly addicted on gambling because what else could he possible doing attacking a casino and stealing the poker chips and then set himself on fire?. I just want to say that may the family who lost its family member may rest and peace and may this will never happen.  

I really don't like when gamblers are characterized it's mean to do it. What happened with him is not due to gambling it's because of his problem with his wife. This drew him to gambling, and it's bad that gambling he lost 4 million. I don't think gamblers end up like this, cause he wasn't addicted, all he needed a distraction and gambling gave him one. In his obsession he lost his way, he needs counselling that's all. And some miracle to pay his debt.

lol he is insane why would he robbed a real casino haha. I guess he didn't know what's the real meaning of gambling is life. we all know that all chips that been issued by a casino has a RFID chip where we can't trade it into cash without authorization of the person who really owns it . and one more thing. maybe gambling is really an issue about that person.

Yup, taking gambling anything more than an entertainment would result in that, people sometimes consider it as a way to earn money or as a real source of profit, it's not like that, it's just a hobby that result in losing money (and hence, a bad one at that).
With this loss to Pacquiao, There might be other stories like this considering how heavy Philippines believe in him.

I think he is not mentally good that is why he did like this. But this is common in gambling there are many examples of this kind of addiction. People why take this gambling to make money I don't understand. Everyone knows the after effect of gambling, but still, they become greedy. We can not stop this kind of people. They will not listen to any person suggestion. Finally there end will be worst like this.

He was addicted to gambling and the result was he owns a huge debt,
I think it was the reason why it drives him crazy or insane he couldn't think on how to pay it,
I think the stress and the pressure was so strong and he couldn't manage it .

Indeed. He became mental unstable and I think the wife and children leaving him really brought him to do this things. He is dead already but he also killed a lot a long the way. Its pity it has to end this way specially those innocents. The morals is that we should not really put ourselves in a situation where we can't go out specially in gambling. Based from what I read, he is a big time gambler and even won millions. I guess the excitement of winning really put his life out of control. Too bad his life went spiral even after he won big.

But the guy put himself in that situation by losing and continued to feed the beast with loans amounting to a million dollars USD from the bank.
So he knows what he was doing.
Not to feel sorry for him but for the victims of the attacks that lay dead due to his mental illness and to his poor family that now have to live with the burden he has putting them through even though he is dead and gone.
For shameful a wreakless act like this to happen to anyone.

I remebered this tragedy. There's so many casualties and dead. :( I fvcking hate that man. "gamble only that you can afford to lose"

Actually the gambler did not kill anyone. Most of the dead was due to the stampede and suffocation that followed the ensuing chaos however you are right to the point that the gambler did caused it. As to why he moght done it the that is the power of addiction it controls your wvery movement and thinking and gives you motives that some people kight consider borders insanity

That's what addiction made, he lose alot and wanting a revenge he knew he can't win it back by playing and he made a terrible scene and end his life. We should really know what our worth and priorities. We should know what only gambling can give us,we should not rely our lives on it. There are more in life.

nice share,that poor guy might have no other way to get money and start playing gambling again,and this can be warning for us,for people who addicted to gambling,and use all way to earn money to play,a smart people will control their self and not doing bad things,loan without any interest is good solution for people who urgently need money.

It must be a lesson for us that we must not gamble if we can't afford it. The man is already desperate on her action but the conclusion is why did he steal chips from the casino but suddenly commit suicide.

Theres no update on this one because the suspect is already dead. What youd expect on this kind of scenario? Its indeed a tragic thing happened to him because of his addiction which we can say that it wont really give a good thing if we just let it be on ourselves. Just to picture out on what he did, he lost huge money on playing casino and he decided to steal off those chips tend to rob it out but in the end he did burn himself.

The number of casualties could have been lessen if only the emergency systems of the casino has functioned well.
Still, gambling is very common to us Filipinos. We just need to be as responsible as we could to avoid getting to this level of gambling addiction.

Or better yet don't gamble more than you're willing to lose. I can afford to lose $300 a week, but I won't be going to any movies or buying any steak. If gambling affects your quality of life it's time to get professional help.

Addiction in gambling is too dangerous for many peoples, because you can't control yourself when you do it and you can make yourself in a big troubles, for example like
Family problems, Affect the financial situation of yours or maybe your family, Also if you found yourself poor, maybe you will be obligate to steal or do bad things to gamble. In all situation addiction is very bad and serious problem in all countires.

This poor guy, it's a exemple of an addicted gambler, so be carefull to be like him.

