![]() ![]() “Some nights, it could be upwards of $300.” He said after winning a large amount of money, his friends would withdraw the cash and, instead of taking the money, “they will find somewhere else and put it back in”. ”Sometimes it’ll be $100, sometimes $200.” The former student said as soon as his friends turned 18, they began going to their local pub and putting money on the pokies most weeks. ![]() “It definitely had an influence on them gambling later on to win real-life money,” he said. ![]() “There’s all sorts of weapons you can get and you can get different skins, so your guns in the game can have different patterns,” he said. From gaming to ‘real-life money’Ī former student of a secondary school in Hawke’s Bay said when he was at school, he started betting money on overseas video game Counter-Strike: Global Offensive’s “skin” gambling website. “I’ve found myself getting loans off my mates for the weekends,” he said. The former secondary school student now faces a gambling addiction and struggles financially as a current university student. ![]()
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