This is sad and like everyone is saying it's a lesson for all of us , don't gamble what you can't loose and don't borrow to gamble. There are actually people who are not fit to gamble and I think the gaming commissions in our respective countries should check these things and allow only mentally fit people into our casinos.

This is no joke that 42 year old has a bank debt worth 4 million and being addicted to gambling is wrong but getting addicted to gambling with someone else funds is surely not acceptable. I don't really know how will the vank recover their funds but all gamblers please gamble with your own funds not with a loan

That's absolutely true, gambling with someone else's money even shows disrespect to the person and you're not even guaranteed to win so why didn't he invest for let's say 3 months and then make good returns from it and return them to the bank. This is unpardonable and we should all learn from this .

This is absolutely no joke. And yes his debt with the banks may have also contributed to him mentally that's why he do this crazy things. As far as the bank is concern, this is considered lost already. For all we know more people has bigger loans than that and the banks will just simple ignored them. Because they can easily recovered it somewhere. His gambling is really uncontrollable, and I hope everyone should take this as lessons learn and not go to situation of this person.

Yes,it is easy for you to say that he should put a limit on his gambling.  But what if you're in his position?
If you're more than or too much addicted in gambling, you can not think of those limits. I think it's  too late for him. I just want to say that,if you are not yet addicted in gambling think about what's right for you to avoid compelling this situation.

Definitely not a joke, I agree. It is the time to learn the dangers of gambling from his life. I do see many gamblers here keep on recommending to follow measurements not to get addicted with gambling, but I do see this gambling community is growing rapidly rather than hearing they are staying safer with or without gambling.

Sad. Well this applies only not to gamblers, there's a different type of addiction and it leads the same. If you are a long time gambler then it's hard to control the urge to avoid betting more and more money, if you are a good!bler for about a month and became obsessed in betting money then you should slowly change your attitude cause that can lead to trouble when it became a habit. Being a gambler is hard to avoid these days because we have charity sweeptakes, cockfighting ; what I mean here is that there are many people who are gambling in a legit way but ended up losing their assets. The culture and the surroundings around affects it too as well as how he view life and sadly some people die without realizing that they became succumb to that addiction.

If it is easy to say also on the same while it is necessary to use a limited amount in gambling. Otherwise a lot of sad stories like this are here who destroy their life and faces the financial crises, because of addiction in gambling. Although we have no permanent and perfect solution of addiction but we could try for less addiction and that is if we control ourself in gambling using of money.     

Worse thing will happen to us if we become this desperate, we should not allow gambling addiction dictate us, we are in control so we need to make sure we will remain in control whatever the happen when we are gambling. Maybe the problem to some gamblers is they do not accept loses, they think they are good enough to be consistent, they don't know that there are up and down side of gambling so we need to manage both.

I think the more you became addicted to gambling, the more you will be having a depression, you will be having a mental disorder making things that you will not like. Like this guy who attack the Resort's World Manila, this is just so frustrating because many people died and that is just because of an addicted gambler. This story must be a lesson to those who are at the same state of addiction to gambling.

absolutely its inside our own will and the dictation of our greediness is just a false beliefs that we can consistently win with our skills
better to assess before doing an action this gambling world really eat us alive if we don't know how to control with this guy i think
a desperate moves that kills a lots of innocent people.

If you keep checking on this forum you can find everywhere some big lesson from all types of gamblers. Still I do see many new people are getting into gambling and getting suffered by addiction.

It means no one will be ready to learn from others mistakes but want to experience gambling by themselves for any cost. If they follow at least what some pro-gamblers suggesting here, they would have avoided many miserable gambling problems.

Gambling addiction is something quite serious and it is not easy to get rid of. But if you are addicted towards online gambling than there are few things that might help you to limit your losses;
1. Just play for some hours per day.
2. Set limit for both profit and loss for a day.
3. Only deposit what you can afford to loss.
4. Cashout your deposit if you make some profit and only play till you loss those profits.
5. Try to consider gambling is just for fun and not for making money.

He had killed a number of innocent people, his family says that he is not like that and that they can’t imagine that he could do something like that. This is an example of how dangerous being addicted to gambling can be. When someone is addicted, his moral values are somehow covered with the intense feeling of wanting to play. He had done many bad things just because of addiction and it had come to the point that he had to rob a casino because he is already mentally ill. This is the worst scenario that I have heard and watched about how addiction can make affect someone’s mind.

His debts in the banks, the bank may not seem to care but I think that the family he left are going to suffer because of this.

Condolence to the victims. This guy is hopeless, because of having a lot of debt. Assuming $75,000? Correct me if I'm wrong.

That's a lot and he don't know on how he's going to pay those debt from people who's looking for him.

I feel bad for those innocent people that was affected by the rage of the suspect.

This one of the reason why we should control our gambling. The gunman actually do have a bright future since he is working at Department of Finance, but since as we all know Philippine Government is really full of corruption. Unfortunately, he got fired due to alleged anomalous transactions and Also due to undeclared/unexplained wealth.  


He actually didn't kill anybody, He just injured some of them but not that critical. Most of the deaths was caused by suffocation due to smoke and also the stampede cause by panicking people. Normally in gambling, Banks are out the picture. Gamblers in RWM do have the so called High Rollers who are known as the loan sharks of the casinos. They lend money to those gamblers who probably are losing so that whenever they win they could earn from them via interest.

Thanks for further explanation since im not really familiar completely on what happen on that incident. He didnt kill anybody but still counted since hes the cause of such suffocation of the victims. Its really sad to think off that he wasted his own life for the sake of money and thats really a severe problem on debts, this is the thing will mostly be experienced if we let our gambling addiction comes to a point that we cant control already.

For him also it was easier, if he was doing with some conscious just for the reason of his happier life. Limiting ourselves must be a primary principle every gambler must follow regardless of how big bankroll he is engaging for gambling.

Because you may lose all your bankroll in a day if you are not conscious about limiting your gambling activity. Some gamblers do not care all these limitations for their gambling due to the reason of having big money to gamble. They do easily get addicted and will lose all their money at one stage for sure.

I was read before that he killed 2 person prior to going to Resorts World Manila. Kindly someone enlighten me if this is correct. Maybe the guy really thinks the Resorts World was really to blame for all what has happened to him. And the easiest way to get back at him is to storm the casino. But unfortunately, his action cost other lives as well, including his. It is really sad to see someone being addicted to gambling and ending his life just for the sake of solving all his problems.

The ironic thing is that he also worked for the department of finance, perhaps he had a way to get more money than a regular person would?
I mean, he's 4 million in debt... Must've been really addicted to have let it escalate like that.

The article doesn't mention if it was 4 million dollars or Philipino currency.

In as much as I dont support his action as a gambler but I still feel there is more to the reason for his actions rather than gambling alone but the ambling is just being pronounced in other to send a message to the public on how 'bad' gambling is. A 42 year old man who is old enough to be a grand father exhibits that attitude means there is something more they are not telling us. Afterall, he is not the only one who is addicted to gambling and I am sure if he had won and made a lot of money nobody would call it addiction rather they say he is lucky with taking risks.

He was addicted in gambling and he got a lot of problems, he was kicked out of his job and he owes a lot of money to the people. No more reasons for him to live? He can't handle such situations if I'm on his situation maybe I can't sleep day and night but I won't do this thing as I will just ask those people whom I owe money and won't be ranting like this.

There are these kinds of people who are weak willed and easily give up on themselves when things turn for the worse. I think this guy has too many responsibilities but got himself too deep into gambling and the pressure after losing a lot was too much. And this guy is quite well-to-do to begin with. Just goes to show that gambling addiction really can ruin lives even for those people who have money to spare.

Addicted indeed since he already do criminality stuffs on such addiction. I do believe that his 4 million peso in debt since if you escalate or assume on 4m usd then its really worth for him to steal but sadly he ended up on burning himself. This situation should be pictured out by most gambling addicts out there that treat this as a lesson and they will surely come to this point if they wont stop on playing excessive gambling.

It is Philippines Peso. No amount, not even a billion can worth more than the lives of those who died. This that happened is the reason why casinos should also be implementing the law for responsible gaming wherein gamblers who tend to be very hooked should be limited or banned in the first sign of addiction.

I have seen gambling addicts but the maximum addiction in gambling I have seen is for these people to burn themselves and not doing criminality and other illegal stuff (maybe a bit of cheating, borrowing money and not paying but this is normal in an addicted gambler). This situation shows the extreme risks that comes from gambling without a plan, or without a limit and without knowing when to quit. I think anyone who can't think about anything else but gambling in his life should definitely look for help from gamblers anonymous website or other help centers.

I won't support any violence related to gambling. The suspect is out of his mind, why he needs to include innocent people? This incident makes the image of gambling though it's only for those people that aren't into gambling. Their first thought about gambling will end up like this and will warn people to not end the same thing.

Exactly. This should be on every rehab session so that people who want to get help could see this along with other examples. Addiction can be very serious problem where person could ruin his life and life of his family. This Philippine guy took his craziness to a tragic level. In my home town we had situation where man working in the bank was high roller gambler, spend enormous amount of banks money but they caught him.

Addiction in gambling is really hard to get rid of it most of the time your temper is more attractive to any gambling once your a gambler you will die a gambler and you can't change that tho the greedisness to earn back what you've already lose chasing after your lose will be result as your become poorer and get nothing at the end untill you will lose your mind thinking where you gonna get money for your self.

I disagree, for me its a case to case basis. Other's who really sink below of gambling addiction have already recovered and didn't get the faith of the killer. So we should generalized that "once a gambler, you will die a gambler". This guy went overboard and no one to talk about his addiction that's why he did what he think is the right way. But I believed that if he got the support in time, he won't commit this crime.

It's sad to see because another human being died just because of an addiction that shouldn't be there in the first place. The thing that is hard is that you are against yourself and nothing shall ever interfere with you because it's only you who can stop the temptation. Better decide for yourself and be happy with what you have now.

Agree with you this is surely a lesson for all the gamblers out there who are addicted and are slowly losing all the money they have. This was just a bank loan i have on different crime serials and one was so shocking a random guy was mudered people suspected everyone but finally found out he was mudered so a gambler could get some funds

Because gambling is attracting them by making them forgetting what will happen tomorrow. That is the reason gamblers are getting loan just for the reason of entering gambling. Responsible person will never go for gambling, even if he will go for it definitely will not get loans for this purpose.

Like you said before getting addicted also they are behaving like addicted gambler just for the reason of experiencing the gambling thrills. In this case no one can help them.

still a question of how will handle this problem we do have differences in each of human being so if he take this way we can't blame him as he alone decided to do whatever he wants addiction in all forms if its a bad thing like drugs liquor and gambling most of the people who's got addicted to it
have a problem with the way they think and its the price and what this person did is just an example how bad addiction can be.

The suspect ended up killing himself. And it's getting worst these days, too much addiction will really kill lives. I think he has a plan but his plan went wrong, he used to gamble without noticing on how much his debt. This act should not be tolerated for sure casino's will now have extreme security and will check each gamblers entering to their establishment.

Gambling is just a way to keep on spending hence I am not wondering on seeing how big his debts are. When a gambler, goes out of control, we may see this type of stories happening. Getting into gambling is not a big mistake but getting addicted to it must be a lifetime mistake.

If you do that mistake then recovering from that mistake will never be possible that is the reason many gamblers are committing suicide.

Gambling has ruined a lot of lives and this is not the first time we see someone take his own life for the sake of a quick get out of all of this debt in gambling. Only thing that get this worst is that how he is bold with his actions. Attacking a casino that cause other people to die is really incapable of being fully understood by us. Only the gambler can answer to all his action. Unfortunately, we will not find out as he is already dead.

Right, if a person is not careful and did not manage to avoid getting addicted in the game it is possible for him to be a very dangerous person. I have watched many news reports about gamblers who have lost their mind and have committed dangerous acts resulting to their own deaths. Having many debts and thinking how could they managed to solve all of their problems had made them a very unreasonable people.

What happened in the Philippines proved that even innocent lives can be taken if an addicted gambler does an immoral action for his own sake. With the death of the gambler, his family is the one who is suffering from all of his bad actions. I could hardly imagine that his kids are being bullied because of what he did.

It's the temper that is needed to watch out especially if the person is easily getting irritated, that's a sign of an addicted gambler. If you are losing, I think it's okay to get frustrated or mad but not all the time, some people have their issues that they do that because they wanted to have an outlet for their anger. I hope that no one would come to that point, trying to get back at the casino knowing that they are addicted.

Temper is one of the emotions that a gambler must control and this addicted gambler can't take it any longer and he did killed even innocent people.

Yes, he can't no longer see rational things around himself. He can't distinguished what's right from wrong plus hist temper that is not checked. And because of the parameters around his environment like family left him and his debt that his over the roof for ordinary Filipinos, he needed a escape. But before doing it, he took a lot of innocents lives with him. Sad ending for a person who initially won millions of peso but everything went into drain just like that. How ironic life is really.

I feel this bad when I will put myself in his shoe. Lots of debts, problems and he thinks that there's no way to come out of it. So he ended his life easily and did also brought some innocent lives. A lesson learned from this incident but I really felt bad for the lost lives, why he didn't controlled himself and get out of his mind and started to be freaking out.

It's actually not a matter of controlling once self when h gets into such a state. It's completely different that's why we keep advising gamblers to seek the help of psychologist and be disciplined and bough before embarking on this dangerous expedition. You don't need to get addicted before you start controlling yourself ,NO! It would be too late then.